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So several months ago, we accessed our Super Secret Rito Records to see which Rioters mained Tristana.

I could probably describe her kit (Speedy Uppy, Jumpy, Bomby, and Blasty), but I don’t know the first thing about what it means to be a Tristana main. Deciding the Creative Directionīeing honest here, I’m not a Tristana main.

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Choosing a broad-appeal champion for our Player Choice skin means that more players get to find meaning and value in the experience, which is really important to us.

While playrate tells us how frequently she’s played in the game, broad-versus-niche appeal tells us how many unique players have her in their pocket. This means there’s a diverse playerbase who likes to play her. We consider that a win too-we want you to be able to see the skin you helped pick.įinally, Tristana is what we consider a broad-appeal champion as opposed to a niche-appeal champion. Tristana’s new skin will have the chance to be played in a lot of games, meaning plenty of players will get to see her. A higher playrate means that the Player Choice experience impacts greater gametime hours. Second, Tristana consistently has a relatively high playrate. In other words, a champion with a dense catalog of skins like Tristana (compared to Illaoi) gives us a better sample size, which lets us do better science. It can help us to understand if this process-where you help us choose the design-actually results in skins that players like more.

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Once the Player Choice Skin is released, we’ll be able to compare it to her full catalog of skins. These metrics can give us an idea of how well-liked each of her skins are compared to one another. We have data that tells us how many players purchase these skins and how frequently they’re used in game. To dig deeper, the foremost reason we chose Tristana is also my favorite reason: FOR SCIENCE! Tristana currently has 10 skins, including her base skin.

But it was actually for all these reasons that we picked Tristana for the second vote. It may have seemed surprising that we chose Tristana, since the first Player Choice skin was for Illaoi: a champion with a small-but-hardcore following and only one skin to her name. I want to give you a little insight on how some of those decisions are made by sharing how we picked this year’s Player Choice skin. (I’ll give you a hint: It involves models.)Īs the Insights Researcher on the Skins Team, I get a lot of questions about how our team decides what skins to make. Let’s kick things off by answering a question we’ve heard from you since voting opened: Why’d We Pick Tristana? Chelsea “Riot aeneia” Hughes, Insights Researcher: Hey everyone! I’m here to chat with you about the coolest, sexiest, most interesting part of the skin development process.

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We couldn’t really update you on our progress back then (spoilers!), so we’re sharing some of that behind-the-scenes work now. 'Little Demon Tristana’s been in production for a couple weeks now, and we’ve got a giant update to share with you today, including our latest progress on her VFX and splash art.īut this isn’t really the beginning of development-that happened back when we were choosing a champion for the vote and working on the concepts. Check out the newest details on the fan-voted skin, Little Demon Tristana - 'Demon fire, souls, research, and Teemo.'