NO SHORT HAIR: No idea why short hair, that's not Ahri, if it's like done/styled up - maybe, but Ahri never had short cut hair, and shouldn't. That's Akali/Orianna/Vi style. If want to make it short look, making it styled up would even make more sense, since it is a pop star image and could go for some scene image. Or make it long and give it some Taric hair physics to make it 'special'. Maybe turn it full golden during her ult only. (don't have hope this would be changed as it would require model adjusting).
THE TAILS: The tails are too obnoxiously bright yellow, it would look much better if it would have more of that half see trough crystals KDA look than just bright yellow stripes. This would be easy to fix. just some opacity/ recolouring changes. I really hope they would adjust it. This is mostly painful when seeing her run around as the tails combine into one yellow stripe. But that is usually how you see the champion ingame, no one is standing in one spot, always moving.
COULOURS: it's a bad idea to just make EVERYTHING yellow/gold. Makes it have the old chromas vibe where entire model would just get a blank full base colour saturation on entire model. Current white details are invisible because they are small and all in the front of the model. If it was white dress with golden details, would be look much more royal and prestige. I see in the splash art what was the idea with white front- but it looks poorly executed in game as that part is never visible to the player. What the player sees is gold skirt, gold tails,gold back and it looks all the same. At the moment it looks like Ahri had a Lara Croft moment at some Shurima graves, stole so much gold and has no idea what the hell to do with it. I doubt they would make so much changes to the model that it would postpone the release date as it will probably go with some kind of pass and event, but if It would be upon my decision - I would redesign the dress and hair model considering the ingame feel. Switching up colours, re-texture.....
THE PRESTIGE FEEL: Prestige Akali has her neon look of shroud that gives that cool vibe, Kaisa has her ult/ult shield that gives big vibe of all in and action. Ahri at the moment doesn't have that feel. This could be ehanced by giving colour/glow/particle changes during her ult, Something to have her special shine moment...
Conclusion: Pretty sad, I think a lot of people were excited and waiting for prestige Ahri to come out, Other people will still be hating on "oh another Ahri skin". I think if Riot wants to keep the prestige train on tracks - they should hard consider to make this skin to blow up, be satisfying and make ppl wanna go grind for it. People are already hating on prestige cash-grab, should try and make it appealing for some population.
There's so many great artists working at Riot, I refuse to believe that no one gave similar feedback about the model, concept and ingame experience.
[sg-soraka]
