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Death Sworn Zed Skin Rework

yg secret weapon·12/20/2018, 8:34:15 AM·1 votes·2,658 views

The whole point of the Death Sworn Skins should have been to make the champion's abilities/ movements smoother, especially when looking at DS Katarina. Katarina's Ult and Shunpo Animation are so distinctively smooth. However, Riot Games took the wrong approach with Zed with this skin. I wish his "hands" would look less like a wolf or a fork, but rather a smooth blade, because that relates to the theme of Death Sworn. His Q looks like the same swords on the back, which looks like he's throwing sticks. I wish his Q blade and his whole character could be reworked. Everything else is perfect.

Any thoughts?

1 Comments

Blaiz Fenix12/20/2018, 3:35:48 PM2 votes

Yeah, no. The point of those skins is to imagine a world where death is worshiped. Basically Karthus the skin line. In Riot's own words:

"Having lived his life in the shadows, Zed's eventual return from the dead should have come as no surprise to anyone. A master of unliving darkness, he is only too happy to spend all eternity spilling mortal blood, as one of the Death Sworn."

Nothing about any skins should be to improve the "smoothness" of a champion. That is the purpose of a visual update. It's to apply cosmetic differences and, more recently, build on alternate fantasies of champions.