Zilean in LoR is hands down the best redesign and it’s disappointing that he wasn’t mentioned

I wouldn't mind if League went for an entire year without any new champ releases, but instead focus on updating a ton of old champions to fit their modern design from LOR or any modern league game.

I always thought the giant skull on hecarims chest plate was supposed to represent his horses head since the 2 merged when the ruination happened and the horses soul just didnt disappear so that's where it ended up. And I figured the chest skull looked more human since that's where the more human part of the merge was located. But honestly that was probably just me trying to rationalize it instead of the designers intent because they probably just wanted to make him spooky and scary and skull chest with pointy teeth is scary.

I didn't even notice that, for hecarim, they got rid of his bones and stuff. I just love the fact that he's has big-ass heavy metal armor

This is kinda how rioters left Dota to make a better game called League of Legends and now the cycle repeats 😂

A thing you didn't mention on Hecarim's nes design is that on his front legs you can clearly see the thight guard of a human armor then ot blends into hooves and standard horse armor plating and it really pushes the whole "ride fused to his horse" and i LOVE it. It's a small detail but it really makes it different from a centaur with a halberd.

Hecarim doesn't honestly need the skull motiff, if anything it was over used on him. He certainly could do with a bit more biological look as right now TBH I'd sooner guess he works for Morde or something. Thresh on the other hand needs to be REALLY REALLY inhuman.

I'm grateful for Wildrift for showing us that lol pc can do better too

Kind of wish you talked about some of the voice changes too, like Vladimir's voice work in LoR which is 1,000,000x better than "The clot thickens" in LoL.

Heca's helm still looks like a skull, kinda weird cause it looks a lot like thresh's head

I really like Master Yi in LOR and the Wuju visual they came up with because it is really... Magical. Its fae-like, brings a sort of mystic aspect which we never saw. It ain't so much the "magical asia" and it creates a lot of new stuff, integrating even a "leaves" aspect which made me WANT to see Wukong, cause I wanna see him in this drip, or a variation of that Yi

Commenting before I watch: Riot does this because these redesigns are free for games where the champ doesnt exist yet. But in league they’d have to remaster the champion’s base skin and all additional skins (assuming just a visual rework…) that doesnt /make/ them money, because everyone who already owns the champ would get it for free. So basically… follow the money and thats why riot doesn’t update league models but updates them in their other games.

Recently found this channel and now I'm addicted. Your videos are the best.

man u are legit my wikipedia for story i belive noone can make this types of videos close to your lvl. well done never stop! please!

I'm gonna be honest, the limitation of not putting skulls, in my opinion, works in favor of the designs of characters in the Shadow Isles. It felt a little on the nose (which can be good sometimes just in my opinion not in this case) and it made the characters honestly a little less scary when you had characters like old Hecarim essentially hanging little halloween decorations on his armor. I understand the intent, but I think that limitation allows for more creative design work to convey the undead and haunted people of the Shadow Isles.

Its a good way to explore potential updates they could make to the overall picture.

I know it is a culture thing, but I really hope Censorship does not ruin any future and present characters. It would be a shame to say the least. Also: Say I'm wrong, but I prefer Twitch's old 3D model. Not because it looks better quality, but because his character feels more intense and more insane in the old one (look at the eyes and you get what I mean).

I'm glad you are talking about Wild Rift and giving it credit! WR is so awesome. I play LoL since 2011 and still love it, but now only play the mobile version since 2021.

I like how if you look at Hec's standing model at 14:35 you can easily remove the Horse Barrel and Backlegs, and you can see what he looked like before his transformation (minus the hooves)

6:55 i am a yi main and its looks freaking awsome

5:35 is such a outrageous statement. Master Yi's most important feature isn't his color palette, dagger boots, or sword really. It's his goggles so honestly I'm positive anybody can recognize that as master Yi. The pallete change is barely noticeable either way.

Concerning Warwick's trailer in wild rift; the scenario came from his short story released around his rework.

Holy, new Yi looks so good, sleek, dynamic.

11:12 "We got urgot and twitch" Me: *i can only see urgot* Mybrain: "Dumbbass ofc twitch is invisible."

I think the skull on hec's chest was "Supposed" to represent the fact that he is fused with his horse. but idk if thats what it actually was.

My favorit part in the lore is when leblanc says "I am alpharius"

Funny enough, I miss the chest-demon on Hecarim a LOT.

Honestly a realization just hit me a few days ago and it won’t leave my head, and it is that: Hecarim’s WR design is good…but my god would it have been the best design in lol if they made him like the bear from "ANNIHILATION", a brutal fusion between human and animal, like RIOT PLS WHEN U REDESIGN HECARIM IN LEAGUE PLEASE DO THAT 😭

13:45 @Necrit Those cinematics are actually wildrift Log in screens. So no voicelines

I always thought the stomach face on Hecarim was supposed to represent the horse he merged with, even if it did so poorly

riot : *changes 1 small color* necrit : i do not recognize this champion at all !

I like the hecarim design, especially the chest. It looks like a flattened horse armor, to which helps sell that hecarim was fused to his horse.

when he calls "a new dawn" the old cinematic my heart dies a little. Im still hyped from that cinematic, remember its release like it was yesterday, aswell as a Twist of fate.

the champions standing somewhere in their homeland is really cool about wild rift and it should be implemented in league too,like in smite the characters are viewed from a 3d view and it can actually be really useful and just a nice change

I'm hoping Project L will continue this pattern of making newer, better designs for champions. Illaoi looks fantastic and I hope that champions that desperately need redesigns get it in Project L.

To regards of Vladimir launch video having no sound effects is maybe because it's was also used as login screen in Wildrift so maybe Riot thought of having people screaming and wailing and blood gushing as your login video will get annoying which was i happily agree lol.

I wish that the WR base models would be swapped in LoL. I know I know it's not the same engine or whatever so it's difficult but I think it would add a lot of player trust if they did it for free. Not even updating animations just models.

10:55 Thanks for the nightmare fuel YEP

Hec also has the camavore symbol on his weapon

Warwick cinematic also takes place chronologically before the league cinematic

Ever since I watched the Wild Rift teasers I did wonder how long you would be able to resist making the videos

Why couldnt thresh look like hecarim , nooooo they had to make him an e-boy(and no, the "lore reason" doesnt excuse the design because it simply does not match his character , in game he literally sais "flesh is a prison" for example, Thresh would never willingly become human again, he likes being a monster)

11:44 "You must be here to take my cheese! boink-boink-boink-boink"

More than a little annoyed that at the beginning of the year they said the next vgus being worked on to come out was Lee sin and Teemo and yet there seems to be a total of 7 others first

Master Yi is my favorite champion so against about him would be awesome for me. So see his new design is awesome

Can't wait for the visual update for Corki, Ice Toboggan will finally feel like a Legendary Skin

The only issue I have with WR models is that they make the fool shit cutesy like LoL twitch with it’s hard lines and low poly looks like a crazy feral rabid rodent while WR literally just looks Disney to me

Necrit's given in to the dark side, Riot got to him.

LoL: You think you are better than me. Riot Forge: WR: LoR:

Master yi new design is just so fit .Bro is way more smooth and calm

So aperently Mani got a coven remake skin called Siren's call, she's half squid/octupus and mani from what i saw in the coments. They called it a taser. Also im trying to figure out what it all means besides new coven stuff.

6:30 they don’t _build_ houses, they _grow_ houses housi

Any updates on Wildrift coming to consoles?

I really would like if cases like Vladimir and Hecarim ended up as Skins in LOR Like, let's Wild Rift and Legends of Runeterra being close friends and share some stuff

Wait what's wrong with ruined king thresh?

so now we can say yi is beating us with a wood sword , nice

You dont get how they also made Master Yi less square metal and more "fluid" shape like a "S" or a leaf Now his motive is more plant "nature" also more natural even if he is wearing metal Even the sword with rings is now like a Sable and the rings looks like a leafs

LOR is the GOAT of redesigns

I'd personally prefer to see the vague image of a horse skull within his chest/abdominal area. But that's not cashmoney in china so who cares what I think.

You also forgot the Leona and Soraka visual updates in Wild Rift.

Huge competitions in mobile moba, New model attract new players Wild rift 3th anniversary is something else

We really need the draklorn inquisitor in league like something to add to lissandra I feel like she’s so side lined having her only allies be trundle really

12:46 Elite500 is that you?

I remember when that "new" skin for Nidalee was revealed. I was like... who is it? ... Oh right. I honestly don't see a point in releasing new skins for those champions when LoR gave them deserved and much more appealing visual overhaul.

I wish they could port the rift models to league.

you had me in the first half, i was gonna have a mental episode if you didn’t at least mention gragas

Wait, I'm confused now. I thought Jax was getting an ASU and not a full blown VGU! Can someone clarify? 🤔

Yeah...no Unbound Thresh is an abomination

I dunno if giving Twitch a cutsey dog face counts as an improvement, but overall yeah, the characters are way better realized in most new media.

Hecarims blade looks like night harvester

Video 9 of kindly asking Necrit to do a breakdown of the Ruination novel

Wait, are they even still working on skarners rework?

Twitch just needs a texture update in Legaue that’s it

MAN HECARIM CAN LOOK LIKE THIS BUT THRESH NOT????????????? I want to send riot to places

If only this year rito could have had a little bit more budget to update some of these champs mentioned here since they already have an updated design

I play Wild Rift! I hope they don’t mix us over here in the West… & Master Yi and Jax new looks are awesome to me.. better than outdated designs gawddd

I mean the vlad trailer was make for wild rift login screen

8:31 Come on, I almost forget that face

And this point, Shaco and MAYBE Kog’Maw are the only Champions who really need full redesigns from the ground-up. Everyone else could honestly work with an approach similar to Yi or Nidalee where we just upgrade what’s already there.

11:44 I LOVE IT!! 😂

what about malphite?

Jax VGU just got announced! Spot on!

How Jax have that Pantheon emblem thing like around his waist.

8:53 Is it just me or does this image make Thresh look like Matt Mercer?

Just cool to know that we will not have the censorship problem with Wild Rift anymore. They confirmed Briar is censored too so now the problem is in every game.

God what I would give to have that Anivia design in league... or whatever she'll look like in song of nunu. GIVE HER AN ASU ALREADY RIOT!

0:24 Id dunno that Thresh looks cool.

Necrit bring yer hat back ya dang scallywag

I don't think I'd be exactly fine with Nidalee having the "in-between" form. Not at least unless they do a rework on her kit. Maybe if they do it like juuuuuust a smidge in her human form, I guess. Still hoping for them to ASU her. Many characters, herself included, come from the era of "let's do archetypes of characters, as stereotypical as possible".

Ahahah I didn't know how much I miss the Gragas Ending Jokes on your videos 😂

at last someone says facts malphite still look like anose zilean look like he ran away from arkham

I don't agree with your view on unbound Thresh or smooth Brand. Culture or not, it's still stupid.

i mean yea LoL is slow with updating champs (mainly bcz ppl complain too much about the final product no matter what) but we cant compair league and wild rift to Cards game

12:33 you meant wild rift I believe

10:00 That cinematic is not canon btw. In the story at the end WW could not controll himself and attacked that innocent person.

the "Oh god, he came out in 2012" remind me about that day. I was drunk after some 30+ shot of whiskey, tequila, and vodka. So I bought Hec and started playing. 10 min into the game, I threw up on my brand new gaming laptop, lol.

zoe in wild rift looks like the short guy who made the deal with shrek

Vladimir got a really bad redesign, with no blood, its all purple-ish mist, they took away the one thing he had hemomancy. now is just a pretty boy with small hints of vampire with zero blood, lame.

At this point I feel like Necrit became League of Legends positive advertisement :D

now we need to talk about malphite.