Source
r/leagueoflegends•
jealouscloud

Some skins are banned in the LCS due to a lack of clarity. Why is it mandatory for normal players to deal with them?

I've been having a hard time with certain skins such as elementalist Lux, project Ashe, and high noon Jhin which I think makes him look like a different character. These are personal peeves, but some of them objectively make the game less clear with their visual FX. I just find the clarity on their abilities to be severely reduced, and slightly harder to react to.

I recently learned (at least, from a 2016 post) that there are skins banned in the LCS and I'm wondering why the hell Riot acknowledges that there's a lack of clarity in certain skins and yet we cannot disable special vfx, disable skins, or even have Riot dial down the fx changes on some of these skins.

Post showing some fixed skins indicating that there are indeed banned skins: https://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/general-pbe-feedback/E4EwxQFc-update-vfx-clarity-changes-on-skins

Riot: I'd love to just disable the skinned vfx of certain champions while I'm in game, or if necessary from a technology standpoint, disable all skin vfx before loading screen.

Posted Apr 23, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

09
Vurmalkin•

That was a year ago, I believe all skins are now cleared for pro play.

5
poweroffdeathThe Cycle Continues, EU 4th at worlds, NA top 4 in groups.•

No, zven said in one of his streams that he didnt play one of the varus skins because it was banned in lcs.

1
Vurmalkin•

Was it because it was just out? They tend to be behind in patches, might be the reason it was banned. I believe I've seen all the Varus skins in pro play.

1
poweroffdeathThe Cycle Continues, EU 4th at worlds, NA top 4 in groups.•

Last varus skin is from last year june tho and zven was talking about it last month. I think it was arclight varus.

1
Vurmalkin•

I don't know, I truly believe I've seen all the Varus skins in pro play.

1
lildeek12•

I remember that certain skins were banned because it was hard for new players to tell who the champion was, not because of any advantage the skin might provide.

1
DavFree•

Project Ashe is not banned anymore I believe, but I think are ok with a skin giving a slight advantage in the way the abilities look in solo q but not competitive

1
hattroubles•

You're not entirely wrong.

Do a handful of the skins possibly compromise the competitive integrity of the game? Probably a little. But does it really matter to 99.9% of the player base? Not really.

The skins I've heard complaints about are pretty damn cool. Personally, I think it's fine to let people have their fun skins to play with. It's just a game to the overwhelming majority of the player base.

But I agree your complaint is fair, and in a perfect world DoRito should spend some resources to retune some of the vfx.

1
S7EFEN•

as far as I know all skins are unbanned now, or most of them. I think Arclight Varus may be an exception.

note it's not necessarily for "in game advantages" but rather "spectator clarity."

1