Who could use an Ezreal-tier VGU?

iiGazeii··6 votes·4,927 views

We know Mordekaiser and Pantheon are getting full VGUs. They really need it, but they take a lot of work from the team.

Ezreal and Morgana got a partial VGU, where their model got updated, but their kits just got a facelift, reworking one or maybe two problematic abilities, and giving the rest of their numbers a pass.

What champions do you feel could use this style of VGU? These would be the champions that need their appearances touched up, but their kit is solid, for the most part.

Personally, I think Leblanc would be the best candidate. Her kit is quite good, but the outfit composed entirely of buckles and straps really doesn't suit the mysterious matron that works in the background. Her model and kit doesn't really hit home on the fantasy of the dark manipulator. She kinda faceplants into the enemy team, telegraphs all her attacks, then vanishes after she gets a kill. Her old ult fulfilled this fantasy swimmingly, but that was difficult to balance. Some work to compromise and bring back that trickster element to her kit would be awesome.

Of the champs up for the VGU vote, Nocturne and Shyvana would probably benefit most from this sort of VGU. The others deserve a full-scale VGU, but these two have pretty iconic and effective kits, just their visuals could use some love.

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Moody P3 votes

Volibear

BigFBear1 votes
LordGeovanni1 votes

Thats actually how voli takes damage in game from ranged damage threats.

Hayaishi23 votes

Varus

E is garbage. Like old Ez W was and he needs updated art.

LordGeovanni1 votes

Old ezreal w was a very strong utlity ablity that no one used for what it was. an adc a mage a mage support and 2 bruisers on a tower stand behind the mage press w towards the 2 bruisers and e in front of the w and watch a full hp tower drop as fast as full tanks in the front of a 5 man team.

FSRER3 votes

Hey.... Remember me, your old pal Skarner ?

Yeah, that champion should get such a VGU and some love in general (he doesn't even have a home anymore)

Sir Saltarin2 votes

Leblanc Caitlyn Jax Zilean

D357R0Y3R1 votes

the hell do you want to do with cait?

aside from ult everything else is satisfying, and the ult after the range buff they did some months ago it's actually decent now

Sir Saltarin1 votes

Ezreal tier rework means mostly visual rework, her Q and R seem kinda bland for me but it's mostly because her base and old skins suck so hard that I wish she was reworked lol

Infernape2 votes

Jarvan IV.

His kit needs a little love, but it's mostly his visuals and VO that are lacking.

Saevum2 votes

Jarvan kit is so good. He is also very popular.

If they ever rework him (which is something i highly doubt) it has to be a successful rework or we are gonna be mad and ask for a revert.

Erusaurus2 votes

I really want them to finish Shen's VGU. He doesn't need a lot of gameplay changes, but his visuals are unfinished, no new VO, no new animations except for gameplay, and give Blood Moon red effects please.

Sathelight2 votes

I hope it's Ahri Her prestige skin looks so bad in game that only VGU can fix that.

I'm a realist here. She earns so much money that her skins should look amazing. SG and K/DA look great but Prestige... I'd hesitate to pay 750 rp for this and it's over 100 euro :O

Pika Fox2 votes

Ezreal and Lux. Then Ryze. Then Ezreal again.

Predatorator2 votes

Skarner would greatly benefit from such an update, that reverts the jugg update, and blances from there

ChaosReyn1 votes

Personally, I think the one most in need of a FULL VGU at this point is probably DrMundo. His kit is dated, and though the cleavers are iconic (and actually good) and his ult is also iconic (though not as good) his other two abilities aren't really all that interactive and don't really do all that much anyway.

As far as partials go, pretty much everyone else on the vote list needs a partial. Not going on the vote list, I'd say Viktor honestly. He's getting a little dated, and needs a slight facelift to get himself back into working order. I don't think it's necessarily his kit, but his visuals could use some TLC and his ratios can use some polishing

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

Blitzcrank Caitlyn Orianna These are the champions first coming to my mind for this kind of update.

BigFBear1 votes

Volibear

If you would have read the new Volibear lore you wouldn't ask this question. It can only be him.

https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/silence-for-the-damned/


Udyr felt its power before it appeared. The voices, the spirits in his mind from the men around him, which had endlessly plagued him… began to soften. Even that of Sejuani, standing beside him. The ring of her annoyed impatience faded away. The Volibear had come.

In the forest behind Najak, the great black-leaf trees cracked and shook. Taller than a mammoth, it stepped out of the woods. Walls of muscle, each limb larger than a man, propelled the beast forward. Its broken, ancient armor of dark, metal plates was caked brown by the dried gore of a hundreds of battles. Broken weapons, rusted with age, jutted from its back and shoulders. One half of its face had been stripped of flesh, revealing oily bone, teeth, and horns. From its mouth, an unnatural, black blood dripped. Its four eyes, impossibly ancient, alien, and pitiless, looked over Sejuani and Udyr.

As the bear spirit’s avatar came closer, it was like the quiet at the center of a storm. Udyr’s focus became singular. No sounds were left in his head. No animals. No feelings. Even Udyr’s own thoughts barely whispered. He felt only the Volibear. Its silence felt nothing like a man or animal. The Volibear’s consciousness crushed everything with its purity.

I imagine him kinda like this: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/017/369/464/large/jakub-rozalski-wendigo-small.jpg?1555682785

ZaFishbone1 votes

So if you REALLY hate a champion, and you want their lore and personality changed so that they become a edgy jackass teen, that's who deserves a Ezreal tier (AKA shit tier) VGU. I swear I can't even stand to play him for more than a game because he sounds like the most annoying A-hole in the world.

Daedric Etwahl1 votes

I'd love such an update for Sona

She has so much potential for visuals and sound but there's just nothing to her cuz she's so old. She looks pretty alright actually, definitely not as bad as many other choices, but I'd love to see them give her some love

Dorans Pants1 votes

Zilean

Kadexe1 votes

#Champions that would be greatly improved with a VU and just one or two new spells:

Jax - Arguably doesn't need major gameplay changes. A new ult active would be cool though.

Blitzcrank - Fuck this stupid W.

Amumu - Could have a more interesting W or E.

Zilean - Put Q on a charge system and give him a new W.

Tryndamere - Could be greatly improved with a new Q or W.

Teemo - Needs a new model, voiceover, and W.

Sageace1 votes

Champions that could use an Ezreal-Tier VGU? Caitlyn - To fit the Piltover's Sheriff of Piltover Sniper Theme better. Her outfit needs tweaking and her abilities, while receiving a recent VFX update, could look a little bit more Piltovery. And rename her traps... and how they look. Yordle Snap Traps? And those things look like they are supposed to hurt. But in-game, they don't.

Chogath - He can be a terror of the void. His ult definitely fits that theme as he devours those in order to be a HUGE threat. But I really wish for 2 things from him: One is that his W ACTUALLY acts more like a T-Rex, meaning the actual ability itself has a longer duration (while changing the damage and how he applies his silence). Two is to tweak how his E works some more. I like the spikes, but this guy has a slow on his Q, a silence on his W, and 3 more slows from his current E. That, even though it fits his monstrous theme quite well, is just monstrously difficult to deal with.

Jax - As the Grandmaster of all Weapons, he wields a magic lamppost. Sounds legit. He lunges, he AA, he dodges attacks, he stuns, and attacks faster the longer he is in combat. He could definitely use an Ezreal-Tier VGU, an update to his Ability Icons, and some balance observation to make him... well, a balanced hypercarry? One of my suggestions is to change the stun duration based on his Relentless Assault Stacks, while giving Jax a lower cap on his Innate, but doubling the Innate cap if he continues to wail on enemy champions. So half the cap on minions, increase the cap the moment he fights enemy champions, things like that.

There are so many more champions I could think of that needs it: Amumu BlitzcrankCorki Leblanc Kennen KogMaw Shen TwistedFate Teemo Varus Zilean and more, but it's going to take too long to ask for what changes and whether it fits their themes or not.

LordGeovanni1 votes

I agree with cait but that thing about yordle snap traps not hurting untrue they hurt so hard people cant even clear them out in lane their damage is the free headshot cait gets from them.

Sageace1 votes

I'm saying the trap itself does no damage. Even though the icon looks like it does. That's really it.

Anu3isII1 votes

Karma Diana Varus imo.

Stars Shaper1 votes

Jax

Sassmast3r1 votes

Karma

Sukishoo1 votes

Well aside from the ones that Riot has said are possibilities for the future (Blitzcrank MonkeyKing JarvanIV Jax Kennen ) I'd love to see ones that have either had work done, that hasn't fully worked like Leblanc or others that had gameplay updates but could use some model work Caitlyn Varus and then others where I feel their kits are fine overall Lulu LuxOrianna but I'm sure Riot would tweak something since that's the G in VGU even if it is an Ezreal tier.

Voluug131 votes

Karma, probably.

Her current kit is a disjointed mess of random, often contradictory mechanics with no brain Mantra usage and that is only relevant when she wins the shield values arms race (mostly due to being ignored). A VGU that returns her to her battlemage roots should cement her role and make a much stronger champion that just ''whatever you do, you WILL be a shieldbot by lategame'' the champion.

Wild Geese1 votes

Really there's probably about 2 dozen but here's 3 of the champs I'd like to see get an mini vgu...

  1. Veigar, although his kit is pretty much perfect the visuals, animations, and voice could use modernizing..

  2. Miss Fortune, Same case as Veigar but could maybe use some small changes in gameplay -- make E more useful? At least a new VO is a long time coming.

  3. Trydamere, again just visuals and audio, though his W could be improved or changed. Also I'd like to see him visually have only one arm- his gameplay and lore suggests he has only one arm and it'd be interesting.

LordGeovanni1 votes

Taric should get his old W and Q back with ratios compensating for the loss of his ult. and his W actually dealing damage for its full show range instead of half of it

Darkomantis1 votes

Udyr I don't want his VGU locked behind a paywall anymore.

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