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https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt731acb42bb3d1659/blt872033ce479a267b/5ed7f773ff1cb239b9500a61/03_Mundo_Boom.gif Uhm what's that champion portrait in the bottom of the gif? LEAK?
https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt731acb42bb3d1659/blt872033ce479a267b/5ed7f773ff1cb239b9500a61/03_Mundo_Boom.gif Uhm what's that champion portrait in the bottom of the gif? LEAK?
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so no Sailor Mundo :(
Sailor Mundo
That's genius
/u/Reav3 will Mundo still be able to go where he pleases
Of course! No one tells Mundo where he should go but Mundo
Riot once again proving they only bother hiring the absolute bottom of the barrel artists who can only trace anime designs. Riot is a shitshow not a creative bone in that whole team only people who spend all day watching anime and copying it like a child
Not all day.
I've been playing Mundo for about 7 seasons now, and have well over 1000 games on him. I may not play a ton of ranked, but my normal MMR places me against diamond players regularly.
I'm very concerned with this blog post, and the future of Mundo. I'm afraid of what they are going to do to him, and it sounds as if they have a core misunderstanding about Mundo and his playstyle. I wish there were someone for me to get in contact with, unfortunately I'm not a hyper popular streamer so my opinion likely doesn't matter.
RIP big guy. We'll always have the memories at least. ;(
We are reading the feedback here so you could elaborate on the 'core misunderstanding' if you want.
Was there any reason why Mundo was chosen over other potential candidates as the non poll VGU, since most of the champs you noted are showing their age as much as Mundo
Largely because we just finished 2 junglers with Fiddlesticks and Volibear and wanted to do a VGU on a different class (Top lane) to add better role diversity to our VGU line up. I mentioned it in the VGU Poll as well that we wouldn't necessarily VGU the champs in the order of most votes.
Do you think Mundo will remain as a juggernaut?
We don't plan on changing his identity as a tank/juggernaut hybrid.
Are you aiming Mundo to be a broad/popular champ or would you be alright if he remained relatively niche
We are targeting him to stay niche, we mostly want to increase his depth by rather then his breadth
Hey Reav3, can we expect a rework thinking Dr. Mundo in two lanes?
With Fiddle's rework, we lost him as support. Going from tier S+ (3% pick rate) to less than 1% pick rate due to changes. Can we dream with Dr. Mundo viable as support (like Maokai for example)?
Or are there 0% chances and he only be defined as top lane? Thanks!
I think we will likely be able to make him work in both top and jng (It was much harder to make Fiddle work in Jng and support) Though we would be looking at top primary, and jng secondary if we can make it work
Absolutely! A few things that really struck a bad chord with me:
2) increase Mundo’s gameplay variance beyond landing cleavers
The only time cleavers are my focus are when my laning opponent will almost certainly kill me for getting in range--especially early game. A lot of my plays come from Masochism and outlasting my opponent. Canceling my auto-attack on the E is absolutely crucial in many cases.
It's why a lot of Mundo mains will take Approach Velocity in their second tree, and I see the recent buffs to the rune being particularly huge for him.
That's a bit beside the point, but the cleavers are merely something I use to get in range. Right now, he's working very nicely as an anti-AP bruiser. Not so much when he has to duel "real" bruisers, especially before level 11/Rank 2 ult.
Then, the approach to lore really bothered me. I've always liked this idea of a doctor who over-experimented on himself and fried his own brain. The knowledge is still there and fragmented--which is why he's so good at picking apart his victims. The mutated doctor thing is also a callback to his beta design, when he was a real doctor. It kinda burns that legacy to change it.
I agree that a "flat out dumb" character is an interesting idea, but not for Mundo. It really bothered me when it was alluded to in the short story from a few years back that he wasn't really a doctor, and it's bothering me that is the direction that he's being pushed again. I like his association with Singed and by extension Warwick. It would make sense that they are all involved.
I could elaborate more with gameplay examples in terms of his current drawback and balances, but I've already written a small novel by reddit standards.
Oh and for the record, I like Concept #I the most, a big upper body and tiny little stubby legs. Maybe a bit more lab coat though.
I will do anything I need to help make this a success. I'm terrified that Mundo will be replaced by an imposter I won't be able to play anymore.
Edit: grammars
I play a lot of Mundo too, but mostly Jungle because players are so poor at judging the matchups and gank timing. I'm pretty sure Glenn has a good read on his gameplay (I think he's in the Mundo discord atm), we only get a few lines in the article to wax lyrical but I can see why that phrasing is upsetting as a hardcore Mundo player.
I'm seeing a lot of mixed opinions on what his story should be. I too remember him being snuck into the Zac promo material along with WW in their pre-LoL forms. Heck the 'M' concept was a bit of a throwback to the old beta Mundo, although maybe I should have given him dinosaur feet. But personally I think when it comes to experimenting on themselves Viktor and Singed have that beat covered. Rest assured we are talking about it.
But both Pantheon (pre-rework) and Mord were top laners, maybe a bot or mid is better.
If we had one that was as high priority sure, we currently don't have any bot or mids that are as high priority as Mundo. All the champs I put on the last voting poll where high priority and 4 were junglers with only Mundo being Top
The concept artist had a ball with this.
sure did
mundo is the best >:D
Would you guys ever be open to discussing specific champions that do not end up on the VGU poll? There are champion the community seems to want reworked, but they never come up in discussion with rioters. For example RiotAugust recently said that you wanted to rework Malphite, but found out he is very popular. Are you open to more transparency like that?
Of course, i talk about those kinds of things all the time with players, though its usually in reddit comments like this rather then big blogs
Could you share what do you guys think about Tryndamere. It looks to me like he is hitting all the criteria for a VGU, but he isn't mentioned often.
Gameplay: He is the last remenant of small crit % and stat increase/decrease aoe. Attack speed, his best stat, makes him look kinda silly swinging that large sword like it's a balloon. He has very little skill expression specific to his kit.
Visual: His design is okay, but it's kind of generic. Most new champions/VGUs are now you guys taking a trope and owning it, making it unique to the League universe
Potential: He has a dedicated playerbase and there is nothing wrong with his playstyle, but I feel he is a concept that could be executed so much better both gameplaywise and visually. What are yours and the teams thoughts on him?
I mentioned in a post not long ago, but yeah Trynd is high on our list for a VGU we just haven't got to him yet
Mr. Reav3, Sir, pardon the offtopic question but is the Edgy champion that is getting released soon only for middle lane? Or can it be also played top?
While we are primarily testing and balancing it around mid I think it will also be pretty viable top
When you guys say he will be released after the jungler, do you mean after summer event is over, or next patch, or what?
They are both a part of the summer event. I’ll leave it at that
I was just wondering, I know development was probably delayed a fair bit from covid, has it impacted the release of the champs coming after the summer event at all?
So far it hasn’t
Hey u/Reav3, are you able to tell if we're gonna get a Champion Insight for the next champion? I really liked what you guys did to Aphelios and Sett, it's really cool to see the devlopment
There will be yes
