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My biggest problem with Kai'sa it's not that she's beautiful - she's LoL generic beautiful.

Darius Strada·2/21/2018, 6:53:23 PM·58 votes·18,161 views

Seriously she looks exactly the same as many other women in the game: .

I know they might look a little different, buf if you analyze their facial features up-close, you will notice a lot of similar features. It's kinda hard to explain it in english but they all do share many similar traits, the most prominent being a small mouth with big lips.

I think Riot shold go into a more 'exotic' look. I mean, I'm gonna grab Natalie Dormer as an example (I know some people might not find her attractive, that's fine). Many consider her face 'weird' but many still consider her pretty.

I think the beautiful girls of LoL that have original faces are: young young . This excluding the childs, the yordles, the robots and the ones with their faces covered.

In way, I think this is what is turning people off with Kai'Sa subconsciouly and not the fact the she isn't 'deformed'. That fact that she isn't 'deformed' it's because she learned to adapt in her new envoriment. If you're stranded in a lost island and learn how to survive, you're not suddenlu gonna turn into a panther (although this is not a very good example since the Void isn't a jungle nor an island).

Sorry for long post.[slayer-jinx-catface]

170 Comments

Sharjo2/21/2018, 7:55:11 PM45 votes

Yeah that's my problem too.

Being conventionally attractive isn't in itself a problem, even if it is pretty boring in this day and age where the majority main protagonist is that.

My problem with Kai'Sa is that she's another one added to the 30+ lasses with the same face and body shape, aided in silhouette only by very specific design elements, in this case her giant shoulder cannon things. While her cannons are perhaps among the more striking silhouette breakers for lasses with this body type, along the lines of Vi's gauntlets, Bristle for Sejuani, and Cassiopeia's snake arse, she also does very little within her non-shoulder cannon design to differentiate her from the other lasses.

While in another game she might befairly unique, in League she's generic as hell.

And it's hella disappointing after we've had lasses like Camille Illaoi Jinx Kalista Kindred (Half of them anyway) RekSai Taliyah Zoe , who did break design moulds and stand out as unique in the roster.

This wouldn't be as much of a problem is League wasn't inundated with sexy women, but it is, and seemingly they just kinda decided to not factor that in when making Kai'Sa? I dunno I just figured we'd get something more interesting out of this concept. Not sure if I've been as dissappointed as I am by Kai'Sa than by any champion release prior to her.

Lightwellian2/21/2018, 7:17:24 PM14 votes

Eh. The Runeterra seems kinda small. Maybe women just tend to have that one trait.

As for Kai'sa, I really think they should've gone less with the standard LoL anime chick portrait, and gone off in a different direction with this. I mean, she looks a bit too much like Ahri. Maybe if they'd headed just a bit closer to Kerrigan or some sort of re-imagining of Zagara, they might've had something a bit better.

Anyways, is that the standard profile for Icathians? The only one I know of is Jax, so maybe it makes sense?

Zombie Slayer2/21/2018, 7:08:38 PM14 votes

She looks like Katarina with Evelynn 's body.

And also just because she's learned to adapt in a place doesn't mean that she wouldn't change sure you wont turn into a panther if you are thrown into the jungle but you wont be like you normally are when you lived in the cities.

DonatellaVersace2/21/2018, 10:06:50 PM6 votes

Natalie Dormer is GORGEOUS

Margaery Tyrell <3

1Free Hong Kong12/21/2018, 11:33:16 PM6 votes

Yea, I agree with this 100%. I don't really see anything interesting with Kai'sa's design when we have a good dozen+ female characters that are highly sexualized. Riot took the cool concept of a woman bonding with an alien being of another dimension and turned it into "a woman, but like, in a latex suit with a big cleavage window" I've been pretty happy with their character design of women lately, and I'd felt like they'd come a really long way since the release of Nami and Elise (oh look, two other characters with big ol' skin tight clothes (or scales) and cleavage windows for no reason...) but this honestly soured me a lot. I feel like this is the least interesting place to take this design because "a hot girl in skin tight clothes" is done flipping to death in video games and even specifically in League of Legends. Considering her character has nothing to do with being sexual (unless somehow she was seducing void monsters) I don't give a flying heck about any justification Riot can come up with for why she looks like this. It would just be a Thermian argument anyways.

Akali Prime2/22/2018, 9:31:54 AM5 votes

lets not forget the thin bridged nose every woman seems to have lol its almost as if other nose types dont exist

xelaker2/22/2018, 5:24:28 AM5 votes

RekSai beautiful women come in all shapes!

ZER0 22/21/2018, 7:28:14 PM4 votes

Idk, I like her. She looks like me.

KennysDreamGirl2/21/2018, 9:51:12 PM4 votes

you forgot the most beautiful of all Zoe

Tesla Effect2/22/2018, 4:00:16 AM3 votes

Magic and corruption in leage makes women sexy while men mutate horribly. Now thats sexism, I want my sexy mutated men to be the norm. Varus