Janelle Wavell-Jimenez (aka Stellari)
@thejanellemj
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Creative Director, video game consultant (skins / monetization / digital fashion), fashion designer and startup founder. Former: @riotgames @un
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IT'S LIVE. I'm so excited to finally get to share the first (of hopefully many) pieces I've been working on 😍
The garment in that photo is the exact same size and it works from a women's size 4-14 and men's sizes S to L!
Introducing the Universal Cardigan: thoughtfully engineered to be sustainable, gender and size-inclusive, versatile to fit any lifestyle or aesthetic, and functional (SO many POCKETS). Preorder on Nov 17!
Learn more:
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Akali teaching Yasuo how to play League
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This is probably my favorite emote in all of League of Legends.
Sometimes you have those moments on a team where everyone is like: WE SHOULD DO THAT.
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Here's the final skin for Prestige K/DA Ahri:
- We adjusted the splash & VFX to match yesterday's champagne gold color tweak
-
@Sirhaian
worked with our designer
@Xenogenic
to bless us with a gold orb (we've never been allowed to change the color!)
More in the thread:
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3D Star Guardian ad right outside my apartment (it's for Anime Expo) - crazy seeing this in the wild
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Really cool League concepts from Shen YH. I looove FPS and never thought of what one with LoL IP might look like. This artist is so talented 😍 They did that awesome K/DA fan concept for MF/Riven/Lux/Syndra too.
Go to their art station, there's more!
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These splashes are made by a husband/wife power couple! They're so talented, kind, humble and always took feedback well. World-class talent is ALSO being a professional who people love working with <3
Jem:
Alex:
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There are so many bad takes about this on Reddit.
I made 1/2 of what male coworkers made doing the same job. I was bullied by men who tried to block my work and push me out of my role. All of this after KDA. Don't defend a company just because I like LOL. I like LOL too.
Talk about a late-night, end-of-year news dump!
Riot Games said tonight it will pay $100 million to current and former female employees to settle a 2018 gender discrimination lawsuit -- 10x the amount it originally agreed to in 2019.
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Having been a lead on skins, but no longer at Riot: no one on the champ/skins team would take a random Rioter's love interest and use that as a basis for a million dollar business decision. It's annoying that some Riot dude tried to mislead her about what he could do.
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Hey remember that time last year kpop stans who didn't even play LoL attacked me for Ahri's Prestige hair and said I should be fired for such ugly grandma hair and my fashion taste was garbage? The Janellephant remembers.
Thank you Soyeon for your grandma hair.
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In other news, here's the Conqueror Alistar splash! This is the third Conqueror skin I've worked on. I guess I love esports skins XD
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🌭IG HOTDOG YORDLE DROPS HIS HOTDOG WHEN HE DIES AND REACHES FOR IT THIS IS BIG MOOD 🌭
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This also encapsulates why for me Senna & Lucian > Xayah & Rakan.
Look, I'm older and married. I can relate, these are two people who know each other and are still in love after years. They're not all over each other, going on and on about how other girls want Rakan blahblahblah
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SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL
Dawnbringer Karma
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Confirmed with Michael (writer on True Damage): Akali did NOT leave K/DA. We were always working with the idea she wanted to do a side collab. You can see her in a K/DA hat in other splashes.
Kinda like Soyeon hasn't left G-Idle just cause she's working on these projects :)
@SkiptoMyLuo
Can we confirm that Akali did NOT leave K/DA? It's a side collab, yeah? Ya'll kept that?
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While everyone's been staring at Sett's pants, did no one notice this expression on this hot girl's face?
SHE IS ALL OF US
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Part of the process of making a new thematic like Battle Academia is trying exploration. This was an early idea that we toyed with that we couldn't do for gameplay reasons ^_^ Probably too much plus ultra
(potential warning for flashing lights in video)
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Whoa! This is amazing, excited to see this as a movie because the story is fascinating.
Before any of the "historical race realist" people I see on Reddit start going on in my mentions about black samurai, Yasuke was a real person and served Oda Nobunaga (yes, THAT Nobunaga)
Chadwick Boseman to play Yasuke, the first African & non-Asian origin to become a samurai in Japan -
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WHATEVER I HAVE A BOYFRIEND AT ANOTHER SCHOOL
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7 June 2019 will be my last day at Riot Games - almost exactly 6 years from when I started.
I've had a wonderful run, and the last 2.5 years I've been working in my dream job at Riot.
But now I think it's time for me to pursue a life-long passion... (1/2)
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Remember my last baby that I said was still coming out? Looks like it's called "Spirit Blossom" :) 3 years ago, I pitched a reboot to Sakura. It was greenlit. And then delayed. At least twice. I almost stayed at Riot to see it through because I wanted to see it so badly (1/4)
With the arrival of the Spirit Blossom Festival, a magical fawn musters the courage to venture out and uncover the mystery behind her ailing forest.
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Man I love friends like Akali, they really get into helping their pals out with the new profile pics 👌🏽
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BEHOLD THE DOGGO. Don't normally post PBE stuff, but he's the 1st skin I worked on in new role. Team labor of love!
#leagueoflegends
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The Coven is an evil group of witch queens who worship a dark, horned raven god and look to spread His corruption in the Elderwood. My goth queens! 🙇 Finally I got to work on my aesthetic. My childhood heroes were Disney villainesses. ;)
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Last, but not least (saying this so she don't kill me ;)) is K/DA Evelyn Prestige Edition.
We made some minor tweaks on her lasher textures that didn't make it into the PBE Preview in time, but you should be able to try it out in PBE
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I commissioned
@sonwooang
to draw me and my baby girls and baby boy :D I'm sooo happy! His fanart makes me happy every morning so this is just the best. My first thing I've ever commissioned! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
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Hi, I'm an (almost) 40 year old woman and I got to Emerald in
@wildrift
99% solo queue. Yes, I am a masochist AMA
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SSG Skins turn-arounds for Gnar, Jarvan IV, Ezreal, Taliyah, Xayah and Rakan! PBE feedback Boards post coming up shortly. :)
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Higher rez image of the stylised old god of the Coven
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Here is the final tweaked K/DA Evelynn Prestige edition splash:
- Lashers/claws are now blue crystal (now matches in-game model)
- Hair is adjusted to clearly look long and slightly tousled
- Sparkly dress
- Added missing thigh-slit and thigh band
This will be on PBE tomorrow!
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I haven't felt like this for an fictional illustration since 1997, send help pls
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Usually splash art is a team effort w one lead. But the K/DA splashes are unique because 3 artists lent their specialty to each splash (lines, render, lighting)! Team work makes the dream work
Alvin:
Bo:
Pan:
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Thank you for all the art, feedback and friendship! To celebrate, I'll be giving 5 people the full set of "shounen anime" skins when they go live ٩(◕‿◕)۶
No need to follow me, just reply before April 30 23:59PDT with a funny moment using skins in-game! (Details in next tweet)
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omg I've been so fucking hype for Senna for the past year now gtfo Xayah Rakan bot lane
Hail Queen Senna, the Shadow's Embrace!
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Hi all, I'm the product manager for K/DA and we're currently looking through player feedback regarding K/DA Ahri Prestige Edition. We have a couple things we are looking to address, mostly Ahri's tails. Here's what our VFX artist
@Sirhaian
is currently playing with.
Hi!
We've decided to address player feedback concerning Prestige K/DA Ahri's tails (this thread is specifically for her tails), and wanted to show the direction we're considering. This is still WIP! Let us know if you have any feels on this~!
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The Immortal Journey skinline is based on the popular Chinese xianxia genre, which is basically High Fantasy with an ancient Chinese setting rather than a European one. There's elves, dragons, magic users, etc. We watched a ridiculous amount of xianxia dramas and movies lol
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Final tea:
With Coven, there was a belief that Liss & Camille skins "don't sell"
To me it was obvious that their previous robot skins didn't fit their bad bitch energy.
Data should be used to inform decisions. Good skins are made by creative teams who don't always have data.
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Oh good looks like they're changing Kai'sa's hair to what the team wanted all along :3 (this is the banner on
@KDA_MUSIC
atm)
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This was my last skin thematic I worked on as a product lead before I left Riot. We had just finished concept and were starting Qiyana, so seeing everything put together and released 5 months later makes me so proud of the team. GG guys, killed it as always.
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The results of the Player Choice Tristana are in and players *overwhelmingly* chose Little Demon Tristana!
We're excited to work on this skin and had some fun brainstorming on how to make it amaaazing ❤️ I wrote more about the process here:
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Yeah... Bananas..... That's right.. 👀👀
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:shockedpikachu:
We did it fam!
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The players wanted Korean culture represented for the 2017 SSG World Champ skins. Here's a few of the inspirations: Xayah & Rakan reference the Korean magpie. Xayah's flower is the national flower and Rakan's recall hat is a traditional hat for passing government tests (1/3)
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Every young heroes journey story needs a ragtag cast of friends, allies, love interests, and magical cats
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I adore the promos this year for True Damage.
- QiQi is perfection, literally my soul.
- Akali and Ekko are BFFs watching streamers
- Lucian is best entourage
- Senna being kinda basic, but she's been in a lantern for awhile so it cool
- Yasuo is weeb
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Interested in how skins get made? Our third dev blog update on Player Choice Tristana is now live. Two more to go!
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Hail Mad Queen Zoe, our God Empress, First of Her Name, Wielder of Corruption and Vanquisher of the Weak
🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
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In 2017, after 3+ years at Riot I was trusted with my dream job. Here's some of my favorite skins: some of them were technical challenges, some I had to fight for. Some are just sexy 😉
In 2018, I'm looking forward to working with two new skin teams, and my first legendary 🤩
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Hey all! In the new State of Skins video, we shared the concept art for the upcoming SSG Worlds skins. This is a perfect time to talk about our process on skins. Concept art helps us figure out a thematic, find cohesion, work out problems--it's not final design 1/3
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The team was dying over this beautiful Divine Sword Irelia that was shared with us over Slack. We don't know the cosplayer, so if anyone does please tag! The swords are incredible! We're always so amazed to see the things we work on become real life 😍
#leagueoflegends
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The benefits of being coworkers with the Rito animators XD Overly Elementalist Lux
#leagueoflegends
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Side by side of the tweaks VFX
@Sirhaian
made today. Things we're still looking at for in-game, but couldn't do today:
- Gold on the lashers and dress
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The Universe page for Odyssey has the full cover of Yasuo's reading material. It seems well-read. 🧐
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You can not like something, but still think it was well done.
You can be disappointed without shitting on people who are happy about it.
You can have valid criticism without personally attacking the creators.
Emotional maturity takes us very far in life.
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@Frm_Wonderland
@DjangoAlpha
@ChimesCollector
@toadunn
When the leadership is all men in their 40s and 50s, they're not really in touch with what's popular. This is honestly why diversity (age, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc) matters. KDA was made by a team with a lot of women, gay men, and people of color.
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The League of Legends splash team created their own instagram today! Follow them for splash and other illustration things
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She seems like such a nice girl....Oh no my soul
Bloodmoon Evelyn art by Esben Lash ()
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There is a shocking amount of stupid internal politics at Rito. So many backstabbers and schemers. Matt deserved much better than this shit.
Not naming names, but I hope you feel guilt. I know you talked endless shit about me too, (redacted).
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My BOSS once told me that he couldn't work when I looked "this sexy" which was the same outfit I wore for my badge photo. He touched me inappropriately at a work event. He told me he put Xanax in someone's drink. Yes, this was reported. Yes he stayed on for 3+ more years.
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I've been out of LoL/skins for 9+ months & haven't kept up, but SO glad to see the Coven. I knew it was coming, but didn't know what it'd be. I have a lot of bitterness about the production of the first line, but the team believed in it when some assholes didn't. ♥️ them forever!
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Here's what will go to PBE tomorrow for K/DA Ahri Prestige Edition:
- Added the fresnel (gold glow) that was bugged on PBE
- Tweaked settings on her gold materials
- Tails are now a very luxury champagne gold
- Ombre in hair is toned down in-game and cohesive with splash
1/2
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Pool Party Star Guardians by 札芋奈里 (NERI)
You can see their process and other fanart on their Weibo page ➡️
Man, there's so much good art from China we don't get to see because they use different social networks...
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Retweeting myself because I want people to know that some of their favorite skin lines are made by underrepresented groups in game dev. It's not because of SoCiAL JuSTiCe WoKe CuLtUrE - it's because we provide a different perspective and it resonates with many people.
@Frm_Wonderland
@DjangoAlpha
@ChimesCollector
@toadunn
When the leadership is all men in their 40s and 50s, they're not really in touch with what's popular. This is honestly why diversity (age, gender, race, sexual orientation, etc) matters. KDA was made by a team with a lot of women, gay men, and people of color.
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Old tweet but relevant: product managers/producers are the final say on skins in games like League. Don't harass the individual artists about skins, it's like harassing an actor for their performance when the director ultimately makes the decision.
With that in mind, I’d ask that you direct any disappointment towards me rather than them. Those of you who’ve been sending hype to them, please keep that up! :D My ideal world is one where I take none of the credit and all of the blame. I remember Stellari feeling similarly.18/x
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wtf this Neeko Champie icon is the cutest thing I've ever seen? Not even a Neeko main but it'll probably replace my toxic teemo streamer icon :^)
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I think a buncha players about to find out what IRL prestige skins are... you think grinding in LoL for tokens is bad, try grinding in real life for a $3k belt bag 🤣🤣🤣
Best I could find for her outfit. The style kinda look similar to the Spring 2019 style xD but what do I know -shrug-
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Also, quoting from her piece: "John also told me he was partially involved with K/DA’s first skins, informally, because he knew a lot of the people on the team."
Cause I was the skins lead on the first K/DA set so lemme know who this guy is so I CAN KILL HIM for leaking shit
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Don't fall for that bullshit line that women didn't play League in the office. Most of us had THOUSANDS of hours played. Playing League has nothing to do with sexual harassment. I said this when the Kotaku article came out, but I was also sexually harassed.
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The new Japanese commercial for League of Legends starring the latest adventures Roru-kun (a cabbage roll and pun on LoL-kun) is possibly the best commercial we've ever made
さすが
@LoLJPOfficial
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I like how the Annie-versary skin has champs in the back cosplaying as champs. Look at the sword that Baker "Pantheon" has, it's made of cardboard XD
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I mentioned there were 2 more skinlines I worked on before leaving, this was one of them. It was the first year I wasn't product lead on it, just thematic advisor. I never saw past concept phase so I'm excited to play them XD The team did such a beautiful job
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Personal attacks are a great way to get blocked 😂 I don't mind passion, even anger. I have a thick skin. But miss me with that 'go fuck yourself' type stuff. That's just super unproductive. Like, fine I will but I don't know how that's gunna help with skin dev ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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There's a really cute Slumber Party Star Guardian short story by
@TKittenWritten
(Head of Narrative) - I relate SO MUCH to MF, I'm not even joking. Read:
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The players wanted the SSG skins to be inspired by Korean culture, so we wanted to put the team somewhere that felt mythic. We wanted the splash to evoke a lakeside setting on a legendary sacred mountain in Korean culture :)
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Finally, I want to say 99% of Rioters were amazing people and some of the most talented I've ever worked with. There's a huge difference between most Rioters and "leadership." It sucked when it happened, but the worst part was nothing was done until it was exposed publically.
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The statement above notes that the Rioter in question (she calls him "John") exists--so she isn't inventing a story. I believe she actually feels very hurt and confused by this, and I know Rioters who have tried to use their position to get girls so I basically blame him.
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And if it fails miserably, I can always come back to gaming 🤣
I don't have next steps to share yet because I'll be going on a very long break to decompress first.
I'll still be here until the 6/7, but you should probably unfollow me for
#leagueoflegends
related news 😅 (2/2)
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I would read a horror story about the fact that this Kitty Kat Katarina is actually Neeko in disguise
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They didn't talk about this one, but "Project F" was the teaser that had the colorful, bright environment and Blitz grabbing shit
#League10
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Just sharing these cause I know what his face looks like under there and this is my type
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Here's a gif of the color adjustment for K/DA Ahri Prestige Edition's splash with the champagne gold tails. Thanks, Pan! This has been integrated and should be visible on PBE servers tomorrow.
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For Divine Sword Irelia, our idea during development was that she was a demigoddess (like Sacred Sword Janna) who once challenged a dragon king and won. She'll be on PBE next week with Talon!
Splash art by Bo
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IT IS YONE (Yasuo's brother) AND I WILL DIE TO PROTECT HIM
#LegendsOfRuneterra
#LeagueOfLegends
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Final post: I default to taking this woman's claims at face value. Riot confirms that "John" is real. According to her account, he not only misled her, he also apparently broke his NDA by leaking stuff to her. That shit isn't cool. I'm not blaming her for that. It's his fault.
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Will the Star Guardians defeat the dastardly Rioters?! Stay tuned...
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I don't talk about why I left Riot, so this is the last thing I'll say for now: I had fight for many skins people said "that's too niche" or "no one wants that" when I knew people did. Part of the reason I left was because it's tiring having to prove yourself after every success
@thejanellemj
Who the fuck see a new "elegant evil witches" skinline for Camille and Lissandra and say it will not work WTF thats all we ever wanted for champions like that LOL
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When I said a few months ago I was excited to be working on my first Legendary, I lied.
It was an Ultimate.
GGMF.
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If you're as in love with this Diana splash as I am, here's Pan's ArtStation <3 <3 <3
#LeagueOfLegends
->
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Lol Park in Seoul had a big wall with a bunch of beautiful login screens playing on it 😍
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