Some adjustments I personaly believe would improve Kai'Sa visually and thematically.

DemiMax·2/20/2018, 6:28:40 PM·6 votes·1,013 views

"To survive among predators, Kai’Sa became one. Stranded for years with no hope of rescue, Kai’Sa endured through sheer will and a symbiotic second skin adapted from a living Void creature. Now the Daughter of the Void emerges an apex hunter torn between two worlds: the one that birthed her, and the one that made her."

As it stands Kai'Sa's Design feels extremely safe and to some extent run of the mill. Here are some sugestions that could give her more of an identity, feel free to comment the changes you would like to see, so:

  • Make her body scarred or to some extent deformed From what little we know about the champion at the moment it's hard to assume this but I'll go ahead anyway, being traped in the void and fighting it all by herself should leave some scars, I would personally add a scar on her skin tissue from the left side of her lower jaw, expanding all the way to her torso (I'm sorry) and shoulder something akin to a huge burn mark. Another type of body Mark could be a hole in her stomach being kept in check by the void, acting as a replacement for what she lost, and thus, expanding on a symbiotic relationship between her and it. I would absolutely dislike if it turns out that her "exosuit thingy" heals her wounds permanently and that is why she looks all pretty 'n stuff. Right now from her splash she looks way too much like a dark haired Katarina without the scar and with some pretty face paint (Yes face paint, that can't be Void corruption, it looks very convenient aesthetic wise.)

  • Marie Antoinette Syndrome pretty sure you don't have a blast spending years surrounded by horrors that want to kill you without any kind of help, unless Battlecast Cho'Gath is involved... This could potentially positively change her look, add a bit more personality to her backstory and show that she isn't a complete emotional badass and a person with flaws that went through the worse, she overcame the obstacles but she paid a price, physicaly and emotionaly. I think this one is worth looking at and could be implemented in many ways.

  • Tweak to some extent the Jet pack It looks a lot like Pharah form Overwatch (that isn't the main issue, however i thought it was worth noting, since I immediately thought of Pharah when looking at Kai'Sa and i don't believe that to be good), there are a lot of options here, make it a bit more lifelike? Size adjustment? Color?

Also worth noting:

NOTE 1: Looking closer at her splash art, it looks like the "suit" has some fissures resembeling wounds, but i raise the same point as with the face paint: It's aesthetically convenient, scars aren't convenient and some can be a burden for life.

NOTE 2: WARNING this suggestion is way too extreme, will never happen and changes the champions aesthetic and gameplay, but I tought I could just put it here anyway, it belongs in the body deformation part, here goes: As a suposedly fallen warrior to the void, i initially thought that she had much to do with Artorias from the Dark Souls series, so i thought why not give her the shrimp legs, as if little creatures (fly like) continuosly bit away at the muscles of her legs leaving her with severe problems in terms of mobility, not mentioning the blood loss, leaving her without the muscles called Gastrocnemius, Peroneus Longus ( I looked it up, had no idea what the names were), etc (the back of her legs) thus making the decision of uniting with the "suit" much more inevitable and extreme. The more extreme and drastic body change would be to break one of her arms, yep, it would look badass, but it would drastically change gampelay and "gameplay feel". I repeat that I'd LOOOOOOOVE "SHRIMP LEEEEGS"!!!!

NOTE 3: I don't know what to think of her "weapons"... (nvm they're pretty cool)

NOTE 4: How in the name of Dende is Kassadin in worse shape than her? I guess we should wait for the lore...

I absolutely love the work Riot has put into the champions, I personaly feel like 2016 was the best year for new releases. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a rant, more like suggestions being tossed to the wind, I like her design but can't help but feel like it could be expanded upon. Keep in mind that at the moment of writing there is little information about her other than the splash art and teaser, so no voice lines, lore and the such. Please forgive any typo, other than that I am really looking forward to what you all think. [galio-happy]

12 Comments

Ebonmaw Dragon2/20/2018, 6:40:51 PM2 votes

But... why she would have scars on her face if she wears a "helmet" that protects her? The idea of helms is to protect the face of the person who wears it. It would be a really bad "protection suit" if it doesnt protects her.

JooshBox2/20/2018, 7:01:21 PM2 votes

Is the suit not a living thing? Maybe the suit was given to her by Malzahar after he dumped her into the void? Maybe the suit is a symbiote similar to venom and sought her out? Maybe she simply killed the first voidling she found and wore its skin? Riot had a study that showed monstrous characters were the least played, so making an appealing character visually seems to be what most people like. Also doesn't Urgot flesh out the body dysmorphia niche?

ForgottenLuck2/20/2018, 9:57:25 PM2 votes

I personally really like her design, especially since I can even see a bit of similarity between her and pre-void Kass, I feel like the idea of a symbiotic skin is awesome, though that might be biased since I do like characters in pop-culture like that, e.i. Blue Beetle and Venom, and she even has the some tribal tattoos in her in-game model, though her gameplay doesn't suit me, I am actually interested in testing her out