Legendary skins should be focused on older champions, rather than new ones

Zeanix·9/10/2019, 3:00:26 PM·73 votes·19,985 views

The problem with the recent legendaries is that they’re champions who are quite modern and new, which means they don’t have that special quality transformation when they get a legendary.

There’s a lot of champions that are old enough to feel outdated, but modern enough that they don’t really need a visual update any time soon. An example was Vayne, a champion who is quite old, but when she was given the legendary PROJECT skin, it created something special and unique with its new auto and ability animations. Others include Ahri with Star Guardian, Zed with Galaxy Slayer, Ashe with Project and Teemo with Omega Squad.

There’s a lot of candidates that fit this category like J4, Soraka and Nami. They’re old enough that a legendary skin on these would have so much better quality with newer animations.

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Chembaron Yamada9/10/2019, 3:09:20 PM29 votes

Additionally, legendary skins can provide an opportunity for Riot to update the voice lines of some of these champions along with it, since they have to get the voice actor involved anyway for them.

It is the biggest reason why I made a post asking for an Orianna legendary skin, since she is not as outdated that she will get an update soon, but her voice lines are absolutely contradicting her lore. But her animations feel outdated as well.


So please give me legendary skins for these champions, Riot: Blitzcrank Jayce Orianna Singed Twitch Vi Viktor Zac Ziggs

mrmeddyman9/10/2019, 6:52:35 PM13 votes

Pyke Xayah Rakan

Were all very disappointing for this reason

The only time Riot ever got me to open my wallet for this game was for Leona legendary which was god-tier and made one of my favorite support champs even more fun to play with 100% refreshed animation.

Blitzcrank Karma Leblanc JarvanIV Lulu Nautilus Rengar Graves Khazix MonkeyKing Varus Talon Sejuani Sivir TwistedFate Vi Veigar

These champs all have decent playrate, are from before 2014 and do not have a VGU planned soon. These champs should get legendaries not new champs keep all of their old animations. Those are not worthy of legendary status.

Shadowkirby149/10/2019, 6:53:17 PM8 votes

I believe the new standards for champions getting Legendary skins should be among the following:

  • Must not be a recently released champion (Sylas, Qiyana, Neeko, Yuumi).

  • Must be a champion that's been in the roster for at least 3 years.

  • Must have at least 4 skins.

  • If the champion's reworked, it must wait for approximately a year to get one. If they already have a Legendary skin, then they're qualified for one but still have to wait (Galio, Nunu & Willump, and Kayle).

  • Must not be a champion that already has a Legendary skin; exceptions are champions that have more than one Legendary (Legacy) skins back in the early days of LoL (Annie, Cho'Gath, Corki, Twisted Fate, Dr. Mundo, Olaf, and Kog'Maw). Fiddlesticks and Draven are still qualified for a Legendary because those are made for the fans.

Naalith9/10/2019, 8:03:19 PM6 votes

Legendary skins for older champions are amazing for the reasons everyone is stating. It's more than just a fresh coat of paint, but the new animations basically breathe life into champions worth PS2 level art and it's amazing.

However, I don't think the issue is new champions getting legendaries as much as it is intense laziness on Riot's part. Look at Odyssey Kayn, it released a year after Kayn who is pretty new and still got completely new animations. Shadow Kayn flips into walls and does way cleaner spins and walking cycles, while Rhaast has new animations to match an uncompromising killing machine.

Riot could've similarly made new animations for Pyke, but nope. He gets emotes only. X&R have new animations on their spells but nowhere near as crazy as some legendaries get. I think Riot has just mandated that less work goes into the skins, like many other areas of the game. It's sad because they let the art departments put out such high quality stuff but I guess it's changing. Splash arts like Qiyana and newer skins (PROJECT especially) just aren't as good and the skins match.

Unique champion designs? Naw, they don't sell skins so no monsters since Rek'sai in 2015 (or 2016 if you count Aurelion). Fun events to hype up players? Naw, let's just throw grindy quests at players. Cool new products to boost revenue? Naw, let's do scummy stuff like take away loading screen borders and certain colored chromas and lock them behind obscene bundle costs so mains feel like they have to pay up to get a complete product, plus rng loot box garbage like Little Legends and event orbs all day long.

Tl;dr it's less of a problem of these skins being for newer champions and more an issue that Riot's standard for art is dropping like other aspects of this game.

T2K Baka9/11/2019, 2:25:48 PM3 votes

How come katarina doesn't have a legendary skin or even ultimate. She's been the poster girl for league until season 8. Sure she has lots of skins, but why couldn't one be at least legendary or ultimate. Ryze should be getting ultimate skin since he was the poster boy for league, not a legendary.

IAintDarius9/11/2019, 1:20:27 AM3 votes

Older champions don't need legendaries, they need visual updates.

Ionian Vulpix9/10/2019, 8:19:54 PM3 votes

Maybe they don't want to do skins for older champs because they either aren't as popular as new champs or they are planning to put in larger scale work on them at a later time, and thus don't want to have to redo multiple models and champion rigs.

Akali Prime9/11/2019, 7:58:15 PM3 votes

waiting Katarina on Katarina a Katarina legendary Katarina skin Katarina for Katarina

ShyImagoghnar9/13/2019, 4:06:24 AM2 votes

legendary skins are focused on champions that reliably sell skins

Pumpedhero9/11/2019, 1:16:01 AM2 votes

ngl galaxy slayer was kinda bad compared to any other legendary besides maybe pyke. they both kinda bad. need more legendaries that are actually decent instead of the dogsh*t we got rn.

Khâmul9/11/2019, 9:56:16 AM2 votes

That's not how business work

PlacidV999/10/2019, 9:54:39 PM1 votes

Older champions won't bring in as much money as the 15 champs that they pay attention to so they won't do it.

Leadboo9/11/2019, 1:31:14 PM1 votes

Where is my Dark Star Aurelion Sol Rito? This is a travesty.

9 09/11/2019, 12:34:21 AM1 votes

A Legendary Malphite skin sounds rock solid.[slayer-jinx-wink]

TisBis9/11/2019, 12:08:48 AM1 votes

good post

StainIess9/12/2019, 2:34:38 AM1 votes

Or they can take an outdated as hell champion that needs a visual update and give them a legendary skin that uses the same set of shitty animations from the base skin anyways because why the hell not?

Udyr :(

D2Vincent9/11/2019, 7:00:55 AM1 votes

Gimme Karthus Legendary Skin please. I might just go back to playing the game again XD