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I swear if this is a new Annie skin then all i have to say is.

LegendmakerGX·9/30/2016, 10:38:03 PM·3 votes·1,448 views

Hire some one new for the creative team, I am definitely sure Annie and Morgana they both have over 6 skins. For people who don't know what I'm talking about it's about the teaser on Riot facebook showing the next Halloween skin.

Seriously how much more skin has Annie and Morg need to have? If your team can't come up with new skins for other champions who rarely have skins then I really think you need to rethink of hiring new artist or the person who comes up with these ideas. I'm not hating on Riot art team but dear hell ANOTHER ANNIE SKIN? There are champions who only have 2 skins still after 4 years. There seriously must be more then 30 people at least on the art team since you have over 1k worker. Some one on that team that has a good/great idea for a new skin for a different champion....not another generic Annie skin.

I'm just saying if your team can seriously keep on coming up with Annie skin when she has over 6 skins and morg skin then replace them. I don't care if they have some cool animation effect but just recently annie had hextec and morg had Lunar new year skin, why would they need a new skin already while others could get it for example like

YORICK Yorick Sion Fiddlesticks KarthusAmumu Warwick Urgot Trundle <<< These champion are what you suspect for a Halloween season skin

Last year skins were not great too for Halloween Pantheon Jinx except for Nunu. the Panthleon and Jinx skin were just plain and simple if you ask me.Who ever one who worked on NUNU deserve a raise because that skin was beautiful, it had the Halloween feel and look.

Don't say it's because Annie and morgana gets played more, Yorick Amumu Trundle Sion get played a ton let's not forget 3 of them had mini rework too which you would think they could at least get a new skin.

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Sharjo9/30/2016, 11:36:49 PM6 votes

I was gonna do a huge post about why your complaining annoys me, but instead I'll just summaries my main counterpoints to the argument that this all boils down to, the "x has too many skins and y needs new skins".

  1. There's no such thing as "too many skins" until the point in time where a given skin cannibalizes the thematic of another skin on the same champion. This hasn't happened yet with any champion. Even Annie, who has 10 skins, the most in League currently, hasn't reached this point yet.

  2. Riot makes whatever skins they want, for many reasons, such as what'll sell well, what they think people will like, and what they actually want to make in the first place. None of these are invalid reasons to make skins, and as such if they decide any of these reasons justifies a new skin for a champion with a bunch of skins, then there's nothing wrong with that. They wanna do it for whatever reason, so that's that.

  3. Everyone's quick to point out champions who get to many skins, but are quick to sweep under the rug champions with low numbers of skins or those who've been waiting a while who actually got new skins in recent memory. Names that come to mind for 2016 include Sion, Poppy, Taric, Tahm Kench, Vel'Koz, Maokai, Lissandra, Kennen, Kha'Zix and LeBlanc, to name a few.

  4. Some champions actually have reasons behind why they don't receive new skins, such as being up for VGUs (Galio and Warwick are up for them in the near future, with Evelynn and Urgot also off the table atm), being very demanding in a particular area of their design to make skins for (Lissandra's super spell effects heavy, Zyra has a high demand on models), or simply not being super open to exceptionally varied concepts (some champions are easier to make skins for from a "thinking them up" standpoint". Try and understand why a champion might not recieve skins as regularly as others before complaining.

  5. This whole argument spawns from jealousy over the champion(s) you like not getting a new skin. It's fine to be disappointed when the new skins aren't for the champs you like, but that isn't a good reason to tear down other champions for getting new skins.

Final note: It's fine to not be a fan of a particular skin, or to be dissappointed when the champs you like don't get skins. It's also fine to call out Riot on not delivering on high quality skins, or just not delivering more skins for a certain champion, as that's a point of criticism and it's open for discussion.

Whining about champions having more skins is effectively like being a whiny brat so stop it.

Catastrop9/30/2016, 10:43:28 PM3 votes

It's Tristana but I do agree on Morg. Her model is terrible, I really don't see why they keep giving her new skins.

GreenLore9/30/2016, 10:59:26 PM2 votes

Warwick and Urgot are on the list for a VGU and unable to get skins because of that(they are actually working on WWs rework). And Yorick just got his VGU,so he was off the list until recently as well(not to mention that Sion got a legendary skin this year).

Also you complain about Amumu not getting the skin when he has MORE skins than Morgana [zombie-brand-facepalm]

Ichiibaru10/2/2016, 9:47:11 AM1 votes

It's Tristana, not Annie. Annie already has a Halloween-themed skin. And I would actually argue that Annie needs a new skin for the same reason Lux needed Star Guardian. Yes, she has a lot of skins, but those are very outdated (none of them actually change her SFX in any significant way), and the only modern skin she has is locked behind such a ridiculous paywall that it's not even worth mentioning. I think that Riot should just give her a legendary and then put her to rest for a while (like they did with Ashe and Yi, the latter had the same problem).

Sexy Jack Rabbit10/2/2016, 5:56:01 PM1 votes

Lowkey dunno if I'm the only one who likes seeing new Annie skins. She pulls off thematics really well, sure it's annoying to see her so many skins, but eh.

I do agree on the Slayer skins. Jinx's in particular was a massive disappointment. Glad I got it on sale.