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All these years and the idea of making a legendary Anivia skin a fire phoenix hasn’t occurred to riot.
All these years and people still don't understand they are absolutely unwilling to waste any resources into a champion they're not sure will sell well.
An ice phoenix, without the ice.
While the idea seems like a "adoy" it is already kinda exactly what she is. I don't see this being a better legendary than her Blackfrost which is lore related. Anivia being an ice phoenix is already an inversion of the classic fire Phoenix, so removing that difference would make Anivia less interesting imo.
@@Oscar97o This joke loses all its merit when you think about the fact that a "legendary" skin would also have changed voice lines.
That's the whole point of a Legendary skin. To change the theme of the character altogether
Just like Blackfrost Anivia isin't about peaceful harmony anymore
And I don't see anyone complaining about Papercraft Anivia still being ice-themed, except for some model and vfx changes.
If Riot tried to make an epic or lower tier skin of that sort, without changing the voice lines, just like they've done with the Infernal skinline - save for Nasus, obviously - then ye, that'd make no sense either
@@GenusMusic I see your point, but I'd still argue that it'd be interesting to see a Legendary tier conversion of Anivia to a "regular" phoenix, for anyone who misses the original concept of the mythological creature, or simply would like to see her executed as such, to which group I personally belong
Whether it'd sell or not is a whole other issue
The "Brand" skin line LMFAO
They got Brand New Skins.
People should stop flaming.
Its funny the whole toxic lol community is united with this xd
It makes me wonder if these 3 will get a visual rework
I prefer this instead of 10 "asian" type of skins. Also it's classic swap skin which I like the most.
this is like the Ruination skin line, but instead of Shadow Isles aesthetic we have Brand aesthetic. Brand is the ruined king of the infernal skins
Damn that Ashe skin is really sad because they could have easily done something slightly more inspired like having an obsidian theme to work off of. You know, obsidian, the glass-like volcanic rock thats really sharp and was often used for arrowheads?
Make Ashes E rain actual ash, kind of like a pun?
Imagine if she was mostly obsidian and as her q starts to accelerate she starts glowing and then is set on fire with full AS
when a random youtube comment has more creative ideas than the game's CREATIVE DIRECTORS yk ts is getting out of hand
For some reason i forgot Ashe had a bow and i though when did Varus get boobs
Ashe is still alright cuz she gets so many skins so everybody will just forget this one, but what about olaf? He gets like 1 skin every 2 years and olaf mains just got a cheap knockoff XD
that's the 1:1 result of firing so many people in so many teams to have external contractors do the work the fired employee did.
They should use AI, it'd turn out better 💀
the only thing we hate more than this skin
is the new fucking champ mastery
i straight up cant even tell what im looking at with the new champ mastery thing. its just such a generic mobile game kind of thing that i literally cannot tell what mastery the person who is flashing it has
that pisses me off more because no one was asking for that, there is so much players want updated and changed but they decide that cheapening the look of the champion mastery is what they want to do
@@vel306I assume the Chinese playerbase complained.
And the lack of being able to see my mastery points on the loading screen. I could deal with the champ mastery icon, but that royally pissed me off.
What gets me is the fact that I was motivated to play champs to get those S tokens and become Lv 7, both as a way to show some sign of mastery and because that blue was gorgeous. But now I have no care to play anything but Arena. I would purposefully play different champs to collect mastery on them all and become better at many different playstyles. Now, there’s no reason to play anything other than 2-3 if I just want to win
They could have release INFERNAL URGOT LEGENDARY. He uses ult, he goes from RED FIRE TO BLUE FIRE AND WHITE COLORES ABILITIES, BECAUSE WHITE IS THE HOTTEST COLOR OF FIRES. HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE YOU URGOT
This guy gets it
No , please no, I rather have urgot into lazy ass Mecha skin that's just a chorma of battcast than have shitty infernal.
I want demon urgot where his stomach is mouth that's eats people.
Fright is one of his best , crabgod is hard to top.
@@chaotik900that one was fine, and also butcher urgot too.
@@chaotik900 there's a mecha urgot but in Wild Rift if I remember..
@@chitogekirisaki4459 I know, that's why I brought up as lazy.
It's almost as if firing 500+ employees in one go affects the quality of the product.
Edit: commented before the end of the video, nice to see Necrit also mention it.
They fired only people who arent important like Quality assurance and the vfx department to save money
But the budget is still the same oh yeah the executives gave themselves a raise after all the money they saved by firing them
@@trishamayacielo657they fired a shіt ton of concept artists and writers lol
@@trishamayacielo657 aint no way you just said vfx aren't important.. without vfx you literally wouldn't see abilities.....
Infernal skinline options:
Using Blue flames for key abilities: no
Using demonic themes like for infernal nasus: no
Using ashes and smoke for some extra spice on spell effects: no
Making the flames pop: no
LITERALLY USING FIREBALLS ANYWHERE: no
Using the worst possible Karma R-Q cracks for the floor: YES!
Reusing assets for karma but in orange: YES!
raaiooooot
I understand why Skyen hates these skins so much, like occasionally there are good ones but as a whole, you can tell Riot actively avoids putting effort into them, which is a shame because the skinline could be so good with just the smallest effort
Yeah, you can either go Ashen Lord Asol route, or Infernal Nasus one. They chose Akali instead...
It's really tedious how infernal for them apparently means "character on fire" when even them already explored the concept with more creativity with Teemo, Fizz and Nasus
@@Loliston
Devil Teemo and Fizz is a different skinline 🙄
@@Snarflez Well, they convey the theme "infernal" far better
Feels like how Fright Night is miles ahead of bewitching regarding Halloween for me, at least the ideias feel new, interesting and creative
This isn't the first time either. Riot has had a looooong history of trying to churn out cheap skins and refusing to make proper changes based on feedback. Remember MF's ultimate? The main reason why they never reworked it before release is because the splash art, live 2D animations (login screen), animated trailer, and everything else was already finished before they even put it up on PBE. They had decided the skin was finished before ever letting the community judge it, so we just had to accept it. Then there's the Mordekaiser rework, where they outright refused to put budget into his skins getting proper VFX, even those within the tier that REQUIRED it having that. Imagine the community telling a game company that they can't just rework skins they purchased to have less than what they originally did, and still refuse to fix them. It took one Riot employee to create the effects on his own time for them to just say "okay, sure. Add them into the game". There's a laundry list of them just being lazy, scummy, or out of touch and refusing to go back on mistakes.
Like Necrit said, the only Infernal skins that were ever liked were Infernal Nasus, Zyra, and Diana's. The last two only being praised due to them being better than those around them at the time.
I'm still mourning the death of mastery emotes
Bro is mourning
Bro is mourningmaxxing
I want to point out for Necrit that Riot doesn't really make 975RP skins anymore, 1350 is the new baseline and it shouldn't be seen as premium. These skins are proof of that.
Makes sense, but also makes sense that people don't like when prices go up.
yeh, these "basic" skins in a moba are €11 🗿
Inflation 🥲
Yeaa no, u can't sell products of VERY different quality for the same price and expect ppl to accept it. How can a skin for 10$ have a different home guard, different effects and animations but then another skin for 10$ is a recolor of base?
they made the arcane skins
40 east asian skins, 3 project skins, gas station puddles and now infernal? Holy sh* this year is smth else
To be fair... I kinda like the gas station puddles 😂 And the Eastern skins are pretty at least. But some of these newer skins are so utterly boring. The new infernal line should have stayed in the past. I wish they'd bring back the more unique skins, like the "Definitely Not" line, or the band skins (minus the weird tweets).
@@nomoretwitterhandlesthe Infernal skin line has always been boring. Nothing new. I have Infernal Amumu and Diana and they are trash.
@@Seroxm13Amumu is not that bad. Diana is just old, the skin got released when most were about the level of a recolour. And she did not have the extra Vfx like Zyra's plants to do something more. So for it's age and what it's constraints were, it's really okay. But it is indeed a skinline that did not age well, they have so much more tools and freedom these days. Either they redo the whole base concept of infernal, or they'll just put it to rest
@@viktoriaschmied6627 Amumu's head should be flamey, just looks so weird and bad like this. His ult and abilities VFX are so subtle.
Diana is a little better, but still not a good skin. I used them all the time cause it's the only skins I have with them.
don't forget toy terror chogath and cheesehead rat. Those were some good ass skins
Necrit said that last joke as a throwaway but it's such a good point
it genually made me laugh out loud - it was so true and sad, but so unexpected, like damn that caught me off guard 😂
Look's like, more Volcanic Skin than a "infernal"
the color is more cheeto dust and crumbs tbh - like the skins are lackluster as heck but whats worse is they couldnt even translate the splashart into the game models. Ashe doesnt have fiery hair it's just normal hair for example. And none of it looks like fire on their bodies it's just orange
Best fucking reply
tbh, in a fantasy game like this, when someone says "Infernal" the first thing that comes to my mind is Hell and demons, not fire and volcanic
The typical fast food marketing: Looks nice on the picture, but the product itself looks like mush.
"Everyone met each other's mother dozens of times."
That had no business making me laugh as much as it did 😂😂
All of their funding and effort went into the Empyrean skins
And they're still horrible. I personally believe their whole skin budget went into the mid-year event skins
the empyrean skins aren’t even that good..
huge cope saying that RGB Varus plastered in front of a red backdrop and nothing else counts as a quality legendary skin.
Empyrean? Ah you mean the rgb skin line
I thought Empyrean was reimagined Infernal...like neon inferno with rainbow fire all around
just another example that when layoffs happens…shit happens
Only to try to hire the people you just fired immediately only as Freelancers to underpay them- Riot small indie company 🤡
It's the way he talks about how Zyra and Diana had Infernal Skins in Season 2, when Zyra's wasn't called infernal, and Diana's released in S4
the crazy part is diana’s skin was linked to an in-game ice vs fire event that decided which element skin she got… like i don’t think it was intended to go this far😭 and infernal akali wasn’t even a skin it was the updated crimson akali :s
Infernal Diana was released in S6
I main zyra since s3 and it still looked terrible back then. The quality difference between wildfire and haunted, her next skin was huge.
Love the high noon recall on the infernal skin for Ashe. Took me a second to realize, but looking at them side by side they're almost identical.
It's funny how something like "Infernal Bel'Veth" would have actually gone over better. At least she doesn't have many skins to compare to.
How about infernal Milio
Infernal Brand. Just Brand but with 1% extra fire. The only reason why that skin hasn’t been released yet is because he’s THAT good.
But then people would be pissed that she finally got a skin, but for 1 of the most boring and generic skin lines...
Let skin lines like this be fillers for champions who already have a lot of skins.
This is what happens when you fire the artists that could have saved these skins
Congratulations to Riot
When you... Fire 🔥
Who is this artist that's so good that they fired?
@@johnstrife7mao zedong
@@johnstrife7 Lao Gan Ma
@@johnstrife7they fired almost all the original artists who stick with them from the very old days of league. Nercit make a video about it in detail so check it out.
9:31 Necrit droppin the F bomb was honestly a jumpscare
As bad as the skins are, the Ashe and Karma splash arts do go kinda hard and whoever was unfortunate enough to have to make them for these skins deserves a raise; they look so much better in splash.
Riot knows that splashes sell skins. Many people, maybe even half bother to look up the skin spotlight... but A LOT of people just buy straight from the shop.
yep and that’s an intentional trap by the company😂congratz u fell for it
Not really fair since 90% of the splashes are damn good compared to their actual models.
It's hated because everything comes in a soulless industrial cash-grab packs just for the sake of a schedule.
In the legacy days, skins were unique and tied to champions identity... Now they release it in generic packs (because of money), instead of taking a careful look at individual champions and releasing it dynamically.
To paint a picture of the problem: For example, you know the skin Sultan Tryndamere? Imagine now 100+ champions having the same skin line/theme, *regardless of champion identity, uniqueness or if it even looks good.* The reason the skin Draven Draven is good, is not because of the quality but because it's unique and it fits perfectly, many such cases.
How dare they priotizing making money when making cosmetic in this free to play game
I think they don’t do skin related to lore is just not a lot of people care I mean look at necrit most of his videos no longer focus on lore bits
@@VSasseville9How dare they have to listen to feedback and completely ignore people who want to purchase things with their own money
@@morbtime9167that is not because nobody cares about lore. There literally is no new lore in league of legends to really cover anymore. Have you missed the whole lore content draught discussion? He can milk just so much out of nothing
@@VSasseville9 are you aware that they can make more money If they invest more time and effort in designing non generic skins?
This is what happens when artists take a trip down memory lane and the middle manager sneaks up behind them. The mm literally went "Oh that looks good! Btw we just bought the orange colour wheel from Pantone, soo make it all orange!". To the artists: Oh, but, huh and eeeeh are not appropriate responses to shitty ideas delivered by people with megalonia
What
I had a stroke reading this
I also had a stroke reading this, mostly because this guy must have never worked before in his life.
So this is how 15 year old LoL players imagine working for a big company. Interesting.
People be like "I can't even read this, but it was surely good. - take my upvote"
It’s hilarious that Olaf’s arm still turns fucking blue
Fires/flames sometimes turn blueish tho.
That's actually kinda ok. Have you ever watched your oven or heather flames? Blue flames are a sign of complete combustion. Gives off the idea of "purer" or "cleaner" fire.
If I'm not mistaken, people voted for the Infernal Diana skin and the Shyvana rework during the same event. Yet here we are in 2024 with more additions to league's worst skin line and still no Shyvana rework. In fact, I think there were two separate occasions where players voted for a Shyvana rework.
they confirmed shyv is getting her rework in 2025 a while ago.
The good 7pm video just right for eating my burger
Let me guess, west coast?
About nine time zones east of that.
@@BrianMartinez0401 actually Germany, west coast (LA) would be 10 in the morning
Bro is waking up while i'm preparing to go to sleep damn
@LukasSMF Oh hey, I'm one hour ahead of you
All this effort and we still won't get a Aspect of War Pantheon legendary skin.
Isn't that just the Prestige version of the Ruined Pantheon..
@@chitogekirisaki4459
Prestige version is Arteus taking back control with all the power still there
Normal version is the Aspect of War... But still has Arteus' normal voice lines
Isnt that just his base skin?
@@chitogekirisaki4459 I can’t send links over youtube comments but look up the legends of runeterra aspect of war art, the difference between the ascended prestige skin and actual aspect of war is staggering.
It’s fantastic art that they need to incorporate into an actual skin.
Wait until Necrit sees new Ahri skins
The skin drama videos always make me feel like I'm in an alternate universe
As Anivia main I really hoped she'd get a skin with that bird teaser, now I am glad she didn't 😂
First ever time that 95% of all mains are glad they DIDN'T receive a skin lmao
We ain't getting no skins anytime soon bro 😭
I’m sorry but that Infernal Karma skin is just base karma but orange . She looks like an Oompa Loompa more than someone made of fire/an infernal being
LMAOO
"How did Riot forget their direction on design in just 2 years!?".... "Oh yeah, they fired their design team."
Sawn Chaos Viego would be such an amazing skin, imagine one of his arms being sawn together with a female toy arm or something, like if Isolde was tied to him physically instead of spiritually.
Oh that would be so delightfully creepy
Sewn. You are thinking of "sewn". "Sawn" isn't a word. Like at all lol.
Sewn Chaos Blitzcrank would be pretty cool
Personally for me, this is so sad this will be the olaf skin this year. Was really hoping for something more armored, laying more into the volcanic rock/obsidian with the infernal
i feel like they could’ve done something really interesting with the concept of ashe, maybe something like an anti-ashe on her villain/infernal demon arc looking to rain fire on freljord. instead we just have red chroma ashe 😩
Ash fell to Terrorblade who filled her head with her biggest fear Freljord fallen in peices never united agaisnt the storm so she let the demon in gaining infernal powers to destroy what threatens the freljord
“Visual clarity of fire slowing you is not good “
Rumble with rylais *chuckles*
Brand the literal elemental of fire having ryilais as one of his core items is crying magma tears of laughter
For Ashe's they could've put some hell-blue in there for the quote "Ice so cold, it burns" - Ben 10.. but that didn't cross anyone's minds in there
That last line was on *point* ! It's *rare* to see such good puns ! *Well done* !
I mean, they fired everyone to cut production costs... something else had to go. Quality got hit. The reason why they'll release it is simple... People keep buying trashy battlepasses and 200$ skins. they are testing what they can get away with. (And complaining won't solve anything if you keep buying those)
Looking at champions that already have infernal skins such as Kennen and Galio spcifically, they're absolutely amazing and one of my favorite skins in the game, especially Galio with the recall animation
Karthus and Vel's Infernal Skins doesn't look to bad either
Well, too, if you'll notice the skin drops in Legends of Runeterra, they dropped an Arclight and Infernal line there too some months after the skin poll results were called. I think that is were spare art/concepts went.
9:30 Holy hell, the f bomb just dropped
our boi forgot to censor that one
Lots of fire all around
They love brand so much, not only did they balance the whole game around his archetype they also gave him a custom skin line
I wish they would still make those one off skins they had back in the beginning. Now it’s all skin sets where at minimum 3 champions at a time get the same theme skin
They could make Ashe use magma or something so that her attacks slow enemies would make a bit of sance.
Finally seeing the effects of those layoffs are we
Sewn Chaos skins: amazing
Riot: no no, we shan’t
Modern Infernal: orange/yellow pallet swaps
Riot: well it’s financially efficient, sure
Small correction @Necrit Diana skin came out in season 6 from the ice vs fire tournament event that Riot did.
nice a necrit video while im eating my box of donuts
Can i have some too? :3
Based
@barny541 you'll have more
y'all eating while watching this
the other guy had a burger XD
Well i also had my dinner a gyros in turkish bread
Acting like the 1350 price point somehow makes these skins “premium” is disingenuous. Riot *only* makes 1350 skins anymore. Quality has literally nothing to do with it, 1350 is the new baseline.
And if you even need to ask why, I envy your naïveté.
Ok... But what does that have to do with the point he's making
Best end-of-video joke in a long time hahah
if they want to do this skinline again maybe try with monster champs ,you have more chances with that by not looking just the default skin but burned ,you can try to make an infernal zac ,tho it would be maybe just magma zac but oh well
People can't imagine just not buying microtransactions?
No impulse Control.
Necrit cussing?! This is new to me LoL 9:30
imagine if they tried a bit more with the concept. like mayble blue fire aesthetics for Ashe and olaf ( Freliord), and maybe Karma can have greenish spirit fire. That would be a way more interesting twist on the inferno skinline
I think the last time Riot released an awesome skin was Diana's winterblessed where it turns the whole rift into winter wonderland once she get a penta. Only downside is... it has to be a penta which is pretty difficult for her since shes basically a initiator unless shes gigafed
Blood Moon is probably the best Skin line there is . They are not overly done but still look amazing .
Same problem .. now every one has a blood moon skin.. why??? Same for high noon, some champs fit the theme, others NOT at all
@@alexandreiss0agr276oversaturation always kills skinlines that have no real setting but rather just a thematic
Like, literally all of champions can have a DnD skin, because each can have a unique class/subclass + race
But what can you do with...japanese oni cultists? Champion on fire
Hell, even Pool Party / Snow Day can do better than that
Funnily enough, if High Noon reverted back to regular western movie theme, the skinline would look so much better, because now artists can think of new concepts and not just "possessed by demon/angel"
Blood moon is bad because every single champion looks the same with no individuality
Making a fire skin for ashe is like makin a dragon slayer skin for Shyvana or smolder, it just goes against the very nature of the champions.
that joke at the end made me laugh way more then it shouldve
Do y'all remember those Thresh, Azir, Twisted Fate, Rell robot skins in the Star walkin' cinematic that were never released XD
TBH the SKINS nowadays in the League look like It USE A.I.
... all of those freaking SKINS ARE Still FREAKING THE SAME....
Also, No More Creativity at aLL!?!
So... League of Legends is now a quite JOKE.
Is so bad and that's why I never buy now
nah. it's not the problem about the creatives or the artists, they do their best according to what's they're directed to do and what they're given. creating skins goes through a lot of steps and goes through a lot of people before it's gets approved and the problem in my opinion falls on those people that make those decisions, it's the corporate dogs who thinks passion and having a strict high standard costs time and a lot of money and the management that wants to make profit by just doing the bare minimum amount of work that's why you get skins that just looks like "products" and not cool looking pieces of art.
League skins dont look ai chief. Cherish the art we get now because we're going to be bombarded by actual consistent ai art use very soon.
My problem with skins lately is that you can't tell champions apart on first glance anymore when they are part of a certain set of skins. Empyrean skins are the worst offenders but they look "cool" enough so people complain less, I guess.
I'm still waiting for my janna pokemon master, I even remember someone commenting that they wanted the Ezreal pokemon one because he shares the same VA as Ash in I think it was Brazil??? And I think that's pretty sick too.
Wait is it possible they released those to have atention on the infernal skin line and basicaly advertise on a rework by having the people wanting it ike in the sonic movie incident
Well empyrean skinline is still the worst one.
Kinda reminds me of the infernal kennen whose chromas don't change the shuriken look. ur shuriken on the skin looks white for example, but when u throw it, it turns orange lol
you will see more and more skins like this. all skins from here on will be made in full recycling mode [ starting with Faerie Court].
edit: it will come to a point where they apologize and use the excuse that they don't have enough staff / budget. [remember when they fired 400+ people? ]
Theres so many wasy avenues for infernal skins aside from the demon route
You have volcanoes, spiritflames (like the one-off brand skin) and even some hearthblood could be cool
ashe skin splash art: fiery flame hair
ashe skin model: play-doh hair
That history lesson at the start was like watching a tiktok on aliens and ancient giants
Hw many fire themed skins are they going to make before they run out of champions
You’re my ASMR …. Love your vids! Never go away!
i'm sure the ashe skin has the particles of another skin recolored, looks like hearts from the heartseeker come from her pasive
12:05 The people who were originally tackling that are no longer involved (fired, quit, promoted, moved to another team, etc.). Riot also has no continuity and they probably did forget about that article.
Still waiting the ashe visual update so any skin other than project and high noon is playable
Oof that last pun did indeed burn
Was the missiong outline of the "one" in "1350" intended? :D
A flaming elk skull on infernal ashe would just feel like high noon
1:28 i dont know what champion but its ok if its morgana or karma? dont know if its for them but maybe? cant tell what the ones before where olaf? trundle? darius? ashe? vayne?
3:00 ok its shit...
You should check out what the Varus mains are saying about the recent “legendary” skin.
Been watching you for 7 years now. Would love to create shorts for your videos to get more exposure!
The joke at the end... I'm fucking crying of laughter 🤣🤣🤣
Ngl, when I saw Olaf's skin I thought it was a meme on the bug where glacial Olaf would just be forever orange after ulting 😂
Huh, i wonder what was happening behind the scenes for this one?
I can't decide if I get back on League to get Victorious Sona or not 😭
this is much more entertaining since it turned into a spectator sport with the vanguard roll out for me :D
THAT BURN CAME OUTTA NOWHERE LIKE A LEFT HOOK GOOD SHOW!
Infernal Varus recall still bugged after all these years? The backing animation sound is like 10x louder than any other.
I always just assume these types of skins are to get newer employees comfortable with the in-house style/process. I wanna know which artists worked on them
You said the Karma recall was different and didn't have the rocks..... look again but slower.. they show up at the end lol
"Highnoon Ashe but burnt" got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
5:38 remember that China has a fairly strict policy on skulls and corpses, though maybe they could have done something similar
I would grab the Ashe skin if i roll it in the gacha, it looks pretty neat and i definitely enjoy it more than the high noon theme
My biggest surprise is that I thought Empyrean was the skin line that replaced inferal for some reason
I really liked the Ashe-Skin.. And when you mentioned the High Noon I knew why.. Ive got the High Noon Skin and the Infernal just looks like an cheaper Version of that.
The neverending story i guess
Can't wait for infernal brand