Why GG MF is not Ultimate Worthy and is a Scam So Far

So I thought I would be done with the whole fiasco I've been having with Riot, what with the recent Lunar Event Bundle fiasco, ignoring so many champs in skins ( ) and the ordeal with Ultimate GG MF.

Now with the recent /dev diaries about skins, they addressed that they'll be looking into skins for , which is a pretty good start (still waiting on that next skin though), and toned back my hatred a tiny bit. They also said that they're aware of not really bringing anything new to the Ultimate line with GG MF change ability so they're lowering the price. Again, kind of lowered my hatred a bit. And I started to think, "OK you know what? If they can turn this previous legendary to a fairly neat ultimate, I may buy in."

I got to PBE, I tested it out.... AND IT WAS A HUGE LET DOWN STILL!

Now before you downvote (which I guarantee many have already considering these boards), I want to derive towards a Reddit post I linked to that's getting more and more attention on the boards, that share so many of the issues I have with this "ultimate". And for the sack of those who don't want to go and actually read the full post, here's the quick abridged version.

One example for issues is that the animations between base and this "ultimate" are near identical: Base vs GG

Now compare it to Lux's & Udyr's ultimate idle stances: Base Lux vs El Lux, Base Udyr vs SG Udyr

There's a pretty noticeable difference, right? Both of these previous ultimates drastically change how the character moves or remains idle, basically heavily changes their animations. GG MF doesn't, and acts more like a Legendary, which has some different animations but still are close to the original.

But, brought up in the post again, that's not even done a whole lot differently, hell near identical to base animations

To compare: Base MF walk vs GG MF walk vs Base Ahri walk vs SG Ahri Walk

Q animation - Nearly Identical

Lux's Auto Animation: Base vs EL - Fairly different

And to quote

> When her W passive is active, she just holds them up in both the classic and ultimate skin, the same exact way. Worst thing is most people seem to agree that with her hands up since they're mechanical she can easily be mistaken for Vi and there goes clarity.

And the recap they give:

> * Way too similar animation frames, which fits legendary > * Too few evolutions/bare changes to models > * Recalls are the same for each forms, most animations are > * No bonuses for said price, must be bought in bundle > * More expensive than PF Ezreal and Udyr at launch > * Riot says themselves she doesn't fit the Ultimate price > * It's 2018 and she doesn't have facial animations...come on...

Really the only difference I can tell in animation are how she fires her ult base on her form, but even then her royal arms choice feels exactly like her base animation.

There's more in the article that's been added on, so I highly suggest to go read for yourself.

But basically, through all of that, we're expected to believe this is suppose to be a "ultimate" skin, like SG Udyr or El Lux, when in reality Riot is trying to charge us extra for a Legendary and even more than an Ultimate if we want the ward and loading border.

You know, back roughly when El Lux came out, all we had to do was buy the skin early to get the loading border. Why is Riot constantly making it so we have to pay for them when in the past they were something to obtain either for free or just payed full price for a skin at launch and got them as a nice add on?

There are people upset on the Reddit post and some on the Boards that have the same, if not similar, feelings like I do. Here's just some of the comments from that Reddit post:

This is just super lazy by Riot. I don't really know how much time they had for this but the last ultimate skin was 1,5 years ago so I feel like Riot massively blundered here.

It's honestly a fancy 1350 skin that lets you switch chromas in game. Not even on the same level as Nightbringer Yasuo and Star Guardian Ahri, and those are just legendaries. I love Miss Fortune and I was looking at the teaser a moment ago and I kept trying to convince myself that the skin was good i'm glad I can stop lying to myself now lol.

Its a good Legendary at best skin, and then they slapped the chromas, acted like changing the color of the vfx per chroma is hard and there you go, Ultimate skin.

Instead of making the model like Ez skin evolve into a full battle armored suit they chroma'd it. Instead of making the gun thematic come to life by changing the gun and shooting animation based on bounty or kills and have it be different it just again you select which "gun" to use in base and splashed a chroma on it. It's odd to say this but mf players should feel gimped as they could have had a cool skin with a good interactive model like Vayne and ashe had but instead got this.

I mean, c'mon. At the very least differentiate the models a little bit more. The lack of voicelines is a huge letdown, Elementalist Lux has tons of dialogue for each single form, and there's TEN OF THEM. That's an ultimate skin. Listen, I'm not asking for MOAR FROMS, but more detail and differences between the ones already in game. I guess it's a little too late to ask for a better voicework as well...

As a MF main I've been ranting all day about the skin and I feel like you've pretty much described what's wrong with her. It's not so much how her skin looks but how they did it, calling it an ultimate skin while it's CLEARLY NOT an ultimate skin is a big fucking insult.

Riot, I hope to god you somehow see this and work fucking fast to fix this. Either revert your stance on making this an "Ultimate" and lower the price and classification down to Legendary, in addition to the bundles, or really work hard at this, try to get the Voice Actress back, if she already left, to record some additional lines for each form (Kills, bounties, jokes, etc.) and really work on making the forms different from one another. Go back to your concept art and add in some helmets or hats like you were thinking before. Really make these guns forms unique to one another. Really change the particle effects and animations.

I'm vastly disappointed by how you're trying to sell this off, by not only trying to convince us this should be ultimate quality, but trying to charge us extra in a bundle that includes more, is more expensive than normal Ultimates, and should be stuff that we just get when we purchase an Ultimate normally like in the past. I will not stand for that kind of business practice and neither should anyone else.