Riot Games using fan arts for Wild Rift in-game icons

A recent controversy within the League of Legends community has brought this issue to the forefront, as fans have accused Riot Games of allegedly ‘stealing’ fan-created art for the introduction of new champion icons in the Wild Rift Patch 4.4.

In this forthcoming patch, Riot plans to introduce new champion icons, two of which are centered on Zyra and Evelynn. However, the astute eyes of some community members immediately identified the artwork used in these icons as eerily similar to existing fan art. These fans contend that Riot has essentially taken this fan art, made slight alterations, and is now offering the modified images as in-game icons for sale.

What further complicates this situation is the claim made by yet another member of the community: the original artists supposedly never granted consent for their artwork to be used as official icons within the game.

According to reports, these artists contact with Riot Games to explore potential resolutions to this dispute. Intriguingly, this incident is not the first of its kind involving Riot Games, as the company had been previously accused of using fan art without the artist’s permission in the creation of in-game assets.

A notable example from 2021 involved allegations that Riot had utilized artwork from various artists to create the “Playful Pup” emote for League of Legends. This matter was eventually addressed by the game’s developers, and former game director Jonathan “Bellissimoh” Belliss acknowledged the error.

He also explained that Riot frequently collaborates with external artists when creating in-game icons, which introduces the possibility of some artists passing off others’ work as their own in attempts to have it featured in the game.

The response from Riot Games regarding these allegations is still pending, leaving fans eager for an official statement. As the controversy unfolds, there is a reasonable expectation that Riot may opt to remove the contested icons, thereby navigating the delicate terrain of intellectual property rights in the world of digital art.

Few champions in League of Legends, which has over 160, are as well-known as Lux. She can be performed in a variety of ways, making her quite versatile and a simple champion to play, especially for beginners.

She has the most skins of any champions because of this. She still lacks a Coven skin, though. This specific skin line has a color pattern of crimson, violet, and black, and its lore is entwined with that of other skin lines, such as the Old Gods and te Eclipses.

And if you’re curious as to what it might resemble, Reddit user MinagamiWasTaken shared fan art of her interpretation of a Coven Lux skin on Twitter and Reddit, complete with Lux’s skills and a changed state.

The fanart seems to be inspired by the lust and the dangerous crimson red of Coven Evelynn. Her light staff now turns into a bloody aura that flows around her, the Lady of Luminosity has now become the Child of the Royal Blood.

The old gods are beings that live somewhere in a specific parallel world. A group of witches only known as the Coven worshipped them and subjected them to their total control over the entire universe.

According to some reports, the Coven skin line was created to compete with the Eclipse skin line and was inspired by the above tale. The old gods were actually slain by the eclipse warrior after Kayle provided them with the necessary tools.

Although it’s not official, it will be fascinating to see if Riot can connect a Lux Coven skin into the narrative because the fan art is absolutely stunning.

With his great passion for the Pokemon world, recently, an artist has drawn some champions in League of Legends into Pokemon characters.

Ahri, Vayne and Akali

The first is Ahri, Vayne and Akali. While Ahri transformed into Pokemon Maniac, Vayne became a Pokemon trainer.

Akali will transform into policewoman Jennie. Jennie’s gentle image is far different from Akali’s image.

The LoL champions Pokemon Trainer version

A series of champions in League of Legends will transform into Pokemon Trainer under the skillful hands of this artist.

From left to right are the designs of Catlyn, Teemo, Jinx, Lux, Ezreal, Zoe and Neeko. The above designs bring a completely new perspective. Not only that, the above designs also bring enjoyment to those who love Pokemon.

Sona, Annie

Sona and Annie appeared with a very cute image. While Sona transforms into a nurse, Annie plays a Pokemon Trainer.

Rocket Team

The famous villains of Pokemon are also incarnated by the champions of League of Legends.

Kayn, Yuumi and Katarina will be champions who will transform into 3 members of Rocket Team.

While Kayn kept her cool style when she transformed into James, Katarina was very suitable for Jessie.

Yuumi will be Meowth. It seems that this Meowth is an alternative version with blue skin, and it is difficult for us to recognize Yuumi without the appearance of the familiar book.

The Rocket team logo has also been changed to the Baron team to better match the champions in the League of Legends.

Hopefully more and more unique designs will appear to help us have a more vivid view of the champions very familiar to us.

Art

This account has named the game mode as Friendly Fire

Specifically, this account has the idea that this game mode will revolve around a champion’s skills will have an effect and effect on all objects, regardless of whether it is an enemy or an ally. .

This is similar to Bard’s Ultimate can affect all objects, now the range and number of champions can use will be all. Imagine Thresh tossing a lantern for the ADC but the ADC flash instead clicking on the lantern, the opponent’s Garen can also click the lantern and enjoy the armor of the lantern

In addition, this account also recommends a few interesting cases such as healing the opponent, or pulling your ADC to you. Or when you were too bored with your team but they all stubbornly decided not to FF, you can push your turret to help the enemy win faster, …

Healthy and balance, I feel that I’m angry -_-

This idea has received a lot of positive feedback. They think that Friendly Fire could be a great and groundbreaking regime. Hundreds of comments below are difficult situations that can happen if this idea is learned by Riot Games.

Yuumi’s tail is covered with a watch, the magnifying glass hangs behind the hat while her face is covered with sharp eyebrows, a mole is inspired by Marilyn Monroe and a fairly long scar runs across her nose and cheeks.

The magic book is a notepad containing information about the case and suspects photos attached by colorful sticky notes.

The highlight for the magic book is a glossy picture of a mysterious footprint embedded in an open page.

Snyder has previously designed many different skin types for the Detective line and regularly updates the process and acknowledges the community’s comments.

Initially, the idea was implemented with the Yuumi Flapper skin with the photo album, Yuumi Tuxedo with the Death Note, the Street Yuumi with the torn newspaper or the Detective Yuumi with a simple design and a notebook, but they all took inspired by the 1920s Mafia theme. After accepting the opinion, Snyder narrowed the redesign to the detective Yuumi skin.

Snyder has designed a more colorful set and the small details are quite interesting such as handcuffs attached to the hat or donuts at the tail.

Yuumi, apart from the Battle Academia skin, has yet to receive another skin, although it is still popular in professional tournaments.

Hopefully Snyder can update the animation for this Detective skin, before Riot Games creates a new outfit for the lazy cat.

Recently, freelance artist Bradon Le introduced a new champion named Zyren Kaos – Captain & Bounty Hunter.

This champion had the appearance of a butcher, equipped with strong armor and only showing silver-gray hair. His weapon took the form of a half-wheel-drive and two thick armored armor and red eyes hidden behind the mask.

Bradon Le has put a lot of effort into creating the champion’s image, with two hot and cold color versions and a lot of different shaping for every detail of the champion such as the equipment on the back, clothes, weapons and the true face of Zyren Kaos as well as his spaceship.

Although very detailed in the drawings, but Zyren Kaos has not completed the skill set as well biography.

Through sketches as well as a few description lines of the author, Zyren Kaos is a bounty hunter.

Zyren Kaos – has somehow gathered the souls of the people he chooses to serve his battleship. Zyren Kaos is daring, doesn’t care about anyone, just needs to achieve his goals.

Though only outlined, the Zyren Kaos project is receiving positive attention from the community. Hopefully soon to see the complete images from this interesting champion.

Toh-Na has the skin of indigenous people living in the mountains, easy to think of the land of Pocahontas.

Toh-Na’s outfit is quite simple, blue represents the tree element, yellow represents the earth element and rubies attached to the skirt.

The rather large hat studded with bright orange fur reflects the power of the sun, confirming the role and power of the Sun Goddess.

Toh-Na’s weapon is a mace in the shape of a stone pillar that the Aboriginal people often make fires for prayers.

Her skill as judged by the community is still not very reasonable when all are AOE skills and have quite strong accompanying effects.

Skill Q: Toh-Na swung her mace in a semicircular direction in front of her, dealing damage to all enemies within range.

Skill W: She slammed the weapon forward, causing a concussive shock (which may cause slow or stun).

Skill E: She summoned three stone pillars to the target location, stunning all enemies in the center of the affected area.

Skill R: She sets up a altar in a target area, dealing continuous damage to enemies in the area for a short duration.

Although the skill set is too strong, but it’s undeniable that the image of Toh-Na is quite impressive and interesting.

Hopefully, Riot Games will consider this Concept by artist Dinulescu Alexandru as a reference for the upcoming champions.

After Pantheon was rework, although the strength in the League of Legends has not improved much (because players it is still in the process of learning a new gameplay), but aesthetically, Pantheon is one of the works the most successful art Riot ever created.

From the storyline to the creation of a war god, all players love it. And when it comes to Pantheon, the gaming community can’t ignore Leona – Pantheon’s former friend in the old plot.

After the rework, the story of Pantheon has been changed to make them enemies, Pantheon has an enemy relationship with Leona because of hatred Solari, but the Pantheon couple – Leona is still supported by players.

Therefore, although Leona’s play is still good, the champion’s appearance is no longer suitable when placed next to Pantheon. Not letting the community wait long, artist Vincent Tran has released Leona Rework and is rated by the gaming community as a quality work.

Splash-art of Leona Rework fan-art version. It is easy to see that this work is in the same tone as the new Pantheon, and Leona also wears a hat that covers her face to resemble Pantheon.

Although viewed from behind, many gamers claim that Leona in this work will definitely be very sexy, as she shows off her bare back with the symbol of the Solari.

Leona’s face is covered by a hat that has many similarities to Pantheon’s hat

Soon after witnessing this work, many gamers also called on Riot Games to plan to edit the appearance for Leona, because in reality, this champions has also debuted for a long time but she appearance does not change ?

Although not too outdated, if compared to recent remakes, Leona’s shaping has also become obsolete. However, Leona is still lucky because she possesses a lot of beautiful skins, typically two real Lunar Eclipse / Solar Eclipse skins.

Valkhar painter released the Gravelord Pantheon, with a mysterious Dark Tone. Especially in this Fanart, Pantheon also has a face with silver hair and dark blue skin.

Overall, Pantheon carries a shield with the face of a hellish demon and a spear made from cold steel. Both head weapons emit light of spiritual fire. The skulls and faces of demons are the main highlights on Pantheon’s armor. The hat revealed the glowing spiritual eyes that made Pantheon’s face scary.

The skill effect is designed based on the hellish color with the light blue of the soul and the dark green of the demon soul. Skill Q – Comet Spear will release a spear of glowing spiritual fire

Meanwhile, E – Aegis Assault will show the skull effect of the shield and spears that are released from the virtual shield.

When using the Ultimate – Grand Starfall, Pantheon’s body will glow with a raging fire, the spear is thrown from the ground to the ground, and represents the replacement of Pantheon – a giant skull that will fall to the ground.

Thanks to this work, Valkhar has received a lot of compliments from this idea. However, it is still a legendary saying: this is just a Fanart work, so we can only see this skin set on the drawing.

To help the ADC players get more excited, come to the beautiful skin ideas of these champions created by the community artists!

Valor is gone, and this is the costume of Quinn the Black Crow, you know what that is

Even Quinn’s skin changed in this outfit skin

Unlike the usual dusty appearance of Cowboy skin group, Jinx Cowgirl is quite funny

There was Pug’Maw, why we could not dream of this Kog’Maw Boar

Elderwood Kalista

Pool Party Sivir