As an animator and game design student, I think you can really learn a lot from looking at these designs! They are all amazing, old and new, but they clearly improved in the visuals such as values (dark and light tones) and texture. In the old versions the colors are generally very bright and has more or less the same value, which makes it difficult to know where to look and what’s the focus point (like face or a special feature). A good example is the very last character Zyra, where they mostly changed her values and colors and it became very clear that the focal point is her face and upper body (like the petals/flower feature). Many other character designs improved in this, but they also went all out and made a complete new design! I love when the creators are still actively involved in improving their game. It’s such a shame that some call them lazy, when every single change took thought and effort. Most developers would have just left it honestly. The redesigns are also genius! A lot of them are likely because they fleshed out the characters personalities and backgrounds, and had to make the designs fit that. It’s also worth mentioning that a lot of the redesigns of the female characters is adding more clothing to them, like Lux for example. In games, the female characters tend to be overly sexually, per demand of the male audience or the creators preferences. However with more women playing games and working in the game industry, the value of the female characters also rise and simply making them sexy or attractive isn’t as engaging to the entire audience (not saying women don’t appreciate playing sexy female characters ofc). Making the female characters more realistic and in tone with their personalities is a huge win for LOL and deserves praise for the effort they put into that👏🏻
It's crazy how a good third of the roster are in desperate need of an update and the biggest game in the world apparently doesn't have the funds for some new models and voicelines.
They don't want to have funds. They'd rather spend their money on things that can triple their money, like Arcane and gacha skins. Oh, and laying off two third of the company.
@@bluewolf7111 as much as some of the other champion's designs suck, viktor's sucked too. It heavily pandered to his original lore where he was just a one-dimensional cyborg for the sake of League having a cyborg character. His new design gives much more of that Glorious Evolution he speaks of, because he looks quite glorious. That being said, I agree that other champions should've been prioritized before him.
i'm sure a bunch of the artists would love to touch up the champs. what i think is happening is riot (the business) doesn't see the point in spending that money and won't allow the work to be started
@@sageling_9677 I know that. Hell, if I would have occasion to make a concept for rework of Riven since she is my favorite champion, it would be a dreams come true. But Riot is lowkey on destroying their image as the "artists friendly" company grind, so you know.
@@saber8501I'm pretty sure the artists has more work to deal with than just reworking champions. Every year they have to deal with creating new events, new skins, new heroes, new environments, the list goes on. And as much as you wanted to see your favorite champion gets a rework, I think my boy Gragas needs a bit of glow up first before Riven don't you think 😅
@redzuana6979 It was an example, sorry to not specify it under the video about models 🙃 This doesn't change the fact that Riot also fired artists from skins department (even the 500$ Ahri skin guy). Both need rework cuz both have models from 10 years ago which is imo unacceptable this day and age. Same as Zilean, Shaco, Kassadin, Lux, Le Blank you name it
Tell us you know nothing about design work on large companies without telling us you know nothing about design work on large companies. Wait, maybe you don't even know how working for a company is like, you know, chain of command, priorities, time and resources, working alongside other departments, meddling executives, the usual.
Darius be like : did they change me ? Can you tell the difference ? Graves just return back to his 1st model. Some champ just change the tone color to lighter. I don’t see the difference on nautilus 2nd and 3rd model.
I understand people saying many of the older ones look better but you have to remember the characters arent supposed to be looked at from this angle. They reduced details in order to be visually more appealing ingame. (and no its not because they are "lazy" the old designs were lazy because they didnt care much about the visual aspect ingame) This and many people thinking smear, strechframes are bad/lazy really grinds my gears Although that Fiora from old to new game me a good laugh. I miss the old Kayle the most..such an nostalgic design
Another thing to note is the colours, old colours look better in thie video but they absolutely scream at you ingame making far too much contrast with map.
I would disagree at least a third of the characters look far better off with their original skins from any angle. how they managed to mess up greater pixel Clarity is beyond me
@@RighteousInquisition they dont look better ingame at all. Anyone who played on the old seasons can easily tell you: old skins didnt fit the new summoners rift, and had too much contrast and they looked like oversized polygons.
@@RighteousInquisition well, simply put, you're an idiot. High contrast colors did nothing but bring out the horrendously terrible poly counts and low res textures. The new models actually blend in more naturally with the environment. Cope
I miss when the ugly characters were ugly and the monster characters monstrous. Too much prettying up for a lot of them, especially urgot. Poor twitch got cleaned up too.
@@benamisai-kham5892tbf twitch was hard to look at, esp on the loading screen. do i do prefer the theme: an aristocratic gross rat ala the penguin from batman returns. the actual one barely has any idea besides "rat"
Kayle's the only one I genuinely dislike the update for, I don't think there was a need to make her armor so curvy. The rest are a neutral or net positive.
Fiora's was a major downgrade. The original model with the gold highlights actually looked the best. She's at least wearing some armor as opposed to the tight fitting clothes of the rework and the ugly ass shoulderpad+cape thing.
This is the first time i see the base gankplank after rework , i never see anyone using the base skin for gankplank , they all use that free gankplank skin or just having other skin
I dont go here but Kayle's is a huge downgrade. From some seriously cool armour giving valkyrie vibes to... generic skinsuit armour that kinda looks ugly... I dont know if there's a lore reason but... yeah that just don't look as visually cool as the badass armour.
Poor Fiora and Jarvan damn. Makes me remember. Their silhouettes were also more clear at the game angle. Some champions seemed to have taken a design nose dive somehow.
I love how some characters looked like they were ripped from a random N64 game 8:45 fun fact: that old Poppy's texture update was released about a week before her full rework. And retextured skins looked way worse than before
I miss old Fiddlesticks so much 😢 I loved his goofyness, his walk animation. The cowboy hat skin was my first skin and with the update it completely lost its charm :c
They really did just turn the saturation down on some of the updates 😂 But man i miss how old league looked and played, it felt so alive and full of wonder. The old SR and old champ skillsets....miss them dearly. I miss twisted treeline and dominion the most though. I'd do anything to go back and play through the first 3 seasons of league again. It's truly hearrbreaking that league will never be the same game i fell in love with.
I saw the Lux pic, I was around at the time that skin was never released. The backlash was so bad about Lux looking like a lady of the night they did a complete visual redesign. Also her W was supposed to make units stealth for a brief amount of time, thank god that never made it to live.
(A Psalm of David.) The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. (Chapter 23)
I honestly think many of these champs changed for worse. Like mundo or fiora or morde. Also not sure why they removed detail from textures on many champs and made them more blurry. Not to mention voice lines , like lux .
I think all changes are more or less justified. I personally would keep more details from old Evelyn, Fiora and Karma designs though. And I don't like new Tristana face, don't know why. And TF lost his "anime magician" vibe, don't know if it is a good thing or bad.
Evelynn, Fiora, Kayle, and Warwick I definitely had nostalgia for I do like the new ones too, but I remember seeing one of Kayle's older splash arts of her in her ult, and I thought it was badass with the ripple effect ^^ Evelynn, I seen arts of someone recoloring her model and editing it so she had blue skin, deep purple hair, and spikes. I really loved the asthetic! Her early splash arts of her coming out of the darkness looked so...mysterious and "misty" to me I have no idea why. Its a personal fav of mine I definitely love Warwick's changes as my first ever champ! I do miss his ptsd-inducing howls though lol I know its there but quieter and not as common to hear anymore Old Udyr model, speaking of which- oh how that gives me massive ptsd lol (mind you, I played LoL when I was still in middle school, so of course I was bad at the game. Every udyr i met was snowballing and overfed)
fun to see how some characters got massive changes to their look like fiddlesticks, lux and that flying statue then we get fizz who changed gamma a bit and added change to eyes. also holy shit pantheon had sasquatch sized feet before
It's a very mixed bag for me. The female characters got the best reworks minus a few exceptions. Katarina, Jinx, Lux got it great while I'm a little more iffy about Caitlyn and Fiora. The non-humans got it the worst though. They were fun because they were so exaggerated and cartoony and I feel as if they had too much of a focus on making what they thought were cool designs rather than what best suited the character. LoL's old design seemed to be more centered around being cartoony, seemingly taking inspiration from WoW and possibly 2000's 2D animated movies. Male characters having larger legs, Kayle and her large chestplate with her thinner limbs, Caitlyn's big hat, ect. Some were a little overly detailed but I feel as if the new design philosophy doesn't stick out from other live service games. Trying to focus too much on cool looking designs rather than making ones that fit the character. Like Dr. Mumbo's most recent design. His 4th design was PEAK but his new look tries to make him look more cool and attractive. It's hard to say which era was the best because it's like 33% of the designs improved, 33% of the designs lost their sauces while the other 33% are just slight color and contrast changes.
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You can tell how much they were inspired by warcraft 3 in the early designs
Fair enough ....LoL,Dota and Smite are the WC's not recognized children
Ice frog and guinsoo designed most of the champions, early on, guinsoo worked on dota 1 with ice frog
Technically they were one Blizzard team before Dota 2 and League we know today
dotA was originally a wc3 mod so it makes perfect sense
Kinda like the wc3 style more ngl.
FIDDLEDICK 😭😭😭
He fiddles your pickle
"Fiddledick, fucks the men. Fiddledick, bursts semen!"
Nah fiddlestick new better than old one
@@HiHiHiz 2:28 read slowly
Famous last word: _"FiddDDLeddiiiCCK"_
Totally missing the old Fiora and imo the interpretation without the hair hanging in her face was top tier too
agree the splash art is the best in the old roster
@@morasoftwood8224 Old Fiora looks sick!
She was much hotter
They went woke, bud.
Attractive grls are awful for dei.
are you capable of independent thought? @@SeriousDragonify
Its impressive how much difference a new texture makes on a years old model.
Old Fiora was so much better, jeez
i don't buy it
it was to sell skin, I'm sure, because this base skin Oh my...
Não acho, ela tava muito sexualizada pra uma campeã séria
Meh too edgy for my liking but you do you
fr man i love bodysuit and riot take it away from me
As an animator and game design student, I think you can really learn a lot from looking at these designs! They are all amazing, old and new, but they clearly improved in the visuals such as values (dark and light tones) and texture. In the old versions the colors are generally very bright and has more or less the same value, which makes it difficult to know where to look and what’s the focus point (like face or a special feature). A good example is the very last character Zyra, where they mostly changed her values and colors and it became very clear that the focal point is her face and upper body (like the petals/flower feature). Many other character designs improved in this, but they also went all out and made a complete new design! I love when the creators are still actively involved in improving their game. It’s such a shame that some call them lazy, when every single change took thought and effort. Most developers would have just left it honestly.
The redesigns are also genius! A lot of them are likely because they fleshed out the characters personalities and backgrounds, and had to make the designs fit that. It’s also worth mentioning that a lot of the redesigns of the female characters is adding more clothing to them, like Lux for example. In games, the female characters tend to be overly sexually, per demand of the male audience or the creators preferences. However with more women playing games and working in the game industry, the value of the female characters also rise and simply making them sexy or attractive isn’t as engaging to the entire audience (not saying women don’t appreciate playing sexy female characters ofc). Making the female characters more realistic and in tone with their personalities is a huge win for LOL and deserves praise for the effort they put into that👏🏻
this was fun to read good take :)
2:29 FIDDLEDICK moments
2:00 mundo is like: « who tf are those guys » 💀
The beta version Mundo ☠️
Mundo hate other Mundo, cuz Mundo look weird.
Reminds of Hulk seeing himself from past evolution as Prof Hulk
It's crazy how a good third of the roster are in desperate need of an update and the biggest game in the world apparently doesn't have the funds for some new models and voicelines.
They don't want to have funds. They'd rather spend their money on things that can triple their money, like Arcane and gacha skins. Oh, and laying off two third of the company.
But they have enough to twinkifie Viktor, a champion who nobody was complaining about his design.
I said the same thing 7 or 8 years ago when I played lol. Today they are still the same it seems.
@bluewolf7111 Viktor's new model is far superior. Calling him a twink is major cope
@@bluewolf7111 as much as some of the other champion's designs suck, viktor's sucked too. It heavily pandered to his original lore where he was just a one-dimensional cyborg for the sake of League having a cyborg character. His new design gives much more of that Glorious Evolution he speaks of, because he looks quite glorious. That being said, I agree that other champions should've been prioritized before him.
0:00 Aatrox
0:07 Akali
0:17 Alistar
0:27 Amumu
0:35 Anivia
0:42 Annie
0:50 Ashe
1:00 Blitzcrank
1:07 Caitlyn
1:20 Cassiopeia
1:27 Cho'Gath
1:35 Corki
1:42 Darius
1:50 Dr. Mundo
2:05 Evelynn
2:15 Ezreal
2:27 FIDDLEDICK (Fiddlesticks)
2:37 Fiora
2:50 Fizz
2:57 Galio
3:07 Gangplank
3:20 Garen
3:27 Gragas
3:37 Graves
3:47 Heimerdinger
3:54 Irelia
4:04 Janna
4:17 Jarvan
4:25 Jax
4:34 Jinx
4:42 Karma
4:49 Karthus
4:57 Kassadin
5:07 Katarina
5:17 Kayle
5:30 Kennen
5:37 Kindred
5:45 Kog'Maw
5:52 Leblanc
6:00 Lee Sin
6:12 Leona
6:20 Lucian
6:28 Lullu
6:35 Lux
6:45 Malzahar
6:55 Maokai
7:05 Master Yi
7:23 Miss Fortune
7:20 Mordekaiser
7:30 Morgana
7:40 Nasus
7:50 Nautilus
8:00 Nidalee (Cougar)
8:07 Nidalee (Human)
8:15 Nunu
8:25 Olaf
8:32 Orianna
8:40 Pantheon
8:50 Poppy
9:00 Quinn
9:07 Rammus
9:17 Renekton
9:25 Riven
9:32 Rumble
9:40 Ryze
9:52 Sejuani
10:00 Shaco
10:07 Shen
10:17 Shyvanna
10:25 Singed
10:32 Sion
10:45 Sivir
10:55 Soraka
11:02 Swain
11:12 Taric
11:20 Tristana
11:28 Trundle
11:36 Twisted Fate
11:43 Twitch
11:50 Udyr
11:58 Urgot
12:06 Volibear
12:13 Warwick
12:21 Yorick
12:29 Zilean
12:36 Zyra
Thanks
Where tf is Syndra
Where is gwen
Where skaner?
No Ahri either
Yo I cant be the only one who thinks old Fiora should come back as a skin at least. Goes hard af!
Yeah. Her new face looks really bad.
They went full woke.
Attractive girls are awful t dei.
It definitely looks better design wise than her new look
@@Zidizzle87 They went full woke.
Not better at all.
@@SeriousDragonify wdym woke
3:18 GP is progressively getting older 😂
Makes sense he's been at it for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong ass time
just a realistic look at ow league ages people
bruh vlad hasnt even changed his model since the day he was added. really needs an asu.
Unless you count the Wild Rift model
Same with Amumu lol
GO BACK GO BACK
if they ever change his voicelines it’s over though
@@kassaken6521 Amumu at least got new textures
7:22 Mordekaiser went from looking like the most basic minion to a mfkin raid boss.
Damn, Mundo used to be an actual doctor, but then he drank some lean and got brainrot 😥
I actually liked Kayle's old helmet better. I dont like how her face shows through now. I guess I liked how mysterious and powerful it made her look.
It was funny that you needed a skin to remove the helmet
Old Soraka still nightmare fuel, as well as her Q spamming giving PTSD for top laners.
Those old days was full of fun
Remember Lollipoppy? 😱
Hard to see Teemo's update with his passive on 😢
And Ahri turned into Darius and his 0 changes
The fact that some of those champions still looks the same after all those years is astonishing. Riot should clearly fire more artists 🙄
i'm sure a bunch of the artists would love to touch up the champs. what i think is happening is riot (the business) doesn't see the point in spending that money and won't allow the work to be started
@@sageling_9677 I know that. Hell, if I would have occasion to make a concept for rework of Riven since she is my favorite champion, it would be a dreams come true. But Riot is lowkey on destroying their image as the "artists friendly" company grind, so you know.
@@saber8501I'm pretty sure the artists has more work to deal with than just reworking champions. Every year they have to deal with creating new events, new skins, new heroes, new environments, the list goes on.
And as much as you wanted to see your favorite champion gets a rework, I think my boy Gragas needs a bit of glow up first before Riven don't you think 😅
@redzuana6979 It was an example, sorry to not specify it under the video about models 🙃 This doesn't change the fact that Riot also fired artists from skins department (even the 500$ Ahri skin guy).
Both need rework cuz both have models from 10 years ago which is imo unacceptable this day and age. Same as Zilean, Shaco, Kassadin, Lux, Le Blank you name it
Tell us you know nothing about design work on large companies without telling us you know nothing about design work on large companies. Wait, maybe you don't even know how working for a company is like, you know, chain of command, priorities, time and resources, working alongside other departments, meddling executives, the usual.
4:35 Kratos after killing his family
Im sorry, is the Fiora one going backwards in design?
Darius be like : did they change me ? Can you tell the difference ?
Graves just return back to his 1st model.
Some champ just change the tone color to lighter.
I don’t see the difference on nautilus 2nd and 3rd model.
Lulu changed the least lmao and they left the ones with the most dramatic changes (ahri and teemo)
FIDDLEDICK
2:40 Fiora's old model looks better than the new one, wtf
my jaw dropped when i saw the change
how could they
They went full woke.
This is why girls shouldnt be in game studios.
They find their beauty as jealousy.
The Himboification of Dr. Mundo
I understand people saying many of the older ones look better but you have to remember the characters arent supposed to be looked at from this angle. They reduced details in order to be visually more appealing ingame. (and no its not because they are "lazy" the old designs were lazy because they didnt care much about the visual aspect ingame)
This and many people thinking smear, strechframes are bad/lazy really grinds my gears
Although that Fiora from old to new game me a good laugh.
I miss the old Kayle the most..such an nostalgic design
Old designs weren't bad, simply weren't well adapted to the game.
Give a look to Augie Pagan's concept arts, they are cool as fuck
Another thing to note is the colours, old colours look better in thie video but they absolutely scream at you ingame making far too much contrast with map.
I would disagree at least a third of the characters look far better off with their original skins from any angle. how they managed to mess up greater pixel Clarity is beyond me
@@RighteousInquisition they dont look better ingame at all. Anyone who played on the old seasons can easily tell you: old skins didnt fit the new summoners rift, and had too much contrast and they looked like oversized polygons.
@@RighteousInquisition well, simply put, you're an idiot. High contrast colors did nothing but bring out the horrendously terrible poly counts and low res textures. The new models actually blend in more naturally with the environment. Cope
some old models really embraced how disgusting the character were supposed to be, urgot, yorick specially
I miss when the ugly characters were ugly and the monster characters monstrous. Too much prettying up for a lot of them, especially urgot. Poor twitch got cleaned up too.
@@benamisai-kham5892 mundo is devastating to me
@myhlosic agree
@@benamisai-kham5892tbf twitch was hard to look at, esp on the loading screen.
do i do prefer the theme: an aristocratic gross rat ala the penguin from batman returns.
the actual one barely has any idea besides "rat"
Fiora was really cool. I forgot Kassa didnt get a new rework, just the Splash Art...
the old soundtrack hits so hard🥺
Man old twitch was actually an abomination, the man who made his 3d art is probably still having nightmares of that rat.
Its so cool seeing how theyve changed over the years. I feel like it would have been cool if you showed the date when they got reworked aswell
Kayle's the only one I genuinely dislike the update for, I don't think there was a need to make her armor so curvy. The rest are a neutral or net positive.
Fiora's was a major downgrade. The original model with the gold highlights actually looked the best. She's at least wearing some armor as opposed to the tight fitting clothes of the rework and the ugly ass shoulderpad+cape thing.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH CHAMPION'S FEET??????? Why the fuck were they so big?
wc3 design
People from 10s 😜
So you could see them from top down
There's a reason why "Pizza feet" has been a meme in the community for years.
It’s cause of the angle of the models we see them ingame which is why the models look so weird from other angles
0:49 ashe was happy then she got depressed
tryndabuse
Tbf most of the old ones have such cool and detailed designs
Man, they should release old skins as 520 or even 975 skins, especially old Fiora looked so cool.
Old League had that Rescue Hero proportion feet and as Alistar main, those toes are cursed.
love how u can all guess them because they are just huge upgrades and then comes galio that is just ANOTHER character lmao
Swain was also just another character, but I get it he actualy looks Noxian now
they ruined galio tbh
@@eebbaa5560 I don't think so
@@eebbaa5560nah he looks way better now
@@yanan7801 i agree and his gameplay is probably better too but he’s just really boring now
You really put Darius, Lulu and Quinn who literally look the same yet Ahri and Teemo were forgotten? How?
Hes using passive
This is the first time i see the base gankplank after rework , i never see anyone using the base skin for gankplank , they all use that free gankplank skin or just having other skin
10:57 WTF IS THAT THING
Preseason 1 player, I turned 30 this year and I miss every fucking one of em, and this music is devastating
I’m glad they changed poppy I mean look at her face before the rework
I dont go here but Kayle's is a huge downgrade. From some seriously cool armour giving valkyrie vibes to... generic skinsuit armour that kinda looks ugly...
I dont know if there's a lore reason but... yeah that just don't look as visually cool as the badass armour.
4:40 Jinx the Ghost of Pilotover
Her skin tone tho, it's like Kratos'
Poor Fiora and Jarvan damn. Makes me remember. Their silhouettes were also more clear at the game angle.
Some champions seemed to have taken a design nose dive somehow.
1:00 who's that doesn't seem very canon to me
Old Aatrox sword was so unique
Amumu and Cho need a rework ASAP
This made me realize how old i am, the years i spent playing and how old some updates are. God do I miss the old patches.
Ahri, Sona, Victor where?
Vladimir
The OG champions bringing me so much nostalgia
The moment I saw old Fiona I instantly went to the comments to see how disappointed everyone else was too :))) she looked so much better damn
Riot... Please do something about that poor Zilean. Please.
That old fiora design looks so much cooler wtfffff. I would so main her if her model looked like that.
Yeah wtf she looks so good
I love how gangplank just got older, then died.
ngl for many of those i like the older ones more somehow, had its own charm
RIP og Fiddlesticks. I was a complete menace to summoners rift with Fid back in the day.
Old Fiora looks so cool, gives me Winter Schnee vibes
Oh my god some of these guys still need updates holy moly
God damn. Season 1-5 was peak LoL for me. I miss that era.
Sion used to look so derpy and had that funny Arnold schwarzenegger voice lmao
I like that some changes are like: "Im you, but darker"
i really like ol evelynn desing ESPECIALLY THE SPLASH ART OH MY GOSH she doesn't even really look like a demon now
She went from a demon to a prostitute
That's the point
Yeah, people wouldn’t fuck with actual scary looking demon
Dude same, I miss old evelynn.
I miss her old laugh when she ulted
lmao, cait was like some cosplay of her current model, although i kinda miss it (but not really strong, just was funny asf)
I love how some characters looked like they were ripped from a random N64 game
8:45 fun fact: that old Poppy's texture update was released about a week before her full rework. And retextured skins looked way worse than before
you forgot Ahri lol
this is was a EMPRESS OF all time every time i feeling of LIGHT
Old Soraka’s proportions were so magical. Like idk she just looked so elegant. Too bad it was low poly
The majority of champions still needs a new VGU. Shyvana is luckily getting a new one next year. But many of them really do need another one.
shyvanna won't be coming until 2026 at least :(
I miss old Fiddlesticks so much 😢 I loved his goofyness, his walk animation. The cowboy hat skin was my first skin and with the update it completely lost its charm :c
Hell, this music was a nostalgia trip
They really did just turn the saturation down on some of the updates 😂
But man i miss how old league looked and played, it felt so alive and full of wonder. The old SR and old champ skillsets....miss them dearly. I miss twisted treeline and dominion the most though.
I'd do anything to go back and play through the first 3 seasons of league again.
It's truly hearrbreaking that league will never be the same game i fell in love with.
Cho'Gath was basically that demon villain from Spawn.
I love how Cho'gath is literally just Malebogia from Spawn
I saw the Lux pic, I was around at the time that skin was never released. The backlash was so bad about Lux looking like a lady of the night they did a complete visual redesign. Also her W was supposed to make units stealth for a brief amount of time, thank god that never made it to live.
Old Soraka, old Mundo, old Sion and old Urgot are masterpieces
Aint no way you just forgot to add Ahri there.... She had a model update come one
Some of them you just have to say "thank God they had an update"
Bro is back with these legendary videos
(A Psalm of David.)
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
(Chapter 23)
When i see the old karthus visual i just think about phantomlord
True! 😂
Shows how mamy champions needs a dire rework
I honestly think many of these champs changed for worse. Like mundo or fiora or morde.
Also not sure why they removed detail from textures on many champs and made them more blurry.
Not to mention voice lines , like lux .
What music name is it in the background? Is that League of Legends main menu theme?
Swain got a glow up
I think all changes are more or less justified.
I personally would keep more details from old Evelyn, Fiora and Karma designs though. And I don't like new Tristana face, don't know why. And TF lost his "anime magician" vibe, don't know if it is a good thing or bad.
Fiora's first design was unironically better than her new one
The old Fiora looked so much better
the firts fiora is so cool , better than the new
Evelynn, Fiora, Kayle, and Warwick I definitely had nostalgia for
I do like the new ones too, but I remember seeing one of Kayle's older splash arts of her in her ult, and I thought it was badass with the ripple effect ^^
Evelynn, I seen arts of someone recoloring her model and editing it so she had blue skin, deep purple hair, and spikes. I really loved the asthetic! Her early splash arts of her coming out of the darkness looked so...mysterious and "misty" to me I have no idea why. Its a personal fav of mine
I definitely love Warwick's changes as my first ever champ! I do miss his ptsd-inducing howls though lol I know its there but quieter and not as common to hear anymore
Old Udyr model, speaking of which- oh how that gives me massive ptsd lol
(mind you, I played LoL when I was still in middle school, so of course I was bad at the game. Every udyr i met was snowballing and overfed)
this music was everything
I Lowkey miss old Evelynn
Ok but fiora looked STUNNING in the previous models
I am begging riot on my hands and knees for a lulu visual update
Nautilus looked so cool when he was darker and grim.
gangplank's models just look like he got older over time lmfao
Galio is a whole new species
fun to see how some characters got massive changes to their look like fiddlesticks, lux and that flying statue then we get fizz who changed gamma a bit and added change to eyes.
also holy shit pantheon had sasquatch sized feet before
It's a very mixed bag for me. The female characters got the best reworks minus a few exceptions. Katarina, Jinx, Lux got it great while I'm a little more iffy about Caitlyn and Fiora. The non-humans got it the worst though. They were fun because they were so exaggerated and cartoony and I feel as if they had too much of a focus on making what they thought were cool designs rather than what best suited the character.
LoL's old design seemed to be more centered around being cartoony, seemingly taking inspiration from WoW and possibly 2000's 2D animated movies. Male characters having larger legs, Kayle and her large chestplate with her thinner limbs, Caitlyn's big hat, ect. Some were a little overly detailed but I feel as if the new design philosophy doesn't stick out from other live service games. Trying to focus too much on cool looking designs rather than making ones that fit the character. Like Dr. Mumbo's most recent design. His 4th design was PEAK but his new look tries to make him look more cool and attractive.
It's hard to say which era was the best because it's like 33% of the designs improved, 33% of the designs lost their sauces while the other 33% are just slight color and contrast changes.