League of Legends

[Jarka]

Ok, I just actually looked at the Sabretusk Sejuani skin. I know its just the angle and all, but she definitely needs more on. That picture is just terrible in terms of how she's twisting her shoulders, though I totally understand that's a difficult angle to draw out.

I'm glad you caught that... I was like "FFFF SHE IS WEARING A BIKINI ON A BOAR." And you are right, I didn't give enough credit to the female champions that aren't sexualized - Irelia, Riven, Lux, and a couple of others.

But no seriously, it's the sort of thing that we're just so accustomed to seeing, a lot of people don't notice how much more sexualized female characters are over males.

I actually went through every skin in the game to make a visual aid. My criteria for "sexualized skin" was the character showing skin between chest (nipple level) and hips. It sounds prude, but I figured it was an even standard between men and women, since in real life, most women don't wear bellyshirts all that often (about as often as a guy goes around in shirtless... that is to say, summertime at the beach or at really greasy clubs). In addition, for the monstrous champs, they were excluded if their face was more animal than human (Cass and Brand made the cut). I know that's a pretty subjective form of judgment, but eh. Oh, and no Yordles or undead.

The result:
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The only non-monstrous females not to have a sexualized skin according to the standards I selected were Ahri, Sona, Irelia, Kayle, and Ashe.

Non-monstrous men who did not have sexualized according to the criteria skins were Ezreal, Gangplank, Garen, Graves, Jarvan, Jax, Master Yi, Olaf, Shaco, Shen, Singed, Swain, Talon, Taric, Twisted Fate, Prototype Viktor, Pre-void Kassadin, Xin Zhao, Vladimir, and Zilean.

Remember, this isn't even counting heavily exposed cleavage (I'm looking at you, every Sona skin except Snowdown) or not wearing pants/a skirt (Caitlyn).

And I do know they throw those attracted to males a bone once in a while (holy sexy rugged Garen, Batman). But just look at those few compared to almost every female champion. I can totally do a (highly subjective) comparison of sexy skins versus nonsexy skins and break it down into raw numbers, but please don't make me.

And I'll make a very important note here: I have absolutely no problem with sex and sexuality in appropriate video games and art. Hell, my junior thesis was a series of erotic artwork. I do, however, have a problem with lazy designers and stifled creativity. When almost every female champion feels like a delivery vehicle for boobs, it just gets boring. If it's something I bring up a lot, it's because it's an intersection of my three favorite fields: art, video games, and gender studies.

Also, Vayne's breasts in the V-day skin are actually anatomically accurate for their size (if drawn a little bit close together). Apparently unbeknownst to most video game artists, boobs are actually affected by gravity. However, freaking every other proportion is terrible, just like most of the art in the game.