Why is a 1350 skin better than an 1820 skin?

THE RlVER KlNG·Apr 20, 2016·7 votes·1,192 views

I'm of course referring to Soulstealer Vlad over Blood Lord Vlad.

Blood Lord Vlad of course has the new VO/emotes and 'bigger' 'redder' Q and Es (at least they sort of look bigger and redder), but his W and R are the same, as are autos. (With the update)

Soulstealer Vlad has new animations for ALL of his abilites, and is much more modern/aesthetically pleasing in his model and textures.

Riot missed their oppportunity to update Blood Lord so that it matches a lot of the other Legendary skins. :/ I have both, and mastery 5 on Vlad, but I find myself using Soulstealer Vlad much more when Blood Lord should be a much cooler skin.

Am I the only one that thinks this?

8 Comments

Jaliyah TungleApr 20, 20165 votes

That happens a lot. Old legendary skins are often not as good as more recent legendarys, just compare something like Demonblade Tryndamere to Omega Squad Teemo. Demonblade Trynd has a changed visual and his voice is a little changed. Omega Squad Teemo has a whole story, new voiceover/lines, completely different visual, new effects and sounds etc. etc. etc. and yeah, imo even 975RP skins begin to become cooler than these. Maybe give them some time to rework them. I think right now they are busy with many other things.

LordHippomanApr 20, 20162 votes

Blood Lord is inferior to even classic Vlad because it removes his puns.

I don't know why you'd play someone so negative. It's just putting red on your ledger. Something something platelets.

THE RlVER KlNGApr 20, 20162 votes

Was that last one a Type O?

LordHippomanApr 20, 20161 votes

beautiful.

Blood MagicksApr 20, 20161 votes

Vladimir is really old as far as champs go and a full VU plus better art design would do well for all his pre-soulstealer skins. That said many champions are in more dire need of updating, so we'll be waiting a while unless Riot has been expanding their VU team a lot recently.

Kar98kApr 20, 20161 votes

Blood Lord Vlad is not bad, but yeah, it doesn't worth 1820 RP IMO...I'm using it because I like the different voice......and, one more thing, somehow I feel BLV has a better "handfeel" than Vlad's other skins.