Odyssey Jinx is a Serious Slap to the Face

Eternal791·9/11/2018, 4:34:06 AM·1 votes·2,585 views

I love the skin Riot, but next time you focus on a character in a skin trailer, make sure you focus on the one actually getting a legendary skin. I was super hyped to get another legendary Jinx skin only to be extremely disappointed to find out Kayn got it instead. I mean, I can understand why you would give it to him since Jinx has a legendary skin and Kayn doesn't, but still, that trailer was excruciatingly misleading. Please never do it again. Or work on a new VO for Odyssey Jinx.

12 Comments

Sukishoo9/11/2018, 5:07:48 AM8 votes

Just cause the teaser focuses on one character doesn't mean it HAS to be a legendary for them. We've had many times where teasers of all kinds aren't what them seem. Like the Zyra Dragon egg teaser made it look like she's be getting a legendary skin then since they used to do a lot of promos in imagery first, and then a video would come, but nope just a 1350.

Then we saw had that other teaser since with that spooky blood moon tone that people thought would be Yorick at the time and ended up being Jhin. Or the magical floating sword that turned into Janna instead of Shen.

So teasers from riot aren't always what they seem. Sure they got the voice of Jinx to come back and do some new audio for a promo and they usually only do that if it's for a legendary but I th I k it was a nice change. Bringing some more life to the characters in the cinematic rather then it also being on the skin. Cause Jinx base persona is still pretty much the way she acted in the video so it's not like she was really gonna have much else to say.

mrmeddyman9/11/2018, 5:49:27 AM5 votes

That's just unreasonable. Why compromise the quality of the trailer just because the champion with the highest quality skin isn't the focus???

What could the trailer from Kayns' perspective add? Jinx was chosen to be the focus because she's on the odyssey team and can explain what her fellow crewmates are about and because her personality is more conducive to having a fun tone to the video.

It's not misleading because anybody can obviously find out the quality of the skin by going to the store page before the skins come out and checking before they spend their money. You have preconceived notions to how this should be done in your head which is why you alone find it confusing,

RageLessPlayMore9/11/2018, 5:09:29 AM3 votes

As a Jinx main i'm happy with it. It looks like a good enough skin and she has plenty of others already. Kayn only has one skin anyway, so giving him a legendary one doesn't seem that overboard.

Zapzya9/11/2018, 5:53:48 AM1 votes

It's also a teaser for the event. You play as the Oddyssey team, so it makes sense.

iiGazeii9/11/2018, 5:22:16 AM1 votes

I think it's more of a slap in the face to the people who play champions that haven't gotten a lot of skins. Kayn is relatively new, but he gets a new skin before

Camille Ivern Kled ?

Would giving Ivern a place on the team over Malphite have been too close to the Guardians of the Galaxy vibe they were going for? A galactic police officer (Camille) hunting down the group of outlaws makes more sense than Kayn. Kled could have easily been one of the team members. He'd be a more endearing captain than Yasuo, that's for sure.

Umbral Regent9/11/2018, 4:51:49 AM1 votes

I don't really think it was misleading. All we saw at the beginning was a short clip of Jinx correcting a camera and saying "there".

Besides that, Riot doesn't always need to focus on the Legendary skin for a given release - look at the recent High Noon teasers. The initial teasers didn't have any particular focus on Thresh, Lucian, or Urgot, and (barring Urgot's little Fear Beyond Death piece in the trailer) the focus was split between Lucian and Thresh in the trailer.

And, of course, they've not made any particular precedent about not focusing on Epic skins (or even teasing just Epic skins) in the past - with Immortal Journey and Blood Moon being two that I can recall right off-hand that had no Legendaries, but still featured a teaser. (albeit both of them only teased a single Champion - Janna and Jhin - neither took the ultimate spotlight.)

JoeAnarchy9/11/2018, 5:28:48 AM1 votes

wait jinx isn't getting new voice lines for this skin? really? D: