I know this comes a bit late but..

BLIGHTBRINGER·5/6/2018, 6:10:59 PM·4 votes·4,647 views

I don't usually like to criticise Riot about what they create because all of their work is amazing, and I appreciate all of Riot's employees for their hard work on all of the content they produce. Since I got that out of the way (so that people wouldn't get the wrong idea), I can get to the point that I am here to make.

There were a couple of minor things that bugged me when Varus received his base splash update. His Jaw line, Chin and his Ears.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/1/16/Varus_OriginalSkin.jpg

Notice how his Jaw line appears unusually long, how distractedly pointy his chin looks as well as how big his ears are?


Then when you compare his updated base splash to any other skin, Arclight Varus for example.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/a/ad/Varus_ArclightSkin.jpg

You can see that his Jaw line is a bit slightly flatter. The same can be seen even in the Arctic Ops Varus through the outline of the mask he is wearing.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/7/7c/Varus_ArcticOpsSkin.jpg


https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/4/44/Varus_HeartseekerSkin.jpg

His ears don't look as big in the Heart Seeker Varus splash, when you compare the size of his ears in the base and in the Hear Seeker splash next to his eyes.


Then finally in the Conqueror Varus splash you can see his chin is just straight up flatter than his current pointy chin in his base splash.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/b/bf/Varus_ConquerorSkin.jpg

I know that champions in their skin splasharts are not suppose to look exactly 100% the same in terms of their facial features but I find that his base splash art head features doesn't match and are a bit misleading to what his Jaw line, Chin and Ears are suppose to look like. Which is why I believe Conqueror Varus head shape and features match closest to what Varus really appears like in the lore and in the As We Fall video.

I will provide some examples here:

https://i.imgur.com/80Ydzbr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gI0fAZJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/zq3SHP5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nwJ0i1C.png https://i.imgur.com/AWJTynj.jpg

2 Comments

Walker6695/15/2018, 5:34:39 PM1 votes

Cool but why were you looking so closely.