Meowrick's Cats don't fit in the already established cat thematic set by Meowkai.

Oleandervine·3/5/2019, 8:19:25 PM·22 votes·13,145 views

So these are Meowrick's cats: https://imgur.com/am5UcJA

They're not as insanely adorable as Meowkai's, and the aesthetic is completely different. http://newsoflegends-content.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2016/03/Meowkai-Model-2-1024x640.jpg

Where Meowkai's kittens have beady eyes and a very stylized look that makes it unique, and has been reused in emotes and in Moo Cow Alistar's recall, Meowrick's cats look strange and lifelike, like they're trying to apply a real cat image over his ghouls. It makes them come across very awkwardly, and doesn't fit the overall already-established cat themed aesthetic of the game. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/4/45/Hype_Kitty_Emote.png https://www.mobafire.com/images/news/emotes/excited-kitten.png https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TRzQZ_f1jyk/maxresdefault.jpg

Can you guys at Riot fix the textures on Meowrick's cats to bring them in line with Meowkai's kittens that we know and love? Making them the orange tabby color is fine, and strong enough to differentiate them from Meowkai's gray kittens, so I don't think having their faces look similar or the bells on their head would or should run into game clarity issues.

Edit: I wanted to add - Meowrick's cats kind of break the immersion in the game because their textures and appearances are trying to hard to be life like, that the absurd outfits and body shapes don't work, whereas a more cartoonized cat like Meowkai's offers more of that suspension of disbelief due to it's distance from life like appearance.

17 Comments

Placentas3/5/2019, 9:06:28 PM23 votes

I kinda like how they're these machismo pissed off cats lol

Reaversal3/5/2019, 8:49:49 PM11 votes

Meowrick's cats need to have actual limbs rather than stubs because of their attack animations.

Meowkai's cats can get away with it because all they do is run up to a target and blow up on them.

Aspect of Idiocy3/5/2019, 11:23:05 PM3 votes

I agree, these particular iterations don't really seem to fit the April Fools style that they've established. From the artists stand point I feel like they probably went for the psuedo real looking cats to fit the theme for Yorick that he doesn't fuck around, he's all business, but then you have to ask yourself, why choose him for an April Fools skin then? Isn't the point of April Fools to engage in extreme fuckery? Oh well. Maybe they'll end up changing it before it gets released? Unlikely, but still possible. [zombie-brand-clap]

Myrmiron3/6/2019, 1:47:06 PM2 votes

They kinda look like mini-Iverns to me with their long legs.

Kelg3/6/2019, 2:14:06 PM2 votes

I like the Yorick ones better, less weeb more meme

Sukishoo3/5/2019, 10:32:34 PM2 votes

Yeah his look like real cats wearing weird outfits... hmm this is weird. They need to be plush-ified immediately!

ModRowanstar3/20/2019, 8:07:03 PM1 votes

this is true. Bewitching tristana's cats as well as the other halloween cats are still very realistic cat wise but with bubbly cute happy aesthetics.

Space Magic3/5/2019, 10:26:44 PM1 votes

As a proud owner of meowkai you realize, his cat aren't real cat right? Its just his sapping in onses look at the stitching.

Edit Wait no im wrong colour me impress

ChaosThief3/6/2019, 12:35:23 AM1 votes

They definitely have to be differently colored, at the very least, compared to meokai's saplings, otherwise if both were your opponent, you would have trouble telling them apart.

I don't mind the wildly different appearance because they're Yorick's ghouls; these undead walking things that previously didn't have a face, so them looking different than what was formerly saplings is acceptable to me, but at the bare minimum, different color scheme.

epicgizmo5193/6/2019, 7:54:16 PM1 votes

arms too short had to make new ones

EdgeLady3/5/2019, 8:45:58 PM1 votes

Meowrick does seem to have a pink Meowkai cat on his back, but I would like it if the cats were more cartoony too.