Thank You Riot, for giving Pentakill Sona a visual update she so seriously needed

Daedric Etwahl··6 votes·1,561 views

Definitely not piggybacking off of MM's similar thread about Morde

No but I've been meaning to do this for a while and his post reminded me honest c:

So I've been using only Pentakill Sona in all of the games since her update and while I mentioned it before I just wanted to thank Riot again for updating Pentakill Sona during this Pentakill event. The skin was probably the weakest of all of Sona's skins, even behind Muse, and did not live up to the amazing splash art. While the art looked totally great and made our sweet Maven into a badass-looking rocker girl, once in game all you got was Sona in a black dress with some red... thing slapped onto her head.

But now they've given her hair proper texture and even lengthened it to match her splash. Her dress was given some details and the color change imo is minor and completely fine. Even her face was made prettier, and most players will never even see it!

Some people will complain about the lack of different musical cues to her spells, how the non-metal music sounds out of place on her and... well, yeah I get that, but honestly visually she looks so great I really don't even care!

Not to mention how pleasantly surprised I was to recall as her ingame and see that they gave her a different recall animation than her other skins. Since the mass recall update, using other animations, I almost felt left out as a Sona player, since none of her idle animations are very noticeable at all and so it barely felt any different. However, not only does she use a different animation, she uses FIVE! And they all flow into each other really cooly, and it just adds another layer of enjoyment to the skin now.

This skin has gone from being "the one I really like and want to use but it just feels so underwhelming in game" to my second favorite of all of her skins after Sweetheart. I love it that much. (I was never an Arcade or DJ fan, personally. Her other skins need love, too!)

So thank you again, Riot, so much for this little update, from a Silver 1 Sona OTP

[slayer-jinx-catface]

9 Comments

Riotmoonstones8 votes

Hello, hello!

A sincere thank you from the skins team! <3

We know change isn't always easy, especially when you've become attached to a particular skin. A lot of older content has been, and continues to be updated to be brought up to the standards of our current art style, which is overall, great for the game, but there does become the fear of change, and understandably so.

It's great to hear that Pentakill Sona's changes have bumped her up on your skin tier list. (Even though it's wrong 'cause Arcade is best skin. ;D)

Seriously, though, thank you for the kind feedback, and we encourage you to keep giving us feedback - both positive and negative - when new content comes out!

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Poolparty Sauron1 votes

Since skin updates are brought up any plans for Dragonslayer J4 as it is lackluster compared to all the other DS skins. Katey pls ;-; (edit) also vayne ;-;

Riotmoonstones3 votes

There isn't, no. Champion Update would be the team that'd generally handle these things. Skins updated these Pentakill skins because we were already elbows deep in Pentakill content (Kayle, icons, ward), and had a large Pentakill promo coming out,

Poolparty Sauron1 votes

so i have to wait 5 years for DS J4 to be cool ;-; what would shyvana say on her mans outfit

Chromatic Eagle1 votes

Why use anything but dj?

Daedric Etwahl1 votes

Because several of her other skins are oh so pretty (namely Sweetheart, Pentakill and even her default in my personal opinion.)

DJ is a great top quality skin, but it doesn't feel like the Sona I love, the pretty, well-dressed songstress.

I actually use DJ more for my trammates as a little treat rather than for myself anymore

Daedric Etwahl1 votes

Hello again! Nice to see you again! :D

I would even argue that arcade feels a littke underwhelming at this point but I guess that comes with the territory of being the original.

You can absolutely bet that I'll be there whenever Sona is getting changes!

Riotmoonstones2 votes

:D

That's totally fair! I think I became so used to the SFX and VFX that no other skin feels 'right' to me, haha. It's absolutely a personal preference!

Daedric Etwahl1 votes

Haha, that's very true! I'msimilar with Sona as a whole with her constant ambient etwahl playing when she's onscreen: If I hear Summoner's Rift's music without her etwahl, it feels like it's missing something xD

Then again I don't want any part of Sona to ever receive hate, she's to sweet for that, I just want all of her and her skins to be loved! x3

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