User blog comment:Xyclone010/New Skin Trend From Riot/@comment-3391671-20180408223044

Blogs are a space for free opinion, so I like what you're going with here, although I believe this enters conspiracy theory territory in speculation.

I state this because it's somewhat a given that some skins will turn out better, while others will seem not as good. It's all part of preference, and in part what can be assumed to be a narrow approach to the topic.

I say this because you limit your findings to the latest 3 relaunches... which is to say is not the smallest sample I've seen when someone has argued a point, but is still a bit small. How about or  or ? I'll take it that to you, these three had some nice enough skin updates that there wasn't anything to complain much about. But if that's the case, I feel that you are limiting the scope of the "trend" to a year, and that may be too restricted. Of course, I say this when I believed RITO's word that they were going to non-sexualized or thematically out-of-line champs, when that didn't really feel like it came to fruit with champs like or. But... that's my opinion of the trend they should have followed.

Evelynn= Anyways, back on track, I find that that judging "520 skins getting too much" is a bit of an unfair argument when judging just Evelynn and the recent ones, because as of late, as seen with the updated champions above, old low cost skins got dramatic changes to their visuals, including attaining lots in the sense of VFX (Look at that mighty ). I believe RITO wants to rid of how low cost skins in the past were simply what is now known as Chromas by giving such skins a makeover. Meanwhile, good skins becoming bad may just be the judgement of how we are still attached to how well they looked compared to their old look ( being an example); the quality of the skin itself did not drop, but the gap between the base skin and the respective "good skin" became small, thus making it seem bad. Let's not forget, some of those examples, such as, were recent skins and RITO may have judged that they didn't need much change. As to whether this was a legitimate claim... I presume we can agree some of the skins could have gotten better even if they were recent skins. Swain= Stating "this-is-old-Swain-skin" is true and clear, although I would believe to say that are still apparent in the skin, although not as much before (and for good reason as we know). With, because the Ravens were so embedded into its design, taking it away would have had more backlashes than you are giving credit to. If anything, as a 1350 skin, I'd just ask for some more effects, because as mentioned before, this is the same effect of "old skins getting better effects, while new or already good ones do not" which causes a lack of distinction between whether Tyrant is better or not. Just change perspective on the issue for Swain than lining it up as part of this "trend" you talk of. Irelia= And now we have Irelia... who you took advantage of to make a seemingly "and here I propose a new skin" which makes it feel like that was why you posted this question: you just wanted to babble a new skin idea. This one its own isn't bad, but it feels bait-y, because in honesty, I would have wanted to hear other ideas on how RITO has been treating skin for relaunches. If anything, "new skin immediately for relaunches" is not a trend at all, because the only previous occurrence was with, and only because, from likely thought, RITO had in the secret works, but found that releasing it before his relaunch would have less impact and a loss of resources. Let's not shoehorn that RITO has the idea of giving relaunches new skins off the boot without some proper thinking of what they've said about skin lines requiring time and resources. It's not "too phenomenon and out-of-no-where to be consider coincidence"; as explained above, it has only occurred only once, so suggesting that it's a trend is your over-excitement.

I recommend when you post these big topics, you keep yourself up-to-date, even if there are no responders (excluding myself). By being prompt and up-to-date, you show that you legitimately want the case to be answered and not one-off it with a skin idea. For example, did get a new recall (though I find that both the new recall isn't much inspiring and her icicles not the right shape), so remove that from your claims. The coincidence that the skins you loved are now not as lovable, and visa versa, may just be that coincidence. If anything, those two skins were her most recent skins (yeah, Frostblade was in 2012), while the others were before. Haven't I already made the claim that "old skins becoming much better has a greater effect than the new ones being improved"? Irelia Agreements= But I am with you, the way and  has become are underwhelming, especially in their blade design. There could have much done for both of these, but they happened to get the lower end of the stick. Your points for Frostblade are what I too believe, as the blade could have been made into something else than "I'm icy sticks of... whatever nature." When they stand still, they are sorta alright (though could be better), but they do become horrible to look at when they sail through the air, or just form into a shape aside from fanning out. I blame it on the over-symmetric nature of the icicles. As for her outfit... I don't think it makes her look normal, but surely isn't the most inspiring of looks for a Frostblade skinline.

While the blades are not symmetric for Lotus, they could have gone with something else. I believe we can agree that the light coloured edges may be one factor as to why the design doesn't work. The colour scheme for the blade themselves may be even at a fault (pasty white with light pink-purple...?). If the edges did glow, as the splash shows, maybe it would be acceptable, but RITO didn't go for it. I also feel that this skin lacks "Order of the Lotus" in its design, and would re-implement the Decorum (that thing that floated behind Irelia before) behind her and add new animations for the blades, without changing costs of course. New skins= As I mentioned before, I feel that the way you've presented this blog feels like your way of tailoring "my idea for a new skin." If you kept it at "will the upcoming champs get new skins," then alright, that sounds like a legitimate end note. But with all the rocky arguments, it's unappealing to have done it like this, because if anything, these don't justify why any new champ will get a skin immediately after launch. If RITO went "we want to celebrate every relaunch with a new skin from here on," then maybe. But as said, Swain was nothing but a "right moment to get that Dragon skin out" gig.

Elderwood Irelia... doesn't sound bad, but sounds plain atm. Her ult is also a "spade," not a leaf shape, though I can see why you would believe it so. But as mentioned, it's rather plain to make a plant-based skin just because the shape of the ult looks like a leaf. It's a possibility nonetheless, but if that was on a poll of "which skin next" as they did for Illaoi... I don't think I'd ride Elderwood Irelia as much than, let's say... Pool Party Irelia.