So I know it isn't a really popular skin, but I can't stand the new Ravager Nocturne

Wingling·10/9/2014, 2:34:46 PM·4 votes·2,887 views

I loved this skin, it was my favorite apart from Eternum, but now it just sucks. It used to be dark and spooky, with yellow bits for a jack-o-lantern type effect which was really cool. Now it's bright yellow.

Looking at the skin now, I think I've figured out why this happened. See, a while back the splash art was changed to the Chinese version (which I completely disagree with, the old splash art was the reason I bought the skin in the first place). The old splash art was much darker, and the Chinese version is bright yellow for some reason. I imagine whoever was in charge of the texture changes thought they needed to bring the skin closer to the current splash art.

I can understand Riot's decisions if this is the case (I can kind of see why they'd change the splash, I know at the very least I was in the minority for loving it), but you have to take a step back and look at the big picture. The net result of all of these changes is the in-game model and splash changing so much that it's almost a completely different skin. They could have updated Ravager Nocturne's splash and texture in a way that didn't turn him bright yellow.

For those of you who would say that I can contact player support to get the skin refunded (they will refund a skin if it's changed significantly since purchase), I'm honestly going to do exactly that but I think enough people dislike the change that there's a chance we can get Riot to do something about it.

2 Comments

A0 SHIN10/9/2014, 3:45:39 PM1 votes

Agreed. A bit too much yellow.

TankHo10/9/2014, 4:03:42 PM1 votes

Nocturne is one of the texture updated champions that have gone both ways in appearance, IMO. The classic and frozen skins look better, but ravager and void's shadings and colors are worse. Again this is only my opinion.