Riot why haven't any skins the boards become anything

Nicktoons·5/15/2015, 12:30:44 AM·3 votes·565 views

Over the couple months in the boards I've seen a ton of community skins, Some of them are in there EVERY WEEK and have over 100 upvotes. Like Pool Party Zac, I've seen that skin in the boards so much that it feels weird not seeing it.

How did Lee get a boxing skin riot? He has two abilites where he uses his feet and uses his hands to smack the ground... Punchout Vi Has been in the boards many times, how have you not seen it? I understand quality control, not all the skins are good and most don't make sense for a champion. Like that Grave leona one, But seriously These two skins are compatable with these champions and you didn't make them already

Seeing that skin on Lee leaves a bad taste in my mouth, like that is just disrespectful. You litterally have people begging you to make something that they will PAY you for and you don't do it. You don't even have to apply an effort into thinking about the skin. Theres probably already some guy who already wrote like a thousand paragraphs on how the skin should look exactly.

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Sir ArmaMalum5/15/2015, 12:44:00 AM4 votes

Short version: Skins aren't that easy.

Long version: Skins don't just get made by throwing money at the problem, and they certainly don't get made quickly. (With the exception of the LCS champ skins). Community idea skins are particularly difficult not because they are difficult to actually make but they're difficult to make and fulfill the expectation people have preemptively made for these ideas. Take Pool Party Zac for example, would be easy right? Color him blue, give him swim trunks and done. But what about a splash animation anytime he ult's or maybe a diving board animation when he charges his E? Maybe a wave sound effect over his Q? I'm willing to bet there are people out there who would expect that skin to have those effects and doing the quick and cheap 'slap on shorts' version of the skin would disappoint them. And guess what? You can't make that skin again.

On top of that, you can't ignore other skins coming out, especially time sensitive ones like holiday skins and skin combos like Samsung White or Championship releases. So not only do you have to fit these awesome community ideas in between the ones with an innate deadline but you have to have these ideas fight amongst themselves for priority. Dragonmaster Swain, Asylum (Harley Quinn) Jinx, Pool Party Zac, Punchout Vi, and many others are also there on the backburners waiting to get their turn.

To make you feel better though there are community skins out there already like Birthday Party Fiddlesticks, Bunny Riven, and Void Fizz. So they can and probably will happen, but you can't get uppity about them not coming out and new skins like Boxing Lee doesn't mean other ones won't happen.

Doctor Kill5/15/2015, 12:39:27 AM1 votes

Riot, make a prehistoric Nidalee skin with a saber tooth tiger form

Doctor Kill5/15/2015, 12:41:23 AM1 votes

Bartender Gragas

Doctor Kill5/15/2015, 12:46:25 AM1 votes

also DJ Ekko

Doctor Kill5/15/2015, 12:56:26 AM1 votes

Omega Squad Heimerdinger : (he could be the tech-guy of the squad); IRL turrets, flash-bangs, rocket launcher!!