Praetorian skins - WTF

Fegone·10/24/2018, 2:35:34 PM·5 votes·4,352 views

WTF does Praetorian have to do with metal blades, Robotic metal armor, Cyborg Gear? Anyone care to explain?

And by the looks of Fiddle's ult, it would have been WAAAAY better to call him Full Metal Fiddlesticks, the flying blades looks a lot like Full Metal Rammus blades when he ults. THAT would have been cool.

But Praetorian? Come one Rito, PLS!

17 Comments

GreenLore10/24/2018, 2:50:58 PM7 votes

Honestly the Fullmetal skinline is kind of a mess anyway. Jayce looks like a human in power armor,rammus looks like a robot made from scraps and pantheon looks like he is just wearing armor.

The Fullmetal skinline doesn't really have a unified aesthetic.

Chembaron Yamada10/24/2018, 2:50:26 PM5 votes

it would have been WAAAAY better to call him Full Metal Fiddlesticks, the flying blades looks a lot like Full Metal Rammus blades when he ults.

Maybe you are onto something there. Rammus is tier 1 VGU and like we saw with some Akali and Nunu skins, they don't have a problem with changing the skin names and themes in a VGU.

Maybe Full Metal Rammus will get changed to Praetorian Rammus after his VGU. [slayer-jinx-wink]

TheSnowyLeopard10/24/2018, 5:02:56 PM1 votes

Praetorian means a great warrior, or the best soldiers doesnt it? A pratorian from whatever franchise you are thinking of just used the word, they didnt make it up though

Sukishoo10/24/2018, 8:33:30 PM1 votes

The ULT would only be cool if they removed the Crow sounds, its absolutely weird.

AbiwonKenabi10/24/2018, 8:38:36 PM1 votes

I guess it might be their rank? Like in the robot army or something?

The skins themselves remind me of Omnics from Overwatch. Like the Bastion units from that one PvE game mode. Uprising I think it's called.

Could have probably had a better name though. They probably wanted something military but somewhat unfamiliar.

Ðeath XIII10/24/2018, 3:29:56 PM1 votes

Its to designate them as evil robots.

HommeGoujon10/24/2018, 3:08:10 PM1 votes

They must have smoked some real nasty shit. Some guy heard of the word, didn't bother checking out what it refers to and thought: "that sounds quite badass, let's do this!"