League is kinda frustrating because there are these AMAZING and FLAWLESS visual character designs like Fiddlesticks, Evelynn, Nunu and Willump, Renata Glasc, Samira, Illaoi, Bard, Galio, Kindred and Akali (I really love Lillia and Neeko and genuinely love their designs but I can't describe them as flawless, they really shy away from showing any animalistic side on their faces and as much as it hurts to admit, Lillia could've been so much better design-wise)
And then there are characters that are genuinely interesting, but the character design fails to convey them, like Zyra, Kayle, Morgana, Seraphine and the most hated character design for people who love character design: KAI'SA (I am only mentioning characters that I know won't get an ASU ever, because some of the old ones that have awful designs were already redesigned in LoR and will be redesigned in LoL in the future). And you notice HOW MUCH those characters FAIL to live to their potential and you know they'll NEVER change those characters because they're popular the way they are. Zyra and Kai'sa have a sex appeal they would have to take away if they wanted the characters to live to their potential (they're both supposed to be monstrous, not super hot models), Morgana would have to lose that fancy gown of hers for her to be more connected to humanity, Seraphine should have so much more Piltover flair and Kayle's evolving system should be totally different, as in starting with her face visible and losing the visibility of her face and getting more armor as she evolves if she was to get as far from humanity as she wants to.
Like, the ones with clunky old models can be excused because I know they will get an update and will probably get at least a DECENT redesign that will tell their story decently. Like LeBlanc, the redesign isn't flawless, but it is good (Ignore the lack of animations and what they did to some of the skins shhhhhh) or Ahri.
This is a flaw, but it's fine. If that was the only issue.
A lot of the skins they release nowadays are just repetitive and don't try to do something new with the champion even when there is a perfect opportunity for it. There are some that are genuinely masterpieces and a breath of fresh air, like the Rain Shepherd line.
The final straw is now they're trying to fuck their playerbase by lowering the quality of legendaries so that they can sell their bullshit exalted skins for the same (or lesser) quality that the legendaries used to have for a stupid price. Not to mention the 500 dollar skins, those are fucking insane.
Either way, if it weren't for the genuinely passionate people that work/worked at Riot, I would've stopped played long time ago. Those are the ones that kept the game alive.
And by the way, I am not critiquing the team/people that designed the characters or made the exalted skins and the 500 dollar skins, they were just doing their job and what the company wanted them to do. Riot is the big boss.
And I genuinely love playing with Lillia, although her visual design could've made her better, her animations are amazing, and playing with her is honestly so much fun. Lillia is the character that made me want to play League again after i stopped playing for two years lol.
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