@IronStylus Cho'Gath VU?

ElMorroTargaryen·3/1/2014, 3:26:56 AM·4 votes·8,408 views

Well, I've seen that lately you've been focusing on the Void a bit more. New spell particles for Kassadin, Vel'Koz's release, and I don't doubt something more's coming. However, there's a Void creature who looks pretty dated by now, with clunky moves and just a weird design, despite its cool concept.

Is anything coming for Cho? :/

Btw: Whoever was in charge of Heimer's VU, you did an excellent job.

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RiotIronStylus3/1/2014, 9:01:57 AM5 votes

Actually here's something I posted on reddit that relates to this pretty well. Reposting:


I want to say that Cho'Gath might be relatively close to the top, though I can't remember off of the top of my head. He's not in the top immediate 5, but maybe a bit after that. What I think the best thing about the prospect of a Cho VU is that we just got Vel'Koz out there. We have a defined look for the void due to that champion. While in the past we were sorta like.. "Well what is the void? Just bugs and purple?" we at least have a more refined precedent with Vel'Koz. Yes, actually, the Void is very much "bugs and purple", and maybe that's not really touching on what the void is in and of itself, but it's a reliable trope set we're now sorta locked into.

I'd like us to go back and reexamine Cho now that Vel'Koz is complete. I think there's a lot of form language, color and other notes that we can incorporate. Right now Cho is preeeettty much Violator from Spawn crossed with a giant Zergling, or at least was highly inspired by back in the day. I think we need to dive back in and come up with some more unique things to work into him.

Right now, he's a big confusion of arms and protrusions. I don't know if that'd change (I've seen a couple of concepts lying around where he has fewer than current) but I don't know if we could get away with lopping off any arms/claws. At the very least, we have to reduce some of the noise. That might come from just giving his various appendages a bit of differentiation in terms of size. We'll see. Nothing concrete yet. I do consider him an "easy win" however in that a) he's a pretty straightforward character b) he doesn't need to be thematically re-defined and c) we've got some great standards set by Kha'zix and Vel'Koz to refer to in terms of quality and style.

Kingsgrave3/2/2014, 4:18:12 AM4 votes

I think Cho'Gath should be more terrifying looking overall. I really like this rendition of him: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Conqueror-Cho-Gath-368960730

He looks like a giant distorted and twisted Spider crossed with a T-rex. You should look at Cho'Gath and go "OH GOD GIANT MONSTER" and not go "oh look at that funny looking giant dude"

When you do the VU I would love it if he got more menacing, corrupt and terrifying the more stacks of his ult he had.

Calderweiss3/1/2014, 5:53:50 PM2 votes

That splash art though.

MXXIV3/1/2014, 1:17:36 PM1 votes

I love how Cho'Gath looks like now to be honest. I pray for no changes and I'm getting scared by guys who demand them.

The7thKing3/1/2014, 9:58:57 PM1 votes

i honestly would stop thinking Khazix is related to the void anymore, after your nerfs riot, you just threw his only viable path down to Urgot and Sion's tier. nice goin reds,Khazix'd not scary anymore, hes just a freak like sion or urgot.

PhoenixSlayer133/1/2014, 6:19:42 AM1 votes

I believe it's in the pipeline, not sure when though.

I'd love to see some special work done for Gentleman Cho.

Pink Taric3/3/2014, 5:18:48 PM1 votes

I'd really like to see a Taric VU soon. He's tiny compared to the other champions in the game and his animations are really stiff. Also triangle feet and a wonky cape. The only part about Taric I really want to see preserved is his VO. It's probably his most recognizable feature and it was one of the things that drew me to the champion back in late season 2.

Garentheon3/1/2014, 6:15:15 AM1 votes

Cho would look awesome

The Neverworld3/1/2014, 7:24:20 AM1 votes

Please inform yourself here about reworks/visual update/overhaul/texture update for Champions.

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Champion#Upcoming_champion_reworks

Other than that, I've read a Riot Post that they said that there will be most likely a Cho'Gath texture update, because he just looks old - but not totally outdated.

However, there are currently more Champions that needs a rework/visual update - by all means, they need first help, then Cho'Gath can come.