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Now that Sejuani has been confirmed for an update, could she get some skin love?

Sexy Jack Rabbit··9 votes·3,211 views

I'm really hoping that with this upcoming tank update, Sejuani could see some serious love for one of her skins. As far as skins go, she doesn't have the most impressive roster available.

Majority have poor splash-arts, even the newer ones (Albeit she has been confirmed for a Splash-Art Update, which I hope includes Monster Hunter and Dawnchaser) and majority of her skins despite their pricing, really don't offer much.

I'm hoping that if the update team finds the resources after all of her kit changes, they will find the time to update her Darkrider skin into full fruition.

As far as it goes I could see the skin taking place in the same style-universe as Blackfrost Anivia. In a time where Sejuani has been taken over by the Black ice, and has become corrupted.

Personally I don't think the skin needs any model changes, but could rather go for some darker/blackfros-style particle effects amongst her abilities, and a texture change on her flail to make it appear as though it was made from Black Ice.

These are just my two cents on a way that the teams could really improve on a skin that is admittedly quite a cool idea, but unfortunately falls flat when it comes down to execution.

32 Comments

Big Lincoln3 votes

i like her darkrider skin as is

blackfrost is stupid

Sexy Jack Rabbit4 votes

Personally I think it could go for some nice changes.

It's a cool thematic that is pretty unrealized. My suggestion wasn't to make it into a blackfrost skin, but just take it in a similar direction.

RainbowIcee3 votes

Dude how long has yoric been around without a single new skin?

Zarvanis3 votes

He hasn't gotten a skin since the day he came out. That was in 2011.

XIII Vanitas1 votes

Wait, he has 2 skins: Pentakill and Undertaker.

Are you saying that he came out with 2 skins?

Meep Man1 votes

Yes, that was how it was back in the day

Sexy Jack Rabbit3 votes

I dunno? This isn't about getting new skins. It's about updating old ones.

Sukishoo3 votes

(Albeit she has been confirmed for a Splash-Art Update, which I hope includes Monster Hunter and Dawnchaser)

There is no need to update the last two, they are part of the newer art. Dawnchaser is her newest skin.

Only splashes that are to be updated will be Darkrider, Sabretusk and Traditional as they are of an outdated art style.

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

I've already expressed why I would like them to be part of the update.

GreenLore2 votes

Its only a gameplay update,so darkrider won't receive any visual changes anyway.

Some new particles for darkrider would be cool though. After all it is a 975-skin,but I think they'd rather give it darkness related abilities.

Sexy Jack Rabbit2 votes

We've seen skins receive nice touch-ups in the past. Warring Kingdoms Katarina left the Assassin Update with a lot more then it started with (Albeit it did have some VFX before hand). And the rest of her skins saw different Dagger designs added to abilities, as opposed to just the classic.

I think it would be nice to see Darkrider get something. Whether they go with something Dark themed or Black ice themed, anything would be nice. I just suggested something in the style of Blackfrost as it would fit thematically due to her ties to the Frejlord, but it wouldn't have to be that exact theme either.

GreenLore1 votes

Well warring kingdoms kata had its own VFX effects before,which is why it got new VFX for the new skills as well. However other katarina skins that didn't have their own skill effects,didn't get any special ones either. Even though bilgewater,Kitty kat katarina or red card katarina are 975-skins,none of them received any special effects.

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

Well as I mentioned the rest of Katarina's skins did see some minor changes. Bilgewater, Sandstorm and High Command all saw unique Daggers added to her Bouncing blade and passive.

The changes were small, but albeit really appreciated, as they helped immerse you in each skin. I'm hoping that considering all of Sejuani's changes, they'll find the time and resources to do that little bit extra.

GreenLore1 votes

Yeah,but thats more because the new skill uses the blades that she holds in her hands as a model.

I mean Nautilus also has a new anchor for Q in all of his skins,simply because that anchor is part of his igame model.

So if Sejuani gets for example a new move,where she throws her flail at the opponent(the one that she uses for auto attacks),then it would obviously be the darkrider flail when she uses the darkrider skin.

Moonboy652 votes

splash art wise, only Sabretusk, Darkrider and Traditional are getting updated

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

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Moonboy653 votes

splash wise Beast Hunter and Sejuani Dawnchaser are up to the quality bar alongside Poro Rider and Bear Cavalry

Sabretusk, Darkrider and Traditional are not

the skin splash update project focuses only on champions who received a VGU in the past but didn't get new splashes (ex: Gangplank)

Sexy Jack Rabbit3 votes

I'm aware.

It's moreso just that Sejuani isn't welly represented in those two Splash-arts despite their moderness. She's pushed off into the back in both of them, and her mount is considerably blurred and undetailed in both.

Moonboy653 votes

that i agree

Valaran Nara1 votes

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I'm aware.

It's moreso just that Sejuani isn't welly represented in those two Splash-arts despite their moderness. She's pushed off into the back in both of them, and her mount is considerably blurred and undetailed in both.

I think the reason why is how big she is. (the mount) I mean. If she was to be the main focus or at the forefront, I can see her taking up the majority of the shot. I say that because it's a group shot where you have to include more than one figure of interest. An example would be the Pool Party group splash. There were so many in there, that Draven was far in the back riding Reksai. Both of them were neither the main focal point nor were they at the front.

Sexy Jack Rabbit2 votes

That's a pretty common argument that is often used in regards to Sejuani. But to me it's just simply no real excuse.

The beast hunter splash is knowingly just called bad, there were plain and simple better ways to compose it then just shunting Sejuani and Tryndamere into the background. There are ways to bring Sejuani and her mount to the front, or even given varying degrees of attention without completely obscuring the other champions.

And if Sejuani's mount is seriously that big of an issue, riot should have just put in the effort to make a separate splash-art, but they just simply don't care enough, as they sure as hell don't lack the resources.

As bad as the Pool Party Splash-art is, you can still SEE the entirety of most of the champions, save for one of Mundo and Draven's legs.

In Sejuani's Dawnchaser skin you literally can't see 70% of her mount as the entirety of it taken up by big macho man Jayce, who for some reason needs to be front and center. (not getting political, just pointing out a fact.)

There's no reason why they couldn't have made Sejuani and her Mount front and centre and had Jayce and Bard riding on it's front and back. It's not like the current splash tells much of story anyways that this would have been a downgrade to the current one.

It's never a case of one champion being too big or small, but rather just a case of bad composition and proportioning from the Artist's side.

VelvetCrotch2 votes

They should ve just gave her a stand-alone skin with a prehistoric/ dinosaur theme.

Such a waste, imo.

MistroTTC6 votes

Monster hunter feels more like a Draven skin with cameos by tryndamere and sejuani.

VelvetCrotch1 votes

true. but i, somehow, like the angle of sejuani from the monsterhunter splash.

VelvetCrotch2 votes

For me its - artwise - just irritating that her boar looks cool in her new classic skin, but looks like a stocky pig in the sabre and darkrider skin. (traditional is ok, cause well its her traditional)

xScarfy2 votes

Her Sabretusk skin could also use some love! The model looks really good, but the ice particles look completly out of place.

LostFr0st1 votes

Link is broken :(

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

RIP. I'm bad with links, dw about it. It was just a link to the model :/

LostFr0st2 votes

Ah, gotchu bb. I do think the particles could use some work. The abilities they change a lot would end up with with changed particles on the base so that would at least carry over to darkrider if not be further tweaked like in past updates.

Stars Shaper1 votes

Unfortunally for her I don't see group splash art to be changed as it would mean a change also to the other characters'.

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

Yeah, I don't see it happening either in realism. But one can dream :)

DwarvenGiant1 votes

Not necessarily the case at all. Unless a character gets major silhouette changes that require shifts in the composition, they can just mess around with the layers of that very character without really interrupting the rest of the piece. :P

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