Star Guardian Files added into PBE

Solari Fortune··27 votes·6,806 views

Several "SG_" files were added in today's update. Below is the "SG_skybox_a.dds" asset, which features art very similar to previously seen Star Guardian art. Unsure what these will be used for exactly but the handful of files are all related to map textures /environment.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DxFm7WgP0h4/WUBV9K70roI/AAAAAAABD7U/N10Jxcpo1LENrtoaPTRZ_vQYUaTqBMhbACLcBGAs/s1600/SG_skybox_a.png

Star Guardians will prob be for Patch 7.14 as 7.13 seems to be SKT's Patch

Source: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2017/06/613-pbe-update.html#more

86 Comments

MistroTTC4 votes

You forgot Urgot

Sukishoo14 votes

Star Guardian Urgod is best skin!

https://yurixy.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/urgod.jpg NEED XD

junglerboy167 votes

Rework release skin confirmed XD

Chembaron Yamada4 votes

Gosh how I wish the leak would be wrong and we would get other Star Guardians than Ezreal and Syndra.... But since it was pretty accurate until now, it seems likely.

Sigh Too bad that there won't be a champion I'm interested in for the next line up of a skin line I absolutely love....

Hovering Hentai4 votes

I agree

Syndra got her snow day skin and is now getting her SKT skin

Ezreal got his arcade and an update on Pulsefire all recently

Kind of feels like too much skin love going to these two

kda akali5 votes

Yeah I agree, although I wish Caitlyn got a star guardian skin so we could have http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/b/b4/Mami_Tomoe_Render.png/revision/latest?cb=20151208065950

Chembaron Yamada4 votes

Mami Tomoe <3 I agree. Star Guardian Caitlyn would be great. We actually have so many female champions I would love to see with a magical girl theme. :(

Sukishoo5 votes

Snowday Syndra was 2015. SKT Syndra is an Esports though so it doesn't count on the skins. Overall she has 3 skins in store, so she could use some more.

Ezreal. 9 skins total, 5 in store, 3 of which (plus all 4 legacy) do not do anything special for him at all. So having something else is always nice. People are generally wanting Riot to give these champions skins with more Particles afterall.

Sexy Jack Rabbit2 votes

Syndra has plenty of skins with new Particles. Personally I think a lot of people would be happy to see her withstand a few new skins.

I'll always be happy to see a new Ez skin tho. The skins team fucked him over year after year.

Enlegacy2 votes

Esports skins based for teams do not count towards the average skin time distance for champions, and Snow Day Syndra was unveiled in Nov 2015.

Ezreal seems to have gotten a large amount of skins recently though.

Aeszarck4 votes

A skybox is a thing that fits over the map. (Imagine the Skybox like an oven and the map is a baking sheet you stick in the middle of it.) There are also skyspheres but I think those are pretty difficult to work with. They're just pretty much extra graphics to make the world seem more than just land, because even though it's a top down game in some cases you'll see the sky, like at the edge of the map and if the camera angle were changed (such as in a cinematic).

I'm looking forward to our Star Guardian-themed Summoner's Rift! Hopefully they do something for Twisted Treeline too.

Arakadia3 votes

Syndra doesn't seem to fantastic as I can imagine she'll just have SG Lux's costume with pink orbs and stars inside her orbs, but Riot is fantastic at making skins so I hope, and believe, they'll do something better than just that.

Ezreal is fantastic no matter how hard they screw up. As long as he gets a SG skin.

Also there are clearly some eyes in what appears to be a figure. It almost looks like the figure has largers "echos' of it coming off, sort of like it shrunk or grew. At the top it almost looks like what might be Aurelion Sol's neck and under his jaw.

Solari Fortune4 votes

I doubt Riot would just copy paste Lux's outfit onto syndra.

AirKingNeo1 votes

Syndra isn't getting a SG skin. Ahri is.

Sukishoo8 votes

Lel no she's not.

AirKingNeo1 votes

and time to prove you wrong:

We're already getting SKT Syndra, thus releasing another skin for her back to back is bad idea.

We aren't getting SKT Ahri (again). This might be because she's getting a skin soon.

http://i.imgur.com/LqlvBkV.jpg

Sukishoo17 votes

SKT Syndra is happening yes, but Esports skins do not stop any champion from gaining more skins. So you are quite wrong. Plus that's just some random art of Ahri it's not proof she is getting one,

The Leak http://i.imgur.com/0rHd9NR.jpg that was out there has been 100% correct so far. So Syndra is high on the list of release. There have been a few others though such as the Omega Squad Trist found in the SKT vid that aren't in the leak, so it's possible for Ahri to have one but I really doubt it

Skins Project2 votes

Didn't a rioter confirm the leak had some correspondence to reality but overall was fake?

Sukishoo6 votes

No, they only confirmed that the the second leak was fake. It featured things like Piltover Customs Rumble (so fake when I saw that), Program Heimer, Program Elise, Program Kalista, Elderwood Blitz (lel really?), Pool Party Ahri, Pool Party Illaoi, Pool Party Gragas (Dear god no)..

This http://i.imgur.com/SzItIga.png it's just so fake, even the info on the reworks was so bad.

PhoenixOfHeaven1 votes

To be frank, don't go sayin that the things in the 2nd leak were clearly false, when the first one gave us a 2nd Pulsefire skin, which Riot said would never happen, and how...interesting an idea of Star Guardian Ezrael is. THe second leak is likely fake, but...It isn't all that unreasonable.

Sukishoo5 votes

Multiple Rioters confirmed the second leak was a complete and utter joke. They laughed at some of the stuff said in there about Eve, and they even said that it would be obvious if it were true when each one was released and we have yet to see any of that.

Hell the person that posted it said there'd be a new champion in 7.12 (tomorrow's patch) and it had their own name... yeah not someone blatantly making an obvious troll.

Fairyfleur2 votes

While the leak has been correct so far, they didn't predict the release of Conquerer Karma, nor did they predict Chemtech Tryndamere. Not to say it won't happen, but the farther we get, the more likely these final skins have been scrapped for other concepts.

Sukishoo4 votes

They didn't have those because there are plenty of things that leaks don't have, it's nice they can't spoil everything. It was said to be someone on a tour and it was rough info from like 6 months prior. Plus it's not like they had a chance to look around at every last thing that was being worked on at the time.

The leak didn't even have the fact that Riven/Yasuo skins were Legendary as well. They didn't have the SKT skins either and those are up next (and from the video they had been in production since before March). Star Guardians will be most likely seen on the PBE around the 27th so we will know for sure then.

Things change but pretty sure most all of it will still happen even if there are others added in there too, like as we saw from the SKT video there's an Omega Squad Tristana as something that could be coming as well since the name was seen on one of the tabs on a computer screen.

Psyrix2 votes

At first i thought she's be like lux that's why i was so against it... but after seeing Jinx and Lulu's I have trust in Riot

Sauceyapples2 votes

The figure in the front kinda looks like nocturne. Like a cosmic nocturne.

Dark star nocturne and dark star asol confirmed.

...also illuminati.

Valaran Nara2 votes

{quoted}

Syndra doesn't seem to fantastic as I can imagine she'll just have SG Lux's costume with pink orbs and stars inside her orbs, but Riot is fantastic at making skins so I hope, and believe, they'll do something better than just that.

Ezreal is fantastic no matter how hard they screw up. As long as he gets a SG skin.

Also there are clearly some eyes in what appears to be a figure. It almost looks like the figure has largers "echos' of it coming off, sort of like it shrunk or grew. At the top it almost looks like what might be Aurelion Sol's neck and under his jaw.

I can imagine Syndra being "First Star" purely because her orbs could be other stars she has created in the universe. I mean...planets revolve around stars like her orbs does her, so...

Arakadia1 votes

Holy hell your right dude!

I would not be surprised if this is how it turns out.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

I would prefer Soraka being the first star. She is the star child in the end.

Arakadia1 votes

Well yes but this is an AU so Sorakas outdated lore wouldn't even apply. And Soraka doesn't have the feeling of power or leadership they could strengthen with First Star Syndra.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

There are different types of leaderships, though. A leader doesn't always have to be a symbol of power. Sometimes the leader is something like a mother figure, a mentor.

Soraka would perfectly fit that trope and way better than Syndra. Just saying: that Syndra is powerful doesn't mean she suits the position of the first star better than Soraka. And didn't it get mentioned that Jinx is actually the strongest Star Guardian?

And having a mother figure as the leader would in my opinion fit the protective nature of the Star Guardians.

Arakadia1 votes

Jinx is the strongest SG that we know of, I think, but she is not First Star. She references First Star as another person.

A motherly, mentor like figure doesn't seem like much of a leader when it comes to destroying space monsters.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

I never said that Jinx is the first star, you misunderstood me here. But if it gets mentioned that Jinx is the strongest Star Guardian, that sounds to me like she is stronger than the first star.

Which is possible from a narrative point of view. The trope of a scholar surpassing the mentor is not new in story telling.

All I say is that there are arguments for both, Soraka and Syndra being the first star. Obviously you prefer Syndra as a symbol of might being the first star, while I prefer Soraka because she is a symbol of altruism and sacrifice, which is what the Star Guardians should be centered around in my opinion.

Arakadia1 votes

Fair point. Thanks for being polite!

Chembaron Yamada3 votes

Someone else hoping that they are making a beautiful website like last time? And something little special like the personality test which Star Guardian is like you to get an icon. :D

I loved that I had Jinx as my result. Oh and the song they released with that video! God, I hope it turns out as great as last time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe8oeIfdYcU The japanese version is just addictive. [slayer-jinx-catface]

I Love Thresh2 votes

I'm actually suspecting Syndra and Ezreal to be the "bad guys" of the SG verse, it'd make more sense with the mahou shoujo genre.

GinkoG1 votes

Wouldn't they be dark star then? Jinx is evil, but was still a star guardian.

Sukishoo2 votes

I for one have never seen Dark Star as being related to the Star Guardians. Just cause they both have "Star" in their titles doesn't mean they are linked.

TheMoralSupport1 votes

I mean, there hasn't been any Rioters confirming this, you can't deny that they share some polar opposite traits. But ya, they're not actually linked according to canon (although skins aren't canon... f*ck)

TheMoralSupport1 votes

Jinx was never evil, but "misunderstood". Well, her actions are kinda evil, like blowing up an entire city lol. But I mean, she seems pretty nice.

GinkoG2 votes

If by nice you mean blowing up a wedding for the lols, then yes.

Sukishoo1 votes

Yup, totally nice XD

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

She made me laugh and gave me joy, that's a good thing isn't it?

TheMoralSupport1 votes

I meaaan, she did it because gets a thrill from it, not saying you should run around bombarding weddings lol. I think she's somewhat of a disposition ethics kinda person. Like she does it because she find it amusing but doesn't really think of the consequences. I don't think her intentions are to inflict evil on people.

Well, here I'm analyzing the psychology behind League champs... What has my life come to lmao

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

Some people don't really see Jinx as evil, though.

GenoXx1 votes

SG Syndra....ill have you soon

Fasmodey2 votes

Syndra is already getting a skin though?

Solari Fortune4 votes

Its possible that the SKT skins don't interfere with other skins coming out but don't quote me on that cause my memory is fuzzy with that

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

So not excited for Star Guaridan Exzreal. I just hope they at least go a Tuxedo Mask direction.

Sukishoo3 votes

For all we know they could always do something like this https://icysquirrel.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/capture5.png

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