Request for a Gentleman Tahm Kench skin

LittleOak·8/17/2017, 8:36:13 PM·2 votes·377 views

Getting away from champions that clearly need new skins like Yorick and Illaoi (seriously, how did Pool Party Illaoi not happen this year?) I would like to see Tahm Kench get a new skin; specifically a Gentleman skin and here are my reasons why this should happen and thoughts on the subject.

Firstly, I don't know for others but I personally like champion skins that have a black/white base or color-scheme. I think they all seem to be very clean and good looking skins. Skins like Lancer Zero Hecarim, Enchanted Galio, Lunar Goddess Diana, or literally ANY chroma that is "Obsidian". I feel like if you gave Tahm a nice black suit, cane, and monocle along with a skin tone somewhere between a porcelain white to slate gray this time around (much like Gnar has his white hair - I love Tahm but all his skins I really don't like his skin tone; they feel uncharacteristic), he could look really nice.

Secondly, Tahm Kench (as devious as he is) does have a distinctly Southeastern American set of manners. Along with the other members of the Gentleman skin line, they are all beasts that we sort of paint into this figure full of manners and high society. Between Tahm's off-handed insults and gluttonous disposition, I think his personality fits perfectly into one who would be found in the Gentlemen skin line (think Frank Underwood from the tv show House of Cards - speaking of which, if it wouldn't be a political statement I would say let's get a Presidential Tahm Kench skin based on Underwood instead of this since it would be pretty similar but it would be taken as one based on Trump).

Thirdly, Tahm's base skin is different enough from the Gentleman line that it would make sense for a fan of his to want the new skin, but it also is close enough to the Gentleman skin line that not a terrible amount of re-animating would need to go into making it. Change the textures of his top hat to not be beat up and be a little larger with a white rim and you have a fancy man's top hat. Changing the color of his regular jacket and make it less tattered, button his shirt up and slap on a tie and you're all set. If you want to give him pants, then give him pants but let's be honest, he would probably just eat them so he doesn't quite need them.

Finally, (and this has very little to do with the actual visuals of the skin, but) Gentleman Gnar was released in the same patch that Tahm Kench hit the rift, personally I find it might be poetic to actually give a callback to that.

2 Comments

Joseph Gladstone8/17/2017, 8:59:53 PM2 votes

illaoi gets no skins because she isnt a petite thot with unrealistically giant tits that defy gravity and a giant ass.