Riot Needs to Put in Some Effort When it Comes to Skins

To start off with context I have only been playing League for about 3 years starting in 2016. During that first year there was something that always stood out to me, the dedication and time that went into champion teasers and skins especially legendary skins. I remember being in complete awe after seeing the teaser for Arelion Sol, the fear and confusion Jhin's made me feel, and the love and time put into the story of Azir. Then some time after getting hooked on the game, the first star guardian skin line came out. As a massive fan of anime seeing those skins made my heart sink. To see a Riot put in anime skins with an amazing cinematic and song as well as jinx who had 11 mins worth of special dialogue. Then came Elementalist Lux (a skin I get far too often from chest) which was incredible to me with all of its forms the trailer for it and all the incredible teaser images we got leading up to it. But now after giving some background let me get to the point.

Riot or Tencant have been putting in less and less effort into skins. Don't get me wrong all the new skins still look nice, but in contrast to what there once was it seems as if Riot works more towards making the skins and pumping them out like a factory rather than making it something that puts people in complete awe. Take for example the new Star Guardian skins, to where before we would of gotten a song or a nice cinematic trailer, instead what did we get... a picture on twitter from the last cinematic. Within the skin line 2 skins I want to also point out is the Xayah Rakan one, now I love they story behind them and the new lore that was added but come on, the both of them combined only have 15 mins of unique dialogue. Then in addition to that the skins animations are so fast and in most cases choppy that it just doesn't feel like it is worth the $15 you would pay for the old legendary skins. Then moving onto ultimate skins, lets look at the newest one, Gun Goddess Miss Fortune. Now this skin to start off with the teaser. E-Lux sent us random coded messages on twitter with pictures and clues onto what is coming next then BOOM she drops on PBE and before her release gets a sick cinematic done with amazing visuals and a short but simple speech. Now Miss Fortune all she got was a small picture of her face in bullet angel Kai'sa's recall animation (that I am sure most people didn't even notice). That was it that is all she got before being released on PBE. Now she did get a short but pretty cool cinematic I will give it to them but then you look at her ingame stuff, she barely has enough voice lines to be considered a ultimate skin and just barely enough to be considered a normal legendary skin with only 15 minutes of unique dialogue.

Now I don't want to end this with the image of 'Oh Riot games bad bad they suck they lost what made them good :P' I still think Riot is one of the best game companies out there, but with how much lack of care they have recently started putting into the game it is no surprise that many of the older players are leaving they take less time to make skins instead focusing on pumping out a skin every patch rather than taking time to make one every other but twice as good. It is not only the design of the champion skins that upsets me, but that is a topic for another day.

If you have read to the end of this I applaud you and hope to see your thoughts shared in the comments, this is my first "Rant" on the boards so it may be a little all over the place.