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Championship Shyvana Season 4 Skin

HexTechBomber··2 votes·3,356 views

Hey Riot and Players, Many of us have known for some time now that we were getting the Victorious Morgana skin, in which I've known each season it has been usually the MOST INFLUENTIAL champion that would end up getting it (if I'm correct here). In which usually a secondary champion with the second most influence in the game has normally received this skin. These champions I have noticed as being the most influential through out the season; Tristana, Maokai, Yasuo, Braum. Which would make sense for the second most influential champion to have a Championship Skin, and while I do like the Championship Skin for Shyvana (I recently began to play her and like her) what was the thought process or what is the thought process that your team of experts put into deciding who gets the Championship skin?

I remember Last season was Thresh as he came in and dominated the SUPPORT scene, and while before it was Riven who was blasting through the top lane, which those made a ton of sense.

I hope to hear back from any players with any reason/theories and hear back from any Rioter's who care to help delve this subject and answer my questions.

Thanks!

18 Comments

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

They probably just had a goal, made some concept art of multiple champions, and the Shyvana art was the most popular while meeting the goals (like fitting with the new SR VU).

HexTechBomber1 votes

A fair enough point but I would of hoped more for one that fit to a champion who had the second most strongest influence throughout the season. My theory (before they revealed Shyvana) was that Tristana would probably have ended up with the skin since she had the strongest role in ADC. I'm not upset bout Shyvana getting it, I would of rather seen one other get it but I plan to get the skin for Shyvana (I only have one skin for her and think it's great in the coloring and over all look). Thanks for your reply!

Sailor Mint1 votes

http://i.imgur.com/5nWZt9v.jpg

  1. If being a top 3 pick for 14/32 weeks isn't enough, I don't know what it takes.
  2. The Championship skin was most likely selected in the middle of the Summer Split.
  3. They most likely didn't a caster for both Victorious and Championship skins.
  4. Tristana didn't see any play until halfway into the summer split (4.10).

Thresh wasn't seeing much play in S3 due to his permaban status. Riven was a strictly soloQ/NA thing until Faker picked her up during S3 Worlds.

HexTechBomber1 votes

Thanks for that picture, not sure what website you got that from, would like to know, helpful info.

While (yes) thresh was banned a lot he actually had about the highest influence in the season as for coming in late in the season (even though he was banned most often).

I'm only asking about Shyvana because from my experience in playing in my Low-Mid Gold/High Silver bracket of players I haven't really seen much in the way of Shyvana being picked/played. Even watching some higher plat to challenger I was rarely seeing Shyvana picked but that could be me just missing those majority of games.

I hope that maybe a Red could pop in here and enlighten us to their method or so of how they go about the Championship skin champion selection.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Ongamers.com Champion Trends

EmWtTxCTGL1 votes

I'm pretty sure they just pick whatever concept artist doodles the coolest skin.

Sailor Mint1 votes

SoloQ shouldn't have an impact on skin selection.

The charts were taken from ongamers. Shyvana was picked every game for most of the season in competitive play in every regions.

HexTechBomber1 votes

I must have really missed it then because the games I caught (mostly NA) happened to not see a lot of Shyvana, hm interesting. Still hoping a Red can really enlighten us :)

Sailor Mint1 votes

OGN Winter / Spring / Summer Shyvana 71.1% / 74.7% / 34.1% Tristana 1.3% / 0.0% / 20.7%

NA LCS Spring / Summer Shyvana 57.1% / 38.7% Tristana 0.0% / 45.0%

EU LCS Spring / Summer Shyvana 41.6% / 41.4% Tristana 2.7% / 15.3%

Lee Sin, LeBlanc and Kha'zix were the other top contenders, they all received a skin this year.

HexTechBomber1 votes

Is there a link to this information?

Tails Doll1 votes

When did LeBlanc recived a skin? Did I miss something?

Sailor Mint1 votes

Ravenborn LeBlanc

It's coming out this month.

Sailor Mint1 votes

http://lol.esportspedia.com/

HexTechBomber1 votes

Thank you for that, yeah I can see now. I hadn't been able to find any information on the full out champions picks/bans with wins/losses through out the season.

Shyvana http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/Shyvana#Competitive_Usage Tristana http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/Tristana_-_The_Megling_Gunner#Competitive_Usage Lucian http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/Lucian_-_The_Purifier#Competitive_Usage Lee Sin http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/Lee_Sin_-_The_Blind_Monk#Competitive_Usage Kha'zix http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/Kha%27Zix_-_The_Voidreaver#Competitive_Usage Mao'kai http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/Maokai_-_The_Twisted_Treant#Competitive_Usage

now I see what you mean though I feel some of them aren't updated too much yet but I can understand the weighed options put into picking the one.

Sailor Mint1 votes

I manually checked the stats page for every split of OGN and LCS. Low jungler variety meant Lee Sin, Kha'zix and Elise were picked/banner a disproportionately high number of times compared to other classes.

HexTechBomber1 votes

I appreciate everyone who took a chance to reply to this! Still would love a red's comment though :)

SzymonPL0071 votes

So will Shyvana championship skin be available this year? or any idea on how to get it ? please tell me( i really like her and want to get the skin championship)

HexTechBomber1 votes

Its normally available around the time of the Championship games

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