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Can Shyvana At Least Get Her Model Touched Up?

Buttèred Biscuit·8/19/2017, 6:42:38 AM·14 votes·5,057 views

The fact that Riot hasn't even fixed the issues with her dragon form bothers me seeing as they clearly went with the Wyvern type for her. However, her wings are clearly wrong and no such dragon exists with that type of wing span, purely for the fact they wouldn't even be able to achieve lift with it. http://s3.amazonaws.com/leaguesales/images/imgs/000/000/125/original/ironscale-shyvana-04.jpg If she tries to fly with those wings, she going to have flap really hard and end up tiring herself out. http://orig02.deviantart.net/ca4c/f/2013/020/7/1/flame_wyvern_by_tyvik-d5s3pgm.jpg This is a typical Wyvern and as you can see, the webbing of the wings stretch all the way to the body of the dragon, assuring that it can achieve lift fast and efficiently without much effort. If the reason for her wings came to saving pixels in order to achieve maximum computer efficiency then alright I'll forgive that part, due that she is pretty old in the League game; however, it shouldn't take much effort just to fix her wings, even after all this time. So please Rito, for all the Shyvana mains and/or zoologists/crypt-zoologists out there, fix her damn wings.

26 Comments

Krob1898/19/2017, 8:53:08 AM4 votes

I never use her default skin.. A few seasons ago I tried her out and fell in love bought every one of her skins lol..

Im just trying to figure out how to get my third S :(

Rito is playing me

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

Epicurus8/19/2017, 9:39:54 AM4 votes

Can Shyvana actually fly? Her in-game ult is only a short leap, and likewise the lore only depicts her flying for a short time. So possibly she only has the flight capacity of a chicken.

In any case, I thought Shyvana's dragon form is supposed to be a bit mutant. It explains why Yvva hated her so much, even in dragon-form.

Sancre8/19/2017, 11:06:44 AM4 votes

I think that Shyvanna could use a Gore Magala like Body type, but without the smaller front paws

Zezockary8/19/2017, 7:10:22 AM3 votes

Shouldn't take much effort? You are essentially asking them to make a new champion, not even just a new skin.

They would have to create a new model from the ground up, texture it, rig it to be animated, which includes boning it, skinning the model, and then rig the bones to be animated. Then they would have to animate the model.

After they have done all of that, human form would look like shit in comparison, so they would probably have to redo that too, they might be able to just get by with a texture update.

Then there is the issue that your pic doesn't have front claws, so they would have to come up with new ideas for animations on autoattacks, her Q, her ult, and movement that would all convey the idea of power and fury without looking goofy. (To be fair, it would be hard to make a rathalos look goofy.)

Blue Moon Wolf8/20/2017, 2:15:35 PM1 votes

There are a LOT of champs that need touch ups on their models. Riot isn't going to do those at least until they finish with the champs who need a complete VGU. From what I understand is it takes too many resources to set aside some champs for a model update while they are still working on VGUs that take a lot of time and effort to fix up. They only have so many people who can work on models and having them take extra time to fix up an older model that will just make it take longer to push out VGUs for other champs. I know it sucks, personally I'd like a day when Wukong's hands were not as big as his arm braces (which are also ridiculously huge), but that's unfortunately going to have to wait till the big time offenders are finished.