A *Real* Legendary Skin for Heimer

GigglingAngel·3/17/2015, 12:48:27 AM·6 votes·1,090 views

Personally, I love Heimerdinger, and I believe a "Sportscaster Heim" would be epic and fit right in with Forecast Janna and Primetime Draven.

  1. The turrets could become baseball pitching machines, firing regular balls for regular shots and fast shots for the lasers (maybe even with a "fire" effect from the "speed").
  2. The missiles can be turned into golf balls, and Heimer can even shout "Four!" when he fires 'em.
  3. The grenade can be turned into a basketball, and Heimer can say "Two points!" when throwing it close or "Three point shot!" when he throws it far away.
  4. When he pulls up his ultimate, he can say "Here's the game-changing play!" or (as a nod towards Heimer fans) "The Donger is raised!"

The only argument I can see people making against this skin is that his Alien Invader skin is "technically" legendary tier (even though there's nothing actually special about it), so he'd already have one. But really, is it truly one at a "legendary" level when it comes to quality? No, not at all. It doesn't have any new/unique lines (a sorely missed oppurtunity), animations, or particles. The only difference is the model for Heimer and his turrets, and all of his skins (even the 520 RP one) have unique models in that case. It's just as detailed as his other skins, and doesn't exactly add anything. Hell, even his recall is exactly the same as his other skins (except for Hazmat, which is unique). (The same can be said for Wonderland Annie, another relatively fake legendary skin.)

5 Comments

Sukishoo3/17/2015, 12:52:30 AM1 votes

Wonderland and Alien, among many of the other Vaulted Legendary skins are just older and didn't really follow the guidelines they made later on for skin tiers. They are considered legendary skins of the BEFORE variety.

It could be nice to see some champions get some more though. Even if they had added the new Visual Effects like they did to Firefighter Tristana with her update, then those ones would be worth a little more (since hers would be about a 1350 with those effects now)

The Soulforged3/17/2015, 1:18:13 AM1 votes

No reference to the most played sport on the planet :(. You have to consider that LoL has gone international which riot uses as an excuse to do anything related to stuff involving figures such as Santa.

Darthsteele3/17/2015, 5:45:26 AM1 votes

No bro you gotta shoot higher. make it an ultimate skin. All you need is to add some high level texture moves and some special gadget and there you have the mid lane legendary skin.