Infernal Diana and Infernal Akali look the same (and it's abuseable)
So you're playing a real ol' video game in your League of Legends and these two champions walk up to you. You stare at them for a bit and can observe that they both:
- Are pretty small humanoids (i.e larger than yordles, smaller than Juggernauts - which makes it harder to see finer details)
- Are definitely females, or at least feminine-looking
- Have a single mass of long-ish hair covering their backs
- Can't seem to stand up properly and always have their knees bent in a weird half-crouch stance
- Have this brown, charred, and cracked appearance all over their limbs and torsos
- Carry a single, one-handed blade weapon, which they swing from behind their backs
- Have the zesty Doritos Spice glow effect on their hair and weapons
- Will Not. Stop. Dashing.
https://i.imgur.com/pDtuCjK.png
https://i.imgur.com/XrCe2ve.png
Under normal circumstances I think two champions looking similar thematically would be fine - it's easy to tell Dragon Slayer Braum and Dragon Slayer Pantheon apart (even the star guardian skins - which tend to all be white sparkly humanoid blobs - are colour-coded). The same could be said for champs which share visual similarities, such as Darius and Sion both being steel and flesh rectangles with big boy axes.
That said, these two champions just share too much in common. The two biggest static indicators - their resource bars and the shape of their weapons - occupies a pitiful amount screen space. Neither Luden's, Hourglass, or the purple hand-glowy effect from Lich Bane is unique to either one. The constant movement makes them hard enough to track on screen, and the fact that both champs inherently kill you if you take the time to stare doesn't make it any more enjoyable. I refuse to believe squinting at my monitor or waiting for spells to be flying should be the first indication what which champion I'm facing (or playing with, for that matter).
Redirected to forums by Riot Derp, and yes, those screenshots are what League looks like on my machine :(
shorter. Diana's weapon is longer.