The full-length Kai'sa rant [CC]

[@artursolich6539]

At this point TB Skyen should create another channel entirely dedicated to roasting Kai'Sa's design

[@HeroADI1]

Yes he should

[@godfii]

@Daniel Dermawan if that would ever happen the TBSkyen Kai’sa change would be known as one of the best character arcs in history

[@aberrantreptile]

I’d watch that

[@IsaacIsaacIsaacson]

TBKaisen

[@virginoyster]

I dont get why shurimans be even scared of her when they have baccais along with them, and they keep monster lizard pets

[@LuluiCarlo]

That father and monster-daughter dynamic would be AMAZING

[@alejandropetit6573]

I REALLY want that to be the canon lore now

[@bigbananae]

heartbreaking, like nasus and renekton

[@dizzyheads]

I would actually stop banning Kai sa for that but since she's too new for a redesign sadly it won't do

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Yeah.

[@markoselendic9633]

YESSS

[@timothymclean]

Kai'sa is literally a walking metaphor for Runeterra's conflict with the Void: A bunch of neat ideas that never go anywhere because Riot only progresses narratives when they can tie some sexy new champion or skin to them.

[@VanK782]

Preach

[@alucard5841]

Rior doesn't progress anything because they want the game to last, riot is afraid of running out of ideas for the lore.

[@professionalgiraffe]

I thought that about the Shadow Isles too, and then we got Viego.

[@nagecohlas]

@@professionalgiraffe The whole ruination/sentinals of light event feels to me like it didn’t really do anything except sold skins, which obviously has nothing to do with lore. Viego just kinda appeared, did some bad guy things, got sealed away, those who got ruined just turned back to normal anyway and it’s not like he’s gonna leave any political or mental impact on the world. He feels like a plot device villain for the good guys to beat up more than anything, which sucks since he had a great story and lot of potential

[@tesnacloud]

@@alucard5841 Riot also doesn't want to have to figure out ways to drag Runeterra's aging body around for more story after the initial ones are resolved. See World of Warcraft, Halo, or most superhero stories. So instead they have a giant stasis tube holding Runeterra, which they occasionally graft new bits onto.

[@TigerKirby215]

Kai'sa and Ashe living together Rent-free in Skyen's head just trying to get along... And then Seraphine moved in next door.

[@timothymclean]

Now I want a TB Skyen fan to draw a silly comic/write a silly fic about the housing complex where LoL waifus live rent-free in Skyen's head.

[@essneyallen6777]

And TB is the downstairs neighbour who has to deal with Seraphine's sleazy marketing schemes, Kaisa's angsting over her beauty and... Ashe doing... Welp I got nothing

[@skinnylegend1542]

@@essneyallen6777 Sonas marketing schemes weren't lazy they made her a whole ass twitter and 4 songs

[@donedonefree6828]

Still mourning the fact that Riot didn't make Seraphine a political activist. Piltover's structure is so fucked up that it's frankly ridiculous that nobody's trying to change it.

[@essneyallen6777]

@@skinnylegend1542 "sleazy" is a word...

[@gokbay3057]

"at least make it interesting porn" LMAO Skyen is such a poet

[@asz-themoonwalker2771]

TentaclesANYWHERE, tail, somewhat Kha'zix evolutions on her model. Anything so she doesn't look like human in fetish alien bodysuit.. he is right xd and we all agree

[@evangardner8960]

Favorite line in the video.

[@dino0075]

I think Riot tried to make their own version of Samus Aran, but they couldn't figure out what makes Samus' character so good.

[@acat4215]

Funny thing is, if Samus wasn't unmasked. People can't tell if she's a woman, due to her armour. Hell when I was younger for the longest time I didn't know Samus was a chick.

[@Stad122]

@@slayeroffurries1115 To be fair, that's because Samus is mostly facing off against giant horrors far from humanity. It's really portrayed in Metroid prime 3, where there's a spaceship full of stocky giant armored humans, and Samus is standing head and shoulders over them.

[@alexs5814]

Must have been the THICC shoulders^^

[@Loispealz34]

You mean the badassery, the armor, THE BIGASS ARM CANNON?

[@NyJoanzy]

@@Loispealz34 works for Mega Man too.

[@AllYourPals]

overwhelming desire to find out exactly what skyne classifies as quote on quote "interesting porn"

[@isaacsaunders6860]

Biosuit

[@bloodwire7152]

I guess the answer is hidden in his twitter

[@albertlofling7310]

honestly anything that isnt hourglass. I mean he gave jinx an S. implying she is even close to the perfection of fiddlesticks and jhin primarily because she is a stickfigure and not the base standard

[@kimmmmm871]

You know, tentacles, hentai monster stuff

[@biggiewiggie5557]

@@albertlofling7310 I mean, Jinx IS the first real deviation from the norm of League women, so it makes sense, even though she just has smaller breasts. Her tattoos add a lot of personality, same with Akali imo (why Skyen also gave a lot of praise for her redesign, so maybe he's into tattoos too?)

[@deadlydonuts07]

Kaisa wearing makeup could've actually worked if her design was any way competent - a desperate attempt by her to look more human and "fit in", have it be a little messy and wrong, trying to cling onto SOMETHING human. Or have it be immaculate because she spends so much time learning because it's her only way of expressing her humanity. Only works if they give a single shit about her design, you can't try and have her desperate to be human while looking completely human and normal 🙃

[@timothymclean]

Like if she wore eyeliner because the eyes are the only human part of her face she has left. And the eyeliner is messy and blotchy because she's improvising eyeliner out of void goop instead of going to the mall, because the Void doesn't have malls.

[@rafaelsousa2633]

How can she be shunned by her countrymen when she is hot af?

[@codebracker]

They jealous

[@jackbishop8610]

Snow Women in Japanese myths

[@toheekang174]

They are based. That all

[@ToasteBlade]

“At least make it interesting porn” I’m deceased lmaoooo

[@Mikey-ve6wd]

Bro had me dead there! 🤣

[@bislimbrahimi4795]

Why did I expected this to be 14 minutes long?

[@lonerimortal8]

why it's not 14 minutes long?

[@mrcopycat2355]

It is much longer in his original channel, about 20 mins

[@C4lmaria]

That's the director's cut

[@rasmusmalmberg6468]

He's had like 50 minutes of roasting Kai'sas design and all of it has been straight fax

[@masonstandal5254]

Also, she's supposed to be Shuriman, but she looks British and speaks with a british accent. Shurima (like all of the regions) doesn't have too much of an accent across all of it's characters but come on, at least make her look like she's Shuriman.

[@NoticeMS]

It's a south african accent tbf, which would be more fitting. As for looking british, she just looks causcasian, which is also common in SA. The design still sucks but this ain't it.

[@QtPieMarth]

I don’t have a problem with her being pale in a sickly-type way, I mean how often does she realistically see the sun? But at least give her non-Caucasian features to go along with it. Also to your “British” point, at the above commenter pointed out it’s a South African accent, and they make even more reference to her being South African in K/DA, such as her speaking Afrikaans, she’s just a _white, Dutch_ South African, so yeah....

[@Dingdong2730]

I dont think her look is more European than middle eastern, she isn’t too far off Samira. Samira has more Brown skin but KaiSa probably isn’t out in the Sun that often. Also Riot has a Strange relation to accents, it really doesn’t make much sense to be fair. For example lets compare Viktor, Jayce and Caitlyn. Caitlyn has a distinct British accent while Jayce has an American one, even tho they are literally from the same city. It gets even stranger that Viktor has a russian accent, even tho no other champs in that region has that accent.

[@pauloazuela8488]

She's Icathian to be specific

[@LordValdomerol]

Accents are all over the place in Runeterra, isn't even worth it to try to make sense of it. Pantheon has a thick Greek accent, while Diana and Leona don't, despite being from the same region. Fiora and her family have a French accent for no discernible reason, while the rest of the demacians don't. Braum has a Russian accent, and the rest of the freljordians don't.

[@bobbobby475]

Actually tho the Kai'Sa monster and Kassadin hunting her would be a sick af story line.

[@lunaticbaku7097]

Those last few seconds are how I feel about Viego: "I WILL WRITE THIS SHIT FOR YOU, RIOT! COME ON!"

[@georgesdragon8722]

What exactly do you mean by that? Just interested in your opinion on Viego

[@lunaticbaku7097]

@@georgesdragon8722 To put it simply, Viego as he is written and designed now, is the wrong design for his current role in Runeterra. His release cinematic sets him up as one of the biggest bads in the realm, it showed him laying siege to basically the entire planet, and yet he lacks the aura of a villain, be it a pure evil villain feel or a sympathetic villain feel. In edition, Viego as he is now leaves some pretty big holes in the lore, such as where the black mist came from, how he figured out how to command the black mist, and why he attacked places across the world with the black mist. Yeah he wants his wife back, but what does invasion and destruction of the living world have to do with bringing back his wife? On top of that Viego is so angry all the time, even when talking about his "beloved" wife, that I don't buy the idea that he loves her and would go THIS FAR to bring her back. He's a child throwing a tantrum over his favorite toy being broken which doesn't fit the fact that he is a king who's obsession with overcoming death, defying all natural laws to do so, brought ruin to all those around him. In summery, Viego is a toxic piss baby. That is what he is designed to be and he does that very well, but the toxic piss baby archetype you see in bad romance novels and what the ruined king was set up to be throughout years of lore and teasing are incompatible. Also, this is unrelated to his character design but it is something I still want to complain about: Viego's gameplay doesn't fit with what he is, both in terms of him being the ruined king and him being an obsessive toxic piss baby. The possession of the fallen for your own gain is more of a manipulator's thing, someone that sees the value in every enemy they fight and knows how to take advantage of that value to fight others. Viego as he is now is an egotist who sees everyone as beneath him, so why have his gameplay revolve around a (not at all functioning) gimmick (that totally breaks the game in terms of future designs and balancing) where he brings himself down to the level of those he sees as beneath him? Feel free to reply with any thoughts you have on what I have outlined here. I love a good, civil, intellectual conversation :P

[@georgesdragon8722]

@@lunaticbaku7097 Sorry for replying so late to this comment and i have to say, I agree with everything you said! he is definitely not what I or anyone else expected from the ruined king, portrayed as the ultimate evil that rules over the black mist and faces everything in it's way head-on. He IS a "toxic piss baby" as you described him, perfectly that is, and plays the role of an assassin who likes to sneakily oneshot people rather than overwhelm them with the cheer power he posesses which in my opinion would have been the way better way for his design? Of course, it would be the typical stereotype of the arch nemesis who has been used in many different ways already (Aku in Samurai Jack, Lich in Adventure time, the other lich king in WoW (at least as far as I know, he does fit that archetype of an "evil overlord"), Sauron in Lord of the Rings etc), but that is the image almost everyone had in his mind when imagining the ruined king. I assume they wanted to "challange the stereotype rather than embracing it" as Skyen would probably have said it, but the spoiled brat we have now was definitely not the right choice. To adress the plotholes: I am not sure if we should already discuss the unexplained stuff because we are at the very start of the ruined king storyline, which is a longer chain of events that will ultimately lead to the fight against the ruined king and (hopefully) explaining all the missing holes along the way. So yes, they did leave a lot of stuff open and questions unanswered, but i am bold enough to assume Riot will explain all of it at some point. As i said earlier, i agree on your view on Viego's gameplay: it doesn't really fit. I personally would have loved something like Swain or nasus: a slow walking behemoth that orders others to do stuff for him or, if necessary, does the job himself and annihilates his enemies if they dare to stand in his way. Or, if we keep the playboy model aspect, at least puts an armor on to charge into battle and release his anger by brutally massacring his foes rather than beating up people with a slightly too large stick whilst dressed like a biker that forgot to put on a shirt "on accident". Edit and PS: Thank you for inviting me to a conversation so kindly, not a lot of people do this kind fo stuff these days, which makes it even more wonderful to encounter someone that wants to discuss his opinions and views on a certain subject without instantly being offended or using insults to substantiate their point. So yes, i gladly accepted that invitation and am thankful for it :D

[@lunaticbaku7097]

@@georgesdragon8722 Glad to see you are also a fellow who enjoys civil conversations :) Another thing they could have done with Viego is to play up the tragedy of his lose. They could have made him a classical greek tragic hero: a man born of nobility with many great aspects to him, but ultimately brought down by one tragic character flaw. Imagine if it wasn't an assassins blade that killed his wife, but a natural disease that no doctor could stop? And Viego went on many bloody campaigns in search of a way to give his wife at least one more day to enjoy the pleasures of life? Imagine a Viego who wanted total world domination so he could rewrite the natural laws and grant the blessing of undeath to all, so that no one has to ever say goodbye again. A respectable man with respectable goals, yet he brings ruin to all around him all because he can't except the fact that sometimes people are taken too soon. As for gameplay, I feel making him a mobile fighter would be a good way to separate him from the other resident dark lord, Mordekiser. Plus it would help this supposed jungler to actually do his job. Personally, I think it would be cool if the mist had more oomph to it. Make it something that enemies fear to step into. like is enemies in the mist took extra damage based on max health or current health of something. as long as enemies dread stepping into the mist as much as the people of runeterra fear the mist. And, since I'm spewing ideas that may never be noticed by anyone outside this comment section, why not make it so that the mist was EVERYWHERE! Like imagine if Viego being on the rift caused the harrowing to roll up into the game. Like the shadow Isles are invading the rift. I have no idea how this would work or be balanced, but it's more "ruined king" than what we got :P

[@georgesdragon8722]

@@lunaticbaku7097 I love the greek tragic hero idea! That would fit him so well! Also, let me just say that I like the way you think good sir. I am also an admirer of more "unique" abilities. (The next part is a bit unrelated to Viego but hopefully still fun to read) For example, I made another youtube comment talking about how another interpretation on Aurelion Sol could look like, because I believe his current design doesn't really fit in the game. Yes, the idea of a celestial star-dragon-god-thing is one of the best I have seen, but why is all he does just swirling around with stars, moving stars and sometimes knocking back enemies? I don't like the idea itself, i just don't think it fits him. If he IS a huge allmighty star-dragon-god-thing, he should FEEL like one. His character model would just be an "avatar" he chose worthy of using on the mortal realm and his ultimate makes him vanish from the battlefield, ascending to the skies right towards the players camera and makes him be able to, let's say: casting huge spells (think of meteor showers, huge rell-like ultimates or a collapsing star that needs a long time to finally im-/explode, but is a hazard towards the enemies but also your team, which would make it a very unique zoning tool and gives Asol that "I don't care about any of you mortals" feeling). Plus, the animation of him ascending towards your camera can underline his power even more! He would take the place of the summoner, showing off his true might, maybe saying something sassy like "scoot over, summoner, now it's MY turn!" or "Did you really think you are the only one that likes looking down on others?" and also showing his hands on the left and right side to make it really feel like you are in his POV now. So yes, as you can see i am a huge fan of big ultimates or similar stuff and agree on the craziness of flooding the rift with mist. Viego has the power to posses the mist, so he should show it off in a better way than just shrouding himself in it. In a way that let's the enemy team think "okay, we need to respect that thing". I suppose the best way would be a similar thing to Viper's ultimate from Valorant: a damaging field that zones both the enemie's and his team, which would also show how little he cares for others. How strong that field would be and if it would make zoning too strong is a question on it's own, but you could definitely make something along the lines happen and it makes me sad that Riot seems to just overlook these crazy ideas for the sake of probably in-game clarity and toxic behaviour of your teammates, because of course that can easily be used for trolling your own team by zoning them off on purpouse or something similar. But still, i think Riot could definitely try something more crazy than the more basic/generic things they put out these days. Other examples include Yone and Rell, which i had high hopes for but turned out to be a bit "lame" if you know what I mean.

[@Oscar-j6b]

Also if that "protection" on her arms and legs is as thick as the model suggests she has a really bad case of chopstic limps.

[@NeverWhorget]

I guess the suit is eating her alive.

[@Oscar-j6b]

@@NeverWhorget I think it is more likely the designers are trying to compress her model to the standard female body they use. You can see in Female Champions they try to compress their body even when tehy have armour on them or put armour that doesn't cover the the form. Or if they decided to make it that the costume eats her she just looks like she has robot arms and I can't remember voice lines where she or someone else remarks on it.

[@pauloazuela8488]

@@NeverWhorget lore wise it is if she don't kill something for the void's nourishment she's basically like She venom

[@Oscar-j6b]

@@pauloazuela8488 there is a she venom? They literally just called it She venom. Who makes those names?

[@pauloazuela8488]

@@Oscar-j6b it's just Venom who had a female host.

[@theonetruedonut]

This video basically expresses how I feel about a lot of champions. It feels like they prioritize they characters looking attractive rather than storytelling.

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

Seggs sells

[@silencedhero7953]

One of the reasons I love Dead by Daylight character designs is because they aren't scared of giving the characters scars, whether it's on their body, like the spirit who has her leg and arm cut off by a katana, or something simple, like a face scar, like on David, who is someone who constantly got into fights when he wasn't within the Entity. Once again, check out the character designs there TBSkeyen, you would love some of the character designs there. Edit: Never got so many likes on a comment before... don't know how to feel about this. So thank you :)

[@lyg483]

The Spirit is sooooo good for being that simple

[@catfoodsminmo]

Oh yeah DbD is great at character design and they’re not afraid to make “ugly” women. I mean look the the Plague, the Twins, the Hag. That being said I would be really curious as to what TBSkyen would think of the Trickster if he was interested in dbd at all lmfao

[@silencedhero7953]

@@catfoodsminmo I was honestly thinking about how he would react to the trailer video for him the other day, especially how crazy he went with True Damage and Quianna's earings moving.

[@demowott]

Yesss he should really look at dbd character design

[@silencedhero7953]

@syao When I was mentioning scars, I was referencing how league is usually scared of adding scars to characters, such as how Sivir is a treasure hunter who in her lore experiences near-death adventures, yet she has the body of a swimsuit model. League has always had an issue with giving scars to characters where it would make sense. Dead by Daylight isn't as afraid, because they have Spirit, where her entire arm and leg are chopped of by a katana, Twins shows a hole in her chest where Victor resides, and Hag, who is just a mess. So in the long run, the scars thing was just showing the difference between the two games and how scared they are of showing off scars, dismorphed bodies, and when they use beauty.

[@NireFuster]

Kai'Sa's design is one of the few that I think exemplifies perfectly the problem most of the playerbase has, it's not that characters are hot, because trust me people probably find EVERY character to be hot in League, yes, probably even Skarner too, the problem is that the character design not only makes absolutely no sense within her story and the context of her character, but it goes AGAINST what the character is. She's supposed to be fused with a void creature and have void creature like characteristics, but she literally looks like Kayle if you took off the helmet, the wings, made the spandex suit black and grey and gave her purple accents. Is purple accents all it takes to make a void champion now? People would've LOVED a monster-girl type character, she's still technically human but she's got all these parts of her body that are modified and fused with this void creature that at first sight you can't quite tell _what_ she could be, such a missed opportunity it makes my blood boil, I would legitimately be disappointed in myself if I was the person designing Kai'Sa and either I decided or whoever is in charge made the choice to make her a boring, generic hot babe in a spandex suit. Her entire character design and her story are completely separate things and feel like completely, vastly different characters. And it's not even the fact that she's hot, because a lot of people will cry and shit their pants about ''durhh you just hate attractive people'' and that's not the point, the point is that her entire character design goes against the character's themes and story and makes absolutely no fucking sense.

[@magi1340]

Hey! I know it's been one year, but it's me, I'm the person who finds Skarner hot. We.. Hm, *I* exist.

[@zore5872]

So i went to read up on this character and i have no idea if this is accurate but from what i got is thatbshe is a survivor and over coming the trauma is why she is so humanoid and her weapons are the way they are. Sje does have a helmet and from what i saw even her cleavage gets covered up. She is kept as human like as possible to show that she has conquered her past and the void that dispite everything she has made a human out of a monster, or rather her humanity will always shine and break through the void. As for make up, it can be seen as something more ritualistic rather than just secks apeal, war paint in that she puts it on in order to show that she, as a human is not feral, is cognitive. Humans use make-up not monsters... also humans use weapons like guns not tendrils only monster use something so far gone and that's beneath her. She has taken them and forced them to be her armor and weapons in a way thats not like them showing that she a hunan has hunted and conquered. Heck you can say her secks appeal (cleavage), she looks good like a model or cosplayer and voids don't look good imo she refuses to be uglified by monstrosities.

[@chronomirageYT]

Wait, kai'sa wear make up now because she want humans to accept her so she has to look humanly as humanly possible, she is trying her best to make her "void skin" look like a suit and......nevermind riot sucks.

[@NeverWhorget]

The void provides high quality make up material.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

At least that could of worked.

[@PK-xc3qr]

@@NeverWhorget kai’sa in the void: thank god for the Sephora tho

[@NeverWhorget]

@@PK-xc3qr LoL. Maybe Kai' Sa can sell her own brand of void make up. Technically she has a monopoly of them.

[@badconnection4383]

Voidaline Because I'm worth it.

[@LgMONSTAa]

Fun fact: in game she has more voice lines about the honey fruit than she does about her own father.

[@rara2ra2yrra3racjj2]

I love everything about this. Each point is on-point, and yes, I would love to see TBSkyen's redesign.

[@warlockstudios8545]

I know he said he wasn’t big on the idea “of trying to one up” the creators with redesigns, but I agree he desperately needs to do a redesign of Kai’sa.

[@xenon3741]

You can feel the salt and rage in Skyen's mouth, cmon Riot fix Kaisa's design so Skyen can sleep peacefully every night

[@cartoonishidealism582]

I doubt they’ll give her a full character design change but best case scenario she gets an updated look in Legends of Runeterra that at least looks SLIGHTLY more rugged and creepy

[@CapnJigglypuff]

New Channel: TBSkyen Mediums

[@scarletred616]

When a one Character ruins a man's insanity

[@DR3ADNOUGHT]

had a stroke trying to read this

[@timothymclean]

TB Skyen's insanity was great until Kai'sa went and turned him sane. shaking my smh.

[@CJ-nv6ju]

I do find it pretty funny that league of legends has monster characters in it seemingly trying to entice monster fuckers but then it fully bails in the chance to add Kaisa to the list despite the fact that it would make her design way more interesting and cool

[@coldsobanoodle7407]

Really wish they went the Samus powersuit route where the suit was more armor-like. With that you could make her look even more like a void creature utilizing the helmet. Furthermore as this armor in an symbiotic relationship with Kai'sa make it where she can't remove any of it

[@aldagrim9659]

“AT LEAST MAKE IT INTERESTING PORN” I couldn’t agree more lmao

[@drewblackmatter6669]

i love how i tried to mention to some people about her comic showing a man being afraid of her and said,why would he be afraid of her when she doesnt even look monsterous to begin with?, and people respond with BS like: WeLl sHe HaAS vOiD wEaPoNs sO oBvIoUsLy PeOpLe ArE sCaReD oF hEr, like dude imagine if they did something similar to Fiddle or Noc,these guys wouldnt be NEARLY as scary,but NOOOOO, because Kai Sa is pretty obviously her design is good right? WRONG!

[@kiddo6393]

I somehow knew this was coming, not gonna lie Edit: WOW that neck is long Also, Skyen I'd be genuinely interested in what you'd write for her

[@niak5648]

He'd write the InTeReStInG pOrN

[@Rockzilla1122]

Long neck is to appeal to the Chinese market, not kidding

[@abrarnoorani8385]

Literrally just make her masked look her normal look and just add some claws and ridges and maybe animate a tendril or two off of her back and then boom, significantly better design

[@volaalov6254]

Sad thing is that Riot will never address Kai'Sa's design.

[@peri2656]

Waiting for longer version

[@yolosilvia2005]

There is on his channel an almost an hour version of it, or do you want more?

[@makehappyfaces2542]

He's got an even longer version internally but I don't think his blood pressure could handle expressing it

[@peri2656]

@@makehappyfaces2542 lmao ty

[@warlockstudios8545]

@@makehappyfaces2542 I’m pretty sure he’d pop a few blood vessels mid way, before his disappointment killed him.

[@neomence]

As much as I love Kai'sa gameplay wise I have to agree so much with your critic on her design. It could've been such an interesting design. But hey maybe (which will probably not be the case) she gets a design rework or maybe at least a skin which would make her more relatable to her lore since we are getting more and more lore inspired skins (IF Riot would do something with her lorewise -.-)

[@eduardoizaguirre9881]

Since Kassadin is using artifacts to stall void corruption. They could do a "Made in Abyss", by making the story about how what the artifacts are actually doing. Basically, Kassadin has been taking on the full "curse" or corruption of the void while his daughter Kaisa gets the "blessing" or benefit, with the artifacts magic reading (or misreading) it as the best way to fulfill his wish or their function . Only way I could think of to explain her design.

[@TallTailsTales]

🎩 🐺 You passionately ranting about how more important narrative immersion shown through character design against the common "Make them fuckable" route just GIVES me LIFE! I'm so tired of every character being non-blemished, flawless, hot, or cute for that sake rather than it having anything to do their personal, history, or narrative weight/reflection. I'd like my champions to be actual characters, not "Runeterra's Next Top Model", thank you! ❤️

[@HienPham-ow5ky]

I agree with this so much 💯👍

[@lordskyline9766]

Damn, I love to hear you rant about character design. I also love you fangirling about art. You could rant about your coffee beeing to cold this morning for an hour and I would watch that. Please keep up the good work

[@MadBenYT]

I feel like a cool design idea for her would almost be to go in a female venom type of thing, really amp up the symbiotic suit and monster aspects

[@trymv1578]

Her skins reinforce this entire rant, too. Kaisa lore: "Fem-Venom!" Kaisa skins: "SPANDEX! oh and some rocket.. things, we dont know." I blame the character for being the beginning of the path of the weeb Riot is now deeply entrenched in.

[@makehappyfaces2542]

I like to come back to this video every now and again. I find it cathartic.

[@hasmhas]

I wouldn't be surprised if the driving force for her final default appearance was the release/plans for KDA

[@warlockstudios8545]

She was right before the breaking point before KDA completely invaded the design process (at least it appears so). I mean unlike with “the creature that must not be named” she at least had a story other than money grab.

[@diegosaez4885]

@@warlockstudios8545 you mean Lord Moldybutt?

[@chimeraarts2372]

You know your story is Swiss cheese when strangers on the internet have more compelling ideas

[@J33zas]

holy shit this is so much better than what i expected

[@WeebJail]

oh my god her face is literally scarlett johannsen idk how i never saw that before

[@kadensmith5594]

"I'll write this shit for you!" Lmao

[@Yes-TheRealOne]

I avoided watching this full length rant for like a month and now that Ive seen it, I regret avoiding it for that month. This ended up being the best thing I've seen in awhile

[@CasualEnjoyerofMostManyThings]

Oh yes, I'm here for this.

[@TheIrrelevantYT]

Imagine a Kai'sa and Rek'sai joke interaction where Kai'sa says "Ugh, I don't need to hear that from you, mom!" or something silly like that.

[@diegosaez4885]

Considering that based on her extended bio she also lost her mother in the earthquake that started her story (that Kaisa cause herself as a prank to a passerby nomad), the implications of that dialogue would ignite the playerbase for good and bad.

[@TheIrrelevantYT]

@@diegosaez4885 Oh snap, I didn't read the lore that hard. Huh, well I guess my joke doesn't really work in that case.

[@voiavictor]

Me when I listen to TB Skyen begging riot for good character design: "Aaah, the negotiator."

[@firstprimehunter]

FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT I was SOOO excited when this champion was announced but extremely disappointed when she was revealed. At least we got bel'veth I guess...

[@92ospe11]

So nice to hear someone agreeing with what I've always thought about Kaisa

[@bipbopblep]

As a Kai'sa Main, I enjoy nothing but hearing TB Skyen talk about how awful her design is because on one hand, I agree and on the other, I love to hear him get so passionate about his hatred for the lack-luster design.

[@crazedhumanoid5701]

That moment when the shorts channel creates a rant video more than 1 minute long

[@MeLlamoBauti]

Now draw her getting a proper design that fits with her story

[@booyahgenius]

this pfp fits so perfectly with this comment holy shit

[@yomommah6866]

@@booyahgenius fr tho! But to give them the benefit of the doubt, I'd actually love to see him and the artist he asked before tackle Kai'Sa like they've done with Ashe!

[@donarthunaraz9361]

Or change her story to fit with her design in game.

[@MeLlamoBauti]

damn this comment is old. As far as I know,this guy likes to draw and dislikes kai'sa model (I do too) so I genuinely asked for it

[@scottsbarbarossalogic3665]

I was expecting this to be 30 minutes

[@alannatherson7721]

Let's hope she gets the Arcane treatment sometime in the future and get an actually good design and an amazing story.

[@nopemang4356]

I felt the exact same way when she came out. I was like... really? All these years later and I still can't get behind the design.

[@HienPham-ow5ky]

I agree 💯

[@Greenwren]

It's not even Xmas but I'm still able to roast chestnuts over an open fire thanks to TBSkyen. 🤣

[@leavemealone802]

"At lest make INTERERSTING CORN!" I love this phrase so much

[@leftifornian2066]

Everyone hates corn with a story, it’s a fact

[@ogliara6473]

I always loved the idea of Kai'sa being a battleworned warrior who cared a lot about trying to maintain a sense of human beauty (in whatever form) because it's the one thing still tying her to the life that she never got. Let her express herself and her sorrow.

[@xxOnigiri99]

You should do a bigger video about redesigning her like you did for Ashe. You know, things that would focus on different part of her design

[@theseekerofdankness959]

I don't mind the sexy design but at least, AT LEAST make the VOID SUIT scarier, like she is literally wearing the skin of a eldritch being like c'mon

[@jellopuffy2974]

One thing that I hate about kai'sa's design, is the fact that she can upgrade her abilities, but her body just illuminates a bit? Like she could've gotten thicker and bigger suit parts, but they decided to just make her a bit brighter? Why can't her wing cannons become thicker and longer when maxing Q+W???

[@zyibesixdouze4863]

Khazix spoilt us on these progressive abilities, because Viktor should've gotten these on his update too

[@cannoneermike]

I would LOVE another redesign video for her!! You guys did so well with Ashe it would be interesting to see how you do with Kai'Sa

[@invernofuyu2542]

I need more of this, it's like air, can't live without

[@taryth.]

The main problem seems to be the contradictory description of being monstrous when she just looks like a regular human in a bodysuit. Her visual design is very appealing to the audience, but the game lore is trying to bash us with "shes a monster" when you can't really see it. I think something like "Harbinger of the Void" would fit better, if they really wanted people in lore to be afraid of her. Like where people see her appear, and then the void comes to consume everything, and they don't see her fighting against the void, and it becomes a huge misunderstanding she can't actually reverse.

[@roastingnerd8545]

if she'd be more monstrous or even just give her something worthy to be "feared, this can tie up to dare I say Jhin's design, cuz if they do it would make things clearer to the lore of the void, give her a unique body structure that is very recognizable, and gives her an extra visual narration of her story.

[@ijk7Seven]

@TBSkyen Shorts: Thanks for including subtitles

[@Ben-md5mj]

"IM THROWING THIS SHIT OUT FOR FREE RIOT I WILL RIGHT THIS STORY FOR YOU CMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON" great line

[@W7RSON]

Ok Riot, just hire Skyen already.

[@FenrisRM]

so glad we got the fullversion lol

[@psachickennugget8617]

And another thing, you can clearly see how thick her legs are and yet all that MUSCLE is covered up and I hate it

[@aptalsandvic5355]

We love the Kai'sa rants, give us more!

[@leafygreen8524]

You can also tell how important the void symbiote is to riot when they realized they can shove her into practically any skin by completely ignoring the fact that she normally has most of her body covered in everything past the release skin... which also kinda ruins the point of the ctrl+5 toggle.

[@kacecrimson8297]

art is in an annoying paradox of needing money to reach millions, but money also stifling the creative process. and thats why I go to indie art where shit can get mad weird

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

If she kept the helmet on all the time we wouldn't have this problem

[@nedeuz7198]

Now this is the reaction I was expecting! All of the points made in the video are perfect and I could not have said it better myself!

[@coollightcoollightmeltdown12]

I like kai'sa a lot but I agree with what you said and I think she deserves better than to have a stupid design that doesn't allow her to be the ruthless hunter monster girl that she is supposed to be

[@KnightMysterio]

Scream from Marvel Comics, I think, is the perfect way to do a mix of sexy and monster. Kai Sa was a perfect opportunity and they wasted it.

[@lordpower1]

The man literally spitting most of the reasons why I hate her I really wish she had void infection or look less pretty to show what she went through fighting the void

[@sailorenthusiast]

Kai’sa’s design is so bad that I keep forgetting that she’s apparently supposed to be Shuriman.

[@tylersamuels4438]

Wow the idea at the end was amazing and I'd love to see them do something like that

[@brunobotelho4502]

I remember when Kai'sa released I made the same rant to my friends. At the time we all shared this opinion but she was just a hiccup in a roster of increasingly good champions the game was adding. We moved on. Nowdays, as I finally stopped playing League after ten fucking years, I see Kai'sa as the beginning of the changes that plagued the game till today and will just continue nonstop. The chinese industry makeover. Where the ruined king is finally revealed to be an edgy white haired gothic e-boy with biker leathers for clothing and unnecessarily scattered pieces of armor that clearly resembles chinese /korean MMO's Aesthetic, despite saying to the public his design was inspired by early spanish noble fashion, lmao. Where they stopped releasing monstrous characters for life, and when the community started getting mad about it they told us they were going to release one a year, and this year's release was Lillia. LMAO. When the ruination event completly ignores the characters that are cannonicaly important for the mist, like Yorick, Maokai, Hecarim, Mordekaiser, Kalista, and so on, cause they are less popular and wouldn't sell k-pop skins. I guess one could make a point about 'monster-no-sell-skins, hot-chicks-and-eboys-do-sell-skins, Rito-Games-is-Company-Must-Sell-Skins'. yeah, I get that. But League did not became the game with one of the biggest player base in the world but worrying exclusively about what sells. They became a huge hit creating Anivias, Gragas and Cho-Gaths. Maybe they don't sell enough, but they made the game enticing. And now, with this shitshow I finally gave up after 10 years. I'm not trying to sell myself as important among million other players, but I do hope in the long run I'm not the only one. I do hope that after Tencent keeps screwing things over it becomes clear that not only popularity on sales makes games what they are. It is just a piece of the pie and sometimes you have to compromise. PS: I'm not even going to ramble about power creeping for sales. That's just the other 50% of the shitshow.

[@hopekeeperscott1399]

This is absolutely The Best channel i've found about league, it's the first time i see someone with the same takes on designs i have, thank you so much for this content lad, i feel perfectly represented.

[@halbarroyzanty2931]

Even if they wanted to make her an immaculate hot babe with a skin tight body suit. They could've at least given her a mask or something? Anything to make her feel even slightly inhuman

[@soul-5]

i wish Riot did what you said with kai' sa. damn she would be one of the best characters in league

[@renzbaluyot5953]

Kaisa will forever be proof to me that they will always appeal to the straight male gaze and are cowards on doing anything aesthetically monstrous to their female humanoid champions

[@snowycatmsm2786]

Illaoi...Lissandra...Cassiopeia...Evelynn...Elise...Kalista... ANY FEMALE YORDLE... Shyvana...

[@THRAKORZOD]

Hey my straight male gaze is lookin at reksai like 😳

[@colinblosch9709]

@@snowycatmsm2786 the only valid ones on that list were illaoi, kalista, and the yordles. everyone else you listed is hypersexualized

[@snowycatmsm2786]

@@colinblosch9709 lissandra Ain’t hypersexualised.

[@colinblosch9709]

@@snowycatmsm2786 Maybe not to the extreme sense others are though. That’s besides the point though, the point is that there’s way too many female characters in this game who are sexualized. The fact that some aren’t doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things. That’s not to say they don’t do it with male characters, but the extent to which they do it is significantly less. I can think of maybe three off the top of my head.

[@enoeht]

I live for TBSkyen's Kai'sa rants

[@FenixPlateado]

Kai'sa is peak missed opportunity and honestly I never get tired of you ranting about her. Keep up the good work man.

[@TSarczuk00]

"At least make interesting porn" is probably my favorite line from TB.

[@deutschesinferno3078]

I could listen to this man rant about Kai'Sa all night long...

[@birdenthusiast6798]

I keep coming back to this because everything you say in this video is just so 👌👌👌 the wasted potential is enough to drive me crazy, how could they be so unimaginative...

[@j.bat.8235]

TB Skyen losing his sh*t about poor design choises by Riot is one of my new favourite things on the internet and I'll never be more grateful to the algorithm for having me stumble over the Swain short a few weeks ago

[@_Aarius_]

that end rant about possible story would make for a compelling season of arcane (or some other similar show if they wanted to keep arcane as hextech/piltorer/zaun)

[@luckylosers2601]

Maybe her suit heals her? Maybe? Could it be like a venom symbiote? Where it heals the user but is still a parasite?

[@igorprzybyek9973]

Its not important, as long as it is obvious that she is just sexualised with no reason

[@MousaThe14]

Everything I felt about her debut in a nutshell. Fantastic.

[@Sunlite.]

Wow, that is a Story I would buy.

[@gamingdragon1356]

Its actually kassadin who is unrecognisable.

[@kobyUchiha]

I completely agree with the whole makeup thing, however, I do have an argument for you. In martial arts, most people wear skin tight clothes made of flexible materials so that they can move freely and give opponents less to grab onto. I think she should be rather skinny, if not very skinny because it's mostly the symbiotic creature giving her the power to push back at all. So, a slender nimble frame with a creature that boosts offensive property, on top of being in constant combat, she should be rather skinny. That being said, she should have like... Jinx's cup size due to her constant movement and optimization for hit and run combat. Most endurance athletes have extremely low body fat and it would add to her aesthetic as a void creature. Slender arms and legs with a mask can be scary when done right.

[@Killroy007]

But like.. Its a void creature It would be a painful/gruesome process of them binding. Make it like teeth or tendrils grabbing into her skin, make her a malnourished looking humanoid thing thats defined by her incredible perseverance, which in turn could be a plotelement as it is what gives kassidin doubts, that it may actually be his daughter.

[@kobyUchiha]

@@Killroy007 No arguments there. But as they stated, it is a symbiote. Maybe it wasn't that bad (that binding process) Although I argue it probably was. But either way, malnourished and gaunt looking is probably better for conveying her void upbringing.

[@Killroy007]

@@kobyUchiha they also stated that she needs to kill void monsters are the armor will start to consume herself. Meaning its not really a cooperation as it's a ceasefire.

[@kobyUchiha]

@@Killroy007 Oof. I missed that part. Even more reason to make her skinny/lanky. All that constant motion should produce a lean mean void consuming machine!

[@endi5780]

I just want a fucking monster champ man

[@DR3ADNOUGHT]

dr mundo rework and that new yordle champ are the closest things to a non-human champ we're going to get for a while