Rapid-Fire Skin Review: Street Demons

[@felipecouto1102]

A Zac skin where an artist loves their work so much the paint comes alive is something I didn't know I needed till now. Such wasted potential.

[@drakehellstone208]

Makes it so it is Singed who brought Zac to life

[@Xephyranth]

legendary perhaps? pls riot

[@necrogon22]

You are completely right, zeri woulve been amazing, imagine her with a paintball gun

[@xayahfoffs686]

Quagmire: Oh my god, YES, YES, YES, FIND ONE, YES

[@aquadactyl136]

Zeri will get chromacrash skin. She have a consept design. So no zeri will never get street demon skin

[@JamesDGoins]

Zeri shooting paint? Nah don't be silly, we got her shooting swords instead... (wtf riot)

[@guskiraman]

And her mini twin tails with paint on the tips simulating brushes

[@crittomato7043]

Love when riot skin team fails to make something to work, but i think suits are the ones who demand what skin :(

[@jdizzy192]

Man Briar is basically built for the Star Nemesis line. Let her be The Dark Star's/Morgana's first attempt to create a shadow star guardian ala Akali but the failed product. The pillary housing a star guardian pet thats controlling the body until Briar breaks free and goes on a rampage due to being unstable.

[@markopusic8258]

That would require another batch of Star Guardian lore and considering what the last one looked like... Yeah I still haven't recovered from the travesty 2022 SG ended up being.

[@flameofmage1099]

Yes, Unfortunately I don't think we need more Star Guardian skins (except Redeemed Xayah and Rakan where are they Riot???)

[@imrightbehindyou]

And having her feet out

[@steelsynth]

Fun fact: Neeko is also identifiable as a kappa via the little jug on her head. Kappas traditionally have jugs filled with water on their head in their mythological depictions.

[@bkaneshiro14]

What's more, the best way to deal with a kappa? Bow to it. Seriously. Doing a deep, standing bow to a kappa will make it do the same to you in respect. From this, the water in their head will empty out and will cause the kappa to become dehydrated, letting you escape

[@somo4227]

​@@bkaneshiro14wait those things are evil and they attack you????

[@PapaBearIsHere]

@@somo4227 they're like dolphins, if you know you know

[@kiwivvv]

​@@somo4227they kidnap children lmao theyre menaces

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

​@@somo4227they reach out of a toilet and pull ypu inside out through your asshole.

[@DuskEalain]

What I love about the Mundo skin too is the lore states he's a finger-painting graffiti artist... who's work constantly get overanalyzed for deeper meanings when in reality he just wanted to make something that looked pretty. As an artist myself, I feel you Mundo.

[@chester1143]

A cross between Mundo and Magritte is not something I knew I needed in my life, but here we are

[@TheSneakyVikingJarl]

When I saw the splash art, before reading who they were, I was convinced Zyra was Evelynn and that she got two new skins back to back

[@arukana7761]

Same. I didn’t realize it was Zyra until watching this video.

[@mikonyx7712]

I feel like Riot knows that one of Zyra's most iconic things about her design is her Hair, she always keep that very high, and long hair style that somehow makes me capable of recognizing Zyra almost immediately. A true exception from that for me would be Crime city Zyra, now THAT looks like Evellyn skin

[@flameofmage1099]

I honestly keep forgetting it's Zyra and keep thinking it's Evelynn

[@jayson6360]

we need a pokemon trainer skin for her where she's just jessie from team rocket @@mikonyx7712

[@dark_fusion1288]

Missed opportunity to give this skin line to Nami. A mermaid graffitiing with literal *water colours* would be perfect.

[@smolviolet]

5:27 omg yes, as soon as I heard about this skinline I was so sad Zeri got Immortal Journey instead of Street Demon, it would have been such a good fit for her. She even has that Jet Set Radio style roller skates movement in her animations

[@luckas221a]

she's built like a splatoon character 😂 her and Nilah would have made good fits imo

[@OldandAbandonedHarcorte]

Champions being given the wrong skins is honestly a chronic issue of riots. Garbage like Empyrean Zed & Lux, or Soul Fighter Lux or honeslty most of the faerie court ezreal or broken covenant xayah show so clearly that riot doesn't think about these things. Certain champions would look so fucking awesome in skin lines if you either pick the right combination or put in the time & effort to make something unique enough that it would be worthy of legendary status, but riot consistently shows they don't want to do that and just take darts to a board on who is gonna get skins next with little thought put into who is getting them beyond champions who are popular or who havent gotten a skin in over 2 years. Really makes me worried for when the next skins for Vex & Naafiri Drop cause there are already so many cool concepts (Crime City Nightmare Vex is pipe-dream I always come back to) but I don't know if Riot will have the balls to actually put them in skinlines where they belong.

[@julian-jf2zj]

omg right?? it would've been perfect if anyone at riot games had a working brain cell

[@louisa7043]

They should have switched Zeri to Street Demons and Zyra to Immortal Journey in my opinion

[@Oleandercry]

@@OldandAbandonedHarcorte I can see why empyrean Zed & Lux were weird choices but with Faerie court I feel Fiora looks more out of place than Ezreal. As for Broken covenant Xayah I liked what they tried to do with the hood but overall I don't see how it was a bad bad choice.

[@airiquelmeleroy]

A Taliyah Street Demon would have been awesome. She would be leaving paint graffiti marks on the grpund after sloshing her blobs of paint, while shooting her Q on "painted ground", will make her throw a fully grafitti styled projectile. Her little rocks she leaved on the ground can be styled as graffiti, and her ultimate can have her sliding atop a concrete wall, while painting it with graffiti as she zooms by.

[@anukeroppi]

painting the wall as she zooms over it is SUCH a cool idea, im now heartbroken we likely arent gonna get it

[@TuftyTaltan]

It's like they don't even consider what they can do with the skin line! So much wasted potential...

[@hilmi7811]

For briar, it will be fun if she get pool party skin. Her cuff can be a dolfin float

[@Irgendwann2012]

Singed & Zeri would've been such a great fit! *-* I also think the orange / yellow on Briar's thing is just too contrasting and that's why it looks weird

[@x-nimator9997]

Funfact: Rengar is based on the komaino, an eastern monster that is kind of a mix between a dog and a lion, who tends to guard buddhist or shintoist temples at their entrances in complete silence. Hence why they picked rengar who is...kind of a lion and has the whole invisibility shenanigans going on. Mundo, Neeko and Brand has definetely been my favourites from this bunch.

[@Shabowdiadlo]

Yeah the record for the longest time without a skin goes to skarner..... to the surprise of absolutely nobody 2k+ days strong

[@zileantimekeeper7464]

I mean he is getting a full rework and that goes to all his skins. So it understandable that he wouldn't get skins for the time

[@thegoatjuan1100]

@@zileantimekeeper7464yeah i thought everyone knew that

[@luckas221a]

what's skarner? 🥸

[@shuraizo2877]

@@zileantimekeeper7464 2039 days between Guardian of the Sands (26/Apr/2015) and Cosmic Sting (24/Nov/2020), so way before he was chosen for a rework. Since Cosmic Sting, it's been 1023 days, which, in this case, has the excuse of the VGU.

[@molloch5995]

​@@zileantimekeeper7464 the rework thats gonna release in another 2k days

[@krawek445]

I think briars restraints can be incorporated really well into different skin lines. For example a life buoy for a pool party or a pillory for the dnd inspired skin line, to name two. I hope she gets some skins and wont get left behind like other newer champs (lillia, rell)

[@Catspirit123]

I definitely hope they make more of these. It's a very fun concept that they can do even more with in the future

[@golderon317]

I personally liked this skinline alot, but i do agree, some of the animations really bring the skin down

[@4x4flyingtoken]

Briar will have a great Christmas skin either putting sleigh bells on her lock and a Christmas outfit would match well same with Halloween like an old witch skin or something

[@Lolamy]

I saw a concept of broken covenant briar with the stained glass pillory and now i will compare all her skins to that cause god damn it looked so good

[@BurlapRat]

Zoe would have been a perfect fit for this skinline. I mean her hair alone fits already.

[@corbincorbin1473]

This skinline is totally radical my dudes

[@thoreamoechi3533]

I became addicted to see your rapid-fire reviews, i need help... i just love it so much

[@Ferril21]

Something not mentioned about Neeko is the fact that she also has holographic bowl of water on her head, which is something mythological Kappa also has.

[@CrabKFP]

Now it's my head canon that the Mundo Skin is brandishing a knife to make walls bleed. It makes perfect sense as well

[@nate9030]

Correction: Coven Zyra ALSO doesn't use plants. It uses spoopy ravens.

[@Blu_Moon_Owl]

Like with Soul Fighters, all the bright colors are awesome to see on the skins give them all unique look beyond just the design Also the colors on Brand make have the scheme of a watermelon I just realized

[@Hubblles]

I feel like this skin line is just another "Oh this champ hasn't had a skin for a while, here ya go!" Same with when the Astronaut skins came out earlier this year

[@eyelessghosttv9203]

I think Briar would be perfect for a Pool Party skin. They could turn her ring thing into a floaty or pool noodle and they have a second chance to not focus on her feet.

[@changeling6450]

Im so happy with this skin line, like finally something that is not fantasy armors or japanese skins that looks so close to chromas that sometimes you dont even realise if is new or old skin line, i also like the aestetic of this and i really could like more champs with this tematic, ideas like street demon elise based in the yokai that uses spiders to catch people being a painter that use multiple pencils and spiders to help her out, or literal reworked skarner based in the fish that do earthquakes, imagine a giant scorpion with paint everywhere that literally can paint a entire city in minutes or destroy it and make art out of it, just if we have it (RIOT PLZ RELEASE SKARNER REWORK!!!)

[@KusukusuMonster]

Maybe they'll come out with a counter skin line later down the line of "Street Kami" where they will ad more conventially "good" characters as a rival gang against the street demons like Zeri or Zac. (I know neeko isn't bad but she probably just fit the monsterous idea more)

[@welkin7321]

can't wait to see your review of the new renata skin in 2 weeks

[@di5963]

when i saw the rengar splash i was sure that was supposed to be wukong and i think he would've been more fitting for the skinline too

[@NekolayTheFemboy]

Okay okay, hear me out, million dollar skin idea. Johnny Bravo Mundo

[@demonminer8093]

i really hope this skinline returns, because including the champs you listed for suggestions, ITS JUST A DOPE AS HELL SKINLINE! also, MORE PAINT SPLOTCHES RIOT!

[@fabian2045]

5:22 The same thing happens with the next skin tematic, La Ilusión has way better candidates than most of the ones that they're getting it (most of the shadow isles characters for example).

[@KelsieJG__they-them]

For some reason the "Corki's twelve polygons" joke is the funniest thing I've experienced all week. 11/10 video for that alone.

[@CruelTylerr]

cant wait to see your rapid fire for the new La Ilusion skins

[@spicychickin4789]

Ziggs in the new Day of the Dead skin should be here (throws paint grenades) while Zyra shoulda been in the Day of the dead line (cuz flowers) they coulda been swapped ngl.

[@rowboatcop4451]

I cant remember the last time the new champion came out with a skin line that they didnt feel totally hamfisted into

[@Pokemichael]

I’m not gonna lie when these were first revealed I thought they were space groove and zyra was Evelynn.

[@monelmonelmonel]

Wish you reviewed Warring Kingdoms the same way as this, knowing the inspiration of the skins

[@gowontheconductorofdeath1016]

Zyra’s coven skin turn her plants into birds!

[@TheShurimanPigeon]

Honestly the only criticism about this skinline is something TB Skyen had mentioned. For a group of street artists, their outfits are too clean. Especially Mundo. Some paint splashes here, ripped clothes there woulda made this line a 9/10 for me. Though as it is now, still 8/10!

[@tyresepitts7594]

It feels like street demons and chromacrash take place in the same universe due to how similar they are

[@artonprenga3791]

ZAC WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT FOR THIS, HE LITERALLY COULD'VE BEEN AN UMIBOZU MADE OUT OF PAINT

[@shogunstreamer9811]

Yet another missed opportunity for a Lillia skin where her branch is a giant paintbrush that she swings around to splatter paint with

[@Ofxzh]

Kha’Zix skin where his mantis blade things are turned into paint brushes, and his lore is that he’s good at copying other people’s styles and adapting them into his own art, yet for some reason he can’t seem to get copy Rengar’s. Thus leading them to try and rival Rengar.

[@Devinix314]

Briar's Shackles should've been a Boombox

[@xanithdegroot5407]

Street Demon Zeri using a paintball/spray paint gun would have been cool. And Immortal Journey Mundo could have fit him. At least you could turn his cleaver into a sword. Fits better than Zeri did.

[@pumpking1278]

Mundo could have had a trowel Also Zac could have been a legendary, where his blobs he picks up are all diffrent color, and when he does pick them up they mix with him, so you would change color during the game.

[@רוןבלומרוזן]

I think they should make a sugar rush skin for Briar and have her thing be a donut

[@rubiconprime1429]

How about a fiddlesticks that a collection of those Yo-Kai that are possessed thrown away objects, but the objects are all discarded painting equipment. One of his arms could be a long handled paint roller, he head could be a breathing mask, but the extended bits are where his eyes go, I’m sure some artist could have a field day coming up with everything.

[@colinchasteen8987]

Rengars skin is based on the nekomata a cat yokai that are very aggresive towards humans usually eating them for their lunches.

[@Whatzitooya226]

pool party briar boutta go wild with the built-in floaty

[@boomerhater1449]

I also agree that Zeri would fit this so well, but I think her gun should be a spray paint can

[@Happy_Tunafish]

Ah yes, 175 days since Mundo's last skin 👍

[@Avivasaur]

Sometimes it feels like they make the skinline, throw the best fitting champs in. Then fill it with the new champ and some champs that haven’t gotten skins in a while. You can justify most champs in most skin lines but that doesn’t mean you should.

[@ender1546]

- Does he think the walls bleed with paint? - Yo, he probably does 😂

[@DerangedDurain]

I'd love a Vex skin for this line. Her shadow could be one of her graffiti creations that follows her around on the ground! It'd be a perfect way to incorporate her shadow into a skin without having it still just be her shadow.

[@AikuraVTuber]

I CANT WAIT FOR THE LA ILLUSIONS RAPID FIRE SKIN REVIEW. YIPEEE

[@CptApplestrudl]

Looking at the splash art, Rengar's tail is indeed a paintbrush. It just looks nothing like it ingame :( Personally, I could see Anivia joinging the graffitti skinline as well. Imagine a whirlpool of color, her Q is a ball of paint as well and her wall is a big graffitti tag as well.

[@wastingsun]

I have to say: Riot is ALLERGIC to making a skinline where all champions feel like they fit...Rengar...just...why Rengar I don't understand-

[@aidenhaluska251]

Hearing SF6 Ken theme throughout the video gives me the PTSD of fighting him

[@RavennosLoLs]

This skin line was made for Zaunites (and the lack of a single gun wielder is insane when they’re all spraypainters. Hek Vandal Twitch already exists like this!) Definitely agree that it was made for the wrong champs, minus Brand. Kinda makes the divine Zeri look even stranger since she would be perfect here instead of completely out of place in the last skin release.

[@14Ghost14]

Riot has something in their rules that makes all skin have a recall where something is appering of thin air

[@cennix]

My main complaint about these skins is the champion choices for the skin line, like what are these choices lol??

[@TrueKirb]

Briar's only problem (pillory looking off) gets fixed by her obsidian chroma in my opinion. But yes, this skinline would've been better on other champs as usual.

[@jennings4951]

This is a serious problem with league skin design team. Maybe it's the exec's making the call, but they have to prioritize a champion quota or fall along with metrics when they make a creative skin line instead of looking at champions that would actually value these skins. Time and time again we've seen the wrong champion in the wrong skin line and its really sucks. There's so much more that could be done with this idea if given the opportunity and right champs.

[@xXEndermanManXx]

As a rengar main I’m so mad about him getting a 3rd LPP chroma

[@daydreamies]

i just wish they would've spun neeko's color palette into a different direction. it's more lizard-y/kappa-y... and that's about it. if you don't zoom in, it seems very same-y for her in terms of colors, even if they're swapped around a little on a model to fit the skin

[@tronixchl2004]

You know when i think of street art and monsters the first thought in my mind are the Noisw from The World Ends with You

[@animepenguin7254]

I for sure would’ve and still would get caught by Kappa Neeko lol. Her and Briar skins looks so cool. I love graffiti and mythologies so I love these skins all around but Zyra could’ve been better but does look great

[@DrSabineVT]

The record for longest time without a new skin is Urgot. From fucking early 2012 all the way to summer of 2017. He's the only champion in the 2000 days club

[@LinkinKable]

Better fitting champs Vlad(paint instead of Blood), Cassio (Paint instead of Poison) , Nilah (a big Brush instead of Whip) , Bard (spray cans to collect)

[@donnysss]

i think its cool that the street demons skinline was given to exactly zero(0) demon champs

[@justmeh3000]

They could have briars shackles like a one of those paint thingys that you use to put your paints on it has the shape for it

[@miuiruma2932]

Briar should've come out with the La Ilusion skin line

[@Headchrusherdeth]

Fun Fact: This is the first Mundo skin i'm seeing since starting league of legends. I started league of legends before mythic items were a thing.

[@dauntlesstark9850]

we needed zac AS the street demon

[@MrSmilykid]

I can think of 3 skin lines that could tie first place for a mundo skin

[@Daftanemone]

Holy fuck the sfx for brand are sooooo good

[@basil8026]

Rengar feels like a left over from Lunar Beasts. Zyra's splash is top tier, but her in game could be better. Brand is great but needs an ASU. Neeko's is good, however her concepts for this line are better than the final result IMO. Mundo and Briar are... here for some reason? We could have brought in Zac, Singed, Zeri, maybe even a legendary Jhin skin?

[@FrosteryGaming]

Bro. Remember the concept art for Chromacrash Singed on Wild Rift? That would've been perfect for this skinline or Ziggs or Gragas

[@lighthawk3720]

Bro how did he not notice the hologram jug on Neekos head. Thats another key to her being a kappa not just the backpack

[@mortystraphouse5077]

the brand ruby chroma is amazing

[@etheron1235]

After reading the comments in this video, it really reminded me of how Riot really make a ton of missed opportunities

[@tjarvennetz7061]

Honestly, I am disappointed by any skins that aren't the new coven skins 😅 but these are something new and cool 😊

[@ConeMann]

they should make a theme based on european avant garde imagine futurist Jhin

[@OldandAbandonedHarcorte]

Skinline is held back so hard by which champs got skins, and riot's hatred of their designs having any "Mess" to them As was mentioned in the video, Rengar just doesnt fit well into this thematic at all, and Mundo & Zyra suffer massively from the designs being just too clean, being signifcantly more concerned with being cool & trying to stick to how the champs look normally than doing something interesting with them. Briar is the one exception where I think Nicky is wrong, I personally think he as a Jiangshi is really neat even if it is chinese as opposed to the japanese Yo-kai of the rest. Brand & Neeko look stellar although they only get issues from the other problem so let's talk about that. Skins & Champions having no "mess" to them is really frustrating. It massively hinders this skinline because everyone just looks so perfect despite working with paint, and not just any paint, but graffiti styles and unconventional means of creating that graffiti, as someone who has spray painted only a few times before, I can tell you that sh*t gets everywhere if you're not really careful, and these guys arent using controlled spray cans, theyre using shit that looks WAAAY more messy and disorganized, especially Brand. This lack of mess also extends to champions because a lot of champs (Sylas, Kai'sa, and most recently Briar) don't have scars of any kind on their body, at least not on the in-game model which is hilarious and yet so saddening because scars are such a good way to communicate what a character has been through, and plenty of people find them really attractive, which Im unsure how riot doesn't understand considering every Kai'sa skin is just her with a new cosplay on. Yeah this need to keep everyhing clean as hell really hurts these skins, as even small paint splotches which are barely noticable from the top-down angle would make the skins have a lot more character to them. As they stand they deserve the relatively average score of 7, not as average as cosmic blandness ofc, but still held back by riot's incompotence. And yes, all 3 of the champions nicky put forth as suggestions would've been amazing additions perfect for the skinline, but riot is too chicken shit to have basic common sense when thinking about this, I'm 100% sure you could've adapted the others Yo-kai thematic into all three of them. Zac would make a great paint oni (Even if I hate fighting him on rift)

[@queenidragon4489]

I feel like Mundo's knife was a missed opportunity for a good palette knife pun because he could use his knife as a his palette

[@ponywaves5867]

a nagakaboros skinline would be cool

[@mydadslefttoe6981]

Nah imagine poppy with I giant paintbrush

[@TheTruestZero]

Only Brand actually hits the jackpot on this, which isn't a high bar to get over but I applaud the effort for the fire trails be like grafitti. Aside that it's either "Yeah it's cool... I guess." to "Why is X champion on this skinline" type of deal.

[@mysticfeal]

"Yeah, let's give Zeri an Immortal Journey skin instead of Street Demons, makes sense.." - Games, Riot

[@JohnnyGarland]

Since you mention floatation device... Pool Party/Ocean Song/Whatever new summer theme Briar when???

[@diversquid4793]

Why are they so clean? You are tellng me Mundo was careful not to paint his clothes. He should have a hand painted on one of his butt checks because he scratched it while having the whole hand painted or something like that. They don't look like grafiti artists, they look like models posing as artists

[@vinobi3199]

So Briar = Jiang Shi Rengar = Nian? I think Zyra = Red Oni Mundo = Blue Oni Neeko = Kappa Brand = Will-O-Wisp Kinda want more of this skinline in the future

[@tamathory3750]

I think the Mundo skin would work better if the weapon they where using was a literal paint bucket, that they both swing around with and throws at enemies. Think would work instead of a random knife.

[@basedleafeon3221]

Personally speaking I feel like this skinline could've been released further more ahead, and wait for the new artistic midlaner Riot talked about to make them part of the skinline as their release skin rather than shoehorn Briar into it.

[@jokerpandroidc9807]

you're right neeko was perfect for this (and taric,zac,zeri) yet her animations wasnt realized to their true potentiel like most of the others but briar is just 👌specificly her ult ,also most of the recal animations were good and beter but briar is 👌👏

[@seccsycabbage2979]

Brand is genuinely the only skin in this skin line I genuinely enjoy. The others just feel way too sterile.