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Can Judgment Kayle get some darker spell effects?

Naalith·2/21/2019, 7:06:04 PM·27 votes·11,050 views

To start off with I'd like to say yes I agree Viridian, Silver, Battleborn, and several other Kayle and Morgana skins deserve effects. I also realize an infinitesimally small portion of the current playerbase has the limited Kayle skins. However, I feel like a very small amount of art effort (particle recolors) would go a massive way just like they did for Feral Warwick when that launched on PBE with no unique particles.

Judgement Kayle is a far darker skin and I think is deserving of dark blue, gray, or maybe even silver particles. The classic yellow/gold/orange spell effects look good, but for the skin to be excellent some recolors may be needed. I think Riot knows this because unlike every other Kayle skin with no effects, Judgment technically has one unique exception: her wings turn black when she is exalted rather than the usual orange and it looks badass.

We got Riot to add on to Feral Warwick and I'd love if we could help Kayle out as well. The fact her wings turn black make me think this skin had particles in development at some point and maybe they weren't finished. Please, please, for all of us who have been playing from the start give our skin badass animations that more fully match the splash art and model. Thank you.

4 Comments

Spisepinden2/21/2019, 11:12:00 PM4 votes

I would love to see darker spell effects, but I suspect it might not be possible due to readability/visibility concerns. In such a case, I'm crossing my finger for silvery particles matching the color of her sword and normal wings. I'd rather have them encroach on Silver Kayle's theme if it means avoiding golden particles on an otherwise dark and silvery skin.

As you also write, Riot has made special particles for limited skins before. I hope this time won't be an exception.

Spisepinden2/22/2019, 12:23:31 AM4 votes

They did Special Weapon Zac, Elementalist Lux has a dark form, Gun Goddess MF also has a dark purple form and Syndra is a champion. So maybe there's still hope. But otherwise I'm crossing fingers for silver. I don't like the idea of straight-up blue.

A Good Death2/24/2019, 12:39:43 PM4 votes

Transcended fits relatively well with the base colours, and I can understand (but dislike) the decision to forgo special effects on the cheaper skins, such as Viridian. That being said, Judgment and Silver Kayle are two classic, highly prestigious skins that have had a lot of work put into them and would look gorgeous if not for the completely out-of-place colours on their effects. If you don't want to give them unique effects, that's fine; but they at least deserve the recolouring that some of the relatively cheap, standard skins received in previous reworks. The golden effects look especially bad on Judgment and, to a lesser (albeit equally noticeable) extent, Silver Kayle.