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I wish the skin team wouldn't be afraid to branch out and make extreme/unexpected skins.

Gosh Darn·4/7/2017, 2:11:08 AM·9 votes·1,242 views

A lot of champions are confined to a certain demographic of skins unless they get a straight up joke skin or something that's part of a series of skins. My best example of this would be Miss Fortune. 5 of her skins (including her default) are just regular people with guns that you see in the real world. A pirate, a cowgirl, a pirate, a mobster, and a pirate. Unsurprisingly, they aren't popular. I realize several of them were old, but Captain Miss Fortune was released in 2015.

My point is, I want to see skins that are totally out of character for the champion, the whole purpose of a skin is to have the same champion with an entirely different look. I want to see human champions become inhuman, and I want them to have totally different "jobs".

I don't think something like this would ever happen with the cautious direction the skin team seems to be going in, but how amazing would it be? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5b/ab/83/5bab83f5582435d7bf73e0225f14e207.jpg

The coolest thing about fanmade skin concepts is that the champion is recognizable, but just barely. You know who you're playing but it feels totally different.

While the leaked Star Guardian Ezreal skin sounds cool, he already has pulsefire and arcade, and it would have been a lot more interesting on someone like Taric or Urgot. Demonblade Yasuo was basically already done with bloodmoon Yasuo.

3 Comments

KylerEzraStar4/7/2017, 3:01:42 AM5 votes

If they put him in a "schoolgirl" outfit rather than a school boy's, I'll take it. xD But otherwise I agree, I find it to be too akin to Pulsfire and Arcade.

Another good example of this issue was the Promised Dragon Swain which was ultimately canceled, and correct me if I'm wrong, all his skins to date are birds. It would be super awesome to have the dragon skin or even a Vampire/Bat skin.

Would love to see A-Sol skins that make him OTHER giant celestial animals. LIKE AN OTTER! OR EAGLE!! Would ABSOLUTELY love to even see some "Gender Bent" skins. I get redoing their voice lines with a new actor costs a lot. BUT I would love to play Morgana as a flamboyant vampire guy, and would pay Ultimate skin prices for this. Or a female Lucian"Specter Senna" skin.

Blue Moon Wolf4/7/2017, 10:11:42 AM3 votes

http://i1042.photobucket.com/albums/b430/bluemoonwolf8/CleverRito_Ink_LI_zpspxteffur.jpg

Seriously though, I love the skins, but I love all the alternate universe type skins more and when I say "alternate universe" I don't mean the what if scenario skins where its the champ if they were part of another faction (Void Fizz, Underworld Wukong, Noxian Poppy, etc.). I mean Skins like Project, Program, Omega Squad, Arcade and even Star Guardian that have have their own concept and lore to some degree. Would be great to one day get something Like Project Wukong, Gentleman Wukong, or Arcade Wukong instead of "Journey to the west reference #5" Wukong.

Glaedr4/7/2017, 2:51:52 PM1 votes

I can see where you're coming from since there's some champs I love to play that don't have any wild themes but that's really just what a Legendary skin is. Back in the original forums when they explained skin pricings and readjusted a bunch of them they explained that a Legendary skin is really just something that completely changes the theme of a champion and makes them feel like somebody different as if it's not even really the same champion.

They could do a sick ghastly witch MF, but if all they do is change the model and nothing else, then that's not really what you're asking for and then the skin just feels like a lot of potential was thrown down the drain. They could go balls to the wall for a lot of the skins they release but obviously they cant just release a million 1350+ quality skins over and over for months on end.