@Riot: Minor Feedback: Forward-facing Closeup Female Char Icons

Rayneomon·Nov 1, 2019·1 votes·2,713 views

It's minor feedback but a few of the forward facing female icons look very similar and its sometimes even difficult to tell who they are.

Here are examples of icons that have similar style and seem a bit TOO close to the face, so you end up only noticing the face shape and eyes:

Victorious Morgana
Elderwood Ahri
Qiyana
High Noon Ashe
TD Akali
Bewitching MF
Magestic Empress Morgana
Odyssey Sona

They're not bad icons, but when the latter ones got released I kept being reminded of the earlier ones and thinking they were extremely similar. Whereas some icons like TD Senna and SG Xayah look incredibly unique and it's very obvious who the character is. I love the different angles and styles.

3 Comments

JustDonnyyNov 1, 20191 votes

Unfortunately a lot of the female champions look very similar.

Normally I don't like the complaint that "all female champions need to look like models" but when it comes to their actual heads/faces, I do 100% agree that there needs to be more diversity. Sadly, the amount of visual re-works that would require is huge, let alone a redesign of all those Icons.

RayneomonNov 1, 20191 votes

Yeah, I def wouldn't ask them to redesign any of the icons. Instead I'd rather they just make future icons have interesting poses and expresssions. The expressionless forward facing icon isn't nearly as interesting as crazy odyssey jinx or winking pizza delivery sivir anyway!

JustDonnyyNov 1, 20191 votes

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Yeah, I def wouldn't ask them to redesign any of the icons. Instead I'd rather they just make future icons have interesting poses and expresssions. The expressionless forward facing icon isn't nearly as interesting as crazy odyssey jinx or winking pizza delivery sivir anyway!

I strongly agree. Those bland forward facing icons have kinda died down for me over the years because they're so common. At least tilt the head in some different way instead of a mug-shot look.