They have different models, VFX, in-game potraits, VO and ..... AHHH who am I kidding, there always that one guy who shit on everything and everybody listen to him, right ?
EDIT: whooooo, first time to hot :D
Placentas18 votesDamn, 10 individual voice overs?????????
Rigaroom1 votesMaybe, or maybe not, maybe they just make them more distored like soul dreaver Draven But other parts are confirmed
CookyPrince4 voteswell it is a legendary so there's been a lot of work put into this, maybe even more voice lines than aurelion sol and ryze combined
Jeddy01719 votesLegendary? Nah it's even higher than that, it's an Ultimate.
CookyPrince3 votesoops i keep making that mistake between ultimate and legendary
The Fearcrow1 votesI'm pretty sure they confirmed that lux get different champ interactions based on form.
Cryo0041 votesApparently in total they have 500-700 lines according to a rioter.
Oh, and ten different laughs to tilt them ten times over.
Penta Penguin41 votesthis is a breakthrough in giggle physics
Romtheguy2 votesgiggle physics
the boards can only handle so much pls
pls
Trekkorm12 votesWhat the... Your name! Just how long have you waited for this to happen?
######Just HOW long?######
Votable Jester5 votesI'm more a fan of jiggle physics myself http://ci.memecdn.com/4264716.gif
It's sooooooo realistic
Placentas1 votesBruh, love the name. One of my main screen names uses Giggle in it too. <3
Smitty Manjensen3 votesApparently in total they have 500-700 lines according to a rioter.
Oh, and ten different laughs to tilt them ten times over.
So basically Schizophrenic Lux?
Jeddy01713 votesPeople who are saying that just aren't looking close enough at the skin.
Rigaroom9 votesTrue
ThatOneSenna1 votesyep
RainbowIcee1 votesMaybe they're complaining about the animations ? the skins itself is like wardrobe change which is pretty cool. The animations do feel like a chroma pack but that's fine, animations are second to me when it comes to a new skin. The base model is always what's most important, and they nailed it.
Oglaf13 votesMeanwhile Brolaf and Magnificent Twisted Fate are just crying in a corner.
Captain Aishi4 votestry red baron corki, at least brolaf has some cool voicelines :P
My Waifu Vanilla1 votesTry any of Corki's legendaries. That boi has 3 (?) and gets shafted on all of them (I know Ice Toboggan is considered, but I don't know if UFO is or not).
TeCoolMage3 votesAnivia noxus hunter, bird of prey and team spirit man
PixTron10 votesWell, it's more of a Riot-Hate circle-jerk. Every single thing Riot does, whether good or bad, always gets shit on by said circle.
That's what made Riot ignore us for 5 years before Sandbox and Replays.
Even those are getting hated on by the Riot-Hate circle-jerk.
GayFluffyUnicorn4 votesSince i'm around early season 2 i have to disagree. I feel like it's the other way round. Ever since riots interaction with the community declined the "hate circle jerk" grew bigger and bigger. Again this is just my POV.
Vistha Kai7 votesI'll be honest.
Here we have a skin that is worth 10 of them plus all the necessary tech to swap it at will.
If they have THAT much time and resources how about dedicating them to updating outdated assets at a rate faster than 1 champion per year?
This is what I hate about Riot in the past 3 years or so. They continue to push forward burning down whatever happens to not keep up with them.
Lore is still in shambles, legendary skin Magnificent Twisted Fate is barely a recolor, a big number of champions had Visual and Gameplay updates while their voiceovers still consist of 10 lines recorded in 2010, we just got a "maybe" that a seasonal Summoner's Rift skin is in the making (after like 3 years) and there's a number of champions which haven't gotten a skin for years - meanwhile we have champions who get a skin annually or not biannually.
Excuse me that I'm not overjoyed that a champion whom just got a whole line of skins made in commemoration to her skin, a cinematic and multiple songs, is getting ultimate skin on top of that.
I'm never not happy about this kind of decadence.
Rigaroom13 votesDude, they already planned and making this skin like 1 or 2 years now and Magnificent TF made at the time when every skin is a chroma. They just can't "hey after Star Guardian skins, how about making another ultimate skin in, like I don't know, a month" And some champ like Urgot won't get new skin because they need to make them after their rework (proofs: Taric and Poppy) Also "never not happy"...wat ?
Vistha Kai3 votesYes, yes. That had it in the making for the past 15 years. I know that story.
Rigaroom8 votesNo, I'm being serious, they can't just make an ultimate skin for 1 month, it's impossible. And you do realized SG Lux was 2 years ago right ?
NineTailedMystic1 votesWasn't Star Guardian Summer 2015?
Belligera11 votesRemember that Riot is still a business. You can be salty or cynical about that if you want, but Elementalist Lux is gonna make mad money. And eventually I imagine they'll get to all of those things anyways. Bitching at a company that doesn't have to care about you gets you nowhere.
Pyrophilia2 votesThis is correct. Really, really correct.
My only problem is that the PR Riot puts out consistently is the whole 'gamers making a game for gamers' routine. They're not sticking to it with inconsistencies like the ones that exist in the game. 'Eventually' is not good enough if they wanna back up the PR and make it credible. As I typed elsewhere, just consider e.g. the glaring difference between this new skin and Nunu's particle for Visionary (passive).
The opinion is still worth voicing. Riot doesn't have to care about this one person, but guess what? They DO have to care about their players because the game will die without them, along with the profits. Just look at how they've basically been forced to make so many community wishes come true lately because their numbers have dropped so much during Dynamicgate.
Pyrophilia2 votesYour analysis is salty but it is not off-point or glaringly incorrect. Riot often displays lack of logic when it comes to resource management and distribution. And it's true, they make such impressive strides in some areas as other areas are left decrepit.
Now, different departments do very different things, but ALL OF THEM fall under the same management (a filthily wealthy management). So personally, I also think Riot needs to come up with some better consolidation of all their fronts. It feels like there is a lot of mish-mash happening. Other companies and games are booming right past them in terms of development over time.
On the one hand, we have this incredibly luxurious new Lux skin, really well done. On the other hand, we have Nunu's particle for Visionary (passive). Enough said.
Vistha2 votesThey are doing different things, but they actually aren't.
Qualifications to make a skin, update a skin and update a champion (Kassadin-style) are virtually the same.
It's not asking from an electrician to design and build a combustion engine.
Pyrophilia2 votesIt doesn't really matter. They could organise it much better than it is, either way. Prioritise better if they want to back up the spin that players are the most important factor to them.
Mistress Madoka1 votesYour tears are delicious.
Vistha2 votesDon't forget to make a concentrate out of it or boil noodles in it.
paisy6 votesPeople literally getting salty over skins
Astôlfo4 votesIf Chromas looked like Elementalist Lux's different elemental versions, maybe more people would actually care enough to buy them.
Guy Fox Teemo1 votesChromas are recolurs... Lux's is 10 entirely new models.
Astôlfo2 votesYeah, it's sort of amusing how people don't understand that.
World Ender3 votesI think the skin itself is great. Lots of work was definitely put into it and I respect that. If I was a Lux main I would be creaming myself. But I don't even play Lux, so you can understand some of the frustration that comes when certain champions get lots of skins and attention while others are left behind with skins from 2013.
So the issue that I have with the skin is that it's basically 10 different 1350 or 1820 skins for Lux all rolled into one (or maybe 10 'chromas' for a legendary rolled into one, whatever) which is basically an entire skin line only for Lux. I feel like they would have made a lot more people a lot happier if, instead of making Elementalist Lux, they made an Elementalist skin line for 10 champions.
And while the concept of a shapeshifting Elementalist is cool and unique, it's not a concept that could solely apply to Lux. Any mage like Xerath or magical warrior like Shen could have some sort of elemental theme applied to them that would fit.
I don't have issues with the skin itself, just the fact that so much effort went into this when it really could have gone elsewhere. Imagine an ultimate tier Shen, Cassiopeia, Aatrox, Mundo, Xerath, Skarner, Viktor, or Twitch. Can't imagine them because you don't play these champions? Yeah, that's how I feel right now. Some of these champions don't even have skins with particle effects, and Lux is getting 10 skins for the price of roughly 3. This is why some people feel shafted, because lately it seems like all the champions that already have a huge amount of skins keep getting more, all while champions with really old skins get nothing.
I want to have faith in Riot, but when they keep releasing skins for their top selling champions instead of the ones that are in desperate need, it chips away at my respect for them little by little.
PixTron7 votesBut why the fuck would Riot make an Ultimate skin for a champion that almost nobody plays? They won't be making as much in revenue instead of a popular champion.
Regina George7 votesAnd while the concept of a shapeshifting Elementalist is cool and unique, it's not a concept that could solely apply to Lux. Any mage like Xerath or magical warrior like Shen could have some sort of elemental theme applied to them that would fit.
Uhm, Lux is a spell thief who can master ANY form of magic even if she only saw it once, soooooooooo pretty sure it applies to her the best.
Terozu3 votesSo... it's 10 skins for the price of 6? As a Lux main... I approve. [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]
Geistflame2 votesSo...do we know how this skin will work? Will you choose the color in champ select or ??
Cryo001 votesSo, you gain "charges" by landing spells and killing units. You start out as light and then you can upgrade once to a certain element after a set amount of charges. Then you can gain some more charges to upgrade again, and this time its final and you cannot select the same element twice.
EDIT: I feel that this is actually better than just changing it by will, because you actually need to play well to change. This will make you feel like you "earned" the new change. Although, I can see how some people may hate this.
WORDSLING3R2 votesYeah, I think it remains to be seen whether it feels cool or not. My gut reaction is that if I pay out the nose for a skin I don't want to have to earn the ability to see part/most of it... but I imagine that sort of thing would've come up pretty early in QA if it were going to be a real sticking point.
Bladerunner77772 votes"WOW, Lux is getting the ultimate skin because Tryndamere and Ryze (Riot founders) play her!!!"
I'm calling it
PixTron1 votesNot just that, Elementalist Lux has been leaked since last month: http://static.mnium.org/images/contenu/actus/LOL/lux_leak_skin_ultime.jpg
Dragon Master1 votesRiots favoritism is too strong.
