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Championship Shyvanna Feedback Thread (crossposted from the forums)

Oharris·9/25/2014, 3:41:47 AM·5 votes·1,943 views

I saw the reveal of this skin on Surrender@20 and am incredibly happy with it. I only have two real points of critique and one may already be planned to "fix". Firstly, she doesn't have a numeral for season IV anywhere on her. I think the numeral would help the skin look cooler, especially if it was very visible between the wings on her dragon form. The space on the dragon's mid back is fairly blank (possibly because they intend the numeral to go there already).

More importantly (in my opinion) is her feet and legs. The human form of the outfit is heavily armored and very bulky. This makes her look like the badass toplane/jungle tank I know and love. All the way until you hit her legs. Her boots are designed to look like her dragon form feet (a cool concept), but are very thin and spindly in contrast to the rest of the outfit. What's worse (again, in my opinion) is that the boots stop at the thigh leaving her upper legs exposed. For an outfit that is so heavily armored I think it looks a bit silly for her to be exposing her thighs like that. Especially with so many of her other skins exposing plenty of flesh.

In conclusion I think the skin's overall design would look more consistent if she had full leg boots/greaves that had a bit more bulk to them like the rest of her armor rather than skinny little boots that stop mid thigh (even if the boots look like her dragon form legs). Thanks for reading.

PS: Maybe make the axe blades on her right hand weapon a bit smaller. They seem to clip through her in a lot of animations.

15 Comments

Life Of Nami9/25/2014, 3:43:47 AM4 votes

I do think her boots need a bit of work, but I do not want to see heels again like they did with the Ice Drake skin. Ice drake is my least used skin with shyvana because of those heels.

Tarot Senpai9/25/2014, 3:53:51 AM4 votes

I really like the idea of the dragon feet, but I agree, the "boots" don't really fit. If they were bulkier and more armor-like and still looked like the dragon feet that'd be really cool. My sentiments on the skin are quite the same. Though even if these things don't get changed (but I hope they will) I'm still very excited. The shade of blue is really nice and I love the particle colors. It feels like that shade of blue doesn't get used enough.

Captain Danger9/25/2014, 4:25:29 AM3 votes

Here's something I posted in another thread, and on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2hegf2/riot_indepth_critique_of_championship_shyvana/

First off, let me praise Riot for choosing Shyvana for their new Championship Skin. Shyvana is one of my favorite top laners (even as she's fallen out of the meta).

I have severe concerns about her Championship skin. From a conceptual stance, Championship Shyvana is a knock out of the park. The palette is also a great change from what we've come to expect. The primary issues with Championship Shyvana is her human form, specifically her head. Her head and helmet lines deviate in a drastic way that make human Championship Shyvana look bloated and unusual. To be blunt, Shyvana's Helmet and hair combine to make her look like a peanut. I have several tweak suggestions at the end of this post.

The Artistic Concept of (human) Shyvana

To analyze where Championship Shyvana goes wrong, we have to look at the artistic concepts that guide the design of her human form. Shyvana is a sleek and powerful hand-to-hand fighter who will get up in your face, and then turn into a powerful dragon form when her fury has reached its maximum. Her human form is defined by her sleek, muscular body, her long ponytail, her battle helmet, and her gauntlets. (Of course, Ironscale Shyvana does not have a helmet... we'll return to this.) The underlying geometrical structure (the lines) for all of these shapes are a downwards V.

First, let's focus on her battle helmet from an overhead perspective: http://i.imgur.com/gO3lPxA.png

The overall shape of the helmet is a V whose tips curve inward: http://i.imgur.com/Yd2nKy8.png There are additional lines in the center that add a secondary shape, but again, a V is what defines the overall structure.

Now let's look at her face: http://i.imgur.com/x2Exqlp.png

The sides of her battle helmet slant downwards, suggesting a v-like shape: http://i.imgur.com/P9FpV05.png

From this low angle, you can see an inverted V on the top, but again, a V-shape on the bottom. http://i.imgur.com/PnP4bbm.png

Ironscale Shyvana

Ironscale Shyvana notably loses Shyvana's helmet, but you can still see the downward V structure dominates the form:

It's even clearer with the face how the sleek V lines of her hair take away from the overall roundness of her face:

Boneclaw Shyvana

The Vs dominate Boneclaw Shyvana's form. Look at how her helmet has multiple Vs and sharp lines, all leading down. The hair/headband thing also once again sleeks out her roundface.

Darkflame Shyvana

Darkflame Shyvana is somewhat an inversion in that her helmet lines from overhead is an inverted V, but the overall structure remains extremely angular. The sides of her face are once again are made sleek via the downward V of her helmet.

Ice Drake Shyvana

Ice Drake Shyvana is a return to the Boneclaw style where the Vs dominate the form.

Overlord Forte9/25/2014, 7:08:46 AM1 votes

I'm curious as to why her base skin is blue (formerly gray) but all her 'alternate' skins have her as white. (Ice Drake gets a pass for it being a winter theme?)

She's the only one that has such peculiar and jarring differences, where usually the nearest 'skin change' champions only have one while the others match the base.

exiledFromBadmen9/25/2014, 2:41:31 PM1 votes

It's AWESOME!!!! Time for more plays! item 3160 Shyvana Instabuy111!!1