@Riot Skin Team - Winter Wonder Karma Needs to Be Addressed

Winterkill·1/23/2017, 6:32:19 PM·6 votes·1,190 views

Why is it that Heartseeker Quinn received such diligent work done to make it an amazing skin and Karma didn't? Why is it that the Mage Update on Malzahar he received a shield with amazing particles on it? Why is it that every other champion who has received a 1350RP skin has a splash art that matches the model in game and receives amazing work done it? Yet again, when it comes to anything done on Karma . . . . there is an excuse and half completed work done on it. Let me break it down with actual images and models.

WHY ARE HER HANDS DARK AND MAKING IT LOOK LIKE SHE IS WEARING GLOVES?

http://imgur.com/a/i8u6Y

WHY ARE THE PARTICLES AND COLORS FOR OTHER WINTER THEMED CHRISTMAS SKINS 10X BETTER THAN THE ONE FOR KARMA?

http://imgur.com/a/XJ9tH

WHY DOES KARMA NOT HAVE THE TATTOOS AND INTRICATELY DESIGNED TIGHTS IN HER SPLASH ART BUT NOT ON THE MODEL IN GAME?

http://imgur.com/a/huBfZ


The answer is quite clear. The skin department doesn't care about Karma, just like the Balance and Update team and Live Game Update team doesn't. There is proof of it when the skin department had the nerve to tell Karma players they couldn't do more for her, but went ahead and basically reworked the Heart Seeker Quinn skin. What we asked for was not even that bit of a deal.

@Riot Skin Team

  1. Brighten Karma's shields more or add snow particles inside of it. A less priced skin on Malzahar has particles and is colored more than Karma's bland Winter Wonder skin.

  2. Remove the terrible shading around Winter Wonder Karma's hands so we don't get the illusion that she is wearing gloves. There is no reason for her hands to be that dark.

  3. Give us the tattoos and pattern work on the tights that are clearly displayed in the splash art.


If you have the excuse of winter break to not give the type of treatment you gave Quinn on Karma, then going forward you should not go back and work on any other champion skins. The Karma community is, yet again, asking for more work to be done on half worked on content. The fact of the matter is Snow Day Malzahar has a splash art that reflects his entire design in game, he has better shield particles and colors done on a shield that was added to him in the Mage Update, costs less than Winter Wonder Karma. Snow Day Malzahar is worthy of a 1350RP price than Winter Wonder Karma is. Fix it.

As always stay frosty.

  • Hiemal.

6 Comments

Valaran Nara1/23/2017, 6:45:48 PM3 votes

So, I can only agree with you on one thing.

The hands. They are too dark. It looks like they were put in the oven for a little bit.

Everything else, nyet. For the picture examples you show, the particles look fine. I say it looks fine because each effect is going to look different, and Riot isn't trying to make all particles the exact same thing.

Lulu's shield happens to be frosted over. Malzahar's is heavily generated from beneath his feet. Karma looks as though she has a force of energy emanating from around her body that's swirling about. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if the 4 snowflakes are the focal points which holds said shield together.

As for the intricate tattoos (and I'm only speaking of the tattoos. The legs are a differnet matter), I say they might be a bit TOO intricate to add onto the model.

Remember, when a bunch of champions were getting texture updates for the new SR, a lot of them loss certain details on their models (Akali and her tattoos), so I think it would be too minor of a detail they felt would just add excess noise.

But the design on the legs could have stayed, most likely. You know, unless it was just them looking at how the shading would work on it. That or just miscommunication between Art team and Skins team.

jmonster1292/3/2017, 4:50:05 AM1 votes

yeah i like this skin, but i was really hoping for it to be just a little better for us finally getting a 1350 rp skin feels like riot always misses the mark with karma and im not sure why that is,

Lexyy2/4/2017, 10:22:12 AM1 votes

Tbh I don't like Quinn's skin at all!