Thoughts on Dunkmaster Ivern from a Day 1 Ivern main

Let me just get my thoughts out here so I can vent it all out at once.



I love ivern. Love love LOVE him. Riot released a champ that was practically MADE for me. He dances around fights, doesn't have to fight jungle camps, shares his buffs with his team so nobody complains, and makes a 6v5 with big ol' lovable Daisy. Candy King is also a REALLY GOOD launch skin. It re-imagines the character with a good, goofy theme without sacrificing what makes that character fun to look at and play. But it has been 896 days, that's almost 3 full years since his launch, and they've decided amongst themselves to finally make a new skin for Ivern.



Now, in the case of Dunkmaster, I feel kind of insulted. Ivern does not "dunk." Dunkmaster is a skin line for champs with violent "jump" attacks like Darius, Illaoi, or heck, even J4, the guy they chose to release a hextech skin for instead. The only think that makes me think Riot wanted to give him a basketball skin was because he's tall... Really? That's it? You give a basketball skin to a lanky guy and that's so hilarious that it makes up for years of neglect?



The model isn't great, the color scheme isn't too different from his base skin aside from an orange fro-beard. The accessories on Daisy don't look good either. it just looks like she's wearing ill-fitting clothes as opposed to actually re-imaging the entire design like Cupcake Daisy does. I find it hard to believe that Riot held several meetings with dozens of people on the skin team and not one person said "Why don't we make a cool skin since we already made a goofy one?"



Which brings me to the question that I've been wanting to ask: Who is this skin for? Obviously it's not made for Ivern mains because we don't want it and we've actually made a PETITION to remove it. https://www.change.org/p/riot-games-we-want-a-new-ivern-skin-and-scrap-the-current-work-of-dunkmaster-ivern



Is this for new players who see a funny skin and buy it and then try to learn Ivern? Because from what I can tell, regular players don't WANT to learn Ivern. Even when the champion is GOOD, people do not DESIRE to use him, they'll play him begrudgingly. He has an incredibly low play rate because his playstyle is so unique and that doesn't appeal to everyone, which is fine, but then why release such a weird theme that doesn't fit the champ or satisfy the people you ignored for years?



This doesn't make sense to me. I'm kind of alongside the Ivernmains reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ivernmains/) in that I think this is an upcoming April Fools joke. But that's a joke only on the minority. Why would you make us look bad after we've been waiting so patiently? We just want to be friends and get a skin that makes Ivern look COOL. Give us Ivern the Cruel. Give us a seasonal Halloween or Christmas skin. Give us SOMETHING BESIDES THIS.



I made this because I love Ivern, I've mained him for a long time and I hope people hear us. We are few, but we are friendly. We just want nice things for everybody :)

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