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Old splash arts vs New skin release rate

Cpt Pants·4/8/2015, 6:05:13 PM·1 votes·2,076 views

Dear Riot skin artists and champion update team artists,

Recently we've seen the release of multiple really awesome skins, including the entire Guardians of the Sands line, Omega Squad Teemo, Debonair Galio, Archlight Vayne, Headhunter Akali, Secret agent Xin Zaho, etc...

I want to talk about them in relation to the splash arts;

You are now releasing a patch every 2 weeks, which is quite awesome, but at the same time I think is causing you to forget a major problem in the game - updated champion's splash arts. Look at Annie, look at Nidalee, look at Maokai, look at Maestro Yi, look at Karthus.... These are just a few that have been updated and their SKIN splash arts are still old and unfitting.

Now that you have been pushing patches out so fast, you are holding to a high standard of releasing multiple skins per patch, you alocate your splash artists on doing splash arts for the new skins, instead of the old ones - ever.

I would suggest a simple solution - release less skins per patch, allocate an artist or two to old splash arts. This will finally give us updated splash arts for the VU'ed champions, and also will let you sit on skins ideas longer, maybe helping you improving them even more (don't get me wrong, they are awesome).

Thoughts?

22 Comments

Gapybo4/8/2015, 6:22:27 PM1 votes

They want to update the base champions splashes first and they still have quite a few to do. I also doubt they will will ever update all outdated skin splashes. There are just far too many. I guess they will update the ones that don't represent the skin in the game properly due to drastic changes made by VU's.

Tesla Effect4/9/2015, 1:58:25 AM1 votes

Skins take priority because how else is Riot gonna get all that money from their free game.

Sonasaurous4/9/2015, 2:27:48 PM1 votes

What ever happened to the updated Tristana skins spalsh arts that they said would follow her visual update? Lol

Though from your list, I think the Annie and Nidalee splash arts are fine. Didn't Maokai get a splash art update late last year? I don't remember.

I think Poppy needs a new splash art the most, but I figure they'll release that along with her overhaul update...or make a new splash for her like the did with Tristana, and then redo that same splash after the overhaul (which was a complete waste of time on their part, in my opinion, if they knew they were going to change the same splash art twice).

Warwick could use some love, too.

insaiyanbacca4/9/2015, 4:43:31 PM1 votes

out of the splash arts listed the only one that really needs to be updated is nid's imo also mao just got a splash update and vu just a little bit ago