Frostblade Irelia splash and ingame tweaks

Xodiathe4bdn1·3/24/2018, 5:26:23 AM·44 votes·7,993 views

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1T9194fgRKM/WrWUlAQkLNI/AAAAAAAA8GI/o451j4TRMB0Z6JY0ekJIsKN7H2BjReSfACLcBGAs/s1600/39004.jpg https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8EAheF0kHwY/WrWudSaD73I/AAAAAAAA8JM/ZYj1tUGhGls5MOi1ANLT1o2LUpV_3vHfACLcBGAs/s1600/irelia4.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5LRyC6TpQo8/WrWudcHmZWI/AAAAAAAA8JQ/GDKL1H9oHO8mEeegQY8lIYX7WLYk3feYgCLcBGAs/s1600/irelia4turn.jpg The color change of her hair and the removal of that awful scarf are a HUGE improvement Nice job riot*[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]* Edit: still needs more work though

67 Comments

LankPants3/24/2018, 7:43:42 AM16 votes

It's definitely getting better. I think there's still some changes to be made though. I tried to make a quick edit showing what I think it would take to be a good skin, although I'm a shocking artist so it looks pretty bad, but I think the direction would be ideal.

https://i.imgur.com/cLRin3T.jpg

The changes are basically

Removed all the fur
Extended the suit to cover upper arms and presumably upper back
Removed the loose cloth
Changed the purple on the boots to be more blue
Added gold trims to various parts of her armour

Aigis3/24/2018, 7:24:15 AM11 votes

Thanks Riot for this change:) If they can add the cyberpunk(golden line) back and remove the rest of fur which would be way better, the ice blade also can be brighter crystallized, but I am not going to push Riot too hard on this point. Thank you for listening and changing.

I've posted a showcase of someone's work as an indicator. https://i.imgur.com/79ehrQE.png?noredirect

Digielf3/24/2018, 6:41:35 AM9 votes

This looks definately more as the acctual VGU of Frostblade Irelia

Serika Zero3/24/2018, 9:09:14 AM8 votes

I like the changes, honestly, they lowered the excessive fur amount she looks way better.

I'm a bit sad that she no longer has long hair, but that's just my pet peeve, not actually something wrong with the skin. As well as a bit to thic (i like my girls more slim) edit: it feels like I'm look at Karma more than Irelia with that short hair.

I still wish her colour palette was a bit more dark blue/light blue contrast, but still quite good now. That's my only real criticism now.

Definitely an improvement over first option.

Child of the Pit3/24/2018, 6:19:47 PM7 votes

I dunno why they did not just kept the suit and all like the old skin, i feel like they are pushing it into the direction of it being a snowdown skin when it never was to begin with

SkywallkerA3/24/2018, 11:07:32 AM5 votes

i disagree, the purple hair added more visual depth and personality and the complete lack of fur looks soooooo bad. this is wayyyyyy to monochrome

Jefftiffy3/24/2018, 6:47:58 AM5 votes

I think the blades need to be made darker to match the theme of the skin. Something about their blue doesn't seem to match the skin IMO.

6FlagsFunnelCake3/24/2018, 8:21:08 AM5 votes

I'm just happy for two things:

THE BUTT...THE LOADING SCREEN and no more Fur!

50CaliberHecate3/24/2018, 9:21:10 AM3 votes

And then there is me over here who's prolly only gonna play infiltrator Irelia... cause Frostblade is just for the christmas map in my opinion. Same reason I never play Winter Wonder Karma... cause Its seasonal and I only like it during christmas xD

Purejoyce3/24/2018, 5:21:57 PM3 votes

Not perfect, but definitely better than what they had before. IMO they should delete the fur from her arms as well tbh. It's really not needed there.

Lord Phazanor 3/24/2018, 10:06:41 PM3 votes

I don't see this as an improvement since it still has nothing to do with Frostblade Irelia. No matter what you do to a dog, it won't become a cat.

Valaran Nara3/24/2018, 6:39:04 PM2 votes

I like how she's looking more and more like Killer Frost https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/002/542/046/large/olga-solovian-killer-frost-concept-by-olchas.jpg?1462917951

Blitzball Player3/24/2018, 7:29:00 PM2 votes

Her ice blades still look off to me. Maybe the blades look too blunt or the shade of blue is throwing me off, but I can't see them as "ice blades"

PaladinNO3/25/2018, 11:56:26 AM1 votes

The removal of that scarf was beyond words the best thing they could have done to clear the view of what we want to see for sure.

Don Lupus3/25/2018, 4:26:07 PM1 votes

Definitly looks better now! Although still a generic-winter-warrior style, the outfit looks cool and smooth and the blue hair look less goofy. Still not really feeling the crystal-texture of her head and the color of the blades (I think they were better before they changed the color).

rtbf553599093/25/2018, 7:00:35 PM1 votes

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Żügżwäng3/24/2018, 4:37:23 PM1 votes

It's definitely better, but the old Frostblade had a suit that emphasized her bust and her butt.

While her butt is definitely more prominent, no one asked for Kardashian a#$ as the main feature. The gold armour around the suit kind of propped it up and framed the features that you would be interested in.

It's like in Gestalt psychology, where you are seeing what's in between, not what's being shown.

Her bust here is covered with some sort of random armour piece... not sure why.

at least they're fixing it.

Nylisa3/24/2018, 5:12:19 PM1 votes

i was already happy with this skin this just made it even better!

Forhonor3213/24/2018, 8:05:44 PM1 votes

It's definitely better but still needs some work. Idk, a lot of people have been comparing this to Killer Frost a bit and I can see that and that's what is putting me off from the skin. I didn't buy the skin for that I bought it because it was a combination of frost and tech together.

I still don't agree with their direction of pushing this towards making a cohesive theme of Winter Wonderland/Snowdown feel with frost skins because then it doesn't feel like we can have any of those kind of skins that feel outside of that theme.

Pinkaj3/24/2018, 8:22:55 PM1 votes

I kinda liked the old blades more, where there were lighter patterns on the blade, but she definitely looks cooler (lol) without the scarf thing.

PurpleKingCrazy3/24/2018, 9:52:03 PM1 votes

Yea Pretty much I've heard about the Irelia trailer before this was a thing to come by in release. I'm actually glad that Riot themselves fixed some of the problems the LoL community considers and I think it's all going to come together.

Taliyah

Baneofthewicked3/25/2018, 3:17:52 AM1 votes

I'm gonna miss the old skin's samus reference but am happy an acceptable amount of butt remains.

The Soulforged3/25/2018, 3:20:30 AM1 votes

I just want metal blade handles.