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Can we talk about Aviator Irelia?

ZER0 2·3/21/2018, 8:30:27 PM·59 votes·10,712 views
Aviator Irelia

I know that Frostbooty is super important right now, and I completely agree. However, I have some concerns that I'd like to express (and that I also saw on the youtube videos) for Aviator Irelia.

TL;DR AT BOTTOM

Her splash art is so cute, so perfect. It immediately became my favourite splash art in the update and I had high hopes for the skin and expected it to be just as nice in game.

I was pretty disappointed when I saw the in-game model

Her hair looks... very odd. I think they were going for a ponytail out the back or a very curly hair style. But it reads as a triangle and you can't really tell exactly what's supposed to be going on with it.

The curls almost look intestinal in nature, bulky and very flat from the side, and the hair splits into three separate pieces every time she moves, which only makes it look more odd. Not to mention it looks more like a green hue than a blue hue like in the splash.

Also, the clothes in the model look more bulky or puffy, whereas in the splash, they look fitted and very lithe.

I feel like a modified version of the Nightblade ponytail would look better in this skin and help the flow and feel of it work better. I legitimately believe it could be her best skin with the most potential, it just needs some work.

Please let me know your thoughts.

TL;DR:

*The curls in the hair look odd, and not like curls

*The hair still splits into 3 pieces when moving, and looks like a triangle

*Hair color doesn't match the splash

*Ponytail? Just under the hat? Who knows

*Clothes are bulky instead of form fitting like in the splash.

41 Comments

Final Spark Lux3/21/2018, 8:33:16 PM33 votes

I gotta agree x_x that hair really ruins the image of the rest of her skin as it is imo. Doesn't look flowy like in the splash art, which it doesn't have to match perfectly, but it's so rigid looking atm :\ .

VelvetCrotch3/21/2018, 9:00:42 PM10 votes

her hair in nearly EVERY skin look clunky and odd. (so just hope they still tweak it - or it's still unfinished)

i agree that frostbalde has priority, that aviator has a great splash and that her clothes should NOT be that "puffy".

and imo they should add a propeller sound to her W and a plain-raise-sound to her ult. that would be s*ck.

Gapybo3/21/2018, 8:54:09 PM9 votes

Yeah I can't believe the octopus hair that was one of the biggest complaints of the old Irelia still lives on. Why couldn't they use the fancy hair tech Kayn has?

Late For Tea3/21/2018, 8:55:44 PM9 votes

Her hair feels very unnatural. It fans out to about 2-2.5x the width of her torso, that's physically impossible. It doesn't help that the hair is just a static flat sheet devoid of any physics animations. Unfortunately the hair absolutely ruins the skin :(

Ifneth3/21/2018, 10:20:29 PM6 votes

That’s her hair? I thought it was a cape. Riot needs to fix this...

RedPannda3/21/2018, 11:36:04 PM4 votes

Completely agree, the hair is the fly in the soup for me. I don't like the color and it looks like a cloak coming out of her head. it is too solid.

LankPants3/21/2018, 10:03:36 PM4 votes

The hair could be instantly improved by simply removing the two locks off to the sides, it would be a closer match to the splash too.

Realistically though I think it would look far better to use the hair from the base skin/infiltrator recoloured to the sort of aqua colour of the splash. It would just be a closer match IMO.

Agent Corgi3/21/2018, 11:15:26 PM3 votes

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*The curls in the hair look odd, and not like curls

*The hair still splits into 3 pieces when moving, and looks like a triangle

*Hair color doesn't match the splash

*Ponytail? Just under the hat? Who knows

I thought I'd be the only one who felt that way about Aviator Irelia. Don't get me wrong, I like the skin but I don't like how her hair looks in game.

Jerry SeinfeId3/22/2018, 12:25:12 AM3 votes

She needs to be making airplane noises when she's like spinning her blades around her too.

SoraBeserk3/21/2018, 11:19:46 PM3 votes

Yeah when I played the skin on PBE immediately I noticed the hair did not look right at all. I hope Riot tweaks the hair a bit before release.

SzGamer2273/22/2018, 8:57:50 PM2 votes

https://www.reddit.com/r/IreliaMains/comments/8675zo/addressing_irelia_feedback/

We’ve heard the feedback on Irelia’s hair looking like a flat cape on some skins, or being positioned far away from her body. This is something that we’ve iterated on a dozen times internally, and competing with blade readability and clipping has been a challenge. We’re going to taking another pass focusing mostly on base and Aviator, trying to add a little volume and tweak positions so her hair falls a little closer to her for some animations.

Riot is addressing her hair and making changes.

Risen293/21/2018, 10:40:07 PM2 votes

Aviator was one of my favorite skins of all. The splash art is good, but the ingame model doesnt impress. My main issue with it is that the blades no longer look anything like propellor blades, which ruins the whole point of the skin in the first place.

I don't have major complaints about the model. I do think they all suffer from low quality issues. My real criticism would be from an artistic standpoint: the original aviator design was more interesting. It was funner, more feminine, and somewhat more steampunk. The new design doesn't seem as inspired, imaginative, or as interesting to me. They just made it look like a WW2 aviator outfit, although with somewhat of a Japanese anime flair. It's good if that's the goal, but it's not quite the same.

The only shining light is that her aviator splash art retains the light hearted and colorful attitude of the original, and actually improves on it in many ways.

Frostblade needs no further mention by this point.

But Nightblade is a sore point for me. I specifically liked that skin for the artistic splash art. Instead of updating thay work of art, or at least trying to recreate it's essense and attitude, they do something completely different. I would want a refund on this skin now. It would be like changing the splash art of princess warrior sivir or temple jax to something that was soulless action oriented glossy combat scene but lost the artistry and attitude of the original that made it so appealing.

I probably wouldn't want a refund on aviator. Despite it's issues, I think it's a true enough to the original to keep. However, the lack of effort on the model design leaves a sour taste.

Zëd Lęppelin3/21/2018, 10:54:41 PM2 votes

Make her blades in default position be circular to resemble a propellor.

Ackelope3/22/2018, 1:13:04 AM2 votes

I honestly think it might not be completely awful if they just cut it short for this skin. Could be another callback to Earhart, and a bit of a twist on Irelia's usually rather long hair. That being said, her long hair would definitely be considered a defining physical trait, and should it stay, one thing I'd suggest is really trying to avoid the look they currently have going, where it appears to be exiting her hat through some strange hole or slit in the back.

SanKakU3/22/2018, 1:41:16 PM2 votes

Yeah, that's pretty much everything wrong with it.

Phoenix Ral3/21/2018, 10:09:15 PM1 votes

Am I the only one that misses the E on her old belt buckle for Earhart?

Akali is SO HOT3/22/2018, 3:36:24 AM1 votes

The Octopus hair is impossible to beat

50CaliberHecate3/22/2018, 3:48:52 AM1 votes

I don't understand why they don't use the same technology on her hair as they did with Zoe's hair?

Cosnirak3/22/2018, 5:18:32 AM1 votes

That's supposed to be... hair? shivers

Eeyore3/22/2018, 11:00:59 AM1 votes

The hair colour is gorgeous - I'd rather change the splash art.

Her clothes are form fitting - she just has thighs. Irelia's always has a bulkier frame - which is both good for variety, as well as conveying she's (a) athletic and (b) a fighter-class champion.

The hair has weird animations, sure, but she used to have an octopus on her head - so it's hardly something obtrusive to the experience.

SpecterVonBaren3/21/2018, 11:31:25 PM1 votes

Do you have an image of what it looks like when seen from a full game screen or in a fight? I want to see more details about how this looks in motion.

Saitho Orihara3/22/2018, 1:06:38 AM1 votes

I really don't see all the complains people have about most of Irelia skin. I'm a bit bias playing on low res but even when I watch somehow with high res I still find the skin good, I guess the hair does look weird at times but when I play her I really don't notice it.