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Candidates for: Mythology based skins (part 2)

Forhonor321·4/2/2018, 10:32:53 PM·2 votes·589 views

Right, if you don't know what's happening right now or just clicked on this option first, please see part 1. Short version, we're going over ideas for skins based on real world mythologies, mainly aiming at gods, monsters and some heroes if we can.

We covered Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Norse in part one. Now we'll go over Japanese, Chinese, Celtic, & possibly Babylonian if I find enough to cover that. May also include Slavic as of a request and Mayan since I feel we could get something out of that (possibly save it for a part 3 if I run into the same situation as last time). If you have any ideas based on these mythologies or any other mythologies that you'd like to suggest yourself, just list them down below.

With that said, let's start off part two:

#Japanese

Probably the most interesting culture of the east to me. Idk I've always found Japan to be fascinating with their samurai, ninjas, culture, style, etc. It's just peaked my interest as a kid and still interests me today. Well, let's see what we can get out of it.

##Gods/Heroes

-Amaterasu: Goddess of the Sun. Leona obviously but I find this one really intriguing as this would be the first time seeing Leona in an Japanese style skin, which to my knowledge people haven't thought of yet. Irelia may also suit as a good candidate after her rework launches live, simply to break up the monotony of Leona getting all the sun god(dess) skins.

-Hachiman: God of Archery & War. Varus I feel would be an interesting choice because we never really got a Ionian style skin from him. He's also one of the two champs in the game that has a bow that I feel would fit better with the theme of archer. Idk I feel his Q really brings out that drawing back a powerful arrow for launch.

-Inari Okami: God(dess) of Rice, Fertility and Foxes. Ahri Who could see this coming? Honestly I feel like she could do better away from this representation as she already is representing a Chinese goddess and has her Dynasty skin and whatever else. IDK I just don't think Ahri can really fit into a lot of these, but that might just be me being biased. Nevertheless, I need to mention it.

-Izanami: Goddess of the Dead. Kind of a hard one but I feel Akali could maybe fit the role somehow. IDK I'm just going off of what pops in my head.Evelynn could also work as well as Kalista. Actually you know what, screw it. This one goes to Kalista .

-Raijin/Raiden: God of Thunder & Lightning, depicted as Oni. Volibear being the only true lightning champ in the game could somehow work for this. Trundle could also work but I feel he's better suited for being a pure Oni rather than the Thunder god as his abilities don't really show any thunder or lightning effects that could do. Bard could also be an interesting choice.

-Ryujin: Dragon god of the sea. You know where this is going.AurelionSol

-Susano(o): Shinto God of Sea and Storms. Yasuo is basically the only one that comes to mind. Whether you hate him or main him (nobody can not hate Yasuo if you don't play him), we haven't gotten a skin where he has some water or storm effects, and his tornados, windwall (UGH) and even ult could have some neat effects for that. That and if you look at artwork of Susano, he kind of resembles Yasuo a bit.

Now that I think about it though, Garen could also be a choice. Odd I know, but his ult could easily be a lightning bolt coming down and his spin could represent a hurricane (and we get the joke Hurricane Garen).

-Kojin: God of Fire, Hearth, & Kitchen. Brand Ornn

##Monsters

-Jorogumo: Spider woman. Elise but may clash with Blood Moon.

-Kappa: Turtle like monster with a water-filled head. Rammus for some reason I feel could work as SMITE has a supposed god (even though I can find very little about him) that's the leader of Kappas and he can spin sideways. Might make an interesting skin for Rammus to spin that way to keep the water filled on top.

-Ningyo: Basically a mermaid. Nami

-Oni: Orge-like demons. Trundle I already mentioned earlier with Fujin, so he's here but I also saw some concept art of a Oni Sion , which in itself could also work. Poppy also may work, again, due to concept art.

-Shinigami: Japanese Grim Reaper. Honestly if you watched Death Note there could be some variety of Shinigami but I'm sticking to who would represent this best, so we'll go with Kindred

-Yosei: Japanese fairy. Lulu

#Chinese

Probably the mythology that I, surprisingly, have very little interest in. Idk why, I just don't want to get invested in Chinese mythology. But, nevertheless, I have to get this done so let's review.

##Gods/Heroes

-Erlang Shen: had Third seeing eye. Idk XinZhao could work for appearance but Shen could fit more thematically since his ult could be seeing danger with his third eye or something.

-Guan Yu: God of war & brotherhoods. Tryndamere I feel already has this look from his Warring Kingdoms skin but

-Hou Yi: God of Archery. Varus again because we haven't seen a skin from that perspective yet but I feel Ashe could also do this time.

-Lei Gong: God of Thunder. Volibear again

-Ne Zha: Third Lotus Prince. Could be given to XinZhao again but considering he's already considered for Erlang and his WK skin, I think we'll just have to pass.

-Sun Wukong: IT'S JUST FUCKING MonkeyKing

-Xing Tian: Decapitated deity with face on his body. Sion Only person I can think of after seeing him in SMITE!

##Monsters/Creatures

-Chinese Dragons: AurelionSol . Just make one and then give him chromas

-Jin Chan: Golden Toad. TahmKench

-Daji: Nine-tailed Fox. This is pretty much already filled in with Ahri by anything, so we are skipping.

yeah not much I can think of for this. Apologies to anyone who wanted more.

#Celtic

Right, let's this one and then I'll call it for here again. Writing these are not simple as I need to research the different mythologies and figure out which figures/creatures we could salvage for these skins. Possibly going to do a part 3 but not until towards the end of the week as school work is catching up with me and I have plans I need to sort out.

##Gods

-Belatucadros: God of war. See Ares/Mars in part one

-Cernunnos: The horned god. After playing SMITE a bit and looking up the mythology, I feel either Kindred could work thematically or Sivir could work with the reference of the glaive.

-Arito: Bear Goddess. Braum I could see working as this bit of a guy with a bear on his shield or go for the obvious Volibear

-The Morrigan: Essentially a omen of war, doom and can shapeshift. Associated with a Raven. Leblanc could easily do this but we could also try Swain since, you know, RAVENS.

-Cu Chuliann: Irish Hero, becoming a horrifying monster in battle. Gnar pretty much I feel fits this if we're basing it off of SMITE. I don't really know of any other heroes that could really fill in this role like that. Actually take that back, Kayn could possibly work somehow.

-Balor: God of Drought/Blight. Aatrox I think could work.

##Creatures

-Banshee: Kalista

...yeah, not really a lot I could find in this one, except say the Japanese. Idk, maybe I'm getting burned out already from what's going on in my life so far, maybe it's just hard to sort through all of these different names and mythologies to find which ones work, or whatever.

Anyways, like I said, I'm splitting off here and may possibly make a part three to this, possibly going into Mayan, Babylonian, and Slavic to try and finish things up. If you have any deities, ideas, concepts, etc. that you have for these or the previous mythologies below that I didn't like or couldn't think of, list them down below.

As well, this is the second part of the poll from part 1 to determine what I shall go over next after Academy and Bilgewater. I'll be tallying up both of the results so be sure to vote again on this one, or both if you haven't done so yet.

6 Comments

Blue Moon Wolf4/2/2018, 11:56:47 PM1 votes

I mean, Wukong already has a Sun Wukong skin. Technically he has 4 (just that one of them is more apparent then the others) so there really isn't a huge need for him to get another one. Maybe a more human like version of him, but that would need to be for another skin line and done out of convenience, for example if they were to make him fit into the Project skin line better by making him human with a cyber tail or something along those lines. But aside from that, Mythology based skins are really an under appreciated concept that Riot could really dig into more. Journey to the West alone has enough interesting characters to make a giant skin line based around it. Ryze Gragas and XinZhao could work pretty well for the other 3 main characters in it and Alistar is a perfect fit for the Bull Demon king.

Neamean4/3/2018, 7:19:09 AM1 votes

Honestly I bursted out laughing when I read Lei Gong Volibear. I mean yeah Volibear is a thunder/lighting bear but that doesn't mean he would work for every thunder deity.

If we do get a Lei Gong skin I vote for Azir since Lei Gong is a bird man. His sand particle can be replace with wind/cloud particle and he could summon lightning soldiers.

Also I think Ekko could work for a NeZha skin except for a skin tone problem. His q would be his universe ring, his w is him sending the wind and fire wheel out, his e light up his flame tip spear, and his ult is the armilitary sash where he yank on it to jump back.

NeZha Ekko could work quite well beacuse they are both young too, but like I said before the skin tone problem makes it hard. Do they keep it dark and upset the people who they are paying homage too or do they change it and get griefs for white washing Ekko?

Tesla Effect4/3/2018, 7:50:08 AM1 votes

Still waiting for some Slavic skins to be mentioned. Slavic mythology is horribly unrepresented in media, despite it being a source for so many potentially great skin ideas.