User blog comment:Beatnik Doctor/A difference between old champions and newer champions/@comment-137.226.66.4-20120308125049

Actually, the whole style of the game was changed from cartoony to a more serious atmosphere. I've seen some old screenshots where Kayle was all yellow with blue-white wings and really looked a lot more like a cartoon character. By now, her styling is much more realistic. Single characters are also reworked every now and then (for example, gangplank got a new icon and a new standard skin not too long ago because his old look was quite outdated). My guess is that they changed towards a more serious design because ppl keep on praising the better graphics and graphical design of HoN, which does not look cartoony at all. Still, Ziggs, for example (a very recent character), is as annoyingly goofy as can be. And you can always get goofy skins like statue of karthus or (my current favourite) leprechaun veigar.