WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR DEEP SPACE ILLAOI

XIII Vanitas·Oct 30, 2017·64 votes·5,838 views

We all know that, in her regular lore, is a faithful priestess of Nagakabouros that wholeheartedly embodies and preaches the teachings of her religion. Deep Space Illaoi completely turns that theme on its head, giving it a new horrifying spin: the priestess that once spread her truth through faith has now become a knowledge-seeking space explorer who was contaminated by a Dead Space-like alien creature and is now being mind-controlled by it in order to spread the infection. On top of that, we already have a space skin, Astro, that could be beautifully incorporated in the new lore: "unwilling to abandon his fellow astronaut Illaoi, who fell to the infection, Nautilus keeps fighting against the space parasyte in order to find a cure" (which would be an ironic parallel to Nautilus' regular lore, where he got corrupted by a dark entity and left for dead by his own crew).

38 Comments

TeslynOct 30, 201720 votes

https://i.imgur.com/9CYA2Jf.jpg

I see you forgot someone.. its okay... you will remember when you step on his mushroom Teemo

Lintu PuckOct 30, 20176 votes

it's more PREY than Dead Space

TeslynOct 30, 20171 votes

Yeah... i feel all 3 are ruff and need a polish. But if its just a display model.. one can only hope.

XIII VanitasOct 30, 20173 votes

I've never heard of a game called PREY, so I'm going to look it up. Thanks, btw.

KnalxzOct 31, 20171 votes

Damn...brutal dude.

SEKAIOct 30, 20175 votes

I voted for Adventurer tho, fight me.

XIII VanitasOct 30, 20176 votes

Imho, that's the most unoriginal of the three concepts, from a lore perspective. At least Battlecas Illaoi narrates a story (she's an augmented human, fighting against Creator Viktor, that defeated one of his robots and is using its head in order to control its mechanical arm in battle).

SEKAIOct 30, 20173 votes

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Imho, that's the most unoriginal of the three concepts, from a lore perspective. At least Battlecas Illaoi narrates a story (she's an augmented human, fighting against Creator Viktor, that defeated one of his robots and is using its head in order to control its mechanical arm in battle).

You might to check the definition of unoriginal, considering we indeed already have many robots in the skins from Battlecast to Project, but there hasn't been a skin line about the premise of 'adventurers and wonders'. I guess a few 'runeborn' somewhat qualifies, but that's stretching a bit.

XIII VanitasOct 30, 20172 votes

You can have plenty of mechanical-themed skin lines and they can still be original: Battlecast champions are robots controlled by Creator Viktor, Project champions are cyborgs created in a dystopic future, Mecha champions are basically transformers created by yordles, Program champions are cybernetic entities.

Adventurer Illaoi is just Illaoi dressed as Indiana Jones.

SkorchOct 31, 20173 votes

They both have their perks. But you cant be like: "Battlecast is robots, Adventurer is telling a story" "Robots tell stories, Adventurer is a dumb Adventurer" Like These 2 comments are just saying "No, Me"

Jerry SeinfeIdOct 31, 20171 votes

yeh, and there's a reason Indianna jones is popular.

You can have plenty of mechanical-themed skin lines and they can still be original: Battlecast champions are robots controlled by Creator Viktor, Project champions are cyborgs created in a dystopic future, Mecha champions are basically transformers created by yordles, Program champions are cybernetic entities.

and yet they all (except program afaik) belong to the same alternate universe. I like the battlecast one but it's in no way more original than adventurer. Dungeon/temple raiders are a relatively unexplored concept in skins. The only other skin being explorer ezreal and he's already an explorer/adventurer.

Jerry SeinfeIdOct 31, 20172 votes

Explorer ezreal.... and actually base ezreal too.

I agree though, this changes her in a cave raiding/temple exploring badass.

TheHappyReaperzOct 31, 20171 votes

When I first saw the Adventurer skin, I thought Riot was selling out to Temple Run.

Tesla EffectOct 30, 20175 votes

Deep Space Illaoi would go well with Deep Space Veigar, both embued by the infection of the Deep and unknowable parts of space.

This skin line has more potential to add to the Austronaut theme that was barely expanded.

QuephaOct 31, 20174 votes

Adventurer is more cute. Vote Adventurer.

Emo TwinkNov 1, 20172 votes

plus her last skin was scifi too, i just want a non-scifi skin instead of being restricted to basic skin..

XIII VanitasNov 1, 20172 votes

Void-related skins aren't really sci-fi, since the Void is an integral part of the in-game world. Void Illaoi is just Illaoi in a different Runeterran setting, just like Freljord Taliyah or Noxus Poppy.

LightenOct 30, 20173 votes

Battlecast has the best Illaoi model, and therefore took my vote. Deep Space's tentacles look great, but the model looks terrible... Adventurer is my 2nd pick. It's fresh, and new :)

XIII VanitasOct 31, 20174 votes

That's just concept art, it's far from being her final model!

ChompyWulfNov 3, 20173 votes

An aspect thus far forgotten by many, and a VERY good reason go support Deep Space, is the potential for Chromas. Deep Space is a PERFECT palette for color swaps, both the space suit and the alien ichor. Battle cast? Would be a couple different metal tones without major contrast. Adventurer? You might be able to do a small variety of color swaps on the outfit, but the vines? Deep Space has the best visual pop because of the contrasts of colors.