The new Kayn shadow assassin login screen has a different looking Ashe

Zombie Slayer··1 votes·4,178 views
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If you look at the login screen and the splash art they look different from each other. The login has some actual pants with a different design, she has a longer skirt, her stomach thing looks like its actually gold colored and designed like her other parts of her clothing, her cape doesn't have the gold designs it use too, she has a red colored gem or something on her hood as well as a different design on the gold part and no pointy part at the top of the hood, shorter hair, she has new gloves exposing her fingers and the arm bit is designed differently, new sleeves on her shirt, and her bow is designed differently. Could this mean anything? Probably it could be a update for the Freljord possibly to do with Ashe or maybe even a visual update or nothing I'd like to hear theories about the design change of this appearance change.

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Zombie Slayer1 votes

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/6mk9z8/ashe_is_different_in_the_shadow_assassin_login/

Heres the post I did on reddit if you want to take a look and post there too

Samura Yukisuna1 votes

Perhaps its just artistic liberty? Or champions actually have different outfits so that they dont have to wear the same clothes every single day?

Zombie Slayer1 votes

Maybe but why would they change her that way instead of actually showing her in the ingame clothes unless it has some meaning I mean wouldn't Riot want the champion to stay in the same outfit? Also her bow is designed different that the normal one which could also be artistic but why? It doesn't seem likely that they would just let them change more than the clothing since she can change her clothes but she can't change the weapons design?

Wrathof3001 votes

Probably, a modernization of her look, they are small changes but collectively, they are impactful in a way.

Grimm Howl1 votes

I can agree with Samura Yukisuna on this one. I'm pretty sure there is some artistic liberty in play, BUT! you have misjudged the subject of the art a tad bit, WeedWicker. First and foremost, Ashe is due for some polish on her Classic Splash Art. If you look closely at Ashe's in-game model compared to the illustration of her in Kayn's login. You will notice a more striking similarity. Ashe's classic splash is having her wear full gloves. Kayn's login & in-game on the other hand have her hands/fingers exposed. The golden hued waistband might just be for cohesivness within Ashe's design in Kayn's login as she shares the more neutral colored cloth waistband on be her classic splash and in-game model. Taking another closer inspection at Kayn's login screen, Ashe is not wearing pants. Her thighs are still exposed, the gold embellishments are just missing from her 'stockings' and skirt which is also about the same length that it should be. Other than those few things, the artist took to modernizing Ashe a bit by painting better (less chunky) golden armor for her shoulder caps, waist, and greaves. The red gem on her hood does standout a bit, and I too am curious as to why it is there. Only thing that comes to mind is an attempt at adding some contrast of colors compared to the over abundance of blue hues/values. Also yeah the intricate gold trim is missing from her cape as well, but I don't think that and the missing pointed hood really make that much of a difference.

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

Man, people like you needs to stop over-evaluating every new thing you see.

Zombie Slayer1 votes

This is my first time actually doing something like this I just wanted to see what people would think of this

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

Think what? I'm very sure about 99% didn't even care about these small new/lack of details on this art compared to her classic splash art. Maybe the artist decides to not need to put down that extra missing detail in? Maybe he decides to pretty her up a tad in the teaser without overdoing as much as a VU? That's what I meant by "stop over-evaluating things". It just looks like you have nothing else to do besides pointing out "mistakes" on the artists' efforts in creating Kayn's teaser.

Color changes from light grey to light-ish grey, and everyone loses their minds.....

Zombie Slayer1 votes

They may have not cared but I'm just looking at this art and seeing the differences and speculating I do not point out the mistakes I'm simply looking at them both seeing the differences and seeing what others who may not have cared at first take a look at the art and wonder why she was changed. Is it really that harmful to speculate? No it isn't I like to theorize and this gave me a opportunity to look at the differences and think "Why is she changed like this?" It could me nothing just a simple pretty her up like you said or it could be more. And ofcourse a simple slight color change from light grey to light-ish grey wouldn't make anyone do this stuff and think deep. But this isn't a simple change there are clear differences in the appearance of both Ashe and her weapon I just wanted to have a simple fun conversation with others on what they think of it.

GuardianReaper1 votes

It could just be from one of the other art teams on not the one who originally did the ashe art. I see this kind of thing all the time within this profession, Its just a different artist group that is working on the new champ. It doesnt have any other meaning to it.

GreenLore1 votes

We know that they currently only do full visual&gameplay updates and that Ashe isn't even among the top candidates for this,so I doubt she'll get a visual update anytime soon.

Also she doesn't wear pants,she is just wearing stockings. Her bow simply covers her right leg partially(you can see some skin on the left one)

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