Lucien Is Supposed To Be A Purifier

Herald Est Mors·5/29/2018, 7:03:10 AM·5 votes·3,637 views

If you read Lucien's bio, he is basically a demon slayer, hunting down Thresh who has his Wife's soul. MIND YOU, his dead WIFE. The skins we have for him however, include a soccer team, a thief, a robot, and a.................Sweetheart skin. A man, sworn to destroy the creature holding his dead wife's soul captive, is also an active bachelor....no....he isn't playing soccer either. Where is the badass demon slayer Lucien skin?? Not a machine skin, just... imagine Dante from Devil May Cry. Cool, badass, not playing sports or hitting on chics, I want the serious Lucien, the one where I can play him and think damn this all flows so well.

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Sancre5/29/2018, 8:21:44 AM6 votes

The one you are asking for is the base skin already, and I doubt people would actually pay for a skin that just improved that aspect of purifier without it being something similar to the Udyr-Spirit Guard case

There could be some skins like Soulstealer Lucian (fighting fire with fire, even if that means being forever exiled from Demacia) or Shadow Gunner Lucian (Learning shadow magic to be able to destroy and enslave, not only the souls of the undead, but even other kind of evil creatures, like demons or darkins), that could add an interesting twist of corrupted moral and despair, but I doubt anyone would want for example a Justicar or Arclight Lucian, because it would be more or less the same, but with a bit more of golden.

Lucian is after Thresh, because Thresh is the biggest ofender, but he isn't out of purpose when Thresh dies, because he still needs to kill every undead, and the shadow isles are brimming with them, not even counting demons, that he might not like

QMighty5/29/2018, 7:19:42 AM4 votes

That's what his base skin is for.

The DrBonjigollo5/29/2018, 7:34:36 AM3 votes

Heartseeker** is** a serious Lucian skin. It shows when he finally gets over Senna and starts looking for a new bae, and based off of the skin's release, it's Quinn.

Sona Ping5/29/2018, 7:38:57 AM3 votes

He has that already. The skin with Lucian as a Purifier, the skins reflective of their bio are the "Classic" skins. The other skins are supposed alternate interpretations that are distinct from that, with them cast as violent guardian spirits, or as futuristic cyborgs, or themed like Old West.

Umbral Regent5/29/2018, 10:34:26 AM1 votes

The skins we have for him however, include a soccer team, a thief, a robot, and a.................Sweetheart skin.

First of all, skins aren't necessarily meant to be taken wholly seriously, especially world event/holiday skins like Striker or Heartseeker. Skins are, more or less, intended to be an exploration of a character in a different theme or framing - most frequently the theme. (I'll get to that in a minute)

Second...

...Thief...?

Tell me exactly how Hired Gun Lucian looks like a thief. I can't speak exactly to what the thematic is behind Hired Gun, but, it's certainly not a thief thing. It's more of a "mercenary" thematic than anything else.

So, thematic. Skins give a picture of a Champion in various different thematics that may otherwise be alien to them. Such as Arclight painting otherwise dark, violent, and brooding antiheroes (barring Vel'Koz) into transcendent divinities of retribution, or PROJECT: giving Champions a futuristic revival in carbon fiber and neon.

Very rarely will skins re-tread a thematic for a given Champion, if ever. Few rare examples do exist (Officer VI, Officer Caitlyn, Freljord Ashe, Ionia Master Yi...), but, for the most part, skins try to contextualize Champions in new, different settings with new, different personal thematics, without contrasting too harshly with their current ones.

For example, Blood Moon Jhin takes the meticulous assassin and places him in the Cult of the Blood Moon, being a priest of sorts, who remembers the rites of the demon masks in exacting detail. PROJECT: skins take Champions and their core identities, and redefine them as futuristic super-soldiers. Some may break their coding constraints (Ashe, Vayne, Jhin), and some may remain as part of PROJECT's design (Zed).

Then, of course, there are thematics that enhance a Champion's core thematic, such as Dark Star Thresh. Thresh is horrifying, inescapable, he is a spectre of dread and terror who stalks and torments his victims.

And what greater example of inescapable dread could there be than cosmic nihilism? The all-consuming hunger of a black hole, collapsing and dragging everything with it.

So, yeah - skins for Champions should in general not be redundant. They could be extensions or reinterpretations of their core thematic, or enhancements, but, if you want the Champion's core thematic - you just use Classic.

Besides, if you really want to imagine yourself as Dante from DMC, just get the Lucian Noble Chroma and run with the red palette.

Camille Ferrøs5/29/2018, 4:44:46 PM1 votes

The skins are alternative versions of one champion. Like Lucian is a hunter searching for Thresh and then What if..What if he was a soccer player What if he was a futuristic cyborg/robot.

SEKAI5/30/2018, 4:11:38 AM1 votes

and a.................Sweetheart skin. A man, sworn to destroy the creature holding his dead wife's soul captive, is also an active bachelor

The Valentine skin for Lucian is actually about rubbing salt onto the fact Lucian's wife had died and had her soul taken away. This is the reason why Heartseeker Lucian's recall animation is him waiting at a table for 2 as he lights up the candle in anticipation, presumably he has a date with his wife on the Valentine's Day, while not knowing (or worse, he knows) that she will never come.

Yeah....