Irelia, Pyke, Jinx and Akali just got skins UNDER A YEAR AGO!
Quote: "Now let's talk about how we choose which skins we make for champions. It's a balance between 3 things."
- "How much a champion is being played."
- "Whether they fit into the theme we're working on."
- "And finally, when is the last time they got a skin." Unquote:
Irelia just got one back in august following the one Jinx got in the odyssey event back last September, Akali just got one back in October PLUS a Prestige skin and pyke just got a Blood Moon skin back in December. All of these champs JUST got skins in UNDER A YEAR and they're already getting brand spanking new ones?!
So am I to assume reasons 2 and ESPECIALLY 3 are no longer on your list of reasons why a champ gets/needs a new skin? Because by reason 1's logic that means the same 5 to 12 champs are gonna be getting ALL of the future skins. How come Lee Sin isn't getting a new skin? I see him all the time in my games. What about , Morgana, Mordkaiser (REALLY CONSIDERING HE JUST GOT A REWORK! Would have been the perfect time to roll out a new one for him!) Kha'zix, Draven, Ashe,
If reason number 3 was even still an ACTUAL reason how come other champs who haven't received any love in over 2 to 3 years not getting any love?!
Volibear, Shyvana, Rumble, Annie, Singed, Veigar, Tryndamere, Hecarim, Nautalis, Trundle, Janna, Zilean and so on. You really gonna sit there and tell me Ivern deserved a skin before anyone on this list??
Yeah it's cool the champs that are 'always played' are getting skins, but can't we have something actually new for once?! The repetitiveness of the same champs getting brand new skins is getting stale beyond all reason. I like playing jinx and I highly doubt I'm gonna buy that new Project one since I got both her Star Guardian and Odyssey Jinx both out of loot boxes. There's still a good handful of champs I (among many other players) play that we would ADORE seeing new skins for.
Heck I love Vel'koz, would be cool to see a Halloween one where he's turned into a giant haunted jack-o-lantern or something! Giant vines for tentacles, shooting candle fire out at his victims, heck would even be cool to see it be blue flames! All ghostly and stuff, the idea sounds cool to me at least! I have a buddy that LOOOOVES playing Janna, ain't she gonna get any sorta love??
Just as an added thing to this rant, I'm gonna predict the next round of champs that get new skins after this next bundle of Project themed ones. I list these without knowing any future theme!
- Yasuo and/or Kayne (I know Yasuo just got one but that hasn't stopped you from rolling out 2 skins for the same champ in under 6 months. *COUUGH pulsefire and Dawnbringer Riven)
- Riven/Vayne
- Soraka and/or Lulu
- Ahri (Easily, like..99.99% chance) / Aatrox
- Jax / Added Bonus, 1 token champ that no one plays just to make it look like reason 3 is still a thing. Zilean.
Go ahead, prove me wrong.
Had an unknown trauma in her past, that made her mind snap. It was the reason she became the destructive lunatic we know.
Got betrayed by his crew, he became a ghost serial killer to take revenge.
Once a criminal who wanted to become good, got captured by Singed and transformed into a beast that is no longer able to control its killing sprees.
Both abandoned the old traditions of philosophies of their country, being about peace and balance in everything. They became ruthless killers on the battlefield, caused by the Noxian invasion.
Once caught by Noxians and had to fight in the arena, but as far as we can tell, his mind didn't really develope negatively because of that.
Same for her, trauma with her parents, but she didn't go insane or anything like that. Doesn't even want to kill the Noxian spy in her colour story, still positive character development.
Different direction for her. She had a trauma on the battlefield with Singed's poison gas attack, but this made her actually question the moral of Noxus. Instead of going crazy and becoming a killer, it's the opposite, she tries to adapt to Ionia's philosophy of balance and peace.
Can't come up with any big trauma in his story, especially not one that made him go worse than he was before.
What kind of trauma did this guy have that impacted him negatively? The only thing traumatic I can come up with in his lore was when Miss Fortune sunk his ship and almost killed him. While this is a traumatic experience he had here, it wasn't what turned him into a monster.
The trauma he experienced was mostly caused not by humans, but by the void. The void was what twisted his mind and made him into the monster he is today, not humans. The theme is "man-made monsters". It is important to emphazise here that it had been people who make these champions change negatively, not some supernatural force.
