Aurelion sol mecha skin: possible improvement?

kapuw·8/1/2018, 2:36:06 AM·8 votes·4,342 views

1st of all, im thankful that riot gave my favorite spacedragon a skin![slayer-pantheon-thumbs] (only champ i actively wanted to lvl7 XD)

The theme of the skin itself is not that bad, i like it, giant dragon robot even sounds cool, doesnt it? However for me the skin itself feels a little bland/toyish. The replacement for his stars from the passive dont look like they would be weapons or do damage to me. More like sci fi toy daggers, fitting more with toy renekton (even the colours fit his own blade).

What i think that would work better, would be a super galaxy skin for him. For once the mech theme would still be there and as he is** THE star forger**, fighting with or being the leader of the super **GALAXY **team would fit quite well.

And here is where i want to go back to the 1st super galaxy skin, for rumble. That skin is a clear, at least for me, homage/tribute to gurren lagann (a series about mechas). The skin (and the series) feature prominently the theme of drills/spirals. As an example, look at rumbles drill arm and the rockets, that have drills as tips on them. Super galaxy nidalee also has this drill theme incorporated into her spear and abilities.

So having the all mighty stardragon turn into a homage to the final form of gurren lagann (that looks like an accumulation of green stars or a GALAXY wink) would fit perfectly. The green star energy could be used for his transparent lower body part. The little toys that fly around him could be replaced with drills, or rockets with drills as rumble has them. Thus having a connection to the 1st super galaxy skin and even having its homage effect! Aurelion sols q looks like a vortex so it would fit the spiral characteristic of the series, or a drill as a whole.

(for his long range travel he could even start to spin like a drill, but that could be to much drill in one skin XD. Is there even such a thing as too many drills?)

To draw a conclusion, a super galaxy skin would fit aurelion sol as a theme (star dragon to mecha galaxy defender, in his lore he even defends the universe from void corruption), the mecha theme would still be part of it and his passive and overall skin would look less toyish because of the more dangerously/realistic looking drills (and not orange toy plastic knives).

Thank you for reading and excuse any errors, english is not my 1st language. Please share your thoughts/criticism on this.

(of course this could be an own skin idea later on but i doubt that a champ would have mecha and super galaxy, as their themes are quite close to each other)

3 Comments

Stars Shaper8/1/2018, 6:45:05 AM3 votes

I agree with you but it's fairly too late to suggest it as they won't change the skin nor thinking about Super Galaxy as next one since the "mech theme" has been done.

I feel like they could have gone with an Ao Shin skin look-a-like to land with the Akali rework and Ionia bios, it would have been a win/win situation as it would be: Meme worthy, a skin that many asked for and a change of thematics from being a star forger.

Hexs Fortune8/1/2018, 6:55:30 AM3 votes

I would have liked something more elemental. A frost skin to go with his perma slow playstyle or a lightning dragon motif in reference to his original designs.

Still, it is nice to see Sol finally get something

The Great Nobby8/1/2018, 4:42:05 PM1 votes

i cant see a.sol in a super galaxy skin. the same way i feel kindred was a complete failure. this mecha skin is a "well you got a skin be happy about it" from riot.

in truth a large percentage of the community can agree with that statement. riot cheapened out on a skin that should have had more care and attention to it. the build up for its release has been a meme and in true fashion riot fail to deliver to the hype.

A particle filled skin is what he needed. not a bland mecha skin.

Even using dark star would have been a good choice. the creator of stars turning dark and creating voids.

riot have had ample opportunity to look at what the community want and they once again ignored us.

we shouldnt accept this quality from a company whos soul market is skin sales.

people will buy this skin because its just a new skin. not because its good.