Pool Party's Draven's particles are really lacking compared to the others :(

Abyssphere·6/10/2015, 3:39:35 PM·2 votes·442 views

Anyone else think that? The model is amazing and the recall is among the best (alongside Lulu's) but compared to every other skin his particles are just so "aww, that's boring". I tried all the skins last night on the PBE (playing with a friend who tried Zac's skin and Mundo's) and while I thought Rek'Sai and Lulu were incredible, as well as the skins my friend was trying, Draven left me feeling so underwhelmed.

I realise Draven's not too heavy on particles but his axes don't even look like floats or anything (they look like they'd belong on Arcade Draven) so they really can't carry the skin on its own. His ult could have jets of water shooting out of the cracks in the ground left by his axes, his W could leave a trail of bubbles in his wake as he runs and his E could fire sand along with his axes or something... changes like that would really flesh out the skin and leave it feeling a lot less empty.

On another note it really doesn't sound great to be attacking people with things that sound as flimsy as his toy axes. I realise there's not much you can do about that because... that's how pool toys sound, but a lot of the pleasure in playing Draven is the really violent sounds his axes make and the flimsy sounds made by his axes in this skin just add to the "meh" feeling.

Hope this is good feedback, I don't hate the skin or anything (like I said the model is fantastic!). But I think it could be so much better if it weren't so lacking in particles compared to the rest.

2 Comments

AFK Push6/10/2015, 6:20:18 PM1 votes

Well besides Mundo, all of the other ones are 1350 skins, these skins have much more work put into them especially in the particle department. Hey not all 975 skins have backing animations, so at least it has that.

S2C2Xd9KOy6/10/2015, 7:26:43 PM1 votes

I was like meh and then the backing animation came up and I was like "sold."