State of the Champion Update - January 2017: Galio, Evelynn and Tank Class Update

Sharjo·1/31/2017, 7:03:42 PM·22 votes·5,837 views
/dev: State of Champion Update, January 2017 - Nexus - League of Legends

Behold a new devblog on champion updates!

The Warwick team is going on to Urgot.

The Galio team will proceed to do Evelynn once Galio's finished.

The class update team's doing tanks next.

Karma, Maokai and Sejuani are next in line for skin splash updates.

67 Comments

Ralanr1/31/2017, 7:23:30 PM16 votes

Words cannot express how excited I feel now that I know tanks are next.

Instead I shall let Spongebob express my feelings.

http://i.makeagif.com/media/7-02-2015/nEuj46.gif

Forbidden Siren1/31/2017, 7:40:21 PM8 votes
  • I hope they keep Urgot's hideous (but yet gorgeous) appearance.
  • I hope they won't cover up Evelynn too much.
  • I wonder who the big four for the tank update will be, my prediction: Sejuani, Dr. Mundo, Singed and Skarner (again)
  • Whoo! Karma and Sejuani splash art update!
Malicious Metal1/31/2017, 7:19:16 PM6 votes

I'll be honest, I'm kinda disappointed we didn't get any news on Morde's VGU and how long he has to wait until he finally gets the rework he deserves after the disaster that was the Juggernaut patch.

Brutusness1/31/2017, 7:16:52 PM5 votes

Well, can't say this wasn't the most likely situation. It's good we'll be getting two of the biggest candidates finished up. Just wish we didn't have to wait so long for Swain, seems we'll have to wait for 2018 for him.

GreenLore1/31/2017, 8:50:59 PM3 votes

I'm not really surprised that Eve and Urgot are the next reworks,I mean it was pretty much clear that these 2 are the top priorities. At first I wasn't to sure about Eves archetype of "shadow assassin" really being that good,but since they pointed out the split of the assassin-archetype(with Kata being the flashy one and talon being the assassins-creed-guy) I guess that shadow assassin does have some potential,so I am really interested in what they are gonna do with eve.

Though I am a bit disappointed that Divers don't come before the Tanks,mostly because I feel like Aatrox is the one champion who needs a class-update the most. But then again they do make a good point about tanks feeling all a bit too much like Amumu.

As for the splash arts: We knew that Karma was getting the next splash art update,though it is interesting to hear that they update the splashes of some tanks next,because of the tank update.Makes me look forward to the class updates even more :)

Stars Shaper1/31/2017, 7:27:07 PM2 votes

Not as much information as I'd have liked to hear especially on the guy that they were already working on (Galio). It looks like they are stucked on him and can't say much while Evelynn and Vanguards have more things done.

Sukishoo1/31/2017, 7:17:46 PM2 votes

Wooooooooooooo! Evelynn

Karakot1/31/2017, 8:03:26 PM1 votes

sits in the corner and proceeds to cry thinking we will never see the diver update RIP Aatrox...

AgeOfTheMage2/1/2017, 7:13:40 PM1 votes

I mean, i love how galio looks, and his abilities are cool, but i do admit he'll need some changing, but keep his ult!

also never knew ev was a tank

AceHearts2/6/2017, 11:43:20 PM1 votes

Oh my Goodness. Please let Rammus be on the major update list. He needs it terribly. He's so simplistic and has little to no skill rise, which is what you're talking about making them have. It's not like he's one of the, "hey is it your first time in this role? Rammus is a good choice." Type of champions either, nobody knows about Rammus. Please revive him.