Shockblade Zed Chroma

DexterousFlip·10/9/2015, 11:44:54 PM·2 votes·4,876 views

Anyone know what happened to the Shockblade Zed Chroma Bundle that was supposed to come out 3 months ago? I mean, I like the original the best, but I'm just curious. Did they ever release it? Was it legacy? Or was it cancelled? It bugs me and my shadows not knowing why this skin is not available (haha :P). Please reply, and thank you! Zed

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Eternya10/10/2015, 3:14:16 PM2 votes

During the 5.13 PBE cycle, a chroma pack of three Shockblade Zed recolors was added to the PBE then pulled near the end of the cycle and never released on live.

Riot Lovestrut noted on twitter that these aren't cancelled and are still planned for future release: [1] "Yes, they were pulled off due to a big VFX bug, then we also didn't want to release it so close to PROJECT: Zed. " [2] "That being said, they're not cancelled! You can expect them sometime in the future. :]"

Desiderium10/10/2015, 12:27:04 AM1 votes

It had a bug where the chroma skins were occasionally using Classic Zed's spell and idle animation particles instead of Shockblade Zed's particles.

Not sure if that should take 3 months to fix, I dunno. But hey it's a reason I guess.

But what we really should be hoping for, is new colors/massive upgrades to the current ones. Shockblade Zed is such an easy skin to chroma that there should really be no excuse for making them look bad. The absence of a black chroma, despite Zed having many defining features, is highly unfortunate. The yellow is waaay too flamboyant, the purple is too soft around the edges and feminine. Many others agreed with me in the skins forums about these aspects of the chroma, but all we can do is wait and see. I just hope that the bug isn't the only thing they're working on, especially when it's been taking THIS long.

AChanceOfReign10/10/2015, 3:33:00 AM1 votes

Hey now we can have Yellow Shockblade Zed vs. the Frozen Shen to fight each other :D

DexterousFlip10/10/2015, 8:30:57 PM1 votes

Thank you guys for clearing things up! I appreciate it :) .