Summary
Period: 13th to 16th of January, 2015
Skins: Warlord Shen, High Noon Yasuo and Black Belt Udyr
Champions: Diana, Maokai and Rammus
Discount: 50%
Overview
A fancy samurai, a cowboy swordsman and a hand to hand fighter appear in this week’s sale. There’s a lot of skill here so let’s see what they are capable of.
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Conclusion:
With a few new particles and animations Warlord Shen is a stylish but excessively fantastic take on the famous samurai. The additions manage to add to the appeal of the skin but the base remains flamboyant. For fans of Shen it’s an interesting option; not without issues.
Far from being the skin that better represents the Unforgiven, High Noon Yasuo is still a skin with a nice style. The cowboy adaptation feels restricted by the swordsman base but the result manages to catch the eye. All in all, a fine option for fans of Yasuo; provided they are looking for something different.
Black Belt Udyr is an uninspired re-colour that barely looks different to the classic counterpart. Not only does it add nothing of interest but it also doesn’t add much to start with. Unless you are a collector there’s little reason to get this skin.
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| Maokai | Rammus |
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Conclusion:
To save on IP it’s better to say a prayer to the Moon and welcome her avatar: Diana. Maokai can also be a good option as his twisted power shows. Rammus has a reasonable IP price, which isn’t so difficult to reach, so isn’t such a good option.
With a Lunar Revel nearing one can guess at the incoming visit of Lunar Goddess Diana to a sale. However, as nothing is certain these days we can only await the return of the Dark Valkyrie. She hasn’t been around since November 2013 so it’s about time.
Maokai can be a versatile treant when necessary but he doesn’t have that many outfits available year round. For the time being, we can only expect his Goalkeeper uniform to get a sale; eventually. That said, on October we saw a Totemic Maokai and in April a Charred Maokai so that’s something else to expect.
An armordillo needs to adapt to the surroundings to survive. With that in mind, Rammus has been seen in Freljord, in November, and in October as a Ninja and covered in Chrome. That’s fine but what we would really like to see is his Full Metal version which was last spotted on July, 2013.
Source: League of Legends News: Champion and Skin Sale: 01.13 – 01.16