Infernal Akali: I'd like the skin I paid for please.

Edgar A Pwn·8/4/2018, 2:28:59 AM·7 votes·3,827 views

I don't tend to like most of the reworks Riot has done over the years, however, Akali is one of the exceptions, I actually quite like this one. That said, when I tried her out in the PBE a while back, I was rather annoyed by the fact that Crimson Akali had been replaced with Infernal Akali. I haven't said anything until now because I wasn't irritated enough to make a big deal out of it, but now that I've used the skin on release, I am pretty pissed. I want to say it was about four years ago when Crimson Akali went Legacy, I decided to buy the skin because I liked the way it looked and I have an unhealthy obsession with things you can't get anymore, or at least only sometimes. I played Akali a good bit back in the day because of it, but what's essentially been done here, is that the product that I paid for has been replaced with something that I wouldn't have purchased otherwise. To put it bluntly,_ I've been forced to pay for something that I didn't want_. I'm perfectly fine with Infernal Akali existing, no matter how much I don't care for it, but I, and I assume (or maybe hope) many others, would much rather have the skin that we paid for. Redesigning a skin to "modernize" it or simply work better with the new champion is dandy as well, but I don't think outright changing a skin like this, especially Legacy skins, should be an acceptable practice.

So, as a long time player, I'd like to ask any Rioters to please discuss this at HQ and try to bring my favorite Akali skin back, and hopefully keep this from becoming a recurring issue. I believe that if this continues with other characters, it will do nothing but piss more people off.

16 Comments

KestrelGirl8/4/2018, 2:45:11 AM11 votes

Crimson Akali was literally just a red recolor, which is why it was redone into Infernal.

Noor Sakata8/4/2018, 2:50:52 AM4 votes

You know her Crimson Skin was just a chroma , and that's why reworks exist

Noor Sakata8/4/2018, 11:53:17 AM2 votes

Man you should chill about it , it's not really that big , they made it better anyway , when reworks happen , skins will be reworked too , tho if you're still on it, try sending a support ticket and ask them to get your RP back , that's the only thing you can do

Edgar A Pwn8/4/2018, 4:09:44 AM1 votes

I should've addressed this argument in the original post: "Crimson Akali was just a recolor, effectively a chroma today."

Sure, but so was Shadow Evelynn, and that's still here, no longer a recolor. As was Nightraven Fiora, still here, not a recolor. As I stated previously, it's perfectly okay, even preferable in some cases, to redesign a skin, what I'm against is removing/replacing skins with something entirely different. Even if they just put new Akali in the same clothes as Crimson Akali, it would no longer be a recolor because she isn't wearing the same garb as before in her default skin.

MadSeer8/4/2018, 5:04:20 PM1 votes

Well, they could just make it a free Chroma for people who had the skin. Problem fixed.