Riot and long haired male champions

The Trent·2/23/2018, 11:34:33 AM·1 votes·1,903 views

I don't know if it's just me, but I'm a sucker for a nice combover. I seriously hate what Riot is doing with all these long-haired male champions. Listen, I'm not saying that long hair on a man is always gross, but if we're being real here, 99% of men who have long hair, don't even take care of it. It just looks gross unless you put a ton of effort into making it your thing. Like Yasuo's hair is just unnecessary and it completely killed the champion for me. I know that a lot of people can play a champion for just their abilities, but I simply cannot. Riot wants us to love their champions enough so that we'll want to main their champions, but all these cool champions just look horrible to me because of their long hair. This isn't an unpopular opinion either, people just don't generally like men with long hair. I mean it looks nice on Taric, but when the Swain rework came out, the edits of him with short hair just looked so much better. I feel weird complaining about this because I feel like I'm making a man with long hair feel bad, but seriously, the majority of people just don't like how it looks. Riot could you please just make a cool champion with an actual decent haircut? Jayce is about as close as it comes, but I don't want to play that unstable champion. He jumps in and out of the meta like the game is playing hot potato with him or something. Garen also has a really nice look to him, but I kinda want to win my games without having to use a cheese tactic.

          I seriously just don't understand the lack of short hair in this game. I just don't. I kinda get it when it comes to Olaf or a champion that just doesn't have access to a barber, but seriously? One of the strongest men in Noxus can't afford a barber?  You guys probably think I'm overexaggerating with this, but I'm seriously not. Oh and I'm obviously not including male yordles, monsters, or things in between to this list.  I'm including beards with long hair just because technically it is long hair and the amount of beards in this game is kinda dumb too. 

List of long hair males: Draven Ezreal Gangplank Gragas Kayn Lucian Olaf Swain Ryze Taric Tryndamere Udyr TwistedFate Vladimir Varus Zilean XinZhao YasuoLeeSin MasterYi JarvanIV

Short hair: Graves Garen Jayce Rakan Viktor Darius

Unkown or meduim hair: Ekko JhinNunu Pantheon Shaco Shen Talon Zed

Bald champions are not included except Ryze and Gragas because they have really long beards, I might've missed 1 or 2 champs.

So unless you want to count a monster like Mundo in the list, we have a total of 6 male short haired champions against 21 male long haired champions.

I did not include skins in this list, otherwise, Talon would join long haired and Shen would either go to bald or short haired.

Out of the 35 champions I listed, 6 had short hair. Can you guys please do something about this? Short hair shouldn't be this rare on males in runeterra.

short haired females: Elise Evelynn Camille Fiora Karma Orianna Riven Vi Quinn Annie Lux I know that I counted some non-complete humans in this list, but there are more short haired females than males. It's just completely unrealistic.

Unless you're trying to say that there's some sort of long-haired male fashion trend in runeterra, which would be pretty gross, this whole long-haired thing is just stupid. It doesn't look good. This isn't even an unpopular opinion, riot just keeps spitting out ugly haircuts anyways.

7 Comments

Hethalean2/23/2018, 2:38:55 PM7 votes

When you ignore a bunch of categories because they have short hair, it does really feel like you are exhaggerating it. No bald men unless they have long beards. No male yordles because they don't have long hair. etc etc

This all just feels pretty uhm... judgemental anyway. Also pretty iffy saying "but if we're being real here, 99% of men who have long hair, don't even take care of it." without looking pretty biased especially since it hasn't even been remotely true in my experience.

ThePikol2/23/2018, 11:49:59 AM6 votes

Ezreal has long hair? I know it's not Jayce short, but come on, they are not long. Rakan has about the same length and you listed him as short.

Camille Ferrøs2/23/2018, 12:56:27 PM1 votes

varus doesnt have a long hair if you ask me..

Byakuya Ji9/18/2019, 1:42:59 AM1 votes

wtf? Yasuo looks fucking amazing with his long hair. and in art is one of the best places to make long hair for men look good since IRL men dont take care of it. idk why youre conflating the two. all the champs you listed look amazing with look hair. idk how you think swain looks better short, hes going for that malfoy look, and makes him far more menacing and prestigious.

edit: shit this post is old af

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