@IronStylus, how do you feel about LeBlanc's current model?

Eh. She's not the worst offender....why does she wear strings of jelly?

Detecting serious some salt here. Leona wears blocks of cheese to hide from the sun she is supposed to worship. Her pool party skin also 'hides her from the sun'........................

Recently you have solidified Noxus' shape language and colour-scheme a lot better. (I'm a **big **fan of it!) A few Noxian champions detract pretty far from it now though, LeBlanc included.

It certainly isn't obvious that she belongs to the same faction as Darius, Sion and Katarina. On the other hand her visual read is important, obviously.

What's your stance on that for future VU's? With LeBlanc as an example, would you change her shape and colours drastically, try to make the visuals meet halfway, or would you try to solidify her as an entirely different "flavour" of Noxian?

Same goes for Urgot (Zaunite themes are dominant) and Swain (The glorious leader, while distinct, should maybe use more of the factions visual language?).

Sexy spymistress...thing. Her stripperific look is to...'distract'...people I guess.

I mean, she was designed to be eye-candy, let's be honest. But at least I can sorta see how looking and dressing how she does could help her at her job. She's kinda like the idea of the pretty stage magician's assistant, whose purpose is to distract the audience away from noticing how an illusion is being performed. Except she's both at the same time.

Though I still laugh at how she was described as 'high class' back when Riot introduced her. High class 'escort' maybe but come on...

Edit: Also to contrast her with Swain? Play up the Hot Girl Ugly Guy trope? Every time either of them are mentioned in lore, it's almost always in association with the other; especially for LeBlanc. They look like they're designed as a pair lately with the Tyrant Swain and Ravenborn LeBlanc skin pretty much being matching skins like the Tango TF/Evelyn skins are.

I really don't agree that the texture rebalance made her better. While I've stated this enough times elsewhere to become a broken record at this point, of every texture rebalance that we've gotten, LeBlanc's is the only one that I would say is downright not good (well there WERE some other not good ones, but all the other not good ones actually got fixed, while her's did not). It's at the point that if I want to play LeBlanc, I feel I have no choice but to use the new harrowing skin she got, because it's the only skin that actually looks appropriate. It's not that the colours on her other skins became more muted (though in the case of Prestigious it is particularly bad), so much as it is that the colours just don't look right. Ravenborn is the only one that ends up looking the way it should, and I don't think it's a coincidence that it's also the only skin where she maintains the pallid complexion that used to be the default on all her skins.

So I take it you aren't a fan of LeBlanc's bikini thing? I do agree that its kinda out of place.

What the hell is she and why does she wear strings of jelly?

I totally agree with you, pudding would have been better.

That said, I kind of like her strappy bikini outfit. I guess it kind of looks like what an entertainer magician would wear because it is showy and flashy. Leblanc is showy and flashy in terms of gameplay to it matches her well.

Swain's gotta eat.

Sexyness/attractiveness line up well with characters who rely on these to deceive others. Considering this is what Le Blanc does, being sexy or attractive lines up with her character rather well.

The problem is that her current outfit doesn't really communicate anything as to what she is or what she does effectively at all, aside from the fact that she can evoke erotic emotion.

Is she supposed to be a high society women who uses many of the tools, including her looks, to achieve her political social and economic machinations? If so, the look fails completely.

Ya its kind of a strange outfit but o well looks good :U!

@IronStylus

Dear IronStylus,

LeBlanc is my favorite champion, and I am in love with her current splash art. It's crisp, polished, and sexy. If you really must change it, I ask that you retain these traits. I'm particularly worried (this word is an understatement) about you all taking away her sexiness with a new splash, as this is the trend with Riot's recent art. I think sexiness meshes well with her deceptive and darkly charming nature, and simply adds to her intrigue as a Deceiver. While I own and love Ravenborn LeBlanc, I do not think it essentially captures who she is or who she should be as a base splash should. While RB LB has some sexiness regarding her large... ehem... assets, the charisma, polish, and status that she exudes in her current splash is not present.

Please IronStylus! If you have any influence over an upcoming LeBlanc visual and thematic overhaul, I beg that you would keep her magnificent charisma, polish, and skin-showing sexiness in a new base splash. I don't believe that sexualization is intrinsically bad. And I think that in the case of sly and charming LeBlanc, it's quite fitting.