Improving the ward skins

King Dellron··2 votes·441 views

I like the idea of ward skins, having another way to customize the way you look is always great. But they do suffer from a few issues, the three main ones being:

1, You have to select them before you join a match. 2, There is not much point in owning more than one. 3, They are only usable on summoners rift.

With those in mind, i will go over each issue and how i think they would be improved.

Issue one: The reason this is a problem is that, its fun to select ward skins based on who you are playing as. If i'm going Azir i want to use my Shurima Ward, but if i'm going a Battlecast skin, i would like to use my Battlecast Ward. To fix this, all that is needed is to add a third tab in the champion select screen, where you can pick what ward skin you want to use. This would not only make it easy to pick what skin you want, but would make ward skins more prominent.

Issue two: Since you can only have one ward skin a game, you will most of the time just use your best one. Since there are 3 types of wards, why not allow players to select a different skin for each one. In the ward skin select screen you could now choose a different ward skin for your: trinket, sight and vision wards. This way you can show off all your different skins, and it may promote players to buy more wards ingame.

Another feature you can add to this, is to allow players to select a randomizer option. Which would randomly select a different ward you own, every time you place a ward. With these changes players will be more rewarded for buying multiple ward skins, and can show off what they own even more.

Issue three: Wards are only available in Summoners Rift, so if you only play: ARAM, Dominion, or Twisted Treeline, ward skins are useless to you. so i suggest improving them, to not only change you ward, but have an effect on all maps. Sadly, i can't think of what they could change on Twisted Treeline or The Crystal Scar. I would love to hear any ideas in that area.

I do however, have an idea for the Howling Abyss. that is, each ward skin also has a matching Poro skin. The idea is that, when you feed a Poro a snack, it now also changes to whatever skin you selected. If it already has a skin on, it just grows in size like normal.

People love the Poro skins in legend of the Poro king, they are fun and would work great for regular ARAM. It would be fun to have these little Poro's running around with skins on, knowing that that one is yours. It would give the ward skins meaning to all the ARAM players out there, and i would definitely buy a new skin to have a Draven Poro running around. Also maybe increase the amount of Poro snacks you get each game, so that you can still use your skin and increase the size of another large Poro with a skin.

Other thoughts: Some ward skins are a little harder to see, or don't have as many effects as the rest, and quite a lot of them look bad in bushes. I would maybe update these ward skins with some new effects, or decrease their price compared to the rest. And also maybe make all of them less transparent/stick out more.

It might also be worth looking into making ward skins slightly change the red trinket and blue trinket lines. And if necessary, increasing the cost of ward skins.

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