Rapid-Fire Skin Review: Anima Squad (Wave 2)

[@Combat-Titan]

Can’t wait for Riot to make more new bee skins with legendary Queen Bee’Veth or some shit so sire Nickyboi can show how truly unbiased he is

[@madnard8744]

bee veth is actually a sick idea for a sckin. like a huge honeycomb with a bee head becomes a full ass mix between a hive full of wasps

[@NickyBoi]

I never once been biased especially towards the bee skins this is true

[@rcbinchicken]

YOOOOOOOO I got clean but I'll start playing again if they make bee'veth

[@TheSuperskadoosh]

omg bee veth sound so good and like she has to be like a quen who carries her hive maybe? her little spawns when she get herald and baron cna be tiny bees

[@animagkrasver9872]

@@madnard8744 Bee queen from Don't Starve

[@japhettheprophet4619]

RAAAAAAH AATROX PEAK 31 TOTAL MINUTES OF DIALOGUE ON ONE CHAMPION WHAT THE FUCK IS AN ULTIMATE SKIN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HE ALSO IS BASICALLY OLD AATROX RAAAAAAH

[@ynewnco896]

Cringe

[@thespectator18]

I LOVE AATROX GRAAAAAHHHH

[@frozenburrito2.087]

IT LOOKS GOOD RAHHHH

[@bucketato5195]

Seriously, though? Why must they tease us, by making his sword look so goddamn much like the OG, when he wasn't a slow-swinging murder machine, but an elegant, refined and nearly perfect murder machine that got reworked for no goddamn reason?

[@TheDarkinFaalix]

@@bucketato5195 it had a reason,it was bad

[@boothil]

The only complain i have with Leona is that she could use the Lions Lament weapon that is in the Swarn mode in her recall to add a little a bit of lore since you know Diana is dead AGAIN

[@cayoticsgaming2328]

she is? wow

[@CornRaked]

Dianas my goat when it comes to being dead in random skin lines

[@sirbobulous]

Can they truly be called gay if they don't get buried?

[@hotroden4439]

Deserved

[@alexursu4403]

You mean we could've had a zombie primordian hybrid Diana ? Man, we were robbed !

[@sammy_hammy6409]

"Now that riot keeps forgetting Rell exists" 2:29 God I felt that as a rell otp

[@sirbobulous]

I am patiently waiting for Rell to make it to Wild Rift. That steel cavalry silhouette is just too cool to not make it to the game!

[@HyperPico87]

real

[@tymunster]

Proud Illaoi-in-every-way-except-gameplay fan

[@cpttyson]

Yasuo sound like the "Can we have Von Lycaon ? No we have von lycaon at home". Also yes i need the real wolf yasuo

[@kyuzairen5383]

I don’t understand how furry yasuo would be more cursed then wolf ear Yasuo when it just looks like he’s wearing a headbang which just seems WORSE

[@2lazzzy25]

3:33 Brian had 🗣💯🔥🔥🔥

[@alexcat6685]

Brian? Who this? Briar's brother?

[@SingingInferno]

The editing in these is always some of the funniest content in this entire community.

[@teodoor5469]

Cassiopeia smash

[@worminaround]

Don't say that in front of her father. He won't give up his child for just a random stranger.

[@miguelMickSummer]

There's this one Aatrox voice line where he hints at having a speck of simpathy for humanity but he just supresses it, kinda neat

[@arnebanane147]

At 2:49, if you look really closely, you can see that the shadow of Briar looks like a shark jaw. I don't know if it is in her base form too or just this skin, but I think it looks funny.

[@tehphoenix7441]

1:22 Furry Yasuo was the only option. Also we all are already in hell.

[@rubinrobo2265]

I think Auroras teasers made sure she won’t be forgotten instantly. She also has an insanely fun playstyle.

[@x-nimator9997]

bnnuy is the only good new champion released this year until ambessa comes out no smolder ye were a failure, and skarner is a rework he got elevated

[@bug6620]

@@x-nimator9997 good is a bit of a stretch

[@ethanstyant9704]

Except for her ult. Fuck her ult in swarm it ruins the champ

[@jinxshadow5218]

Primordian Briar actually made me love a champ I didn't really care for on release. Similar to Pentakill Viego. Sometimes reintroducing a champ from a different agle really makes a difference.

[@mindnut3354]

This skin-line definitely had a unique feel to it. It’s nice and eye-catching with animal aesthetics and colors. Especially Yasuo’s; the fact they made him butler-themed like the original Battle Bunny Riven is cool. PS. Is just me, or did Nickyboi get a new mic?

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

I’m a big fan of Vampire Survivor so Swarm being Riot’s take on the game is right up my alley and I love playing it. The skins however for me are meh. They are all fantastic just that they are for champs I don’t play or rarely do. My favorites though would be Yasuo, Seraphine, Leona, and Aatrox. They all look really cool to me and I like playing them in Swarm.

[@jhinwick5251]

Aatrox and his harem of monster girls

[@LordBanana0]

The worst part is that in swarm Leona uses the solar/lunar eclipse animations and her skin looks beautiful, and then riot proceeds to go and sell the skin with her base animations

[@fernandogonzalez6759]

1350 rp bro, you can't expect more of the indie company

[@Lolamy]

wait so the skin in the swarm mode uses legendary animations but it doesn't use them in the base game... that's gotta be some type of false advertisement 💀

[@cutepapaya4224]

3:30 "brian"

[@alexcat6685]

3:34 Briar:"here's my brother Brian, amazing at tech and maybe a little to coocky in the head" Brain:" I like Trains." Brair:😮

[@hasterpl4285]

3:48 POLAND MENTIONED

[@MrLittleman606]

While I love illaoi getting a skin that fits her more charismatic personality, I have to say that I think she would've made more sense being on the enemy team. The first skins were all fighting SQUIDS and she's a champion that summons tentacles. She could've filled in the spot that Briar has a as a boss ( which I don't really understand seeing as she's one of the "good" guys).

[@MrLittleman606]

The similarities to space groove also make me thing we may never get a space groove illaoi now which is a bummer.

[@meepmorp7142]

Exactly my thoughts! Illaoi doesn't have to be a "good" guy most of the time Riot! Maybe they were afraid it'd be similar to Void Bringer?

[@mystireon]

you know things are bad when Leona mains meet new skins of any kind other than Legendary with groans. She despirately needs an ASU

[@theso6ever]

BRIAR SKINJ YESYYEYSYEYYS STREET DEMONS IS CUTE BUT IVE BEEN WAITINGGG FOR SOMETHING ELSE THIS SIPERFECY I MCRYING MY SILLYDREAMS CAME TERYUEUa bjkdGH

[@josephpolymilis5331]

I'm surprised Nicky didn't talk about how we could've had Battle Dinosaur Illaoi referenced in some design concepts that had the tentacles be Trex tails

[@NordicDragon1337]

Okay that Yasuo skin is cool, like the suit and purple colours :D

[@eagercadet4059]

Your slander at Leona's prestige skin made me laugh

[@theborg6327]

3:00 I remember seeing somewhere a riot designer saying that "briar feet are a very important part of her character design" so yeah i dont think our gril will ever wear shoes

[@SansTheClassic]

Kinda hoped they made Warwick the battle wolf instead of Yasuo. It could've been cool as he could be an experiment made on an elderly soldier of Anima to counteract the Primordians, infusing the feral nature of the enemy into a human, thus making him a super-weapon. But the experiment would prove to be a failure, because he would become too uncontrollable, due to the Primordian nature taking over in-combat. It would've have been a cool parallel to Briar and would've also made sense lore wise, cause in the Swarm, Yasuo is found in the sewers and also would match his elderly nature.

[@FlutterSwag]

Oh thats a cool idea, like a protoype to incorporate primordian tech into humans that went wrong

[@SansTheClassic]

​@@FlutterSwagpretty much

[@mindnut3354]

Kinda sounds a lot like Project: Warwick, lore-wise

[@SansTheClassic]

​@@mindnut3354 yeah, but both my idea and project are reiterations of WW base lore. What makes the diffrence is the nuance of it.

[@fernandogonzalez6759]

@@mindnut3354 well... hard to make a lore for warwick when he is just a failed experiment in mostly all his skins that have actual lore...

[@classycthulhu8449]

2:55 DID MY MAN JUST PUT NIGEL MARVEN IN A LEAGUE VIDEO!? I salute you

[@CrispyChrisCries69]

The audio quality is so good!

[@Andrex2311]

Nick really said "I want more unique designs in skins!... unless they are furries."

[@iwouldlikemycoffeewithanon622]

I’m so happy to see that they’re here!!! And we get the review!!!

[@bucketato5195]

The Tentacles on Illaoi's skin are actually supposed to be stolen Primordian Tech, if I'm not mistaken. In "Marooned", she talks about how these same tentacles terrorized her on her rescue mission, forcing her to catch fish with her bare hands (Battle-Bear, everyone) to survive. And on the way, she nabbed the idol to now control the tentacles. In my eyes, the biggest sin here was to make Primordian Briar explicitly mention in the mission briefings that she effing hates shoes... and then putting boots on her. They could've made her feet into fins, since she's aquatic, maybe make those razor-sharp to have her unique fighting animations have even more oomph or gave her toes suction cups (and yes, I know how far-fetched that sounds, but lemme have my fantasies, you have yours already and besides, for advocating oneshot-Briar, you still owe me that much, you little doof ^^). And Aatrox... man, they just couldn't help but rub salt in the wound by making his sword look almost EXACTLY like it did, before he got reworked. This entire skin looks so much like pre-rework Aatrox and it makes me so goddamn mad that we still don't have him back again! Aside from that, it looks cool, though.

[@ksomiak8623]

1:23 we will never get such cool skins

[@fernandogonzalez6759]

have to say... aatrox skin is like rubbing a lemon against a deep wound to me... with all the swords aatrox could have... they gived him a sword with a HUGE resemblance to his old sword... just to mock again in the face of old aatrox mains... cool skin tho

[@mcsy98]

maybe its more like a homage to his old self for nostalgias sake

[@fernandogonzalez6759]

@@mcsy98 for me is just a shoot in the balls

[@FyshGaming]

1:22 rare nicky L 😔

[@ethanbratko2720]

Honestly my only beef is with the game mode. My friends love it and keep dragging me in but all I can think is "where gameplay?" I have 100 games I can play to turn off my brain, when I play League I want buttons to push, snap decisions to make!

[@amandaslough125]

Aatrox is just evil cyberpunk Sidon.

[@galvatorX]

MONSTER HUNTER MENTIONNED very cool video like always 👍

[@SKsuprakirby]

Illaoi pickrate is 3.54% according to Lolalytics, and according to Riot August, it's in the average range. she's not that niche nor unpopular.

[@ricardodias6662]

I had 0 idea there was a first concept for the splash art, and i hate that i love it soo much more than the current one ;-;

[@gegeta8184]

The Name " Battle Lion Leona" is correct i think. The Lion on her shield got a mane so it is male. Therefore the name Battle Lion Leona. XD

[@gunnersmith543]

I don’t like how many skins yasuo has but Battle Wolf is a 9/10 on my book

[@Syrex.Channel]

speaking on an update for leona, on SWARN she doesn't have her original animations (like jinx or yasuo) she has kinda new ones so maybe she will get one after the arcane one and teemo

[@rustkarl]

I was pretty happy with Swarm, in spite of the bugs, and some of the skins are pretty good. I really did like Briar and Aatrox

[@FlutterSwag]

Riven, xayah, and Aurora werent planned to be in the swarm mode so thats why they arent in the cinematic

[@botondnyitrai3128]

People's main problem with Yasuo is how stupid his huge hair looked in the cinematics. It works in game, but absolutely doesn't outside of it.

[@ibrahim5463]

I never thought i will see nickyboy refrence zenless zone zero in one of his videos

[@ocanhaTheEditor]

That's because I was the one doing the references and I'm addicted to zzz

[@animepenguin7254]

I’m glad about Briars story and how she a good guy. I love her skin

[@doineedtocomeupwithsomethi9529]

4:40: Lagomorph, sir.

[@a.a677]

Lmao so true, the moment I saw the prestige of Leona I also thought "that is NOT Leona" 💀💀💀

[@KiuhKobold]

Part of me is disappointed in not getting the opportunity to explore actual animal champions and more champions with animal companions as part of the ANIMA(L) squad, instead getting the cat ear headset squad, but at least Rek'sai, Aatrox and Briar got some neat stuff. I just wish the latter two would stay in full monster form with a command like ctrl+5 or so (like Kai'sa putting her helmet)

[@kent_be_yours]

got so excited with Anima Squad Xayah and Primordian Aatrox, and unfortunately my PC decided to break down lmao

[@shatterIguess838]

The Abyssal Chroma for Aatrox is just Susanoo from BlazBlue.

[@clown429]

Just so you know, they arnt redirecting resources to ASUs or VGUs. Augest said himself on stream that because RIOT fired a lot of the champion designers, its just not worth their time to make ASUs or VGUs that bairly do anything to help the champs popularity. Id love for older champs to get more attention, but there is 0 interest to because they will never be attractive as a new champion.

[@mikonyx7712]

Holy f*ck that's dissapointing

[@amandaslough125]

That is utter BS. There's like 40 champs that need ASUs and another dozen that need VGUs

[@kurjao]

i think this is the first time in a while there was no Jhin 4 cameo

[@n_nash_h]

Ok but as a mage main, with kind of a history of playing sera (mastery 6 pre-new mastery system), AATROX IS SO MUCH BETTER IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY Sera's skin looks and feels like an epic skin compared to Aatrox cause wtf is that beast :O edit: love the summer event too!!! been a while since i've actually been happy to be grinding in LEAGUE of all places with Swarm and playing with friends in this mode is so fun too + new tft set is here too so content is off the charts and i am here for it!@!

[@CherrieJellyBeanie]

No. Seraphine is still better

[@dori523]

Tbh personally I think Anima Squad is Sera's weakest skin 😢

[@n_nash_h]

@@dori523 kinda agree sadly :') but hey atleast some other champs got some love and amazing skins ^^

[@n_nash_h]

@@CherrieJellyBeanie glad you enjoyed it! love her wings when she ults too (and how it was revealed as the mega move in the cinematic too hehe)

[@Scarmanderg]

I love your editing style Nickyboi, what software do you use to make your KZbin videos?

[@Buzk_4]

You can tell that people are very normal about Aatrox when even Dumbs notices that

[@naerolf09]

i like the new briar skin but the sound effect upon casting ult is just waaaaaaaay too quiet i swear sometimes im just farming minions and i just randomly get hit by briars ult

[@leonelgosciniak632]

I don't know why, but youre voice sounds very different in this video... And I love it!

[@diamondhamster4320]

Damn, I see they wanted to make Yasuo into Von Lycaon but sadly did not. What a missed opportunity.

[@4lbfer]

I don't know why people dislike the leona skin. I think the colors look amazing, hair is amazing, the vfx look amazing and the sfx are amazing. About the model I don't see the complains either, I have lunar eclipse leona which is legendary and I don't see much of a difference from this one. I dont think this skin looks stiff at all.

[@victormdcampos]

Hey Nick why don't you make a rapid review on Jinh skins? I'm curious to see ur opinion on project jinh, I think its sound design is nice

[@vergil9981]

as a yasuo main ... im one of the few who can say this skin is not bad , for me is preatty average .... however the idea of finally making a haha funny skin for yasuo and the love and care put into the vfx + the game mode made me buy it honestly ....and i have almost all yas skins but sea dog (and i only regret getting battle boss)

[@naxciej5552]

I don’t think they gave Aurora release injustice. They gave her a whole mini game in client a month before the anima squad event. They gave her the proper spotlight before a big event unlike Nilah and Nafiri.

[@stormstrikerpro]

Still need the real wolf Yasuo skin

[@Regunes]

The briar skin and PVE mod almost salvaged her for me. But I guess they couldn't help it and we still got some non sense...

[@SayShelo]

Leagues future looking bright eh i feel like ive heard that sentence last year and then start of the next year boom lay offs

[@x-nimator9997]

Primordian aatrox is cool cuz it tkaes lots of references to old aatrox :D

[@altarofshadows]

They should go full furry with them

[@alterranlongbow5067]

this video cant be how i learned illaoi was meant to be a bear 💀

[@burningshadowxd7633]

Holy shit Nicky just killed Lewis at the end there oh mah gawd

[@gallanomarkandrea.1787]

As a charge blade enjoyer, I like that joke 🤣

[@susentimental]

But Aatrox's skin does have a new death animation.. the fortnite death animation

[@jasonmiller2379]

i want swarm to stick around, even if we only get it a few times a year, it'd be nice

[@Gamemaster13000]

"Furry *KNOT* furries" Ocanha B Boi, you have NO IDEA what you've just unleashed upon this community! You've doomed us all!

[@ocanhaTheEditor]

Oh no I know EXACTLY what I did. It was intentional. The original idea I had was worse.

[@Gamemaster13000]

@@ocanhaTheEditor You are a dastardly man. >:(

[@lloydbernasol491]

Let's GOOO please make more jeopardy love your content as always❤️❤️

[@animeabe4960]

Prestige leona skin gonna make me act up

[@liteanime8918]

YES the predetor finally got a legendary

[@Rathial]

Glad Briar finally got a skin

[@Armorion]

1:24 "You're going to hell"

[@Tevyycsm]

CHAINSAWMAN AND THE BLACK CHAINSAWMAN

[@MrPonthus]

"Without the pesky love for human life Brian had" huh??? who tf is Brian

[@werst9]

Was Anima Squad always based on Kaiju #8 and I'm only seeing it now cause of the anime?

[@makehappyfaces2542]

Charge Blade mentioned, I'm here what's going on??

[@Orionuki]

I wish naafiri got a primordian skin. Like a goblin shark

[@norsejude7276]

Nicky what are your predictions for the arcane related vgu as its now confirmed to not be viktor or heimer?

[@gstarlight6269]

Aatrox can end my inner world as he wishes. Just saying

[@thoreamoechi3533]

DON'T YOU DARE SAY TO YASUO TO PUT THOSE LITTLE BEANS AWAY, ITS PERFECT!!!

[@IamReyver]

I am going to get obliterated by NickyBoy for this buuuut, Primordian Zac when?

[@falaflani4831]

i know am not supposed to like the prestige vayn i mean leona skin but that splash art

[@BlxckBxbyINC]

new mic? sounds better IMO

[@Natoursofcourse]

not the designer of several furries nickyboi telling people who want the other furry yasuo skin to go to hell

[@rsg_magfire]

Wait, aurora is not a battle bunny? Well, Riven already took the title

[@mcsy98]

a bunch of them share titles with the very first batch like battle bat vayne and battle bat xayah as well as battle wolf sylas and battle wolf yasuo so its not unusual

[@assasin0848]

2:05 Ruby is better in my oppinion, I don’t know if you noticed but during the armor pen buff on critd during ult the entire model glows, sadly the chromas don’t change it, fck riot i will never forgive them for ignoring these opportunities and excuses for not making recolour vfx similar to the star guardian event a few years back and what they did to star guardian akali after the pbe cycle ended (removing recoloured vfx on chromas), Yep I am still salty about that !

[@arvolyptus4631]

the actual furry yasuo skin is actually a money printer. They're so dumb for not making it

[@fishpickle2350]

New sharknado looks kinda weird tbh

[@abelazee]

man I waited for a week just for him to not grade prestige leona

[@srAlephpatinton]

Actually all that goofy legs and animations i feel it so unatural that it makes sense bc he is not natural is a Monster