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Whoa, I love the ideas you have going on in here!

I'm the Producer on the Thematic Development Team for PIE (Player Immersion and Expression aka "Personalization") on League, where we source new thematic ideas and develop them through narrative and visual exploration. We're always striving to make cool stuff that y'all love, so posts like this get us so excited and inspired! I really like where you're going with all of these, and I can say that there are elements from a few of these that we've taken inspiration from before.

I personally really love the Battle Mage idea. Reminds me of Guild Wars Elementalists, Battle Mages from Age of Sigmar + Elder Scrolls, and Steiner from FF9.

What kind of aspects do y'all see in some of your favorite skin lines? Or aspects that you'd like to see that haven't been represented yet with our current thematics?

I would say he’s more difficult conceptually than technically.

Zyra is hard because of raw amount of assets and animations, Zac is more “what thematic makes sense and can be clearly communicated but also be different than his base / chromas?”

Skepticism makes sense. Hope we convince you otherwise in the future with our actions and releases.

You called out the challenge and I’ll agree with you there. Making skins for Zac can be challenging. Can’t speak to unannounced skins on the roadmap but know that we haven’t forgotten Zac players. :)

This is a great suggestion. Also we definitely consider some of the source materials you mention. :)

Yo! I love this, we took a lot of cues from MBTI, the Enneagram test, etc when thinking of the four archetypes. The test originally began as something way closer to MBTI, too (and there were wayy too many types at first). The actual "letters" in our tilt types would be E+I / F + T. That would be "Externalize" vs "Internalize" (where you direct the emotion) and "f*ck This" vs "Try-Hard." (how you react to the emotion). We sort of kept the structure but lost the letters, haha.

I have fun comparing the Tilt Types to something like the Enneagram test, personally. Type 1 = Paladin, Type 8 = Barb, etc. Oh, I'm an INFP btw, and I vacillate between Veteran and DGAF.

There will be more variants in the future. :)

Thanks for all these suggestions. One thing to keep in mind when it comes to skin suggestions is we have to be careful about combining things to the point where they get too close to another current or maybe even future champions design space.

One example is you mentioned Dwarf Teemo where he has a beard, axe, and exploding barrels. While he’s shorter than Olaf and Gangplank, he might tread too close to what those other champions or even skins of champions already hit.

Also while we want to push the envelope and have a lot creative freedom with outfits, gear, and weapons, we still need to try and stay in the same ballpark of the source material. Two big reasons here, one because League is already a difficult game to learn, and having Teemo throw axes might confuse a new player and make them think it’s a completely different champion. The other reason is because people who are Teemo fans opted into him because they like what he has already, so we want to build on...

Thank you for being a League fan MrMulligan. :)

Main efforts that would potentially touch on that would be gameplay updates and live balance updates.

Also as a side note, I’ve got over 100k mastery on Taliyah, so I may not be as big of a fan as you are but I’m also a huge fan of our resident Stoneweaver.

That aside, thank you Zadorboy for engaging with League and us here in this community.

Yup we definitely heard Ivern mains when that last one came out. Know that we’re going to put more calories into understanding what mains want of a given champ moving forward, across the board but particularly low play rate champs.

I can’t fuel any speculation on future skins. I can say that we know it’s been a while since she’s had one and we’re trying to hit all of our skin starved champs in the next year or so.

It can be really hard to sit down and discuss hard issues when there’s a lot of anger or bitterness around some topics. Particularly in the digital age when you be almost anywhere you want to be just in one alt/tab or swipe of your thumb on your phone, it’s easy to opt out of conversations you don’t want to be a part of.

That’s why it’s really important that when folks do engage, they focus on what they want to see, or the desired direction they want to see the game go, as opposed to criticizing decisions or even attacking developers that are just trying to make something that people like at the end of the day.

In short, thank you LeFiery for giving us productive feedback. We need it if we’re going to keep getting better. :)

Can’t really speak to any gameplay around Zilean. Can say that he’s just a lower play rate champ generally. We haven’t forgotten about him though on the skins side, there have been a few ideas kicked around but nothing we can really talk about at current.

Hey I’m in the same boat man. Taliyah, Aurelion Swole, Trundle, Kench, Udyr are some of my highest mastery champs.

These champs will all get skins at some point. (Just as Udyr did recently). But I’m not here to prioritize my needs as a player. Our job is to look at all champions, and more importantly the audiences of those champions (you, players) and make sure we serve them the best we can.

Pyjama guardians were definitely beloved by a lot of players. Know we’re not in the business of making promises until we know something will happen for players, but your feedback is noted. :)

So to be real, I thought you were trolling / poking fun. Imagined you bring much younger or decades out from having a grandchild.

As some else here mentioned congratulations! And you know what I can’t concretely answer whether or not we’ll beat your grandchild to the rift, but know that we want players of all champions to count the time since their last skin in months and not years.

We’re not there yet but that’s where we want to go.

The commitment we can definitely make is that we’re going to be making more skins in total. The result of that will be more skins across all buckets (both low, medium, and high play rate champs). The ratio of low play rate to high play rate though we can’t make any hard commitments there.

Also to your comment on the recent bias towards critical feedback over constructive. Be the change you want to see.

We can always be better about informing players about what we’re trying to do, and everyone here has the power to be constructive if they want to be.

Depends on when your 1st grandchild is being born.