I feel bad for Pulsefire Ezreal

TheLittlestLulu··109 votes·5,819 views

moment of silence for the lamest ultimate skin

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Jeddy01726 votes

Sometimes being first sucks. Made in a time when Riot didn't have the tech for skins that they do have now & when the standard for skins were much lower than they are today, PFE had the misfortune of pretty much being the test dummy ultimate skin. But we wouldn't be where we are today if it weren't for Ezreal being the test dummy for Riot. Thanks Ez, Riot's test with you helped them learn what to do & what not to do with an ultimate skin.

TheLittlestLulu28 votes

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Sometimes being first sucks. Made in a time when Riot didn't have the tech for skins that they do have now & when the standard for skins were much lower than they are today, PFE had the misfortune of pretty much being the test dummy ultimate skin. But we wouldn't be where we are today if it weren't for Ezreal being the test dummy for Riot. Thanks Ez, Riot's test with you helped them learn what to do & what not to do with an ultimate skin.

Yeah, like don't give an ultimate skin to somebody who needs a visual update Udyr

Poor Udyr will probably never get a VU because of that.

DarkRitual13 votes

Spirit Guard WAS his Visual Update.

For every other ultimate, they took a concept and took it in another direction, but amped it up to 11.

Ezreal: Magic glove thingy -> Now full suit that evolves with him Sona: Music -> Futuristic DJ whose sounds evolve over the game's time Lux: Light element -> MORE ELEMENTS, she even evolves with multiple elements

Udyr: Beast forms -> Beast forms, now with neat graphics.

GáyChúngüs1 votes

They don't change the fantasies of the original champion like most skins, just enhance it to such a level. Udyr's was what he would be like once he completed his training in Ionia and became the Spirit Guard he was meant to be.

DrCyanide7 votes

How is "Scifi tech guy from the future" Ezreal's fantasy? He's an explorer who uses magic amplified by an ancient artifact, enhancing that would have him using more relics. Pulsefire Ezreal is almost the opposite of his character.

EROTIC RAID BOSS12 votes

I'd be happy with it if

  1. they touched up the textures
  2. they changed that ugly splash art
  3. pie in the sky, it would be cool if the look of his spells evolved a little too.
N Pelosi4 votes

Ezreal, always exploring new uncharted territory without a map

Yordle Xayah1 votes

It should have been updated by the time DJ Sona became a thing.

Pandemic Punch24 votes

He belongs in a museum

kile14722 votes

His girlfriend is more ultimate now

Oglaf27 votes

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His girlfriend is more ultimate now

Taric has an ultimate skin?

The Letter H3 votes

Taric has an ultimate skin?

IM DYING

######Send help

ninjaroxas7 votes

his 5th order skin is THE ultimate skin

Nyanza15 votes

When Pulsefire Ezreal came out everyone was so amazed and hyped to get it.

Now everyone says it's trash.

IPromiseTomorrow5 votes

He's just dusty and old but, he can be good as new.

It just takes a VGU. Like a BIIIG. VGU

Electro52210 votes

Thing is, Pulsefire still has something that no other skin has: an evolving model. Really only Spirit Guard Udyr has something similar to it (the model "evolves" when you max rank abilities). Unless Ez gets a complete overhaul on his model (which I highly doubt he will) PFE will really only need a texture update, and probably updated particles instead of just "shiny blue".

Yeah, PFE is old and dated, but it still has things going for it that no other skin has.

IPromiseTomorrow3 votes

good points.

I just hope Riot plans to update his skin so it doesn't too old. Right now, when compared to DJ sona, Spirit Guard Udyr, Elementalist Lux, 3 of these skins are luxury cars, PFE is a horse wagon.

Kinjishi2 votes

Khazix evolves model

RandyPig1 votes

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Thing is, Pulsefire still has something that no other skin has: an evolving model. Dude, this new lux skin is 10 skins in 1, the udyr skin is 4 good looking skins in 1. It looks like shit completely. But yeah the only thing they need to update is the way he looks cuse he looks like clay right now.

Kotex4 votes

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When Pulsefire Ezreal came out everyone was so amazed and hyped to get it.

Now everyone says it's trash.

Just goes to show how drastically the skin standard in both extent and quality has changed since then.

Like someone said PFE was truly an ultimate test dummy to pave the way to the better ones we have now. But he deserves to be reworked to meet the current ultimate skin standard because he is simply not at all worth 3250 RP in clear comparison to the other ultimate skins. The old ultimate skin standard that PFE was born under is the current legendary skin standard. He should be reworked to the quality of the other ultimates or lowered to a legendary skin price because he is on the level of the current legendary skins, clearly not the current level of ultimates.

I was lucky enough to get him out of a hextech crate and had theorange essence to burn because most definitely wouldn't have bought him otherwise.

The Soulforged12 votes

Pulsefire ez is pretty much just a legendary.

Autrah Fang5 votes

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Pulsefire ez is pretty much just a legendary.

i didn't realize legendary skins got a new model every time you level up your ult :O

Ebonmaw Dragon11 votes

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i didn't realize legendary skins got a new model every time you level up your ult :O

Khazix All my skins do that

Autrah Fang4 votes

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Khazix All my skins do that

shhh, Kha'zix is an exception. that's basically his entire champion design lol

also, that still doesn't disprove my point, Kha doesn't even have a legendary skin :P. therefore, there are no legendary skins with evolving models like the ultimate skins do :)

Ionian Vulpix1 votes

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shhh, Kha'zix is an exception. that's basically his entire champion design lol

also, that still doesn't disprove my point, Kha doesn't even have a legendary skin :P. therefore, there are no legendary skins with evolving models like the ultimates do :)

Definitely not Udyr?

Autrah Fang3 votes

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Definitely not Udyr?

well, if you're gonna bring up Definitely not Udyr, then you might as well just bring up all Udyr skins! what was even the point of giving Udyr an ultimate skin anyway? he already has all the evolving models he needs!

kappa (also, Definitely not Udyr still isn't a legendary :P)

PaladinNO1 votes

So that's why Kha'Zix don't get any new skins...because he already got 3 ultimate skins. ^^

DrCyanide1 votes

It's still closer to a Legendary than to an Ultimate in terms of quality.

GreenLore3 votes

Its pretty much stuck in this place,where it is better than a legendary,but worse than an ultimate.

The Soulforged1 votes

Eh, the model change isn't very impactful imo, and it doesn't even look that impressive compared to a skin already in the final form of something with another cool VO and cooler changes on particles.

Kouga9 votes

Moment of respect for the first Ultimate skin.

True it has faded in age and is objectively inferior to the newest ones. But I also remember the original days of LoL where all you had were color swaps.

Every new tier had a first, and every first eventually became obsolete. Who knows, maybe he'll get an update someday, whether purely visual or a gameplay overhaul - not that I'm particularly in favor of one, but it seems inevitable considering how many gameplay updates have been handed out over the years. Hopefully when that happens it'll have been long enough that he'll warrant a full visual update of his skins.

When Shen got his last update, all of his old skins, including what were just color swaps, got their own full models. So there's always hope.

I Like Things 8 votes

As an owner of all the ultimate skins in game I don't regret buying PFE when it released. At that time (5 years ago I might add) it was the pinnacle of available skin technology.

I may as well regret ever having owned an Atari, Sega Genesis, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Playstation, Nintendo 64 ... you get the idea ... simply due to the fact that my currently owned consoles make them all look like steaming piles of trash.

[slayer-pantheon-rainbows] ######Magnificent twisted fate however ... now that is a purchase I regret.

Steenee3 votes

Good analogy, couldn't have said it better myself :)

SoySauceJones7 votes

One might even say that skin....belongs in a museum.

weeaboomer4 votes

Meanwhile.... TwistedFate

Vistha6 votes

Legendary skin with:

  • zero new or updated particles
  • zero new or updated spell visuals
  • zero new or updated voice lines
  • zero new or updated animations
  • a model worth 520RP.
The Soulforged1 votes

There were some legendaries at that time that had almost 0 quality. I though then that legendaries were defined by a new VO, but there were those poor champs like TF and Corki stuck with a shitty legendary that's prolly worth at most 750 or 520 now.

Chatillon2 votes

LASER EYES

OokamiNoSora2 votes

moment of silence for gentlemen chogath

BakedLotion3 votes

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moment of silence for gentlemen chogath

moment of silence for the TF legendary skin

Khaoticol2 votes

Even arcade and frosted is better than pulsefire..

Xiào Jiè Jiè2 votes

Riot pls update Pulsefire ezreal pls compare to other utimate skin pulsefire is like a 1820 skin

Sukishoo1 votes

Yeah, Ez sadly needs VGU to give PF anything worthy of an Ultimate level again. Who knows when that will happen though. Even Arcade Ezreal looks way better and it's a 1350.

Dasher2 votes

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Yeah, Ez sadly needs VGU to give PF anything worthy of an Ultimate level again. Who knows when that will happen though. Even Arcade Ezreal looks way better and it's a 1350.

This. Arcade is waaaay better than PF right now. I own every Ez skin and im only happy that I bought PF just to say I have it. Using it is wasting that sick 1350 skin i coulda been wearing

Linna Excel1 votes

But his waifu is getting an ultimate skin now. He's gotta be happy about that.

GrReaper962 votes

But his waifu is Taric ........

Thegreatxiu1 votes

I agree Pulsefire Ezreal does seem kinda lame compared to the other Ultimate skins. That said I fucking love the Voice over for Pulsefire Ez as well as the model. Honestly the only thing I think PFE would need to be on par with DJ Sona and Elementalist Lux would be better particles instead of the really boring particles it has now.

Yordle Xayah1 votes

Yeah... it kinda belongs in a museum

Dasher1 votes

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Yeah... it kinda belongs in a museum

You fucking didnt

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