{"id":36381,"date":"2025-01-28T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/league-of-legends-cosplayer-steps-into-spotlight-as-k-da-popstar-ahri-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:59:38","slug":"league-of-legends-cosplayer-steps-into-spotlight-as-k-da-popstar-ahri-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/league-of-legends-cosplayer-steps-into-spotlight-as-k-da-popstar-ahri-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends cosplayer steps into spotlight as K\/DA popstar Ahri &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>League of Legends cosplayer steps into spotlight as K\/DA popstar Ahri Riot Games \/ Twitter: Elise AmaiA League of Legends cosplayer has stunned the internet with her perfect KDA popstar Ahri cosplay. The aspiring model\u2019s awesome takes certainly makes us want to watch the Worlds 2019 pre-show just one more time. League has always boasted relatively popular music, most of which are simply instrumental pieces for champion reveals. The biggest of them all by far, however, has been 2018\u2019s K-pop group K\/DA, who officially debuted at Worlds that year. Riot released \u201cPOP\/STARS,\u201d K\/DA\u2019s first single, and it caught like wildfire. The catchy track was soon charting in countries across the world, and the original music clip on YouTube has hit over 350 million views in just eighteen months. The success of the band can partly be attributed to the characters Riot picked to fill out the group\u2019s lineup. Akali, Evelynn, Kai\u2019sa, and of course Ahri make up the band, and it was the last KDA member that Elise Amai decided to cosplay. League of Legends cosplayer becomes KDA Ahri K\/DA Ahri, voiced by (G)I-dle star Cho Mi-yeon, is the de facto leader of the animated K-pop group. She signs much of the POP\/STARS chorus, intertwining English lyrics with a handful of classic Korean verses as well. Elise Amai captured Ahri\u2019s glow perfectly. Much of the K\/DA star\u2019s outfit is pure white, with a line of pink and black trim on the edges of her top. Amai made sure she even added the arm bracelets the Nine-Tailed Fox wears while singing, and her thigh-high boots too, which match the rest of the band\u2019s uniforms. The standout features, however, are what Amai has done with her makeup. Ahri is a vastayan and that means she has whisker markings on her face. The League cosplayer added those to the side of her bone-white cheeks. Finally, she added Ahri\u2019s iconic vastayan ears, and a dark K\/DA choker to complete the full outfit. Really, the only thing missing is Ahri\u2019s nine glass tails, which \u2014 if we\u2019re being honest \u2014 might have been a bit big to add to the cosplay! https:\/\/twitter.com\/eliseamai\/status\/1288320164300234758 First-timer pulls off perfect KDA Ahri cosplay It\u2019s a really stunning cosplay, especially when you add in that it\u2019s Elise\u2019s \u201cfirst actual cosplay\u201d that she\u2019s done! She told Dexerto she was interested in doing Ahri as a cosplay because she \u201cdoes a lot of Korean-style makeup\u201d so it was a perfect chance to show that off. \u201cI love her K-pop style and fox ears!\u201d the League cosplayer added when talking to Dexerto on July 29. \u201cI picked Ahri because I felt like I could do her really well. I have a lot of friends that play League, and I saw her and immediately felt connected!\u201d Amai\u2019s Ahri cosplay definitely isn\u2019t going to be the only League of Legends character she\u2019ll become over the next few months either. She\u2019s already got her eyes on Evelynn, as well as the prestige version of Ahri\u2019s K\/DA outfit. One final potential project \u201cfor the future\u201d has also caught her eye: Spirit Blossom Ahri. The new skin came out as part of League\u2019s huge Summer event, which is still underway now \u2014 don\u2019t miss out on the skins and rewards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League of Legends cosplayer steps into spotlight as K\/DA popstar Ahri Riot Games \/ Twitter: Elise AmaiA League of Legends cosplayer has stunned the internet with her perfect KDA popstar Ahri cosplay. The aspiring model\u2019s awesome takes certainly makes us want to watch the Worlds 2019 pre-show just one more time. 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