There are still way to many champions who still talk to the "summoner." Since we got 2 champions last release, maybe we could have a VO centered project in the works.. hmmm? Maybe something along the lines of Lux's voice update, but for all the old champions. It sure would be nice if Miss Fortune became more of a badass in her VO, to match her new lore and cinematic.
Rolling Girl2 votesMost of the responses to Lux and Maokai's VO updates have been super positive and hopefully that'll help convince Riot to do them more often
mkyner1 votesBringing in all the VAs just for something like that seems like a lot. Riot probably has a bunch they want to do for each champion, not just removing references to 'Summoner'. Probably much cheaper to have the VA come in and do all of a champion's updates at once when they update that champion.
SSmotzer1 votesYeah, but I'm talking about champions who will not be seeing a gameplay update for years. Like any champion released before 2014 only has like 10-20 voice lines, and that pales in comparison to new champions having about 200 lines.
ReisenTheDos1 votesAgree! I been complaining about MF never receiving a new VO since the Bilgewater update happen for years now. This would be a very good opportunity to update MF's VO so that every time Riot uses her as an example for anything, the forum isn't so flooded with MF related topics. (Which I don't mind since she is my favorite ADC but yeah...)
SSmotzer2 votesHopefully they change her "hello boys" attitude a bit.
Variks the Loyal1 votesI think most of any VO updates we see will be coincidental.
We got one for Lux because her voice actor was in-house for the Elementalist Lux skin.
Ezreal and Caitlyn getting some love on their Pulsefire skins could be a sign that they might see a VO update soon, as well, but Caitlyn was on the VGU list anyway.
I think VO updates should mostly be saved for Lux case; the champion doesn't need an update visually at all, so if they can, they can do an update. For example, since Pulsefire Ezreal was released, Graves could get a VO update perhaps (Ezreal and Graves share a voice actor).
SSmotzer1 votesEzreal is in a weird spot. Unlike Lux and Cait, Ezreal's got a pretty huge divide between his lore and place in the universe and hit gameplay.
In his lore, Ezreal is a daring explorer who dives into ancient ruins, discovering artifacts and long forgotten ancient civilizations. Meanwhile Ezreal's gameplay is pew pew blink pew PEW. Not a whole lot of exploring or ancient artifacts in his kit.
So with Ez, he is either going to have a lore update to no longer be LoL's explorer, or his kit is going to change to involve artifacts and/or exploring the map. So his Vo can wait till then.
Sir Poodle1 votesIIRC, in the new lore, summoners still exist.
We just have no idea how or in what form.
It's been mentioned in a few red posts, like this one:
Summoners are not what they were as their prime interaction with the story was through the IoW. That does not mean that the concept of Summoners will never be seen again within the story world, they just won't be taking the same role as previously. So nope, Summoners are not deleted from Runeterra.