Question for Rito Regarding Star Guardians

Shirvallah·9/22/2016, 6:09:01 PM·2 votes·3,227 views

RITO! I was wondering how you came up with Star Guardian Jinx, as well as the rest of the guardians' designs. Being the nerd I am, getting super excited for the new Star Guardian skins, I Googled a bunch of Star Guardian Lux fan art. I managed to find Star Guardian Lux and Jinx fan art on a forum post from about a year ago. I noticed Jinx's designs were somewhat similar (not colors, of course). Thought that was pretty neat. So, did ya draw inspiration from fan art? And how did y'all decide which champions were going to become Star Guardians? :) And also, will the skins come out this week or next week?

10 Comments

Radnar the bold9/22/2016, 6:18:43 PM2 votes

Man if I could work or go and talk to anyone at rito, it would be the creation or lore teams. I would stay as far the fuck away from the balance teams.

Diskette9/25/2016, 11:21:02 AM1 votes

I don't understand your poor choice for the star guardian skins. We already have lux who should be a mid. She we need 4 other champs for the 4 other roles. Jinx was a wonderful idea and Janna is okay (I would have preferred Karma) but lulu (another supp/mid?) and Poppy. They don't look like magical girls at all. I think you should have gone with Irelia instead of Poppy for top and with Diana instead of lulu for jungle.

Irelia's ult would have had those stars instead of knives and Diana's Q would have a shooting star with the curvy tail.

I really think you missed out on cool skins and outside of Jinx and Janna I don't think those lulu and Poppy skins will sell as well.

Tesla Effect9/25/2016, 11:46:14 AM1 votes

Madoka Magica disproves the "no blades on magical girls" theory,

FloRaider429/25/2016, 1:12:44 PM1 votes

Riot usually doesn't use fan art or concepts as isnpiration, so I kinda doubt that. I think that the star guardian team is simply based around the popular five man band setup and they just picked characters that fit those roles visually and characteristically: Lux as the leader and heart of the group, Jinx as the rival to the leader and violent team member, Lulu as the funny and childish comic relief, poppy as the dutiful lone wolf and Janna as the calm advisor and mentor.

I have made a short summary, if you want to read more into it.

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Madoka Magica disproves the "no blades on magical girls" theory

Taking an anime that is a deconstruction of the genre (magical pet is the main villain, the girls are doomed to die and transform into monsters, they suffer a lot of emotional trauma etc.) isn't really helping your point. Swords and physical combat in general are avoided in classical Magical Girls shows.

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We already have lux who should be a mid. She we need 4 other champs for the 4 other roles.

Skin lines don't need to work as a team comp anymore that was changed some time ago to allow more freedom in chosing the champions.

They don't look like magical girls at all.

They are supposed to look like young girls which often are part of a magical girl team.

I think you should have gone with Irelia instead of Poppy for top and with Diana instead of lulu for jungle.

Irelia and Diana both have weapons, fighting styles and personalities that don't fit the usual magical girls team that well. While the current setup makes much more sense.

That said Riot probably will continue this skin line if it's a success.