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New skin line

hate and pain·7/16/2019, 4:14:40 AM·1 votes·2,038 views

Hey everyone,

I've already spoken about this in one post but as it hasn't got any attention I've decided to make a post about it.

Now that the new set of project skins is out, I'm more than disappointed. Project skin line was one of the best skin lines ever released, that's for sure. But these late skins are not as "project" as they should be. I mean first of all the champs choice is bad. Pyke and Jinx do not the fit the theme at all while in the initial champion choice was very well elaborated and executed. I'm talking about Fiora, Yasuo, Zed and other champions who got the first project skin. Thing is, in the last project skins release, if someone didn't tell me Project Jinx was actually Jinx, I wouldn't be able to recognize her. The current state of Project skins is literally colorizing them in crazy cool colors, giving them bunch of robotic features and champions are unrecognizable.

Anyway, I'm here to propose a new champion skin line, more traditional one and more champion related one.

As you all know we have only one gladiator in the game, which is Draven. The new champion skin line could be done in the spirit of a tournament where all these "duelers" high single target damage champions confront each other. I'm talking about Fiora, Irelia, Tryndamere, Riven, Darius, Xin Zhao and I'm sure Riot would make a good selection. This skin line has been started and never finished, I think Riot can go very far with this, or even making a special event around this theme. It's very cool and I've been asking myself why haven't they made something bigger out of it. So many cool things can be worked out, items, loot etc...

I think it would be really nice to see those champions with Gladiator skins because they would get really popular like gladiator Draven did (which is his most popular skin by the way).

Best regards

1 Comments

Hotarµ7/16/2019, 4:33:18 AM1 votes

Pyke and Jinx do not the fit the theme at all while in the initial champion choice was very well elaborated and executed.

They fit perfectly into this subset of PROJECT: skins. The tagline for this group is "We can't control the monsters we create..." which implies deranged, rebellious, and/or antagonistic characters.

Like Jinx and Pyke.

I'm talking about Fiora, Yasuo, Zed and other champions who got the first project skin.

PROJECT: is the base skin line itself, each group release sees a different theme. So while they're in the same line, each grouping follows different rules. Leona wouldn't be grouped up with Vayne and vice versa.

Thing is, in the last project skins release, if someone didn't tell me Project Jinx was actually Jinx, I wouldn't be able to recognize her. The current state of Project skins is literally colorizing them in crazy cool colors, giving them bunch of robotic features and champions are unrecognizable.

They're all very easily recognizable. Pyke has his digistruct shoulder claws and mask, Jinx has her neon ponytails and rocket launcher, Warwick has his own unique style and body shape, Irelia's got her massive pink neon blades, and Akali has her distinctive Kama and ponytail.

I only play one of the champions and I was able to instantly distinguish the rest just based off of their silhouettes in the teaser.