The skinline is all about human champions whose kits focus on their weapons. Aphelios is a shoe in next time it comes around.
A cybernetically-enhanced assassin, guided by the mysterious Program Elune who wields a devastating arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry... Yeah, that will totally work.
ModAcademy Kayn19 votesOooohh, make the theme more into a form of "Advanced Weaponry", a Program Kayn could fulfill a similar niche with the RHAAST Virus attempting to override Kayn's PROJECT into PROGRAM Rhaast.
BBKong3 votes[{quoted}](name=Academy Kayn,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=WkgYmjna,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2019-12-03T04:51:40.828+0000)
Oooohh, make the theme more into a form of "Advanced Weaponry", a Program Kayn could fulfill a similar niche with the RHAAST Virus attempting to override Kayn's PROJECT into PROGRAM Rhaast.
Now you're thinkin big brain like I do
[slayer-jinx-wink]
notkai1 votes[{quoted}](name=Academy Kayn,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=WkgYmjna,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2019-12-03T04:51:40.828+0000)
Oooohh, make the theme more into a form of "Advanced Weaponry", a Program Kayn could fulfill a similar niche with the RHAAST Virus attempting to override Kayn's PROJECT into PROGRAM Rhaast.
This idea is music to my ears!
BBKong4 votesI always thought Cyber Kayn could be cool, where in Darkin he looks like a Program skin (converted/repurposed to hunt down Project) and as Shadow Assassin he looks like a Project skin. It could fit thematically really, really well.
Hextech OwI3 votesInb4 Alune is the Head of the Project Corp
Jeddy0173 votesAphelios is a shoe in next time it comes around.
I thought the same thing about Star Guardian 
.........hell, even Pool Party Tali, yet here we are 3 years later. Though unlike Tali, I get the feeling Aph is going to be pretty popular. So he probably won't be waiting years for a skin.
iiGazeii2 votesRIP Taliyah and Ornn
Terozu6 votesTo be fair, Taliyah didn't really work for the 'veteran guardians' thematic season 3 wanted.
She still totally deserves one though, (preferably with Kayn, Ekko and Quinn).
Jeddy0172 votesYeah, I know. The skin teams are trying to tell specific narratives with their big skinlines. It's not just, "does X champ fit the skinline?" It's also, "Do X champ fit the skin based story or narrative we're trying to tell this year?"
I learned to live with my discontent with the Riot skins team long ago. All I can hope is that when they do SG Tali, they do her justice......at least.
Chembaron Yamada1 votesMaybe I am the minority here, but I think Kayn shouldn't get a Star Guardian skin.
Terozu1 votesWhy not? He's an anime boy, he works perfectly for it.
And with the new lore, a legendary featuring him and Rhaast as a star Guardian and Zoe's corruption would be amazing.
Chembaron Yamada1 votesSome reasons behind this.
Terozu1 votesKayn... isn't evil. He's an arrogant teenager with a shit ton of skills and would probably have EPD. But he's not evil. Kayn kills for the purposes of the Order of Shadows, not just for sport. Rhaast is already a corrupting influence and implied to be a driving force behind Kayn's more sadistic actions.
In this case, I suppose Rhaast's voice lines in default form could be replaced with Zoe lines. Alternatively, he could have the First Star's antithesis attached to him, or alternatively some minion of the Darkness.
To be honest, he could work really well as the Blue guardian of a team that's trying to shake off the influence of Darkness.
A team like... Kayn, seeking more power, he accidently invoked an ancient being of Darkness and now has the literal personification of darkness attached to him, will he fight it off going full Star Guardian, or fall to it, letting Rhaast manifest.
Kai'Sa, when Kayn awoke Rhaast, she was able to return to the normal world, having been lost to the Darkness for years, she strives to fight back by passing the knowledge she's gained onto new generations of Guardians, starting with helping Kayn overcome Rhaast.
Katarina, though scarred while fighting the Darkness alongside her sister Cassieopeia, she still stands strong and resilient, looking for some way to fully purify her sister.
Cassiopeia, she's been mutated by Darkness, her lower legs warp into a twisted tendril of Darkness, as she tries desperately to escape her gem.
Chembaron Yamada1 votesSeems we interpret his character differently, then.
He is arrogant, but how I see him, he is a person who is willing to sacrifice absolutely everything just to become stronger. Nothing is holy for Kayn in my eyes, if there is a way to become stronger, he will do it, even if that would mean to betray someone who is close to him, bringing ruin to an entire nation, or even worse stuff.
Just like he got pictured in Odyssey. Ora was a source of power for him, nothing more and he wanted to get hold of it to conquer the universe. His own power is all he cares about and this personality trait is, at least in my opinion, evil.
Kayn kills for the purposes of the Order of Shadows, not just for sport.
Looking at how much Kayn seems to enjoy killing, I would guess that he would go on killing sprees even if he wouldn't have become a member of the Order of Shadows.
Terozu1 votesKayn in Oddysey has been lied to by Rhaast.
He's just a Teenage boy who's been looked down on his whole life, so yes he is obsessed with power, but Rhaast's encouraging it is what causes him to really reach.
It's pretty clear he has no inherent intentions to betray Zed.
In Oddysey we see him get lonely without Rhaast and act like a Japanese teenager. They made a Karaoke joke.
He wants power because he believes he would be able to rule better. There's genuinely no difference from his motivation and Darius'. And their actions are well paralleled. Would you consider Darius evil?
He's like Accelerator from A Certain Magical Index. He just needs a good solid ego breaking punch to the face and to find his Misaka Misaka.
AbiwonKenabi1 votesI'm concerned Aphelios will be a problem child when it comes to skins, much like Zyra for example. Many models for each of his guns, differing effects for all of them and some Alune representation, too. Even if popular, feels difficult to make skins for. We shall see though.
UomoAfide3 votesImo, Aphelios is the kind of character designed to get a lot of skins. So you will probably not get disappointed
The Dreamwalker2 votesNah, Rito is gonna make him a Battle Academia skin as well as possibly a Star Guardian skin (fallen) and his sister is the starlight that attempts to purify him.
I can kind of already see him being their next big anime boy.
[sg-ezreal]
Ionian Vulpix2 votesAlune is his Operator
Flawless Fetus1 votesWe'll have to wait 3 yrs. Then get dunkmaster. Lol
2Charmnot2Charm2 votesYou’re assuming he won’t be popular.
And since he will be marksmen, he has the advantage that there isn’t too many champions fighting for his role unlike with mid laners.
Lewanor1 votesThis is fine
Arakadia1 votesIt'd be cool if sorta like Project Jhin he picked up some not-entirely-clean parts still stained with the personhood of previous users. Maybe Alune is the faded shadow of a reused part. Or his weapons hold some personality in them from past users.
Alune maliciously whispering into his ear to drive him into mute madness would be so cool though!
Shadowkirby141 votesHe's probably going to anyway, and it might be a Legendary skin.
Sirsir1 votesPhel has a lot of potential skin options. Elementalist, Blood Moon, Project, I could even see a DJ skin in there.
I hope his project skin shoutouts to him being mute in some way. At least a mouth cover.
Truesworn1 votesI'll take an Arclight Aphelios skin, k thanks Riot Games much luv byeeee.
Still salty about Varus though.