I don't know if people will agree with me when I say this, but I love the Sewn Chaos concept, and I think it would be a huge shame if this skin line were to disappear.
Which begs the question, if we knew the quality that Riot was after and met said quality for these skins, would we still be interested in the skins overall?
Edit: I just noticed I did a terrible job at titling the discussion. Sorry!
I feel like the issue was that these skins did not feel 'Sewn Chaos' they had this really weird teddy bear motif, and it felt like they were trying to appeal to Annie's lore, more so then the skin-line created alongside Orianna's release. I don't think the champion selection was necessarily wrong, I just think the Skins team vision was a little bit clouded because there isn't really much to work off of. Orianna's skin is very old, and very out-dated. It doesn't give riot much room to say "This is what people like about this skin". It's more of a situation of "People like this Orianna skin on Orianna."
That being said I'm not sure it was entirely necessary to scrap the skins, I just think they could have gone through some serious re-texturing. Add in little patches and more notable seams. That way they could have met that patchy, gritty, worn and torn creepy look that Orianna's has.
The quality felt lacking, but that's because Amumu and Blitz had base skin particles that make the plushie doll skins awkward. Increasing the quality from 750 to 1350 and giving them full particle overhauls would fix any awkwardness these skins had.
loved swen chaos orianna sewn chaos kindred might be a cool idea, wolf and lamb like puppets or somethin
I'm upset that these are being removed. then the support site tells me to post in content and creations about this ( after I tried to open a ticket to complain tbh) then my post gets deleted and I'm told to post here???
I dunno, this just added to my saltiness about these skins being removed.
The fact that new Sewn Chaos skins were even considers speak to what could be Riot believing it's a worthwhile skin line to pursue, though I'd imagine they wanna look at that skin line hard before trying again.
While I personally don't have much interest in the Sewn Chaos theme, threads commenting on the skin's cancellation have had plenty of people coming in saying that they really like Orianna's skin, and so I feel like there's potentially a decent demand. It was really the individual skins here, not the theme itself. I'd encourage Riot to try again with this skin line in the future.
The colours were really weird. I really think they should look similar to base skins except stitched up. Amumu was a good choice but Blitz was a terrible one in my opinion.
A problem the Amumu skin had was that it was "readable" as Teemo.
These champions were not the best choice, they do not really fit the theme in my opinion. Something like Sewn Chaos Kalista where she is holding a needle and is attached to her passive partner with thread would be cool imo.
They just need to pick better champions, Blitzcrank with those feet and electricity particles looked nothing like a "Sewn Chaos" and they really need to add particles to give that feeling of thread, cotton, wool, etc. on every ability.
I really wish Riot would at least acknowledge the many posts about this.
They should have made Sewn Chaos versions of yordles and other animal-like champs such as Volibear and Alistar. I don't even think Amu & Blitz were bad choices, just not the best choices and were not executed that well. Their models on SR really just didn't look very "sewn chaos", just kinda chaotic and messy.
I think these skins easily meet 750-1350 value. Some particle effects, more focus on the remodel to give it an "evil toy" look. Tho I don't think these two new ones really fit the bill as much, part of sewn chaos is the "chaos" bit.
Riot, you done fucked on your skins for once.
I think what made the sewn chaos skin so successful on orianna is that she is an inanimate creation brought to life It was never cute it felt creepy,evil and twisted. I feel champions such as Syndra, amumu, Annie, Mundo, hecarim, eve, malzehar, kassadin, kallista, reksai, Elise, morgana, velkoz, varus. Champions who lend them selves towards dark and twisted. I've even felt a bit inspired and drawn my own twisted sewn chaos syndra.
