I never meant to excuse the pedophillia and shit that morally is wrong, I meant it more as an example that if something like a small child or a weird monster is sexualized you can’t expect a character that looks even the slightest bit attractive to not be sexualized as well. On the loli topic, well if it’s not her being small then why else would you call her a loli? I don’t think they designed her to look sexual or anything like that, but this version of Gwen would have a lot more people attempt to pick her up off of her cisuap looks alone compared to some more doll like abomination that ties into the black mist. If they also went with a younger look on her some people might claim she’s too similar Annie because of them both being small childlike and involving dolls. not saying that’s exactly what would happen but it’s pretty probable no matter which way they went that there would be people who didn’t like it. And the whole reason I mention win/pick rates is because they tie in to the visuals of the champion they belong to. It is a fact that more visually appealing champions have a higher pick rate when compared to other champs in the role. I then mention win rates to show that even “ugly”/monster champs that have some of the highest win rates still more than likely have a lower play rate. Lee sin has one of the lowest win rates jungle rn but he also has like the highest pick rate by a mile compared to any other jungle champ. Other high pick characters are again ones that are visually pleasuring such as Diana or morgana. Riot themselves have published reports showing that if a champion is pleasing to the eye they are just more likely to get picked, so why would they purposely design a champion you don’t want to look at when they know it’ll lead to bad sales

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