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Knockout Lee Sin: Jarring Animations and Thematic Improvements

Inphernal·5/21/2015, 1:55:08 AM·6 votes·4,053 views

I'm very excited for Knockout Lee Sin's release, I love the underground boxer look and I intend on purchasing it when available. However, there a couple of things that really ruin the theme of the skin for me as well as prevent it from possibly being (imo) a solid 1350 skin.

There are a couple of really wonky problems with this skin that I think would be entirely possible to fix without raising the price abouve 1350RP

  1. Lee sin thrusts his palm forward during his Q animation. This feels very awkward and takes away from the boxing theme of the skin, it could very easily be replace with a jab/rabbit punch animation by simply moving a slider and changing the angle of his hand to be lower.

  2. His dance. His daaaance! Feels totally goofy not to have a new dance and to watch our favorite blind boxer flailing around with his feet. My suggestion is to replace his dance with the Ali Shuffle.

  3. His Q indicator. I really like the idea of boxing gloves, but that's a lot of gloves. It feels like im stacking a debuff (Twitch, Darius) instead of marking a target. I think it could be greatly improved by swapping the glove that floats above the enemies head out with a yellow boxing bell.

just some ideas, anyone have any input?

1 Comments

Strawberry Blood5/22/2015, 3:24:00 AM1 votes

I like your idea of the Ali shuffle as part of the Knockout Lee Sin skin. It allows for his feet to be doing something rather than going around kicking if he isn't meant to be a kick boxer; on the other hand, his original dance would of been fine if Lee Sin was intended to be a kick boxer. In the skin preview, he has the shuffle, but as an idle animation. He could be doing the Ali shuffle with a few punches after each shuffle, like Ali said he would do, and that would be match the skin a bit more, as you said again, than his original dance. That dance looks like it could give him more movement speed than item 3117 to show off, all over the map, his "new" dance and maybe Hecarim would need summoner 6 just to catch up him. Hecarim Fraend wher u goin LeeSin 3 fast 5 u cya nerd Hecarim summoner 6 nuuu combaek nd play LeeSin u cant touch dis nd i cant c u lol (sorry for the bad jokes, couldn't help it)