@Riot, are you going to rework Vlad to go with the new Swain ?

As many people pointed out, the new Swain looks ALOT like Vlad. Abilities wise, but even more striking : their ressemblance. They look so identical you could said they are relatives and i'd believe it straight away.

Riot has shown they care a lot for the diversity of their characters. Sure some share similarities, but looking like siblings/copies was never heard of. Ouf of the ~139 champions there is, only these two are so similar they could be father and son. Or even twins, i'm not sure anymore.

I remember, before Evelynn got her full rework, Ahri had a small lore update to make her fit with the Vastayas and rule out the merciless charmer huntress eating humans without mercy after charming them. I thought it was a nice touch to help differenciate them, was it voluntarily or not. And its probably not the first time it happens.

Riot sure remember each of their characters, there is no way they would have purposefully made one looks so much like another without reason. I personnally find the League of Legends characters to be of the most diverse when it comes to characters types available. The champions each having such a specific, personnal core identity and rarely looking like another (design wise and identity overall) is what i love so much about this game.

So i am almost sure there is a reason as to why Vlad and Swain looks so much alike by now. Do you plan on giving a VU (or even a VGU) to Vlad later on, completely changing him to differenciate him from Swain ? (would be sad, he looked pretty neat like this and its Swain himself who should not have been too close to Vlad IMO). I know there would be a complete lore update for most Noxians champs and Vlad is hinted to be part of him but do you plan on changing his looks as well ? Right now Swain and Vlad are the only two champions looking so alike, its a bit unsettling. Especially the Bloodborne skin. Was it a voluntary choice, and why ?

Are they actually related ? (it wouldn't make that much sense but who know, we can be surprised.)

Thanks for reading. Have a nice day.