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GGMF: what Riot could have done to make this skin THE ultimate skin.

T8 Speedwagon·3/7/2018, 1:53:39 PM·5 votes·784 views

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/82iu8o/gun_goddess_mf_shouldnt_be_ultimate_and_here_is/?utm_source=reddit-android

I'm linking this post to bring some points that are actually essential for this discussion.

So lets begin. In the dev diaries about skins you said that you priced GGMF lower than usual ultimate skins because the skin doesn't bring new tech to LoL and isn't as impressive as an ultimate skin should.

Ok, that's fine.

But...

I don't find acceptable that such a glorious opportunity should be worked like this. All the points stated in the reddit post sum up every flaw the skin has. GGMF is an awesome skin, an amazing idea, but the execution of the skin feels mediocre compared to other ultimate skins. The animations (except ult, which are neat) feel recycled from base MF. Elementalist Lux has 10 forms, 10 different recall animations. Now i'm fine with GGMF having only 4 forms, but not with having only 1 recall animation. Recall is an iconic and super important aspect of a skin and seeing her with only 1 recall animation with 4 forms it really disappoints me. Dialogues are fun and good. Though you could have done more for sure. Add different EXO for each form and so increase exponentially her voice lines.

If you, Riot, feel like these suggestions are too pretentious, remember that an ultimate skin should give an ultimate experience. It must be la creme de la creme of the skins team because it's super important for the community/players and it's a 1 time in a year event.

I don't want this skin to be scratched, but i don't want you Riot waste such an opportunity when you have an enormous room of improvement. I prefer to wait more and get THE ultimate skin MF deserves, than getting a mediocre yet full of potential ultimate skin.

Thanks for reading.

5 Comments

Risen293/7/2018, 7:37:46 PM4 votes

They need to backpedal this to be a legendary skin with three chromas that are more expensive than usual.

Nobody would miss the ingame color change because its tacked on, pointless, and has nothing to do with the skins theme or the character. It literally is nothing but a chroma selector for people who couldn't decide which one they wanted before the game started. Most people will have no reason to use it nor care if it were gone.

It sets a bad precedent for low quality ultimate skins that we dont want to see repeated. We don't want legendary skins shoveled at us with a shameless price markup that merely forces us to buy all the chromas for it. It shows disdain or disrespect for the playerbase to do so.

Chembaron Yamada3/7/2018, 3:14:13 PM2 votes

It makes sense if you keep in mind that the skin originally started as a legendary concept and then they upgraded it to ultimate. And they acknowledged these facts by making the skin cheaper than the other ultimate skins.

And in that reddit thread, someone made a very good point.

Miss Fortune is able to change her form every time she recalls. To keep clarity, they probably had to keep alot of her animations the same. It can be kinda confusing if Miss Fortune used to be red all game, then the next teamfight breaks out and she is suddenly white since she changed stance the last time she went to base.

Elipo3/7/2018, 5:38:33 PM2 votes

Elementalist Lux has 10 forms, 10 different recall animations. Now i'm fine with GGMF having only 4 forms, but not with having only 1 recall animation. Recall is an iconic and super important aspect of a skin and seeing her with only 1 recall animation with 4 forms it really disappoints me.

Add different EXO for each form and so increase exponentially her voice lines.

All of this points should be BASIC for an ultimate skins at this point. Dissapointment. I'll but this skin only if it appears in my shop at 70% discount or more.