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At the 2023 World Finals, T1 defeated WBG with absolute strength and won the championship. This is also the team's fourth championship trophy in this event. So after the game, everyone was very curious about their S-League champion skins. According to interviews with the players after the game, the hero candidates for the champion skins have been roughly determined.

After more than half a year of design and production, the 2023 T1 champion skin was finally officially released today. Judging from the current news from the external network test server, the overall design concept of this T1 champion skin is mainly based on the process of the 2023 World Championship journey. At the same time, many players’ ideas about skin design were added and finally presented to the players.

So how are these skins designed?

As the champion skin of the S game, the return to city special effects design of each skin generally respects the wishes of the players. This time is no exception. First, let’s take a look at this one of Zeus Jayce.

There is an obvious lightning animation effect in this skin of Jayce. The designer revealed that when Zeus was designing the return animation, the theme was recovery, because in some past games, they were always just a hair's breadth away from the championship, so they wanted to describe the appearance of overcoming adversity and ultimately winning. So they visually showed five lightning bolts hitting themselves, but in the end they lifted the championship trophy and took out their iconic sunglasses to celebrate the victory.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that this skin of zeus is the only one among the T1 champion skins that currently has a Ultimate Edition, and in the Ultimate Edition skin, the FMVP trophy replaces the World Finals championship trophy.

Then there is oneer's blind monk skin

When oner was designing his own return animation, he hoped to incorporate some elements of his former coach bengi. As the shadow of Faker, oner might also become Faker's most important right-hand man like his predecessor. So after much consideration, the designer decided to add a hologram of S3 champion skin bengi's blind monk to this champion skin, so this interesting interaction came about.

In the end, oner ended up wearing clothes in a handsome manner. He used clothes as a cover instead of wearing them, which is also a major feature of oner in the professional arena.

Next is the true god Faker.League of LegendsFaker is the real GOAT of this project, and his four-time championship is a real achievement, so a lot of thought was put into the design of the skin. For example, the design team created three sets of templates for Faker to choose from. But because his entire career has been integrated into his previous Hall of Fame skins, this T1 champion skin conveys more information about the road to the 2023 World Championship.

In the design of the return to the city, this element that looks a bit like a worm but is actually a dragon runs through the entire return to the city. The designer wants to express that Faker has gone through many hardships and finally ascended to the heights again. At the end, there is also a picture of the sun, moon and five peaks, also known asSun and Moon Chart、Sun, Moon and Kunlun, is a part of Korean culture. The five peaks are symmetrically dotted with pines and rivers on both sides, and the bottom is the ocean, which is quite regional. The Sun and Moon Five Peaks Picture itself is not a complete pattern. Only when the king sits in front of the Sun and Moon Five Peaks Picture, the whole pattern is complete.

Here Faker is standing in front of the picture, so the meaning is self-explanatory.

Gumayusi's Jinx, Gumayusi revealed in a previous live broadcast that he would addToniElements,ToniIt is Gumayusi's pet dog, so in this Jinx champion skin, he andToniinteractive elements.

In order to reflect the furry feeling, in the design manuscripts that were subsequently exposed,ToniThe concept draft also clearly expresses this point, which is really cute.

(Gumayusi andToniGroup photo)

Keria's Bard. Keria really wanted a Lux champion skin at the beginning, but he did not use the hero Lux during the entire World Championship. According to Riot rules, he could not make it. But in order to make up for this regret, the designer still integrated Lux ​​into Bard's return to city special effects.

It is not difficult to find from the animation of returning to the city that Bard found Lux ​​crying during his patrol. This scene corresponds to the scene where Keria covered her face and cried after losing to DRX in 2022. Bard then touched Lux's shoulder to comfort her, and the two of them walked hand in hand.Finally lifted the championship trophy together。

Overall, the design of the T1 champion skin this time is still very thoughtful, but many netizens also said after watching it that the color scheme of this skin does not match T1. We all know that the main colors of the T1 team are black, red, and white, and the 2023 T1 team uniforms are mostly black, with white and gold embellishments, so this time the blue and red stripes look very mismatched.

However, this design direction is actually led by the players. According to the latest concept design sharing released by the designer, Faker requested that the overall design of the skin should be developed in the direction of red, and that pure red should not be used. Instead, a dreamy, bright red, flame-like color should be added. This design has also been recognized by other players, so the design team tried to maintain a balance between relatively low-chroma blue and red. This is the origin of the theme color.

The above is an interpretation of the return to city special effects. We will also analyze the designs of each character in this set of skins in the future, so remember to pay attention.