Death Sworn Katarina FEEDBACK

Daunt··5 votes·3,512 views

Okay, lets just start off with saying that the skin looks like a custom skin and not something that Riot would ever release. And as a die hard Katarina main it loooks really underwhelming, especially after Riot released so many high quality skins this year. Shame they flopped on Harrowing with these really lacklustered skins.

MODEL:

She looks kinda weird. I really like the idea of the floating hair but reconsider the hairstyle of it when she's facing us, the hairpin doesn't really look good in my opinion. The hair could also not be as bright as it is at the moment so she's not just some sort of banshee Jinx.

I dislike that you're going in the direction of EVERYTHING HAS TO SHINE IN BLUE. Her daggers seem a bit too bright and look weird.

The costume is not that bad tbh and i like the use of purple in it.

What flips me off the most is the color palette. I think that toning down the blue and changing the pink to purple or green would do wonders for the skin. Also her face doesn't look like what Katarina looks like.

VFX AND SFX:

Her passive doesn't change, i was thinking it would be better if she had the green souls animation like when she picks up a dagger.

Both animation and sound for her abilities look and feel clunky. Again, the pink color flips me off again and, in my opinion, i don't think it should be there.

Both her dagger pick up and E have new SFX to them yet when you use E to a dagger it still uses her classic SFX. Not sure if this is a bug.

The ultimate is fine, i like that the entire area is filled with animation.

So again, the colors are a bit off to me, I hope the pink could be removed for purple or green.

RECALL:

Every Katarina recall looks amazing and this one didn't disappoint either. The only issues i have with it is that it uses her classic SFX when the daggers get darker at the beginning of it, looks kinda weird. Also, instead of ascending to the portal she opens she kinda just disappears.

11 Comments

Riotsemipriceysoap6 votes

Hey Daunt, thanks for the feedback! I'm working on cleaning up/tweaking Kat sounds based on these sort of comments so I appreciate the specificity of the notes on what's feeling off - so thank you!

ZER0 21 votes

Please don't get rid of the pink! There's a lot of us that like it and the hair and the neon blue! We're just not super vocal because it's already the way we like it! ^-^

Daunt1 votes

Thank you so much for taking the time to go through the post.

There's also one thing that i forgot to mention. I know that you don't specifically work on the VFX department but would it be possible to also tweak her dagger pickup area? The area around the landed dagger looks a little bit weak, giving it more colors or making it darker would fix the issue i think.

YuGiHo2 votes

I like the way her hair animates, but thats it. shadow Kayn still has the best hair in league

Daunt2 votes

Now that you mentioned it, it would look so good if they gave her the Shadow Assassin Kayn treatment.

YuGiHo2 votes

everyone would look good with shadow kayn hair lol. i think the first time they used this effect was with Taric rework but they improved upon that animation with kayn

Nintendo 3DS2 votes

That Kata skin should really get reworked into something better.

More ghostlike, spookier. And more fluid overall.

Silvarspark1 votes

https://orig00.deviantart.net/27be/f/2016/304/1/a/1a7a644446b3ae4978e30ddc828f9573-damuf53.jpg

There, a sketch for a ghost janna skin, I did last year. Problem spolved.

Galiö1 votes

Blue janna ftw

Kata1Trick1 votes

The first thing I noticed about this skin is how quiet her animations become. I end up going to use Project again because it sounds so much more satisfying to pick up her daggers

Daunt1 votes

They're shipping the fixed SFX on her abilities next patch so she should be satisfying again soon!

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