Udyr skin concept (Mecha Line) (Mecha Udyr)
Hello, although he has Spirit Guard and other mid-tier skins - I believe it would be awesome to see Mecha Udyr added to the Mecha line of skins. I'm not that artistically inclined to illustrate the image in my head, but I can describe it to the best of my ability.
Tiger stance could start out with "Baraka-like" arm blades like in Mortal Kombat or the blades of Zealots in StarCraft, and at rank 5 could evolve into 3 blades (possibly serrated) to show his Tiger line has been "upgraded" or enhanced.
Turtle stance could have some physical or emitted shield to show his defensive stance. Not really sure how to represent a Turtle "mechanically"? Other than his arms literally form a riot shield or probably show very similar to the other Udyr skins. At rank 5, his exoskeleton or battle armor or whatever Riot would hypothetically use either increases in visible density and/or changes texture/color to show hardening of his "skin." Almost similar in the way the Mr. Shadow planet at the beginning of the film, The Fifth Element, hardens before it is fired upon. Riot would have to take some ideas and really work on this stance to perhaps apply real-world and science fiction applications of personal defense systems.
Bear stance would change his fists into maybe the sledge pistons police and special forces use to break doors down in tactical situations. Or he "fabricates" one to hold in both hands. This stance is also hard to imagine along the lines of "mechanical" and machine themes. Basically, a physical representation that whatever or whoever he hits in Bear stance will stun the @#$ out of them/it. At rank 5, or earlier, whatever is representing his "feet" could change to tank-like "treads" or some other visible and mechanical representation that he is at rank 5 (and fast) in Bear stance.
Phoenix stance was the precursor of the whole idea. Literal FLAMETHROWERS emitted from his wrists that burst fast and powerful like flames from an exhaust of a high-end tuner car. They would start out red and at rank 5, turn that Bunsen burner blue we all know and love! This would be cool to see in action and real easy to apply to a "military sci-fi robo Udyr" with upgrade lines - somewhat similar to the idea of Victor's items, but different. You, as the player are researching and developing new pieces of technology to outfit this "future soldier" with. Udyr venting flames ranging from powerful red to icy, AOE blue would be awesome to see in-game.
Now on his actual character design: obviously it would take some inspiration from the Aatrox, Sion and Malphite skins, but maybe Udyr was a human transformed by cybernetics a la' name your anime, cyberpunk series or what have you. He could have an up-gradable power suit along the veins of Crysis, that GI Joe movie with the suits, or the like. Keep the beard...obviously, but maybe the eyes have been outfitted or replaced with a visor and his power suit GLOWS in the color of the stance, you as the player, are in. Red for Tiger, Green for Turtle, etc. etc.
Basically, pull all the inspiration of cyberpunk, man-and-machine together, up-gradable "weapons and defense platforms", augmentation, cybernetics, power suits, neo-noir, sci-fi and clear character and game mechanics to create a beautiful skin in-game for a visibly changing Champion that would be fun to play and play against.
1350 or 1820 RP.
Thank you. Hope you find the prospect of this skin idea as exciting as I do.