@Rioters, can you please answer some questions about Ahri?

HuskerWolf82·1/13/2015, 12:32:18 AM·11 votes·1,494 views

I, and many more, would greatly appreciate your time if you could address the issue many in this community, and on other websites, have brought up concerning the name change for the new skin from Dauntless to Challenger. So far we have not heard any news or response addressing the concerns brought up. Many are concerned about it causing confusion with the Challenger rank. Others have stressed they want it but do not want to be harassed by toxic players with "challenged", "retard", "challenge FAILED" comments and so on because they have family/friends in real life with this condition. I'll provide the links to these topics, both of which have over 100 up votes, that have yet to be addressed. Change Challenger Ahri back to Dauntless Ahri - started 12/21/14 - 111 upvotes Challenger Ahri is still a horrible name - started 01/06/15 - 127 upvotes

We would really love just to hear something from you, even if it is just a "standby for explanation in next few days" response or something to acknowledge these concerns/questions. Anything. In summary, most of the questions covered:

  • Why the change to Challenger?
  • Doesn't Dauntless sound more fearless and motivated to rise up the ranks to go along with this skin theme's purpose?
  • A majority of posters liked Dauntless more and are at minimum hesitant to buy; do you think this will affect the profitability of this skin series overall?
  • Won't it cause confusion with the ranked system (i.e. where is Gold Ahri? only Challenger rank players get this skin?)?
  • Do you not think it will enable toxic players further harass someone wearing this skin?

If any Red responds, my sincere thanks for your time. Other community members can feel free to add questions.

5 Comments

Coochie Cutie1/13/2015, 2:22:18 AM4 votes

I seriously don't know why they haven't changed it back yet. There is so many people that want it reversed, I don't see any comment really about people liking the current name.

Just because some people might not understand the name they could very well look it up and see. This is also League Of Legends there is other stuff that has people more confused over.

Tendrian1/13/2015, 2:50:59 AM3 votes

It's not like the community didn't try. There are the 2 big threads that you posted as well as a whole slew of other, smaller posts. The amount of complaint was really high, especially if you consider that it was just about the name of a skin. It's pretty crazy how consistenly Riot ignored it all - despite pretty much every post asking for a statement, there hasn't been a single red post about the skin since before it was renamed. Not even the initial renaming was ever oficially explained to anyone in the community...

Hoffmisc1/13/2015, 12:38:51 AM1 votes

I'm going to be brutally honest, I would love an explanation for the name change but it just isn't going to happen. Seeing as the patch is in about 2 days I can't see any changes anytime soon. There have been so many thread about this it not even funny.

The best assumption is that the majority of League probably wouldn't know what Dauntless means and so they changed it to something more universally understandable.