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Yo Riot, you're kinda overstuffing League with robot skins.

ModCaptainMårvelous··29 votes·2,517 views

Now, disclaimer, I love Robots. Transformers, Power Ranger Megazords, Pacific Rim, Gurren Lagann, I really run the gamut of all the robots I love and think are awesome.

However, I think League's starting to overflow with robotic skins in recent time. We have:

  • Mecha.
  • Project (Not TECHNICALLY robots but the aesthetic is very similar)
  • Battlecast
  • Full Metal
  • Hextech
  • Steel Legion/Bioforge
  • Program
  • Miscellaneous other skin ideas that are one-off-robotic-style-stuff.

In a way, I do understand this. League is a primarily fantasy setting. It's easier to take 60 fantasy champs and make them futuristic robots than it is to take 10 technological champions and make them fantastical. I do really feel that this can be done though. You guys really nailed it with Master Arcanist Ziggs, why not have a whole fantasy line of technology champions reimagined as fantasy? As some quick examples: Paladin Jayce, Berserker Vi, Warlock Heimerdinger, Ranger Caitlyn, Chaos Mage Jinx, Shaman Viktor, etc.

Does anyone else feel there's a bit of robotic oversaturation with robots or am I in the minority? Again: Not saying these are BAD skins (I love Mecha Sion and own a ton of robot skins) but it feels like robots are the in-thing. Sorta like how "Make it a fire skin" was the in-thing back in like S2

33 Comments

Remian11 votes

Wait until they roll out Project Rift. On a serious note, I'm ok with it. These skins are slowly forming some kind of their own Runeterra 2.0 lore.

Mecha MaIphite11 votes

Viktor Relinquish the flesh Blitzcrank THE TIME OF MAN HAS COME TO AN END

ViashinoWizard7 votes

Demon Vi fits here, no? But I do like the idea of re-imagining more technological champs as fantastical. Elderwood Blitzcrank perhaps?

rtbf2256182411 votes

Tbh i don't see Vi really technological with this considering only her hands have Hextech parts. Demon Vi feels more like a personality change to her.

GhastlyGhoulMan5 votes

"The time of man has come to an end." Blitzcrank

NazZomLord4 votes

NO FUCK YOU, MORE ROBOTS!

Only Play Darius4 votes

Scifi > fantasy

Twiggles3 votes

I actually agree. I love the robot skins (practically quivering with excitement over Program Lissandra and Program Soraka), but there seems to be a lot of them coming out fairly close together. I would like to see more things along a similar vein to Ironsides Malphite where the tech takes a notable downgrade.

GreenLore1 votes

Well they tend to release similar themed skins in the same patch. For example in the last patch we had 2 plant-based skins(elderwood LB and Deathblossom Kha'zix) and in the previous one we had the 2 bloodmoon skins.

And well these 3 skins as well as hextech annie are the only robotic skins that we got this year so far and Hextech annie is tied to the hextech chests,so it makes sense that it is robotic.

EndGamer113 votes

Paladin Jayce

WELL MET

Arsenic Sulfur3 votes

Kinda like how during the Shurima event we got an influx of sand skins.

DrShoking2 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe443Gl4Skk

Valor Bot2 votes

Also, Nunu Bot.

But yeah, I agree that there are way more robot-themed skins than any other particular thematic in League of Legends, which narrows our choices for cosmetics a bit.

ModWulf Helhammer2 votes

Sad robot amumu and iBlitzcrank

DorkunedAuras1 votes

Also every blitz skin and blitz himself

HandheldBrandon2 votes

Steel legion is a reference to Warhammer 40k i believe or starcraft not too sure. Bioforge... was just a failure. Full metal is not a mecha and was a fan made skin i believe.

Hextech is lore related.

Ayame Isaki1 votes

Steel Legion is indeed 40K.

INoble KnightI1 votes

Bioforge reminds me of the Necrons

A Dizzy Lulu2 votes

Full metal pantheon isn't very robotic either, he just has a more metal suit x)

DevlinCrow2 votes

Fuck me, people will complain about anything.

Gotodead2 votes

not enough funny skins, they used to get released more but now the majority are serious. So we have to wait for events like april fools and then the champs they gave skins too are all really niche and not even that great. so now we wait a billion years for the next funny skin batch and pray...

sealust1 votes

Mecha/project skins sell REALLY well. Mecha Kha is like, in the top three for most popular skins I think, project Yas is up there too. Demand is high, so to speak, and Riot will respond to that.

GreenLore1 votes

The thing is that most champs in the game are more based on fantasy than sci-fi,so there are more options to give a fantasy-themed champ a sci-fi skin than the other way around.

Besides we also got demon VI and dragon trainer tristana at the end of the last year and Lunar wraith Caitlyn at the beginning of this one ;). Cosmic reaver kassadin might also count to a certain degree since he drops the technological helmet

ChewbaccasRear1 votes

Everyone in a match will have robot skins except Blitzcrank . And he will have the Definitely not Blitzcrank Skin. I like it

Blood Magicks1 votes

I feel like the robot-y mech-y futuristic skins are the iPhones of LoL skins. Shiny, flashy and high-tech looking, almost always expensive, but in almost all cases with no original thought put into them.

I am much more a fan of simple, yet brilliant skins like Monarch Kog and Definitely not Blitz.

Kudos for the new Sion skin though, it really captures his spirit.

Shadamence1 votes

Still waiting for traditional Gangplank. Tiny gun that removes half of the HP bar included.

Talos of Altmora1 votes

Blitzcrank THE TIME OF MAN HAS COME TO AN END! Viktor Metal is Perfection! Orianna I know what makes them tick. I know how to make the ticking stop.

Ask the Herald1 votes

Let the Glorious Evolution commence!

RastaBrotha1 votes

Bro I would DIE for some sweet fantastical skins

Ebonmaw Dragon1 votes

We need less robot skins and more robot champions.

Monkey D Luffy1 votes

t;dr

2nd Chance1 votes

You know what would be something that would sell like hot cakes they never thought of?

A fashion model skin line

Doctor Jarvis1 votes

I see where you're coming from, but come on. It's 2016; Soraka DESERVES a heal bot skin.

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