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As a jungler I completely agree with your thoughts around the Robot Amumu.

As soon as I read your post I thought to myself. “Yeah I agree with this.”

Can’t guarantee we’ll make something here but can guarantee it’ll be part of some upcoming conversations with our thematic development team. :)

We had a big pause on him for a while as the Champions team was hard at work with his VGU. Now that his VGU is out we’re definitely exploring some ideas for future Morde skins. Agree he’s got a lot of potential thematics that make a ton of sense.

Plus his Death Realm ulti has a ton of interesting creative surface area to explore. (But also adds complexity and scope to any Morde skin to be fair)

:)

We’re currently exploring some ideas for Jax but unfortunately none of them are bee or honey related.

Will definitely note this though should we decide to revisit the bee keeping sub universe of League. Thanks for the suggestion. ;)

Our creative teams thrive off of productive feedback like this. So thank you.

Yeah in the Quinn example, we can get a pretty good sense for how many people play Quinn and estimate what the rough demand should be for a Quinn skin.

So if a Quinn skin doesn’t perform, we look internally at our decisions, thematic choice, and art execution first.

If a skin doesn’t perform, that’s on us. We didn’t make something that Quinn players wanted, and it’s our job to figure out what Quinn players want the next time around.

Also we recognize that the cycle time or time in between skins for low play rate champs is long. We’re working on that as well and hope to talk about that more later this year.

Thank you for caring enough to engage with us and be constructive. We’re nothing without our fans.

Understand there’s a history. And you’re absolutely right. I can say a bunch of stuff here on Reddit but it’s our actions and what we deliver ultimately that matters. Going to have to wait and see if we meet expectations on that front.

Other than Void Hunter, are there are lore related themes you’re interested in seeing more of or exploring further?

This is an amazing set of feedback and suggestions. I’ll be passing this both to the thematic development team as well as some of our skins teams. Thanks for taking the time to write it up Predatoratorr. :)

Yes please

Any thoughts on thematics (existing or new) that you’d be interested in seeing for GP?

Also giving context on why you like the idea is super helpful.

Zeus / God of Thunder Pantheon?

For any given champion, there’s an expected number of players that will engage with a skin for that champion.

Popular champs have large audiences, less popular champs have smaller audiences.

If a skin for a particular champion doesn’t perform well, we don’t see that as a signal to stop making skins for that champion, we see it as a opportunity for us to reflect on why the audience for that champ didn’t like it and what we can do better next time.

Understand your comment and why you might feel that way. Know that we’re trying to do better though.

Correct we did not forget about these champions. :)

As someone who mained Malz years ago I am so down.

Unfortunately I’m not here to make what I want, I’m here to make players want. (And maybe that is a lightning based malz someday, no guarantees) Ideally those things overlap but people are all very different as you already know. :)

Imagine that Nether Grasp tho. Could be a violent beam of lightning that crackles and initiates with a THWAPOW.

Appreciate the credit but we can always be better. ;)

It’s true that we’re a business that needs to be supported with revenue. It’s false to assume that every effort we undertake is focused on revenue.

Let me use Dark Star Shaco as an example. Shaco is one of the lower popularity champs in League. This means that if we chose to make a Shaco skin, the possible number of players who would be interested in the skin is significantly lower than other champions like the recent meme-fuel examples Lux and Ezreal.

That being said, if we were a company that only valued revenue and was trying to min-max for that, you wouldn’t see skins for Ivern, Shaco, Udyr, Galio, etc.

We believe that the audiences for those champions need to be served still, but so when we choose to make something like Dark Star Shaco, our top goal isn’t revenue, our core goal is to make something that Shaco fans really love.

Sometimes we succeed at this, sometimes we don’t.

I’ve worked at several game companies over the course of 15...

So this year we wanted to expand the SG universe a bit and introduce an evil force / villain. Zoe is the ultimate evil power in the SG universe and even has the power to corrupt other Star Guardians. (In this case, Xayah and Rakan)

When we have ideas or concepts like this that change or alter the core of a thematic, we usually test and do player labs where we collect feedback from players in different regions. In this case most players really dug the direction we were going with our villains so we decided to trick forward.

Glad to hear you like it. Excited to hear everyone’s feedback once all the skins are released and folks get to experience them for themselves. :)

Really appreciate the suggestion and you laying out why the theme is interesting to you. Will definitely pass this onto our Thematic Development team as we’re always looking for new ideas and trying to develop thematics that you guys will hopefully love.

(I also completely agree that the SFX for something in this space could feel super powerful and satisfying in-game).

;)