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Raise a Floppa - The Loop
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- The scene depicts her mid- .
- Her was directly tweaked for the first splash art of her skin.
- This skin shares the Bilgewater: Burning Tides theme with:
- She was inspired by 'Swashbuckler Katarina' by 'ChiZ'.
- This skin shares the Trick-or-Treat theme with:
- She was released in celebration of Harrowing 2010 along with:
- This skin shares the Soccer Cup theme with:
- She was released in celebration of the 2010 FIFA World Cup along with:
- She is a soccer referee issuing a red card.
- This skin shares the Guardian of the Sands theme with:
- She has her own taunt animation.
- Although the skin is currently uncategorized to any universe,
Legends of Runeterra artworks and skin bios confirm , the only other Sandstorm skin, is part of
Guardian of the Sands.
- This skin shares the Snowdown Showdown theme with:
- She was released in celebration of Snowdown Showdown 2012 along with:
- Her initial PBE had her pole dancing with a giant candy cane. It can be seen here.
- It was replaced with her current one where she slices the giant candy cane down instead as according to Travis 'Volibar' George, the switch was due to the animation not fitting with the skin's theme.[1] It can be seen here.
- Although Ryan 'Morello' Scott has explained that while the dance suits Nidalee because of her innate alluringness as a cougar, the same dance does not thematically fit 'Katarina in Reindeer ears'.[2] has it as her dance and it is kept in the game,
animation when she was still on the - It was replaced with her current one where she slices the giant candy cane down instead as according to Travis 'Volibar' George, the switch was due to the animation not fitting with the skin's theme.[1] It can be seen here.
- This skin's name is a pun on sleigh bells, which warn pedestrians of incoming horse-drawn vehicles.
- The one she is going to murder after bursting out of a huge present in the foreground might be .
- Her and dagger pickup animations are different compared to her other skins.
- This skin shares the Lunar Revel: Warring Kingdoms theme with:
- She was released in celebration of Lunar Revel 2015 (Year of the Goat) along with:
- She references a famous historical Chinese beauty, Diaochan from the late Eastern Han era.
- In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diaochan was fictionalized into Minister Wang Yun's adoptive daughter, sent to pit general Lü Bu against his superior Dong Zhuo, resulting in Dong's death at Lü's hand.
- Historically, 'Diaochan 貂蟬 "sable cicada" was merely a title for female palace officials, after the decorations on their hats. According to Records of the Three Kingdoms, Lü had an affair with a maidservant in Dong's household, & fearing Dong's reprisal, Lü eventually betrayed Dong.
- This skin shares the PROJECT theme with:
- A figure resembling can be seen in the background. This doesn't mean Battlecast is in the same universe as PROJECT.[3]
- can be seen in the background as well.
- The skin was initially thought to be that of a Cyber Katarina, but then turned into Project.
- She is from an alternate future in which she was cybernetically augmented as part of the PROJECT Initiative.
- If one tells they fight for 'ambition' she'll say the following:
- This skin shares the Death Sworn theme with:
- She is about to engage in a duel.
- She was released in celebration of Harrowing 2017 along with:
- She resembles the mutant known as Psylocke.
- This skin shares the Battle Academia theme with:
- and can be seen in the background of her splash art.
- A man resembling before he became can be seen in a photograph on her desk.
- This skin shares the Blood Moon theme with:
- The mask she is wearing references the ones used in Japanese Noh theater.
- This skin might have been inspired by Room 8 Studios' test concepts of Blood Moon Katarina done for Riot Games.
- This skin shares the Battle Queens theme with:
- Katarina unlocks and equips a new blade every 3 takedowns, up to a maximum 6 different blades. She can change which blade she uses by pressing control + 5 when out of combat. She always starts off with her pink blade and the rainbow blade as the last one, the other blades are randomly unlocked in between.[4]