The new Nunu skins. Why pull another Frostblade Irelia, Riot?

Axzarious·8/24/2018, 2:36:20 AM·5 votes·2,618 views

So i'm looking over the skins, and while most are pretty rad save for Nunubot being a bit of a tossup from the looks of it... Why go full Monsters Inc for Grungy Nunu when it's supposed to be something more like Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch with a trashy, junkyard theme? While the abomination that was the new Frostblade Irelia was at least TECHNICALLY in line with the skin's name, this skin looks like it belongs in the skin line with Renektoy and Pugmaw rather than what it was supposed to be in the first place.

9 Comments

KestrelGirl8/24/2018, 2:43:35 AM6 votes

You need to listen to Nunu Bot's lines and check out his dance to truly appreciate it.

Automated Riven8/24/2018, 2:43:42 AM2 votes

The art crew is taking alot of liberties lately.

VoraciousX8/24/2018, 9:47:21 PM2 votes

I honestly agree with this. I was looking at the skin and was like "This isn't the Cookie Monster skin...."

Ebonmaw Dragon8/24/2018, 10:12:34 PM2 votes

I guess that it is because Oscar and the Cookie monster do not have 4 arms and antlers... and Nunu now leaves the back of the Yeti and Oscar would never leave the trashcan as far as i know.

What im trying to say, is that the old theme would not fit with the new body that Willnump has.

Umbral Regent8/24/2018, 2:41:17 PM1 votes

Nunu & Willump Bot, I personally like the thematic direction they took for it. It'd probably be weird for it to be the whole "robot yeti with the upper half of a robot human attached", and the battle-bot theme does work pretty well with Nunu & Willump. IMO, it was a creative leap that worked super well.

As for Grungy Nunu & Willump...I find it kind of funny that people (as far as I've seen, anyway) consistently point out Monster's Inc (and I can see why, with the monster pajamas & hat), but I'm surprised nobody else seems to see Where the Wild Things Are in it.

I think the main idea behind Grungy Nunu & Willump is that they wanted to keep the whole "reference to children's media" easter egg about it, but didn't want to rip straight off of something like with the old version (Oscar & Cookie Monster), so they decided to amalgamate other children's media (Monster's Inc and Where the Wild Things Are, as far as I could see) to keep the skin's general thematic valid.

...this skin looks like it belongs in the skin line with Renektoy and Pugmaw rather than what it was supposed to be in the first place.

Renektoy and Pugmaw? Why not Dino Gnar, Moo Cow Alistar, Meowkai...Etc. - y'know, other skins that involve pajamas? Just sayin'.

MF is my Waifu8/25/2018, 1:03:59 AM1 votes

Irelia

"Abomination"? Her already-incredible ass was buffed.