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Addressing some issues with Project: Vi

Zâdkiel·11/10/2017, 12:51:27 PM·10 votes·1,179 views

Yo,

Funnily enough the only time I've ever posted was addressing concerns with the last Vi skin, Warring Kingdoms Vi. Similarly, I wanted to address the issues with Project: Vi. Although the concept of a Project: Vi skin is great, the current iteration, in the nicest way possible, looks horrible.

Without making this some long ass reddit-like shitpost, I just wanted to quickly summarise what, I believe, are the main problems with the skin:

  1. The base colors of the skin look bad, excluding discussion of the gauntlets for the moment, the brown-green mesh of colors are dull. To me there's a dangerous line of mixing colors that are of that pallet, literally makes a sort of mud mess. It doesn't look remotely Project themed at the moment.

  2. The gauntlets. Vi's main distinction are her gauntlets, there are two problems with the Project style gauntlets at the moment. Firstly, the color, I'm not sure what happened here, but Vi's current color look exactly the same to Leona's and Master Yi's... pretty lame if you ask me. Secondly, the "Project" style effect seems really lazily done and honestly has been referred to as "an infernal look".

  3. The gauntlet colors don't match the visor. Now this one is really confusing, I can't really tell if it was done on purpose, doesn't seem likely though.

Honestly, I think the particle effects look really good, just a shame the skin itself looks dreadful.

Of course, in my opinion, the skin colors should be changed because they're just way too similar to already existing Project skins (Master Yi, Leona and even Yasuo are all within that Orange-Yellow spectrum). Honestly, I think the color should be changed to maybe an electric blue or maybe even a teal.

Honestly, I doubt the skin will be changed this drastically, this late into its development cycle, but it's really disappointing because the skin at the moment just looks terrible.

What are your issues with the skin? Comment down below.

TLDR; The skin looks bad, a brown-green mesh of colors just make it look muddy. The Project colors are way too similar to Master Yi and Leona. The skin itself doesn't match well (visor and gauntlets don't match).

P.S. sorry for the shitpost. ;)

4 Comments

Axecelerate11/10/2017, 3:07:52 PM1 votes

Yeah the gauntlets look awful.

Rivenne11/10/2017, 9:07:04 PM1 votes

Vi NEEDS NEON colors or with PINK MOST of her skins has that and are very enticing and desirable, kindly don't make this a COLD and STALE skin for Vi! Orange doesn't work on Vi! Vi getting a project skin is great, definitely would do better making her fists go hot neon PINK like her usual theme with pink colors. Vi MUSTN'T go without pink or neon colors! A color mix near Project: Fiora or Katarina's would work.

MAKE VI PINK AGAIN!Vi

Ahri Baka11/10/2017, 9:14:35 PM1 votes

Vi is one of my favorite champions in the game , I wanted her to get that Legendary skin , not Vayne , that's all ///

Witchblade11/11/2017, 12:03:18 AM1 votes

I used to main Vi. I kind of think this skin looks godawful, which is the only thing keeping me from picking up the Project Pack. She looks nothing like a project skin, to be honest; Vi looks like someone wearing brown clothes with some neon stuff on her face and hands. Every other project character has been completely covered in geometrically sharp, neon, sci-fi-looking gear.