Maps skins for League of Legends' Summoner's Rift

NoBudget·12/11/2015, 2:58:27 PM·42 votes·4,209 views

Hey, everyone, I apologize if my English isn't always correct. I'm no native speaker. I've played League of Legends for some time now. I've often played the map Summoner's Rift. It is the most interesting map of those four ones. But after a while people get to know this map pretty well. For this reason I think it would be necessary to change something with it. I don't mean to change the build and the concept of it. This would be too complicated, concerning a fair balancing. I'm speaking of another design: With this huge mass of champions, their background stories and artworks Riot Games has created a whole new world. If you search for terms like "League of Legends Map" you might even find a map of the whole continent and their regions. So why can't we see anything of this? I would like to get some "map skins" of other regions like Frel Jord, Piltover, Bilgewater and Shurima Desert. This would be no question of balancing because it's only the look to be changed (as you know it from the champions). I already found some works of other people who created such maps (see the link; I surely don't mean only the icy lands, others too). It should be possible to develop a little series of map skins. I guess it wouldn't be a big deal to change some colors and elements, some of those elements do already exist (just think of the ARAM map and the other maps).

I really hope Riot Games gets to know about this article so the developers might take this idea into consideration. If it isn't possible I'd like to know why.

19 Comments

iainB8512/11/2015, 4:24:08 PM10 votes

Back in the day we used to get snow covered Summoner's Rift for the holidays.

If I remember correctly, a Rioter commented a while back saying they won't reskin Summoner's Rift anymore because they are worried about color conflicts and some abilities being very hard to see on different colored backgrounds (Lux's E on a snow background could be hard to see, for instance).

Personally I feel like it could still be done, as long as they were careful with the colors, and that it was kind of a cop-out response.

TwoD12/11/2015, 5:54:30 PM2 votes

wow what do we have to do to get Riot to make this stuff happen? I will literally go run around outside butt naked with a cereal bowl of coco puffs

EmittingXs12/12/2015, 12:20:14 AM2 votes

SR after Lissandra becomes Queen... this should be a thing. it's badass as it is and although it may need a few changes here and there for the sake of some champion's skills, it would be amazing.

on a side note, personally i feel as if the wolves should be white instead of green-ish and blue... something about how predators in the wild have to adapt to their environment and their fur reflects those changes. the raptors got the memo... get it together wolves >:(

Mister Sunglow12/11/2015, 9:11:57 PM1 votes

This still isn't updated and I can't find the download on the ad-ridden yurixyworx.com

Occams Raiser12/12/2015, 2:52:17 AM1 votes

This is so fat I can explain it. I don't know why Riot can't do this in winter

Small Tiddies12/12/2015, 1:18:01 PM1 votes

Fixing the problem for colorblind: Cb mode gives it the textures, but they're still green, on the other hand it could just be the normal map on cb mode.

Death by Glamour12/11/2015, 3:00:30 PM1 votes

Looks pretty good

Dunno why we havent recieved these or announcer packs

inmUGco12/13/2015, 6:11:55 PM1 votes

we need ICE RIFT! plz Roit~

Silver3MMC12/11/2015, 4:36:11 PM1 votes

I love the Idea of a theme for the rift during winter looks really cool +1

rtbf20610590512/11/2015, 6:10:02 PM1 votes

Really this is a no-brainer that they could make some money out of this.

Btw if Riot is scared about it interfering with the abilities then what is the point of christmas that lasts for a few weeks?