What's up with these shadows around portraits?

Wild Geese·6/14/2019, 2:46:30 PM·63 votes·17,578 views
https://i.imgur.com/apRPJTX.jpg

* EDIT : it's been confirmed to be a bug. but leaving this here to remind Rito to hurry up and fix it already.*

This new shadow around portraits doesn't look so good in my opinion. this really dark shadow around all the portraits, making them look like they're hiding in the shadows like a bunch of scary Rengars... Looking at it I thought it was a bug with my client but watching streams I realized this is an accross the board change.

For most portraits cuts off the chin, a lot of hair if they have hair, or even the mouth, this weird nose and eyes view thing is the norm for most in game portraits. I don't see any benefits other than covering up poor portraits.

Is there some kind of mistake? Because this new style looks prety bad, I have to believe there was some some intended shadow effect and it somebody made it too dark by accident.

I hope this gets fixed!

18 Comments

Arcade Lulu6/14/2019, 2:54:44 PM12 votes

It's a bug

Oleandervine6/14/2019, 2:48:50 PM11 votes

I noticed this too on Yuumi, and it looks kinda awful.

Dva Fortune6/16/2019, 4:11:03 PM2 votes

I thought it got more shadow'ish as i demoted. AY LMAOOO. but seriously, it looks horrible.

Terozu6/14/2019, 7:32:45 PM2 votes

I assumed it was a teaser for the new shadow champ.

CytheGuy6/14/2019, 4:43:50 PM1 votes

It actually works pretty nicely on some champions and skins. If they put some effort into resizing and centering the images with the shadow then I think it might be a nice improvement.

SuperKat6/14/2019, 8:14:28 PM1 votes

I actually hate them lol

Yordle Gunner6/14/2019, 8:16:46 PM1 votes

Somewhere a Rioter mentioned it is indeed a bug.

General Esdeath 6/14/2019, 8:47:58 PM1 votes

Saw it on Brand and thought it was my imagination but once I saw it on Spirit Fire Brand I knew it wasn't normal

I think it's just a bug, I believe they were trying to improve the portraits since some champs/skins don't fit in them or aren't aligned correctly.

Summoner SpeII6/15/2019, 2:11:29 AM1 votes

i also want the new jhin skin global whispers to be fixed as funny as it is, its getting on my nerves to hear jhin sound effects because he has a skin equipped and he is no where near me on my team or the enemy team

mrmeddyman6/15/2019, 4:32:22 AM1 votes

I love how this accidental bug has caused some players to beg Riot for it to stay on the few champs it looks good on

Elise for example

The Dreamwalker6/14/2019, 5:00:13 PM1 votes

I thought this was a pbe bug, but alas it made it to live servers. I hate this change so much and hope it was a mistake. :P