Academy Ekko's Timetrail

Chesknight··1 votes·866 views

Okay so, I'm absolutely in love with Ekko Ekko. His voice, his design, his lore, idea, and general theme, everything! He's nearly my top-ranked champion, and he's definitely my most played. Sandstorm Ekko (Fantastic skin, love the Prince of Persia reference) was one of the first skins I bought, and I recently (as in, today as of writing) got Academy Ekko.

But there's one thing about the skin that just annoys me to no end! In the splash art, Ekko's Timetrail is green. Good idea, nice change, matches the skin. In-game, however, the Timetrail and all the particle effects are blue! Why is this? I'm no modeler/coder/anything to do with gaming, but surely it's not THAT difficult to make an in-game model match the splash art? It's really minor in the grand scheme of things, but it's really annoying and frankly, quite jarring. Am I the only one bothered by this? Is it at all possible to ask or petition to get this changed? Because it would just make playing with the skin a whole lot more fun.

6 Comments

Ionian2 votes

The thing is, Academy Ekko is a 750 RP skin, meaning none of the spell effects get changed from the classic look. If it was 975 or 1350, then yeah they would definitely do it.

Chesknight1 votes

That may be true, but then there's also the fact that a bunch of 750 RP Skins (Tundra Fizz, Sweetheart Annie, Junkyard Trundle, and more) DO have changed spell effects and even models. Heck, Pentakill Karthus even has original voice lines. Surely green particle effects aren't too far out of the way?

DwarvenGiant1 votes

(Tundra Fizz, Sweetheart Annie, Junkyard Trundle, and more) DO have changed spell effects

Trundle's pillar, Annie's Tibbers and Fizz's Dragon Shark are models, not particles. :P

Chesknight1 votes

I did say spell effects AND models :p

You do have a point about me being wrong about the particles, but if anything, shouldn't changing models be more difficult than changing a particle colour? Again, I'm most likely wrong, but I'm just putting my point forwards.

Also, voice lines. As in, the stuff they charge you 1800+ RP for. Not many voice lines, but still.

Kerrigan 4 Prez1 votes

Fun fact about sandstorm ekko, his splash art is based off of Dune. You can tell by looking at the giant sandworm.

http://lolwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sandstorm-Ekko.jpg

Chesknight1 votes

Huh.

You know, I never noticed that. Ekko's stats were always in the way. Prince of Persia AND Dune references, I love this skin even more!

Thanks for pointing that out!

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