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Chembaron Yamada16 votes

Yes, we definitely need more chemtech skins.

In one of Riots creation contests, someone made a Chemtech Vi skin concept and it was absolutely glorious. https://pp.userapi.com/c639830/v639830637/61176/6Uxe0MNI1LE.jpg https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/012/757/405/large/alexey-gorbatov-splash-final.jpg?1536345648 (Credit goes to the designer Alexey Gorbatov)

This shows how much potential Chemtech as a skin line has, I love these aesthetics so much, I really hope that Chemtech Tryndamere won't stay a standalone skin forever...

DarkSoul19944 votes

I just really like Hextech/Chemtech skins (I like Piltover/Zaun and these skin lines do a really good job of doubling down on the regions' respective aesthetics). Really hope we get more.

YDy2ZkRq023 votes

Chemtech Vi could actually be a canon skin, in her biography she uses Chemtech gauntlets of a golem when she was still a Zaunite gangster, so it could not only shows a new visual of Vi gauntlets but also her visual back when she was a criminal. (even though the concept you posted and Tryndamere are closer to people who had all of their bodies altered by Chemtech rather than just people using Chemtech devices)

DarkSoul19942 votes

They aren't Chemtech Gauntlets - they're actually Hextech. Hextech is just any tech that's powered by/infused with the magic from Brackern Crystals. My understanding was that Chemtech was injection of chemicals + implantation of (generally rudimentary) tech augments.

MOST of the Hextech skins are completely artificial constructs. A few are heavily-augmented humans with advanced Hextech augments with no chemical alterations.

Chembaron Yamada2 votes

Chemtech generally works like Hextech, but the difference is that it is powered by chemicals instead of the hextech crystals. It doesn't necessarily have to inject chemicals in your body, it is really just defined by being powered by chemicals. It can inject them in your body in many cases, tho.

And what Atgo was talking about: Read Vi's lore. She got the Hextech gauntlets when she started working for Piltovers police, but before this happened she rescued some people by building some gauntlets on her own by using parts of a mine golem. This golem was "chem-powered", therefore the technology she used in this first case was Chemtech.

DarkSoul19943 votes

Oh, fair enough. Yeah I guess the general aesthetic of chemtech is dodgy-looking tech with tubes and tanks full of green sludge.

YDy2ZkRq022 votes

You're right, Vi current gauntlets are Hextech. But I wasnt talking about them, I was talking about this:

The final straw came when she worked alongside another gang on a smash and grab heist at a chemtech facility that had just struck a rich seam. Listening in on miners’ chatter in the bars, Vi learned when payment for the ore was being delivered, and hatched a scheme to relieve the mine’s owner of his gold. The plan required extra bodies to pull off, so Vi reluctantly brought the Factorywood Fiends in on her score. The job went to plan until the leader of the Fiends used a chem-powered mining golem to kill the owner with its oversized Pulverizer Gauntlets. His men drove the workers into the mine as he started demolishing the opening, driving the golem into an overload. This wanton slaughter and destruction infuriated Vi. It had been a perfect score and now these psychotic idiots were ruining it!

Grabbing their share of the gold, the Fiends made their escape, but the miners were now trapped below ground and would soon run out of air. Vi could not leave them to die, and swiftly donned the overloading golem’s powered gauntlets before it tore itself apart. The wrist mechanisms clamped down on her arms, but Vi endured the agony long enough to smash a path through to the miners and save them from certain death.

With the miners free, Vi and her gang fled with the rest of the gold. And the following day, Vi paid a visit to the Factorywood Fiends. Still wearing the powered gauntlets, she administered a beating to the entire gang that is still spoken of with awe by the gangs of Zaun to this day. The debacle of the mine robbery was the last straw for Vi, and she swore never to work with anyone she didn’t fully trust. She kept the Pulverizer Gauntlets, and had them modified so as not to burn her whenever she used them to break into supposedly impregnable vaults or ambush heavily armed convoys of gold, tech, or whatever else she decided to steal.

Terozu1 votes

I looked at the first one and thought, "they should merge the left one's hair with the right one's collar.

Look down and see they did just that.

Woo.

YDy2ZkRq025 votes

I would say Hextech Singed is too old of a skin to consider unless he gets a VU. "Chemtech Singed" would just be normal Singed I believe. He alredy works with Chemtech and his regular kins despicts that.

DarkSoul19944 votes

Yeah but by that logic, isn't Augmented Singed just Singed? Isn't Mad Scientist Singed just Singed?

Hextech Singed is visually identifiable as Chemtech by the game's current definition. Chemtech is basically any scraps of Hextech you can find then bolstering it with a slurry of questionable chemicals.

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