[Suggestion] Project Katarina's art from hot pink to scarlet red

Noclip·7/15/2016, 1:42:04 PM·8 votes·6,858 views

I was originally skeptical about requesting things in the league forums seeing as how Riot is normally trying to avoid as much input from the community as possible, however seeing how some visuals are getting fixed due to community input I'll try my hand at it as well.

Myself as well as a few other Katarina mains of various MMR are seeing different versions of the skins concept art (we are all familiar with what the final render is) and we (at least me and a few others) like Project Kat with a sort of Ruby or Scarlet Red highlights to her visor and other parts of the skins fx, etc as opposed to Hot Pink.

Hot Pink in a sense makes the skin seem like its trying to be a Challenger skin and while a challenger skin isn't something I wouldn't like; this isn't a skin that is called as such. I personally am frustrated at the hair not being iconic red either but am able to cope with it since most of her skins change her hair in some way or another as well as the project skins all have white hair.

That and it could be just me but Hot Pink doesn't seem very "sinister" to me. Probably the least threatening color. A deep ruby or scarlet red that's reminiscent of her iconic hair color or I don't know, the color of BLOOD would actually make the skin for me.

Thank you for your time.

  • Just another random Katarina main who adores the champion

19 Comments

Riotmoonstones7/15/2016, 5:00:57 PM7 votes

Hey S Katarina 2 -

First off, thanks for taking the time to leave feedback! It seems like you're pretty passionate about this lovely lady. ^-^

Keeping in line with PROJECT, we've decided to keep the tones more pink, similar to what you've seen with PROJECT: Fiora. This is similarly why we've chosen white hair for her; it's one of the iconic pieces for PROJECT, as you've mentioned.

Side note, as we make more and more skins for Katarina, it's become tricky to give her more than just her signature red hair to switch things up! :P For Warring Kingdoms Katarina, we had a player suggest more of an ombré, which ended up working out pretty well. We've since utilized that style in other skins to break up longer chunks of hair!

I do understand where you're coming from with the particles looking similar to the Challenger line. One of the larger differentiation there is the particle work. Challenger uses smoother, more wispy lines, and PROJECT focuses around more geometric shapes. Light armor v. full armor is also a significant different. Although, at first glance, I can totally see what you mean.

It's not all bad news for PROJECT: Katarina, as we did take some player feedback and make some changes.

We've heard your concerns about the spell effects on PROJECT: Katarina's Q and W. We will be making them louder to help them read better in game. When PROJECT: Katarina get's a speed burst from W, she now has a trail to indicate the buff.

If you get a chance to play/see the updates, I'd love to hear what you think! :)

Poro Princess7/16/2016, 3:41:38 AM2 votes

Hi KateyKhaos! I was hoping I could ask you for clarification on something regarding Project Kat. I commented on the PBE Project Kat thread with my PBE account but I feel it was hardly noticed and not at all answered.

For Kat's hair in this Project skin, I understand you want it to be white to match the theme, but why is her hair pulled to one side? I feel like the falling hair on the right side of her head was the biggest and most iconic look of Kat. So when I play this new Kat skin on the PBE, it may feel like playing her but it looks so off, as if I'm playing Project Fiora with Kat abilities. (Am I really the only one who looks at the current Project Kat hairstyle and see just Project Fiora 2.0???)

I'm really happy you guys fixed the Q and W, it actually feels GOOD to play her now in that skin, but that hair part still makes me dislike this skin overall and I'm an absolutely obsessed with playing Katarina (we share similar names so it's only fair ^-^)

Masala Chai7/16/2016, 2:44:37 AM1 votes

I don't know how you as a Katarina main can stand to have your name modeled off a Challenger Diana OTP.

Sincerely,

A Diana Main