Aight fellas, real talk. This winter break was the first time I've had real dedicated time to work on videos for a very long time now, so I went a bit crazy. I didn't really get to HAVE a holiday cause i spent it working on videos. And while I loved it and I'm super happy with how most of them turned out, I can't deny I'm getting tired, and I think the quality of my video making shows that in full force here. I'm already back at University and I'm not refreshed AT ALL. I'm incredibly worried I'm going to burn out, and that's the last thing I want. TDLR besides next week's Subathon and our usually rapid fire skin review, I'm going to be taking a break from video making for a few weeks. To veterans of the channel I'm sure that seems like nothing, but to all the new fellas it might feel a bit stranger. There will still be a few videos going up, but other than that, I'm going to do my best to take a break for a bit. All of the videos on urgent topics are done for the most part (yes, that means no Zeri video, maybe I'll make on in the future but i honestly don't have enough to say about her), so coming back i'll be making videos on just whatever i feel like i want to talk about :D In any case lads, ty for taking the time to read this if you did, 100k subathon next week, ill have details about it on my community page/twitter/discord in the coming days so stay posted for that if u're interested. That's all from me lads, take care of yourseleves

To be honest, anyone who still says "Summoner" should automatically be in the vgu list

I'd love it if Kog'maw had this one ability where he will eat any incoming skillshot and shoot it back, Idk for a champ that's the mouth of the abyss and has an insatiable hunger, he doesn't really feel like that. I do like him spitting at champs and chucking a loogie as a mortar

I can't feel my left arm

This poll was really strange, the prior ones we voted in the one that had the most potential and that most needed the vgu, this one we had to vote in the one that had the lesser chance of riot screwing up.

The other day I saw a comment about a Kog passive that works like Kayn's (Do you want to evolve into a Autoatacker or do you want to evolve into an artillery mage)

Most definitely Skarner and Shyvanna. Nocturnes gameplay is boring pre 6 but he has a purpose and sees semi-regular play. Kog'maw needs more a visual update since his model is OLD his gameplay has a specific niche and they could give him a minirework for his "passive" like they did to Zyra a long time ago. Who the f suggested Tryndamere? Hello? Cho and Zil are a thing...

I'm just hoping for a tie vote like with Voli and Fiddlesticks, so Rito HAS to make more VGU's. Preferably Nocturne and Shyvana.

Skarner really is just his ult and a crystal scorpion there's nothing else to explain abt him, and even his kit is barely usable beside his ult .Idk none of others have gameplay problems beside visuals.

Good ol Shyvanna since I play her anyway however she could feel more impactful both visually and gameplay wise which is what I hope for in her VGU. Kinda how Senna’s Autos feel so impactful with each shot or how meaty Pantheons Q’s are. With Shyva it’s kinda like gliding most of the time unless you use her Dragon Fire ball ya know?

As a Skarner main, I don't want to lose my favorite champ but I completely understand why people would vote for him

Starting playing Skarner lately and OMG, it's not that he's just underwhelming, he doesn't do anything if he's outside one of the crystals Full AD is fun, but worst than anyone else, and Tank is just run and grab people, have enough MS to drag them under tower and let your teammates kill him for you So yeah, I think Skarner needs something to be anything but miserable

Skarner deserves it. He is only viable because of his ult and RARELY his E. Useless otherwise. I also have a cosmic sting skin and I want him to get better cause the skin is poggisimus

I voted for Skarner, but only because I think that "getting rid of the old" isn't necessarily a bad thing. If the previous version is utterly uninspired, then doing *anything* interesting to them will "delete their old selves." I know that it will piss off some people who played that old character (see Aatrox mains still begging for a revert), but it's ultimately for the greater good, both for LoL as a game and Runeterra as an IP. Although... When you brought up the idea of making Nocturne the ghost of Shen and Zed's old master... Damn that'd be so fucking cool...

The most fun I ever had with Kog'Maw was when he was able to get his attack speed to 5 attacks per second. I wanted to see that again, so I voted for Kog'Maw. Now I can only hope I didn't make the wrong decision...

I think Quinn is going to be the mystery VGU because the rage would be funny

Now I love Skarner as much as the next person, but I can literally count on one hand the number of times I've seen him in-game last year.... and with all the focus on arcane and hextech, as well as the inclusion of the clusterf*ck that was Seraphine, I don't think a complete rework of his lore would be so bad. Imo a Skarner rework could be similar to Fiddlesticks...like sure we think fondly of the old version, but most agree that the new one is superior.

I’ll be honest, The only reason that I looked into League of Legends is because I watched Arcane, and while I don’t plan on playing it anytime soon the characters and lore for this game has gotten me hooked. I love reading and watching stuff dissecting a characters themes and design. I’ve barely scratched the surface and yet I can already tell there’s so much here. A large part of that is thanks to you, so please keep it up!

I'm at a point that I wouldn't dislike if they did a "Galio Rework" on Skarner. I voted for him not because I think he deserves it, but because I genuinely dislike the bland "Crystal Scorpion" idea, I want riot to go all in on creativity and lean in on the hextech shenanigans and maybe sprinkle a bit of void corruption in there (plus they're keeping the only fun part about his kit so it's a win win for me)

Shyvana was my first main so it wasn't a question for me at least, nothing against the other champs (expect trydemere) but I like playing her and her thematic however I do believe that the other champs (expect trydemere) really need a rework, if anything I think Riot should be focusing on making 1 - 2 new champs a year and putting the rest of their resources VGU's In stead of... 7 new possible champions this year

I can't decide: the irony is that last year I voted for Nocturne because he's just ridiculous compared to the other demons, but now I think that Skarner needs help way more than anyone else in the poll

voted for shyv in the hopes to see something like illaoi emerge, an imposing humanoid figure that would make the demacian fear understandable and a truly powerfull dragon form.... but i doubt that will end up being the exact outcome if shes the winner

i'd have to argue with the point about galio rework being a replacement champion. The only thing people remember/liked about old galio was the AOE taunt, the tornados (that i think used to give a speed buff) and a sheild that negated magic damage and healed him. The kept the aoe taunt (i felt like it was improved honestly) the tornadoes are there, just no speed boost and i'll admit the sheild is VERY different. But the essence of gameplay was still there. Anti magic AP bruiser is still the style. Sion...i never played the old one. When i started everyone told me to just ignore him since they were gonna rework him. That was like 3 years and i NEVER saw him get picked once. Like the sion rework release i thought was a new champion because of how little i saw him. Urgot is also very similar. landing an abiliy let's you spam another one (old) -> landing an ability lets you pew pew the shit out of someone...sounds very similar. The ult was a pick a person in particular and say "F U", at the cost of putting yourself in danger. Now you get to say FU form a distance. and there is NOTHING they can do about it...if they are low. The only champion that was DELETED from the game. 0 aspect was kept. no lore, no play style nothing, was Aatrox. The only thing was they kept was the revive and they removed it. If you got to the end, thank you for coming to my ted talk. I used this as an excuse to waste the last like 5 minutes of my work shift. Thank you have a nice day

bruh skarner really need this rework, im just sad for him , i know that riot will change a lot of stuff about him , but i think that a change is better than let him alone in the champ selection for the eternity

Honestly, I know I'm probably in the minority for this one, but urgot, poppy, sion, galio and aatrox are all my most favorite reworks and I wish riot would do those types of reworks to all 5 of these champs. I hold this opinion despite the fact that pre-rework urgot, mord and swain were all among my highest played champs.

Void puppy deserves more attention, though I’m a bit disappointed that rito’s going to make him more horrifying and less cutesy if he wins

Been loving ur content and channel. keep it up bro

I love that u are making a lot of videos, keep doin it 🤜🤛

skarner and noct are the best choices imo

Okay I'm gonna make myself really unpopular rn especially with Nicky but still just wanna say it. As much as I get the ap kog fanbase, I really wanna see him as a good adc. I personally fell so in love with this tank shredding puppy but most of his abilities feel so awkward on ad. I don't need to talk about his passive I think most can agree that it's almost useless. His Q is somewhat nice for shred and passive attack speed but feels bad when you need to stop aa to Q. W obviously very good on ad kog no need to talk about that. His E ist probably the most underwhelming for ad, for ap it's a nice reliable damage tool but for ad it's just a very weak slow so very awkward as well. His Ult is interesting while it's pretty good when as soon as you get it at 6 and a few levels above as a finishing tool when they get out of your aa range but it falls off very hard when it's not enough damage anymore to finish and harder to land when everyone is faster through tier 2 boots or other items. Now when it comes to the voidy visuals they want to give them, I would love to see Necrits idea that he is very very cute voidling but turns into a horrormachine as soon as he activates his W or something like that because that sounds amazing. So yeah while most people are upset about potentially loosing ap Kog I would really would like Riot to focus more on his ad side and maybe release a new artillery champ as compensation. So yeah if someone read all of this thanks and feel free to critisize but obviously keep it civil.

Congrats on 100k+ subscribers Nicky!

“The curel irony” lol JK I love you Nicky! You inspired me to start my own channel and attempt this whole KZfaq thing. Love your work, keep it up!

Nocturne deserves to have a reworked into terrifying, inducing feared monster like Fiddlesticks.

I ended up voting for Nocturne because none of their rework ideas appealed to me, i don't want Kogmaw to stop being at least a little bit cute, i don't want them to straight up delete Skarner from the game, i don't want an even more annoying Tryndamere and I think Shyvanna needs it the leasy

I love the ,,We ride high on Copium tonight fellas" part. XD Love you and your content mate. Keep up!

From what i've seen the community is very torn between which champ deserves the VGU, i wish nocturne would be the winner but it feels like Shyvanna is going to win. It looks like it's going to take us 5 years for every champion on the VGU poll to actually get one unfortunately.

As a skarner main, I really don't want him to be reworked, I am too afraid to see how they would change him and I'm happy with the way he is now

The old skarner was dead the moment they put the spires on the map

As somebody who’s been a kog main for almost 9 years, I appreciate you giving him the time of day Nicky 💜

The one part of the Shyv clip where you snuck in twitch laughing killed me.

The problem with Trynd is not his ult, though it is problematic. I want him reworked so I don't randomly lose lane to one or two RNG pre-backport crits.

Just like Rito says, I used to play Nocturne mid a lot. His ult made it really easy to roam and help bot or top if they needed it, or to pick off a pesky split pusher. I think making him Zed and Shens old master would be interesting, like a Swain who couldn't control his Demons, literally. Other than a good ol lore boost, giving him I bit more mobility other than his ult would be useful, and maybe some better lifesteal could help too. Let's help our friendly neighborhood nightmare out

FINALLY! IT’S SO GOOD TO HEAR SOMEONE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO TO SKARNER! Don’t get me wrong, he can be boring and unnecessarily complicated to play, but that isn’t enough to justify him being deleted.

*nicky explaining why people want shyvana reworked* I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.

I think with kog'maw they should do something similair too the purpose of Pyke or Senna. He could be the atillery mage for the adc position. So if a Mage gets the adc role they have something to play.

*sees Kog'Maw eating a crown* I will take a wild guess and say the answer is Kog'Maw edit: ok that is a more interesting choice, but that won't stop rito from reworking Kog'Maw one day... on the bright side, delaying Kog'Maw rework might give them the opportunity to think more about him, and have a better idea of who Kog should be

I hope you're proud of me for voting Nocturne after reading the VGU descriptions before the video even came out.

Imagine if nocturne was reworked by the same team that did fiddle, oh my god

I voted for Nocturne just because it’s my fave champ of the bunch and bc i want him to get a proper “shadow tail” or whatever. Like Asol has. He has the potential to be an incredible VGU. I kinda wished they put new champions on the poll that actually need to be reworked, relaunched and reborn. I can’t believe Cho’Gath is getting away with his old model still

Also, on the whole redacted situation with skarner, most characters that have a voiceline with her aren't blind fanboys. Gwen says she's nothing but a pretty voice and Zeri tells her to start actually making changes, Rell just "flirts" with her cus she's a bisexual dissaster. Cait is the only recent champ to be actually a fan of her, wich is expected of a piltie. I think Riot is self aware enough to not make skarner just be okay with her (or any of the hextech users), afterall, there's a reason why a bunch of champ have lines antagonizing Teemo despite having no reason to.

I just want to see a big, dark and terrifying version of Nocturne do some flashy Assasin plays.

THE TWITCH LAUGH YOU CAUGHT ME OFFGUARD HAHAHAHAAH

I would've voted for Skarner in a heartbeat, but I also didn't want the crystal motif to be deleted, so I ended up voting for Nocturne. Great minds do think alike.

Skarner main here :D really want a skarner rework but actually want a REWORKED SKARNER and not some weird new champ Please dont ruin my scorpion rito

A totally non-buyest 10 minute long video about the next vgu poll, ohh man this is the video i've been waiting for ;)

1:42 The happiest bit of news from this video is that Nicky knows the awesomeness of Encanto!

I'm good to see any of those win. Tryndamere may can still have his Undying mechanic but if they make it feel somewhat balanced, like he needs to keep hitting stuff to not die, that would be something I'm fine with and make his undying rage atleast plausible and gives it a clear weakness, instead of just being ok I dont die now. Shyvana is the one I voted for. I'm looking forward to finally have a good dragonform for her and not whatever stickfigure she is currently and get rid of ap shyvana for once, but I trust them with that that they turn her not boring, but keep her purple and scaled (also subjectively just pushes his community to vote shyvana) . Nocturne is the one I also would've voted for, but I just don't see why I want another scary demon, I already love fiddle. Skarner tbh I think is an interesting vote, I just hope if they change stuff, that he doesn't get thrown in the unpopular champion box that he's currently inside, they can do amazing reinterpretations of champions, I would always vote new Urgot over the old one same with Aatrox (this comment will get so much hate for this I swear). Kog'Maw .... And that concludes my comment so far, everyone of these champs shall get something to look forward.

I voted Noc, I feel like he has the most potential. Sure Skarner may need it more but he has no playerbase soo there is a good chance he will fail even after the rework (just my opinion).

Can't believe it took this long to rework Skarkner...at least we finally got him and he looking like a beast 👍

When he said "first VGU of 2023" I nervously looked at my calendar to make sure of the year

Now I feel so bad about voting for Kog'Maw, I would like to vote Nocturne, who I voted last year, but I can't change my vote sadly😪

If you’re sad the champion that you wanted reworked isn’t on the poll, there’s still hope. Remember, Sona was never on the poll either!

I promised to get back into league of legends if Nocturne wins the poll, so I had to vote for him. I bought Eternum before I stopped playing, it'd be nice to have the most expensive thing I bought in league before I quit be tied to a champion that doesn't feel outdated

I just want to see my man Skarner balling around Runeterra and League

fcking vote skarner dude you are saying how corki looks like he comes frm ps2 game while skarner doesn't even come from a ps game. nintendo64 stuff right here

i vote for Skarner because yes, maybe he can loose his passive, his Q W and E but... personally i think that is something good because the only thing that cares about Skarner is his ultimate (and i play Skarner and if i dont have my ultimate i am useless as fuck), and seeing that basically everyone says that of Kog (the thing of not sacrifice AP) i think that if he wins Riot is not going to eleminate that (but probably Shyvana is going to win because of simps)

being the olaf at 6:26 the pain i felt that game was immense

5:43 excelent choice of soundeffect, Blackjack would be proud.

I voted for Nocturne, since he is the only champ on that list that I play. I want him to get fiddlesticks treatment.

I’m biased towards shyvana because she was the first champion I played and I loved her ad jungle build, which is now obsolete and all she is now is wait for dragon form and press e the champion, not the scrappy bruiser I grew to love playing top/jungle

i'm really worried about how much of the cuteness of Kog'Maw they're going to take away

I absolutely loved this xD

I've seen so many different opinions and different choices on this poll that I honestly think it'll be the closest we've ever had. I honestly think it'll be a toss up on who gets it. Except Trynd.

As main Shyvana and with a little gameplay of Skarner, i decide to use a different method of chosing the next rework, I chose Skarner, not because I wanted to him to get a Rework, but because I don't want Shyvana to win this pool. I realy think that she deserves a Rewok, she is basically useless without his ult, the Q W E aren't that good during a fight as AP mage without the ult, and W E dosen't actually help AD, so she is never fighting with everything she has. She dosen't look from Demacia and need a development at Lore with the new events, Sylas and Ruination, so I would vote to her. BUT, my fear of a Akali or Irelia 2 is what scares me and prevents me from voting for her, together with her becoming part of the same face sydrome, and losing his personality with the scare face, big horns and intimidating vibes, that not so many girls in league has without the sexualized part, that's what make me start to play with her and I don't want to lose on of my favorite characters because of Shyna horny syndrome. So I chosed Skarner because he ended ine 3 place during the old pool, to give him strengh to win this time and save old Shyvana. Sorry my bad english, i used google translator to help me during this coment.

"when they overdose on too much prometheus goop" I literally got an ad right after he said that with an African American bodybuilder dude that was promoting a workout powder

Nice, a hot dragon chick sounds nice. Thanks for the help on what champion i should vote for Nicky :)

Imo they should remove the boring point and click R from Nocturne and instead give his R a passiv part which reduces Vision Range for all enemys on the map for like 50/100/150 and a active part which gradually increases this Vision Range Reduction over a few seconds. So Nocturne would be better vs Ranged Champions by forcing em to get closer to Fights.

I want a dragon to play and no asol is more of a planet. I want dragon gameplay and riot will probably make a lot of skins because girl. Win - win situation but please don't give her high hills.

That end was hilarious

You've intrigued me. Normally when I hear about pre-VGU champions, I just hear about how they were much worse (besides memes, and people talking when they first joined). This in terms of gameplay, and certain in terms of graphical design. Which Champions and their concepts do you believe were erased with VGUs? I'd love to see a big video just talking about those!

Can't say I see your issues with Kog. They say they want to make him more Void-like, which is exactly what you said you wanted. They never said they were taking away the cute factor, they said they were making him feel more like he was from the Void. As for the playstyles, there is no guarantee that they will get rid of AP Kog. Getting rid of it is a backup if they can't make it work.

I voted for shyvanna since I was scared of what they would do to skarner or kogmaw and she honestly feels the safest to vote for since her dragon aspect is lacking and they’ll focus on it that’s mainly for me though since I don’t play nocturne as much

HAHAHHA i was drinking when i read @ 0:18 hahahhaa almost spit out my drink~

Skarner rework is going to be looking like a male Kaisa knowing riot.

Please vote for nocturne people he has so much potential i dont even play nocturne

I love playing skarner, sometimes top lane. It would just be sad if they deleted from the game, all that needs to change his w so maybe it give him a small dash and change his passive, if built correctly he can be a surprisingly good duelist. Please don't vote for him just cause no one plays him.

i started crying when you mentioned old morde i still miss him :,(

The amacula-awh shucks sir, i guess ill watch ur video :)

I don’t get this Kog Maw hate, Everyone can agree that they’re rework track at this point is stellar, especially when it comes to listening to fan criticism. The reason they give us constant updates is to take our feedback and Kog Maw just needs to be changed. I voted for my favorite Void Puppy with faith

I went with Shiv, just because I think her dragon form looks like trash and I want her to be closer to Alexdraza or Deathwing in Heroes of The Storm. Kogmaw and Skarner would be deleted, I don't really care about nocturne, and Tryndamere is bullshit I don't want him to get stronger.

Does anyone know what's the sound effect at 5:42 ? A friend of mine really wanted to know

YES Nocturne, he's so pathetically unscary, I just want to be afraid of the dark man, that doesn't sound like too much to ask

I voted Shyvana because I have hope for the potential she has and that her game play will allow both halves of her to shine. Both the terrifying dragon, and the proud human of Demacia.

5:14 I don't like the word "modern riot games" and generally the "it was better before " idea . Cause even if riot games have flaws it is truly wrong to say that league of legends was better before like it had no broken or unfuny to face champ (Tryndamer,teemo,nasus,shaco,katarina,vayne,yasuo ... and every champ on release ) . And if riot games were not riot games we could not have Arcane, Valorant,Legend of runeterra, ... .

Let's go people, let's stand for our crystal boi

i enjoy the tf2 references , you done good

There are people who thinks skarner deserve to win, and peopla who lies.

I voted for Shyvana. So f***ing afraid of her becoming another "the same face" example. The reworks was cool, right? Voli and Fiddle are like gorgeous. So maybe Shyvana can become fearsome strong woman like Illaoi? Riot pls 🙏

Why are your videos always so well done and funny I don't get it

In result? A long and full of despair scream which end in a sobbing cry