Man Briar is basically built for the Star Nemesis line. Let her be The Dark Star's/Morgana's first attempt to create a shadow star guardian ala Akali but the failed product. The pillary housing a star guardian pet thats controlling the body until Briar breaks free and goes on a rampage due to being unstable.
That would require another batch of Star Guardian lore and considering what the last one looked like... Yeah I still haven't recovered from the travesty 2022 SG ended up being.
Fun fact: Neeko is also identifiable as a kappa via the little jug on her head. Kappas traditionally have jugs filled with water on their head in their mythological depictions.
What's more, the best way to deal with a kappa? Bow to it. Seriously. Doing a deep, standing bow to a kappa will make it do the same to you in respect. From this, the water in their head will empty out and will cause the kappa to become dehydrated, letting you escape
What I love about the Mundo skin too is the lore states he's a finger-painting graffiti artist... who's work constantly get overanalyzed for deeper meanings when in reality he just wanted to make something that looked pretty. As an artist myself, I feel you Mundo.
I feel like Riot knows that one of Zyra's most iconic things about her design is her Hair, she always keep that very high, and long hair style that somehow makes me capable of recognizing Zyra almost immediately. A true exception from that for me would be Crime city Zyra, now THAT looks like Evellyn skin
5:27 omg yes, as soon as I heard about this skinline I was so sad Zeri got Immortal Journey instead of Street Demon, it would have been such a good fit for her. She even has that Jet Set Radio style roller skates movement in her animations
Champions being given the wrong skins is honestly a chronic issue of riots. Garbage like Empyrean Zed & Lux, or Soul Fighter Lux or honeslty most of the faerie court ezreal or broken covenant xayah show so clearly that riot doesn't think about these things. Certain champions would look so fucking awesome in skin lines if you either pick the right combination or put in the time & effort to make something unique enough that it would be worthy of legendary status, but riot consistently shows they don't want to do that and just take darts to a board on who is gonna get skins next with little thought put into who is getting them beyond champions who are popular or who havent gotten a skin in over 2 years. Really makes me worried for when the next skins for Vex & Naafiri Drop cause there are already so many cool concepts (Crime City Nightmare Vex is pipe-dream I always come back to) but I don't know if Riot will have the balls to actually put them in skinlines where they belong.
@@OldandAbandonedHarcorte I can see why empyrean Zed & Lux were weird choices but with Faerie court I feel Fiora looks more out of place than Ezreal. As for Broken covenant Xayah I liked what they tried to do with the hood but overall I don't see how it was a bad bad choice.
A Taliyah Street Demon would have been awesome. She would be leaving paint graffiti marks on the grpund after sloshing her blobs of paint, while shooting her Q on "painted ground", will make her throw a fully grafitti styled projectile. Her little rocks she leaved on the ground can be styled as graffiti, and her ultimate can have her sliding atop a concrete wall, while painting it with graffiti as she zooms by.
Funfact: Rengar is based on the komaino, an eastern monster that is kind of a mix between a dog and a lion, who tends to guard buddhist or shintoist temples at their entrances in complete silence. Hence why they picked rengar who is...kind of a lion and has the whole invisibility shenanigans going on. Mundo, Neeko and Brand has definetely been my favourites from this bunch.
Singed & Zeri would've been such a great fit! *-* I also think the orange / yellow on Briar's thing is just too contrasting and that's why it looks weird
@@zileantimekeeper7464 2039 days between Guardian of the Sands (26/Apr/2015) and Cosmic Sting (24/Nov/2020), so way before he was chosen for a rework. Since Cosmic Sting, it's been 1023 days, which, in this case, has the excuse of the VGU.
I think briars restraints can be incorporated really well into different skin lines. For example a life buoy for a pool party or a pillory for the dnd inspired skin line, to name two. I hope she gets some skins and wont get left behind like other newer champs (lillia, rell)
I feel like this skin line is just another "Oh this champ hasn't had a skin for a while, here ya go!" Same with when the Astronaut skins came out earlier this year
Briar will have a great Christmas skin either putting sleigh bells on her lock and a Christmas outfit would match well same with Halloween like an old witch skin or something
Something not mentioned about Neeko is the fact that she also has holographic bowl of water on her head, which is something mythological Kappa also has.
I think Briar would be perfect for a Pool Party skin. They could turn her ring thing into a floaty or pool noodle and they have a second chance to not focus on her feet.
5:22 The same thing happens with the next skin tematic, La Ilusión has way better candidates than most of the ones that they're getting it (most of the shadow isles characters for example).
i really hope this skinline returns, because including the champs you listed for suggestions, ITS JUST A DOPE AS HELL SKINLINE! also, MORE PAINT SPLOTCHES RIOT!
Ziggs in the new Day of the Dead skin should be here (throws paint grenades) while Zyra shoulda been in the Day of the dead line (cuz flowers) they coulda been swapped ngl.
Honestly the only criticism about this skinline is something TB Skyen had mentioned. For a group of street artists, their outfits are too clean. Especially Mundo. Some paint splashes here, ripped clothes there woulda made this line a 9/10 for me. Though as it is now, still 8/10!
Im so happy with this skin line, like finally something that is not fantasy armors or japanese skins that looks so close to chromas that sometimes you dont even realise if is new or old skin line, i also like the aestetic of this and i really could like more champs with this tematic, ideas like street demon elise based in the yokai that uses spiders to catch people being a painter that use multiple pencils and spiders to help her out, or literal reworked skarner based in the fish that do earthquakes, imagine a giant scorpion with paint everywhere that literally can paint a entire city in minutes or destroy it and make art out of it, just if we have it (RIOT PLZ RELEASE SKARNER REWORK!!!)
Like with Soul Fighters, all the bright colors are awesome to see on the skins give them all unique look beyond just the design Also the colors on Brand make have the scheme of a watermelon I just realized
Maybe they'll come out with a counter skin line later down the line of "Street Kami" where they will ad more conventially "good" characters as a rival gang against the street demons like Zeri or Zac. (I know neeko isn't bad but she probably just fit the monsterous idea more)
Street Demon Zeri using a paintball/spray paint gun would have been cool. And Immortal Journey Mundo could have fit him. At least you could turn his cleaver into a sword. Fits better than Zeri did.
Kha’Zix skin where his mantis blade things are turned into paint brushes, and his lore is that he’s good at copying other people’s styles and adapting them into his own art, yet for some reason he can’t seem to get copy Rengar’s. Thus leading them to try and rival Rengar.
Mundo could have had a trowel Also Zac could have been a legendary, where his blobs he picks up are all diffrent color, and when he does pick them up they mix with him, so you would change color during the game.
I'd love a Vex skin for this line. Her shadow could be one of her graffiti creations that follows her around on the ground! It'd be a perfect way to incorporate her shadow into a skin without having it still just be her shadow.
This is a serious problem with league skin design team. Maybe it's the exec's making the call, but they have to prioritize a champion quota or fall along with metrics when they make a creative skin line instead of looking at champions that would actually value these skins. Time and time again we've seen the wrong champion in the wrong skin line and its really sucks. There's so much more that could be done with this idea if given the opportunity and right champs.
I for sure would’ve and still would get caught by Kappa Neeko lol. Her and Briar skins looks so cool. I love graffiti and mythologies so I love these skins all around but Zyra could’ve been better but does look great
The record for longest time without a new skin is Urgot. From fucking early 2012 all the way to summer of 2017. He's the only champion in the 2000 days club
Why are they so clean? You are tellng me Mundo was careful not to paint his clothes. He should have a hand painted on one of his butt checks because he scratched it while having the whole hand painted or something like that. They don't look like grafiti artists, they look like models posing as artists
Sometimes it feels like they make the skinline, throw the best fitting champs in. Then fill it with the new champ and some champs that haven’t gotten skins in a while. You can justify most champs in most skin lines but that doesn’t mean you should.
Looking at the splash art, Rengar's tail is indeed a paintbrush. It just looks nothing like it ingame :( Personally, I could see Anivia joinging the graffitti skinline as well. Imagine a whirlpool of color, her Q is a ball of paint as well and her wall is a big graffitti tag as well.
Personally speaking I feel like this skinline could've been released further more ahead, and wait for the new artistic midlaner Riot talked about to make them part of the skinline as their release skin rather than shoehorn Briar into it.
How about a fiddlesticks that a collection of those Yo-Kai that are possessed thrown away objects, but the objects are all discarded painting equipment. One of his arms could be a long handled paint roller, he head could be a breathing mask, but the extended bits are where his eyes go, I’m sure some artist could have a field day coming up with everything.
Skinline is held back so hard by which champs got skins, and riot's hatred of their designs having any "Mess" to them As was mentioned in the video, Rengar just doesnt fit well into this thematic at all, and Mundo & Zyra suffer massively from the designs being just too clean, being signifcantly more concerned with being cool & trying to stick to how the champs look normally than doing something interesting with them. Briar is the one exception where I think Nicky is wrong, I personally think he as a Jiangshi is really neat even if it is chinese as opposed to the japanese Yo-kai of the rest. Brand & Neeko look stellar although they only get issues from the other problem so let's talk about that. Skins & Champions having no "mess" to them is really frustrating. It massively hinders this skinline because everyone just looks so perfect despite working with paint, and not just any paint, but graffiti styles and unconventional means of creating that graffiti, as someone who has spray painted only a few times before, I can tell you that sh*t gets everywhere if you're not really careful, and these guys arent using controlled spray cans, theyre using shit that looks WAAAY more messy and disorganized, especially Brand. This lack of mess also extends to champions because a lot of champs (Sylas, Kai'sa, and most recently Briar) don't have scars of any kind on their body, at least not on the in-game model which is hilarious and yet so saddening because scars are such a good way to communicate what a character has been through, and plenty of people find them really attractive, which Im unsure how riot doesn't understand considering every Kai'sa skin is just her with a new cosplay on. Yeah this need to keep everyhing clean as hell really hurts these skins, as even small paint splotches which are barely noticable from the top-down angle would make the skins have a lot more character to them. As they stand they deserve the relatively average score of 7, not as average as cosmic blandness ofc, but still held back by riot's incompotence. And yes, all 3 of the champions nicky put forth as suggestions would've been amazing additions perfect for the skinline, but riot is too chicken shit to have basic common sense when thinking about this, I'm 100% sure you could've adapted the others Yo-kai thematic into all three of them. Zac would make a great paint oni (Even if I hate fighting him on rift)
Briar's only problem (pillory looking off) gets fixed by her obsidian chroma in my opinion. But yes, this skinline would've been better on other champs as usual.
you're right neeko was perfect for this (and taric,zac,zeri) yet her animations wasnt realized to their true potentiel like most of the others but briar is just 👌specificly her ult ,also most of the recal animations were good and beter but briar is 👌👏
This skin line was made for Zaunites (and the lack of a single gun wielder is insane when they’re all spraypainters. Hek Vandal Twitch already exists like this!) Definitely agree that it was made for the wrong champs, minus Brand. Kinda makes the divine Zeri look even stranger since she would be perfect here instead of completely out of place in the last skin release.
Better fitting champs Vlad(paint instead of Blood), Cassio (Paint instead of Poison) , Nilah (a big Brush instead of Whip) , Bard (spray cans to collect)
I really like your suggestions for this skinline, you should try to do this more, I'd like to know which champions you think would be better suited for different skinlines.
A Zac skin where an artist loves their work so much the paint comes alive is something I didn't know I needed till now. Such wasted potential.
Makes it so it is Singed who brought Zac to life
legendary perhaps? pls riot
You are completely right, zeri woulve been amazing, imagine her with a paintball gun
Quagmire: Oh my god, YES, YES, YES, FIND ONE, YES
Zeri will get chromacrash skin. She have a consept design. So no zeri will never get street demon skin
Zeri shooting paint? Nah don't be silly, we got her shooting swords instead... (wtf riot)
And her mini twin tails with paint on the tips simulating brushes
Love when riot skin team fails to make something to work, but i think suits are the ones who demand what skin :(
Man Briar is basically built for the Star Nemesis line. Let her be The Dark Star's/Morgana's first attempt to create a shadow star guardian ala Akali but the failed product. The pillary housing a star guardian pet thats controlling the body until Briar breaks free and goes on a rampage due to being unstable.
That would require another batch of Star Guardian lore and considering what the last one looked like... Yeah I still haven't recovered from the travesty 2022 SG ended up being.
Yes, Unfortunately I don't think we need more Star Guardian skins (except Redeemed Xayah and Rakan where are they Riot???)
And having her feet out
Fun fact: Neeko is also identifiable as a kappa via the little jug on her head. Kappas traditionally have jugs filled with water on their head in their mythological depictions.
What's more, the best way to deal with a kappa? Bow to it. Seriously. Doing a deep, standing bow to a kappa will make it do the same to you in respect. From this, the water in their head will empty out and will cause the kappa to become dehydrated, letting you escape
@@bkaneshiro14wait those things are evil and they attack you????
@@somo4227 they're like dolphins, if you know you know
@@somo4227they kidnap children lmao theyre menaces
@@somo4227they reach out of a toilet and pull ypu inside out through your asshole.
What I love about the Mundo skin too is the lore states he's a finger-painting graffiti artist... who's work constantly get overanalyzed for deeper meanings when in reality he just wanted to make something that looked pretty.
As an artist myself, I feel you Mundo.
A cross between Mundo and Magritte is not something I knew I needed in my life, but here we are
Missed opportunity to give this skin line to Nami. A mermaid graffitiing with literal *water colours* would be perfect.
When I saw the splash art, before reading who they were, I was convinced Zyra was Evelynn and that she got two new skins back to back
Same. I didn’t realize it was Zyra until watching this video.
I feel like Riot knows that one of Zyra's most iconic things about her design is her Hair, she always keep that very high, and long hair style that somehow makes me capable of recognizing Zyra almost immediately. A true exception from that for me would be Crime city Zyra, now THAT looks like Evellyn skin
I honestly keep forgetting it's Zyra and keep thinking it's Evelynn
we need a pokemon trainer skin for her where she's just jessie from team rocket @@mikonyx7712
5:27 omg yes, as soon as I heard about this skinline I was so sad Zeri got Immortal Journey instead of Street Demon, it would have been such a good fit for her. She even has that Jet Set Radio style roller skates movement in her animations
she's built like a splatoon character 😂 her and Nilah would have made good fits imo
Champions being given the wrong skins is honestly a chronic issue of riots. Garbage like Empyrean Zed & Lux, or Soul Fighter Lux or honeslty most of the faerie court ezreal or broken covenant xayah show so clearly that riot doesn't think about these things. Certain champions would look so fucking awesome in skin lines if you either pick the right combination or put in the time & effort to make something unique enough that it would be worthy of legendary status, but riot consistently shows they don't want to do that and just take darts to a board on who is gonna get skins next with little thought put into who is getting them beyond champions who are popular or who havent gotten a skin in over 2 years.
Really makes me worried for when the next skins for Vex & Naafiri Drop cause there are already so many cool concepts (Crime City Nightmare Vex is pipe-dream I always come back to) but I don't know if Riot will have the balls to actually put them in skinlines where they belong.
omg right?? it would've been perfect if anyone at riot games had a working brain cell
They should have switched Zeri to Street Demons and Zyra to Immortal Journey in my opinion
@@OldandAbandonedHarcorte I can see why empyrean Zed & Lux were weird choices but with Faerie court I feel Fiora looks more out of place than Ezreal. As for Broken covenant Xayah I liked what they tried to do with the hood but overall I don't see how it was a bad bad choice.
A Taliyah Street Demon would have been awesome.
She would be leaving paint graffiti marks on the grpund after sloshing her blobs of paint, while shooting her Q on "painted ground", will make her throw a fully grafitti styled projectile.
Her little rocks she leaved on the ground can be styled as graffiti, and her ultimate can have her sliding atop a concrete wall, while painting it with graffiti as she zooms by.
painting the wall as she zooms over it is SUCH a cool idea, im now heartbroken we likely arent gonna get it
It's like they don't even consider what they can do with the skin line! So much wasted potential...
For briar, it will be fun if she get pool party skin. Her cuff can be a dolfin float
Funfact: Rengar is based on the komaino, an eastern monster that is kind of a mix between a dog and a lion, who tends to guard buddhist or shintoist temples at their entrances in complete silence. Hence why they picked rengar who is...kind of a lion and has the whole invisibility shenanigans going on.
Mundo, Neeko and Brand has definetely been my favourites from this bunch.
Singed & Zeri would've been such a great fit! *-* I also think the orange / yellow on Briar's thing is just too contrasting and that's why it looks weird
I definitely hope they make more of these. It's a very fun concept that they can do even more with in the future
Yeah the record for the longest time without a skin goes to skarner..... to the surprise of absolutely nobody 2k+ days strong
I mean he is getting a full rework and that goes to all his skins. So it understandable that he wouldn't get skins for the time
@@zileantimekeeper7464yeah i thought everyone knew that
what's skarner? 🥸
@@zileantimekeeper7464 2039 days between Guardian of the Sands (26/Apr/2015) and Cosmic Sting (24/Nov/2020), so way before he was chosen for a rework. Since Cosmic Sting, it's been 1023 days, which, in this case, has the excuse of the VGU.
@@zileantimekeeper7464 the rework thats gonna release in another 2k days
I think briars restraints can be incorporated really well into different skin lines. For example a life buoy for a pool party or a pillory for the dnd inspired skin line, to name two. I hope she gets some skins and wont get left behind like other newer champs (lillia, rell)
I feel like this skin line is just another "Oh this champ hasn't had a skin for a while, here ya go!" Same with when the Astronaut skins came out earlier this year
Briar will have a great Christmas skin either putting sleigh bells on her lock and a Christmas outfit would match well same with Halloween like an old witch skin or something
I became addicted to see your rapid-fire reviews, i need help... i just love it so much
Zoe would have been a perfect fit for this skinline. I mean her hair alone fits already.
I saw a concept of broken covenant briar with the stained glass pillory and now i will compare all her skins to that cause god damn it looked so good
Okay okay, hear me out, million dollar skin idea. Johnny Bravo Mundo
Something not mentioned about Neeko is the fact that she also has holographic bowl of water on her head, which is something mythological Kappa also has.
This skinline is totally radical my dudes
Now it's my head canon that the Mundo Skin is brandishing a knife to make walls bleed. It makes perfect sense as well
I personally liked this skinline alot, but i do agree, some of the animations really bring the skin down
I think Briar would be perfect for a Pool Party skin. They could turn her ring thing into a floaty or pool noodle and they have a second chance to not focus on her feet.
Correction: Coven Zyra ALSO doesn't use plants. It uses spoopy ravens.
5:22 The same thing happens with the next skin tematic, La Ilusión has way better candidates than most of the ones that they're getting it (most of the shadow isles characters for example).
can't wait to see your review of the new renata skin in 2 weeks
i really hope this skinline returns, because including the champs you listed for suggestions, ITS JUST A DOPE AS HELL SKINLINE!
also, MORE PAINT SPLOTCHES RIOT!
when i saw the rengar splash i was sure that was supposed to be wukong and i think he would've been more fitting for the skinline too
Ziggs in the new Day of the Dead skin should be here (throws paint grenades) while Zyra shoulda been in the Day of the dead line (cuz flowers) they coulda been swapped ngl.
Honestly the only criticism about this skinline is something TB Skyen had mentioned. For a group of street artists, their outfits are too clean. Especially Mundo. Some paint splashes here, ripped clothes there woulda made this line a 9/10 for me. Though as it is now, still 8/10!
For some reason the "Corki's twelve polygons" joke is the funniest thing I've experienced all week. 11/10 video for that alone.
I’m not gonna lie when these were first revealed I thought they were space groove and zyra was Evelynn.
Im so happy with this skin line, like finally something that is not fantasy armors or japanese skins that looks so close to chromas that sometimes you dont even realise if is new or old skin line, i also like the aestetic of this and i really could like more champs with this tematic, ideas like street demon elise based in the yokai that uses spiders to catch people being a painter that use multiple pencils and spiders to help her out, or literal reworked skarner based in the fish that do earthquakes, imagine a giant scorpion with paint everywhere that literally can paint a entire city in minutes or destroy it and make art out of it, just if we have it (RIOT PLZ RELEASE SKARNER REWORK!!!)
Yet another missed opportunity for a Lillia skin where her branch is a giant paintbrush that she swings around to splatter paint with
cant wait to see your rapid fire for the new La Ilusion skins
Like with Soul Fighters, all the bright colors are awesome to see on the skins give them all unique look beyond just the design
Also the colors on Brand make have the scheme of a watermelon I just realized
I cant remember the last time the new champion came out with a skin line that they didnt feel totally hamfisted into
Maybe they'll come out with a counter skin line later down the line of "Street Kami" where they will ad more conventially "good" characters as a rival gang against the street demons like Zeri or Zac. (I know neeko isn't bad but she probably just fit the monsterous idea more)
ZAC WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT FOR THIS, HE LITERALLY COULD'VE BEEN AN UMIBOZU MADE OUT OF PAINT
I think they should make a sugar rush skin for Briar and have her thing be a donut
Wish you reviewed Warring Kingdoms the same way as this, knowing the inspiration of the skins
Zyra’s coven skin turn her plants into birds!
It feels like street demons and chromacrash take place in the same universe due to how similar they are
Rengars skin is based on the nekomata a cat yokai that are very aggresive towards humans usually eating them for their lunches.
I CANT WAIT FOR THE LA ILLUSIONS RAPID FIRE SKIN REVIEW. YIPEEE
Ah yes, 175 days since Mundo's last skin 👍
i think its cool that the street demons skinline was given to exactly zero(0) demon champs
pool party briar boutta go wild with the built-in floaty
Street Demon Zeri using a paintball/spray paint gun would have been cool.
And Immortal Journey Mundo could have fit him. At least you could turn his cleaver into a sword. Fits better than Zeri did.
Kha’Zix skin where his mantis blade things are turned into paint brushes, and his lore is that he’s good at copying other people’s styles and adapting them into his own art, yet for some reason he can’t seem to get copy Rengar’s. Thus leading them to try and rival Rengar.
I have to say: Riot is ALLERGIC to making a skinline where all champions feel like they fit...Rengar...just...why Rengar I don't understand-
I also agree that Zeri would fit this so well, but I think her gun should be a spray paint can
Bro. Remember the concept art for Chromacrash Singed on Wild Rift? That would've been perfect for this skinline or Ziggs or Gragas
Mundo could have had a trowel
Also Zac could have been a legendary, where his blobs he picks up are all diffrent color, and when he does pick them up they mix with him, so you would change color during the game.
My main complaint about these skins is the champion choices for the skin line, like what are these choices lol??
- Does he think the walls bleed with paint?
- Yo, he probably does 😂
I'd love a Vex skin for this line. Her shadow could be one of her graffiti creations that follows her around on the ground! It'd be a perfect way to incorporate her shadow into a skin without having it still just be her shadow.
Riot has something in their rules that makes all skin have a recall where something is appering of thin air
Hearing SF6 Ken theme throughout the video gives me the PTSD of fighting him
This is a serious problem with league skin design team. Maybe it's the exec's making the call, but they have to prioritize a champion quota or fall along with metrics when they make a creative skin line instead of looking at champions that would actually value these skins. Time and time again we've seen the wrong champion in the wrong skin line and its really sucks. There's so much more that could be done with this idea if given the opportunity and right champs.
I for sure would’ve and still would get caught by Kappa Neeko lol. Her and Briar skins looks so cool. I love graffiti and mythologies so I love these skins all around but Zyra could’ve been better but does look great
we needed zac AS the street demon
Fun Fact: This is the first Mundo skin i'm seeing since starting league of legends. I started league of legends before mythic items were a thing.
The record for longest time without a new skin is Urgot. From fucking early 2012 all the way to summer of 2017. He's the only champion in the 2000 days club
Briar's Shackles should've been a Boombox
Why are they so clean? You are tellng me Mundo was careful not to paint his clothes. He should have a hand painted on one of his butt checks because he scratched it while having the whole hand painted or something like that. They don't look like grafiti artists, they look like models posing as artists
After reading the comments in this video, it really reminded me of how Riot really make a ton of missed opportunities
Sometimes it feels like they make the skinline, throw the best fitting champs in. Then fill it with the new champ and some champs that haven’t gotten skins in a while. You can justify most champs in most skin lines but that doesn’t mean you should.
Looking at the splash art, Rengar's tail is indeed a paintbrush. It just looks nothing like it ingame :(
Personally, I could see Anivia joinging the graffitti skinline as well. Imagine a whirlpool of color, her Q is a ball of paint as well and her wall is a big graffitti tag as well.
Briar should've come out with the La Ilusion skin line
Personally speaking I feel like this skinline could've been released further more ahead, and wait for the new artistic midlaner Riot talked about to make them part of the skinline as their release skin rather than shoehorn Briar into it.
Holy fuck the sfx for brand are sooooo good
How about a fiddlesticks that a collection of those Yo-Kai that are possessed thrown away objects, but the objects are all discarded painting equipment. One of his arms could be a long handled paint roller, he head could be a breathing mask, but the extended bits are where his eyes go, I’m sure some artist could have a field day coming up with everything.
Skinline is held back so hard by which champs got skins, and riot's hatred of their designs having any "Mess" to them
As was mentioned in the video, Rengar just doesnt fit well into this thematic at all, and Mundo & Zyra suffer massively from the designs being just too clean, being signifcantly more concerned with being cool & trying to stick to how the champs look normally than doing something interesting with them. Briar is the one exception where I think Nicky is wrong, I personally think he as a Jiangshi is really neat even if it is chinese as opposed to the japanese Yo-kai of the rest. Brand & Neeko look stellar although they only get issues from the other problem so let's talk about that.
Skins & Champions having no "mess" to them is really frustrating. It massively hinders this skinline because everyone just looks so perfect despite working with paint, and not just any paint, but graffiti styles and unconventional means of creating that graffiti, as someone who has spray painted only a few times before, I can tell you that sh*t gets everywhere if you're not really careful, and these guys arent using controlled spray cans, theyre using shit that looks WAAAY more messy and disorganized, especially Brand. This lack of mess also extends to champions because a lot of champs (Sylas, Kai'sa, and most recently Briar) don't have scars of any kind on their body, at least not on the in-game model which is hilarious and yet so saddening because scars are such a good way to communicate what a character has been through, and plenty of people find them really attractive, which Im unsure how riot doesn't understand considering every Kai'sa skin is just her with a new cosplay on. Yeah this need to keep everyhing clean as hell really hurts these skins, as even small paint splotches which are barely noticable from the top-down angle would make the skins have a lot more character to them. As they stand they deserve the relatively average score of 7, not as average as cosmic blandness ofc, but still held back by riot's incompotence.
And yes, all 3 of the champions nicky put forth as suggestions would've been amazing additions perfect for the skinline, but riot is too chicken shit to have basic common sense when thinking about this, I'm 100% sure you could've adapted the others Yo-kai thematic into all three of them. Zac would make a great paint oni (Even if I hate fighting him on rift)
You know when i think of street art and monsters the first thought in my mind are the Noisw from The World Ends with You
Briar's only problem (pillory looking off) gets fixed by her obsidian chroma in my opinion. But yes, this skinline would've been better on other champs as usual.
you're right neeko was perfect for this (and taric,zac,zeri) yet her animations wasnt realized to their true potentiel like most of the others but briar is just 👌specificly her ult ,also most of the recal animations were good and beter but briar is 👌👏
I can think of 3 skin lines that could tie first place for a mundo skin
Bro how did he not notice the hologram jug on Neekos head. Thats another key to her being a kappa not just the backpack
As a rengar main I’m so mad about him getting a 3rd LPP chroma
Honestly, I am disappointed by any skins that aren't the new coven skins 😅 but these are something new and cool 😊
They could have briars shackles like a one of those paint thingys that you use to put your paints on it has the shape for it
This skin line was made for Zaunites (and the lack of a single gun wielder is insane when they’re all spraypainters. Hek Vandal Twitch already exists like this!)
Definitely agree that it was made for the wrong champs, minus Brand. Kinda makes the divine Zeri look even stranger since she would be perfect here instead of completely out of place in the last skin release.
the problem with Mundo's post rework skin taking so long, that no matter how good it is it'd be a letdown on expectations
Corporate mundo put a high bar that´s imposible to top.
OMG I need that rengar skin lol its been so long since my main has gotten a skin lol I needed this
wow its soul fighter and imperium again, the biggest budget went to the creativity this year truly 👍
Better fitting champs Vlad(paint instead of Blood), Cassio (Paint instead of Poison) , Nilah (a big Brush instead of Whip) , Bard (spray cans to collect)
Brand is genuinely the only skin in this skin line I genuinely enjoy. The others just feel way too sterile.
I feel like Mundo's knife was a missed opportunity for a good palette knife pun because he could use his knife as a his palette
I really like your suggestions for this skinline, you should try to do this more, I'd like to know which champions you think would be better suited for different skinlines.
"Yeah, let's give Zeri an Immortal Journey skin instead of Street Demons, makes sense.." - Games, Riot
Nah imagine poppy with I giant paintbrush
the brand ruby chroma is amazing
if mundo is the fingerpainter, briar should be painting with her toes
they should make a theme based on european avant garde
imagine futurist Jhin
a nagakaboros skinline would be cool
jet set radio mentioned