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@RiotKateyKhaos @RiotBaconHawk @Riotanybody: A suggested splash art for the upcoming Reaper Soraka

eztarg3t·10/9/2014, 2:11:19 AM·19 votes·5,801 views

http://www.lolnews.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/reaper-soraka-1.jpg First off, I want to say thank you guys so much for making a new skin for Soraka. The skin looks really cool and sinister. Well, it was sinister until I heard the voice. You kept Soraka's VO the same and only added a spectral filter to it. I'm not saying it's bad but when you hear Soraka talk, she does sound a bit sinister until you hear what she has to say.

Because of this, our new reaper goat sounds a bit out of place. This reaper shows compassion when reapers shouldn't. She shows sympathy and remorse when reapers shouldn't. She cares about the living when reapers shouldn't. She acts like a reaper who would sooth and calm the spirits before ushering them into the next world instead of simply dragging them there. ~~This tells me two things: ~~

  1. Reapers have a bad PR firm and have be unjustly characterized as heartless monsters. 2) She's the oddball member in the reaping business. Edit: Because of the comments below, it's safe to say reapers have a really bad PR firm.

I personally kinda like the idea of a reaper who flips this concept of what a reaper should act like. So with that said I want to suggest the splash art for Reaper Soraka. Try to make her appear either neutral or kind. Why not sinister? Simply because of how she sounds. It just would not fit with how this person acts. If you wanna go with a more mysterious look that can work as well because of how she looks.

Again, thanks for making this skin and I hope you take my suggestion into consideration.

Also what does everyone else think? Does anyone else see this kind Reaper goat or am I looking too deep into this?

30 Comments

Voidbringers10/9/2014, 2:49:20 AM21 votes

Reapers are sort of shepards for the souls of the dead, in a sense they're more akin to caretakers than killers. Hell just look at the weapon "Death" wields. Scythes were harvesting tools for grain, not appropriate weapons, and while death comes to everyone, it is not common that death is shown as the person doing the killing, as much as coming to the newly dead to guide them to the afterlife.

All and all I think the theme works quite well for soraka.

Ironclad Dragon10/9/2014, 2:28:04 AM11 votes

Reapers aren't evil. They're just very business-orientated. They got souls to collect, lives to release.

Reaper Soraka saves lives to lighten the work-load on her brethren.

ShadowKnight122410/9/2014, 4:48:15 AM5 votes

The term is "psychopomp", the entity that leads souls into the afterlife.

I absolutely love the juxtaposition of this dark-looking magic, the spectral filtre on her voice and the overall grimdark look, but still keeping her voice lines intact. It wouldn't fit for her to be made cruel or evil. Hope she ushers forth a bunch of good-aligned undead! Having undead being always evil all the time gets horrendously boring really fast.

Garnet Dust10/28/2014, 12:55:09 AM2 votes

I really don't like the new color changes that they recently posted on the PBE. If you're going to make a dark-themed skin, keep it somber. The dark blues and browns fit with the reaper theme. The super bright purple hood just don't fit in my eyes. Revert the changes!

Terra Booma10/9/2014, 7:36:52 PM2 votes

Still want an EMT soraka skin

Rito pls.

In all seriousness I like the idea of a soothing reaper

tau4310/9/2014, 4:17:26 PM1 votes

This skin is kind of oxymoronic. It'd be like a Saint Karthus.

Squeaky Dreemurr10/9/2014, 2:33:46 AM1 votes

This is hilarious. I'm with you 100%!

Prami10/25/2014, 12:22:11 AM1 votes

You guys can try and justify it as much as you want, but as far as first impressions go, Reaper Soraka needs new things to say along with her new voice.

Placentas10/9/2014, 3:20:37 PM1 votes

Honestly I love Raka, one of my favorite champs (not so much to play anymore...) and I have been waiting for a darker themed Raka skin for awhile. Rito, you dropped the ball. I know, I know, Reapers aren't necessarily evil, but I believe that's what Raka should've gotten, an evil skin. Hell, even Blood Stone Soraka would look amazing and evil compared to this.