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Riot bumps skin quality for the Galio patch

Grungy Nunu.

Vladimir launched with some of the best skins Riot has given a new champion. Both skins included model changes and were great revisions on his classic skin. The Galio skins have sadly returned to the standard recolor format, but Riot is releasing some incredible skins for other champions on the side.

This patch will bring Guerrilla Tristana, Bandito Fiddlesticks, and Grungy Nunu (an Oscar the Grouch/Cookie Monster) knockoff. These skins are worlds better than the skins we typically see released, and none of them have been called out as legendary in value. I’m really hoping these fall at the 520 RP range, but I’d guess all three will be 975. Honestly, they’re the first skins that warrant that price. Ten bucks is still way too much for a skin, but in the Riot hierarchy of batshit crazy prices, these are among the best of the bunch.

Annie in Wonderland coming soon

AnnieAccording to a recent ByronicHero post, it looks like Riot will be rounding out the Alice in Wonderland theme that got started with Mad Hatter Shaco by adding an Annie in Wonderland. Check the official post below:

Greetings, summoners!

A most peculiar thing happened to me today. While I was sitting in my garden indulging in a bottle of Shiraz and having a look at my copy of Don Juan, I spied a white rabbit in a waistcoat inspecting his pocket watch. Pondering this, I came to the immediate (and admittedly justified) conclusion that I must have overindulged. My suspicions were totally confirmed when the rabbit proceeded to exclaim at how late he was for a most pressing appointment.

As my befuddled rodent friend scampered off, I devised that the only reasonable thing to do was to stay put. After all, everyone knows that following a questionable white bunny only results in falling into a deep hole or an excursion to an inner city goth club filled with hackers in leather pants. Instead I decided that the operate response would be to rouse myself from my contemplative, wine-related haze by splashing some cold water on my face. Upon doing so, I felt revived and ready to face the day… that is until I spotted the enormous bear grinning back at me through the bathroom looking glass.

The moral of the story is that things are not always what they seem. Sometimes white rabbits are white rabbits, but oftentimes they are also giant, burning teddy bears dressed up as rabbits. There’s really no way of knowing until you happen upon one in the mirror while you’re trying to wake yourself up.

There are really no two ways to interpret that. Tibbers is gonna look like the giant demon bunny from Donnie Darko and the pervert contingent might finally get their teenage Annie. It’s going to be an epic day when that one launches. Expect this to be legendary in cost.

More great skins now available

Hillbilly Gragas.

I don’t know how Riot expects me to pony up the cash necessary for all these great skins. The company announced yesterday that Hillbilly Gragas, Emumu, and Deep One Kassadin are now available. We already knew about the Kassadin skin from the “community inspired skins” announcement, but those other two are just incredible. Emumu made me laugh out loud the instant I saw the splash screen.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Groovy Zilean has to be one of the coolest skins in game. I caught a game with a guy yesterday that had one. Great stuff.

Vladimir patch should drop this week

Vladimir on TT.

Riot has posted the skins and bundles pack for the upcoming Vladimir patch, which usually means we’ll see it in the next day or two. Of course, I’m going out of town during a major patch again so my impressions of the actual gameplay may be a bit delayed.

His skins look surprisingly cool, though I think I like the clean, colonial looking getup the best. It also looks like he will be ranged, as many people have been wondering. Corki is also getting his one millionth skin in this patch. I don’t think Riot understands that more skins do not make people want to play a character more. In a way, it breeds a bit of animosity from Singed fans and the like – toons that only have one or two skins, basically.

Zilean also gets a new skin, epically themed for dropping his peace bombs on the heads of his enemies. Hopefully we’ll see patchnotes soon so I can cover the inevitable Xin Zhao nerf.

Riot releases 520RP skin images

Blast Zone Heimerdinger.

The batch of “community response skins” is up now on the official forums, posted as new skins often are before a patch. Still no post in the Server Status forums so it’s unclear when we’ll see these new skins, but I’d say later this week is a pretty safe estimate.

The only skin I’m really excited about here is the Heimerdinger. That thing is cool, and easily better than Alien Invader. But those other skins? Blitzcrank with a shirt? Even French Maid Nidalee is just another recolor. This is exactly why that post the other day bothered me. It was a bunch of crowing about all the good they’re about to do the community by releasing 520RP skins that suffer the same problems as all the skins before them.

I love skins, I really do. I just think they’re overpriced for what they actually provide. It also seems prudent to remind everyone that got a skin in this batch already has one.

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