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AbiwonKenabi28 votes

Uh...just because Hecarim is a bad guy in his real lore, doesn't mean Arcade Hecarim is. Skins are alternate fantasies, and I like the idea of a heroic Hecarim. If I wanted to play bad guy Hec, I'd play literally any of his other skins (and I have Headless for that). Plus visually he matches the other "good guy" Arcade skins, not the Battle Boss look of the bad guys.

Ebonmaw Dragon6 votes

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Uh...just because Hecarim is a bad guy in his real lore, doesn't mean Arcade Hecarim is. Skins are alternate fantasies, and I like the idea of a heroic Hecarim. If I wanted to play bad guy Hec, I'd play literally any of his other skins (and I have Headless for that). Plus visually he matches the other "good guy" Arcade skins, not the Battle Boss look of the bad guys.

Actually it was said by Riot that Arcade Hecarim was supposed to be a boss of the game, just like the other battle bosses, but after being defeated, he joined to the party of the "good guys"... Vegetta style

TheySeeMeWardin1 votes

Themeatically Hec fits with the bosses, maybe not because of his classic lore but because of his appearance. All good guys are human (or yordle/vastyian) but all the bad guys are pixelated and don't show skin.

EDIT: good guys look like people while bad guys look like robots or viruses

Skins Project3 votes

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Actually it was said by Riot that Arcade Hecarim was supposed to be a boss of the game, just like the other battle bosses, but after being defeated, he joined to the party of the "good guys"... Vegetta style

6FlagsFunnelCake14 votes

Actually, Corki Ahri and Ez are just "Players," while Riven, Hecarim, Miss Fortune and Sona are actual video game charactcers

Now we have Brand, Ziggs and Malzahar on Veigar's battle-boss side, so all we need to even it out is a final legendary Arcade skin on Riven's side.

yay nibbers5 votes

You're gonna need to explain that first part to me. What logic made you come to the conclusion that pew pew laser spaceship Arcade Corki is a player while MF and Sona (who are both using game controllers) are video game characters.

6FlagsFunnelCake3 votes

A Rioter specifically described the lore for the Arcade universe when Arcade Ahri, Ezreal and Corki were released, mentioning that the three of them are more like Players who are new to the Arcade universe. I can't exactly find the link for the post right now, but you can read about it on the Wiki or maybe even a Rioter can come and back me up on this.

yay nibbers1 votes

Ah, I must've missed that. I went and checked it out myself and it's just Ahri and Ezreal that are "players" (specifically in quotation marks) and either way they're all in the game world now. There isn't really any reason not to include them as there.

Forbidden Siren2 votes

Think of it as the new Jumanji movie. Real people being thrown into the Arcade universe and they've been turned into video game characters until they go back into the real world.

FakeGravity2 votes

if you think about both miss fortune and sona are holding controllers (the guns she use for the tv game on her recall, and all of sona weapon is a big arcade control) so it makes more sense for them to be players, riven looks more like an actual videogame character as well as corki, and ezreal can go either way depending on how you interpret his gauntle

GreenLore1 votes

Actually it was confirmed that Sona,MF,Riven,Ahri and Ezreal are all gamers and it was never said if Corki was a gamer or a video game character https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/skin-champion-concepts/wmkMgfAX-the-next-arcade-skin?comment=0001000000020000

Sulghunter1 votes

Yeah, he's just the space ship in Galaga

Glîtchy3 votes

and Ahri on the one for the good guys.

Sukishoo2 votes

There's been 6 new champ skins since the Riven/Blitz splash was made, so pretty sure they won't update that since they haven't already.

Tesla Effect2 votes

They dont have enough room to put Ezreal, Ahri, and Corki at the good side.

TheySeeMeWardin2 votes

Hey but if they made a sixth slot on both sides and moved Hec over then both sides would have six

Daedric Etwahl1 votes

When Hexakill comes around, put Hecarim on the villains side, and then we can have a full Arcade Heroes vs Villains battle! :D

GreenLore2 votes

But bosses aren't simply "evil" arcade characters. I mean both Blitzcrank and Ziggs aren't evil characters,yet they are among the boss champs.

They are designed to look like video game bosses,while the arcade skins look more like video game players/the player characters.(and heca being based on robot unicorn attack and having a guitar hero axe fits more into arcade)

yay nibbers2 votes

They could just make more slots...

AbiwonKenabi1 votes

Hidden characters, obviously :P

While I think the idea is cool, it might be too many resources committed and not enough pay-off. I'd rather splash artist work on some like updating MF's other splash arts or something else.

metalhydra2732 votes

I mean you can always just think of them as unlockables.

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