Riot, is it too late to ask you to go back and tweak/redo Kayle a bit?

Forhonor321·2/19/2019, 12:33:18 AM·7 votes·2,328 views

Look, to any Rioters reading this, especially those who worked on Kayle, I get that this must have taken a long time, was a lot of work and you want to be glad you've done it. But as I've been looking over the boards today, people aren't that satisfied with how Kayle looks. Morgana is absolutely fine from what I can tell but I really think the mark was missed on this one. I mean, Kayle is suppose to represent the opposite of Morgana:

  • Morgana: Mage, spellcaster, wears little/slim clothing
  • Kayle: Fighter, auto champ, wears heavier plate armor

But as of right now, she feels a bit too much close to her with her spandex suit early on and then more lack of armor as she goes into Devilman Satan mode. That's not who Kayle is and it's just creating fanservice at the sacrifice of what made the character to so many people. She even starts to look like Dawnbringer Riven in her final form, which I find very distracting and, for lack of a better term, bad.

And while I can't speak for everyone, here is a list of ideas that I believe can help with all of this:

  1. Add more armor to her - fairly simple. Currently right now, the base of her form I would say needs more pieces to it and remove the spandex look. Everyone is saying how it doesn't look right and I have to agree with them. Add a few more pieces in her base form, get rid of the spandex look, or at the very least disguise it extremely well, and make sure this transitions as she transcends.

  2. Have her keep the helmet on base skin throughout and fix issues with neck. Having her helmet removed as she evolves/transcends, along with her seemingly getting less armor, is a huge drawback for me. Why have her have a helmet on her base if she's just going to remove it? Doesn't she already have enough skins without her helmet? And do I even need to mention the neck?

  3. If there are similar issues with her other skins, which we still have yet to see, try applying 1 and/or 2 to those skins that need it, mainly her older ones, so we can avoid this situation further.

Again, I know this must of taken a long time to work on and it might be too late to work on it now, but the community is not happy and any changes that can be made to make this better I think would be the best thing to do. I really want Kayle to succeed, because I already feel Morgana has succeeded and to see her flop in appearance like this will be a huge disappointment to me and a lot of others.

4 Comments

Space Magic2/19/2019, 12:35:42 AM5 votes

yup because the league boards is all of the community am i right?

GreenKnight2/19/2019, 12:34:09 AM3 votes

Too late, we might see only really minor tweaks.

Quepha2/19/2019, 12:45:03 AM3 votes

Imo kai’sa was a much more egregious error that Riot refused to recognize. We’re basically stuck with this.

Spideraxe2/19/2019, 12:35:31 AM2 votes

I suppose they could do some model tweaks if the character artists have the time, but it's impossible redo them