Replace Aery with one of Star Guardian's companion

Dazzled·12/29/2017, 7:07:14 PM·22 votes·1,065 views

So, I bought Star Guardian Soraka recently and I'm really happy with the skin. But there is one thing that's kinda bothering me. It's Shisa. He appears only when home guards active which don't even last that long and when Soraka recalls. And because Aery is mostly used on Soraka why not replace it with Shisa if it's Star Guardian Soraka? I mostly forget about Shisa because you don't see him that often but with this it would be way more interesting and feel like he's actually there to help Soraka. What do you think about this idea?

13 Comments

Blaiz Fenix12/29/2017, 7:12:40 PM13 votes

Nah, for clarity these should keep the same particle effects regardless of skin. Because aery is not champ exclusive it may be confusing.

Tormentula12/30/2017, 1:39:58 AM6 votes

I think people would rather have both Shisa and Aery at the same time, rather then one reskinned as the other, resulting the following problems:

1: clarity, you don't know that's Aery off cooldown or going back to the unit unless you know the skin also reskins Aery.

2: It would cause a domino expectancy with skins, like after we get the soraka familiar Aery skin, should the rest? Should SG not be the only skinline that has it and other lines should all do it? Would riot start doing this and jacking the price up for Aery skins just like they made us pay extra for star guardian borders this year? What if they go through with all of this, which we don't mind, but there's so many different aery models, players lose track of what is and isn't actually Aery?

3: What happens if Aery gets reworked/removed from the game, like 7 more years from now runes get reworked again? Do we just live with the familiars being gone or revert back to their original designs?

Aery reskin shouldn't ever happen. Maybe just Shisa needs to come out more often rather then replacing it with a gameplay element. Like Raka's emotes.

Fairyfleur12/29/2017, 10:02:33 PM4 votes

It would be really nice, but it'd be really hard to do without causing big clarity issues. :(

MythPuppy12/29/2017, 10:55:33 PM3 votes

This is one of the reasons I said giving all the team two sg skins familiars was stupid.

Placentas12/30/2017, 1:47:46 AM3 votes

I love this idea. Shisa is one of my favorite SG companions. Blaiz makes a good point though.

Chembaron Yamada1/3/2018, 3:37:26 PM2 votes

I vote against it. Mostly because I would feel encouraged to take Aery with my Starguardian Jinx and I don't want to do that to my team.

Sichem12/30/2017, 1:14:14 AM1 votes

HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT SHISA LIKE THAT?! [darius-angry]