Has there been any more thought given to natural-looking skins?

SanKakU·7/19/2016, 3:41:37 PM·10 votes·2,373 views

Well, with all the robotic skins coming out called Project(is this Ekko or some other scientist 'cloning' champs with Androids?) 'Insert Champion name here'...I've been wondering why Riot isn't coming out with a bunch of sweet nature skins.

Here's just a couple ideas I've had.

Green Clothes Lux, looking like I don't know, a holy elf shaman or something like that - Picture of a fan-made card for MTG. Even shows a bit of potential inspiration for her wand. Could take or leave the fairy wings.

Lux...yeah...other than her Star Guardian skin, I don't get what's the point of her skins. They look like something made up by amateurs(no offense). Even her default skin barely looks better than her other stuff besides SG.

Amber themed Taric - Picture of an amber rock.

The few Taric skins including default and the noticeably 'elven' Emerald all give a different color scheme(We got blue, green, red, and pink), but there's room for something more. I think he'd look great in my mind with Amber. What should his hair color be? I guess golden brown, average brown, or orange(regular red-head) would probably be fine. Orange hair(traditional red-head) might look best for him and help solidify the identity of Amber Taric. Maybe add on a pale or same-color-as-head beard to emphasize how at one he is with nature and if you really need something else in his kit to make the beard make sense, you could throw some moss(by the way there's more than just green color for moss, purple and orange(and other colors) moss exist although it is rare) on his skin-specific weapon.

Any other concepts you guys would like to share? There's probably a lot more that could be made. There are so many robot skins coming out, even Arcade Hecarim seems robotic(or at least call them computerized/cyborgs) if you ask me, and DJ Sona as well. Sure, you can't put them in the exact same category as the Project skins, but my point is that there could be more nature skins than we have now.

Dryad Soraka is an excellent example of a good Nature skin, and another one is the Druid Hecarim skin or whatever it's called. Sure, Ashe I guess has at least 1-2 nature skins and that's great, but beyond that it's a little hard to remember other examples.

Then there's Yordles. Take it or leave it but Yordles have some of the best examples right now with Lulu and Teemo default skins IMHO. They both seem like nature skins to me and work just fine. Converting more champs to the side of nature 'magic or other shenanigans' makes sense to me.

18 Comments

Ralanr7/19/2016, 3:44:34 PM11 votes

Taxi driver Tahm Kench?

Blue Moon Wolf7/19/2016, 6:26:00 PM5 votes

Stone Guardian MonkeyKing

Fae Ekko

Forest king Azir

Dryad Malzahar

NichtHurz7/19/2016, 10:26:41 PM4 votes

I've always thought there should be an Elderwood Lissandra skin Lissandra . Her spells would just look insanely cool with twisted roots and branches and something like a tree for her ultimate. This skin would be absolutely awesome to look at and it could easily be a Legendary skin just for the visual effects that'd be possible with Lissandra + Elderwood!

Melledoneus7/19/2016, 8:44:58 PM1 votes

I would like more light-themed skins. Arclight Shen seems like a great contender.

Gusicles7/21/2016, 5:00:38 AM1 votes

What's more natural than what we're born with?

;)