Insight on True Damage skins: We tried to pick champs who needed skins

Blue Moon Wolf·11/29/2019, 5:40:42 AM·31 votes·17,720 views

How’d you pick the champions for True Damage?

"In general, picking champions for a big skin line requires us to synthesize a lot of different factors: Which champions best fit the theme? Which champs make sense together? What champions currently need skins? And for the music skin lines, their individual personalities really has to make sense with the type of music and role we give them in their group."

_Which champions best fit the theme? Which champs make sense together? What champions currently need skins? _

** What champions currently need skins? **

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59 Comments

4 Step Cadence11/29/2019, 5:54:42 AM25 votes

Qiyana just came out, so yeah, she needed one. Or do you want her to end up like Ornn and the others? The person that voiced Akali for K/DA came back for True Damage, so they're going to pick Akali for her again. Its called consistency. They don't want the same artist representing 2+ different champions. I can find literally no excuse for Yasuo. They could have easily made him Lucian or something.

At the end of the day, though, the champions that need skins don't fit the theme for this skinline. They're mostly not human, not young, and don't fit the hip-hop/rap thematic at all. They also don't represent the singers all that well either. I really don't see what's so hard to understand about that.

mrmeddyman11/29/2019, 7:15:54 AM24 votes

The justification for Yasuo is just hilarious.

Nøctμrne11/29/2019, 10:43:46 AM20 votes

They forgot to add "what champions will give us more money?" To that

Muzét11/29/2019, 11:57:16 AM16 votes

Akali is consistent. I'm fine with Qiyanah. However Yasuo... Shen needed a skin more than Yasuo and would fit so much more than him. Heimerdinger would have been a fun but interesting one. So would have been Rumble. Malphite woyld have been original. Rammus would be a guy with a strange way to tableturn. So many champions could have gotten this skin over Yas

ModWulf Helhammer11/29/2019, 4:27:29 PM5 votes

That does not mean those are requirements, it means those are consideration factors.

That means they will look at champions that need skins, and if they are a good fit for the skin line, then they can go on with further consideration of that champion. If they don’t, then the move away from that champion and consider another.

Sydney2611/29/2019, 12:51:32 PM5 votes

Orrn or Kindred need skins

Spooky Skeleton11/29/2019, 5:19:05 PM4 votes

I still wanted True Damage Cho'Gath rapping about eating people while wearing a massive dollar sign chain around his neck.

But nah get Yasuo in there. Let's just pretend monstrous and undead champions dont exist.

Even11/30/2019, 4:05:36 AM4 votes

no one wants to see fking true damage Ornn Ivern Velkoz AurelionSol

FrancisMuni11/30/2019, 9:56:42 AM4 votes

When your main has been without skins for 4.5 years but Rito thinks that characters like Yasuo and Akali are in desperate need of skins.

Camille Ferrøs11/29/2019, 9:55:58 PM3 votes

It would be way better if they just shut up rather then spill bs over and over again. It's getting old.

ModAcademy Kayn11/29/2019, 7:06:44 PM3 votes

Does no one know what synthesize mean?

"The combination of ideas to form a theory or system."

For the consideration of who needs a new skin, Yasuo probably rated low on the scale. For other factors, Yasuo likely would've rated higher, along with the other champions. You'll see a similar issue with Dunkmaster Ivern, someone who needed a skin, but maybe didn't fit the theme all the way, though I think his personality works for it (his kit doesn't.) They're not a checklist to mark all of them off with, they're just considerations.

As much as people say Shen could've fit, in my personal opinion, I don't really see Shen as a hip-hop kinda guy. Hell, his entire thing is about sticking to Tradition, which I know skins aren't supposed to stick to champions complete roots, that's just my personal reasoning. Both of them are pretty stoic, and I'm pretty sure Shen is Zed's age, but dang he feels like a Dad.