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Reav3 confirmed on Reddit that AW will be adjusted

Sir Saltarin·3/6/2019, 11:19:59 AM·14 votes·11,101 views
Reav3's comment from discussion "Aether Wing Kayle Aether is being significantly lower in quality than both recent and non recent legendary skins. It has no unique movement, attack animations, removed the iconic attack sound, no special death animation, the same face model, significantly less voice lines and interactions, etc"

Here's a copy of his comment:

Reav3:

Hey all, lots of great points brought up in this thread. With legendaries the amount of unique anims and how drastically they change can vary from Champion to Champion. With newer Champions they can sometimes have massive animation suites, so rather then give them 100% unique anims we just tweak the base ones. This was a approach we took for both Nightbringer Yasuo and and Dark Star Thresh since they were much newer Champions. New Kayle has a enormous animation suite, between 4 forms, enraged/non-enraged AAs, Melee/ranged AAs, High Attack Speed/Low Attack speed AA, so we had to chose carefully where to put the unique animations for Kayle. We ultimately chose to put the unique anims into her mechanical wings, which do have a new animation suite compared to base Kayle as we felt her mechanical wings are the most unique aspect of the skin. The Death anim is a good call out though and we will be adding a unique death anim to her soon, targeting next patch. We will also be adjusting AWs Auto attack SFX to match closer to old AW SFX.

18 Comments

rtbf2256182413/6/2019, 4:32:48 PM10 votes

Why are they cutting corners to begin with? Are they that low on budget and staff that they can't afford to commit to changes that people can pull off in a couple weeks by themselves?

I mean this VGU has been in the works for a year at least...and Kayle literally has only a couple thematically enhanced skins, not a bajillion of them like Varus or Vayne.

GreenLore3/6/2019, 1:19:23 PM6 votes

Its nice to see them working on this even after the VGU has shipped. I feel like this happens far too rarely(and kinda hope that they consider giving Kayle a belt to cover her purple crotch area).

Oleandervine3/6/2019, 4:40:17 PM5 votes

It's great they're fixing this skin. Now they just need to fix the 975 RP skins for Kayle and Morgana that are nothing but 750 RP quality.

Sukishoo3/6/2019, 11:04:46 PM3 votes

They've now confirmed that Riot Kayle, Silver Kayle, Judgement Kayle and Battleborn Kayle will all have recolored effects, and Blackthorn Morgana will get her falling leaves returned. So we are getting them to do more for these! :D

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Sukishoo3/6/2019, 5:53:01 PM1 votes

That's awesome, at least that is one legendary rework that can feel better.

Jerry SeinfeId3/6/2019, 8:13:40 PM1 votes
  1. What does that mean for people who already own the skin?
  2. If they already cut corners on the legendary why didn't the other skins get unique visuals like pretty much every rework since WW has had? Iron inquisitor in particular. I get that they don't meet the price standard but shit that combined with the aether wing shit and the horrible base skin makes it feel like they did kayle real dirty.
14daysuspensionk3/6/2019, 10:50:54 PM1 votes

Did anyone else also notice that the live version of Kayles new splash art is actually slightly different from the original updated one? They added some armor to her boobs.