User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-5875378-20181225113830/@comment-29197449-20181226182431

The animation kinda looks... the same? It's probably still hard to tell since it's like, a 2 second clip, but the animation doesn't look any different from S7's or even WoW's. And while I don't hate the new style, I think it's just kinda boring. It feels more like Rainbow wants to use one uniform style for all its shows 'cause now it constantly looks like Regal Academy to me (the style just doesn't look good on the guys to me either, with what we can see of Riven).

It's still pretty early, though. Who knows? Maybe the battles will be more interesting than generic energy beam vs. generic energy beam.