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[Skin Idea] A joke skin that makes the base champion skin wear all the items he/she/it purchases.

Hexaflexagon·3/17/2016, 2:48:19 AM·2 votes·594 views

With all the new april fools skins coming out, I thought I would add my idea to the discussion. I was imagining where all items go when a champion buys them (I'm sure this thought isn't original because of the sheer absurdity of the idea. 6 Infinity Edges can't fit on a Teemo. ) when I realized that it might be possible for Riot to implement a skin that demonstrates how a champion would hold whatever items it has. One other game has an interaction similar to this, Shoppe Keep, where customers immediately wear the items as soon as they're purchased. Since in Shoppe Keep they're buying wizard robes, horned helmets, and other goofy items, it makes for a great interaction with all the weird and funny item combinations (I once saw a customer buy an entire suit of armor and then buy 2 beets before leaving.) Riot has given us a crazy amount of interesting and varied items that we could endlessly combine into different outfits for one skin.

Problems I see with this idea is obviously how it could be done and done well. Although it would be hilarious to see items go to where they are supposed to (Imagine a Teemo with 3 Infinity Edges in each hand or a Draven wearing 3 deathcaps on top of each other, 2 doran's rings, and ninja tabi), I don't see how realistic this idea could be. Problems might also arise when the devs want to add new items. I think the easiest way to implement this would be with a Zac skin that just has each item randomly stuck into him. There could even be item particles for his separate blobs. Comment what you think of the idea and how realistic it sounds.

2 Comments

DeloricVI3/17/2016, 2:53:46 AM1 votes

Well, it doesn't really seem feasible. Riot hasn't designed any skin like this, none of the weapons in-game are modeled (except a few that are stuck in the barrel behind the shop keeper or somewhere else in the shop), and this would require a shit-ton of extra code to get it to work. Like, legendary skin levels of work. Maybe more. The game engine also isn't desgined to do this, so there aren't many solutions I could think of (as a Computer Science major and fledgling game designer) that wouldn't require either an overhaul to the current system, or one major exception to the game's already existing rules.

This would also probably be never used; imagine all of the bronze players that never hit tab... you'd be doing them a huge favor by using this skin XD

TheRioluKid3/19/2016, 4:41:29 AM1 votes

What if you buy more than one hat? Will your character wear two hats? This is a kind of funny idea, but tbh i don't think this idea will ever see the light of day.