To me, the main issue with Empyrean is that it's a nice aesthetic, just not for character models. Black with flaming neon effects sounds like a great idea for a champion's ability effects and/or splashart, but it doesn't really fit with League in terms of readability with the way its characters work in-game.
It's like turning an extravagant hand bag into an entire dress. Only a small few can pull that look off, and at all other times, it's either tacky or incomprehensible.
If they wanted Empyrean to always be this aesthetic they should have stuck to it being ONLY on champions with widely, easily identifiable sillouettes like Zac and Vex. Velkoz, Ornn, Reksai, stuff like that
I believe it needs to be champions with particle effects so it can fully use the aesthetic. I think Heimerdinger, amumu, Taric, Yorick (as the filler skin) would look great in this aesthetic and they're recognizable
@@johancito16345 I mean, champs like Warwick and Renekton could fit too, those are not unpopular. My point isnt about popularity is about sillouette, if you only pick humanoids they're all going to look the fucking same bc the whole aesthetic is "mass of dark blue decorated with neon colors"
I think facelessness in character design is actually fascinating, but the problem is the lost expressiveness has to be made up for somewhere else. It usually works best when they’re designed from the ground up with that in mind rather than just slapping the aesthetic on something else. Then again, the legendaries *also* fail to do that, so who knows.
@@pinoproxy2828 Does it look good? Yeah I can't deny that, but I personally dislike the skinline and how they design the characters. It's just RGB Glowing Shadow #14.
I love the colors on the black background. The neon flames look really appealing. I especially love the sfx on all the skins, empyreans sound dope as heck. I'm not disappointed at all here, this is probably my favorite skin line.
Truly one of the most modern Akali skins of all time, slapped in skinline for no reason besides popular champ XD and the community has the same reaction as ezreal and lux getting another skin, and this just came out after Faerie court lux got announced “yippee”
I was initially upset Nocturne wasn't the legendary, specially knowing the lore of the skin and how perfect the aesthetic is for him Maybe Riot doesn't want to give champions that could get a VGU sooner than later legendaries since that would put more work on the update, that's the only reason I can think of why he didn't got the legendary.
Yes, maybe they thinked that a little bit more and they arent giving legendaries to characters that are going to be reworked in the near future. Hopefully
The thing that confuses me the most about this skinline Is that in the first wave we had a new ward which Is very obviously Mordekaiser's head, so I expected him to show up if It would have eventually come back, and it did, in fact, come back, but without him even being mentioned.
Empyrean has a wonderful aesthetic and colour scheme to work with-- the bright neons and contrast would make for fascinating skins... if they all didn't look the same. The repetitiveness of them all really makes the skinline suffer, not to mention the thematics they decided to go with for this skinline... collapsed universes...? Really? Not a a celebration of the bright neons and dark purple contrasts? Heck, it would've been a better colour scheme for a paint related skinline more than an Into the Spiderverse ripoff.
The new animation for his q whether he charged it or not is really sick but that also feels like a pay to loose feature cause enemies will be able to tell which q you are shooting.
As an Empyrean aesthetic enjoyer and a Varus main that owns almost every piece of media available for this gay man I am very proud of my purchase, skin feels so smooth to play with as well as feeds my ADHD even better than I thought Tho I have to disagree on the best chroma since I find the Neon Facade being the best your take on this skin is very valid and especially insightful which is rare in these times, so I glad we can apprecieate it a little and I'm very happy for this skinlines comeback :) (Also how tf am I so lucky I play only botlane and my go to picks are Varus adc and Pyke support and both of them got a legendary in probably one of my favourite skinlines fjkrhfnduxbekjh)
@NickyBoi, taking into account that victorious skins are now a theme enhancer for the champion in question... have you seen how cute victorious KogMaw looks? Doesn't it take away your fear that if they rework KogMaw they won't take away the cute factor in his theme?
I like the skin line personally but can very much see how people find it to be like Star Guardians. Much like them however I think if nothing else having more than one release gives modders much more to work with, and that way if some Joe Shmo decides he wants Empyrean Yuumi they can have the tools to make it/have it made reasonably easy.
With this new batch of Empyrean it just make realize that a lot of champs could be great in this aesthetic,. If they were not just beta Soul fighter. With weapons and everything Yorick Legendary amumu would be awesome with the particles Leona(yes she already has a lot of skin ns) Shyvana Heck even heimerdinger as a scientist trying to fix everything
I think that the rule number 1 on any skin from any game should be that the character is still easily recognizable. I can't tell who is any of this people. Like yeah, I see the Bow and I can assume that is the only champion with a bow without Boobs in the game, but other than that, they are not only indistinguishable from each other, but also extremely superficial in the representation of the characters. You take the cockroaches out of Malzahar's splash and it could easily be Shen. It's like the Invictus Game skins, that took me a while to figured out who was the woman in the bottom corner and turns out it was Rakan.
4:35 And I now got why, they don't take the concept into a varied degree in the same issue that celestial has. The concept of individuals expanding their characters has so much pointetial and then they don't use it, How about each universes's empyran has some relationship with the Pyke of their unverse, that'd would be then pushed or used on the Perpreator that removed them. that would leave so much area to add to skins in using it's thematics like why not have brand being entirely burned by universe collapasing so his skin enirely burned all that's left is his organs(or colored versions so the kiddes aren't scarred),Vex's shadow being the vengful spirit of that universes's Pyke that lacthed to her, influencing his friend into letting his anger and Spite overtake her apathy in solving the problem whic in the skin shadow would resemble the Shark creature original Pyke rides in the recall. It's like the celestial vanguards, Sion could've been a cool Himbo Rockstar who now expands his music while teaching Bel'veth about live's beauty, Nunu and williump a kid with his toy monster now come to life as he can expand his amginations to planet leanghts, All of this reduced down to pretty colors. SO dissapointing.
empyrean would be awesome if it's populated by more monster champs with unique silhouettes. with more neon twinks being added to the skinline, i'm starting to have problems telling them apart.
I don’t generally like RGB, but I love Empyrean. Sleek design, faceless characters with a hint of rainbow to break up the black’s monotony. It works for me. I’m not a competitive league player so personally readability be damned. I usually have a good idea of what’s going on anyway. Especially with how rare it is for a team to match skins.
I do believe for MOST skin lines, skins need to actually use a characters attributes to their advantage and need to have uniqueness from one another. However, they could make an empyrean or cosmic skin for every champ and I'd love it because the aesthetics are so nice.
Im pretty fond of the empyrean skins just because the aesthetic is like a solid 7-8 for me. They DO all look the same but since that same is pretty good for me, im never upset when i pull one. A solid skin is better than a bad skin or no skin! 🤷♂
I may be the odd woman out, but I do adore this skin line. It’s kind of hard to get a LOT of these champions with a cool and “faceless” appearance. That, and having what is basically a “symbiote” level cohesive skinline with crazy neon lights encourages me to play some characters I just don’t dig that much from a visual standpoint as they come. In that sense they are in the same boat for me as the Warden skins in that they completely commit to their own aesthetic and “borrow” the champion its used for.
I liked the first Empyrans but now its just oil on water with no cool skins, but i do like this Akali, it "match" her aesthetic better than coven at least.
I was so thirsty for a good varus skin that I honestly will take it... An visual update for Varus would have made me a lot happier though. 100% agree with Noc deserving the legendary.
A skinline that's meant to be sleek and smooth and cool doesn't really work when half the champs you pick for it have models that belong in an aged care facility
Wouldn't it be cool if empyrean skins showed up to existing skin line verses and imploded them we get one empyrean skin and the rest of the skins are of the collapsed universe
I very very adore Empyrean skinline. Well, non of my favorite champions didnt got their Empyrean skin... But I'll love to see Samira, Gwen, Orn and Nunu get their Empyreans. For me its 9/10 overall (Fuck Akali and Lux) Empyreans must be for champs as Orn, Voli and other monster champs. . . . . Rek'Sai - the pretador of the everglow. The one who existed even before Pyke. The unknown creature that hunts down every new Empyrean. She has Portals, 2 forms and SO MUCH potential for this skinline, dayum.
I feel like even if some individual skins in this line can be good and get like an 8 from me, the skinline as a whole gets a like.. 2 These skins just suck so much as a package because (especially in wave 1) if you put their heads next to each other, nobody would quite be able to tell them apart.
I understand your point nickiboi, but for me, this thematic is my forth favorite out there. I love fire and empyrean pyke is my second favorite skin in the game. (My favorite themetics best to worst are soul fighter, spirit blossom, odyssey, empyrean.) My favorite skins in the game are. Soul fighter Viego, empyrean pyke, odyssey kayn, high noon yone, and soul fighter samira. These are my highest mastery champions so no baieses for em lol.
It does sound like you're a (not so very) closeted pyromaniac with those choices. Fingers crossed you get some soul flame / fiery jack-o'-lantern skins for Halloween.
I feel that this line of skins is just rgb lights galore AND my reason to complain on that weird ass statement riot made about champion skins not trying to change champion's siluettes when they clearly do in lines like these
I think this skinline works only in monster champions or people with big features, like viego, senna and gwen. But if they return this again, i think a half corrupted version, like, in the middle, would be the way to go
I generally like empyrean, neon glowing traces on black is my shit, it makes lizard brain happy. Akali is easily the worst one, nocturne really needs a visual update, idc about varus really, i kinda like malzahar, mostly since he doesn't have anything better, and kayles is my new favorite from her skins just because i guess, even if it's not objectively anything great. I elect to pretend the prestige one doesn't exist.
Bel'veth, Ornn, Braum, Kassadin even, they could've gotten an empyrean skin, but no, they decided to give it to the pyromaniac and the virgin ninja AGAIN
Empyrian looks awesome, I mean its basically KDA akali's black light asthetic turned into a skin line 😂😂😂 But I think it should be only given to champs with extreme body shilouette, instead of regular humanoid with different weapon.
are you telling me that the one that started it all in this universe doesnt get the legendary skin ? i wonder when did i saw something similar *looks at kayle sun eater maybe i'm imagining things, and i imagine a better skin line for varus would be snowmoon/bloodmoon, idk i just feel like it
I dont generally care for the Empyrean skins, but I am probably going to pick up Malz because I like the effects on his skills. But yeah other than that I'm ready for them to put this skin line to sleep.
The only detail about the prestige skin that I find interesting is that it starts with cleavage and then covers it up on the final form. What’s Riot trying to do? Why have cleavage if you’re gonna cover it?
Funny how people say Akali doesn't fit this skinline. I'd argue almost none of the champs fit this skinline cause there's almost no theme other than latex fighter. Only good skins are the legendary ones
Isn't the main draw for these skins the SFX rather than the visuals? I always found the sounds of this line to he really neat because you hear them better due to the visuals (mainly the model) lacking.
I dont have really a problem with them all being humans but maybe it would ne cool if they have more diferences in certain body parts, like ksante mask and pyke mask looks too similar to me but i ersonally think isnt as bad. Edit: personally i dont think the rgb aesthethic isnt that bad imo
I like the combination of Black, Neon and stylish suits. Plus the sfx for most champs are super satisfying. First time I am completely disagreeing with your skin review.
I was hoping this skinline would be a one and done kind of thing. Never to return. It would have been better that way. It only devalues the original set by releasing more. Besides, we all know these arent really worth the asking price. Its literally the champion, but simpler than their normal design because its basically just black with a few color smears. Its 100% some easy to make outsourced thing that cost them $100 total to have made.
i think this time the prestige skin is actually good tho idk why youre hating on it so hard, like compared to what we've been getting recently it seems really nice, like its a BIG imo stepup from: Prestige Soul Fighter Shaco Prestige Immortal Journey Sona Prestige La Ilusión Renata Glasc Prestige Coven Akal Prestige Heartsteel Yone Prestige Winterblessed Camille Prestige Dragonmancer Rakan
It's the fact that it's an Empyrean skin that makes it mediocre. Kind of like Prestige Empyrean K'Sante. Standalone it's a pretty good skin, it just doesn't fit the skin line, like, at all.
yeah my computer blue screened 3 times when i got vanguard for val when it released im not gonna download that shit again after i got rid of it i had not bluescreened since
"Babe wake up, new oil spill skins just dropped"
gold
@@ObviOneKenobiNo it's oil
i prefer the slightly heated steel look LUL
Which you can't afford
To me, the main issue with Empyrean is that it's a nice aesthetic, just not for character models. Black with flaming neon effects sounds like a great idea for a champion's ability effects and/or splashart, but it doesn't really fit with League in terms of readability with the way its characters work in-game.
It's like turning an extravagant hand bag into an entire dress. Only a small few can pull that look off, and at all other times, it's either tacky or incomprehensible.
Wow it's wild that they revealed the new KDA member with a prestige skin.
If they wanted Empyrean to always be this aesthetic they should have stuck to it being ONLY on champions with widely, easily identifiable sillouettes like Zac and Vex.
Velkoz, Ornn, Reksai, stuff like that
Yesss, I love that idea. I can't tell any of them apart otherwise.
I believe it needs to be champions with particle effects so it can fully use the aesthetic.
I think Heimerdinger, amumu, Taric, Yorick (as the filler skin) would look great in this aesthetic and they're recognizable
You only want unpopular champions to be on all skinlines right?
@@johancito16345 I mean, champs like Warwick and Renekton could fit too, those are not unpopular.
My point isnt about popularity is about sillouette, if you only pick humanoids they're all going to look the fucking same bc the whole aesthetic is "mass of dark blue decorated with neon colors"
@@gearguts7259 yeah maybe, but the problem is not the skinline, is riot concept artist man
We did not needed another Brand skin... his literal last Skin was CRAZY COLOR BRAND COME ON RIOT
It's okay we'll get Lux's 18th skin or whatever next.
your asking for too much, best we can do is another skin for Yone and maybe just maybe a lux skin, enjoy and have fun!
I think facelessness in character design is actually fascinating, but the problem is the lost expressiveness has to be made up for somewhere else. It usually works best when they’re designed from the ground up with that in mind rather than just slapping the aesthetic on something else. Then again, the legendaries *also* fail to do that, so who knows.
I think that's why vex worked super well in the skin, she actually keeps her face and the chromas have differing expressions
I rather they have no face than another generic pretty girl face but yea they really underused the faceless feature
Empyrean should be for champs with unique silhouettes like monster champs.
I think empyrean might actually look good on oorn or volibear. Or both, since yknow they have lore in canon.
I'm happy Varus got a legendary but WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE THIS SKINLINE?
bad day to be a varus fan
its an amazing skin visually and sounds great
@@pinoproxy2828 Does it look good? Yeah I can't deny that, but I personally dislike the skinline and how they design the characters. It's just RGB Glowing Shadow #14.
And I am all for it@@Armorion
@@Armorion i get it at first i was like that too, but the more i used these skins the more i liked em
I love the colors on the black background. The neon flames look really appealing. I especially love the sfx on all the skins, empyreans sound dope as heck. I'm not disappointed at all here, this is probably my favorite skin line.
Truly one of the most modern Akali skins of all time, slapped in skinline for no reason besides popular champ XD and the community has the same reaction as ezreal and lux getting another skin, and this just came out after Faerie court lux got announced “yippee”
Prestige Empyrean Kayle? ❌
K/DA Kayle: ✅
😋
I was initially upset Nocturne wasn't the legendary, specially knowing the lore of the skin and how perfect the aesthetic is for him
Maybe Riot doesn't want to give champions that could get a VGU sooner than later legendaries since that would put more work on the update, that's the only reason I can think of why he didn't got the legendary.
Yes, maybe they thinked that a little bit more and they arent giving legendaries to characters that are going to be reworked in the near future.
Hopefully
The thing that confuses me the most about this skinline Is that in the first wave we had a new ward which Is very obviously Mordekaiser's head, so I expected him to show up if It would have eventually come back, and it did, in fact, come back, but without him even being mentioned.
Empyrean has a wonderful aesthetic and colour scheme to work with-- the bright neons and contrast would make for fascinating skins... if they all didn't look the same. The repetitiveness of them all really makes the skinline suffer, not to mention the thematics they decided to go with for this skinline... collapsed universes...? Really? Not a a celebration of the bright neons and dark purple contrasts? Heck, it would've been a better colour scheme for a paint related skinline more than an Into the Spiderverse ripoff.
Kayle’s prestige is just straight up the main villain from Kill La Kill
The Area Zero theme fits really well with Empyrean, just noticed when you played it
The new animation for his q whether he charged it or not is really sick but that also feels like a pay to loose feature cause enemies will be able to tell which q you are shooting.
Its not pay to lose cuz enemy will try to dodge ur normal q too
As an Empyrean aesthetic enjoyer and a Varus main that owns almost every piece of media available for this gay man I am very proud of my purchase, skin feels so smooth to play with as well as feeds my ADHD even better than I thought
Tho I have to disagree on the best chroma since I find the Neon Facade being the best your take on this skin is very valid and especially insightful which is rare in these times, so I glad we can apprecieate it a little and I'm very happy for this skinlines comeback :)
(Also how tf am I so lucky I play only botlane and my go to picks are Varus adc and Pyke support and both of them got a legendary in probably one of my favourite skinlines fjkrhfnduxbekjh)
@NickyBoi, taking into account that victorious skins are now a theme enhancer for the champion in question... have you seen how cute victorious KogMaw looks?
Doesn't it take away your fear that if they rework KogMaw they won't take away the cute factor in his theme?
Kayle shows how empyrean can be done right, zac and vex were amazing last bout and a good chunk was because they had FACES
I like the skin line personally but can very much see how people find it to be like Star Guardians. Much like them however I think if nothing else having more than one release gives modders much more to work with, and that way if some Joe Shmo decides he wants Empyrean Yuumi they can have the tools to make it/have it made reasonably easy.
With this new batch of Empyrean it just make realize that a lot of champs could be great in this aesthetic,. If they were not just beta Soul fighter. With weapons and everything
Yorick
Legendary amumu would be awesome with the particles
Leona(yes she already has a lot of skin ns)
Shyvana
Heck even heimerdinger as a scientist trying to fix everything
jesus that opening line about MSI hits different after having watched flyquest...
I think that the rule number 1 on any skin from any game should be that the character is still easily recognizable.
I can't tell who is any of this people. Like yeah, I see the Bow and I can assume that is the only champion with a bow without Boobs in the game, but other than that, they are not only indistinguishable from each other, but also extremely superficial in the representation of the characters. You take the cockroaches out of Malzahar's splash and it could easily be Shen.
It's like the Invictus Game skins, that took me a while to figured out who was the woman in the bottom corner and turns out it was Rakan.
a full team of empyrean on both teams would lead to the funniest team fight of all time
The Empyrean skins DO really look alike, so alike that if during a hectic clash an empyrean Zed, Brand and Pyke would be difficult to tell apart
4:35 And I now got why, they don't take the concept into a varied degree in the same issue that celestial has.
The concept of individuals expanding their characters has so much pointetial and then they don't use it, How about each universes's empyran has some relationship with the Pyke of their unverse, that'd would be then pushed or used on the Perpreator that removed them.
that would leave so much area to add to skins in using it's thematics like why not have brand being entirely burned by universe collapasing so his skin enirely burned all that's left is his organs(or colored versions so the kiddes aren't scarred),Vex's shadow being the vengful spirit of that universes's Pyke that lacthed to her, influencing his friend into letting his anger and Spite overtake her apathy in solving the problem whic in the skin shadow would resemble the Shark creature original Pyke rides in the recall.
It's like the celestial vanguards, Sion could've been a cool Himbo Rockstar who now expands his music while teaching Bel'veth about live's beauty, Nunu and williump a kid with his toy monster now come to life as he can expand his amginations to planet leanghts, All of this reduced down to pretty colors.
SO dissapointing.
empyrean would be awesome if it's populated by more monster champs with unique silhouettes. with more neon twinks being added to the skinline, i'm starting to have problems telling them apart.
I don’t generally like RGB, but I love Empyrean. Sleek design, faceless characters with a hint of rainbow to break up the black’s monotony. It works for me. I’m not a competitive league player so personally readability be damned. I usually have a good idea of what’s going on anyway. Especially with how rare it is for a team to match skins.
I do believe for MOST skin lines, skins need to actually use a characters attributes to their advantage and need to have uniqueness from one another. However, they could make an empyrean or cosmic skin for every champ and I'd love it because the aesthetics are so nice.
Inserting Jevil on bg when you said "Chaos" just sold the video to me. Definitely a like from chaos clown fan 😎
Im pretty fond of the empyrean skins just because the aesthetic is like a solid 7-8 for me. They DO all look the same but since that same is pretty good for me, im never upset when i pull one. A solid skin is better than a bad skin or no skin! 🤷♂
those varus animations are beautiful
WAIT THAT'S BRAND? yeah retire this skinline, this is the opposite of Visual Clarity
Nocturne would have been a better fit for the legendary, glad it wasn’t another Akali one but holy missed opportunity
I think Kayle looks very cool (looking respectfully)
and Prestige can go (derogatory) in a fire.
i honestly would've said it was a Kai'sa skin had he not said it was her prestige
Damn I did not know Empyrean's lore was fire af!
cant have a new skin drop without having a popular champ being shoe horned into it 🗣🙏
I may be the odd woman out, but I do adore this skin line. It’s kind of hard to get a LOT of these champions with a cool and “faceless” appearance. That, and having what is basically a “symbiote” level cohesive skinline with crazy neon lights encourages me to play some characters I just don’t dig that much from a visual standpoint as they come. In that sense they are in the same boat for me as the Warden skins in that they completely commit to their own aesthetic and “borrow” the champion its used for.
"it could be worse, it could be brazil" C'MON NICKYBOY, i felt that
I do recognize that Empyrean is repetitive, but hell i love this style man, black with color gradients all around it i absolutely love it.
I liked the first Empyrans but now its just oil on water with no cool skins, but i do like this Akali, it "match" her aesthetic better than coven at least.
I was so thirsty for a good varus skin that I honestly will take it... An visual update for Varus would have made me a lot happier though. 100% agree with Noc deserving the legendary.
Empyrean is pretty high on my list of favorite skin lines. There are some hits and misses but overall I love them.
the type of skin you'd be allright with getting in a chest
A good day to reload randomly
I can't even tell these splasharts apart anymore. Faerie court also has me genuinly confused.
"Who the heck is that? They all have the same face!!!"
3:39 For a second I actually thought it was kai'sa
A skinline that's meant to be sleek and smooth and cool doesn't really work when half the champs you pick for it have models that belong in an aged care facility
Cant wait to get in a game where the entire team is empyrean and i cant figure out who is who
As a kayle main glad new skin,wings look nice and they pop but is that kda kayle as well? Sickkk two skinlines at once let’s gooooo 😭
I think Empyrean is that type of skinline that would be amazing if it just had the legendaries.
Wouldn't it be cool if empyrean skins showed up to existing skin line verses and imploded them we get one empyrean skin and the rest of the skins are of the collapsed universe
RGB lights are my taste, I love this skin line so much.
I very very adore Empyrean skinline. Well, non of my favorite champions didnt got their Empyrean skin... But I'll love to see Samira, Gwen, Orn and Nunu get their Empyreans.
For me its 9/10 overall (Fuck Akali and Lux)
Empyreans must be for champs as Orn, Voli and other monster champs.
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Rek'Sai - the pretador of the everglow. The one who existed even before Pyke. The unknown creature that hunts down every new Empyrean.
She has Portals, 2 forms and SO MUCH potential for this skinline, dayum.
I feel like even if some individual skins in this line can be good and get like an 8 from me, the skinline as a whole gets a like.. 2
These skins just suck so much as a package because (especially in wave 1) if you put their heads next to each other, nobody would quite be able to tell them apart.
I understand your point nickiboi, but for me, this thematic is my forth favorite out there. I love fire and empyrean pyke is my second favorite skin in the game. (My favorite themetics best to worst are soul fighter, spirit blossom, odyssey, empyrean.) My favorite skins in the game are. Soul fighter Viego, empyrean pyke, odyssey kayn, high noon yone, and soul fighter samira. These are my highest mastery champions so no baieses for em lol.
idk this skinline is so boring.
I mean they look good but nothing really special
Fair enough. I like em. No one else has too.
It does sound like you're a (not so very) closeted pyromaniac with those choices.
Fingers crossed you get some soul flame / fiery jack-o'-lantern skins for Halloween.
Malzahar screaming FUCKIN SENT ME
I feel that this line of skins is just rgb lights galore AND my reason to complain on that weird ass statement riot made about champion skins not trying to change champion's siluettes when they clearly do in lines like these
prestige kayle looks so sexy bro idk what riot thought while making it
I think this skinline works only in monster champions or people with big features, like viego, senna and gwen. But if they return this again, i think a half corrupted version, like, in the middle, would be the way to go
pls no, we don't need to give riot more ideas of how to put yone in every single skinline.
I generally like empyrean, neon glowing traces on black is my shit, it makes lizard brain happy. Akali is easily the worst one, nocturne really needs a visual update, idc about varus really, i kinda like malzahar, mostly since he doesn't have anything better, and kayles is my new favorite from her skins just because i guess, even if it's not objectively anything great. I elect to pretend the prestige one doesn't exist.
I wasn't sure if I was going to buy the Kayle skin, but now thanks to your glowing remarks I'm definitely not going to buy the Kayle skin.
Although I agree with your criticism of this thematic, I just like them
Bel'veth, Ornn, Braum, Kassadin even, they could've gotten an empyrean skin, but no, they decided to give it to the pyromaniac and the virgin ninja AGAIN
Akali proving that is the same skin, with a new hair color.
I only saw the prestige kayle skin a couple days ago and honestly thought it was a prestige kai'sa skin
Empyrian looks awesome, I mean its basically KDA akali's black light asthetic turned into a skin line 😂😂😂 But I think it should be only given to champs with extreme body shilouette, instead of regular humanoid with different weapon.
Empyrean is one of my favourite skin lines, but I admit it is a mixed bag of quality
On a more positive note, at least they didn't make another $200 chroma for neither Varus nor Pyke, so this is something I guess
are you telling me that the one that started it all in this universe doesnt get the legendary skin ? i wonder when did i saw something similar
*looks at kayle sun eater
maybe i'm imagining things, and i imagine a better skin line for varus would be snowmoon/bloodmoon, idk i just feel like it
I mean my first game with Vanguard crashed for some reason (old mac), but afterwards everything seems fine.
I did not know the lore for the empyrean skins and now that I do I'm even more mad. How do you make a skin about multiversal refugees look so samey
We need a Darkin skinline, have Sion in it and call him Saaion.
I dont generally care for the Empyrean skins, but I am probably going to pick up Malz because I like the effects on his skills.
But yeah other than that I'm ready for them to put this skin line to sleep.
The only detail about the prestige skin that I find interesting is that it starts with cleavage and then covers it up on the final form.
What’s Riot trying to do? Why have cleavage if you’re gonna cover it?
Funny how people say Akali doesn't fit this skinline. I'd argue almost none of the champs fit this skinline cause there's almost no theme other than latex fighter. Only good skins are the legendary ones
3:37 wait wait wait, is that actually the prestige?? That isn't kda or something??
i... didnt even know varus got a skin here
Hey Nicky what did you think about the new calligraphy skin line in WR?
Isn't the main draw for these skins the SFX rather than the visuals? I always found the sounds of this line to he really neat because you hear them better due to the visuals (mainly the model) lacking.
God, they look like gamer mice
I dont have really a problem with them all being humans but maybe it would ne cool if they have more diferences in certain body parts, like ksante mask and pyke mask looks too similar to me but i ersonally think isnt as bad.
Edit: personally i dont think the rgb aesthethic isnt that bad imo
Man it could’ve been cool if we got a new skinline for MSI, but I can’t lie, the sfx are really pretty. Legendary should’ve gone to Nocturne tho
I like the combination of Black, Neon and stylish suits. Plus the sfx for most champs are super satisfying. First time I am completely disagreeing with your skin review.
I was hoping this skinline would be a one and done kind of thing. Never to return. It would have been better that way. It only devalues the original set by releasing more. Besides, we all know these arent really worth the asking price. Its literally the champion, but simpler than their normal design because its basically just black with a few color smears. Its 100% some easy to make outsourced thing that cost them $100 total to have made.
Man, I remember the disappointment I felt when Vex got an Empyrean skin instead of a Spirit Blossom which was the next Skinline coming out.
I do like Empyrean Vex though,
@@Liman4165 idk, man. It's vex with different colors. It's the razer gaming mouse skinline
WHAT'S THE POINT IN CHROMAS IF CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE? ITS JUST CHAOTIC MESS AND FEELS LIKE A FEVER, but now with a pearly shimmer UwU
i like rgb therefore i like empyrean skins, but i don't know why noc hasn't gotten the legendary
(because varus skin sells more)
Toping Inkshadow is such a easy thing to do tho
their heads..... all look the same.....
doing loldle with those skins will be a nightmare CUZ THEY LOOK SO SIMILAR
I COULDN'T TELL THAT WAS BRAND
I just se a lot of colors mashed up breaking my eyes.
i think this time the prestige skin is actually good tho idk why youre hating on it so hard, like compared to what we've been getting recently it seems really nice, like its a BIG imo stepup from:
Prestige Soul Fighter Shaco
Prestige Immortal Journey Sona
Prestige La Ilusión Renata Glasc
Prestige Coven Akal
Prestige Heartsteel Yone
Prestige Winterblessed Camille
Prestige Dragonmancer Rakan
It's the fact that it's an Empyrean skin that makes it mediocre. Kind of like Prestige Empyrean K'Sante. Standalone it's a pretty good skin, it just doesn't fit the skin line, like, at all.
from thumbnail, I can't tell who any of the champs are
Should have just had it be like the paradox pokemon but for champions.
I honestly really like the aesthetic, i dont mind them having a unified look, after all, theyre spacial rift errors, i guess im a minority
yeah my computer blue screened 3 times when i got vanguard for val when it released im not gonna download that shit again after i got rid of it i had not bluescreened since
Ok Ik a lot of people dislike this skin line but it’s actually one of my favourites :(
Do bundle-exclusive chromas (like Kayle's 2024 MSI Chaos) come back or become purchasable in some other way?
I cant find the original empyrean video- where is? :