A lot of people have asked for the old League e. g. Sion, Karma, etc. before remakes. When AP Yi was around and the deathfire touch was, too. But because that is unlikely to happen, a classic skin set would be a great idea. The skins would be for champions who had visual (mostly major) gameplay updates, Such as Fiora, and then update them to match the more modern graphics.
Tormentula3 votesThey stopped doing them around after gangplank.
They found the skins overall low quality and not worth selling. Additionally it would make a habit of having to make traditional skins for every VGU, even if the VGU was so significantly different that it wouldn't work (galio) or they'd contained enough of their original design to the point of not needing one (taric, irelia, eve for instance all just look like facelifts of their original models, traditional eve would just be a chroma of shadow eve probably.) Plus other then the model itself, nothing is really "traditional" about them.. like traditional poppy would still look nothing like old poppy, but sejuani was just a visual update changing how she looks, while maintaining everything the original was built around so she could just get a model swap for a skin.
CrackedCinnabar1 votesThis was well-formulated and had a good point, but I at least hope that some new skins for champions that had VGU's can give innuendos to their old models, like Lollipoppy's old VGU face in the lollipop splash art.
Ozzie Storm2 votesIt's an idea that used to exist but is discontinued by riot, i can't remember the exact reason though.
CrackedCinnabar1 votesI hope they recontinue it.
Ozzie Storm1 votessame, however seems far fetched as far as i know
CrackedCinnabar1 votesI don't see how, especially considering the ability on graphics Riot has.
Ozzie Storm1 votesoh no, not from a technical standpoint but idea wise. Riot is more than capable of making skins that resemble the traditional look of a pre-reworked champion it's just that they don't want to.
According to them the goal of a new look for a reworked champ is to nail their vision and personality in a more suitable design and it would be not only counterproductive to waste said effort by making a skin that would remove all that work and vision but it would also be a waste of time that could be better spent on making a different new skin.
CrackedCinnabar1 votesAh.
Airbend1 votesOr, or, hear me out, give me back my old Fiora back. [slayer-jinx-catface]
CrackedCinnabar1 votesPraise.