Aurelion Sol mains want to cry

Teetο·Aug 1, 2018·7 votes·2,012 views

Have been waiting for years for a new skin for my main.

This gets released. A poorly made, space chicken. this skin sucks in almost every way. I am so dissapointed. What made Illaoi's rework different? They gave three designs and asked the community what one is best. then they made an awesome skin. she is only 2 champ releases ahead of Asol...

Then they give us this....... im so sad.

Now i gotta wait 2 more years with my fingers crossed until they even think about making another skin. :(

Not gonna buy this, even though I told myself: "whenever they FINALLY release an Asol skin, buying it no matter what."

21 Comments

MOLTinaTORAug 1, 20186 votes

That's just your opinion. The skin will not cater to everyone. I honestly find it beautiful as fuck, he turns into a fucking space ship when he E's :O

TeetοAug 1, 20185 votes

Watch the video in .25% speed. its @55 seconds, he doesnt even transform. at all.

BoulderoxAug 1, 20183 votes

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Watch the video in .25% speed. its @55 seconds, he doesnt even transform. at all.

THANK YOU, his jaw bits twirl, he does a turn and magically turns into a fucking space freighter Like, what... It better get polished, cus that is just jarring.

IręlíaAug 1, 20186 votes

I think its pretty cool and I do play a lot of Sol on my main account.

The fact he transforms into a spaceship that has a deathstar beam for an ult and little fights flying around him makes me feel like im playin EVE lol!

TeetοAug 1, 20184 votes

All of the sounds, animations and particles are clear downgrades from the STANDARD skin. the style does not fit him, and HE LOOKS LIKE A PLUMP CHICKEN. i'm sorry, if you think this skin looks nice, its clear you DONT play a lot of Aurelion on your main, or anyother account. You simply cant. Check the youtube video comments, No one at all who plays Asol like this. The worst thing is, this is it. this is the skin we get. 2 years later. its not like im maining ASHE who gets a skin every other week

MOLTinaTORAug 1, 20182 votes

Check the youtube video comments, No one at all who plays Asol like this.

I actually did check the YouTube comments and a lot of people who play Asol a lot said that the skin is awesome. Even Shiphtur who loves Asol said that the skin is cool as fuck. In NO way does it look like a chicken, I don't know what they feed the chickens where you live to look like a space dragon. And again, IT'S YOUR OPINION! Just because you don't like it doesn't mean other people wouldn't. Saying that someone liking the skin doesn't matter because they don't play enough Asol is just stupid.

IręlíaAug 1, 20183 votes

Look guy, I get that you wanted something cooler.

Sure the Mecha Idea doesnt really fit him at first, I woulda preferred Battlecast or Darkstar of it initially, but Riot did a great job at proving me wrong on it.

Credit where credit is due.

Colgate GatorAug 1, 20181 votes

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the style does not fit him,

Out of all the champions in this game, I believe Asol is one of the most fitting ones for this skin line.

Packun FlowerAug 1, 20186 votes

This skin looks fuckin awesome. I dont play ASol but i might learn him a bit just to use this skin.

His stars are freakin little space ships.

I think the color of the skin and effects are very rich as well.

4 Step CadenceAug 1, 20184 votes

... How the fuck is that a chicken? What farm did you go to, and what drugs were you on when you went there?

LafirenzeAug 1, 20183 votes

I will admit that Riot chose quite the challenge for itself by attempting to make such a fluidly animated champion look mechanical. It would be like trying to make a robotic skin out of Zac. It's almost like it needs a bunch of extra inflexible geometry surrounding the squishy parts to pull it off, which would kind of be like making another exoskeleton animate around his skeleton. That sounds rather intensive for a non-Ultimate skin.

However, if they're still open to suggestions for this skin, I would suggest a small tweak and make the tail look less solid and more like a fiery plume of rocket exhaust by just making the geometry invisible and doing the whole thing with particles.

SEKAIAug 1, 20181 votes

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I will admit that Riot chose quite the challenge for itself by attempting to make such a fluidly animated champion look mechanical. It would be like trying to make a robotic skin out of Zac. It's almost like it needs a bunch of extra inflexible geometry surrounding the squishy parts to pull it off, which would kind of be like making another exoskeleton animate around his skeleton. That sounds rather intensive for a non-Ultimate skin.

However, if they're still open to suggestions for this skin, I would suggest a small tweak and make the tail look less solid and more like a fiery plume of rocket exhaust by just making the geometry invisible and doing the whole thing with particles.

No, not really.

The fact an animation looks smooth is typically because either it has a ton of incremental transition frames joined together to make the movement transition as smooth as possible. When something looks mechanical, it's because it is NOT smooth, ie the transition frames requires to achieve such an effect is either LESS and/or that the frames is NOT as seamless.

So making an animation from being fluid to being mechanical needs LESS work (than going in reverse), not more.

Just saying.

LafirenzeAug 1, 20181 votes

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No, not really.

The fact an animation looks smooth is typically because either it has a ton of incremental transition frames joined together to make the movement transition as smooth as possible. When something looks mechanical, it's because it is NOT smooth, ie the transition frames requires to achieve such an effect is either LESS and/or that the frames is NOT as seamless.

So making an animation from being fluid to being mechanical needs LESS work (than going in reverse), not more.

Just saying.

Even if making an animation from being fluid to being mechanical needs LESS work (than going in reverse) it still requires MORE work than just reusing an already complete fluid animation as it is.

Also, animating a mechanical character can be every bit as much work as a fluid character, depending on the specifics involved. It's not just a matter of how many transition frames it needs, and they must be seamless in either case since even a rigid object must obey physics, visually speaking. If a robot's arm animation isn't seamless going from one position to another, you're going to see it pop and that will look broken.

It is probably true that you probably have a lot more latitude in selling a simplified animation on a mechanical character if you design it that way from the beginning, but a skin, by definition, is working with preexisting assets. So generally, if you want to make life easier for yourself you would choose themes that work well with the preexisting assets you already have.

Sewn Chaos Blitzcrank (unreleased) was another good example of a skin that went against the theme of the original assets, that time in the opposite direction by trying to make a robot look like he was made of soft felt. The model was attractive, but combined with the robotic animation it was a little uncanny.

Same thing here where you see supposedly rigid mechanical parts expand and twist. It's just a hard look to pull off under the constraints, that's all, so I was surprised this was the direction chosen when they could have chosen a theme that interacted harmoniously with the existing assets rather than dissonantly.

I think what they were aiming for here was that since it's taken Aurelion so long to get a new skin, they felt that it had to present a very different spin on the character. But considering his current meager skin options, they probably didn't need this one to stand out quite as much since there isn't really much for it to stand out from. Something that hewed closer to a fluid / serpentine theme (Leviathan, Chinese Dragon, Quetzalcoatl, Neverending Story Dragon, Spectral, Aquatic, Blood, etc.) seems to me a more resonant choice for Aurelion Sol than a mechanical skin.

ZANGRI STREAKSAug 1, 20182 votes

Wouldn't mechanical Zac just look like Xerath?

iBubblesAug 1, 20183 votes

The rocket thing on his belly looks silly

Sir MerAug 1, 20182 votes

I actually agree with Zaflar. This would be an amazing skin if it was released years ago - now the standard is too high to justify the weak animation of this skin. The lack of detail too is unforgivable on a champion who is so aesthetically beautiful.

I get it, guys, he can transform into a spaceship, his stars are spaceships, it's the little boys dream.

There are so many greater ideas for this champion's look to flourish.

DW DianaAug 1, 20181 votes

to be fair...it looks terrible lol.

Stars ShaperAug 1, 20181 votes

I feel like this isn't so bad (even though we'll have to buy a chroma to have it not look like Lego) and that they could have gone with another theme and have better result (World Breaker, Ao Shin look-a-like...).

SirsirAug 1, 20181 votes

I don't like the mech skins in general but it looks fine. A bit goofy from the front but thats honestly just ASol... If it has a chroma I like I may get it.