Is it just me, or is it painfully obvious which skins just DO NOT belong?

ThatHaleState··4 votes·1,115 views

When I look through the skins in client, I see tons of skins. I respect the changes that Riot is trying to make, but they seem to have a blind eye when it comes to some skins. Many seem painfully terrible or not belonging in the original art style of League. And it isn't even all of them! There is a major difference between better than old skins, not even on the same level of old skins, or "better" but not in the same art realm. My quickest example is Garen : Take a look at main Garen , take a look at Sanguine Garen , Take a look at Commando Garen , take a look at the rest of them. To me, Sanguine Garen looks like a League skin that is of much better quality than the old Sanguine Garen . To me, Commando Garen looks like it doesn't belong. It doesn't look like any of the other skins. IMO it looks worse than the only skin art. Their are many other examples as well. I think Riot should be willing to redo some of the ones that they are changing.

Do any of yall have your own examples? I'm sure ours will differ slightly

10 Comments

Sharjo11 votes

That art isn't permanent and will be replaced in time. It's there to remove a work pipeline that exists in other regions and to streamline the content of all regions of the world.

Yes it sucks but what can you do? Nothing but wait.

ThatHaleState1 votes

People who wait never get anything done. What i can do is attempt to bring up the discussion and hope it goes somewhere.

Sharjo7 votes

The discussion came and went; they're getting replaced in time. You saw the updated Trundle splash arts right? That's the beginning of that whole process, but each individual piece can take days or weeks to complete, depending on how things go.

To use an analogy, it's like we're in a house that's supposed to be getting refurbished in some areas, but right now just has some makeshift stuff holding it up. That refurbishment has only just begun.

DwarvenGiant1 votes

Also, worth mentioning that Garen himself is a priority for actual new skin splashes, considering he got a VU back in 2013.

Sharjo1 votes

Indeed. If I go back through Reav3's comments about the matter (he's involved a lot in this process) he talked in a thread about what champions and what specific skins are looking to be updated provided everything goes according to plan, and the three Garen skins the OP mentions were all included in that. Of course it's more of a hope than a commitment at such an early stage but that's the nature of things.

I'll link that thread her for some context, but as a note Reav3's specific comment is about was in regards to the OP of that post listing all probable and potential updates for splashes, which they got almost 100% right:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/eRKELowr-run-down-of-the-skins-getting-a-splash-art-update-for-the-champion-vu-list?comment=0001

Oleandervine1 votes

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People who wait never get anything done. What i can do is attempt to bring up the discussion and hope it goes somewhere.

It is going somewhere though. Riot is using these anime looking splashes as filler, as placeholders until they can actually rework the art. They wanted all artwork to be globally the same so that they can upload one pic and BOOM every country gets it at once instead of having to go in country by country and replace art. EXAMPLE This was the old Bandit Sivir art: http://i.imgur.com/YGsGRFX.jpg This is the current Chinese art, now the placeholder: http://i.imgur.com/ksncDA7.jpg This is a completely reworked splash that will not get a placeholder: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/a/a2/Evelynn_OriginalSkin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110303215415

CriticalMethods1 votes

If we bring this discussion to lore based skins, please call out bloodmoon Zilean because he doesn't fit in with the lore. I'm on an instatilt when i see this skin ;n;

Skelenth3 votes

That's not what this is about

Vesarixx1 votes

Huh, so I went to check and apparently I own every Garen skin :/

GreenLore1 votes

The thing is that the other outdated skin arts don't look like they belong into the game either. I mean look at the original commando garen art http://orig00.deviantart.net/0eea/f/2014/174/0/5/league_of_legends___commando_garen_by_darklordmokeymokey-d7np573.png

does it really look like it belongs into the same game as these splash arts? http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Evelynn_0.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/89/07/33/89073303b136f15076df4ee08030d3c8.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/83/f9/07/83f90786e4338c40775b777fd974c82b.jpg

No because it is outdated. They just replace one splash art that looks out of place with another one that looks out of place in a different way. The only reason why the original splash art doesn't look so out of place to you is because are used to this kind of splash art.

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