High Noon Yone (Legendary + Scam Chroma), Evelynn (Prestige), Gragas, and Rell
Wanted: Dead, alive, or somewhere in between.
I’m biased because I have a fat crush on Yone and I hate Dawnbringer.
But yeah obviously Rell probably deserved it more.
I think the gun/sword thing is really cool though and if Katarina had gotten the last legendary they could’ve done something similar with her q maybe. Though clarity-wise, it’d probably be difficult.
Anyways, any skinline with angel/demon or good/evil themes is going to fit well with Yone.
Also his main lore translates well into him being a bounty hunter.
The beauty of Coven Evelynn's splash art (art by Alex "alexplank" Flores)
I have several friends who might have actually killed me if I didn’t include Coven Evelynn in my analysis of beautiful splash art, and I can’t say that they’re wrong. Well, I mean, they’d be wrong to kill me, but they’re not wrong that this splash belongs here.
This splash pulls the common trick of having the expression left in shadow to sharpen its intensity. And one of the very good decisions made in this splash is that Evelynn is not at all interested in you. She is casually caressing one of the demonic entities that act as her lashers, gazing off to the sice of her shoulder with a pensive, quiet expression, and a playful little smile curling her mouth, as though she’s thinking of something quietly pleasurable or fun, or anticipating something.
And if her face had been fully lit, would that expression feel as strong? I don’t think so - especially because… look at her eye. Look at that tiny twinkle of blood red peering out from beneath her heavy lids and immaculate lashes. That red works because it’s able to light up from within the shadow.
The light instead falls across the lower half of her face and across her chest, illuminating her shoulders and breasts and the gorgeous ornamentation she is wearing. And yes, certainly the light is also used to sexualize her, to draw your attention to her body, but that’s… appropriate for the character, Evelynn is an erotic character by nature and this entire image is erotic. Not pornographic, please don't demonetize me YouTube, but from the smoke curling softly away from her golden claws, to the naked shadow demons supplicating around her body, to the lashers wrapping around her arms, to her outfit, this image is about sensuousness. Sensation and feeling.
So, the light draws your eye to her breasts, and then across the chest to the raised arm, whose brightly highlighted claws has you looking at the lasher. From there to that warm but disconcerting glow as they wrap around her arms, and then perhaps down to the shadow demon gently caressing Evelynn’s thigh.
The beauty here is all sensuous, it’s all sensation and feeling, it’s all imagining what being in this moment might be like, how it would feel to touch the feathery surface of the lashers, how sharp her claws must be scraping against their naked skulls, the touch of dancing shadows - what it might feel like to have someone like this look at you like that.
The Coven skins are based on high fashion, bringing that sense of utterly untouchable, unachievable glamor into a skin, and Evelynn is probably the very peak of that aesthetic approach. She is rendered here like a goddess, like a marble statue come to life. The deeply impractical outfit, with its curved metal detailing, and odd feather structure are expressions of Evelynn’s power - not in a sense of physical strength, but her power to mezmerize, to be beautiful beyond beauty, to present an impossible image. The eroticism is doing the same thing. If you are seduced by this, even a little bit, then she has you.
This is an image of beauty as lethality.
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If you liked this, I have a full video essay on beauty in League of Legends splash art HERE.