Guardian of the Sands Skarner feedback
I don't have a PBE account, but I would like to offer some thoughts about the upcoming Skarner skin, having seen an iteration on Surrender@20. Hopefully this is an appropriate venue.
I don't really care much for it. I think that it looks better than the Battlecast Skarner, but still not as good as the release skins.
It took me awhile to figure out what is bugging me, but I've narrowed it down to four issues.
- The colors. The solid purple looks a little bit weird. On the base skin, the tail and the legs are light blue (with purple spines on the tail) and the abdomen is light purple. On the Sandscourge skin, there is a black outline for each segment. With the Guardian skin, his body is all purple.
The biggest problem with this is that the gold helmet makes his body look tiny. The purple abdomen looks more like an extension of the tail than a body.
I think a little bit of detailing to define legs, tail, and abdomen would improve this tremendously.
- The armor. Skarner doesn't have armor in any of his skins. It looks kind of weird to have him armored.
I'm not certain how to make this look less weird. Maybe if the gold could look like it was more a part of his body? Maybe use the gold to define segments like the black in the Sandscouge skin?
- The tail. Skarner's tail is a bit too large in this one. It looks larger than the rest of his body, unlike his other skins.
If it could be shrunken a little bit so that it does not outsize the rest of his body, that would be nice.
- His crystalline exoskeleton particles. I know that in his other skins, the exoskeleton doesn't cover his face, but because the helmet is larger than just his face, it looks funky. Also, the massive crystals on his claw armor look pretty funky. They should be reduced or removed.
I think that maybe all of the armor should stay gold during the exoskeleton particles, or less of the helmet should.
I love Skarner. I love that he's a scorpion and I think that he is fun to play (even with the rework), however, I don't think that I would buy this skin as is. Like the Battlecast skin, it just isn't better than the release skins, even with the particle changes.
