Talk:Nami/SkinsTrivia/@comment-138.37.218.204-20121204085003/@comment-82.27.55.69-20121205172208

To    Zergthefiregod and posters who agree with him,

Do you know why...no one mentions the male 'eye-candy' as you say? It is because by using Varus, Sion etc as comparison you basically address the lack of variety in design for the female department. Which basically means it is a non-argument and you prove the problem is prevalent. Why?

Firstly, I'm not trying to be aggressive here. Secondly, it is BECAUSE of the variety in the male department we see complains about female character design. Riot tends to break the norm and go wild with the guys. Like you mentioned, Varus has almost no clothes to Garen who is covered in armour and to Maokai who is a talking tree and to Nocturne who is just a shade really. But the female designs tend to retain the feminine facial features of a human female, and of course the upper body section as well. Their design tends to be more limiting. For example, lets take Elise and Nami. I personally would have prefered Elise to look like a monstrous half-spider with mandibles dripping with venom, 8 eyes and so forth. And why not? It would be a unique design for amongst the female champions. As for Nami, the human features perhaps cannot be ignored -mermaid was their design direction afterall- but lets say they covered her up and gave her more fish like features instead. Would that not be unique? I think it would be :).

Lastly, I feel the 'OMG you can't see their breasts in-game lololol' argument is very weak. Their models are afterall based on the splash art and it allows the art team to get away with it by using that as an excuse to not innovate. That being said, I am really looking forward to their next female champion and see if the keep their 'non-hypersexualised and hero-like female' promise because they could very well break it in her skins.

Hope that helps :)