{"id":44318,"date":"2016-12-27T21:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44318"},"modified":"2020-07-28T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T01:54:25","slug":"i-guess-lux-is-all-grown-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44318","title":{"rendered":"I guess Lux is all grown up now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the numerous memes out there within the League of Legends<\/em> community is that people play X champion because of new skin<\/strong>.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t exist without a degree of truth behind it, as the years have shown us, even the most irrelevant champions can benefit in pick rates if they\u2019re given a new coat of paint (Heartseeker Ashe<\/a>, Devil Teemo<\/a>), but not all of them can be winners either. (Slayer Pantheon<\/a>, any Worldbreaker<\/a>).\u00a0 Regardless, it\u2019s safe to assume that if you see an overzealous insta-lock of a particular champion that just got a new skin, they will undoubtedly perform poorly and are playing for no reason other than to show off their skin.<\/span><\/p>\n

This goes doubly and triply for temporary game modes where the games are shorter, but the luxury of being able to select one\u2019s own champion is still available.\u00a0 Needless to say, I\u2019ve enjoyed playing Poro King over the last few weekends, since it\u2019s been helping me rapidly boost my mastery rank with champions like Maokai, Skarner and Fizz, but it\u2019s not lost on me that there\u2019s an inordinate number of people playing Lux in the vast majority of these games.\u00a0 Sometimes on my team, sometimes on the enemy team, often times on both, I\u2019ve seen a few good ones and way more bad ones, but almost in all cases, they\u2019re using the brand new Elementalist Lux skin (above, right), and I\u2019m under the impression that most are playing her not because they believe she\u2019s a smart pick for Poro King, but they just want to use the new skin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Personally, I think Lux is a poor choice for Poro King because although she provides decent crowd control and a little bit of wave clear in her ult, she\u2019s a shit duelist if you can get up in her face, and is useless if she\u2019s ever facing more than one enemy and will concede every objective.<\/span><\/p>\n

But let\u2019s not let those important factors factor in when it comes to choosing a team component, because that new skin is just so damn pretty.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve gotten to the point where I\u2019ve been banning Lux not just because I like winning, but to sadistically deny those who dropped $30 on a skin an opportunity to compromise my success rate with their mediocre play because they want to show off their shiny new toy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I\u2019ve started at a whole lot of Elementalist Lux splash art during load screens, and as much as I really actually do love, appreciate and admire the art of Jean Go<\/a>, I can\u2019t help but feel that in the grand scheme of the Lux persona\/portrayal\/character, Elementalist Lux just seems kind of out of place.\u00a0 From the bedroom eyes that it seems like all human-female characters except Jinx<\/a> are required to be portrayed with now, to the Victoria\u2019s Secret-like outfit that she wears, it seems like it was just a year ago when Lux was pretty much the answer to the question \u201cdoes every chick in League have to have giant boobs and look like a sexy model,\u201d <\/em>and now she\u2019s joined the ranks.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess the introduction of Illaoi<\/a> meant Lux is off the hook and was allowed to grow up and be sexed up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Really though, Lux was initially introduced as like the little sister of the game; literally Garen\u2019s little sister.\u00a0 Born from privilege, raised highborn, nurtured as a prodigy, and rebelling from military duties, Lux was a young woman amongst a playing field of bombshells.\u00a0 And earlier on, presumably when Rito\u2019s art direction had a little more consistent integrity, Lux\u2019s designs were just that; modest yet tasteful, covered while Miss Fortune\u2019s skins progressively shed more fabric, and Sona\u2019s boobs expanded to the point where Ahri had to be unveiled lest she exploded.\u00a0 There used to be funny threads on the League board where pervs used to try-and-fail to be discreet about asking why Lux had no \u201ccreative\u201d skins and others calling them out for wanting tits and ass Lux skins and everyone getting a good laugh out of revealing creeper players.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality of the situation is that eventually Rito\u2019s love of money grew throughout the years, and they understood the profitability of creating aesthetically pleasing skins, even if it meant reaching for low-hanging fruit.\u00a0 The sheer volume of skin availability has expanded massively throughout the last few years, with the quality of creativity kind of taking a step back. DJ Sona<\/a>, Arcade Miss Fortune<\/a>, Heartseeker Ashe come out to great praise, also with tighter clothing, bigger boobs and longer legs.\u00a0 And then less-popular and often male champions come out in these clumped sets, like Beast Hunter<\/a>, Dark Star<\/a>, or Worldbreaker, that ultimately nobody cares about, but seem to be released just to poorly veil the weak attempt to equally distribute new skins.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that although impressive and technically amazing from a design and execution standpoint, at least to me, Elementalist Lux has left behind the character that she was initially introduced as.\u00a0 It\u2019s like she was introduced into the game as a late-teenager who still had mom helping her buy her name-brand clothing from the mall in her original splash art, and now she\u2019s got rando-dudes mailing her Victoria\u2019s Secret gift cards for her to buy her own sexy clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our little girl Lux is finally growing up, and coincidentally Rito is making even more money.\u00a0 God help us all when they decide that an Annie<\/a> re-design, and aging her conjunctively to how long she\u2019s been in the game, and dressing her appropriately to her age is going to be potentially profitable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the numerous memes out there within the League of Legends community is that people play X champion because of new skin.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t exist without a degree of truth behind it, as the years have shown us, even the most irrelevant champions can benefit in pick rates if they\u2019re given a new coat … Continue reading I guess Lux is all grown up now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,154,83],"class_list":["post-44318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-league-of-legends","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44320,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions\/44320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}