omg bee veth sound so good and like she has to be like a quen who carries her hive maybe? her little spawns when she get herald and baron cna be tiny bees
The only complain i have with Leona is that she could use the Lions Lament weapon that is in the Swarn mode in her recall to add a little a bit of lore since you know Diana is dead AGAIN
RAAAAAAH AATROX PEAK 31 TOTAL MINUTES OF DIALOGUE ON ONE CHAMPION WHAT THE FUCK IS AN ULTIMATE SKIN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HE ALSO IS BASICALLY OLD AATROX RAAAAAAH
Seriously, though? Why must they tease us, by making his sword look so goddamn much like the OG, when he wasn't a slow-swinging murder machine, but an elegant, refined and nearly perfect murder machine that got reworked for no goddamn reason?
Kinda hoped they made Warwick the battle wolf instead of Yasuo. It could've been cool as he could be an experiment made on an elderly soldier of Anima to counteract the Primordians, infusing the feral nature of the enemy into a human, thus making him a super-weapon. But the experiment would prove to be a failure, because he would become too uncontrollable, due to the Primordian nature taking over in-combat. It would've have been a cool parallel to Briar and would've also made sense lore wise, cause in the Swarm, Yasuo is found in the sewers and also would match his elderly nature.
At 2:49, if you look really closely, you can see that the shadow of Briar looks like a shark jaw. I don't know if it is in her base form too or just this skin, but I think it looks funny.
This skin-line definitely had a unique feel to it. It’s nice and eye-catching with animal aesthetics and colors. Especially Yasuo’s; the fact they made him butler-themed like the original Battle Bunny Riven is cool. PS. Is just me, or did Nickyboi get a new mic?
I’m a big fan of Vampire Survivor so Swarm being Riot’s take on the game is right up my alley and I love playing it. The skins however for me are meh. They are all fantastic just that they are for champs I don’t play or rarely do. My favorites though would be Yasuo, Seraphine, Leona, and Aatrox. They all look really cool to me and I like playing them in Swarm.
The worst part is that in swarm Leona uses the solar/lunar eclipse animations and her skin looks beautiful, and then riot proceeds to go and sell the skin with her base animations
wait so the skin in the swarm mode uses legendary animations but it doesn't use them in the base game... that's gotta be some type of false advertisement 💀
I'm surprised Nicky didn't talk about how we could've had Battle Dinosaur Illaoi referenced in some design concepts that had the tentacles be Trex tails
While I love illaoi getting a skin that fits her more charismatic personality, I have to say that I think she would've made more sense being on the enemy team. The first skins were all fighting SQUIDS and she's a champion that summons tentacles. She could've filled in the spot that Briar has a as a boss ( which I don't really understand seeing as she's one of the "good" guys).
Primordian Briar actually made me love a champ I didn't really care for on release. Similar to Pentakill Viego. Sometimes reintroducing a champ from a different agle really makes a difference.
3:00 I remember seeing somewhere a riot designer saying that "briar feet are a very important part of her character design" so yeah i dont think our gril will ever wear shoes
The Tentacles on Illaoi's skin are actually supposed to be stolen Primordian Tech, if I'm not mistaken. In "Marooned", she talks about how these same tentacles terrorized her on her rescue mission, forcing her to catch fish with her bare hands (Battle-Bear, everyone) to survive. And on the way, she nabbed the idol to now control the tentacles. In my eyes, the biggest sin here was to make Primordian Briar explicitly mention in the mission briefings that she effing hates shoes... and then putting boots on her. They could've made her feet into fins, since she's aquatic, maybe make those razor-sharp to have her unique fighting animations have even more oomph or gave her toes suction cups (and yes, I know how far-fetched that sounds, but lemme have my fantasies, you have yours already and besides, for advocating oneshot-Briar, you still owe me that much, you little doof ^^). And Aatrox... man, they just couldn't help but rub salt in the wound by making his sword look almost EXACTLY like it did, before he got reworked. This entire skin looks so much like pre-rework Aatrox and it makes me so goddamn mad that we still don't have him back again! Aside from that, it looks cool, though.
Part of me is disappointed in not getting the opportunity to explore actual animal champions and more champions with animal companions as part of the ANIMA(L) squad, instead getting the cat ear headset squad, but at least Rek'sai, Aatrox and Briar got some neat stuff. I just wish the latter two would stay in full monster form with a command like ctrl+5 or so (like Kai'sa putting her helmet)
speaking on an update for leona, on SWARN she doesn't have her original animations (like jinx or yasuo) she has kinda new ones so maybe she will get one after the arcane one and teemo
have to say... aatrox skin is like rubbing a lemon against a deep wound to me... with all the swords aatrox could have... they gived him a sword with a HUGE resemblance to his old sword... just to mock again in the face of old aatrox mains... cool skin tho
Honestly my only beef is with the game mode. My friends love it and keep dragging me in but all I can think is "where gameplay?" I have 100 games I can play to turn off my brain, when I play League I want buttons to push, snap decisions to make!
Ok but as a mage main, with kind of a history of playing sera (mastery 6 pre-new mastery system), AATROX IS SO MUCH BETTER IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY Sera's skin looks and feels like an epic skin compared to Aatrox cause wtf is that beast :O edit: love the summer event too!!! been a while since i've actually been happy to be grinding in LEAGUE of all places with Swarm and playing with friends in this mode is so fun too + new tft set is here too so content is off the charts and i am here for it!@!
I don't know why people dislike the leona skin. I think the colors look amazing, hair is amazing, the vfx look amazing and the sfx are amazing. About the model I don't see the complains either, I have lunar eclipse leona which is legendary and I don't see much of a difference from this one. I dont think this skin looks stiff at all.
Me at the start of the event "Wow, what a great time I'm having, glad this is so fun!" Me after dying to extreme Aatrox for the third time because the hitboxes are bs "I want to burn this game with fire"
I don’t think they gave Aurora release injustice. They gave her a whole mini game in client a month before the anima squad event. They gave her the proper spotlight before a big event unlike Nilah and Nafiri.
as a yasuo main ... im one of the few who can say this skin is not bad , for me is preatty average .... however the idea of finally making a haha funny skin for yasuo and the love and care put into the vfx + the game mode made me buy it honestly ....and i have almost all yas skins but sea dog (and i only regret getting battle boss)
i like the new briar skin but the sound effect upon casting ult is just waaaaaaaay too quiet i swear sometimes im just farming minions and i just randomly get hit by briars ult
Just so you know, they arnt redirecting resources to ASUs or VGUs. Augest said himself on stream that because RIOT fired a lot of the champion designers, its just not worth their time to make ASUs or VGUs that bairly do anything to help the champs popularity. Id love for older champs to get more attention, but there is 0 interest to because they will never be attractive as a new champion.
I think my favs are Yasuo and Aatrox Yasuo a cyberpunk buttler with cat ears with a cane sword put some wild ideas in my head of Alfed in a bunny suit (lol) and i found him rather adorble the red eyes are a fantastic sell Aatrox oh lord i might have been playing to much zelda because he litterly looks like an Evil Sidon like if ganondorf possessed our princy shark boy and made him turn on all of hyrule
I like how you didn't mention a single thing about the actual quality of the Leona skin, outside of the fact that the model is holding it back a bit. I just feel like you tried to make some negative points just because your biased against the champion xD
I would buy the Aatrox skin if it wasn't for the awful voice filter. They toned down Seraphine's voice filter but didn't do it for Aatrox and now you can barely hear what he is saying.
Can’t wait for Riot to make more new bee skins with legendary Queen Bee’Veth or some shit so sire Nickyboi can show how truly unbiased he is
bee veth is actually a sick idea for a sckin. like a huge honeycomb with a bee head becomes a full ass mix between a hive full of wasps
I never once been biased especially towards the bee skins this is true
YOOOOOOOO I got clean but I'll start playing again if they make bee'veth
omg bee veth sound so good and like she has to be like a quen who carries her hive maybe? her little spawns when she get herald and baron cna be tiny bees
@@madnard8744 Bee queen from Don't Starve
The only complain i have with Leona is that she could use the Lions Lament weapon that is in the Swarn mode in her recall to add a little a bit of lore
since you know
Diana is dead
AGAIN
she is? wow
Dianas my goat when it comes to being dead in random skin lines
Can they truly be called gay if they don't get buried?
Deserved
You mean we could've had a zombie primordian hybrid Diana ? Man, we were robbed !
RAAAAAAH AATROX PEAK 31 TOTAL MINUTES OF DIALOGUE ON ONE CHAMPION WHAT THE FUCK IS AN ULTIMATE SKIN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HE ALSO IS BASICALLY OLD AATROX RAAAAAAH
Cringe
I LOVE AATROX GRAAAAAHHHH
IT LOOKS GOOD RAHHHH
Seriously, though? Why must they tease us, by making his sword look so goddamn much like the OG, when he wasn't a slow-swinging murder machine, but an elegant, refined and nearly perfect murder machine that got reworked for no goddamn reason?
@@bucketato5195 it had a reason,it was bad
"Now that riot keeps forgetting Rell exists" 2:29 God I felt that as a rell otp
I am patiently waiting for Rell to make it to Wild Rift. That steel cavalry silhouette is just too cool to not make it to the game!
real
Kinda hoped they made Warwick the battle wolf instead of Yasuo. It could've been cool as he could be an experiment made on an elderly soldier of Anima to counteract the Primordians, infusing the feral nature of the enemy into a human, thus making him a super-weapon. But the experiment would prove to be a failure, because he would become too uncontrollable, due to the Primordian nature taking over in-combat. It would've have been a cool parallel to Briar and would've also made sense lore wise, cause in the Swarm, Yasuo is found in the sewers and also would match his elderly nature.
Oh thats a cool idea, like a protoype to incorporate primordian tech into humans that went wrong
@@FlutterSwagpretty much
Kinda sounds a lot like Project: Warwick, lore-wise
@@mindnut3354 yeah, but both my idea and project are reiterations of WW base lore. What makes the diffrence is the nuance of it.
@@mindnut3354 well... hard to make a lore for warwick when he is just a failed experiment in mostly all his skins that have actual lore...
Proud Illaoi-in-every-way-except-gameplay fan
Yasuo sound like the "Can we have Von Lycaon ? No we have von lycaon at home". Also yes i need the real wolf yasuo
I don’t understand how furry yasuo would be more cursed then wolf ear Yasuo when it just looks like he’s wearing a headbang which just seems WORSE
3:33 Brian had 🗣💯🔥🔥🔥
Brian? Who this? Briar's brother?
The editing in these is always some of the funniest content in this entire community.
There's this one Aatrox voice line where he hints at having a speck of simpathy for humanity but he just supresses it, kinda neat
Cassiopeia smash
Don't say that in front of her father. He won't give up his child for just a random stranger.
At 2:49, if you look really closely, you can see that the shadow of Briar looks like a shark jaw. I don't know if it is in her base form too or just this skin, but I think it looks funny.
1:22 Furry Yasuo was the only option. Also we all are already in hell.
I think Auroras teasers made sure she won’t be forgotten instantly.
She also has an insanely fun playstyle.
bnnuy is the only good new champion released this year until ambessa comes out
no smolder ye were a failure, and skarner is a rework he got elevated
@@x-nimator9997 good is a bit of a stretch
Except for her ult. Fuck her ult in swarm it ruins the champ
3:48 POLAND MENTIONED
This skin-line definitely had a unique feel to it. It’s nice and eye-catching with animal aesthetics and colors. Especially Yasuo’s; the fact they made him butler-themed like the original Battle Bunny Riven is cool.
PS. Is just me, or did Nickyboi get a new mic?
I never thought i will see nickyboy refrence zenless zone zero in one of his videos
That's because I was the one doing the references and I'm addicted to zzz
I’m a big fan of Vampire Survivor so Swarm being Riot’s take on the game is right up my alley and I love playing it.
The skins however for me are meh. They are all fantastic just that they are for champs I don’t play or rarely do. My favorites though would be Yasuo, Seraphine, Leona, and Aatrox. They all look really cool to me and I like playing them in Swarm.
Aatrox and his harem of monster girls
3:30 "brian"
3:34 Briar:"here's my brother Brian, amazing at tech and maybe a little to coocky in the head"
Brain:" I like Trains."
Brair:😮
The worst part is that in swarm Leona uses the solar/lunar eclipse animations and her skin looks beautiful, and then riot proceeds to go and sell the skin with her base animations
1350 rp bro, you can't expect more of the indie company
wait so the skin in the swarm mode uses legendary animations but it doesn't use them in the base game... that's gotta be some type of false advertisement 💀
Your slander at Leona's prestige skin made me laugh
I'm surprised Nicky didn't talk about how we could've had Battle Dinosaur Illaoi referenced in some design concepts that had the tentacles be Trex tails
While I love illaoi getting a skin that fits her more charismatic personality, I have to say that I think she would've made more sense being on the enemy team. The first skins were all fighting SQUIDS and she's a champion that summons tentacles. She could've filled in the spot that Briar has a as a boss ( which I don't really understand seeing as she's one of the "good" guys).
The similarities to space groove also make me thing we may never get a space groove illaoi now which is a bummer.
Exactly my thoughts! Illaoi doesn't have to be a "good" guy most of the time Riot! Maybe they were afraid it'd be similar to Void Bringer?
The audio quality is so good!
BRIAR SKINJ YESYYEYSYEYYS STREET DEMONS IS CUTE BUT IVE BEEN WAITINGGG FOR SOMETHING ELSE THIS SIPERFECY I MCRYING MY SILLYDREAMS CAME TERYUEUa bjkdGH
you know things are bad when Leona mains meet new skins of any kind other than Legendary with groans.
She despirately needs an ASU
1:23 we will never get such cool skins
Primordian Briar actually made me love a champ I didn't really care for on release. Similar to Pentakill Viego. Sometimes reintroducing a champ from a different agle really makes a difference.
I’m so happy to see that they’re here!!! And we get the review!!!
2:55 DID MY MAN JUST PUT NIGEL MARVEN IN A LEAGUE VIDEO!? I salute you
1:22
rare nicky L
😔
Okay that Yasuo skin is cool, like the suit and purple colours :D
3:00 I remember seeing somewhere a riot designer saying that "briar feet are a very important part of her character design" so yeah i dont think our gril will ever wear shoes
The Tentacles on Illaoi's skin are actually supposed to be stolen Primordian Tech, if I'm not mistaken. In "Marooned", she talks about how these same tentacles terrorized her on her rescue mission, forcing her to catch fish with her bare hands (Battle-Bear, everyone) to survive. And on the way, she nabbed the idol to now control the tentacles.
In my eyes, the biggest sin here was to make Primordian Briar explicitly mention in the mission briefings that she effing hates shoes... and then putting boots on her. They could've made her feet into fins, since she's aquatic, maybe make those razor-sharp to have her unique fighting animations have even more oomph or gave her toes suction cups (and yes, I know how far-fetched that sounds, but lemme have my fantasies, you have yours already and besides, for advocating oneshot-Briar, you still owe me that much, you little doof ^^).
And Aatrox... man, they just couldn't help but rub salt in the wound by making his sword look almost EXACTLY like it did, before he got reworked. This entire skin looks so much like pre-rework Aatrox and it makes me so goddamn mad that we still don't have him back again! Aside from that, it looks cool, though.
MONSTER HUNTER MENTIONNED
very cool video like always 👍
Aatrox is just evil cyberpunk Sidon.
I had 0 idea there was a first concept for the splash art, and i hate that i love it soo much more than the current one ;-;
4:40: Lagomorph, sir.
The Name " Battle Lion Leona" is correct i think. The Lion on her shield got a mane so it is male. Therefore the name Battle Lion Leona. XD
I love your editing style Nickyboi, what software do you use to make your TH-cam videos?
Illaoi pickrate is 3.54% according to Lolalytics, and according to Riot August, it's in the average range. she's not that niche nor unpopular.
I was pretty happy with Swarm, in spite of the bugs, and some of the skins are pretty good. I really did like Briar and Aatrox
I’m glad about Briars story and how she a good guy. I love her skin
The Abyssal Chroma for Aatrox is just Susanoo from BlazBlue.
Nick really said "I want more unique designs in skins!... unless they are furries."
Part of me is disappointed in not getting the opportunity to explore actual animal champions and more champions with animal companions as part of the ANIMA(L) squad, instead getting the cat ear headset squad, but at least Rek'sai, Aatrox and Briar got some neat stuff. I just wish the latter two would stay in full monster form with a command like ctrl+5 or so (like Kai'sa putting her helmet)
Lmao so true, the moment I saw the prestige of Leona I also thought "that is NOT Leona" 💀💀💀
I don't know why, but youre voice sounds very different in this video...
And I love it!
speaking on an update for leona, on SWARN she doesn't have her original animations (like jinx or yasuo) she has kinda new ones so maybe she will get one after the arcane one and teemo
Let's GOOO please make more jeopardy love your content as always❤️❤️
Riven, xayah, and Aurora werent planned to be in the swarm mode so thats why they arent in the cinematic
have to say... aatrox skin is like rubbing a lemon against a deep wound to me... with all the swords aatrox could have... they gived him a sword with a HUGE resemblance to his old sword... just to mock again in the face of old aatrox mains... cool skin tho
maybe its more like a homage to his old self for nostalgias sake
@@mcsy98 for me is just a shoot in the balls
Honestly my only beef is with the game mode. My friends love it and keep dragging me in but all I can think is "where gameplay?" I have 100 games I can play to turn off my brain, when I play League I want buttons to push, snap decisions to make!
i think this is the first time in a while there was no Jhin 4 cameo
I don’t like how many skins yasuo has but Battle Wolf is a 9/10 on my book
Ok but as a mage main, with kind of a history of playing sera (mastery 6 pre-new mastery system), AATROX IS SO MUCH BETTER IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY
Sera's skin looks and feels like an epic skin compared to Aatrox cause wtf is that beast :O
edit: love the summer event too!!! been a while since i've actually been happy to be grinding in LEAGUE of all places with Swarm and playing with friends in this mode is so fun too
+ new tft set is here too so content is off the charts and i am here for it!@!
No. Seraphine is still better
Tbh personally I think Anima Squad is Sera's weakest skin 😢
@@dori523 kinda agree sadly :') but hey atleast some other champs got some love and amazing skins ^^
@@CherrieJellyBeanie glad you enjoyed it! love her wings when she ults too (and how it was revealed as the mega move in the cinematic too hehe)
Holy shit Nicky just killed Lewis at the end there oh mah gawd
I don't know why people dislike the leona skin. I think the colors look amazing, hair is amazing, the vfx look amazing and the sfx are amazing. About the model I don't see the complains either, I have lunar eclipse leona which is legendary and I don't see much of a difference from this one. I dont think this skin looks stiff at all.
Me at the start of the event "Wow, what a great time I'm having, glad this is so fun!"
Me after dying to extreme Aatrox for the third time because the hitboxes are bs "I want to burn this game with fire"
Still need the real wolf Yasuo skin
got so excited with Anima Squad Xayah and Primordian Aatrox, and unfortunately my PC decided to break down lmao
You can tell that people are very normal about Aatrox when even Dumbs notices that
As a charge blade enjoyer, I like that joke 🤣
YES the predetor finally got a legendary
I don’t think they gave Aurora release injustice. They gave her a whole mini game in client a month before the anima squad event. They gave her the proper spotlight before a big event unlike Nilah and Nafiri.
as a yasuo main ... im one of the few who can say this skin is not bad , for me is preatty average .... however the idea of finally making a haha funny skin for yasuo and the love and care put into the vfx + the game mode made me buy it honestly ....and i have almost all yas skins but sea dog (and i only regret getting battle boss)
Leagues future looking bright eh i feel like ive heard that sentence last year and then start of the next year boom lay offs
Primordian aatrox is cool cuz it tkaes lots of references to old aatrox :D
The briar skin and PVE mod almost salvaged her for me. But I guess they couldn't help it and we still got some non sense...
Prestige leona skin gonna make me act up
They should go full furry with them
People's main problem with Yasuo is how stupid his huge hair looked in the cinematics. It works in game, but absolutely doesn't outside of it.
"Furry *KNOT* furries" Ocanha B Boi, you have NO IDEA what you've just unleashed upon this community! You've doomed us all!
Oh no I know EXACTLY what I did.
It was intentional.
The original idea I had was worse.
@@ocanhaTheEditor You are a dastardly man. >:(
i like the new briar skin but the sound effect upon casting ult is just waaaaaaaay too quiet
i swear sometimes im just farming minions and i just randomly get hit by briars ult
Hey Nick why don't you make a rapid review on Jinh skins?
I'm curious to see ur opinion on project jinh, I think its sound design is nice
i want swarm to stick around, even if we only get it a few times a year, it'd be nice
this video cant be how i learned illaoi was meant to be a bear 💀
I wish naafiri got a primordian skin. Like a goblin shark
Just so you know, they arnt redirecting resources to ASUs or VGUs. Augest said himself on stream that because RIOT fired a lot of the champion designers, its just not worth their time to make ASUs or VGUs that bairly do anything to help the champs popularity. Id love for older champs to get more attention, but there is 0 interest to because they will never be attractive as a new champion.
Holy f*ck that's dissapointing
That is utter BS. There's like 40 champs that need ASUs and another dozen that need VGUs
Nicky what are your predictions for the arcane related vgu as its now confirmed to not be viktor or heimer?
I am going to get obliterated by NickyBoy for this buuuut, Primordian Zac when?
the aatrox skin.. would.
I wish I could explain why they made Aatrox hot, but I'm not complaining. :3 (Not that he wasn't already kinda...)
Glad Briar finally got a skin
Charge Blade mentioned, I'm here what's going on??
new mic? sounds better IMO
CHARGE BLADE GANG!! 2:36
DON'T YOU DARE SAY TO YASUO TO PUT THOSE LITTLE BEANS AWAY, ITS PERFECT!!!
I think my favs are Yasuo and Aatrox
Yasuo a cyberpunk buttler with cat ears with a cane sword put some wild ideas in my head of Alfed in a bunny suit (lol) and i found him rather adorble the red eyes are a fantastic sell
Aatrox oh lord i might have been playing to much zelda because he litterly looks like an Evil Sidon like if ganondorf possessed our princy shark boy and made him turn on all of hyrule
But Aatrox's skin does have a new death animation..
the fortnite death animation
I like how you didn't mention a single thing about the actual quality of the Leona skin, outside of the fact that the model is holding it back a bit.
I just feel like you tried to make some negative points just because your biased against the champion xD
Absolutely love the Briar one.
The creature energy is now a full on creature of the dept.
1:24 "You're going to hell"
"Without the pesky love for human life Brian had" huh??? who tf is Brian
didnt expect the ZZZ ost
Aatrox can end my inner world as he wishes. Just saying
CHAINSAWMAN AND THE BLACK CHAINSAWMAN
I would buy the Aatrox skin if it wasn't for the awful voice filter. They toned down Seraphine's voice filter but didn't do it for Aatrox and now you can barely hear what he is saying.
I am... VERY normal about Primordian Aatrox. I am probably the most normal about Aatrox in general. 👀