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Considering how well designed icons are these days the beginner icons can really use an update, they look outclassed and give me a S4 vibe any time I look at them, but overall they look very bland in comparison to other icons.
So what do you think, do they need an update?
I'd rather they update the icons, leave the current ones and just make the updated ones new starter Icons, so people who have the old ones have Nostalgia
Particularly since Wraths and half the other things no longer exist in game. They aren't really connected to anything in game.
I'm kinda 50/50 on this... They defiantly do need to be updated, but then I'm held back from voting yes just for nostalgia purposes ;___;
They updated like 4 icons and then just gave up.
You know the icons are old when the minons look like the old minions.
i'm fine with them the way they are since riot keeps giving out free-1500 ip icons for us.
No, if you update the beta n season 1 icons, they are no longer the original icons.
I kinda like seeing them :p
They are not ugly , they are just original. Why would you change something that is legacy? I remember those icons from way before when i started playing and it reminds me of good old times. Just dont change them you have plenty of new icons coming out every patch just leave them as they are ty.
Some of them look pretty up to date imo. Tibbers, Rose, and the paw look pretty nice. Personally, blue buff has been my favorite since the start.
I feel like it'd be good to implement tabs of summoner icons: have, say, one for recently used, one for skin lines, one for events, one for esports, one for "basic", and one for "legacy". Put these in legacy, make new ones and put them in basic, have small pool of starter icons from the basic icons, unlock more basic icons through missions, unlock legacy icons at level 30 or after completing all of the basic icon missions or something. Have missions for level milestones and whatever in-game, maybe put in-game accomplishment icons based on a certain number for a single game be in a particular order... like, maybe you have to have done 7.5k total damage to champions in a single game before you can get the icon for healing 5k in a game, but you can get the icon for getting first blood, or a double kill, or first tower, or a dragon, or 100k lifetime damage to champions, or 10 PvP wins, etc. whenever. Maybe have different mission progressions for different things, like one for damage, one for CS, one for KDA, etc.
I stopped using the sprout icon ever since they nerfed it and gave it 3 leaves instead of only 2. I miss the OG sprout =/
So long as they don't change my Santa-Baron, I'm happy.
Yes.... but also NO. I have 181 icons and I'm never sure which is best.
EDIT: SUGGESTION THOUGH. Narrow beginner icons down to like 5. Then have new players actually EARN their icons... for mundane stuff, like: First kill First First blood. First assist. 200 minion kills in a game. etc...
They did update the dual swords one it used to look a bit different.
They're janky af and I like them like that.
The sad thing is they DID get an update not really all that long ago (Years yes, but it wasn't that many). Google what they used to look like, cause they were actually much worse.
I said 50/50.
Big shrug from me.
I have so many icons from events that the free ones mean nothing to me. But I've also been playing since S3 I think, so I think this thread/poll applies much more to newer players.
I think they're fine.
why do people buy the esports icons though? imo they look bland and ugly. and theyll eventually be outdated and meaningless.
They did update a few of them. For example that leaf one.
I'm fine w/ the icons... just wish there was a way to delete unwanted ones...
Nope I like them, the melee mionon one is the best
I played back when all these icons were used and more. It's a part of League history and one of the things I can put on to remember the legacy. It's good for League to move forward and keep improving. However, I believe it should leave something for us to remember the old days as well.
Update or at least add new beginner ones. That way we can at least look back and see how far we've come.
Oh, but those old icons are so... good. I remember when I first unlocked all of those back in the day. Compared to what we have now and days, they're terrible. But I don't know. I kind of like having them, if nothing else but to see how well the art has evolved over the years.
i support this idea. i am one of those who even know the older ones and was present when some icons got an update.
but lets face it: the most look kinda lame and again outdated.
so this thread should get more attention, even if icons are not the most important thing.
