Ideas for an Illaoi skin
(DISCLAIMER) I didn't make the image attached and I'm sure some of these ideas have been thought of by others before
When I write about league I tend to write a lot so brace yourself. So first I'm gonna start with the facts:
has a 1.09% pick rate, a 0.09% ban rate, a 50.3% win rate, and not once during a ranked game have I seen someone spell Illaoi correctly in the chat. My point is
is very ignored as a champion because she hasn't gotten a single change since patch 6.15 except for a few bug fixes here and there. I'm sure Riot is well aware of this, but Illaoi is approaching 2 years since her release on November 24th 2015 and still only has one skin. I'm an Illaoi main and would like more than just 2 colors to choose from, and since the void theme doesn't really fit her I really only see green/purple when I'm in champ select instead of seeing a priestess who tests souls of those who could be worthy for Nagakabouros, and a variation of this priestess who could be testing souls for a more demonic Nagakabouros. A pool party skin would be nice for her but I think Riot has rules about how many skins can be in one set, so maybe an Atlantean skin could fit more toward her theme as a mystical entity (not the right wording but you know what I mean I think). I put a picture below of some concepts for skins I think would be amazing on her and I would buy them 10 times depending on how well the ideas could be executed. I personally like the Oaken one the best (could be called elderwood if they want it to be part of that set) because it makes her tentacles look like they're more of a part of her. The ultimate could look similar to a
ultimate and make a crater with roots (Riot could make an extremely cool looking animation that has small seed-like things that spread out from the place where the idol smashes the ground and go to where the new tentacles spawn) and her E could be a vine that rips out the spirit. The Atlantean set only includes
and
if I'm correct and Illaoi could make a great addition to that set but I don't know where they could go with a skin like that, but surprises only make it better for players. Marauder and Warden skins would probably go in the same direction if one or the other was created but they would make great skins too. Gatekeeper only has one champion with that skin (
) and could look amazing if done right but the way the tentacles might look could take away from Riot's vision of what Illaoi should look like since they would resemble gates and hardly look like tentacles and be reddish green which would make a ruby/jade color. Since
is a fairly muscular champion especially for a female, a dodgeball skin could look really cool but it wouldn't fit Illaoi's theme which brings me to the last concept that everyone who plays Illaoi has at least thought of once: Dunkmaster/Dunkmistress Illaoi. This skin has been suggested many different times by fans because her ult and w are both slamming/dunking animations, but it would be difficult to make the rest of her kit be basketball themed and
is currently the only champion in this set (not sure if they want to keep it that way or if they want to add her like they did with
in
's ultimate skin. I know
hasn't gotten a skin in a while but he just got reworked so i don't think he'll get one soon,
is (probably) getting a rework soon so he's (again probably) not getting any skins soon,
just got his pentakill model changed so I'm not sure if he's too high up on Riot's list anymore,
is getting her Eternum skin in patch 7.18 I believe, and I'm pretty sure the other champs who haven't gotten a skin in a while have more than just one skin.
was released after Illaoi and has 3 skins aside from his base model (and although he does work really well with Blood Moon since he's an "artist" and SKT is a team skin) but every champion released before Illaoi has more than one skin so it almost seems like Riot skipped over her and gave a skin to
and
(I think he's getting Haunted Sol soon) who were both released after
. I probably sound whiny at this point so I'll stop talking now so you guys can answer the poll.