Will Star Guardian Lux receive updates too?
There are two main elements which make Star-guardian skins appealing
- It's anime inspired. People that like anime gravitate towards this kind of stuff, especially those that grew on the mahou shoujo genre.
- It's cute. The particles are cute and nothing feels better than destroying things with cuteness to some kind of folk. The females/males are aesthetically similar, as anime generally build off of one another in a big collection of niches
That being said, I think the new skins are wonderful in both of these aspects
https://i.imgur.com/GWxekF9.png
Soraka's hair flows wonderfully, with good shading to complement her curls and hair behind her back. Aesthetically, she is in between the general art design of faces in league of legends and older animes. This is a good combination in general since.. well chobits style eyes would look completely out of place no matter how unfit some skins appear to be on a certain amount of characters. The seemingly cold face fits Soraka design wise, as she's a celestial being that became mortal.
https://i.imgur.com/gHk2zpr.png This is pretty good too. The squirrel-vermin magical thing is cute and highlights Ahri's playful nature. The eye spacing is pretty meh, but overall the design is pretty liru meets mauhou shoujo esque, which is appreciated. The face still looks anime ish too.
https://i.imgur.com/qNuyHVj.png
Well one of my issues with the skin, in particular, is the facial features and hair. The hair just doesn't look as if it matches close to what it was intended to be in-game.
Let's look at the burning bright picture
https://i.imgur.com/opIfX8I.jpg
compared to the picture above, the hair below is just more well defined like Soraka's hair. It gives me the bubblegum jpop feel when it comes to the youthful twin pigtail style. Which SG Lux's model in game just doesnt show. If we were going for the typical anime character with static and unmoving hair like say "Sasuke" or whatever suits the style, then it doesn't really highlight the overall cute optimism lux is full of, and instead solely portrays her pretty statically as a leader. The eye liner from the in-game version is extremely caked to the point of me wondering if this is a anime inspired lux or a cosplayer trying to cosplay as lux, with a lot of eyeliner. Her facial expression is also very much :| but not in the way that says, "IM SERIOUS GUYS BC im the LEADER" but more of a lifeless kind of face.
Overall I think the new skins are pretty much dominant holistically, so SG Lux and perhaps SG Jinx should use some slight improvements. I'd say more but I have college homework to do :(
when the first (minus
was the focus being the Legendary Skin.