Rapid-Fire Skin Review: Heavenscale 

The skynline that screams "i like money" i literally forgot this even existed

All I could think when I saw this was “why the hell are kaisa and Ezreal getting ANOTHER SKIN??” Lowkey we could’ve gotten a dragon neeko skin and I would be so much more hyped

Hello? Shyvana? Actual dragon with human form?! HELLO?!?!?

one day we’ll get a kai’sa skin that actually leans into the horror/body armour aspect she was originally created with instead of hot lady with floaty shoulder things no 7

>Make a legendary skin >Give him mythic chroma >Also make regular chroma that looks identical

Holy shit getting jumpscared by myself is not something I thought would happen today

the a sol legendary skin is HEAT

There is no champion favoritism in ba sing se *smiling casually with gun next to head*

I wish we got more Bee skins, the legendary being Bee Sin

Its crazy that we cannot get another Christmas or any other religion theme skin but we get 5 lunar/chinese mithos skin lines and they all look the same lmao

I’m so excited for the next rapid fire skin review, some of those porcelain skins look amazing

It's funny how league started to "Retire" old skinlines for the sake of trying to reduce cosmetic rot, but this skin review helps to show that said rot has very little to do with what skin line is becoming too tired. I will admit obviously that oversaturation is a thing, but a large part of why skinlines like project or high noon became oversaturated was because the designers assumed they didn't need to DO anything with the skin + champion concept beyond making them vaguely conform to the theme. Skins like High Noon Varus, Talon and Project Irelia, Akali or Jinx are all perfect examples of this half measure that sets a president for skins to be worse and lower effort. Champion Favoritism isn't gonna "League of Legends" or anything because no matter how low the quality bar goes, the Lux and Ezreal players are gonna keep buying the new cosmetics, even if they suck, or have better already available alternatives. This really does just make me sad because there are only so many ways you can re-invent a champion with the same concept, and seeing the repeating of the same themes on the same champions with a different coat of paint is going to be incredibly frustrating. Add on top of that, that someday we will be seeing champions like Ezreal and Lux have upwards of 30-40 skins meanwhile ornn still has less than 5 by that time, and that goes double for newer champions. This also of course to mention nothing of how all this effort into repackaging the same skin idea into the same champion takes resources away from updating old champions but that's evident. I just wish Riot wouldn't be content to settle for mid in their skins considering it's the majority of the content the game receives these days. Seeing such a large company that began so small be willing to settle for mediocrity and "Good" enough rather than even trying to push boundaries is just so saddening. Asol finally getting a legendary is cool but it was only after his unorthodox play pattern was executed and he became a popular champion with an even simpler gameplay loop. All of this just feeds into riot appeal to the lowest common denominator which is just so depressing.

I wish we could see a Rapid Fire Skin review of all the Wild Rift Exclusives one day. Dragon Lantern: Zyra, Aatrox & Graves (both with Prestige), Thresh, ZERI. Lunar Guardians: Aurelion Sol, MORGANA, Kai'sa (+ Prestige) and Pantheon Dream Passagers/Raiders: Ekko, Senna, Nasus, Thresh Stargazers: Karma, TF, JAX, Camille, Vex, Soraka Hexplorers: Galio, Shyvana, Teemo, Tristana, Jax Mythmakers: Camille, GWEN, Caitlyn (+ Prestige), Zoe, Seraphine Supreme Cells: Sett, Zed, Kennen, Samira, Darius and Akali Chromacrash: Ekko, Jinx, SAMIRA Crystal Rose: SERAPHINE, Jayce, Vayne, Gwen (+ Prestige), AKALI, Vi, Riven, Jarvan IV, Sona, EZREAL, LUX, Yone Heroes vs Villains: Jayce, Vi, Jhin, Graves

Can you do a Rapid-Fire Skin Review for Wild Rift to? Just to show us all the good skins we are not going to get? :)

I get it's bcuz of the chinese new year but four patches in a row dedicated to china-inspired skinlines can be a lil repetitive. And it shows cuz all the dragonmancers felt lackluster (minus kassadin up to a degree) and the primal ambush suffered a bit due to the champion selection (talon x example). Heavenscale champion choices does feel a lil too redundant too. Did we needed ANOTHER chinese inspired skin for ezreal and kai sa? Thank god porcelain managed to be interesting thanks to our beloved diva dragon (cant wait to hear your thoughts on asol legendary btw!). Also the wild rift exclusive skin for asol is quite good all things considered! I got it yesterday and it's quite impressive

When there's a new Ezreal skin, Riot will say nothing, but there will be signals. Also Porcelain looks so good this year, mainly because no humans took the legendary/prestige but they redeemed the worst Kindred skin into an absolute banger.

love your editing

The amount of effort you put into editing the videos makes them always enjoyable to watch

Now what we know about the Aurelion legendary skin. holy ITS AMAZING.

I'm going to assume this video's editing was done BEFORE Kindred's prestige splash came out cause its eating SO MUCH. Her prestige returns her back to non-human forme and its so GOOD

I need you to make a video on all Wild rife reworks plz

I can't believe ezreal got 4 skins this patch, 2 of them being prestige!

I love your energy man, you are hilarious!

prestige porcelain kindred actually looks REALLY promising im so happy they fixed her

new Nicky vid -> depression cured

I love Heavenscale! I saw the fanmade skins in LoL Weibo, so I hope they'll comeback next year. Also, I can't wait for the Porcelain this year. 2nd Waves looks good so far. From ASol getting a Legendary, to redeeming the worst Kindred skin with a Prestige.

I just saw A Sol's new skin. Looks really cool!

Of the Lunar new year skins I really like Smolder and Asol, very fitting for the year of the dragon

So excited for the Aurelion Sol skin! I actually really like porcelain and my current favourite champ, who I wasn’t even expecting to get anything, is getting a legendary?! Im actually so happy :D

damn bro that wild rif sol llooks insane

Excited for the new porcelain video after seeing the PBE versions, using a prestige to go back and fix a bot 5 skin in the game makes me happy

Nick what are your thoughts on the dragon lantern skins in wild rift?

I love how you showed Porcelain Kindred just for her to get a redemption arc in that skinline with an awesome prestige skin. "Lets hope we get more like Lissandra and less like Kindred"

Nicky notification pog

Review the wild rift dragon lantern and lunar celestial skins!!

i just wish riot would give Rell a legendary high noon skin, a project skin to Renata glasc(legendary please), Thresh and Naafiri, and a old god or elderwood legendary to maokai... you know, the TREE champion, that ins't on a WOOD themed skinline :/ edit: Naafiri is already getting a project skin xd, and i think battlecast Maokai would be cool too.

League of Legends truly is the gift that keeps on giving ... skins based on popularity.

I bet Lee Sin skin is the ASU rig packed as a legendary and sold a few months in advance

im still waiting for a dragon theme xayah and rakan, cause imagine the cape as a half-dragon wing and when the goy to base the fly together idk (completely biased as a xayah main)

Anytime we get these lines, it’s no surprise that it’s one monster ish champ that’s maybe close to the appropriate year(sometimes) and then all the favorite Chinese beloved champions. We know the reason and it’s fine. Hell most of them look great but originality? Good luck

Riot also didnt make a shyvana skin for either one of the lunar new year skins

It's hard to say Riot isn't appealing primarily to China when we get four Lunar New Year skins all designed to appeal to "popular champion XD" characters that are popular in China.

crazy thing is that prestige porcelain kindred is actually cool as hell

ngl, im kinda sad primal ambush didn't got a video, out of the four it was the one a liked most

3:00 Is THaT my boi Radicalsoda?!!

Damn, now I wanna see this skin theme on Kassadin or Galio

I get you’re eating your words now after seeing the Aurelion Sol skin

They fixed Porcelain Kindred with the Prestige Version, I'm quite happy about that.

Me: avid Janna enjoyer, who loves when zephyr looks cool. My prime capsule: here have this baby dragon with a terrifying looking face instead you’ll love it :) I got the event chromas for both skins (pink is my favorite color after all) in the hopes of one day owning the Janna skin, but also to make smolder look more terrifying but pink

The kindred prestige looks fire compared to whatever normal porcelain kindred is supposed to be

I like how because of one mishap all the women of this line have their *REDACTED* well... Redacted.

1:51 Oh god, Urist is invading other channels now

Glad to see Trick coupled with a hair problem.

3:00 IS THAT A RadicalSoda REFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well well well how the tables have turned from the rapid fire skin review of soul fighters wave 2

Yo, was that a Radical Soda reference I saw?

OK now hear me out: Earth Dragon Ornn skin based on the flightless dragon trope.

I get the idea of popular champions getting into skins more often than others, it's a business at the end of the day the day but.. C'mon Riot. Swain, Shyvana and Neeko literally have he exact thing you were describing in your lore.

i hope they take a crack at more western ideas of a dragon in some skinlines

I think it works well enough as a skin line (ESPECIALLY Smolder) but the simple fact we're now (as mentioned in the video) TRIPLE DIPPING INTO LEGENDARY TERRITORY that alone honestly makes me dislike the skins. All I can think when I hear "over 100 champions dont even have one" is think 'why don't they just give the unplayed champions more attention? If you buffed numbers the slightest amount to make someone like Skarner or Kled as viable as Yasuo or Lux MAYBE they'd get played more!' but we all know the real reason the top 30 are the only ones getting skins: money. Whales will gladly spend $40 for Lux's 20th skin and that knowledge saddens me.

Prestige Porcelain Kindred is actually pretty good.

What I low-key love about ezreal is that he reminds me of Nero from dmc because of the dragon hand lmao

Tbf though from the start of the video, as much as I hate porcelain kindred, her prestige and sol's new skin look great

one of your best video man i died from laught whit your edit, aniway im waiting you for porcelain skin

The lunar revel and the new porceline skin lines are just the "we need to make a quick buck" skin line

So year of the dragon... no skin for shyvana. As a shyv main, I am extremely hurt rn.

Just another batch of skins that I will completely forget by next month. Maybe except for Smolder.

An udyr skin would’ve been awesome seeing him turn into different types of dragons swith his R having wing’s. What a miss opportunity especially how popular his recently starting to be

what if briar was the legendary, Having the idea tha she really wants to have that human interaction since she usually is allowed to parties, then messes up upon going beserk and turning back into a dragoon. changing her from a hemo-monstrosity into the wierd dragon individual they bring.

the legendary skin situation is sad to me bc some times there is a awesome tematic that a champion being part of should award him a legendary, to me for example, the most moon related champion of the game, diana, took many ''come backs'' of the bloodmoon theme to get her skin, and it wasnt legendary, kayle, THE SUN EATER, central part of the whole theme got an epic skin, not only they misfit champions into skin lines, but often they choose the legendary skin receiver wrong imo

Yo what is it with this kai sa skins?? I like playing her because i find the idea of essentially a void Venom cool, so why is it that only 1 (!) of her 12 (!) skins even remotely takes that theme of symbiote battlesuit into consideration? Can we have a skin for her that not just her but in pretty clothes? Just once? Champ has 12 skins and i prefer playing her base over all of them

This skin line really is "Champion favouritism doesn't exist what are you talking about?"

Can anyone fill me in on why he didn’t want to review Primal Ambush Skins? (besides being late). Is there some drama behind it or something controversial?

I am hyped for Porcelain Asol at least

Bro Bel'veth would have been amazing for this skinline

Thank god we're on the good timeline where the prestige of Porcelain Kindred is passable, good even!

still waiting for a good skin for ornn

Personally I think bel’veth would be perfect for this skin line with the whole hiding what you really are with a human form

I just like how the diana skin looks

Honestly, fuck riot for ignoring other champions who could fit so many thematics like Galio on this one or even Udyr, the latter hurts me the most because Ink Shadow wasn't that good

As a kai'sa player I genuinely don't know if any of her skins change with the evolutions. Her legendary skin should have noticeable differences with the evos and the idea of her becoming more draconic in a legendary skin sounds so amazing. I'd trade the disappointment that is star guardian kai'sa for it in a heartbeat, take inkshadow too for that matter just give me a skin worth being called a legendary

ABSOLUTELLYY RAAAAAAPIIIIDD SKIN FIREEEE REVIEW

Didnt soraka and yasuo already have 3 legendaries each or do they not count?

oh the hate on the prestige kindred will not age well, they really fixed the issues with it

I don't understand one thing, making a third legendary for the same champion feels not only like favouritism but also like a somewhat bad move in terms of monetization. LOL doesn't get a lot of newer players, and those that have been hanging around for longer most likely already have a good skin for Champions that have a big skin catalog, and that will impact negatively their desire to get another skin for that champion. The only way this works is if the skin is of noticeably greater quality than the ones before, or the number of fanatics of those champions(that will buy any skin that character gets) is big enough...

Riot: porcelain Kindred gets a Prestige. Everyone: oh no another bad prestige Skin. The Skin:🔥

The only redeeming part of Shan Hai Scrolls Yuumi, is that some chromas make Smolder just look like a straight up puppy, and that's adorable

kai'sa got 13 skins including two prestige, 3 tft tactitians + is the champion that is the most showcased in high quality LoLanimations when she was released 6 years ago but people will shit themselves and cry when and old champion like Lux get one skin a year

Omfg, Smolder is just Spyro in disguise. Why didn't I see it???!!

If only there was a dragon that looked like a human someone whos from demacia and doesnt have a legendary and couldve gotten it here in a themaric that fits her perfectly

Why do people hate procelain kindred so much, its one of my favorite

The crazy thing about Lee Sin getting his 3rd legendary is that A) Storm Dragon is a few years old and looks significantly better an B) God Fist Lee Sin is going to be brought to modern legendary skin standards is THREE MONTHS. If I wanted a legendary dragon Lee Sin, Storm Dragon. If I wanted a legendary Immortal God Lee Sin skin with golden vfx based on Chinese mythology, would you fucking believe me if I said I have already and it’s going to look better than this mess in, once again, THREE MONTHS. Heck, if you have the specific fantasy of Legendary Golden Dragon Lee Sin, that’s fair, BUT WE HAVE IT ALREADY. Storm Dragon Lee Sin’s mythic chroma IS GOLD. Heavenscale Lee Sin is the most redundant skin in all of League because not only is it completely unoriginal, but also because it took extra resources and manpower to try to scam us worse than Soul Fighter Samira

All the champs I play have no legendary skins so seeing ezreal in the botlane have a new skin every 2 months sure is refreshing 😅

I’m just happy that Ezreal and Kai’Sa have skins in the same universe, where they also have a level of interaction.

I really really love the Ezreal skins but completely agree there’s no damn reason he needs more skins so soon. So many other champions could have gotten a moment.

nickyboi are you okay?

Wild rift just added aatrox prestige exclusive that costs 300£

Porcelain 2.0 actually looks very good. They fixed kindred like holy shit

wow i actually like this guy

Zillian skin when?