User blog comment:KaiserLos24/People Complaining About Champion VU's/@comment-4022742-20140521102159

Well, there is some valid point to the negative feedback. They removed Karthus's skeleton features, which was kind of a thing for him and people playing him.

However RIOT is an international phenomenon right now and they have to consider cultural stigma's. Which is also why they changed the icon for (on top of it needing work since it was graphically inferior).

Some design decisions are inevitable for RIOT, even if they wanted to preserve these features to satisfy their players.