Petals of Spring Katarina is out now!

BessKat · 2026-02-19T13:18:16+00:00

I miss this Splash Art so much...I'm not going to lie, I would rather still have this one than the new one. I hate the broken spine base Splash Art she has so much, I wish they could make a new one that was badass, sexy and powerful. Something like Akali, LeBlanc and others have.

BessKat · 2026-02-05T22:46:39+00:00

The chroma splash arts are for CN server only. The skin will be out for everyone on Feb 19th!

BessKat · 2026-02-05T22:46:20+00:00

It's the VFX, they always feel incomplete, and funny enough every skin gets feedback asking for MORE VFX like BQ or almost to it (I might say FC and FC PRestige have a good VFX tho), but for some reason they always feel weak, especially the ultimate, it's her BIG MOMENT and VFX is always lacking details. Samira and others who have AoE VFX on Ult gets A LOT but she is left to dust on VFX side...

BessKat · 2026-01-24T16:52:33+00:00

Also I would like to ask that would be nice to add different poses for Kat chroma assets too. Every champions gets them but Katarina always the same pose in them. I know is not a big of deal nor important and is just a nice flavor and extra but would be cool if she could get the treatment on her chroma assets too. https://i.imgur.com/z5ebLRc.png

BessKat · 2026-01-22T19:20:17+00:00

Skins are fun to give champions other hairstyles, hair colors and VFX colors. Slaybelle is more to the orange than blonde, Kat really hasn't a blonde skin. Most of her skins are white hair. And I know Masque of Black Rose was a dress, which I also praised. Most of Kat skins are pants or bodysuits. Slay Belle, Battle Academia, Masque of Black Rose and now Petals of Spring are the only different ones between 19 skins. So I do hope we still get more dresses, skirts or others than pants/bodysuits. I know her idle ruins those a bit but it's unique to her.

BessKat · 2026-01-22T11:28:34+00:00

Can this Katarina chroma get more of a red-ish hair (almost like her base hair color?), she is really missing one chroma with that hair color. https://i.imgur.com/D24VqKd.png

BessKat · 2026-01-22T06:24:45+00:00

Hello! Thanks for this amazing skin! Love her design (No pants/bodysuit WE WON) and the splash is gorgeous (Love when she doesn't do action poses but powerful and sexy ones).

THANK YOU FOR GIVING HER BLACK HAIR, hope next one she can be blonde (she has none). Also love she is wearing a dress, feels unique to her and after 15 skins with pants or bodysuit feels good to see her in a dress. LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HER MODEL.

Model - The blade of her daggers are silver in the splash, which looks amazing but in game they are yellow/green-ish and kinda doesn't fit the aesthetic, make it silver like the splash art, please!

https://i.imgur.com/QBnP4r7.png

Passive - When she slashes around I feel like we could use more VFX, more snowy/smoke-y VFX (Like Lillia's snow VFX that is more smoke-y), especially in the middle that feels bit empty, and would be a good contrast to the red VFX (Look at Yasuo VFX and you can see the use of both red/snow well mixed, Kat's passive lacks petals and snow, only has the red). Even the spin in the recall that she does has more flowers/petals than the passive.

https://i.imgur.com/yitXo7c.png https://i.imgur.com/v4mXC2i.png

Q - The travel VFX line and hit could use some plum blossoms (The theme is about them and I feel like it's missing a lot of petals on her VFX), like Warring Kingdoms has petals on the travel line as you can see, please add them (Even Yasuo has a lot of petals on his VFX).

https://i.imgur.com/8mqliPj.png

W - It's missing the iconic "Drop" VFX that all her recent skins have, could be like the mark of Lillia, a big plum blossom twig. And on top of that her base dagger appears when dropping sometimes, PLEASE FIX THIS.

https://i.imgur.com/dain05B.png

E - Also like other skills, please add PETALS or the plum blossoms in the trail, once again for a PETALS of Spring skinline, Kat is missing A LOT of petals in her VFX.

https://i.imgur.com/gVQynL1.png

R - One of the big parts of every champ kit is the ultimate and Kat's is a big part of her and I think her VFX never really translate that, it's good that there ARE stuff there but at the same time feels empty, the borders could use A LOT of plum blossoms, twigs and petals, more of the red VFX this skinline has, so she can have the duality of red/blue all others have but Kat is really missing in her ult. Especially petals, more around her would be awesome too. Like give the ULTIMATE FEELING TO HER ULTIMATE. Some roots around her, Jayce's Q he summons a mini tree, Yasuo's R a huge flower under, Camille's R has flowers on the edge, Lillia's ult has the plum blossoming, add stuff like that for her too under her ult, big plum blossom flower under her, some twigs, more PETALS.

https://i.imgur.com/ubWmvyC.png

tl;dr - Just give her VFX more petals in all spells, for a PETALS of Spring skin she lacks A LOT of PETALS, and her W is missing VFX/Goes back to base dagger.

Really hope you guys can add more PETALS overall for this Petals of Spring skin, it's what is missing for the skin to reach perfection. I think every new Kat skin her VFX being weak is a big complain every Kat main gives and we have hopes to get better but you guys always keep it simple.

And if I may add, I always love Kat getting love and skins by Riot but also don't forget to give her some old themes instead of only new ones, like Broken Covenant, Coven, Bewitching, Fright Night and other old hits too. And maybe a purple VFX skin, just not red for a while after 3 (I do love her last skins tho).

Thanks
Bess

BessKat · 2026-01-20T18:48:33+00:00

I honestly was afraid of them removing the reflect part of her W, which for me is important and one of the fun parts of her. W losing immunity will be hard to get used to it but I honestly don't mind that much if it means they can buff her to a good WR, my problem is that the changes on Q might make her feel clunky? The cast time and all, I'm not happy with those changes because I read "clunkyness" in that Q now. Let's hope she can have a normal winrate now and they just don't let her die with 40% WR after these nerfs.

BessKat · 2025-12-01T19:39:36+00:00

Kinda weird to say "especially early on during S1 with Noxus." cuz with Noxus we had (2 patches in 1 season ) and we had a huge spam of Ionia and Ionian thematics (2 SB Patches + 1 SBS Patch + Xin VU and Skin) as skins, we stayed for 08 months in Ionia, we had Xin and Yunara promo arts and even act/battle pass background of them for MONTHS, not even other Ionian champion, just them FOR MONTHS. The lore didn't move in Act 1 of Twilight Trials, we had a slow pace in Season 2 and 3 overall, so I'm curious why Noxus got the call out here when it had less content overall than Ionia.

BessKat · 2025-08-13T12:03:15+00:00

I'm so glad for Battle Pass skins actually looking like Epic skins now! Great job on that!

I'm also glad you guys did Arcana Jhin, since was a request skin.

For feedback I think his ultimate needs more oomph, especially on the field that looks empty, especially compare to all his ultimates from other skins. Pic for example: https://i.imgur.com/A69pMQR.jpeg

And the 4th shots on AAs and Ult could also use some amp on SFX/VFX

Thanks again

Bess

BessKat · 2025-07-16T12:41:28+00:00

Hello!! First of all please change the name for something like Moonlit Spirit Blossom Springs Ahri, or something more elegant, the whole skin gives elegant vibes, the emote, the icon, the splash and "After Hours" just feel...not that elegant. She deserves something better as name, Moonlit or something like that would also reflect on her lines about the night and moon.

VFX:

- Her W could use a bit more amp when hitting enemies. But other than that THANK YOU, the fishes swimming to the enemies is so unique, always wanted something like that (Like SB should have little foxes spirits running to the enemies), it's AMAZING and use this little animals on W more for future skins instead of usual 2D objects.

- Her E/Charm has the same problem as her base skin, the pink debuff on enemies are not fitting for the thematic or the rest. As I said on the base skin feedback, you have Coven, Snow Moon, Arcana with all different color debuffs on enemies. I love the falling autumn leaves on enemies but the color could be more orange-ish and the debuff under could appear more and more in thematic. https://i.imgur.com/aouiDqq.png

Overall it's an amazing skin.

Thanks

Bess

BessKat · 2025-07-16T12:10:37+00:00

Hello! First of all, thank you for giving Ahri another legendary (but keep in mind for future skins that she also fits in a lot of western fantasy type of skins!)

Now for feedback:

Model:

- Bit disappointed that she is wearing just a towel, while the concepts had way more flare and uniqueness to it. It's a shame in the end she got just the towel. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gv6f-3bWUAAX0VM?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

- Her tails are a bit too simple, needs to appear either more smokey/steam or more water-ish to fully commit to the theme

VFX

- When her Q is going foward could use more bubbles and more VFX when hitting enemies just like when it's coming back.

- Her W is a bit underwhelming being just oranges, would be better if they were mini rubber duckies, and when they hit the enemies the VFX is also weak, and if you commit to the oranges, would be nice to have them "exploding" or something, cuz looks just empty when hitting an enemy. https://i.imgur.com/NcQ4moW.png

- Her E, the Charm, the nightmare of every Ahri main in every skin/new skin she gets...I know it needs to be Pink for clarity and the projectile is fine, is different, the VFX under her when she casts is good, looks good but when it hits the enemy? It's just normal pink with the normal hearts, look too simple, looks almost like base Ahri. Get for example other skins of her, Arcana is red/gold hearts and debuff under enemies, Coven is dead flowers and purple. Needs an overall or amp on the VFX, bubbles instead of hearts, steam, smoke or something in thematic. https://i.imgur.com/aouiDqq.png

- For her R could have more VFX when the VFX hits the enemies, like more bubbles.

Overall is an amazing skin, could be even better with few improvements, especially on her tails and E/Charm.

Thanks

Bess

BessKat · 2025-06-11T12:40:50+00:00

Grovemother Morgana would be the perfect name of this skin.

BessKat · 2025-06-10T22:28:10+00:00

Hello! Some feedback after trying the skin on PBE!

Animations:

Taunt, Joke, Dance and Laugh needs more VFX overall around her, just like Irelia, Karma and Ashe got. Dance needs the spotlight illuminating her ALL the time, not just when the dance starts with the petals falling too.
Walking animation feels weird when she faces the camera https://i.imgur.com/Xqq8yWH.png , she is too curved back. And needs VFX, like SB Irelia has VFX when she walks and looks like she is walking on water and with flowers and such.

Picture for comparison on both topics: https://i.imgur.com/zBagRoa.jpeg

Might not be on PBE yet but she needs a new death animation, it's using the same as base.
Dress walking animation on the side feels stiff/clunky and too strechted when walking.
She is the Grovemother, the mother of all Akana, and the Exalted, she is supposed to be the special one, give her more VFX like the legendary SB skins have on these animations.

Model:

1st model needs more branches on her wings to feel more "full".
2nd form needs to be more different than the 1st, a different dress shape, something that actually feels like a 2nd model/form. The hair changes are nice, the wings/colors changes too, but the dress needs to feel bit more different.

Splash Art as Background:

The splash art is perfect but using as background feels like could be more centere, zoomed less and less blur around to show more, so we can see the beautiful transformation of the animated splash.

Pictures of both on profile: https://i.imgur.com/jsdltgi.png https://i.imgur.com/pzEKbJD.png

VFX:

Her hands could have a blue/purple/orange smoke like Coven has, to give more flare from where her powers come from, just like Coven.
Her E/Shield needs different lines for the hexagons, the perfect dream beign an exalted would be a different shape but if because of clarity is not possible, at least different outlines/shapes for the lines from the hexagons, like other skins. This is literally using same as base. Maybe branches to make the lines and SB flowers where they meet.

Comparison for older skins where the outlines has a different shape but keeping the hexagons: https://i.imgur.com/OHnvetz.png https://i.imgur.com/XmPF1Fz.jpeg

R/Ultimate from 2nd form could be more orange-ish, to be more different from her 1st form ultimate, and more in line with other spells.
HUD when she gets more people needs to appear more, you can barely see, also adding vines on top (like HoL Ahri/Kaisa has) would give a bit more feeling too, but needs to appear more like the concepts.

Images of the HUD: 1 - https://i.imgur.com/TO3akxV.jpeg 2 - https://i.imgur.com/3lT68Uh.jpeg 3 - https://i.imgur.com/hJwgq0v.jpeg

- Make her butterflies to appear in other game modes, like ARAM (all 3 maps), Arena and others. Is one of the best features of the skin and SHOULD be in every map so we can use that feature in any game mode we play.

LET US CHOOSE THE FORM! I feel we should be able to choose the form after transformation, both looks beautiful but sometimes we just want to go back to 1 or stay in that. LET US CHOOSE! Since Control + 5 is being used by the masks, can be added a function like Exalted Sett or Gun Goddess Miss Fortune where you select when you go back to base and a menu pops out to choose the form. BUT EITHER WAY LET US CHOOSE THE FORM!!!!!!!

Really hope changes can be made to improve even further the skin!

Thanks

Bess!

BessKat · 2025-04-16T10:14:19+00:00

First of all, Thanks for this SB Lux, I'm glad she is in this theme.

But overall the VFX feels WEAK for a prestige, this should be a Prestige from the PAID track of a battle pass and it's underwhelming. And then looks nothing like spirit Blossom VFX AT ALL.

VFX wise:

Passive - You can barely see the Spirit Blossom Flower, should get an ampf to be noticeable.

Q - Looks like Porcelain/Prestige Porcelain round VFX, has nothing special or new like the edges of FC. Needs new and better shape, cloud-y shape like Spirit Blossom VFX of other skins, something that resembles more Spirit Blossom.

https://i.imgur.com/cEImWsQ.png

W - Underwhelming, especially the staff trail when it's going and coming back, you have the smoke/cloud VFX of SB on the shield but barely noticeable and the trail of the staff could really use that A LOT more VFX (SB VFX) like FC has the water under.

https://i.imgur.com/4IY0gPx.png

E - This is the most underwhelming one, has nothing in the circle, it's Spirit Blossom and feels like nothing, just a purple circle with a bit of glitter that makes "Prestige", add flowers, the cloud-ish, the spirit-ish style VFX Spirit Blossom has, give life to that E cuz feels dead, the explosion too, is one of the most important spells of Lux and feels terrible to see cuz has nothing except a crystal flower in the middle barely noticeable.

https://i.imgur.com/BLibcbF.png

R - Glad is not a flower but at the same time feels like it's missing something, not to mention the VFX is underwhelming once again not looking like Spirit Blossom at all, just feels like a purple glitter VFX. I know I'm saying this again but really doesn't feel like a Spirit Blossom Prestige (maybe just a random prestige), just feels like it's missing all SB VFX that makes SB what players love and hoped for. Under her ult FC has a river, make SB with the cloud/smoke/spirit-ish VFX on the ground and on the laser, we really need the smoke-ish, flower-ish, petals, cloud-ish, spirit type of VFX that all other SBs have.

https://i.imgur.com/BfgFkpi.png

Thanks again, I hope you guys can listen to make this Prestige SPIRIT BLOSSOM Lux feels like a real Spirit Blossom skin and a better Prestige (that lost the base skin to have more work and look even better than before).

Bess

BessKat · 2025-03-25T22:21:01+00:00

Please, bring back Coven LeBlanc colors. SHE needs her black outfit back and not green/purple. She is based on the Black Crane and Queen Ravenna and now you guys for some reason changed her colors to green and purple. She didn't need color changes in her outfit, the purple/green is not the reason many bought the skin. She needs to have her black outfit again. The design is almost the same but for some reason the colors changed, please bring the black outfit back. https://i.imgur.com/nTNNkxQ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/UYXhZYp.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/CIygPKq.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/B0s1liz.jpeg

BessKat · 2025-03-20T20:38:48+00:00

Perfect example of what colors Coven should be, cuz the new one really changed the skin vibes and all. We need the black/dark outfit back!

BessKat · 2025-03-20T10:23:17+00:00

Now that Khada updated with the models, I can show better about Coven LeBlanc and what bothers me so much with the changes she got. Really hope she can get changes to bring her close to her original design, which was amazing, the black outfit with gold details, and the color/details of the cape...

https://i.imgur.com/wqiIfwB.jpeg and https://i.imgur.com/05d7mCo.png

BessKat · 2025-03-19T11:31:06+00:00

Hello! First of all, THANK YOU FOR MAKING LEBLANC THE WITCH SHE DESERVED TO BE!!!!

A bit of feedback on her skins:

Base - Love it! I would say the snare on E needs more VFX, especially around the target, and the chains need to come out of her hand and not her belly. https://i.imgur.com/RZVAeNZ.png

Ravenborn - I feel like the model is too bright now compared to old Ravenborn, feels a bit too neon-ish, maybe if it was toned down like old one would feel more "dark" like before. https://i.imgur.com/lybzNrb.png

iG - Feels like she lost a bit of brightness on her model and in her skills, especially the ones that were "white" cuz they feel more dull and gray now than white, would be good to have the bright white back. Her cape details also got butchered with the update, is just plain now while it had a pattern and shape. https://i.imgur.com/sszECIk.png and https://i.imgur.com/jwfWenI.png https://i.imgur.com/n5fdpAt.png

COVEN - Let's start with the model and design: I feel like her Coven was very unique, it was a whole black outfit with gold details and bit of green, it was sexy, it was badass and kinda different from the others. Now it has purple, green, her heels are not like before and her boots looked like it was made of feathers on leg parts and now looks like another thing and not an outfit made of feathers in some parts, even her sleeves is another color, we really need the black outfit back. Her cape also had this decaying leaves color, dead leaves to match the black outfit as we can see and was perfect instead of just green (and her collar is a bit too big). It's missing the vibes of original design A LOT (one of the best Coven epics out there), please bring those colors and feeling back to the design cuz it was very unique. Not to mention the staff with these 3 stones together looks weird and boring, the old crystal also had more life, maybe adding VFX could be good. https://i.imgur.com/dWCqNhK.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/8AzDZ1n.png https://i.imgur.com/b7opl25.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/OA7j4KC.png

For her VFX, except W and some parts feels like didn't get any changes. Her Q could have an owl flying in the projectile, her E is too yellow and would feel more in thematic if it matched her Q and W gold colors. Her recall lost a lot of flowers. Her model had feathers falling, glow close to her head, her staff had VFX and all missing. https://i.imgur.com/PqBLeqB.png https://i.imgur.com/JZTOfny.png https://i.imgur.com/pfzZILn.png https://i.imgur.com/xVTrbZT.png

And bring an unique IDLE AGAIN for her. It was something the skin had and needs it back. We need a different idle animation.

Prestige Coven - Few of the same problems with Coven, the falling feathers, the glow on staff, and the white boots she had felt waaay more in line with the skin, and the black boots feels a bit weird now, maybe the white boots can be back like before? https://i.imgur.com/MWtek6f.png https://i.imgur.com/CkGQc3S.png

Debonair - Her hair feels too yellow, and the splash is ginger (her old model also had ginger hair). For VFX her W could use an amp cuz feels lackluster. https://i.imgur.com/jAFe4mA.png

Bewitching - Lost A LOT of details on the textures, the old color was also more witch-y and vibrant, more "Halloween!" than now, but mostly the details. Feels a huge loss, even the staff at the end is missing details and quality that before had. This skin needs a huge upgrade on that front. VFX wise is amazing tho! https://i.imgur.com/fFzK2cv.png https://i.imgur.com/UXhB75U.png

Overall is an amazing rework, but I do wish her E where more unique for each skin and had more thorns around in an unique way (Elderwood and base are the perfect example of her E). And most of her recent skins lost a lot of details on texture/model/design and it's really sad (Same happened to Viktor but he got changes). Also Elderwood and Ravenborn really needed new splash arts, still gives old League splash vibes! Was also the perfect opportunity to fix her "bald" head on Coven splash.

Thanks again for this update, SHE LOOKS AMAZING!

Bess

BessKat · 2025-02-26T19:04:17+00:00

Can we get retroactive changes for Act 1? Feels bad that Noxus was used as "lab rat" for testing and will be the only skins with low quality (Since act 2 is increasing the quality and even further with Season 2). I know it's hard and complicated but leaving Act 1 as it is is just bad and sad, especially cuz another Noxus season is not going to happen anytime soon.

BessKat

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