Rapid-Fire Skin Review: Soul Fighter (Wave 1) 

Riot Employee: “Yes, Lux has too many skins, but what if cute hat?”

Oh man I can’t wait for Nicky to talk about Viego getting the torture dance! It’s a great reference!

That Vi cut in was hilarious. I’m still amazed that across all their games they didn’t think to put the big fist fighter lady in the fighting game skin line. I can only hope they’re waiting for another wave some years later to give her a legendary

Samira's skin is SOOO good. I'm so sad it's ultimate priced, because if it was legendary priced, I definitely would buy it :,(

The fact you put a Guilty Gear music and mention Sol Badguy gave me joy

The worst part about Samira is that the slapped on her being a part of "social fund bundle". She is of legendary quality only, but her price is almost double. So said 50% of sale of this skin leaves the price of a legendary left for Riot to take. So the whole "charity" part is just forcing players to pay extra tax, while Rito keeps what they wanted to have from regular legedary price, so they lose nothing - not charitable at all.

Wait... the dead man was brought back to life with zipper powers... vocal percussion on a whole 'nother level coming from Viego's mind... Di Molto!!

What's funny about Soul Fighter Samira, she actually does have an element akin for Ultimate skins. She has a custom font for damage numbers. Which in my opinion, is a step in the right direction, if Riot took that and dialed it to 11 like an entirely new UI, I'd be down for that Ultimate pricing. Kill feedback, Multikill banner, scoreboard, HUD, etc.

5:43 - He doesnt have all unique stuff like Pentakill map change and stuff... but beside that production value on this viego skin is CRAZY good with Isolde-Wraith guiding the blade on every spell cast and almost twice as many voicelines and no reused model animations and NORMAL LEGENDARY PRICE TAG.

He had us in the first half not gonna lie

i love this skin line sm (ignoring that half of the roster are mains of mine) i just love the style and flair the line has, and tho this might be a crazy theory i can def see the influence recent films like spiderverse and puss in boots have had on the moddleing and FX team the way they place so much emphasis on the blending of 2d and 3d animation (which ik theyve been doing for years but this skinline feels like they rly put all theyre effort into that style) and the fashion is just sharp af to the point where i prefer the base skins over the prestige (as someone who simps for those skins non stop) also YEA GG ARC SYSTEM WOOOO (guilty gear is the only fighting game ive played purely for the visuals cough cough)

Ive been waiting to listen to ur opinions on samira thanks for the vid :D

the way viego got even better than Samira 😭

Can't wait for your opinion on prestige femboy shaco :)

The cell-shading and vibrant colors of all the skins is already an A+ for me so this whole line is pretty awesome. Might get the Sett, Viego, and Jhin skins since I like to play them

Nicky is probably not gonna make a review on the WR soul fighter skins, but a part of me still hope that he will

As a casual guilty gear strive enjoyer, I'm SUPER excited to see the Viego skin in game because it just screams happy chaos who is my favorite character design in that game (which is suprising because Faust is so god tier character design wise IMO)

Nice use of Trigger for the bgm

loving the edits in this!

Honestly, Samira is my perma ban when im forced to play ADC so i already have bias against it, but is no one going to mention how heavily weighed ultimate skins are toward botlane?

i love you for using trigger as the background music

I don’t know if it’s been mentioned but that outro got longer and that’s pretty awesome for you nicki. Keep up the great content.

The lux skin feels so odd to me because, it is actually a case of skin being designed with a certain colour scheme in mind, and then it changed in the final product, and got shoved into the chromas so that they can milk you for a colour scheme that the skin was supposed to have. Like 75% of all skins they do

The art style is really a refresher! Reminds me of the Spider-verse one, more over a good trip down memory lane with Fright Night! Can't wait to see Gwen!

i definitely didn't think about guilty gear being the inspiration but i see it now that you put clips side by side lmao, i was thinking more jojo's bc of similar reasons ^^; heavy line art, dramatic fashion choices, lux's hat, they all made me think of certain moments in the anime :>

Guilty gear soundtrack sounding great here, always love your music choices Nicky B)

I need someone to do a concept of lux in every skinline.

Yo I heard that instrumental version of Trigger in there let’s goooo

i love the guilty gear music in the backround

You had me confused there with the samira compliments i aint gonna lie 😂

Let’s go Nicky boiiiii!

As an Eclipse Universe appreciator, I'm happy that the legendary and ultimate skins of Soul Fighter are for champions that ACTUALLY fit the theme and ACTUALLY are important for the skin universe lore (I'm staring directly at Sivir with a totally judgemental glare here)

Counterpoint: Pyke's skin feels like a marriage between Jojo and Guilty Gear and because you don't often see bald characters in those universes, of course they give him bright but very short hair. I agree non-bald pyke is strange, however I'm not sure the skin would work as well without the brightly colored hair. ON A SEPERATE NOTE, Samira shouldve kept the I-no/Happy Chaos style fit that she had in her skin concept art.

I love the new skin line, i look forward to the inevitable round 2 of skins. Definitely Sol Settguy is my favorite.

5:58 They did not just give him the torture dance with his dead wife I can't xD

Just realized GG ost on the background

I did not expect the taokaka reference. Nice blazblue reference!

Love the use of Trigger for so many reasons. Banger track

Man, the moment i started to hear Trigger the video became a 10/10

what makes a fun zoner in fighting games in my opinion are the ones that actually play around their projectiles rather than just spamming the same one from full screen so it would have been more fitting to have a control mage rather than the "copy and paste lux in every new skinline that will sell well" Also that Pyke ult gives me Mick Gordons Killer Instinct vibes

this sett skin is the first skin that im going to buy the chroma bundle for, all of them look so good

Now I can’t unsee Sett as Sol Badguy…

Initially saw the sett skin as sf6 Luke, but you now pointing it out, ruby just being sol means he is the poster boy for 2 different fighting games in 1 skin, and you choose to just represent which one

For samira they should have started her out black and white and as you kill minions or deal damage like Elementalist lux you can pick colours of her skin instead of it already being red and blue. Skin looks amazing but it needs the forms.

I love the usage of Natsuki's version of that fucking song i forgot the name of

need a nickyboi guilty gear character design video

Im just glad im having fun in lol after so men years of vaiting for New gamemode

I would have loved a rivalry between sett and vi to see who is the better brawler between them

I love that Nick does know anime because he ended the Video with Viego doing the "Torture dance "

I’m really happy about the sett skin because I felt he didn’t really have any skins before hand that were anything special. But when I saw the soul fighter sett skin I knew I had to buy it for my boy.

Here's the thing, Riot had made Dual Legendaries in Events(Star Guardian is one of them). I hate how they didn't just do this, instead of making the Skin's Ultimate

am i tripping or did riot mention that they were gonna add a skin tier between legendary and ultimate? I feel like a lot of pricing and categorization problems would be fixed if they did that

i genuinely believe that viego could have been upgraded to an ultimate if they gave him a different form, its not like he needs it but its so good as is it really doesnt need much to bump it up

I got the Guilty Gear feels right after they released the splashes, I'm glad I was not the only one who thought AYO ARC SYSTEM U SEEN DIS 🤣

i would like to point out that this skinline ALSO HAS JOJO REFERENCESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSS FINALLY(btw prestige soul fighter pyke looks almost like pucci ;P, and viego's is apparently supposed to be like giorno, there's even a comparison between the two on the internet that i saw), and i love it! edit: viego's recall is vergil's portal opening scene from devil may cry XD

as a average ranged fighting game character enjoyer myself i will not stop even if every hates me

hearing trigger throughout the entire video pleases my little giovanna main brain

"... he has HAIR." as a pyke main, this was my exact first reaction too

I think what meant to happen with the sam skin is it was supposed to be a legendary then they realized they were giving it more stuff then viego who would also be a legendary to they upped it to ultimate and made the extra money on it for charity instead.

See I wish they had made soul fighter urgot that could have been sick

The animation for Samira's skin is so good I honestly don't mind it being classified as an ultimate skin.

I know it's the sparkle dog OC maker in my talking, but I really do love the Naafiri skin

Fcking love the theme. Insta buy

imagine if they released in the same month a legendary skin better than samira ultimate one from the same skin line and 2x cheaper ^^

Maybe Riot's banking on Samira's abs to be a big selling point?

just due to the sheer level of extra stuff in samira i think it would be reasonable to price it higher than the average legendary skin but to treat it like an ultimate skin is insane

i hope we can get the 2v2v2v2 as premiant play mood

love the cell shaded look but yea I feel like the oversaturated colors are a little all over the place :/ so much potential and it feels like they almost want to incentivise paying extra for a chroma

BRO I WAs SO EXCITED FOR THAT NILAH SKIN. as a pc only player im shook, that one again, wild rift gets the cool skin for the champ i want to play (bewitching vex, all the hexplorer skins, and not to mention the exclusive TF legendary skin). well done riot, at least soulfighter viego makes a jojo refrence. oh and spoiler, the viego skin is p. good.

Viego Should have a Pentakill effect. Change my mind

Am I the only one wondering why they didn't add Vi to this skinline, she's like a perfect pick tbh

I just realized, did they make Samira the ultimate skin cause it changes the font and color of the damage output numbers on enemy champions? Flashy I guess, but it's a change no one would notice since we only care how much health we chip from the enemy's life bar, not the big number shown on the enemy as they take damage

would you also rate the wild rift exclusive skin since yasuo legendary is baiken fron guilty gear tho they didn't go full on have him missing one arm despite that was the intention

‘Too many Jhin and Pyke skin’ (Together) HERESAYYY!!

Is trigger (Gio theme form GGST) playing during samira review?

Lux is probably here because they imagined her gimmick as an obstacle in the 2v2v2v2 game mode before making the skin. Because the laser beam thing can only really be done by Lux. Senna has a beam to but it doesn't have the tiny little beam that you're meant to avoid when Lux shows up as an obstacke.

The Wildrift Soul fighter Draven is so freaking cool bro, too bad it ain't in PC :(

I have a huge soft spot for the Soul Fighter Lux skin for one reason and that reason is the wings she gets when she ults. I love skins that give champions wings. It helps to make the champion feel a bit more epic! That being said, a better fit for a zoner fighter skin could have been Vel'Koz or Xerath, two champions who don't always get love when it comes to the skin department.

It's so cool how big Guilty Gear and Arcsys have gotten, and it's so fucking deserved. If you're down seeing some Guilty Gear content from you would also be cool

would you add Nidalee's skin and the ones on Wildrift on your second video? that could be very interesting to hear about those

Pls also do the wild rift version of this skin line🙏🏻🙏🏻

3:12 I couldn't agree more

what do you recommend to take from the pass? the mythical essences? can someone help me?

3:13 but-but, my Happy Chaos.

The funny thing is that Soul Fighter Gwen is more or less based on Sylvie Paula Paula from KOF XV rather than any Arc System IP.

The guiltily gear skinline is top skins for me

Can't wait to talk about viego's skin

Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, Tekken AND Melty Blood references in the same video makes me a happy fgc boi

Boi, I hope our next summer event is gonna be as good, if not better than this one!

I'm mad that Gwen isn't in wave one, I've seen her in more promos for the event than literally any other champion but other than that I'm just glad my girl is getting a new skin finally Cafe cutie being the only one (I don't acknowledge the space groove line) kinda left limited choices

I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEW SHACO SKIN, RAAAAAAH

Ah, Naafiri Amaterasu, origin of all that is good and mother to us all

NEW ARENA LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Also such a shame we a get a mediocre ultimate skin for Samira

neat

I think even though samira doesn't have forms at least the skin and animations and all look much better than older ultimate skin with forms

I can't wait to see what Nicky has to say about shaco because for me that skin is a banger

Soul Fighter Nilah being WR-exclusive while she only has her release skin on PC is criminal.

I cant still wrap it around my head why Naafiri and Lux are in a Fighting tournament. If they want zoners they could use MF or Vayne. Well, although they dont fit that well to the skinline if they bring a lot of money to Riot we cant argue with that

Viego is one of my favorite legendaries of recent years imo. NOTHING TOPS THE TORTURE DANCE. It's unfortunate the ramblings of love are still there though.

When is tye second part coming??