Riot: Please change Order of the Lotus back.
It is so ugly now. Why does she have giant Disney eyes now? I understand that Ionia pulls references from Greece, but the culture, architecture and characters. All of which is asian. Akali, Shen, Zed, Yasuo, Ahri, Kennen, Lee Sin, Master Yi, Kayn, and Wukong. These are most of the Ionian characters in League of Legends, and they are all to some extent ASIAN themed.
Akali, Shen, Yasuo, Master Yi, Zed, Kennen, Lee Sin = Ninja/Samurai/Martial Artist = Asian Ahri and Wukong = Asian Mythology Kayn = Well he just looks asian.
Asians have a very stylized look among all of the different parts of Asia. And many say Greek have larger eyes and thicker eyebrows and eye lashes. (Obviously this is extremely dependent purely on each and every individual.) It seems only the naming convention for Ionia is referencing greece.
So why is it that you're giving Irelia Larger eyes now? All of her pre-rework skins looked Ethnically correct. But now for the reworked skins (Disclaimer, I still love you all for your work, much respect)
Default = Looks Ethnically correct, to a degree (I saw many people say she looks like Megan Fox.) Night Blade = Looks ethnically correct (And completely bad ass, female Zed 2.0, but I'm sad the sexy outfit is gone) Aviator = Okay I won't lie just to keep my point valid. Its f----ing cute. And looks like a western anime attempt. (Good job on making a skin no one liked into something cute, but still why are her eyes the size of Clementines? ) Infiltrator = Ionian D.va? Her headpiece looks like large headphones, and all the blue/black and purple doesn't help. (But I love the skin, and the face and outfit are Ethnically appropriate. ) Frost blade = Probably the most loved and memed on skin for Irelia. You for sure emphasized on what the community kept asking for. The hair looks okay, the armor looks decent, The face though.. She looks like a high polished Disney female villain. Order of the Lotus = Now for the main complaint. Which you can see from the included photo. She looks like a Girly Pink makeup kim kardashian. Why did you change Order of the Lotus? Cool her armor dress is pink and sparkly now. But that face, is just NO. NO GOD PLZ NO. She went from an Elegant woman, which you describe her as, to the opposite.
I know this is super rant-like post. And I know we JUST got her skin splash arts released. But thats the best time to mention it.
I attached a link to a quick crop of the faces. (I still prefer the old outfit too, but if I had to pick 1 change, it'd be the eyes. The eyes across all her skins and in game model.)
My closing remark, did you hire someone from Disney to do your female art? 
All that aside, thank you Riot, for the rework, the information, the game itself, and all the years I've spent reading my in game chat laughing at all the toxic people left and right. <3 Keep up the good work, and change her splash art back, thanks.
Ionia has a heavy cultural background linked to Asian culture. I mean, there's this stuff about Greece, but it's nowhere to be found on any character or structure from Ionia, like, not at all. Everything around is Asian looking, from names to culture. (martial arts, setting, clothes, people, etc etc…)
If there's cultural background linked to Greece in the LoL universe it's only on Mt. Targon..
Let’s set some things clear, beginning with the quality of art. Let it be real clear. It's simply beautiful and that's totally not the point here. But I’ll come back to it later.
The most important thing here is ethnicity.
Irelia is a great warrior and a proud Guard Captain. Ionia is written all over her body and personality . And there, she's not so Asian looking. What does it mean ?
Be careful, I didn't say she's ugly. She's a beautiful woman. Why saying this ? If we bring smt about appearance, and here about ethnicity, ppl tend to think that because we think it's inappropriate it means she's ugly. See what I mean ?
So, the point is that she is supposed to look Asian, and she doesn't...
Is this supposed to be a real problem ? Non-Asian ppl cannot be part of Ionia ? Why "Asia" while it doesn't exist in the LoL universe ?
So many questions, right.
It does, in fact, matter.
It's about ethnicity and representation. It has to be consistent.
How many girls in there are actually "asian" ?
From Ionia, we have : Akali, Irelia, Sona, Karma, Syndra.
To this, we can add Ahri and Xayah, but they are Vastayan.
There's also Soraka, but it's a special case.
So, among them, how many are asian looking ? Well... It's kind of inconsistent in fact, even worse if we add skins to the list.
Akali is the only one to be spared by that... hmmm actually, Nurse Akali is borderline not so asian. She's next on the VGU list, we'll see. Something tells me that it won't be so different from what is happening there...
Characters with their skins is the best way to see who they are and we should be able to recognize them by their facial features. A lot of things have to be taken into account. The artist, the theme, the character etc.
Old splashart, new splashart, old skins, new skins. It's hard to keep in line how it should be done, and VGU with splasharts update is the opportunity to set things. For instance, Sona. On some, you could tell she's kinda asian looking and on some others not. This is due to the things listed up there.
So, for Irelia, as she got her VGU, why would you change her into a non-asian character while there's a few of them and that Riot already struggle to represent diverse characters ?
We have 49 female characters and nearly half of them are white looking girls. The other half is monsters, creatures and a few girls from here and there that are non-white.
And now we got this. An opportunity to affirm looks and diversity but instead we get Megan Fox. Just before Irelia VGU, we got Kai'sa. A shuriman girl. But guess what, she looks like Scarlett Johansson. What are the other girls from there ? Taliyah, Sivir and maybe Nidalee, since she's from the Kumungu jungle just below the Shurima desert. All three of them are actually Middle East looking. Why is Kai'Sa like this then ? Her skin is white because of Void light, but it doesn't explain why she has no Shuriman (Middle East) features.
