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Is it possible to create skins with extra features

Who is Taliyah·5/21/2017, 11:37:46 PM·2 votes·161 views

I went on to Ask riot before but I think it would take a while if they even decide to answer it through that so I wanted to try it on the boards.

Back in the day when we had the jungle item devourer. Do you remember the small wolf that followed you through the map untill you fully stacked?

I wondered if it would be possible to make a skin where there is a small pet animal constantly following you.

We know something similiar from many skins recalls, but they are only there during the recall, so why not having something there the whole time.

When I first saw Freljord Taliyah I hoped that there little deer that she's holding in the splashart would follow her through the map as cosmetic extra or something. (Yes I know in the lore she hunted it to have food)

So would it be possible to make a skin (could be ultimate, legendary or something in between) where there is a pet or so following you?

I personally think it would be super awesome.

1 Comments

ModThe Djinn5/22/2017, 4:58:12 AM2 votes

That would be really cool from an aesthetic angle. I'd love to have some cool extras like that on a few skins.

From a design angle, however, I see why they don't. Riot LOVES clarity in design, and this fails that test: you'll see champions with features and movements that don't convey in-game meaning, and that can be distracting. You'll notice that even the pre-meeting flavor animals (the squirrel-creatures and so forth) vanish by the time the game really starts. The only characters who get this sort of extra feature are those like Lulu where it matters mechanically, and that can't be a coincidence.

Fun idea though. :)