Rapid-Fire Skin Review: Anima Squad (Wave 2) 

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

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

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

"Now that riot keeps forgetting Rell exists" 2:29 God I felt that as a rell otp

I admire your commitment to roasting every Prestige skin that isn't Renata Glasc

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.

Yasuo sound like the "Can we have Von Lycaon ? No we have von lycaon at home". Also yes i need the real wolf yasuo

Proud Illaoi-in-every-way-except-gameplay fan

3:33 Brian had 🗣💯🔥🔥🔥

Cassiopeia smash

The editing in these is always some of the funniest content in this entire community.

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).

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

I think Auroras teasers made sure she won’t be forgotten instantly. She also has an insanely fun playstyle.

3:48 POLAND MENTIONED

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.

Aatrox and his harem of monster girls

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.

I never thought i will see nickyboy refrence zenless zone zero in one of his videos

3:30 "brian"

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

1:22 Furry Yasuo was the only option. Also we all are already in hell.

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

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

2:55 DID MY MAN JUST PUT NIGEL MARVEN IN A LEAGUE VIDEO!? I salute you

4:10 if only Viktor got his legendary Psyops skin when that second wave came out RIP

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.

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.

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

Your slander at Leona's prestige skin made me laugh

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

2:23 i personally think that sejuani wouldve been a better fit then just....rell and no one else. I woldve liked a different tank like mundo, k'sante, galio, rammus or even urgot, but i guess most champs are fated to be forgotten. There was 11 new skins (13 if you count prestige) and had 9 of the 11 being female. I dont think adding one more male wouldve changed anything, but it wouldnt sell as sell then another genshin skin so i guess it was doomed for the start

1:23 we will never get such cool skins

MONSTER HUNTER MENTIONNED very cool video like always 👍

I’m so happy to see that they’re here!!! And we get the review!!!

Okay that Yasuo skin is cool, like the suit and purple colours :D

1:24 "You're going to hell"

4:40: Lagomorph, sir.

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

I don't know why, but youre voice sounds very different in this video... And I love it!

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

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 ;-;

Nick really said "I want more unique designs in skins!... unless they are furries."

They should go full furry with them

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.

The audio quality is so good!

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 love your editing style Nickyboi, what software do you use to make your RU-vid videos?

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 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

Still need the real wolf Yasuo skin

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)

CHAINSAWMAN AND THE BLACK CHAINSAWMAN

Leagues future looking bright eh i feel like ive heard that sentence last year and then start of the next year boom lay offs

I’m glad about Briars story and how she a good guy. I love her skin

I don’t like how many skins yasuo has but Battle Wolf is a 9/10 on my book

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

As a charge blade enjoyer, I like that joke 🤣

Primordian aatrox is cool cuz it tkaes lots of references to old aatrox :D

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.

1:22 rare nicky L 😔

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.

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.

Prestige leona skin gonna make me act up

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...

Riven, xayah, and Aurora werent planned to be in the swarm mode so thats why they arent in the cinematic

i think this is the first time in a while there was no Jhin 4 cameo

Aatrox is just evil cyberpunk Sidon.

got so excited with Anima Squad Xayah and Primordian Aatrox, and unfortunately my PC decided to break down lmao

this video cant be how i learned illaoi was meant to be a bear 💀

Let's GOOO please make more jeopardy love your content as always❤️❤️

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.

Holy shit Nicky just killed Lewis at the end there oh mah gawd

I am going to get obliterated by NickyBoy for this buuuut, Primordian Zac when?

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"

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 am... VERY normal about Primordian Aatrox. I am probably the most normal about Aatrox in general. 👀

I wish I could explain why they made Aatrox hot, but I'm not complaining. :3 (Not that he wasn't already kinda...)

"Furry *KNOT* furries" Ocanha B Boi, you have NO IDEA what you've just unleashed upon this community! You've doomed us all!

Glad Briar finally got a skin

You can tell that people are very normal about Aatrox when even Dumbs notices that

YES the predetor finally got a legendary

i want swarm to stick around, even if we only get it a few times a year, it'd be nice

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

"Without the pesky love for human life Brian had" huh??? who tf is Brian

I haaate the new game mode... I know, I'm "special". I just hate the controls, I'm sohohohorrry 😭 Edit: (crap i clicked save) But I love the Primordian skin line and I hope others enjoy playing Swarm.

the aatrox skin.. would.

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

Aatrox can end my inner world as he wishes. Just saying

i know am not supposed to like the prestige vayn i mean leona skin but that splash art

the actual furry yasuo skin is actually a money printer. They're so dumb for not making it

Absolutely love the Briar one. The creature energy is now a full on creature of the dept.

Actually all that goofy legs and animations i feel it so unatural that it makes sense bc he is not natural is a Monster

Yeah, one day we will heal Nickyboy from TBSkyen brainrot. "I want Briar's suit to look more like Anima Squad". Bro, you just told us two minutes ago that the Primordians are bioengineered monsters, why the hell would her suit look like Anima Squad? She can't take it off, it's BY DESIGN.

New sharknado looks kinda weird tbh

Stinky wolfy boi.