It's kind of sad seeing Tryndamere getting a new skin...

Forhonor321··22 votes·1,822 views

Mostly because

  1. He already has a good number of skins under his belt, unlike so many other champs that have gone without a new skin for quite some time now and could use one just to make the mains and various others happy for a while (Cassiopeia Viktor Yorick are a few that immediately come to my mind, especiallyYorick )

  2. The skin is arguable if it's good or horrible (it'd be fairly decent to me if they changed the face mask a bit and removed or heavily changed the brown patch on his model), but overall it still suffers from the same animations that as almost everyone single other skin he has, including his legendary, but other than his Sultan skin which has far better animation overall. You'd think they would apply that animation to all of his other skins at this point.

This is undoubtedly suppose to hint at the Urgot rework reveal and release, but if Riot is going to do that, he better be close to hitting PBE and they need to fix this skin up a bit if they go through with it.

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Azteryz21 votes

to play devils advocate

  1. a champ having a lot of skins (maybe due to popularity or being one of the original 40 champs) shouldn't be a reason to forsaken them from ever getting a skin ever never ever lol

yes champs like Ahri Annie TwistedFate as well as Tryndamere have a lot of skins but im perfectly okay with them getting a skin as long as the gap between their last skin is a decent one

Chem tech tryndamere release- may 2017 beast hunter tryndamere release- feb 2016

so over a year difference is fine for me and especially if its a theme that works for the champion, i dont feel the need to give the people that main these champions the middle finger and say hey no more new content for you

  1. other champs who have been getting shafted in the skin department like Cassiopeia Viktor Yorick who havent gotten a skin in a while whether its because of their rig problems/model updates/cant find a good theme

they have announced a couple weeks ago that these champs (and more) will be getting a skin in the coming year so just hold on tight they havent forgotten

  1. for the trynd skin itself i agree with you on all accounts but i feel like he just has an old model and could use a small animation/texture update + his legendary skin is honestly just a really good 1350 skin at this point in terms of animation because at the time it got released it was when they just started making legendary skins
TimX24968B1 votes

champion popularity is also somewhat prevalent here, too. Not really "worth it" as much to make a skin only a few people would buy, when you could make a different skin more people would like and buy.

Also, Animation updates (and W updates) are the only updates I would be fine with on a tryndamere.

THE RlVER KlNG10 votes

Respectfully, that's bullshit. If Riot can give Ahri 3 skins in 18 months (Arcade, Academy, and Challenger were all released within that time frame of each other) then they can bother to give Yorick/Swain/Cass/Viktor/Heimerdinger a skin.

Promises mean squat. Riot has failed several times in the past when it comes to promising skins to champions, and it's getting old.

Azteryz1 votes

oh i agree with you on past cases especially in regards to ahri and her challenger skin and then 7 months later she got her academy skin

but its been a year after her academy skin before she got her arcade skin

now that timeline im okay with

also i dont ever specifically remember riot ever officially promising that they are making skins for said champ except a couple of cases where it turned out to be true

zac skin/kha zix skin and their first skin after release

ModAcademy Kayn3 votes

Which is exactly why they don't try to promise things. Because shit in internal development happens, and they end up getting delayed/canceled, and suddenly people are let down from the promised hype.

Riot has stuck to this policy for a long time, of not spoiling/teasing champ skins while still in development until they're ready, so if they're confident enough to put it in an AskRiot, an article that is thoroughly thought out before posted, I'm more than willing to bet money on it.

MuffledGarbage1 votes

They announced the new skins about a year ago though...

Azteryz1 votes

which ones are you referring to and link?

SpecterVonBaren5 votes

Something further that everyone seems to overlook every time this discussion comes up is that champs like Annie have a metric ton of skins mostly because they've been in the game since it was in beta. Of course champs that have been around longer are going to have more skins.

Sukishoo2 votes

They've already said here http://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/2017/05/dev-state-of-skins/ that Cassiopeia Viktor Yorick Illaoi and many others will indeed see skins within the next 12 months. Of those though Cassiopeia is one that I'd say was held up a bid due to the fact that her updated Tail tech has finally launched in the current patch, so they wanted to fix her up in that aspect before they really committed to a skin.

As for hinting towards Urgot, that's arguable in itself as they have mentioned there is at least one more new champion to be release before him. So he's not quite here yet.

General Esdeath 2 votes

Still waiting on a new Illaoi skin

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