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When a champion is reworked, could we get a skin of the old base skin of the reworked champion?

I World Ender I·12/5/2018, 6:32:46 PM·2 votes·1,547 views

So pretty much, I just was thinking awhile ago about how cool it would be if, when Riot reworks a champion, they make a brand new skin for the reworked champion that is just their base skin from before the rework. I feel like it would be fairly easy since they already have the skin made, they just need to get it to work with new ability set. This way, if you happened to be someone that loved a champion and then your champ got reworked, you at least get to keep some sort of nostalgia of your beloved champion.

Also, for those skins, Riot could make something where, for every 100,000 mastery points, you get 10% off in RP (therefore when you have 1,000,000 mastery points or higher, you get it for free), make them legacy skins, and only have them available for a short time. I feel they would be able to make some profit off of these skins while also being able to keep the people who have been playing these champions more interested and adding some nostalgia to the game when you see those skins.

I know that maybe keeping the full old base skin intact is difficult, if not impossible, in most cases, but I know that it isn't impossible to make them extremely similar, and keep the base splashart. And I also don't think that Riot should change any of the colors or anything that they don't NEED to change. The selling point would be the nostalgia of seeing the old skin and remembering games past.

Personally, I played Aatrox before his rework and I enjoyed him, and I feel that having that old base skin on him (although it would definitely look very weird) would be an enjoyable experience.

Anyways, let me know if anyone else here thinks that this is a good idea, I just thought of this and felt that this is something that other people may also think is a good idea.

9 Comments

Oleandervine12/5/2018, 6:49:17 PM2 votes

They tried this with Karma, Sejuani, and Trundle, but it didn't really pan out. Personally, while I like how Traditional Karma looks, I cannot stand that old VO and it kind of dissuades me from playing that skin.

Ebonmaw Dragon12/5/2018, 6:39:23 PM1 votes

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I know that maybe keeping the full old base skin intact is difficult, if not impossible, in most cases

That is the problem, reworks require new skills, and new skills mean new animations. You cant have new animations with the old model intact.

However, i must mention that Traditional skins existed.

QMighty12/5/2018, 6:54:39 PM1 votes

They used to do this (see Traditional Karma, Trundle and Sejuani) and they even included their old voicelines, but that stopped when Sion hit. The reasoning for stopping was that the new version should always be faithful enough to the old that it would still feel like the same champion and not be someone completely different (like rework Trundle). The last one to get something along these lines was GP. When he got reworked they made Captain GP, which is basically his old look from before the rework, but more in line with the current lore. I'd kinda like to see them go back to this. Like imagine if Swain got something like Superb Villain Swain that basically looked like his old design when he got reworked. People probably wouldn't have been so up in arms over the design change. Then too, I wouldn't want to sacrifice Dragon Master for something like that, so I guess that's the trick.

GreenLore12/6/2018, 12:39:45 AM1 votes

The problem is that the skins would still need to keep the basic shape of the new base model intact. So a traditional Aatrox skin would essentially just wear a different helmet/horns,have a different sword and and would maybe be a slightly different kind of red,it would look almost identical to the current aatrox.