The LoL Patches thread

Here is IronStylus sharing this thoughts on the female monster archetype, including his opinion on "girls in costume" types.

"So.. we talkin' Anivia 'n such as well? There's a few things in the works that would qualify here. I myself am very much for pushing the boundaries in what we'd consider monstrous females. In my opinion we probably could have gone crazier with Zyra and Elise especially. We've milked the "girl in a costume" thing pretty dry and we need to look towards character design rather than costume design.
We'll certainly still have women in costume, but I'd personally like us to push past the human barrier if we're going to do monster/creature females.

One of the reasons that I'd love us to not be relegated to humanoids for such female creatures is that characters like Zyra and Elise can be problematic when making skins. There's not a ton of features or large distinguishing parts of their bodies that can serve as landmarks for change. If we're unable to make some distinct silhouette or fairly massive internal detail breakups, the changes in the skin don't end up feeling as impactful.

So yeah. There's some stuff in the works. I think it fits the bill, but it'll probably be a while for the pipeline to spit it all out."


As a follow up to a summoner who broke the situation down as: "Focus too much on the girl part, and it we get more Zyras, just a hot chick dressed up funny. Focus more on the monster part, we get Anivia, where the only "Female" indication we have is the voice. Might as well made it male for all the difference it makes.".

IronStylus agreed:
"Good breakdown of the challenge at hand."

I completely agree with this. While I like the designs of Zyra/Elise/Nami they aren't exactly clever designs. They are simply fit women in revealing themed costumes. I find it ridiculous that they have to overload female champions with sex appeal.

Like for example, why does the scales that cover Nami's ENTIRE body split open to reveal breasts? there is literally no point and it makes me cringe every time I see it.