Why Does Zac Have No Skins?

Dreamspitter·1/6/2020, 4:01:10 PM·19 votes·10,988 views

The possibilities are endless

1-Zoot Suit Zac/Debonair Zac "I should get a suit" - A skin that's been wanted since the champion's release.

2-Ectoplasm Zac (Harrowing skin)

3-Infernal Zac (*think *of the lava!)

4-Liquid Metal/Metal Gel/Project Zac (Terminator music playing -would be amazing if you could do the reflections justice)

5- Sugar Rush Zac

6-Sand Man Zac (Zac made of sand, might have been a bit better with old ult)

7-Swamp Sludge Zac (creepy, oozey swamp thing like )

8 -Hazmat Zac

40 Comments

Oleandervine1/6/2020, 4:03:49 PM23 votes

He's apparently too difficult for them to make skins for, though I dunno why. To add to your list:

Tarpit Zac - Black, goopy, bubbling tar, with dino bones and such that fall out for certain effects (poking out of his globs, his bloblets wearing tiny dino skulls, etc). I think it'd be a fun addition to the Jurassic/Monster Hunter style skins.

Chembaron Yamada1/6/2020, 9:24:07 PM10 votes

Hextech Zac He is built out of Hextech nanobots, in the middle is a glowing core (that can be seen when his passive triggers and piles of nanobots are trying to get back to the core).

Battle Academia Zac He is the teacher of the assassin club (yes, you read that right, let me explain!). He is referencing Koro-Sensei from Assassination Classroom, he is an experiment of the school to enhance powers and now he is training the assassination club by giving them the task to kill him (which is basically impossible). https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/assassinationclassroom/images/c/c5/Koro_sensei_transparent.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20161202043210

Unfortunately, Riot just abandoned Zac when it comes to skins because he is considered a hard champion to make them for.

Sukishoo1/6/2020, 4:17:44 PM10 votes

Cause they considered him hard to make skins for.

He is a stretchy blob, so they have to really think of how those things work with his animations. Like a debonair or gentleman skin, how it stretches when he does? They have to make the material look natural. Some of them aren't going to be quite that easy.

I think Sugar Rush or a fire base one would be pretty fun.

14daysuspensionk1/6/2020, 6:22:22 PM10 votes

Cries in Ornn

nosafterburn1/6/2020, 4:26:01 PM3 votes

blobs are hard to draw with context apparently.

The Stripy Bag1/7/2020, 8:30:51 AM3 votes

BattleBoss Zac. Seriously think of all the blob monsters in gaming history. I'd especially like to point to Chaos from the Sonic series and the Devils from the Megaman franchise. Maybe have the blobs be clumps of corrupted data.

ThunderCraft1/7/2020, 2:27:07 AM2 votes

gentleman zac should be a given all champs who become ginormous have one already.

Trias0001/6/2020, 9:13:21 PM2 votes

The Incredible Zac - turning into Bruce Banner when he gets tiny.

General Esdeath 1/7/2020, 5:14:08 AM2 votes

Most of the ideas tend to just sound like chromas, and the stretching mechanic is hard with skins

Frostdinosaur911/6/2020, 7:51:41 PM1 votes

Skarner has joined the forever no skins club Skarner Riot we still await our time (Also love Zac skins ideas)

Burns Master1/7/2020, 12:14:13 AM1 votes

Infernal, Tar, and Deep Space are my votes.

FakeGravity1/7/2020, 1:27:04 AM1 votes

being such a soft and slimy character i guess they cant make him a mech or project or anything like that, but they can work with the dark star idea, as well as anything that have a distinct core for him and natural flobiness?

Pandemic Punch1/6/2020, 5:50:28 PM1 votes

Full metal zac

He can look shiny like Mario wearing the metal cap in Mario 64. It could also be liquid metal terminator 2 style

Kurjao1/7/2020, 3:42:13 AM1 votes

A legendary skin that has him made up of electricity, arms are made of wires and when he does his E he launches himself from telephone cables

TheGreatRasputin1/7/2020, 4:44:48 AM1 votes

Hey, we Ornn mains and the Skarner mains can wait. So can you.

Caretaker Jack1/9/2020, 1:09:48 AM1 votes

Probably the same reason bard is nearly half a decade without squat.

WoonStruck1/7/2020, 5:17:59 AM1 votes

Chromas pretty much cover all of the potential skins he could have at a basic level.

Gak Zac anyone?

UpDownLeftRightAB1/7/2020, 7:04:33 AM1 votes

Not enough players, skins are decided by popularity. Popularity = money, Riot's main motivating factor.

The King Diamond1/7/2020, 8:27:55 AM1 votes

Here is the slime from WoW. Riot pls, do something similar [sg-janna] https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/wowpedia/thumb/d/d4/Ooze.jpg/300px-Ooze.jpg?version=7ed11ebf7c948b80afc0b1d4b3d1a36a

Ionian Vulpix1/6/2020, 5:43:02 PM1 votes

I'd imagine Zac having a very weird model and rig, like Rumble, that makes it extremely difficult to actually build and model a skin around it.

Bouncemaster Zac1/7/2020, 9:29:39 AM1 votes

Give my boy pants.

Kazekiba1/7/2020, 5:50:11 PM1 votes

Okay I was going to say

For the same reason Xerath doesn't; ZAC Skins are just chromas.

but y'all proved me wrong before I ever got the chance to reply, good job being better at Riot's job than Riot. That said, there's little room to doubt that ZAC would be a net loss on skin development; it would cost more time to rig and design a skin than it would generate in profit. This is what Riot means when they say "Zac is hard to design skins for", claiming the issue is the model/animations itself are the issue but in reality, its not that they CANT do it, it's that it would be expensive (because time = money, so a more typical animation pattern = faster = cheaper).

Ztoka1/6/2020, 8:14:31 PM1 votes

He has skins but not a ton. Probably not enough zac fans out there to justify the work needed to make the skin. They like making skins that are super profitable and I can't see zac falling into that category. Not only would it cost more time/resources to make but won't sell like ahri, lux, mf etc. It's all about profitability.

Kadexe1/7/2020, 9:25:23 PM1 votes

He has difficult animations to work with.