Prestige skin not looking so prestigious IMO
I feel very strongly about this, so i'm posting or everywhere. Someone validate my opinion! 🤗
TLDR at bottom
I am a collector of sorts, I like having exclusive things, I like opening chests with legacy content. Why? Because I have it and you don't, nani nani boo boo.
So naturally I was really hyped when I read about this prestige edition skin idea, cloaked in shadows though it was. This is right up my alley, so i'm getting my rp ready, I'm calculating roughly how many games I need to play if I finish all the missions to get to 2500 tokens (a lot, btw). I'm down to grind, let's do this!
Then today, I actually see the skin. It's towards the bottom here:
For comparison this story has the base skin pictured:
https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/kaisa-and-janna-skins-leaked-on-league-website
When I saw I couldn't help but think:
After they lost that law suit to the soccer player, I sure hope they got Taylor Swift to sign off on this.
And
You know... maybe I don't need a world's pass after all.
They release a lot of chromas, and I know there's supposed to be a ton of other special effects and splash art and what not, but the skin itself just looks bad, especially compared to the base model. Can someone turn this into one of those 'upgrade, upgrade, ohshitgoback!' memes? I'm not that talented.
Specific complaints:
The hair style and color are, to me, significantly worse than the base model. The base issue gives her some spunk, the prestige just feels so generic. It's the kind of haircut you'd see in an extra in a movie who's role in the credits is listed as 'waitress #2'.
The rocket packs in the base model have detail, that look like they have different pieces/ materials making up each one. The prestige are just blocks of some bronzish material with some minor shaping.
The packs, shoes, and jacket are all of a similar color pallet, so that can't really contrast each other, but that don't bother to match either.
The jacket... you remember these cheap ass metallic pleather material that was big for around 10 minutes before it died and now you can only find it st the thrift store? I think that's what her jacket is made out of.
Realistically this late in the game I don't see them making any of the real changes I think this skin needs, but if they release a chroma for the base skin that's way better than the prestige skin, which shouldn't be hard to do, i'm going to be even more disappointed than I am now.
TL:DR super stoked about about prestige skin until I saw its just Taylor Swift wearing a set of low budget kaisa cosplay rockets.
