Ezreal & Rumble icon fix - removing dramatic lighting/glows in character icons

Dustogrei·11/17/2014, 7:31:35 AM·41 votes·6,368 views

I'm not the first to bring this up. The new Ezreal splash is awesome, and has some really cool lighting. But when you look at just the icon, without the rest of the picture, there's no reason for his face to look blue. I think it's fine for the splashes to take certain artistic liberties, but with regards to the icon the lighting looks weird, doesn't look like his model, and it reduces in-game clarity. The most important thing about the character icons is to be able to quickly recognize who it is from just a quick glance at the mini-map.

Without blue glow + slightly more blonde http://i.imgur.com/QnklDjB.png

Current version http://i.imgur.com/yy6vPvP.png

Also at the end of the game in the results screen the icons are especially small, and details are lost, so it's especially important for the colors to be representative.
http://i.imgur.com/oLmNfUo.jpg

Same thing with Rumble - badass splash, and because he's surrounded by fire he has some red hue on his lower face and his fur color is more purplish, which is fine, but in his character icon it's distracting and he doesn't look like Rumble like in the old character icon.

Without red glow + more cyan/blue http://i.imgur.com/mE35yJG.png

Current version http://i.imgur.com/Z0Xu1ER.png

With the cyan coloring you can easily tell it's Rumble even with a smaller image. http://i.imgur.com/gwFAfP0.png

So I hope Riot considers fixing these icons, and hopefully in the future doesn't just create a badass splash and then crop out the face for the icon - but also makes the necessary changes to make sure the icon as a standalone looks greater/more representative than the old one.

19 Comments

NamesRHard11/17/2014, 4:29:25 PM6 votes

I agree with OP. I'm probably just a baddie, but I find a lot of the new icons much less identifiable than the old ones. The new splashes look great, but don't always translate well to a tiny circle on the mini map. Maybe after more games I'll get used to it.

Ad Astra per Asp11/18/2014, 3:22:09 AM5 votes

I agree, it's dreadfully hard to tell Veigar from like Gnar in the minimap and even rengar it's all so... the original icons had big basic shapes and simple colors so even if you can' tmake out details it's recognizable. It's alot harder to recognize now imho.

ALLIIAN11/17/2014, 7:36:48 AM4 votes

I love it

Squeaky Dreemurr11/17/2014, 4:38:09 PM4 votes

Some fine work. Hear our pleas, oh Riot.

Jungle Lux God11/17/2014, 6:05:32 PM4 votes

I really like the Rumble icon change. It really looks like Rumble, and you can really tell that it's Rumble.

To be honest, I didn't realize that Ezreal had the glow of his gauntlet on his face in the icon, and didn't realize how distracting it was, although to be honest, I don't think there is too much of a difference between either Ezreal splash. You can tell pretty easily that it's Ezreal regardless of whether the gauntlet glow is there or not.

kDrakari11/17/2014, 7:59:50 PM4 votes

I think the "current" rumble icon looks better than your proposed change, though I haven't exactly looked at his in-game model closely so it's possible your version is more accurate to that, but I completely agree on Ezreal. It doesn't look like THAT big of a deal in the full size version, but in the small icon he looks completely blue for no reason.

Diljic11/17/2014, 6:14:59 PM3 votes

I agree that some of the new icons need better clarity. While reusing the splash is nice in the sense that you have unity between the two on a high rez display the tiny icons need clarity above all else.

Junkο11/17/2014, 5:44:08 PM2 votes

Rumble needs a new icon, it looks like a head on a stick. Not to mention that they removed 99% of his clothes

Farranor11/17/2014, 7:48:17 AM2 votes

I think the blue glow for Ez emphasizes his gauntlet without needing to see it, which is good in my opinion. Same for Rumble and the red for his Flamespitter. I mean, should Urgot lose the eyepatch and face mask because you can only see the rest of his mechanized parts in the full splash? /shrug

Bloodpaly11/18/2014, 8:57:07 AM1 votes

All these new icons are too fking annoying to tell at a glance looking at the minimap mid game while important stuff is happening.

But that doesn't stop them from making a new one every day.