New Star Guardian Members Announced!

Zeanix·Aug 8, 2017·14 votes·13,203 views

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All from League of Legends Facebook Page

Members Include: Star Guardian Miss Fortune (YAY A NEW MISS FORTUNE SKINS) Star Guardian Ezreal Star Guardian Syndra Star Guardian Ahri Star Guardian Soraka (still unsure. The legs tell Soraka)

And another heads up that a Star Guardian Map was accidentally hinted at a few patches ago!

50 Comments

OleandervineAug 8, 201727 votes

I'm having a bit of a visceral distaste for the reveal of Ahri, Ezreal, and Miss Fortune in this skin line. They were already given super poppy skins in the Arcade line in the past two years, and I feel that these three should have been passed to give other characters time to shine. LIKE TARIC, WHO NEEDS TO BE A STAR GUARDIAN FOR GODS SAKE. Soraka and Syndra are great additions though, they needed more skins and this line fits them well.

Seriously though, the Star Guardian line I feel can sell skins without inundating it with the same 3 champions who get skins every time you turn around.

SEKAIAug 8, 20171 votes

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LIKE TARIC, WHO NEEDS TO BE A STAR GUARDIAN FOR GODS SAKE.

I think he will definitely be in there, I don't think Riot's art team is dumb enough to overlook that possibility. He'll probably be in there in the 3rd wave, which I assume this skin line would have, given its extreme popularity and hype.

83142275DEL1Aug 19, 20171 votes

surprisingly enough, they did overlook him xD unless there are more than 5 new star guardians (ezreal, MF, ahri, syndra etc those featured on youtube)

KloqdqAug 8, 20171 votes

I am okay with MF

Star GuardíanAug 8, 20171 votes

Yeah I'm not too hyped about the new Start Guardian skins, and that's saying a lot considering my summoner name. The only one I love is the Soraka one. The Sydra one I'm "meh". The MF one sound disappointing and the Ahri and Ez one I thoroughly dislike.

xHoshiBoshiAug 13, 20171 votes

True, I love the Soraka one, which brings me to think " why didn't soraka get the legendary?" I mean, she is the starchild after all [slayer-jinx-unamused]

yay nibbersAug 8, 20175 votes

Why does everyone complain about Ahri getting skins when just a couple weeks ago Tristana got her third 1350+ skin in not even two years and nobody seemed to care? Even Gnar has previously gotten skins just as if not more frequently than Ahri and I've never once seen anyone complain when he got his third skin in 1.5 years.

And why does Soraka need skins but the others don't? With this skin Soraka will have gotten a skin every year for 5 years.

OleandervineAug 8, 20175 votes

Tristana was released in 2009, basically with the game's launch. Her latest skin brought her up to 9 skins total, with 3 of them being legacy. Her only skin prior to her rework in 2014 that had any higher quality was a 975 skin - everything else she had was 520 and 1 severely outdated "legendary" skin. Even after her rework, they only changed the particles on Firefighter (a supposedly Legendary) and called it a day. Her last 3 skins have been extremely high quality, and that's something she's needed.

Ahri, meanwhile was released in 2011, a solid 2 years after Tristana, and her skins now come up to 8, with 2 of them being legacy. Think about this. 8 skins in her 6 year long life as compared to 9 skins in Tristana's 8 year long life. Ahri has 3 high quality skins already - Pop Star, Arcade, and Challenger, and now will have a fourth. Ahri has more consistently been chosen to get a skin than Tristana, and being a younger champion with almost as many skins should tell you that. Furthermore, Ahri has 2 skins - Pop Star and Arcade - that have overlapping thematics with Star Guardian, which doesn't seem to fit Ahri as a character, other than the ties to Asia and waifus.

Soraka, meanwhile, is also a 2009 champ, and has only 7 skins, including this one coming up. There have been huge gaps between her skins, and this skin is a completely new theme for her that actually fits her thematically.

83142275DEL1Aug 19, 20171 votes

because sorkaa is literally a "child of the stars" but i get your point

Cryo00Aug 8, 20172 votes

Don't forget Tristana and her 3 skins in the last year, one 1820 and two 1350 skins.

OleandervineAug 8, 20172 votes

Tristana is a different matter. She's old, and actually needed high quality skins in her lineup. Furthermore, Omega Sqaud is a perfect fit for her. SG is not a perfect fit for Ahri, Miss Fortune, or Ezreal.

Also, Tristana was updated in 2014. She's gotten her skins over 3 years, not in 1 year.

KawaiiShroomAug 8, 20172 votes

Hum how come Ezreal is not in a tux. I thought he was the tuxedo mask.

RevengeforharambAug 21, 20171 votes

this looks like a job for Taric [slayer-pantheon-popcorn]

T8 SpeedwagonAug 8, 201716 votes

It's always the same thing every time. Gotta give cool skins to ahri and ezreal every year... especially ahri. Getting pretty bored

aZ3R0nAug 8, 201710 votes

No Star Guardian Urgot??

Stars ShaperAug 8, 20178 votes

Ezreal looks cool indeed.

But GOD DAMN IT why isn't there a freaking Star-Prime/God/whatever Aurelion Sol? Like.. Imagine a fully anime/armored dragon.

YuyiyoAug 8, 20173 votes

I think they said that since Aurelion is already a star dragon, it would be too easy and obvious to do a star-guardian or dark star Aurelion sol. So they aren't planning on that type of skin for him.

Stars ShaperAug 8, 20171 votes

I know and I kind of agree but the design of both skinlines can be made into something entirely different from his basic look.

Leaving Aurelion Sol out of it, how did MF get in there and Taric didn't? A more complete armor for him or a Tuxedo guy reference would have brought more artistic value than "that girl that shoots from anime pistols". I'd just condone Soraka because being the Starchild meant she should have been in the skinline long ago (but hey, redundancy only applies when it's convenient).

RalanrAug 8, 20177 votes

Jesus, Ezreal and Ahri got arcade last year.

I think we can go a year without those two getting skins.

TimX24968BAug 8, 20175 votes

So graves can have a cigar but urgot still can't be a star guardian?

I'll treat the downvote meter as upvotes.

archerno1Aug 8, 20174 votes

Hope for a new song!

KillaburnAug 8, 20174 votes

oh shittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt the hype is real

2ManyJonsAug 8, 20174 votes

So I really hope they don't try to "over man" Ezeral's skin. I'm perfectly ok with him flying around like a magical girl with the others haha.

MaddéyAug 8, 20173 votes

Could this mean that Miss Fortune is getting a new base voiceover? She shares the red theme with Jinx, and since in the first pack of the SG skins one was legendary, and since it happened to be Jinx (red) then I could potentially be right. MF has no legendary skin, and if Riot had decided to make SG MF legendary they would surely put some work into writing both SG and base voice lines, since voice actress is at the place.

OleandervineAug 8, 20171 votes

It's debatable. That would make both ADCs with the legendary SG skins, which seems a bit dull. I'd wager that Syndra would be a bigger candidate for the VO than MF, considering Syndra is a bit too dark for this line to work with her base vocals.

EDIT: Though, they could go all tsundere with Syndra, or make her like the lovably evil hex witch akin to Tharja from Fire Emblem or someone like that...

Valor BotAug 8, 20172 votes

Cool, so the SG Ahri leak was real. Hype, they all look so good! I'm betting money on the Ahri skin being a legendary, like SG Jinx. I mean her spirit ball thing is a tiny little familiar so that seems like it would require some new animations. She's also a popular champ which increases her chances of getting one

Tesla EffectAug 8, 20172 votes

Its SG Soraka. There is no other Goat champion that also has a horn and a goat familiar.

Star Guardian skin line has skins for all the champions I play...so naturally I need to get all of them.

DarkRitualAug 8, 20171 votes

Kindred has similar legs.

OleandervineAug 8, 20171 votes

It's Soraka, she has a large head horn in her forehead and uses a staff. Kindred does not use a staff nor does Lamb have a forehead horn.

TormentulaAug 8, 20171 votes

That and wolf is no where in sight.

.... nevermind actually this could pass as kindred.

Tesla EffectAug 8, 20171 votes

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Kindred has similar legs.

Kindred doesnt have a staff, ffs its Soraka.

Xano501Aug 8, 20172 votes

That's why we called RIOT a "SKINS SELLER"

SEKAIAug 8, 20172 votes

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That's why we called RIOT a "SKINS SELLER"

Since you seem to like Blizz a lot.

https://heroesofthestorm.gamepedia.com/Skin

.............

Obviously, skins are just something to let the art and modelling team do to justify their wages, since they usually have periods and gaps where they literally have nothing to do. So they would be put to make skins (or the art teams may as well be hired on casual basis, which employees usually don't want), it is just that this can also conveniently translates that into extra revenue for the company. Almost every game dev does cosmetic selling.

Xano501Aug 8, 20171 votes

Of course, Blizzard developed game and lore to make players prefer and love the gameplay and lore. (me too) And then they develop skins after developed gameplay and lore to get one. It's worth to buy Blizzard game skins for letting Blizzard develop the gameplay and lore more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ09xdxzIJQ

Unlike RIOT, they develop skin more than gameplay and made lore be trash. I hate to buy new skins for letting RIOT ignore to develop gameplay and killing the lore.

Look lore cinematic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvflWd9t95I

Look skins cinematic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oorajmbSJUM

SEKAIAug 8, 20174 votes

lol, do you even realise how biased this post is?

Because clearly when Riot develops the lore by retcooning the old "Done" lore that heavily limits future innovations and was only killed on that basis (not to mention many of the things in the old lore straight up make no sense), it means they'd killed the game. When Riot actually cares about developing the lores so much it even extend onto alternative skin universes, it's because Riot doesn't care about the gameplay.

And because Blizzard also makes lore cinematics just like Riot also do, it means they care the game and the lore. But somehow when it's Riot, it means they don't.

Yeah boy. Wtf.

............

Sure, LoL has balance issues, we know that. But don't pretend Blizz games don't have them. Hearthstone for an obvious example, is notoriously known for being a utterly broken game and a far bigger joke than all MOBA/ARTS and the worst LCS seasons combined for a reason. The fanboys may say otherwise, but that doesn't stop critics from pointing that out that the game is fundamentally broken.

crzymdscntstAug 8, 20171 votes

You missed the Chogath and Velkoz skin in there. Left of the big bad monster (green upper claws). (Probably a skin for whoever is standing on that building below them too... and Malz's voidlings make an appearance.)

TattersallAug 8, 20171 votes

The image itself is just so awesome. 360˚art at its finest.

JaspersAug 8, 20171 votes

Image looks good. Let's just hope they get a villain in the form of an Aurelion Sol skin. I don't even play Illoai, Taliyah or Sol yet their lack of skins is sad.

OleandervineAug 8, 20171 votes

There's a villain to the far right in the full 360 image on FB. It looks like Azmodan from Diablo 3 - it rings a bit of Urgot, but it could also just be some nameless darkness entity that's not a champ.

KlavierAug 8, 20171 votes

I love the new star guardian line up, just a little disappointed that they didn't use different colors.

BLACK REALM GODAug 8, 20171 votes

now we just need the villain star destroyer evelynn. i assume she'll look something like this

https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.JE127LXKUf6wectu0-JiWADhEs&w=169&h=226&c=7&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.7

FoxyKittenAug 8, 20171 votes

I hope Star Guardian Soraka is a ( Ultimate skin; probably not tho) but at least Legendary. She is the star child and the first star (and I can totally see her wisely lecturing Jinx) no other theme fits Soraka as much as this one. Please Riot

SukishooAug 8, 20172 votes

I'm hoping Syndra's is Legendary cause she's all about Darkness/Power so her current voice doesn't really fit the theme that well.

SukishooAug 8, 20171 votes

Star Guardian Soraka (still unsure. The legs tell Soraka)

The legs?! Hello, THAT HORN XD

Cyan101Aug 8, 20171 votes

@riot Can we please download this awesome 360 image? pretty please?

Chromatic EagleAug 8, 20171 votes

Everyone complaining about these champs getting more skins, and I'm just grateful to be looking at Soraka's thighs.

RacoonHunterAug 8, 20171 votes

I think someone's missing the important thing here.. Enemy skins also are kinda there. Khazix KogMaw Chogath etc.. they are the "villians" in the new map so I expect those skins to also be released soon..