Anti-Star Guardian Skins?

Terabyte Marine·9/7/2017, 2:22:51 PM·2 votes·1,881 views

TL;DR: I want a Star Guardian antagonist team called "Star Destroyers" (or something similar) as a skin line, using all or at least 5 of these 11 champions: Yorick (prefer legendary), Urgot, Singed, Kassadin, Elise, Morde, Lissandra, Viktor, Zed, Kayn, Sion.

After reading the Star Guardian short story and reading about the one turned to darkness, it got me thinking about the possibility this will be a skin line. I'm sure Riot might be alluding to that fact as well, since they didn't go into much detail confirming or denying that possibility in the story. I know this may just be confirmation bias, but I actually really want to see the "Star Destroyers", as I'll call them, as a skin set.

To kick off discussion on it, I looked through probable candidates for applicable champions to be apart of these skin lines. For one, I made sure that they weren't used in any shape or form already within this Star Guardian universe and also looked at champs who haven't gotten skins in a while. So if someone isn't on the list, but has the characteristics of an antagonist, that's probably why. I also plan on explaining why I chose someone, so if you just want to discuss who I chose you're free to talk about it if you don't like reading biased explanations.

Star Destroyer Team 1: Yorick(around legendary tier), Urgot, Singed, Kassadin, Elise Disclaimer: I realize that the story refers to the converted Star Guardian as a girl, but that doesn't mean there are others like it or that it was actually a girl. (cough Riot get on that cough)

For the first team, I felt that if Yorick would ever get a skin that it would need to be top quality in order for it to feel good, hence why he's the first on the list. He fits the theme of someone who was once good, but turned evil not by his own volition. Everything around him became corrupted and he just followed in the lands footsteps (reminds me of the ghost story).

Urgot is just there because who doesn't want a Star Guardian skin for him? All joking aside, if he is to get a skin from this line, I feel it would be more fitting for him to be antagonistic instead of all pretty, like the joke implies (that would be more fitting for an April fools skin). He also is quite a masterful person in terms of coercing the masses to his side as seen with his popularity in Zaun. Him and Singed would definitely fit the bill for tacticians of the squad since they basically have massive amounts of super soldiers to do their bidding. Singed does have a few decent skins, but not ones that feel great on him which is why this line would be a good opportunity to give him a "proper" skin.

Kassadin, on the other hand, is a bit awkward. I thought originally that he would be the best fit for a Star Guardian gone rogue, but comparing him to Yorick it felt less like he wandered in search of it and more like Kassadin discovered untapped potential. I have him on the first team because I feel like he'd be one of the few people who'd willingly embrace the darkness solely for the pursuit of intellect and could use a skin more than others.

Elise would be a fit for someone who fell to evil ambitions, at least, if we wanted to be canonically correct with how the small snippet of the story is told in Starfall. So I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up getting the best quality skin. Even still, I'm not sure how easily she fits into the story and for that reason she kind of fell into step as a character who found out after the fact and became one out of lust.

Star Destroyer Team 2: Morde, Lissandra, Zed, Kayn, (Viktor or Sion?)

I'm not sure who would be the leader of this group and therefore would have the best quality skin, so I just put Mordekaiser first since he doesn't really have any high quality skins. Considering the amount of effort that would need to be put into the skin, it seemed appropriate that he would get the best quality skin. However, Lissandra also competes for that spot in terms of how many skins she actually has versus how long she has been out. She is probably the best fit in terms of who I would chose to be the first to fall, both in terms of having friends (though they were evil) and losing those friends caused her to turn against everyone. I honestly wouldn't know how to feel about Lissandra getting a legendary skin like this, so I wanted to refrain from saying it.

Zed and Kayn just felt like natural picks and yes I do realize Kayn was only released several months ago. Still, if these skins were to come out, I'm sure that it won't be for another year or so and that's my reasoning for why I chose Kayn. As for why these would be fitting skins, well one, it's essentially an extension of their shadow magic and two, they are undoubtedly suited for the role. Period.

I was having trouble deciding who the last one of the ten would be (I wasn't intentionally matching the current number of Star Guardians), since out of the eleven candidates I found applicable, two of them felt like oddballs. Viktor is a man made out of machine, so why would he use darkness to make his machines better? It just doesn't make much sense, unless you decided to add voice-overs to make that work. Sion I thought would make for a good minion styled skin, since he is just an undead abomination. It would work out as someone who just happened to be resurrected due to magic and be done with it. I'm only hesitant in adding him because he has a legendary skin already, so I don't know if he needs a good lower quality skin yet, unless fans say otherwise. If it wasn't for that fact, I would add him as a one hundred percent guaranteed choice for a skin in this line.

All in all, I am just ranting about how cool I think this skin line would be. I'm really not asking for anyone to respond to this, just expressing my want for a skin line I would be willing to buy. Star Guardians are cool, but I think antagonists are just more appealing to me.

12 Comments

Princess Píxie 9/7/2017, 2:26:26 PM1 votes

Anti- Star Guardians? AKA the Dark Star champions?

waiting for WoW9/7/2017, 2:49:54 PM1 votes

Nocturne Cassiopeia RekSai Eternum SQUAD

I hope we eventually get more Eternum skins they would make good villains in the star guardian universe.

Necrozard9/7/2017, 7:02:45 PM1 votes

" Anti-Star Guardian " lol yeah we really need actual names x)

Terozu9/7/2017, 8:39:54 PM1 votes

The star guardians fight void monsters. There is no team of anti SG other than maybe the girl who got infused with Void magic maybe possibly.