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DJ hype
Topic Started: Feb 3 2015, 10:38 AM (1,873 Views)
501st Big Mike
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All the Arcade Sona skins just got outdated.
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AbiwonKenabi
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Feb 3 2015, 03:11 PM
All the Arcade Sona skins just got outdated.
All one of them. :P
Edited by AbiwonKenabi, Feb 3 2015, 03:50 PM.
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Tofuology
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Feb 3 2015, 11:53 AM
If you love a champion, you can never have enough skins. I own all the Lulu skins and I'm still waiting for a Pool Party Lulu. Pls.
I own every Poppy and Karma skin. I feel kinda awkward about it.
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Feb 3 2015, 04:29 PM
AbiwonKenabi
Feb 3 2015, 11:53 AM
If you love a champion, you can never have enough skins. I own all the Lulu skins and I'm still waiting for a Pool Party Lulu. Pls.
I own every Poppy and Karma skin. I feel kinda awkward about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWfcNx4gMuY

Trin wins.
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Just got off of playing her on PBE. She's still a bit bugged so all of her sounds aren't in place but I think it's safe to say DJ Sona just dethroned Frostbutt Irelia for finest booty in league of legends.
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Kaynunot
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Ugh, just one more skin Riot totally didn't need to release this patch. I'm calling it now: There will be more Skins this patch than there will be Gameplay/Balance Updates. Worse, all the skins are on people WHO DIDN'T NEED THEM AT ALL!

I'm going to die of Old Age before Riot gives Swain a new skin...
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rinsujo
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Someone (on boards i think? maybe here...) said that dragon tamer swain was on their radar, and sort of hinted that maybe that would be this years ultimate skin
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Zondervain
Feb 3 2015, 04:48 PM
Didn't last 10 seconds until i got annoyed by him and turned off the video.
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rinsujo
Feb 3 2015, 09:00 PM
Someone (on boards i think? maybe here...) said that dragon tamer swain was on their radar, and sort of hinted that maybe that would be this years ultimate skin
Sounds more like a legendary if you ask me. Ultimate Skins typically have more to offer than just "X character has a dragon now". I mean, it would be cool to see Swain turn into a big honking dragon, but I think that could be accomplished with a legendary skin, rather than an ultimate.
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Kuronan
Feb 3 2015, 08:42 PM
Ugh, just one more skin Riot totally didn't need to release this patch. I'm calling it now: There will be more Skins this patch than there will be Gameplay/Balance Updates. Worse, all the skins are on people WHO DIDN'T NEED THEM AT ALL!

I'm going to die of Old Age before Riot gives Swain a new skin...
LCS is going on, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're holding off on making actual substantive changes. There's nothing quite wrong with that for now. Although they did say that this patch cycle would include changes to those that need compensation for DFG's removal, including a tankier Morde, and maybe some Veigar changes. That'll be a bit later though I bet, probably next week.

Generally champions that have lots of skins have them for a reason. They're usually more popular, or have more to work with, or just are easier to make skins for.
Swain, for example, has two models and a plethora of particles, and doesn't see a ton of action on the rift. He's sort of high risk, low reward. (from their perspective as content creators.)
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Kwon Ri Sae
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On one hand, I love this skin, resembles a bit of Hatsune Miku. Particles, design, is truly amazing.

However, some short-term effects:

-Sona permabanned in ranked
-Sona always feeds in normals
-Sona, Sona everywhere.
-Rito philosophy:
•Release amazing skin for champion
•Said champion becomes super popular
•Rito makes money
•"Lol let's nerf this champion to troll everyone."

This bothers me.
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rinsujo
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Feb 3 2015, 10:37 PM
On one hand, I love this skin, resembles a bit of Hatsune Miku. Particles, design, is truly amazing.

However, some short-term effects:

-Sona permabanned in ranked
-Sona always feeds in normals
-Sona, Sona everywhere.
-Rito philosophy:
•Release amazing skin for champion
•Said champion becomes super popular
•Rito makes money
•"Lol let's nerf this champion to troll everyone."

This bothers me.
They've been pre-emptively nerfing her. If she gets nerfed after this due to the skin...
I don't even want to consider that. Please don't. My heart couldn't handle it.
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They're forced to make changes to champions that get overly popular. Not only does the community start to demand nerfs to get people to stop playing said champion, that champion also starts to get stale after so many plays. People experiment with that champion so heavily that Riot needs to mix things up to keep them interesting.
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Kaynunot
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Feb 3 2015, 09:25 PM
Generally champions that have lots of skins have them for a reason. They're usually more popular, or have more to work with, or just are easier to make skins for.
Swain, for example, has two models and a plethora of particles, and doesn't see a ton of action on the rift. He's sort of high risk, low reward. (from their perspective as content creators.)
The problem with this is we all know that releasing new skins for Champions cause a Boom of Popularity for that champion depending on the quality of the Skin (Literally HALF of my Tumblr Dash is DJ Sona and it disgusts me) while Unpopular Champions remain Unpopular because there's no reason to pick them up. (Jungle Diana maybe? Nah, Nautilus got a new skin, going to go buy that and try him out!) Riot needs to take more risks and make skins for unpopular champions, it will encourage playing less common picks and possibly get some new mains from it.

Also someone somewhere mentioned Lips on DJ Sona is creepy and looking at the model I have to agree, Concussive is my favorite out of the three but it's mostly because she actually looks pretty digital.
Edited by Kaynunot, Feb 4 2015, 01:02 AM.
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TerraBooma
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I like Kintetic, the music is awesome :D

And maybe, but look at the skins coming out:

Naut? Sivir? freaking ASHE of all people? They aren't popular. I see your point but it's not like it doens't happen. Hell look at the valentines day skins. Varus and Annie.


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It is confirmed by Riot that the skin team works on whatever they want. They don't have an agenda beyond specific cases (like ultimate skins or the Victorious/Championship/Challenger line), so each artist works on whatever skins they want. The reason there are no skins for unpopular champions is because nobody on the skins team wants to work on them.

Which strikes me as unfair, but I don't run Riot.
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AbiwonKenabi
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I don't think that's it at all. I mean we are getting a pretty cool skin for Varus, are you calling him popular? Annie already fell out of popularity when they were making her the Sweetheart skin. Ashe, Nautilus, Sivir are all getting skins are not popular champions at all (I suspect Sivir will see more play, but that's more related to her seeing pro play than getting a skin).

Riot doesn't have some hidden agenda, and the skin release schedule is affected by a myriad of things. Its affected by popularity or the passion of individuals on the skins team yes, but a skin can't be made by one individual, its made by people from different disciplines. They decide also based on time since last skin, what ideas are floating around for the champ and also how easy/hard it is to make a skin for that particular champion.

We got a new Rumble skin not long ago, and he had been long due for one (the first one since his release). They gave us a skin for a semi-popular champion whose rig is a little harder to work with, so required a little bit more work. Meanwhile, Varus is getting a skin, its been awhile since his last one and he has some nice particles to make a really nice skin theme, that also coincides with an event. They've also been talking about the Dragon Master Swain skin forever, we're gonna get it eventually. I wouldn't want them to rush it out either...if Rumble is any indication, they try to make the wait worth it (I mean seriously, its not like Swain doesn't have skins. I personally like all of his skins and his General skin is easily one of the coolest skins out there).

I for one, love what they are doing with DJ Sona; they took a neat concept and really pushed the limit with it. Sona hasn't gotten a skin in a while anyways, I mean Arcade was over 2 years ago now. Sure she has a lot of skins, but that's what happens when a Champion has been around for a while. (Hell using the Swain example again, Sona has 5 skins, only 2 more than Swain, and 2 of those Sona skins aren't even available anymore).
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WOOP WOOP
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TerraBooma
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I just want Pink fire on Sweetheart Annie.
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AbiwonKenabi
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Yeah, pink fire would be nice. But Tibbers tho....
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