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Urgot, bottom tier of all the battlecasts (excluding xerath)

LoL Ergo Urgot·11/19/2014, 11:24:27 PM·5 votes·1,465 views

Well I am talking about Urgot, so no one will care, but I might as well say this for the 10 other Urgot mains out there. Urgot, compared to all the other battlecast seems to have gotten the short end of the stick. Now with skarner and kog coming out I feel more strongly about this. All the battlecasts come with these features for a price ranging from 1350-1850 RP:

  1. New Model
  2. Filtered Voice or New Voice over
  3. New Particle Animations for all abilities, passive, autoattack animation
  4. Recall animation
  5. Death animation

Now, how does Urgot fit with this?

  1. He does have a new model and patch 4.20 is going to make it look even better. No complaints here.
  2. He has the exact same voice, nothing has changed. Not really any complaints here again.
  3. Urgot has 3 abilities that are changed. His Noxian Corrosive Charge (E ability) is the same, as well has his passive animation, and auto attack animation. This means only half of his abilities received any treatment. 4)No recall animation
  4. Same death animation

In more detail with these points

  1. While his voice is the same, it works in a way due to it being robotic and the lines also work with his new robotic body. So this isn't too bad.
  2. They could have changed his acid grenade to make it fit the battlecast theme more, not sure how the passive and auto attack animation could have been changed, it's probably best the way it is.
  3. I wish but oh well.
  4. It doesn't make sense for him to be spitting up acid when he dies seeing how he has a metal exterior that clearly is not rupturing.

There are some other things about the skin that feels off like his dance and taunt animation. His kirby dance is awkward because he can't touch his arms together and his taunt is a little silly with him flailing about. Also his splash art is different in that all the other battlecast can be seen together causing terror for the creator, but in Urgot's, he's just alone in the woods doing something... then again, this could be explain due to things about the lore. This last one is just a preference but I wish that the ult animation was more red and not blue, it just makes sense but maybe they did it for clarity issues.

There is a part of me that believes maybe riot didn't give this skin too much work (compared to the other battlecasts) because they figured he would be reworked one day so why bother (I mean this in a good way). Maybe these things I am mentioning will happen in s5 (I can only hope)?

The main reason I bring this up is because this seems to continue in the theme of no one cares about Urgot, I would just like to see all the battlecasts have the same treatment and not have this one just be the piece of tinfoil among the gold. It's still a good skin but it just feels empty compared to the others. Well anyway, love to hear any criticism or feedback form anyone, thank you. Sory fer bad grammmmer> Urgot

EDIT: I do realize older skins usually don't have the exact same quality as the newer ones, I understand this. It is just my hope that when they give Urgot his rework, vu, or w/e they do with him (please don't delete ;-;), I hope they will take this time to give the love his, and any battlecast skin should have, the proper love it deserves.

6 Comments

Der Metzger11/19/2014, 11:32:01 PM2 votes

i got thin skin after requesting my friend get it for me and i love it but ya it could be better kogs bc is like 3x better than urgots and its only 975 thats not really fair but i mean it is newer :(

DevildogKogg11/20/2014, 12:45:11 AM2 votes

I fully agree except with some minor things explained below, and it's good to see another Urgot player.

The reason Urgot is alone is likely because of the fact that Urgot is a personal friend of Viktor, and the void champions were likely forced into their status as battlecast monsters whereas Urgot probably willingly joined his revolution and therefore was allowed mental freedom. Also, his picture, in a way, DOES cause terror. He is standing on a torn Demacian banner, and Garen's sword is behind him, indicating that if Viktor's revolution succeeds, then in the future, he and Urgot will destroy Demacia, which would undoubtedly try to stop them. That particular picture also indicates that he probably just got done killing Garen, his most hated enemy.

But the sad, sad truth is Riot -REALLY- doesn't care about Urgot. At all. I mean look at his story: it looks like they were trying to retell Sion's when he was early on in old Noxus or something, and though he's called this "High Executioner of Noxus", Draven HEAVILY overshadows him as an executioner in his own lore where Urgot, who I assume would be his commanding officer or of similar status, isn't even mentioned once. Furthermore, Urgot is supposed to be one who "refuses to die" and whose hatred of Garen, bolstering that refusal, played a heavy factor of bringing him back to life. But look at his health, and his ult. Sure his ult increases his armor and magic resist for 3 seconds, but it plunges him RIGHT into the middle of teamfights to be butchered in a millisecond (which wouldn't be so bad if Riot didn't inaccurately label him as an ADC, but w/e, they're not gonna waste effort on him to fix that) He's been the champion with the highest lose rate in the game for about a year now, and Riot has no intention to improve him, because they very likely regret making him, and are biased because of it. They probably want to delete him, but only don't do so because it would make the few people that play as him rage, and demand refunds, and Riot would be all "nooooo we're gonna lose money that we have more than enough of, quick! put him back in and give him a new skin so people will give us even more" as they indicate how "soooo sorry" they are.

sorry. =/ I like your post, and I like Urgot, but I assure you it is going to be ignored.

BeatzBoyFTW11/19/2014, 11:33:54 PM1 votes

Uhhh, 1820rp Annie in Wonderland doe...