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Could you possibly share which writer and designer you’re thinking about assigning to the VGU
Its already in super early development with Skiptomyluo and Maxw3ll
Could you possibly share which writer and designer you’re thinking about assigning to the VGU
Its already in super early development with Skiptomyluo and Maxw3ll
When are we getting the next champion roadmap?
Also, the concept and animations for the champ are SSS+ tier.
Will try her cause I love her shadow so much. Lots of her concept art would be cool champs and some of those skins.
I wonder how much her skins and legendary will alter her shadow design. That's the biggest thing I hope for.
Next roadmap should be out later this month
Could you share what Lonewingy is currently working on (in terms of new champs) since I love her work? I heard she worked on the botlane marksman for a while, is she on a champ for 2022 now?
Her and Sojyoo both worked on the next marksmen we will release. She was the artist on Vex, which is just hitting PBE. She is also working on a unannounced VgU for 2022, and soon to start a new Champion which is targeting 2022, but that could always change.
Can we expect a Insights Article before her release? Not quite sure on the cycle of these. Thanks!
I know their will be one, not sure on the timing
Yay :) I'm excited. Samira was so long ago now.
KindleJack also did the Mundo VGU
Are you able to share if you guys had to change her story, to accommodate her delay, since I recall you mentioning that she was originally supposed to be a beat in the ruined king campaign
Yeah, we tweaked her color story and bio a bit to account for her coming after the Ruination rather then before.
so, are you going to make the skin obtainable again? I passed on it because I couldn't stand how it looked, but now it's an alright skin. pretty shitty if we cant get it without rolling Shards now, just because the original design was bad
yes, it should be in the store to buy in a patch or 2 I believe
Real talk, I think the thing that made unbound thresh feel off is just the splash art. Young face and the spectral ABS made him feel very off, add to that the model of thresh being very old and not allowing for a clean skin on LoL compared to wildrift and it made it feel underwhelming.
I feel that they should tweek his splash art again, I know people love to pretend pilosity is something dear to their heart but making him looking older/rougher would be perfect to make him less "Spectral spirit blossom" like.
Your in luck, we are tweaking the splash. Here is a preview
Also, here is a preview of the updated Splash art
Have you seen what people have been talking about when it comes to VUs? It has become a more recurrent topic as time goes on. Champions like Ahri, Lux, Caitlyn, Janna, Lulu, Leona, etc who have fine gameplay and aren't on the VGU list have been showing their age for a while now and it really sucks that it doesn't seem like they'll ever get updated.
I remember that Riot used to have a team for VUs/VGUs separate from the champions team. Maybe something like that should come back since the champions team has shifted from being half-focused on VGUs and half new champions to prioritizing new champions a lot.
Yes, it's something we discuss a lot internally, and as our outsourcing pipeline gets more and more robust it's something we are interested in pursuing again. Can't make any promises, but it's a topic we have been talking about A LOT lately.
Is her shadow always visible? I like the game more without shadows, will it stay or will she be „naked“ if I turn of shadows?
It's a big part of her ability clarity so it can never be turned off
Who saw the most increase in play with the reworks? I know I came back because of the Fiddle rework (10/10 on that one and would love to see the graph if it shows data going back to pre-rework too)
Im not sure who the MOST was, but ones that had huge jumps were Akali, Irelia, Mordekaiser & Urgot
If it wasn't a hassle, could you please show the Talon graph. I've tried looking for his name but can't find it.
What's Kindlejack working on? :( I heard he was meant to be working in Askhan but couldn't. So what's he doing now?
I really love his designs but it feels like we barely get one a year. Vs Lonewingy who makes like 4.
Kindlejack is working with Squad5 and griddlebones on the next support champion. Will have a section on that champion in the Roadmap later this month
on the topic of reworks, can we expect another VGU poll next year for a rework either at the end of 2022 or sometime during 2023? also, are there currently only two VGUs planned for next year?
yes I plan on doing a 2023 VGU poll around 2022 Season Start like this year
Boss how is the champions team looking? Has it gotten smaller, stayed the same, or increased in size relative to previous years?
Still about the same
/u/Reav3 are you able to share more now about Vex's delay, was it mostly because of Shadow's rendering since it looks really expressive
yes, her shadow tech was what caused the delay. The insights article will go into a lot more detail on the shadow tech and what it took to make
i wonder how much fun u/Reav3 had yesterday with people asking about Vex in that thread knowing she would show up one day after lol
also, it looks like her release skin will be Dawnbringer (the symbol on her shirt really reminds me of the dawnbringer prestige icon, which maybe will be like Odyssey last year which had a mini-event within Worlds? that's interesting
So much fun
Reav, since you answer lore questions here, can I ask something about Viego that's been bothering me a lot? You see, I like the character (and the champion for that matter, got me into jungle and everything) and I like to imagine that prior Isolde's tragic death he was a good husband to her, loving and caring. But lately I see many people suggesting that he was actually abusive towards her when she was alive, and she couldn't deny him because she was just a peasant girl and he was a King. But I can't find any evidence to that? Is there anything that indicates this was the case? A romantic in me hopes that's not true, but I fear those people know something about the lore that I don't. Can you confirm how it was in the story? Or are we not supposed to know for sure?
They loved each other once. He really only went crazy after she got poisoned. Was he selfish and spoiled, sure, but he wasn't abusive to her. They were happy once, long ago.
Will it ever be possible for this chart to be viewable by the playerbase that updates per patch? I think that would be pretty neat to see how certain champions are doing and where new champs land and settle without having to ask you
LoLAnaltycs actually does do this, though like any 3rd party sites, it's not always as accurate as ours. But in general it gets pretty close
