Battle Academia had potential to be one of Riots coolest skinlines.

Ahri Body Pillow·4/30/2019, 7:48:04 PM·8 votes·5,443 views

But you just had to give Lux and Ezreal some more skins. On top of this, Ezreal got a LEGENDARY skin (despite already having an ultimate skin) and Lux got a prestige skin despite also having an ultimate skin.

Jayce, Yuumi, and Kat were cool. Graves is eh. Really, you had a million other champs to choose from. I get Ezreal and lux have that main character lovey chemistry or whatever but Taliyah and Ekko would have worked well too, especially considering Taliyah canonically has a crush on Ekko. You would have had the massive plus of not pissing off the community, too.

Really shit the bed on this one, Rito.

18 Comments

Jeddy0174/30/2019, 7:54:25 PM7 votes

To be fair, there's still plenty potential. Riot will have plenty of opportunities to expand this skinline in the future.

Chalze4/30/2019, 8:00:48 PM1 votes

I will say, I'm a bit on the fence with some champion choices. I don't have much comment for Yuumi, but Katarina could really have that cocky senior year school girl vibe to her, Ezreal is the super generic Anime main character since he has the looks and his weapon is so easily adapted to such artstyles which on one hand I understand the choice, but on the flip side it makes it more generic and lazy. Jayce was quite a suitable pick since he hasn't had a skin in a while and does kinda show off that "secondary character who's conventionally super handsome" character you get in a lot of anime. Graves as a teacher I thought was a real pleasant surprise since he can really look the part of that gruff male teacher you also always get in these techy/mecha/fantasy anime.

My only issue is Lux. I borderline main the hell outta Lux so it's super nice to see another skin for my main but honestly, Lux is too generic for this kind of style and theme now, especially if Ezreal has something to do with it. Also, the more Lux skins, the more popularity she is and I don't want anyone on the enemy team picking her before I do.

Elipo4/30/2019, 8:10:30 PM1 votes

especially considering Taliyah canonically has a crush on Ekko.

K I learnt something new here but Ekko already has a school uniform skin and taliya doesnt even use weapons.

Stars Shaper4/30/2019, 9:28:34 PM1 votes

Got to say though that the skill effects perfectly deliver the animu vibe.

OgSc5/1/2019, 2:40:37 PM1 votes

You know, I had this idea of swapping a few characters of the skin line

Ezreal ->Ekko Lux -> Taliyah Jayce-> Janna

Ekko is the mc Taliyah childhood friend bs whatever janna as the high grades school board chick trope whatever.

Have Gekko like Janna and Taliyah like Ekko.

Reason for this was due to a deleted Voice line form Ekko that showed he had a crush for Janna.