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Meet\u00a0Cupid Twitch<\/strong>.\u00a0 Cupid Twitch is a skin concept for\u00a0League of Legends<\/em>\u00a0character Twitch, the Plague Rat.\u00a0 The impetus behind this design is that Twitch is the last bow-and-arrow wielding character on the roster, and with Valentine\u2019s Day approaching, adding him to the Heartseeker family of skins.\u00a0 The idea works two-fold, as it provides an opportunity to present a character known for filth and pungent odor in an ironic manner to be suddenly a romance-spreading Cupid, firing his arrows upon champions on Summoner\u2019s Rift, as well as holding true to Heartseeker trends of utilizing bows and arrows.<\/span><\/p>\n The basis for the idea was\u00a0taking a hairless rat<\/a>, which are already all pink and cherub-like colored, and giving it Twitch\u2019s weapon, modified to at least have a Heartseeker theme.\u00a0 Add wings, and superfluous hearts, and voila, it\u2019s Cupid Twitch, ready to spread love in surprise double and triple kills.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Cupid Twitch does not actually exist.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I created Cupid Twitch.<\/span><\/p>\n If there\u2019s one thing that I like about Riot Games is that they like to try and make events out of every little occasion, be it major holidays like Christmas, to more or less niche holidays, like Chinese New Year.\u00a0 Over the last three years, they\u2019ve put a modicum of effort into Valentine\u2019s Day, with the release of skins in the past such as Heartseeker Vayne, Heartseeker Varus, Heartseeker Ashe, and last year, Sweetheart Annie.<\/span><\/p>\n Along the way, champions in the Debonair skin family (Jayce, Ezreal, Vi, Galio) were lumped into the Valentines umbrella, because I guess dressing dapper associates with romance which means Valentines.<\/span><\/p>\n Admittedly, I was not a fan of last year\u2019s Sweetheart Annie, because of two reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, I\u00a0saw a post about this year\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day skins<\/a>, and was surprised to see that they would be releasing\u00a0two <\/em>new skins this year;\u00a0Heartseeker Orianna<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Sweetheart Sona<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n This Nickelback song<\/a>\u00a0exemplifies perfectly my reaction to seeing these two \u201cnew\u201d skins.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t even really know where to being.\u00a0 For starters, it legitimately feels like Rito has once again phoned it in this year in terms of creativity, basically stripping Ashe of her outfit from 2014 and slapping variants onto Orianna and Sona.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they\u2019ve created this imaginary pressure that they have to churn out new content because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve always done, but haven\u2019t realized that it\u2019s better to release nothing, than to release something sub-par.<\/span><\/p>\n In all fairness, Heartseeker Orianna looks a little cool, because she\u2019s never been a character that can easily be objectified and whittled down to the lowest-common denominator, because she\u2019s a robot, and not a tit monster that they can shear off fabric and sexualize just a little bit more.\u00a0 She definitely has an Alice in Wonderland vibe to her that doesn\u2019t look half bad, it\u2019s just the overall package is something all League fans have already seen before.<\/span><\/p>\n I do object to her being named \u201cHeartseeker,\u201d because I felt that such distinction was and should be limited to those with the bow-and-arrow weapons, to make that pun about Cupid\u2019s arrows.\u00a0 Instead, her ball is adorned with all these forced hearts, and in fact, the whole package is shoehorned with a bunch of extraneous hearts that really serve no purpose in terms of aesthetic at all, but for the sake of having hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n As for Sweetheart Sona, I don\u2019t even know why Rito even bothered.\u00a0 There\u2019s such a severe lack of creativity with this design that it\u2019s almost insulting that they\u2019re asking people to pay actual money to get it, and should probably be complimentary to anyone who already purchased Heartseeker Ashe.\u00a0 The etwahl (her weapon) is more or less a scaled-up and fattened version of Ashe\u2019s Heartseeker bow, and she\u2019s basically wearing Ashe\u2019s top and Annie\u2019s skirt, with superfluous heart tassels hanging off, like Arcade Sona.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, both Orianna and Sona already have a bunch of skins already.\u00a0 Prior to these releasing, Orianna has five skins, with the last one being Winter Wonder Orianna, released in December 2014.\u00a0 Sona on the other hand, has six available skins before this one, with her last one being the highly-touted (and expensive) DJ Sona skins that was released in February 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n In Orianna\u2019s defense, she\u2019s at least a champion that is heavily contested and played frequently in competitive play, as well as by professional players; some variation from default and Bladecraft couldn\u2019t hurt.\u00a0 Sona on the other hand, despite her general popularity, is basically obsolete currently, but she does have the biggest boobs among all female champions, which is probably justification enough.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, champions like Yorick, the zombie grave digger, have two available skins, with his last one being Pentakill Yorick, released in June of 2011.\u00a0 Considering well-designed skins are often used as excuses for people to play particular champions, I\u2019m not saying the Rift needs a purple-pink-and-gold Sweetheart Yorick, perhaps a decent-looking skin at some point, might just stimulate some people to play him again?<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, boo on Rito for such low-hanging fruit for this year\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day skins.\u00a0 I will not be paying money to get either of these skins, but I most certainly would have, if Cupid Twitch actually existed and were made available.\u00a0 As much as I am a fan of Riot and League, I generally am feeling like creativity has been going downhill over the last few years, and it\u2019s stuff like this that really helps put stamps on that notion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meet\u00a0Cupid Twitch.\u00a0 Cupid Twitch is a skin concept for\u00a0League of Legends\u00a0character Twitch, the Plague Rat.\u00a0 The impetus behind this design is that Twitch is the last bow-and-arrow wielding character on the roster, and with Valentine\u2019s Day approaching, adding him to the Heartseeker family of skins.\u00a0 The idea works two-fold, as it provides an opportunity to … Continue reading I\u2019m critical because I CARE<\/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":[130,79,45,154,15],"class_list":["post-42179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-league-of-legends","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42181,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions\/42181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
![taking a hairless rat<\/a>, which are already all pink and cherub-like colored, and giving it Twitch\u2019s weapon, modified to at least have a Heartseeker theme.\u00a0 Add wings, and superfluous hearts, and voila, it\u2019s Cupid Twitch, ready to spread love in surprise double and triple kills.<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, Cupid Twitch does not actually exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nI created Cupid Twitch.<\/span><\/p>\nIf there\u2019s one thing that I like about Riot Games is that they like to try and make events out of every little occasion, be it major holidays like Christmas, to more or less niche holidays, like Chinese New Year.\u00a0 Over the last three years, they\u2019ve put a modicum of effort into Valentine\u2019s Day, with the release of skins in the past such as Heartseeker Vayne, Heartseeker Varus, Heartseeker Ashe, and last year, Sweetheart Annie.<\/span><\/p>\nAlong the way, champions in the Debonair skin family (Jayce, Ezreal, Vi, Galio) were lumped into the Valentines umbrella, because I guess dressing dapper associates with romance which means Valentines.<\/span><\/p>\nAdmittedly, I was not a fan of last year\u2019s Sweetheart Annie, because of two reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n\nIt broke the convention of being a play on Cupid and his arrows, as all the previous Heartseeker skins were characters who used bow-and-arrow weaponry<\/span><\/li>\nThe character design of Sweetheart Annie was basically taking Heartseeker Ashe, and putting her into a time machine.\u00a0 The end result was an identical color scheme with very little conceptual change going into it; I felt as if Riot phoned it in with effort<\/span><\/li>\nOkay, three reasons: Annie has more skins than any other champion in League of Legends, even prior to the release of Sweetheart Annie.\u00a0 I love Annie as well, but spread the wealth, Rito!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nRecently, I\u00a0saw a post about this year\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day skins<\/a>, and was surprised to see that they would be releasing\u00a0two <\/em>new skins this year;\u00a0Heartseeker Orianna<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Sweetheart Sona<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\nThis Nickelback song<\/a>\u00a0exemplifies perfectly my reaction to seeing these two \u201cnew\u201d skins.<\/span><\/p>\nHonestly, I don\u2019t even really know where to being.\u00a0 For starters, it legitimately feels like Rito has once again phoned it in this year in terms of creativity, basically stripping Ashe of her outfit from 2014 and slapping variants onto Orianna and Sona.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they\u2019ve created this imaginary pressure that they have to churn out new content because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve always done, but haven\u2019t realized that it\u2019s better to release nothing, than to release something sub-par.<\/span><\/p>\nIn all fairness, Heartseeker Orianna looks a little cool, because she\u2019s never been a character that can easily be objectified and whittled down to the lowest-common denominator, because she\u2019s a robot, and not a tit monster that they can shear off fabric and sexualize just a little bit more.\u00a0 She definitely has an Alice in Wonderland vibe to her that doesn\u2019t look half bad, it\u2019s just the overall package is something all League fans have already seen before.<\/span><\/p>\nI do object to her being named \u201cHeartseeker,\u201d because I felt that such distinction was and should be limited to those with the bow-and-arrow weapons, to make that pun about Cupid\u2019s arrows.\u00a0 Instead, her ball is adorned with all these forced hearts, and in fact, the whole package is shoehorned with a bunch of extraneous hearts that really serve no purpose in terms of aesthetic at all, but for the sake of having hearts.<\/span><\/p>\nAs for Sweetheart Sona, I don\u2019t even know why Rito even bothered.\u00a0 There\u2019s such a severe lack of creativity with this design that it\u2019s almost insulting that they\u2019re asking people to pay actual money to get it, and should probably be complimentary to anyone who already purchased Heartseeker Ashe.\u00a0 The etwahl (her weapon) is more or less a scaled-up and fattened version of Ashe\u2019s Heartseeker bow, and she\u2019s basically wearing Ashe\u2019s top and Annie\u2019s skirt, with superfluous heart tassels hanging off, like Arcade Sona.<\/span><\/p>\nFurthermore, both Orianna and Sona already have a bunch of skins already.\u00a0 Prior to these releasing, Orianna has five skins, with the last one being Winter Wonder Orianna, released in December 2014.\u00a0 Sona on the other hand, has six available skins before this one, with her last one being the highly-touted (and expensive) DJ Sona skins that was released in February 2015.<\/span><\/p>\nIn Orianna\u2019s defense, she\u2019s at least a champion that is heavily contested and played frequently in competitive play, as well as by professional players; some variation from default and Bladecraft couldn\u2019t hurt.\u00a0 Sona on the other hand, despite her general popularity, is basically obsolete currently, but she does have the biggest boobs among all female champions, which is probably justification enough.<\/span><\/p>\nMeanwhile, champions like Yorick, the zombie grave digger, have two available skins, with his last one being Pentakill Yorick, released in June of 2011.\u00a0 Considering well-designed skins are often used as excuses for people to play particular champions, I\u2019m not saying the Rift needs a purple-pink-and-gold Sweetheart Yorick, perhaps a decent-looking skin at some point, might just stimulate some people to play him again?<\/span><\/p>\nAnyway, boo on Rito for such low-hanging fruit for this year\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day skins.\u00a0 I will not be paying money to get either of these skins, but I most certainly would have, if Cupid Twitch actually existed and were made available.\u00a0 As much as I am a fan of Riot and League, I generally am feeling like creativity has been going downhill over the last few years, and it\u2019s stuff like this that really helps put stamps on that notion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet\u00a0Cupid Twitch.\u00a0 Cupid Twitch is a skin concept for\u00a0League of Legends\u00a0character Twitch, the Plague Rat.\u00a0 The impetus behind this design is that Twitch is the last bow-and-arrow wielding character on the roster, and with Valentine\u2019s Day approaching, adding him to the Heartseeker family of skins.\u00a0 The idea works two-fold, as it provides an opportunity to … Continue reading I\u2019m critical because I CARE<\/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":[130,79,45,154,15],"class_list":["post-42179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-league-of-legends","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42181,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42179\/revisions\/42181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/previews.123rf.com\/images\/Laures\/Laures0710\/Laures071000006\/1831019-Decorative-hairless-rat-on-a-white-background--Stock-Photo.jpg\"){kind=link}