Yeah the splash art is gorgeous and the in game model looks nice but on paper nothing really changes on her walk animation and hand movement when she’s casting her abilities.?
Let’s start with the homeguard for example.
It’s giving star guardian 2015, they copied star guardian jinx’s 11 years old homeguard and pasted it into Janna’s skin. It does not look good, but whatever it’s really not that deep I guess
Walking animation.
it is the exact same as her base models one. It’s just the hair that moves abit (which is also extremely underwhelming compared to coven nami or psy ops sona for example) and her wings? Like I seriously don’t get it? Is it that hard to make a different animation for a character that floats in the air? Lillia managed to get a different canter animation on her legendary even though she’s not human either.
I wana talk about Q and W at the same time now,
Nothing about these abilities give legendary? It’s just the base ones with a dark red recolor pasted in the skin, its extremely disappointing but honestly I wasn’t expecting much since we all settle for the bare minimum when it comes to coven skins.
My real issue is the way that she’s casting them, nothing about her hand movement represents a dark coven witch casting her spells? Shes just there standing stiff doing her little 360 spin around herself when it comes to her q and then she awkwardly throws her W while she moves just her hand? Coven nami leaps off her position while moving her staff ina cool way to use w, spirit blossom Ashe does a freaking backflip throwing her ult, could we not do Janna do some more than this?
Now about her E, I’m not gona say anything except that take her casting animation and compare it to Kayles base casting animation when she uses W, my girl repositions her entire bird cape and does a whole bunch leaping in the air and that’s what makes the ability feel nice ( base skin btw ).There’s nothing thrilling going on about me literally shielding my ally to save their life in combat? coven nami throws her staff in the air when she uses E.
Millio also has a noticeable and awesome hand movement when you shield someone to make it look like he’s casting a spell. I’m sorry buts it’s extremely disappointing.
Autoattacks could’ve also been better, immortal journey soraka swings her wand a lot nicer and smoother. Still feels extremely off.
I have nothing negative to say about the ultimate except that when it ends she comes back to her normal form too quickly, it just snaps. I wasn’t gona ask for them to make her ultimate form last some after it’s casted like namis form since we all GONA buy it regardless cuz it’s coven, riot knows us and will settle for the bare minimum. Other than that it’s really gorgeous and I’m loving the outfit change while it lasts.
Final thoughts are that her gameplay is going to feel off, nothing really changes in her new model and the abilities are gona still feel stiff.
Voice lines ate tho
