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Elderwood or River Spirit Leblanc?

Stardew Valley··37 votes·6,338 views

As much as I want the Elderwood skin line to be extended, Should Elderwood Leblanc be changed to River Spirit? Just look at the color schemes. Also Leblanc has lotus flowers (or water lilies?) Which grow in waters. I know that if they changed her to River Spirit, they would be making a skin line. But River Spirit seems much more fitting. Elderwoods I see to be tree-like not swampy. (A forest spirit not a swamp) Still I like both Elderwoods and River Spirit.

http://img1.leaguecraft.com/skins/asset/skin_1402034718_760px_41893_1.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dc5haXNA_F0/U339TEw7gfI/AAAAAAAAQZo/Ik8JiWXre-g/s1600/nam3.jpg http://media.lolusercontent.com/api/embedly/1/image/resize?url=https%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-mVAPo3HpQf8%2FVs4Od-BmygI%2FAAAAAAAALo0%2F-InfR20TaE8%2Fs640%2Fleblanc.jpg&key=a45e967db0914c7fb472fd4381e6c85b&width=425 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcAXi5iUEAACeMS.jpg

EDIT: I did forget about the E that also (At least I think) is her launching a lotus.

26 Comments

HoukagoFapTime11 votes

Maybe the colours are similar to a River Spirit but she has nothing to do with a River. All her effects regard the woods and plants.

Stardew Valley3 votes

Like I said her Q and her STAFF is a water lilly (or lotus) which grow in waters. If you actually look at her E launching it has a flower in it at first which anyone could easily assume is a lotus. I guess what's out of place are the mushroom W's. Which I think kinda look ugly lol. Still it's just a suggestion.

Stars Shaper8 votes

From what I saw Elderwood isn't bound to "Look Ima Tree!" but more like "What would they look if they were nature being".

But yet I too notice the similarities.

DrCyanide7 votes

Forest Spirit LeBlanc

She's not quite River themed, despite an extremely similar palate, and she certainly doesn't fit the Elderwood style. Tying her to the River Spirit line without actually making her a River Spirit is probably the best bet.

Biff Manly1 votes

There are only two skins in the Elderwood line so far. One is a big bag of leaves somebody raked up, the other is half rock- half tree- all horse. The theme isn't really decided by just these two alone.

That's like saying Leona and Lulu shouldn't have Pool Party skins because they don't have sunglasses or goggles on theirs.

DrCyanide1 votes

I'm not being nearly so picky as saying that everything has to be the same, but I expect them to be similar. LeBlanc's skin is far more similar to Nami's than it is to Bard's or Hecarim's.

You wouldn't mistake an Eternium skin for a Battlecast skin, would you? No, because the design choices and the color palate are different. That's what we're talking about

The two skins for the Elderwood line:

http://www.lolnews.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Elderwood-Bard-1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pMU3AcFepNA/VkKWRi5t8wI/AAAAAAAA0Sc/eawcYJsCM48/s1600/hecarimturn.jpg

Note that both have foliage and are predominantly wooden. They have distinct differences in terms of the colors of that foliage and wood, Hecarim has stonework on him while Bard has a cloth of some sort draped over him, but they're both more similar to each other than they are to this LeBlanc skin.

Irene Belserion5 votes

I'd agree with you because fairies don't necessarily live in the woods, fairies can also be river spirits. The Elderwood theme could've been kept for someone like Lissandra (not because she's been out for longer than Yasuo and has less skins than him or anything lol).

Lana Del Rekt2 votes

So you really think that it's a stretch that LB as a faerie doesn't fit the woodland themed Elderwood skin, but not River Spirit because 'some faeries are river spirits'?Rammus

Irene Belserion3 votes

I meant that they don't have to be bound to only the woods, it's just as a name Elderwood doesn't seem to fit her as well as some other champions. Maybe it's just me but I see Elderwood more suiting for champions who somewhat appear as stories and legends of their community.

Call Me Nana3 votes

I still think you could name it River Spirit Leblanc

Immediately, i noticed the same colour pattern as Nami's and instantly though of this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/17677cb5754da9cfcbaf5222d4dbd044/tumblr_mjl4ejb5Zb1qbukmqo4_250.gif

Kalisttaa2 votes

I was actually thinking the same thing when I first saw this skin

DrOinkleBerry2 votes

It just seems like a coincidental similarity in the color palette to me.

Jeddy0171 votes

Yeah,a simple adjustment of the colors should do the trick.Riot has done it before.

BattleBalladeer2 votes

Damn witches.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/images/6/62/Maghda.diablo.3.real.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140801104959

Brb. Calling Vin Diesel...

Eeyore2 votes

All I see is a highly unique champion silhouette and unused visual space being wasted on a skin instead of a new champion.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GkbDbSy4Ow/Vs4OdwRLnpI/AAAAAAAALos/XZYbDnv4Rv4/s1600/lbrecall.jpg

Scarletmeow2 votes

Well aren't you just a negative lil' nancy

Kinjishi2 votes

I look at that and basically see Nami. Think it needs to be something different.

Scarletmeow2 votes

Glad to see I'm not the only one who saw the new LeBlanc skin and was instantly reminded of River Spirit Nami. Only problem is, Where as Nami can be easily connected to a river, LeBlanc, even with this skin, can't. In my opinion I'm glad they're making the elderwood skinline non-repetitive unlike other skinlines (hello blood moon- put red on a champ and make particles bloody and done [zombie-brand-facepalm] ).

Stuff like this lets people who like the theme of a skinline (Nature in this case) to actually have a skin and have it fit in with skins their friends may use. And besides, life wouldn't be fun if everything followed a strict guideline eh? [slayer-jinx-wink]

CoTheSlow2 votes

Is it possible that she just resembles a different time in the forest? Bard as Autumn(Fall), Hecarim as Summer and now Leblanc as Spring which explains why she is much more vibrant than everyone else. If this is really how this set is going to be then I see the Winter one being a bit more muted to go with it. Idk it is just something I thought about.

Stardew Valley1 votes

This is actually exactly what I thought of. It's just kinda weird that they based Leblanc's on a swamp-like environment. Usually when I think of spring I just think of usual grassland flowers, not a lotus.

é boi1 votes

I think elderwood fits more because, she's a fairy.

Stardew Valley3 votes

There are river fairies though. This is what I immediately thought her to be when I saw that she looked like Nami and has a lotus staff.

I wish if she was Elderwood her staff was wooden and glowy.

But she still looks nice.

Zedex1 votes

The LB skin looks like a Zyra update where they included faerie wings into her kit. Legit lol. It is really cool though.

Talos of Altmora1 votes

Looks more like a fairy, but the idea has a lot of merit

NostolgicSkies1 votes

i'd rather have aristocrat leblanc Honestly

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