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@Riot, would you mind telling us which skin this was?

Shinjusuke·9/12/2017, 8:16:09 PM·5 votes·646 views

On a dev blog here, this was stated:

>Sometimes it’s hard to get the team to agree on whether or not a champion fits a theme. We have a skin in development right now (to be released later this year) that has the team divided. Some people feel it’s a slam dunk. Some feel it’s not the most obvious fit, but a risk worth taking. Others feel adamant that it’s a bad fit. At the end of the day, you will either decide to pick it up because you love it, or you won’t because you don’t. If we never take these kind of risks, we’ll never know. You will let us know if we got it right or wrong. We’ll learn something from it, good or bad, and make decisions for the future.

With the Immortal Journey skin line coming out, I'm curious whether the controversial skin in question was giving Janna a sword-based skin?

The only other recent skin I can think of that might fit this description would be Ezreal's Star Guardian skin since he's a dude.

If it's already been released, would a Rioter on the skins team mind telling us which skin was in question? I'm super curious.

If it hasn't been released yet, it'd be nice to know that, too.

5 Comments

Stachowiak9/12/2017, 9:16:12 PM2 votes

I personally saw Janna's sword-related skin and kinda questioned it at first, but it looks like a good skin nonetheless.

Valor Bot9/12/2017, 9:24:30 PM1 votes

Wording seems to imply a Dunkmaster skin (Illaoi?). It's anyone's guess though.

Oleandervine9/12/2017, 9:25:47 PM1 votes

There have been a few questionable skins I'd say this qualifies for. Star Guardian Miss Fortune, Star Guardian Ezreal, Star Guardian Ahri, Battle Boss Brand, and Battle Boss Malzahar spring to mind for this statement. I feel like every one of these skins sits in a murky gray area where it looks like some good champions were very clearly passed over for the champions they actually picked. Take SG Ahri, for example. First of all, in terms of pallete, this skin is very similar to Arcade Ahri. On top of that, it's an 1820 skin that makes Ahri kind of bitchy and even gives her the condescending anime laugh. This is notable because Syndra is very, very clearly supposed to be the bitchy, condescending Star Guardian, not Ahri, and I feel like the 1820 slot was wasted on Ahri when it would have fit Syndra so much more.

Granted, I like how most of these skins turned out in the long haul, but on initial release, I found the concept and champ choices very questionable.