Christmas Maokai skin without ornaments is like Halloween Maokai without gravestones

Adonna·11/11/2014, 12:53:47 AM·5 votes·5,236 views

All the reworked skins look great except for one thing, why did Riot remove all the ornaments from the Christmas Maokai skin? That's like taking away Halloween Maokai's gravevstones O_O I understand Riot is trying to simplify the skins and 'smooth' over details but really? Would it be so much clutter to add the three ornaments back in (well and the bow on his chin - it's so cute!)? This was one of my fav skins and I hate to see it just become well an evergreen tree. In the upcoming holiday spirit, any hope my xmas wish will come true? :) http://i.imgur.com/NPBfm3w.jpg

9 Comments

glanzend11/11/2014, 12:57:07 AM5 votes

i like it better before 2

HitsFromTheBomb11/11/2014, 1:52:29 AM3 votes

uhhm wait the one on the right is the updated .... what a huge step back and into cartooney land , less clear contrasted edges less detail and less treeness for a maokai skin what a failure.. in my humble opinion

Sukishoo11/11/2014, 2:02:36 AM3 votes

Obviously they are still in the process of adding stuff to the skins. This happens every time they do an update, so just give it a little time they will make adjustments.

Personally I like it way more than the old one, it's much cleaner looking, the textures are smoothed and I like the scarf they added. Plus, a huge step up is finally having the sapling present the right colors for Christmas.

Adrian Blackbear11/11/2014, 4:26:08 AM1 votes

I liked the update a little bit, but the one thing that I disliked was the color scheme. It doesn't seem right to me for some reason. And I liked the pink and yellow sapling gift better than the red/rust.

HitsFromTheBomb11/13/2014, 6:51:39 PM1 votes

worse are the icons and particles , everythings blue and doesnt match any of the skins (hopefully they are still working on this) and the spell icons ... ugh more blue swirls and stuff ... i gota say im not sure what direction they are going with all this but i hope its doesnt happen to all champs as they uupdate (sadly it seems there new trend of artistic style) and least of all that this stuff stays how it is for mao one of my mains :( i was drawn to him by his awesome character in the first place ...

the new rift is awesome and i get they wanna have the characters fit with its style ... but im not getting the connection between the styles and dont see them correlating much style wise more on a technical sense (less polygons contrasting detail etc)... but again thats just my opinion ...