Thoughts on Blood Moon Akali.

Steel Lady·7/18/2018, 5:02:24 PM·1 votes·1,983 views

In case some of you haven't seen the skin, I'll link a skin spotlight of it from youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSMEvP1vxs4&t=287s

Hi guys, just to preface this, I personally think that the Blood Moon Akali skin's overall theme and design is on point and beautifully made. I love the direction the skin team went with this Blood Moon iteration, how it's similar to Blood Moon Evelynn and whatnot.

Anyway, there are certainly things about the skin that personally I'd like to have tweaked/added, just for the sake of the skin's quality because seeing the in-game model up close, there certainly is a slight disconnect between what's seen in on the splash and what you get on the skin.

Firstly, I love the blue particles, but it seems to be a bit much for a Blood Moon skin. I know how gorgeous the blue and red contrast may be, but the Blood Moon theme is sort of losing that 'bloody' touch. It be nice to have it a little more toned down, maybe a gradient from blue to a quick purple to a deep red, if not honestly I personally prefer it JUST RED, just to keep the original red theme as the main niche with this skin.

Secondly, the flailing trumpet sleeves is missing on the skin. On the splash we can clearly see long trumpet sleeves on her dress, I just don't get why we don't get that in-game. They don't have to reach her knees, I just want to see it hanging and flying around every time she moves her arms. If you can't add the wider sleeves, then at least take said sleeves away from her splash because now you're just selling splash art and not a skin.

Finally, can we have more darker reds on her dress? It sort of just looks bland and quite frankly, the bright red just looks way too noisy on screen, just tone it down a bit, add a bit more shadows and we're good to go.

Those pretty much my thoughts on the skin. Overall the model looks a bit too noisy, too much bright red and too much bright blue, everyone may love flashy skins but this might be a bit much. Great design overall, just wished we had the trumpet sleeves since they do exist on her splash :'(

What do you guys think?

1 Comments

Sublimical8/7/2018, 12:03:19 PM1 votes

Honestly, I love the blue. It's a nice change.