[VISUAL CLARITY] Soulstealer Vayne vs Kalista

yolabas·6/18/2016, 9:51:20 PM·13 votes·8,053 views

My main (and really only) annoyance with the new vayne skin is that it's going to make it really hard to tell the difference between soulstealer vayne and kalista in a clustered teamfight, especially to people who aren't familiar with all almost-130 champions or otherwise have lowered graphics. And it's not totally off-meta to have both kalista (bot) and vayne (top) in the same game.

Vayne: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xS-w5d7Iq-E/V2CamTJ7guI/AAAAAAAAQJo/0Mz3st9hBiwHuBNdq6oO0FkkulDtDHLqQCLcB/s640/vayne.jpg Kalista: http://67.media.tumblr.com/072eb42b549cbf0bd1523b5944ea9239/tumblr_nek3pki7VG1sajfnro2_500.jpg

The reason is that in clustered team fights, you really only see the top of people's heads. This new vayne skin, when she's facing south/down/the camera/towards the player, has a really (really) tall ponytail, similar to warring kingdoms nidalee and kalista's baseskin. This high ponytail is not shared in the other vayne skins and so isn't an immediate visual indicator that the glowing champion with sharp spiny things is vayne. In fact, the high ponytail (-esque thing) with glowy stabby things is kalista, so creating more of a visual difference between the two would be super helpful.

tl;dr: Vayne, Soulstealer Vayne, please let down your hair!

7 Comments

Forbidden Siren6/19/2016, 12:21:05 AM2 votes

If there's any consolation, that Vayne skin is Hextech exclusive, which means finding a player who uses it will be quite rare. So the chances of seeing one in a team fight is going to be uncommon. I still haven't found anyone who uses the Hextech Annie skin.

Riotmoonstones6/22/2016, 5:10:06 PM2 votes

Hey yolabas -

Thanks for the feedback! During playtests, we didn't experience confusion between champions, but I'd be happy to bring this up again to the team. :)

DrCyanide6/21/2016, 2:53:04 PM1 votes

I skipped right past this skin when I first saw it on Surrender@20 because I thought it was Kalista.