Riot tries not to "change how players feel" about champions but then destroys their splash arts

dunkeroni·4/7/2016, 6:02:02 PM·6 votes·824 views

Riot has always talked about trying to maintain champion perceptions when they apply updates, saying that they don't want to alter the way players feel about the persona in-game or in their artwork. There were actually several articles and posts that Riot made about the difficulty of this when they updated Fiora, and only a small minority really cared about Fiora's personality in that update.

So Riot has merged the art departments in what I can only hope will save enough money to make up for the loss of quality imagery in the game. Annie in Wonderland (my favorite skin) now looks like an anime character, and you can't even see Bunny Tibbers (the best part about the skin) in the splash art any more. On a side note, bunny teemo (my second fav skin) now looks like a terrible mockery of down syndrome children.

There's been a lot of people raging and leaving the game recently due to dynamic queue and champion balance, but I've tried to stick it out. I want to have fun playing this game, but now I'm starting to understand Riot's troubles with champion perceptions. If the new Taric update wasn't just around the corner, I probably would have already left after seeing Anime in Wonderland and Special Education Teemo. This game is providing less and less reasons for me to stay with it.

4 Comments

nDoro4/7/2016, 11:39:28 PM2 votes

I also severely dislike how Riot is changing so much. A lot of people purchase skins solely for their splash art, but they're just going ahead and changing so many splashes to even shittier splashes. Thanks, China.

Zachary3604/7/2016, 6:04:51 PM1 votes

I really liked the Annie in wonderland update splash looks much more polished.

darkmatchwaldo4/7/2016, 6:49:12 PM1 votes

Meh see that's the thing, this all changes person to person. I happen to think most of the new splash arts are better quality.