Riot, why did you make a shared Pool Party splash image?

Goodwine·6/26/2015, 9:51:48 AM·2 votes·2,383 views
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Lately I have seen that you, Riot, have moved into a concept of "let's make a shared splash art". Up until now you have done a decent job with the splash images, because characters show their personality, or some kind of role. A single image that tells you something about them.

For example, you can see Graves's pool party splash art, and he looks all almighty, Ziggs looks like a troublesome child, and Renekton is a dedicated lifeguard. Their splash art tells you something about the champion's personality outside of the problems in Runaterra, and on a peaceful summer vacation day.

However this splash art looks "tasteless", there is no meaning in it. All that it says is "we are having fun", that's it, nothing about the characters, except maybe for DrMundo, because it looks like it belonged to him, and the rest of the characters were on the background (like Orianna, on LeeSin's splash, hell even Orianna has some "value" in Lee's background.)

And the worst part is that Draven, a narcissist man who should probably be shown bragging about how he makes the party be cool, is shown far, far away in the picture, that would be ok if he was on the background, and if he had his own splash picture (like Orianna, mentioned before).

Why, Rito? Why!?

5 Comments

MxWhiteKnight6/26/2015, 12:29:52 PM2 votes

Agreed.

Even the April Fools theme showed much better cohesion of all the characters involved than this.

GreenLore6/26/2015, 10:05:02 AM1 votes

I'd say it fits the characters pretty well. You can see DrMundo chilling with his ukulele,which fits perfectly for his pool party skin,since it looks like he is some kind of tourist.

Lulu is pretty wild in a fun way,so her splashing around and laughing fits as well.

RekSai is a wild beast,so her jumping and seemingly attacking the baby seal fits,while Draven is riding her. Seriously riding a shark in a pool,is there anything that sounds more awesome than that?This is perfect for draven,he does the most insane thing you could do at a pool party to draw attention.

Zac on the other hand seems rather chill,but that might be just me.

Tesla Effect6/26/2015, 10:39:26 AM1 votes

Because thats how they do things now with skin themes that are released at the same time.

DWT123456/26/2015, 7:50:27 PM1 votes

they do that for groups of cheap skins since they dont make as much money off of them.