K/DA ALL OUT Ahri
When Ahri steps onto the stage to perform with K/DA, she knows she's surrounded by the best of the best—different girls with different personalities, all at the top of their craft. As their leader and as their friend, Ahri is poised to guide these divas to even greater heights and leave their audiences breathless for more.
General Information:
Cost: 1350 RP
Tier: Epic
Release Date: October 29, 2020
Skinline: Riot Records, K/DA
Credits:
Concept: Rheekyo L
Splash Art: Horace Hsu
Model: Kylie Gage
Animations: Einar Langfjord
Tech Art: Isabella Cheng-Henehan
VFX: Walker Paulsen
SFX: Rachel Dziezynski
Producer: Ambrielle Army
Quality Assurance: Nathan Hales
Concept:
If you're counting Prestige K/DA, Ahri actually has four skins in this skinline with Popstar Ahri being the first and essentially the start of K/DA. Establishing Ahri as a K-pop princess, Popstar Ahri later (I believe it was with its Wild Rift release) added more depth to her character by giving her motivations and later (I'm not exactly sure when her bio changed again but I'm assuming it was with her ASU), doubts.
Design:
I really don’t have much to say about Ahri’s design. I find Evelynn’s and Kai’Sa’s outfits to be more interesting but the All Out skins are overall very coherent.
Splash Art:
Her splash art does a good job of highlighting certain aspects of her design like her dyed hair or gorgeous tails. I find it most excels at communicating her character as a pop princess turned queen using its perspective of being from below and looking up at her as well as her posing with her hand on her waist.
Model:
I think the model does a really great job of staying true to the concept and splash art. I especially love her hair and the textures are beautiful.
Chromas:
I love any skin whose chromas feature slight outfit changes and I appreciate how this extends to her dyed hair in this skin. Chromas for Ahri skins in particular are especially beautiful because of her tails.
Animations:
The recall animation is a highlight of this skin, even more so before her ASU. It must be mentioned that Ahri overall hugely benefitted from her ASU, making her animations—including in this skin—smoother, cleaner, and just better. Fittingly, Langfjord and Cheng also worked on Ahri’s ASU animations and rigging.
VFX:
One of my favorite parts of this skin is its visual effects. Speaking as someone who has no idea what kind of work goes into making skin effects, I find that Ahri has several opportunities to incorporate new visual effects, especially with her Orb of Deception (Q). I enjoy the crystal effects and I find that both the VFX and SFX work well together and elevates the other.
SFX:
My other favorite part of the skin is its sound effects. It's probably my most favorite out of all her skins (aside from, of course, Spirit Blossom). The K/DA skins in general all have very satisfying SFX with Evelynn’s Allure (W), Akali’s Shroud (W), and Kai’Sa’s Icathian Rain (Q) being some of my personal favorites.
Voice Over:
No new voice overs or voice filters.
Value:
I got this skin from a Hextech Chest, but if I’d had 1350 RP, I’d probably buy Elderwood Ahri or perhaps Coven Ahri (both from a skinline where Ahri, again, has multiple skins—Eclipse!). But I still love this skin's sound effects the most.
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I strongly prefer the pre-rework version of the Ahri prestige skin. The old version had solid, well defined colours, the new version looks washed out, like it used to be the original one and went through some terrible wear and tear over several years.
Artwork by JamilSC11
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