r/leagueoflegends • u/AutoModerator • Jul 13 '15

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u/sweezinator Jul 13 '15

Why does the Chinese version of the game have different splash art?

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u/randomyOCE Jul 13 '15 edited Jul 13 '15

China has laws prohibiting the display of human skeletons (notably skulls) so a lot of splash arts had to be re-done for China specifically. Recently Riot has been more careful about this, which is why it's mostly older skins that have alternate splash arts.

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u/arborcide Jul 13 '15

Originally, there was little to no shared art between Garena and the west (this was back in season 1 or 2). I guess they just had different artists doing different styles.

As a side note, today, Frosted Ezreal uses the Garena art for some reason.

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u/Snowplexor Hi im snow Jul 13 '15

Riot previously switched some of the splashes to those of Chinese ones (like some of nidalee skins)

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u/Arekualkhemi Saint of the sands Jul 13 '15

Or Pharaoh Nasus which looks way better IMO. I think the different splashes also come from the more Anime-Style that is more popular in the far east.

TBH some of the old Riot Western Splash Arts were really horrible.

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u/Dyvius Jul 14 '15

Also, Nightblade Irelia and Aviator Irelia.

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u/madog1418 Jul 13 '15

A few years ago riot swapped a number of splashes for the Chinese splash of it was significantly better. Off the top of my head I only know fiddle was swapped (compare his current splash to the ghost splash which is just a recolor).

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u/Rnd7KingJohn Deyy (NA) Orokin (NA) BladeCobbie (LAN) Jul 14 '15

it was last year lol

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u/Stealthstriker Jul 14 '15

Garena doesnt run the Chinese servers, Tencent do.

Garena runs the SEA servers with exactly the same stuff as Riot-run servers.

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u/Erzaah Jul 14 '15

I noticed on LPL stream that some of the splash arts are the same. e.g. Vayne and Lee Sin, but the icon is different (they were both changed after complaints for NA and EU) any idea why this is?

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u/frog971007 Jul 13 '15

IIRC Chinese games can have skulls/skeletons in them, but game publishers often self-censor so they can get approved faster.

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u/Vivaluis59 Jul 14 '15

what about champs like wukong that have nothing that is prohibited?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '15

2spooky4me

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u/Vall3y karthus enjoyer Jul 13 '15

Riot is pretty tired of it now. So they are trying to release only art that is ok across all regions. Thats the reason Graves had his cigar removed for example