Veigar doesn't fit at all with the Omega Squad style.
Fizz doesn't fit either, and he gets new skins too often.
But my biggest complain is: Why Ziggs is not getting an Omega Squad skin? His four skills are bombs, his autoattacks are bombs... he fits the "crazy war veteran" trope as much as Teemo.
EROTIC RAID BOSS31 votesI don't think they're bad choices but no heimer seems like a missed opportunity.
veigar's actually using a laser designator to bomb you, makes enough sense to me. not sure how fizz doesn't fit
King Odin4 votesOmega Squad Teemo says: "Wars are won with men, not machines." when taunting Heimer, I don't think Heimer was ever on the frontline so I don't know think he would have actually been part of the Squad.
Thilmer1 votes[{quoted}](name=King Odín,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=TV0Kxs7T,comment-id=00030000,timestamp=2017-07-12T03:25:03.682+0000)
Omega Squad Teemo says: "Wars are won with men, not machines." when taunting Heimer, I don't think Heimer was ever on the frontline so I don't know think he would have actually been part of the Squad.
I disagree. If the Omega Squad skins represents an army from the last decades of the 20th century, there would be a whole division of engineers.
Decrit1 votesone thing is using weapons, another thing is to use robots in your place. this is why he taunts heimer.
Warlord Scrap28 votesPersonally tris is my biggest gripe. She already has a modern military skin. I would liked to keep it yordles too so rumble/kled/ ziggs/ corki woulda been the best contenders imo.
General Esdeath 7 votesGuerrilla Tristana seems more like a ragtag thing, this seems like a concept of an organized elite team.
Morgan le Fey4 votesNot having Tristana on the special Teemo Military Unit squad would seem weird, given what little we know about them in lore. Not having Corki and Rumble also seems weird, mind. And Twitch!? Why Twitch?
I'd've thought prolly Teemo, Tristana, Rumble, Corki, and Ziggs. With this Veigar, mind, I'd've replaced Corki or Ziggs with him - it's just too amazing a concept to pass up. I really love how they're doing it, actually. Twitch and Fizz seem completely wrong, though, and they aren't really special enough to justify it imo.
But I'm also just a passing forumgoer with little in the way of a seriously-considered opinion, so don't give my words too much weight. They're just idle musings.
Fairyfleur2 votesI think based on OS Twitch's splash and some hints Riot Kindlejack gave us in another thread prods at the theory Twitch might've killed the old squad. This is also why he's so out of place.
LEEROY KLEDKINS15 votesThe reason Twitch is a good pick for this skin line up because of Riot's modern art direction, they wanted to spice up the exterminator scraped skin and make it part of the omega squad.
Honestly when Omega Teemo came out I thought it was in the skin league of Special Ops Gangplank.
Ziggs should have a omega skin to.
I'm taking a wild guess that Riot found ziggs to be an easy or boring pick and Riot wanted to be more creative i guess... Don't shoot me up on this theory.
I'm only going to buy the Twitch one since I don't spend that much money on RP anymore I have tons of skins for fizz, tristana and veigar already.
But twitch and jinx are the only adcs I like playing (More of a support guy).
Thilmer4 votesThe reason Twitch is a good pick for this skin line up because of Riot's modern art direction, they wanted to spice up the exterminator scraped skin and make it part of the omega squad.
I don't have any complain about Twitch; the skin is cool and it's about time he has a cool skin.
LEEROY KLEDKINS1 votesI don't have any complain about Twitch; the skin is cool and it's about time he has a cool skin.
I have all of his skins, like them all but Kingpin and SSW are my favourites.
Alot of people prefer gangster, but I love the jewlery on kingpin, the eyepatch, the clothes if im gonna get gunned down then im gonna do it looking like a rich rat.
(I would input a meme of twitch being rich but I don't have any so I'll use this splash art) http://www.mobafire.com/images/champion/skins/landscape/twitch-kingpin.jpg
I don't want to badger on about this but I hope Medieval twitch gets a new recall animation or border for old owners like me, since if i remember right that skin is now going to be part of the hextech crafting thingy with the 10 gemstones or something (correct me if im wrong).
Sukishoo3 votesTwitch is a good pick for this skin line up because of Riot's modern art direction, they wanted to spice up the exterminator scraped skin
Indeed. Even some of his Chroma colors they made kind of have that old Exterminator vibe to them. So that's gotta be one of the reasons they did this.
GreenLore10 votesI do think that Fizz and Veigar fit the skin line rather well.
Fizz is basically our marine soldier and Veigar is the seargent who summons an electric fence and drops air strikes(and turning his rod into a gun is actually a cool idea).
Ziggs would have also fit the skin line,but I feel like there wouldn't have been such a big change for him,because he does already use bombs for everything,the only change would have been that you switch his bombs for differently desgined bombs,which is rather lame.
General Esdeath 9 votes
I think just fits the theme with marines and they wanted to use sonar on his ult.
Fits it really well with stealth and they wanted to use the biohazard on his E.
I think it's time for a new skin but they definitely wanted to use his W for the missile lock on sign.
I think she just needs a new skin and she is a soldier
I think it's OK but they missed a lot of chances but maybe they're working on other ones but don't want to release more than 4 at a time.
An Undead brat4 votes
What? WHAT? WHAT?!
General Esdeath 2 votesI said it :^)
MagikarpIsBoss2 votesShe got one 9 months ago. This may seem like a long time but considering it takes 2+ years depending on the champion, this is insane.
Poppystar3 votesbut she just got her halloween skin not even a year ago
General Esdeath 2 votesI feel like the event skins for holidays are usually rushed. The splash was nice but the skin felt lacking.
Poppystar1 voteshow? everything about her was different. different skin, eyes, hair, outfit and hat, different gun, autos, all abilities changed. this skin is literally just a war beret popped on her with a goo gun D:
General Esdeath 3 votesDifferent doesn't mean it was careful and slow. And they also did it because there's lore behind the OS skins.
CasterGilgamesh2 votesthats a skin that people only have access to buy for one month out of a year....
Decrit8 votesI LOVE the actual choice instead.
They all cover different roles, and make them different enough.
perhaps this is why Ziggs did not get any cover while Veigar did, it would have been redundant. Also a weapon-maddened Veigar is awesome. A capless, weapon-maddened veigar with something resembling facial animation.
Holy shit that Veigar skin is awesome. Totally not agree with your post.
Like, cmon
A Superb Villain2 votesBest skin. How am I supposed to choose now?
Decrit1 votesmy jaw DROPPED when i saw the capless Veigar *o*
sadly i don't play him much often lately since i swapped roles, but holy crap i love that dude.
Imaginary Hero8 votesI'm actually frustrated that omega squad tristana is a thing.
Especially since it was a confirmed thing that she died before teemo joined the omega squad. Lore wise the skin just doesn't fit.
SolarisCorvus3 votesI thouggt these skins were flash back skins? Because in all the art works you see teemo freaking out while all this crazy shit goes down so maybe it was earlier in teemos career when he met these four mentors who would teach him how to be a soldier but also die along teemo's path to being the cold hearted killer he is today.
Imaginary Hero2 votesThats one way to interpret it.
But its actually a alternate future. Check out the flash page for omega squad teemo. But it is confirmed in this universe tristana did die.
Bârd6 votesIn each of the splashes, there is a "rookie Teemo".
Basically, this means that Teemo joined the team last, and all of the other members died after he joined.
SolarisCorvus2 votes[{quoted}](name=Sozo No Okami,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=TV0Kxs7T,comment-id=000500000000,timestamp=2017-07-11T13:22:41.711+0000)
Thats one way to interpret it.
But its actually a alternate future. Check out the flash page for omega squad teemo. But it is confirmed in this universe tristana did die.
Im saying in the alternate future that teemo was the new guy to the omega squad and its depicting the squad before they probably died. League's characters dont have to currently be alive.
Imaginary Hero2 votesHonestly I misunderstood what you meant. I thought you meant prior to becoming part of the scouts
Thilmer2 votesI thouggt these skins were flash back skins? Because in all the art works you see teemo freaking out while all this crazy shit goes down so maybe it was earlier in teemos career when he met these four mentors who would teach him how to be a soldier but also die along teemo's path to being the cold hearted killer he is today.
Omega Squad Teemo literally says that he is the last member of the Squad, so yes.
Karakot4 votesLook at the splashes closer.. they are grainy with edges missing. They are photographs of the past
General Esdeath 2 votes"In Lordran Runeterra , the flow of time is distorted. The flow of time itself is convoluted; with heroes centuries old phasing in and out"
Kloqdq8 votesWhy not Kled is my biggest question? HE IS A LEGIT WAR HERO GOD DAMN IT
General Esdeath 7 votesKled wouldn't want a team
Iźuku Midoriya2 votesSkaarl is a literal tank
Poppystar5 votesI'm a tristana main and even I'm confused? Why did Tristana get this skin? It is completely boring. They slapped the first google images "war beret" on her and gave her a green slime gun...? What about Ziggs? What about Kled? She literally just got a skin. The omega lore doesn't fit. I just don't think she even personality wise fits this at all tbh.
Sukishoo4 votesVeigar's last skin was in 2014. So he totally needed something new and different. His electric fence is an awesome spell effect and I think it fits the theme great.
DoktorKaiser4 votesAlso Heimer was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, yet he gets dick as per usual, more skins for cancer fish who isnt even a yordle. Genius !!!
KoKoboto3 votesI love all the skins. I think Riot could have chosen different champions but in the end it doesn't really matter. I had to fall to lose it all...
Karakot3 votesI don't mind the chosen champions honestly, but it's neat how their splashes are all photos with tears on them. Teemo is basically looking back on his comerades before they died as he is still the only omega squad member left alive.
Carteeeer2 votesthey look really bad honestly
the quality of the OS teemo skin is what I expected, and I'm hoping they re design the skins or something
Forhonor3212 votesI will admit that some of the choices are a bit strange. Veigar never reeally came to mind as a candidate for this series when you hear Omega Squad and so to see him in this line now is really odd, Tristana's skin is very close to her Guerrilla skin, & Fizz pretty much gets a new skin every year (because popular champ = more money for Riot). As well, they completely missed opportunities for say Kled and Ziggs to be in as part of the line as they feel much more fitted to the series.
HOWEVER you can't deny that they do make the skins work. Veigar using a little remote controller for spawning his gate and directing missiles is a perfect way of making him into the series (somehow). Tristana still feels distinct from Guerrilla with the gun, beret, target finder and even a little crazy eye from what I could tell. And Twitch is practically made for this series, you cannot deny that.
Could there have been better candidates for the Omega Squad series? Absolutely, but let's face it. It's Riot. They're the ones that make the decisions and know that the more popular champs will sell more skins and make more of a profit to them. But at the same time it's not out of the question that they'll add more to the Omega Squad series in the future so maybe we will get Omega Ziggs and Kled.
Tribbles Foxfolk2 votesI agree with Veigar not fitting. That was a strange decision. I guess since his W drops a bomb, it fits...? No, I can't even see THAT.
Fizz not fitting is up for debate. I think he does since he can be a stealthy and elusive little fish, but that's my take.
Would have been a pretty good fit.
could have worked, I think.
might have worked with some creativity, but it'd be kind of a stretch.
absolutely could have worked.
Sexy Jack Rabbit2 votesI really dislike Tristana's lack of a helmet. She could of looked so badass. Instead they made her cutesy like usual. Not too mention it wouldn't of been a copy of Guerilla had they gone that direction.
CasterGilgamesh2 votesi love the choices they made and hope Ziggs gets one next time i want every yordel to get an omega squad skin
