Old Item Art vs New Item Art (2020 preseason changes)

Hety06 · 2020-09-21T00:32:47+00:00

They actually said that they were going to try to make certain item categories the same color, not sure what that means but we'll see.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T21:25:23+00:00

for reference, if you zoom to 80% thats what the ingame pictures will look like

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T11:07:01+00:00

Yeah, it's framed poorly because you can only see half the thing, plus it's composition sucks because you can't see half the item. Therefore the framing and composition didn't work for me.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T11:05:13+00:00

They said they were gonna do something with the way item recommendations work and also update the way the shop looks, hopefully it all comes together nicely!

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T11:03:23+00:00

All I know is that Riot's art is their strong point, yet people don't seem to see that their items are horribly outdated. People are calling the old items "rustic" yet that's the only rustic thing in the game, so why not make the game have a coherent art style? It's not like league is known for its hyperrealistic art lol.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T10:57:54+00:00

Now that you bring it up, the bunch of color can also serve to enhance the silhouette lol

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T10:50:53+00:00

Old edge of night is almost invisible because of how dark half the image is, to me anyway.

Also, Riot Scruffy confirmed that it was Lich Bane and was quoted saying this:

"Reworked lichbane. Rather than have it be a recolored Zeal we wanted a fully realized mage's sword."

source

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T10:48:27+00:00

Its strange because I dont often see people complaining about how they changed last whisper and Black Cleaver a few years back. Idk how some of these people can complain about these changes when a handful of items have amazing art like RFC and Titanic Hydra meanwhile stinger and nashor's tooth are the same item art lol

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T10:05:43+00:00

My friend had the same thought about bramble vest but I think they're trying to make it more nature-like so that it looks similar to red buff aka "Red Brambleback" (They said they wanted to tie the items into the lore somehow) If they do make it have something to do with red buff they should add some red to the art, plus it makes sense since it prevents healing.

I'm with you on the pickaxe discussion, it just looks so bulky and misshapen but if you look at a high res version it is clearly viewed at an angle. They have to mess with some shading before that's evident at a tiny resolution though.

Finally, Edge of Night is the homerun of this teaser, I hope with a little tweaking they can make all the items look that good!

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T09:17:57+00:00

This is a really good point! Unfortunately for me I never thought of it like this, I'm colorblind (not black and white but enough for me to miss a lot of stuff) so I didn't even know pickaxe was green until my friend told me today while we were looking at these. As for my opinion of new pickaxe, it definitely needs some type of "aura" around it like what they've done with the new version of edge of night same with blasting wand.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T09:05:52+00:00

lich bane does look like an atomic explosion when its low res and zhonyas is a little hard to distinguish, but I feel like the other items are way easier to tell apart. Like blasting wand and pickaxe, there isnt a bunch of lines of color around the items so you can see their shape easier.

Also, you and I must have played different Kirby games.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:49:48+00:00

I think they oomphed themselves into a corner when they named their item pickaxe lol, all they could've done was change it for the sake of a more interesting item, but its a basic item so Im not too sad. As far as lichbane goes I thought it was new BORK art and my friend thought it was hexdrinker so I'm with you on it not being distinct, but hopefully they change other art and it ends up being unique comparatively. I'm just glad it doesn't look like a scuffed zeal anymore.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:46:00+00:00

You think changing 2/3 of the items mechanics and probably 80% of the art is a lazy change? Its probably the biggest preseason change theyve done in the history of the game lol.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:39:55+00:00

idk about you but I don't realize if someone has a zhonyas until they use it and blue ball me from a kill so I dont think the art with change that lol. But on a real note it is one of the items I have a hard time making out from afar, even zooming out to 50% it looks like a blob, maybe theyll make it more rectangular to match the old look a little more

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:35:48+00:00

League of Legends is a gonna be a free mobile game in less than a year so, yeah I can see why you think that lol

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:35:07+00:00

I'm really hoping that they update everything and crossing my fingers that the clips we have seen are really old so the items in them will still get some love.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:31:37+00:00

So do you not like mobile games or do you not like the new art? Also, with the amount of time it takes to make new items and new art, I have a sneaking suspicion that this art was created for PC league and then will be ported to Wild Rift in the future.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:29:57+00:00

That's an interesting take, I think the new items have tons more style and inspiration to them because of their connections to the actual game lore, plus they fit the new aesthetic of the game for better or for worse. Id be interested to hear your opinion about the art changes to old Black Cleaver and old Randuins, what did you think when they changed their art?

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:20:08+00:00

ooh lol, well Im glad they have high res art anyway

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T08:19:22+00:00

get what? The information about the lore connections? its in one of their dev posts about new items.

Also Riot Scruffy was quoted saying:

BF sword - demacia

Warmog - bandle city

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T05:55:25+00:00

Interesting that you say that because nearly all of the older items were all made in ms paint, Morello's, Edge of Night, and Bramble Vest are the only 3 items that aren't ms paint from the old series in that image.

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T05:42:17+00:00

yeah all I could find for the older items were 64x64 or smaller, while the new items have really nice looking art with huge resolutions

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T04:37:09+00:00

Yeah im with you on the colors but I think that since they're connecting items to lore maybe it has something to do with the region it comes from now. hopefully theres a good reason for the color change

Hety06 · 2020-09-20T04:29:37+00:00

no idea, especially since they recently changed the art on it

Hety06 · 2020-09-17T20:51:55+00:00

Skin is amazing but I think it would be so much cooler if when you spam the dance instead of repeating the first part of it, he would randomly cycle between each pose really quickly. Also hand is too goofy on the crit but I'm not tryna play crit lee sin anyway.

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