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I am offended by the new Splash Art updates

TheHobbits··21 votes·4,123 views

So if you haven't heard already Riot is updating some of the splash arts to bring them up to quality of 2016 (which I am all for). Here it is if you want to look at them.

However I take offence to one particular splash art and the blatant disregard of unjust behavior.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bXRsr1aupjk/VvWrZ-a23zI/AAAAAAAAMok/7mLRLcjamJQnSEG8EPO3TXJUJo7Wm_j6w/s1600/Chogath_Splash_2.jpg

Yup. Its one of these threads again.

Seriously? This cannot be allowed to remain in the LoL because consistency. You said it yourself Riot. Smoking is bad and is not appropriate for the community in some countries.

http://oi61.tinypic.com/25zmjbo.jpg

This was the coolest damn splash ever to grace League in a long time.

http://i.imgur.com/gfggev3.jpg

This was the coolest damn cinematic to grace League to date.

http://www.devilsmmo.com/sites/default/files/uploads/images/leagueoflegends/Gravesteaser-en.jpg

Also, remember this teaser?

This is an integral part of Graves design. He is a rough-nut. A smoking cowboy with a hextech shotgun! Let him have his cigar or remove smoking from them all.

11 Comments

GreenLore4 votes

Gragas Esq. can also smoke in his splash art and its ok.

The thing is that these are skin splash arts,so you will see them less often than graves classic one. And both of them don't use regular cigarettes/cigars,which is probably why it is more acceptable(also graves is a badass,so him smoking looks cool,but gragas is a fat drunk and cho'Gath is a monster)

TheHobbits1 votes

All the more reason for smoking to either be removed or let him smoke. It's in his core theme.

GreenLore1 votes

Not really. Graves was never depicted as a chain smoker,so there is no reason for him to smoke all the time(like seriously,no one gave a damm about graves cigars until it was removed from the splash art) and its not like they don't aknowledge graves smoking at all(gangplank has a quote about it)

There is no reason to remove the smoking from cho and gragas just because graves can't have a cigar in his splash art,its the kind of "if i can't have nice things,then no one should be allowed to get them"-mentality. We should be happy that riot is able to depict smoking in skin splashes,when someone smokes non-cigars/cigarettes instead of crying that it should be removed as well.

Chaos6893 votes

Gragas exists as a thing but Graves can't have his cigar...

Mavisty2 votes

Gangplank even has a taunt for graves which is: you cant light cigars at the bottom of the sea graves ._. what cigar gp? WHAT CIGAR?!?!?!

TheHobbits1 votes

haha. Poor Graves.

SwiftKitten882 votes

i agree with riot that smoking is stupid... but it is stupid the other champs can have it and graves cant. pick and choose riot, all or nothing. you eitther give him back his or remove it for everyone.. anything less is being hypocritical

TheHobbits2 votes

Exactly. I for one am completely against smoking. I had a friend who used to smoke. (Had is the key word)

But this is a game and when you portray a character smoking in their teaser, in a fully fledged cinematic AND in a splash art then remove it because "Smoking is wrong" then you need to remove it from ALL others too.

Icy Hot Shoto2 votes

May I also point out Riot's rating? The game rating is rated T. And you know what's funny about that little rating in the bottom right-hand corner? If you look close enough you can see that it says "Use of Alcohol and Tobacco" in there. They basically ignored their own rating because "other countries are against it."

TheHobbits1 votes

That's what does my head in.

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

RogueWill1 votes

Look for Esquire Gragas...basically has the same Cigar Graves had lol

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