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

SanKakU··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

Ralanr11 votes

Taxi driver Tahm Kench?

SanKakU1 votes

Isn't that the reverse of what I asked for? Seems legit though.

Ralanr1 votes

Maybe. For some reason I just thought of modern day skins.

I didn't sleep as much as I should have.

TTK Dreadnought2 votes

I'd buy it.

OHHHHHH!

Train Conductor Tahm

Blue Moon Wolf5 votes

Stone Guardian MonkeyKing

Fae Ekko

Forest king Azir

Dryad Malzahar

SanKakU2 votes

Could you elaborate on any of these? Is Forest King Azir Lion-like perhaps?

Blue Moon Wolf1 votes

Sure :D

MonkeyKing: Pretty much a stone golem version of Wukong. Nothing too special about this one. would likely be a 750 RP skin.

Ekko: A bit like elvish emerald Taric, but his abilities look more mystical and natural. His Q would either look like a spell or a tool made from wood.

Azir: Something like this:

http://www.kimsokol.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ForestKingFinal.jpg

But with a wooden mask of some sort. Soldiers would look a bit like ents:

http://ents.one-ring.info/albums/ents/ent_by_lyvangelus_d32hrss.sized.jpg

but with spears and more soldier like. Turrets he spawns would would be giant trees that grow out of the turret remains and fire magic out of a floating gem at the top.

Malzahar: like dryad Soraka but with a hood, his voidlings would look like young cicadas, but with wings.

SanKakU1 votes

Azir making destroyed towers become 'Ancient Protectors' would be pretty fun. Obviously they'd have to avoid the copy + paste while doing the work but it's still cool.

Ekko running around with wings everywhere would be interesting...could maybe show him shrink in size(like a fairy is smaller normally) momentarily when he goes back in time with his ultimate. Currently his afterimage that indicates where he'd jump to reminds me of pixie dust.

As for the Malzahar stuff...now that you mention it, if him and his summons were tree green that would look very earthen...very un-void like. I think I would rather see a swamp themed Malzahar. Perhaps combine the concept of sludge monster with like grim reaper or evil spirit or something creepy that people might fear from the dark, filthy, and humid swamps.

NichtHurz4 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!

SanKakU1 votes

Yeah, seems nice.

Melledoneus1 votes

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

Ralanr1 votes

Arclight Thresh was a skin I always wanted to see.

Melledoneus1 votes

Eh, Thresh already got Dark Star. Arclight would be pushing it.

Ralanr1 votes

I know. Just one of the many skins I wish I could see.

Like Predeath/Pool Party/Beast Hunter Sion (by which I mean three different skins, not all combined).

I really want a Sion skin where he is alive, but that might go against his then too much.

Melledoneus1 votes

I'd like to see a tan Sion in swimming trunks, wielding a life preserver on a stick, and causing splashes while roaring from his inflatable lower jaw.

Ralanr1 votes

Slip and slide ult.

Melledoneus2 votes

I can just imagine Sion screaming "WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!" in his usual bellow.

Gusicles1 votes

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

;)

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