Kindred on the New Client Champion Select Screen

6FlagsFunnelCake·3/1/2017, 2:42:35 AM·11 votes·3,245 views

I was just wondering, a small thing, but do you remember when Shadowfire 's loading slice was edited to include both Lamb and Wolf, as the whole idea of the splash art is to include both of them as equals? http://i.imgur.com/bWgUBrP.jpg

Well then why, in the new client, is the centered splash art focused COMPLETELY on Lamb?!? https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/1*T0damCx7D4xzfgVYEzgvgQ.png

Please, this is a pretty easy fix. The whole thematic for Kindred was that they're meant to be two people, not just Lamb with a pet Wolf, even if it honestly doesn't fit too much into her kit.

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Tormentula3/1/2017, 2:50:33 AM3 votes

If gameplay taught us anything, wolf is the robin but lamb is the batman. One will over shine the other faster than their nerfs.

Jokes aside, the main reason for this is probably a simple one; during making the alpha client they didn't have full edited splash art with both of them together for all their skins, only edited splices for loading screens. They use the full splash art for alpha instead of splicing it for champ select, so it could be really really hard to edit an entire splash to fit technically and thematically fit. The skin team/art designer wasn't involved in alpha to fix this, so it was a development oversight looking for productivity rather than consistency.

Would like to see them fix it.