Battle Boss Illaoi is an opportunity too good to pass up.

Fozza·4/19/2016, 6:46:45 PM·3 votes·700 views

I've been reading a lot about Illaoi and the fact that her "complicated kit" make skin potential for her a rather peculiar thing. Obviously, not every single skin idea can accommodate Tentacles and whatnot... However, amidst my brainstorming, I realized that the Battle Boss theme would work perfectly for her. The theme itself doesn't weigh too heavily on the 'serious' skin side, nor the 'comic relief' sort of skin, the Arcade/Boss skins are really just fun what-if's from the old days of coin op and retro bit gaming.

Now slap Illaoi into this theme, essentially, while I haven't got a sketch or anything imagine this;

She's donning a Power Rangers-esque semi digital/robotic get up, Think Greens, Purples, Teals, Cyans, and a bit of Silver and Orange too. She has your typical evil looking visor with evil eyes like Boss Blitzcrank and Veigar. Her item is like a loose parody of a chain-chomp, or a pixelly digital chest, or perhaps (and for the sake of the abilities) an ominous digital orb/cube like Boss Veigar 's ultimate (kind of).

Passive / Q: Instead of tentacles, they are big robotic arms with big hands at the end, they are dormant when untriggered, but slap down powerfully when attacking. W: Simple and self explanatory, Illaoi leap-strikes the enemy with the object, making a crackling of pixels and particles.

E: Throws out a Magnet attached to a robot arm, the Magnet has a "glitchy" aura around it, justifying how it takes your soul //hacking.

R: Sort of like a programmer activating a function, she slams her ominous cube into the ground and is sends a ripple effect of source code and C#/Java/Python/C++ jibberish, like as if she's hacking the system to summon all the appropriate arms, also add in a bunch of pixelly black explosions and orange lightning

Hope you like my idea, I know I'll have my fingers crossed for this one!

5 Comments

GreenLore4/19/2016, 9:17:17 PM4 votes

Honestly I think it wouldn't fit that good.

I mean Veigar and Blitzcrank represent iconic video boss types(veigar is the evil sorceror and blitzcrank the enemy robot),but with illaoi it wouldn't really represent much and be just another arcade-themed skin.

EDIT:Also I think this thread would belong into "concepts&creations"

cinomenapplebae4/19/2016, 10:27:12 PM2 votes

The tentacles have smash bro boss hand thingys

AlwaysByMySide4/19/2016, 10:37:22 PM1 votes

Not before Dunkmistress.