Rocket Girl Tristana

TheChaoticSwede··3 votes·874 views

I'm going to make this as short as possible. I used to be an avid Tristana fan, she was my first adc I decided to play religiously and back when I was beginning to play LoL I had a thing for Yordles. I loved how they were so adorable and what not. In support to Riot for making more of them I have made it a point to buy at least one skin for each Yordle. For Tristana I bought Rocket Girl since it looked the coolest and cutest. When I finally saw the new update to Tristana I smiled with absolute glee and I loved her new look. However, when I scrolled down her skins new look I was actually frowning at the Rocket Girl skin. I honestly don't think they put enough effort into making it look better or at least took the wrong approach. Her hair is literally the same texture as the live look and the only real difference is facial expressions, a bit taller (which this was added to her model anyway so they don't really count) and some new particle effects that honestly no one will really appreciate because of how fast they will disappear.

My point is that I don't like how it seems that the people in the skin department seemed to have taken a short cut with this skin and just reapplied everything from the live look to the pbe base model. If there isn't any plans on at least adding some new animations to it then I want to request the rp back and for it to be locked on my account again because the way it is now i'm not going to use it at all. (Even though I'm pretty sure Riot will say no anyway.)

TL;DR: I don't like the new Rocket Girl look and I feel as if there needs to be more effort put into it because the base skin alone looks better than it.

7 Comments

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Ya, they are all now the same model wearing slightly different gear. It's a little disappointing. On the other hand, Riot Girl Trist is way better now :3

TheChaoticSwede2 votes

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Ya, they are all now the same model wearing slightly different gear. It's a little disappointing. On the other hand, Riot Girl Trist is way better now :3

I was actually going to say the most worked on skin looks to be Riot Girl Tristana. Kinda ironic that the free skin seems to be the most worked on. I am glad though that they did put effort into it.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

If they update the boring original splash recolor it uses, I'll be ecstatic :P

TheChaoticSwede1 votes

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If they update the boring original splash recolor it uses, I'll be ecstatic :P

While we're on the topic of splashes, is no one going to mention that with the new updated model not even her updated Splash matches her clothing?

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I don't honestly expect splash art and in-game models to be identical. If it was a single person doing both, maybe, but it isn't. Sometimes (not always), something in the splash is difficult to translate into the game because of physics, model movement, or just it not looking as good. Splash art really isn't limited to that stuff; its real job is to make you interested in buying the skin.

TheChaoticSwede1 votes

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I don't honestly expect splash art and in-game models to be identical. If it was a single person doing both, maybe, but it isn't. Sometimes (not always), something in the splash is difficult to translate into the game because of physics, model movement, or just it not looking as good. Splash art really isn't limited to that stuff; its real job is to make you interested in buying the skin.

True, but there still should be accurate representation to an extent. When the character in-game has an exposing belly that is pretty obvious while the splash shows her wearing a full uniform there's a bit of dissonance. The suit in her base splash is very similar to the one she wears in-game i'll give them that but it shouldn't be too difficult to just edit the splash to show her belly.

(Then again we're talking about a group of people that needlessly changed Ahri's perfectly representative splash to a new splash that barely shows half of her body in it and her face is awkwardly more detailed than the rest of it. Why did they do that? For all we know it could have been because someone in the department didn't like the artist that made the old one.)

junglerboy161 votes

Riot has confirmed in SEVERAL threads that they are making a whole new splash for tristan a to match her new look, using the same basic lay out of the current updated splash.

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