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Undervalued? Or just forgotten - Skins Discussion.

Talonted·2/15/2015, 10:17:38 AM·13 votes·4,317 views

(Firstly I'd like to state that although I chose a specific champion to talk about, I mean to speak generally about the champion population)

Although there's the obvious reasons for why some champs are given skins over others. I'm curious as to the reasons why there are several handfuls of champs who get minimal to no love at all for skins. Easiest for me to point out is my favorite, TalonTalon . Grabbed him from day 1 and I've never looked back at the time I've put into playing him, yet...

Dragonblade is great and I don't have any thoughts against it, on top of that I do enjoy *Crimson Elite *and i'll cycle between the 2 here and there. But since 2012 when Dragonblade was released I haven't heard anything more about Talon. A change to his skill yeah, splash art change awesome, but it's hard for me to continue to find excitement to play him without SOME kind of incentive. Considering how 2 of his skins were released with him.

This is just 1 example of the many champs that haven't seen a new skin in ages, I know Mordekaiser hasn't seen one since early 2011, months before Talon was even released and asking Riot to up the anti and dish out skins for every older and underplayed champ would be a lot to ask. But at the same time...

I'm worried that until a skin is considered for some of these champs, a Team skin will be given to them, crossing them of the list for newer skins. If it were anyway possible to put out some word as to what skin ideas have been thought of for these champs and why they might go through or get scrapped would be enough to keep my hopes up for upcoming content. Idk i'm just curious is all, with all this being said, here are some skin ideas I've come across for Talon which I'd be keen to seeing in league someday.

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/218/2/d/soul_reaver_talon_by_blandstufftastesnice-d7tx3xf.png (Easily my favorite of these 4) http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=135840&d=1375554724 http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2013/021/a/d/sandstorm_talon_by_runescratch-d5s7970.jpg http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/118/3/9/outlander_talon_by_runescratch-d63f79z.jpg

Thank you for those who bothered to take a look at this, any feedback would be great and while your here tell me your favorite champ and skin combo! ~Talonted

6 Comments

lightdragoon882/15/2015, 11:46:06 PM7 votes

Just going to leave this one here...for the champ that really needs a skin.

Kouga2/15/2015, 10:39:52 AM5 votes

The first one is amazing. +1 would buy (if it was enough to get me back into playing Talon)

The 2nd and 4th look too much like recolors or very minor alterations, but the Sandstorm one could work.

But as to your topic in general, I really can't say why some champs get skin after skin even if the community doesn't need or want them (Ashe) while ignoring the champs that they are crying out for (Zac). I'm not saying there isn't a reason behind it - I'm sure there is. I just don't know what it is. So I can't say how to change it other than to keep rallying support.

ƒæµ2/15/2015, 12:00:27 PM2 votes

Had a talon phase myself a little while back when he had the silence, he is still good but his skins are just so bad :( I love the soul reaver one, Ive seen that pic before; hope it happens. Maybe a Victorious or championship would be nice on him too. Either way I hope they make more Soul reaver skins, sucks that they made an amazing Draven skin then just never continued with the theme which IMO is the best in the game, especially when compared to effortless trash like the world cup skins and debonair themes ugh cringe XD