kayle has 9 skins but she really doesnt

ok so kayle has 9 skins technically but lets see why she actually needs a new skin even though she seemingly has a lot.

Legacy/Limited edition skins: these are skins that functionally dont count since theyre unavailable to attain even when waiting a year. kayle has 4 of these

That leaves her with 5 functional skins. Now lets look at how many old skins she has that are effectively recolors. kayle has 2 of these: viridian(green/black) and battleborn (grey/blue)

This leaves her with 3 skins: lets look at the skin that changes no abilities, this is iron inquisitor. II kayle is very unpopular and for good reason, it's basically just reddish brown kayle with no new voice lines, animations, or skill effects and it's in one of the least popular skill lines due to generally being brownish and uninteresting.

This leaves kayle with 2 skins.

Aetherwing and pentakill.

Aetherwing is older but more expensive. Aetherwing effectively has 2 new skill graphics which are q and e, they make those skill bright white and notably different. W and R are changed but the colors are similar and animation changes relatively minor to the point that theres not a worthwhile change to those skills. Visually her body is thin and not armored at all and her wings have become aelerons which could be alright but seem to be lacking in visual effects. Additionally one of the worst parts about this skin is the autoattack animation while e is active. Kayle swings her entire body back and forth turning almost 180 degrees each swing which looks asinine. This skin over all is too expensive for what it offers.

This leaves pentakill kayle. She really has no new skill animations since aside from slight chain accents and more orange (vs the normal yellow) the skills look the same. Her body is imposing looking and her hair is definitely the best vs all of her other skins. Her wings are debatable, they have some nice features but they at times look like talons cloak which is a notable drawback, riot shouldve given her dark black wings and added metallic accents. The red part of her sword is a nice feature but the fact that the other end is a microphone simply clashes with the rest of her model. This brings me to the largest drawback for this skin and it's that it's a pentakill skin. Instead of basing kayles first real skin in 4 year years off of one of the least popular generes of music which happened to have a similarly unpopular skill line, riot should have at least just made it a vandal kayle skin and foregone the microphone.

Regardless personal opinions regarding metal music and its place in skins, we should all be able to agree that kayle really only has 2 skins that even change her abilities and neither of them significantly change more than half of her kit which is a major reason why she needs a new skin. She really needs a skin that changes the colors of all of her skills by more than just a few points into red.

i mean if as a bandaid they could add some chromas for aetherwing or maybe pentakill that might last her towards 2019 up to maybe a year at most but shes getting towards desperate tier on the need's skins list.