User blog:Xyclone010/New Skin Trend From Riot

Riot currently start a new tricky trend with their reworks recently. In the 3 most recently reworks (, and ), the skins change quite a lot. And, these changes also one of the most controversal one. When good skin becomes bad (Safecracker,  Tyrant, Frost Blade, Order of the Lotus), bad skins become good (Shadow, Northern Front, Night Blade and Inflitator). Note: The Tyrant and Inflitator probably just my opinion.

Evelynn
Shadow Evelynn gains too many changes for a low-tier skin, whereas Safecracker vfs was unnoticable and a bit unrelated to the theme.

Shadow Evelynn is the only one with new VFX for W, a different color scheme for her skills and has a new recall. Safecracker, used the same color scheme and the new electric both is not releated to the theme and not very visible.

Swain
Swain is quite weak compare to the other two champions. Northern Front would probably just an old skin that get updated to the next tier. He has many changes and the theme is quite fit to his new theme.

The Tyrant skin is straight up copy from the old skin, with little adding like the new whistle while dancing. This skin probably for the ones who miss the old Swain and just want to be a demonic bird again.

Although Tyrant is a bad skin is only my personal opnion, the this-is-old-Swain-skin is quite clear. The bird theme is taken away from the basic Swain and emphasized in the Tyrant skin. Basic Swain theme maybe the best for him, but the existence of Tyrant skin make me wonder, is Tyrant a gift for old Swain Main, or is it a money trick.

Irelia
Irelia rework, aside from the gameplay (not that I dont like it, but that I quit so I cant test her), is a wonderful gift. Her model and animation are just so good. However, her skin make me thinking.

Somehow, the old skins really attracts me. Night Blade, Aviator and Inflitator are all skins that I may consider buying if I play her. But then, I realize, the other 2 skins are the skins I would buy pre-rework. That makes me thinking: How can I love every skin I didnt love, and dont love every skin I used to love.

I know that Inflitator has take away the hi-tech aspect from Frost Blade but Frost Blade could be much better.


 * Similar to the Evelynn Case, Inflitator has new recall but the Frost Blade does not.


 * Both Inflitator and Frost Blade get very noticable new shape of blades. The inflitator one is beatiful, but the frost blades I find to be ugly. They are so dull and so in-shape as if they actually not natural ice, but actually some kind of decoration. Frost Blade skin itself seems to be a mixed of 2 themed.
 * Her outfit saying: Hey, Im just a normal girl with normal cloth, and I can control ice
 * The blades saying: these are holic blades and she is somewhat holy (a priest?, a god?). That makes me thinking, if the theme is the first one, then use natural ice instead of these. If the blade is holy, then she is too normal to use them. If she is a magic girl that trying to hide her magic, then how the hell her blades are flying.

Riot has made good skin before, and there are also good skin in this rework. But how did they manage to make such a bad mixture of outfit and blade. As if it was purposely made bad.

New Trend
If this trend is real, then I think you should hope one new trend is also true. Swain gets his skin one patch after rework. It is too phenomeon and out-of-no-where to be consider concidence. If this could become a new trend, then Irelia, Akali and Aatrox probably have new skin this year. What skins you think they would have? Obviously rework can change them a lot, so let's start with Irelia. What is your next Irelia skin idea?

For me, it's Elderwood Irelia, where she use leaves instead of blades and her ultimate is leaf shape, so perfect-match. Elderwood theme would be: A jungle where plants are dominants and are all carnivore. Hecarim and Bard is the dominant plant. The animals feared of the plants and has to blend in, to avoid the plants and also to hunt others. Spiders is Elise, mantis becomes Kha'Zix, and dragonflies becomes Leblanc.

Not all plants hunt, Bard is a plant that just love to travel and make friends. He makes friends with the mushroom critters (the meeps) and promise to protect them. Although he does not enjoy killing and are quite small compare to other plants, he is powerful enough that no plants would messing with the critters.