May Custom Competition: Winner Announced!

[Sir Heroscape]

Originally Posted by lefton4ya

Not my favorite one, but congratulations either way.

I agree. I was kinda surprised because I didn't feel it was put together as well as some of the others. It seemed kinda out of place rather than unique and fitting. But as they say "C'est la vie"

[chief]

Thread updated. I apologize for the delays, due to an emergency the final results post was late. I will be posting a follow-up thread soon to get everyone's feedback on this format and our next contest will be in the hands of the infamous Dr.Goomonkey!

Feedback thread here

[chief]

Originally Posted by Sir Heroscape

I agree. I was kinda surprised because I didn't feel it was put together as well as some of the others. It seemed kinda out of place rather than unique and fitting. But as they say "C'est la vie"

I would love for you guys to read this and let me know what you think!

[Sir Heroscape]

Originally Posted by chief

I would love for you guys to read this and let me know what you think!

I'm sorry Chief, I think you misunderstood...the contest was just fine, in my comment I was referring to the Greater Mercury Elemental that won the contest.

[Lazy Orang]

Congratulations to the Greater Mercury Elemental! A deserving winner, and, in all honesty, the one to garner my vote. A really interesting concept for an elemental - not one I'd have thought of, but it works brilliantly!

Oh, btw:

Originally Posted by The Dewk

They are all really well thought out, and all have excellent flavor. In the end, it was a tough choice between Greater Metal Elemental (would like to see "metal" replaced with "iron", but that's just me) and Greater Fire Elemental, and I went with the one that I'm more likely to play - Greater Fire Elemental gets my vote!

Just wanted to reply to this, but since the designs were meant to be kept anonymous during voting, I couldn't until now - I designed the Greater Metal Elemental, and I specifically made it a Metal Elemental since I was basing it on the

Five Chinese Elements

Five Chinese Elements

. Just thought that you might be interested, since you were thinking it might have been better as an Iron Elemental.

[chief]

#7 by LazyOrang updated with his unique creative process!

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by chief

#7 by Lazy Orang updated with her unique creative process!

Fixed.

Also, it's missing an I at the beginning, which makes it look like I missed a capital letter - do you think you might be able to tweak that?

[TREX]

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

Congratulations to the Greater Mercury Elemental! A deserving winner, and, in all honesty, the one to garner my vote. A really interesting concept for an elemental - not one I'd have thought of, but it works brilliantly!

Oh, btw:

Just wanted to reply to this, but since the designs were meant to be kept anonymous during voting, I couldn't until now - I designed the Greater Metal Elemental, and I specifically made it a Metal Elemental since I was basing it on the

Five Chinese Elements

Five Chinese Elements

. Just thought that you might be interested, since you were thinking it might have been better as an Iron Elemental.

Great job on your custom. It got my vote. I especially loved the thematic element of your richochet power.

[Sam]

Cheers LazyOrang! As TREX said, Ricochet is a great power, makes your design super interesting.

My design was the Greater Mercury Elemental, and I jotted down a few thoughts about how and why I put it together the way I did over on my customs thread. I'll link to that post here.

Thanks for running the contest, chief!

[The Dewk]

Originally Posted by Lazy Orang

Congratulations to the Greater Mercury Elemental! A deserving winner, and, in all honesty, the one to garner my vote. A really interesting concept for an elemental - not one I'd have thought of, but it works brilliantly!

Oh, btw:

Just wanted to reply to this, but since the designs were meant to be kept anonymous during voting, I couldn't until now - I designed the Greater Metal Elemental, and I specifically made it a Metal Elemental since I was basing it on the

Five Chinese Elements

Five Chinese Elements

. Just thought that you might be interested, since you were thinking it might have been better as an Iron Elemental.

Hey, that's awesome! An explanation of a theme or character goes a long way, and I redact my (minor) suggestion

Sweet unit! I'm bummed I could only vote once.

[lefton4ya]

BTW, mine was the Swamp Elemental. I also made a 95% the same card as a Greater Water Elemental.
I do love synergy as a tool to improve usefulness of underused units, and I meant my comments above on everyone else's entry. The only thing I was unsure of on my own entry was the right-bar stats and pricing - I wanted to keep it cheap - under 125, but I knew it would take cheap units like the Marro Drudge and make them a lot more valuable, which means I had to pear down the stats of the elemental in order for the cost to make it a B+/A- unit.



FYI, the suggested D&D Elemental Evil #20 Water Elemental is near impossible to purchase, but Heroclix DC War of the Light #53 Swamp Thing you can easily get for $6-7, so this is the main reason I used the Swamp elemental, but maybe more people would have voted for the Greater Water Elemental just due to theme. The other reason I did a Swamp Elemental, as I wanted to recreate the Swamp Monster (who was actually just a Water Bender) from Avatar, but I really wish there was a larger figure that looked like it: