You guys didn’t really do much for Ezreal’s old skins. Why is that?

Zeanix·9/26/2018, 11:56:20 AM·5 votes·2,957 views

After looking at he older skin for the Ezreal update, I gotta say, you guys didn’t really put much effort into them. I don’t play Ezreal but looking at the old skins, there isn’t much love put into them and I kinda feel sorry for Ezreal mains. There’s going to be comments saying “it’s pbe, it’s going to change” but there is such a high chance that it won’t. I just hope this becomes big and riot will actually change them.

Frosted Ezreal would’ve had such great frosty effects on them, but instead uses Base Effects. Striker Ezreal’s new W should’ve used a soccer ball and should’ve had an kicking animation. Nottingham Ezreal ult should’ve had a Brown/Nature-ish green bow instead of blue to represent old school/fantasy genres. Anything before Debonair/Ace of Spades (don’t know which came first) should’ve had at least something unique other than their joke.

If you look at newer reworks, like say the Nunu rework. Each skin has a unique Snowball, Grungy Nunu and Willump has a Toy Ball, Demolisher has a metal ball and TPA has their logo.

All Star Akali shuriken is a soccer ball with kunai’s and Stinger changed her passive to yellow.

It’s these little things that make it fun and awesome to use these skins and I hope these changes come through and I really like the Ezreal update too.

Edit: I forgot to mention about Pulsefire Ezreal, which for me I think is a successful rework skin. Looking at the little touches like his recall is what adds some ‘spicyness’ Into this skin. If you put much love and effort into Pulsefire, you have to put much love and effort into his other old skins too.

18 Comments

GreenLore9/26/2018, 12:39:02 PM3 votes

The reason is likely that Ezreal just has a ton of skins,with freaking 11 skins(including an ultimate one). This means that they had to put much more work into his skins than they had for the previous VGUs.

Geauxx9/26/2018, 12:23:49 PM2 votes

i understand the barely changing the other skins cause just recolored 520 on only a minor visual update(cept W)

pulsefire... i still hate how even after a free change they could do with it, it's still only a 1350 MAYBE (if you want to argue it the best you can) legendary skin at best.

Pika Fox9/26/2018, 2:57:31 PM2 votes

Im more annoyed that the ult skin has the least flashy ult skill.

Glaedr9/26/2018, 1:27:46 PM1 votes

They made it clear this rework was almost exclusively gameplay from the very start and had almost nothing to do with visuals so the fact he got a new VO, model, and updated skins is way more than I expected. Everybody was complaining about PFE not being an ultimate quality skin anymore so it made sense to change that but I don't expect them to turn a literal recolor 520 RP skin into a 1350 which is what you're asking for.

Chillee9/27/2018, 12:23:58 AM1 votes

I was more annoyed at the Aatrox rework, it was supposed to be a pure gameplay rework, but then they announced it as a full vgu. His splash arts and models are pretty much the exact same, disappointed.