Why was the Dauntless Ahri skin renamed?

Tendrian·Dec 15, 2014·5 votes·2,026 views

The newest PBE patch renamed the upcoming "Dauntless Ahri" skin to "Challenger Ahr".

Since I followed the discussions around the skin during the last weeks, I guess it was to better convey the "beginning of the season" look Riot is going for with the skin, but was it really necessary to change the name to accomplish that? When the skin was announced I really liked "Dauntless" as a name. It has a nice ring and sounds really powerful. "Challenger" just doesn't do the same, along with already being a pretty laden word in lol.

It doesn't really break the skin, I just think it makes it... less awesome :c

11 Comments

ZER0 2Dec 16, 20147 votes

I agree with you, the skin is already not going to sell well, and now they've changed the name to make it worse too

Fur Fox SakeDec 16, 20146 votes

These posts about changing Ahri's name get downvotes for no good reason :c to me challenger Ahri feels like it's meant for challenger players & that tier. Dauntless actually sounded better & classy. I liked it. This change was so unnecessary & bad. Why cant they listen to our actual complaints about the skin itself. That head piece

HetchyDec 15, 20145 votes

Because "Challenger" makes more sense, as in it's a new challenger at the beginning of the season.

"Dauntless" is just silly.

SayzorDec 16, 20144 votes

I liked Dauntless Ahri too

RilashaDec 16, 20143 votes

The name change does make it "less awesome" in my opinion as you put it. Challenger makes it sound... quite lame as a skin because there's the Challenger tier already having that word used for it. Fearless or some other descriptive word like that would make it cool again. As much as I love Ahri , I probably will be discouraged from using this skin if it continues to have the name change.

ElphrihaimDec 16, 20142 votes

I personally prefer "Undaunted" or "Valiant". Dauntless seems weird for a skin title, and Challenger seems weird because this isn't Super Smash Brothers.

the Anarchit3chtDec 16, 20143 votes

Yeah because anytime something has the word challenger in it its automatically related to super smash bros

ElphrihaimDec 16, 20142 votes

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Yeah because anytime something has the word challenger in it its automatically related to super smash bros

No, but the way the rioter phrased it, it would be representative of "a new challenger"--combine this with the fact that there's a Challenger-tier in League already, it feels cheesy tome, especially since it might be 'skin for challenger-tier players'.

And that cheesiness feels like smash brothers.

Not the fact that it's Challenger. xD