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I am Carlos on expanding old skin lines

Storn Saroe·2/6/2019, 2:18:49 PM·8 votes·8,494 views

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/b/b4/Udyr_SpiritGuardSkin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181021103528 A bit slow to the punch, one of the things RIOT I Am Carlos, mentioned that after the success of High Noon and Pulsefire last year, they'd look at expanding and revitalising some older skin lines this year, So my question to the community is what old skin lines do you think have potential to be possibly brought back and expanded upon?

As an example I think Spirit Guardian has a lot of potential to be further explored and expanded into its own skin line with Native American influences. The spirit guardians could be those with the ability to tap into their totem or spirit animal in order to protect some sacred land from some threat (Could be Titan-like creatures or aberrations who knows). Spirit Guardian would be the master of this order (he is an ultimate skin after all) and be the teacher of four apprentices who all possess spirit animals. My pitches for the four apprentices would be (Bear-Beserker/Brave with tomohawks), (Turtle-Shield is a giant shell), (Tiger-explains itself), (Eagle-Because Spirit Valor).

Later on this could also be expanded with totems that are different to Udyrs such as a Native American style (Fox), (shark), or . And then the aberrations defiling the land could be an opportunity for some of those monster champs in need of skin love like .

Another avenue would be to do spirit/totem like iterations of Volibear/Rammus/Rengar/Anivia instead of humanoids although Anivia is just about to get a skin so...

Anyway what skin lines do you think we could see that have a lot of untapped potential?

19 Comments

Chembaron Yamada2/6/2019, 4:56:08 PM4 votes

Considering that the skin got updated, I don't know if it counts as an "older" skin, but I would like to expand the Kaiju theme.

We have a whole bunch of Mecha skins, which are supposed to fight the Kaiju, making these skin lines a reference to movies like Pacific Rim. However, there actually is just one single Kaiju skin in the game.... Giant Enemy Crabgot.

I would love to see more monstrous skins like that, maybe even teasered with a video showing a rift that is going to open and spew out new Kaijus to fight. My personal picks for that skin line: Rammus Turtle based Kaiju. TahmKench Frog based Kaiju. Galio Possibly bat based?

Another idea: Ninja skins. We have champions dedicated to that fantasy, but there is just one single Ninja skin in the game, given to Rammus. I think there is good potential for other champions to dip in that thematic.

Xayah Kunoichi Xayah (throwing shuriken for her feathers) Ekko Ninja Ekko Camille Kunoichi Camille

Personal taste: I also think we need more chemtech skins.... We have tons of Hextech skins, yet there is just Tryndamere representing its dirty brother.

And looking how Warwick and Urgot worked out visually, I think this thematic is absolutely awesome and I would love to explore it more.

Sejuani Chemtech Sejuani, give her a chemtech motorbike and a chain with a green flask as her weapon. If she stuns, then the enemy isn't covered in ice, but green goo instead. Green tubes on her bike represnting if her passive is up. Camille Chemtech Camille, basically she is just chemtech augmented instead of hextech. Graves Chemtech Graves, chemtech augmented thug. His Q is throwing a green vial instead of a bullet shell, the explosion is poison green. Green gas screen for his W instead of smoke.

Additionally, when Dr. Mundo gets his VGU, then they should rework his Toxic Dr. Mundo skin (which is basically just a green chroma) into a Chemtech skin, just like how they changed Crimson Akali into Infernal Akali. It would fit the thematic and he could look really badass with tubes and all that stuff sticking out of his body.

Bonus points if Riot makes an entire Chemtech event out of this. Imagine if we would get a new Chembaron champion, alongside with Chemtech skins and missions for loot. They could even use such an event to update the lore of the last 2 Zaunite champions which didn't have their lore updated, since both have inherent connections to Chemtech: Twitch Singed

Oleandervine2/6/2019, 4:35:18 PM2 votes

I don't think this skin line has a lot of potential considering that it would be difficult to achieve a similar feel without resorting to making all future additions 1820 skins, since I don't think basic particle changes can accomplish the same style of spirit guardian as Udyr's changing forms.

For skin lines I think have a lot of potential for expansion, I'd like them to delve into Doctor/Nurse (Nurse Soraka needs to exist), Sewn Chaos (Amumu and Blitz were failed attempts, but there is a lot of potential if they expanded the Amumu one and went with new faces like Camille), and Road Warrior/Vandal.

GreenLore2/6/2019, 2:50:59 PM2 votes

This is a really cool idea,but I kinda doubt that riot would base a whole skinline around Udyr until Udyr got a VGU.

After all they already expressed some thoughts about Udyrs potential VGU and one thing they once brought up was to make his spirit forms more freljord-thematic,like making his bear-stance literally based around Volibear and the phoenix-stance based around anivia.

This means that some of Udyrs forms could very well be completely replaced by new ones,so using them as the base for a skinline could very well be rather weird once he finally gets his VGU.

Neamean2/6/2019, 4:58:19 PM2 votes

I want the RPG skin to return they can up the ante beacuse they won't be 750rp skins.

Story aspect they can goes just about any route being the nature of those skins.

As for skins the one I one most is Adventurer Udyr where each form is a different class.

Wild Geese2/6/2019, 6:47:05 PM2 votes

This was never a skin line but I'd love to see it become a skin line:

Outback Renekton! I wanna see more of these Australian outback style skins, maybe add a twist - mix it with some Occultist/undeath in there?

Some champs that'd be cool in the theme, imo... Illaoi Kindred Teemo Quinn Olaf Malzahar Udyr Rengar Annie MissFortune

Yordle Xayah2/6/2019, 7:43:09 PM2 votes

I'm honestly quite surprised that we've had zero support for the Chosen line, with so much Star Wars as of late.

WE NEED MORE LIGHT SABERS

Brutalitops012/6/2019, 4:18:30 PM1 votes

The thing about Spirit Guardian Udyr is that it's an alternate lore-based skin. In the canon lore, Udyr left his training early. In this alternate timeline lore, he completed his training. While it would be a cool idea, there would be no real way to do it without revamping the lore around the Spirit Guardian Udyr skin. The dojo that trained Udyr is the same one that trained Lee Sin, too.

QMighty2/7/2019, 7:49:39 AM1 votes

I know they technically already expanded it, but I still want to see way more Elderwood skins, or any skins from the Eclipse line. Some great Elderwood/Death Blossom ideas include Kindred Velkoz RekSai Skarner Shyvana Thresh

Placentas2/6/2019, 5:11:13 PM1 votes

i like this idea