Can I request a non-eternum skin for Cass in the next year?

Linna Excel··4 votes·622 views

Look, I am glad that Cassiopeia is getting a new skin. It's time.

However while that particular skin is unique, from the results I really don't think the line is a great fit with cass. I'm sure you guys did your best, there just wasn't enough to work with to get that theme onto that champion. There's some champs who might look good with it, Lissandra may work, Kass might work (you guys didn't accidentally the wrong kass because homophones did you), it should fit for aatrox, but Cass isn't one of them.

Anyways, I'd really hate for Cass not to get a skin for another 4 years because the last one was riot gambling on a questionable fit that didn't work.

While riot needs players to buy skins to keep making more skins for those champs, the other side of the coin is that for players to buy skins they have to resonate. There's just not enough resonation here. If you guys wanted to do a crimson cass skin, it seems like there would have been more appropriate themes. If you wanted a black cass, it seems like there would have been more appropriate themes (like pentakill). If cass was a champ who got 2 skins a year, it wouldn't look any better, but at least we'd know there'd be another one soonish. As it is, we don't so that feels like riot took an unnecessary risk.

I mean look at Championship Ashe, which was announced at the same time. That skin looks good on her. I'm thinking of buying it. It's got a nice design and the colors fit ashe. That recall animation is 10x better. Ashe's ingame face looks like Ashe and not Aatrox with black lipstick.

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Sancre1 votes

I'm surprised people complain about the face being ugly, because its her thing, she was beautiful before, but now, after being cursed, she became a snake, her face became snakelike (that's why she resembles voldemort). She CAN'T have a nice face, she is an horrible person that became as horrible outside as she was inside due to the curse.

GreenLore2 votes

Overall the thing is that most people think of Cassios splashart as her canon look and not her ingame model.

And she still looks quite beautyful in her splash(aside from her eyes and lower half of course).

Sancre1 votes

She got snake fangs, became bald like a snake, got snake eyes and snake lower half, I wouldn't be surprised if she also had snake face.

Thing is that most of her splashes are from when she was just something similar to a lamia, half beautiful woman half snake, but right now we have a woman that was cursed by an ancient curse aimed to make her a monster as a punishment.

Too bad that Riot will probably change eternum's splash to resemble a beautiful face instead of letting it be like a snake's

GreenLore1 votes

Uhm her new splash actually came out with her visual update,though for some reason her ingame face looks hideous while her splash art face still looks rather beautyful.

Also it looks like Cassio has actually snake hair under her hood,which can be seen in the ascension videos.

Sancre1 votes

If my memory doesn't fail me, cassio got her story updated and was tied to shurima some time after her visual update.

By that time she was still allowed to be beautiful, they probably added a nice face to her splash because no one would love an ugly cassio (just like it's happening right now with eternum)

GreenLore1 votes

Her visual update was part of the shurima update(together with the visual update for renekton) and her splash art update came along with the visual update. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-416-notes

Sancre1 votes

That update was gameplay alone, so no ingame model was touched, just her set. That kinda reinforces my theory that they just made her pretty in the splash so people would still like her, if she was remade with today standards she might have looked similar to eternum's cassiopeia face.

Even with the original splash, there were some complaints about her face too, no wonder Riot is hesitant to release more skins for her.

Oleandervine2 votes

They did do a dramatic texture update to her, but that was it. It still didn't qualify as a VGU, as they basically only repainted her exterior.

This texture update is also why she STILL reverts to her pre-2014 textures on death. And it irritates the shit out of me.

Sancre1 votes

She reverts? well i never played that much with her, but when i did didn't realize it reverted

GreenLore1 votes

Pls read the patch notes carefully.... It says:

TEXTURE UPDATE Cassiopeia's base and skin textures have been updated SPLASH Cassiopeia's base splash art has been updated VO Cassiopeia has received all-new VO BIO Cassiopeia's in-client bio has been updated

Sancre1 votes

my bad, didn't see it

Zyranium2 votes

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I'm surprised people complain about the face being ugly, because its her thing, she was beautiful before, but now, after being cursed, she became a snake, her face became snakelike (that's why she resembles voldemort). She CAN'T have a nice face, she is an horrible person that became as horrible outside as she was inside due to the curse.

I don't agree, Cassiopeia was cursed, of course, but she became way more powerful and dangerous, she's still beautiful in her way, becoming a snake doesn't mean you have to become ugly, Cassio is a good exemple, she still the sadistic tempress she was but with a more gracious and deadly body ; she's stronger, she's faster, she can poison and petrify enemies.

She was cursed, but in a good way, only her legs was changed by a snake tail, Cassiopeia is the archetype of a Femme Fatale, even if people aren't in snake ladies, she still beautiful and classy

Son of Ur1 votes

Eternum skins shew off Champions as globular beings of energy with some fleshy parts usually around their torso/trunk area with the energy/plasma tappering off to tails, extremities, and auras.

These skin's play styles revolve around hunter like themes but with a relentless tenacity that is unwholesome in its own right. We have Nocturne who glides through the aether, Rek' Sai who burrows and now we have our quick snake-lady slithering with cold calculation towards her victims.

She fits the skin theme very nicely. She has natural joints to shew off the alien like energies, phosphorescent tail, a head piece obeying properties unknown to any forces of our realm and particles that have a destructive electrical miasma to them.

I feel she fits the theme very well and this is a great skin.

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