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Just a teensy tiny small request :3 (Leona Splash)

Steel Lady·7/22/2018, 3:16:25 PM·22 votes·9,711 views

Uhm, hi guys and Riot, I was wondering if I could ask if we could have Leona's splash arts updated? At least her original splash.

Her splash art seems to be the last and the only splash that portrays the champion just standing in front of a plain color background. It looks very outdated compared to the splash arts we have today. All she does is stand and smile, it sort of doesn't give her overall champion archetype justice. Leona's always been the wonder woman of League of Legends, the badass sword and shield wielding goddess of the sun, but her splash portrayal doesn't seem very godlike honestly, looks more like an awkward prom photo, no offense splash designers.

I just wish you guys would consider it and not wait for a rework of some sorts (don't rework her gameplay omg pls no).

Leona is the blinding light of Targon and it'd be absolutely amazing to have that reflected on a new splash art.

(also here's leona at the prospect of a new splash art for persuasive purposes: [credits to artist])

https://78.media.tumblr.com/17a5b272d8f5fcd77241bd1107b0f2b5/tumblr_nacu2a5MJE1r1y69ho9_640.jpg

23 Comments

mrmeddyman7/22/2018, 9:48:17 PM5 votes

Imo there are outdated splashes that look serviceable but there are only two that are really bad at every resolution

Leona Skarner

If riot redoes these two then the overall quality bar will jump because in my opinion these two are the worst. Even outdated splashes likeHecarim Fizz Ashe Look decent when you pull the camera out. Skarner and Leonas look pretty unprofessional.

Also not out of the ordinary for Riot to make a splash when they can divert splash art resources from new skins and VGUs XinZhao base splash MissFortune skin splashes Varus base splash

Asking them to move Leona and Skarner into that. "we can afford to make an extra splash this month" territory isn't asking a lot

Shmeeve7/22/2018, 5:17:15 PM4 votes

We need more honor to Leona so this emote would do.

PRAISE THE SUN (T)/

Warlord Rhinark7/22/2018, 3:23:33 PM3 votes

How is updating literally every splash art Leona has a "teensy tiny small request"?

One splash art alone can take hours, even days to make.

Jeddy0177/23/2018, 2:45:22 AM2 votes

I would like to see her & all of her motherly beauty with some updated splash love. Though I would also like to see her a bit of a VU with a small design update, new model & an updated VO. But all that is asking for too much, so I'll just stick with wanting a new base splash.

Will she get a new splash any time soon? I doubt it. They recently had to put a cap on the splash art updates. This was the year where VGU'd champs have a lot of skins that needs to be update. Technically last year as well, but this year brought the increased focus on VGUs. Between the VGUs, new champs & skins, it will be very hard to dedicate artist to working on splash updates for non-VGU champs. And even if they were, I doubt Leo would be their 1st choice. There are plenty of champs who have been VU in the past who didn't get update splashes. Plus the champs who are stuck with the Chinese splashes, which......ugh (I feel bad for Sivir). So we're going to be waiting for Leona for a while.

Summonah123697/22/2018, 9:49:49 PM1 votes

Look at some of Gragas' skins though. One of them looks WAY worse than Leona.

Terozu7/23/2018, 12:14:31 AM1 votes

I entirely disagree.

Her current splash art is amazing and is easily on par with modern ones. For the longest time it was basically the best splash art. It shouldn't change.

CarameI Frappe7/23/2018, 1:35:24 AM1 votes

I don’t care if it takes them a year from now ... please update her default splash. Her face looks pretty bad and her pose is so generic it hurts me.

As a Leona main, I just want to wear the default skin at times without having to see her default splash on the left side when it looks so outdated. Please Riot :(