You forgot about Ryze's VU @IronStylus

FatTaco··20 votes·1,947 views
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Hey Riot post Ryze update you mentioned the art team will work on his VU, where is it? Come on he still has a model from release (2009) with the same skeleton and animations, you gave him new spell FX due to his rework and painted over his original skin but that's just a texture re-balance. I know talking about Ryze is always a touchy subject because you can't balance his gameplay but at least make him look good. I was thinking we'd get a Heimerdinger treatment like change his kit or model first then vice versa but nothings being mentioned. IronStylus please don't make us Ryze players wait much longer.

UPDATE 13/12/2015: I was looking into recent developer questions and finding answers and I happened to stumble across this one that was brought up recently:

Quote: _Why are there reworks being shipped without a VU (Mordekaiser, Ryze, etc.) Some of your updated champions are in dire need of some Visual love and yet all they get are fancy looking VFX with a crappy model XD _

RiotScruffy's answer: ** "The team is working at capacity on the visual front, we will release visual reworks as fast and high quality as we can. That said, we don't think it should stop us from doing gameplay improvements when we can on other champs."**

Now this doesn't answer exactly what I wanted to know but it has made me think we need more developer posts and discussion from the art team. Sometimes players don't want to just talk about gameplay and with the game being as big as it is their needs to be more artists coming into the forums to listen to player feedback on the visuals and give us more information on what they are doing, I'm sure they could enlighten us and inspire a lot of upcoming artists who want to work in the games industry.

21 Comments

I7A6X2v214 votes

**So many champs STILL have their 2009 models Amumu Chogath Corki Fiddlesticks Jax Malphite Morgana Nunu Rammus Teemo Udyr Warwick Zilean Taric DrMundo Ryze ShacoBlitzcrank . THEY ARE VISUALLY UGLY, ON BASE MODEL AND ALL SKINS BELOW LEGENDARY... **

Skelenth4 votes

The only visually good legendary+ skins of these champions are Battlecast Cho and Spirit Guard Udyr

Tesla Effect6 votes

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The only visually good legendary+ skins of these champions are Battlecast Cho and Spirit Guard Udyr

Omega Squad Teemo? Also Spirit Guard is an Ultimate skin.

junglerboy163 votes

Also Spirit Guard is an Ultimate skin.

that's why he said legendary+

FatTaco3 votes

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**So many champs STILL have their 2009 models Amumu Chogath Corki Fiddlesticks Jax Malphite Morgana Nunu Rammus Teemo Udyr Warwick Zilean Taric DrMundo Ryze Shaco . THEY ARE VISUALLY UGLY, ON BASE MODEL AND ALL SKINS BELOW LEGENDARY... **

Biggest ones you listed are Ryze, Nunu, Dr Mundo, Taric, Jax, Udyr and Fiddlesticks. the others can survive just a bit longer but yes most of those need a high priority by January and onwards.

Heckin Support6 votes

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Biggest ones you listed are Ryze, Nunu, Dr Mundo, Taric, Jax, Udyr and Fiddlesticks. the others can survive just a bit longer but yes most of those need a high priority by January and onwards.

Oh you didn't know? Udyr had his visual update you just gotta pay $30 to unlock it.

FatTaco3 votes

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Oh you didn't know? Udyr had his visual update you just gotta pay $30 to unlock it.

I already did XD then realized what I actually paid for haha

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

Jax is actually pretty good. Irelia Vayne Vi these are actually surprisingly bad

HeadHonchkrow1 votes

Irelia is terrible. Vayne is not that bad IMO. Vi is really good

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

Vayne is horrendous in particular in her animations and skins (Dragonslayer s basically a downgrade). Vi's nice, but the head is not nice at all. Go on model viewer and zoon on the head (if the commands aren't bugged for you)

HeadHonchkrow1 votes

Oh, I thought you meant the models.

Photos of Ghosts1 votes

But I'm talking about models. Vi's head shape and greasy low def hair, Vayne's bad skeleton which results in bad animations

Bladerunner77775 votes

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**So many champs STILL have their 2009 models Amumu Chogath Corki Fiddlesticks Jax Malphite Morgana Nunu Rammus Teemo Udyr Warwick Zilean Taric DrMundo Ryze Shaco . THEY ARE VISUALLY UGLY, ON BASE MODEL AND ALL SKINS BELOW LEGENDARY... **

call me a weirdo but I stopped playing Amumu Nunu and Jax because I can't stand their models

I've considered getting Morgana because her kit seems interesting but I despise her model

Looking cool is half of the battle

I7A6X2v22 votes

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call me a weirdo but I stopped playing Amumu Nunu and Jax because I can't stand their models

U are not the only one.

DwarvenGiant3 votes

His VU was put on hold due to a bunch of mysterious difficulties, unfortunately. :/ They intended to give him the Kassadin visual treatment if I recall correctly.

Garentheon1 votes

They discussed the direction they wan to take Ryze's visuals. Kassadin's visual stood almost identical. Therefore I believe Ryze would have gotten a "Heimedinger level" treatment

GreenLore3 votes

I remember that they actually talked about that recently(I think it was on twitter),saying that the Ryze VU proved problematic and since his Gameplay update is out already,he got less priority,causing it to be put on ice for now.

Though I am too lazy to search for the source...

Tesla Effect2 votes

Other VUs kinda got ahead of his in development so thats why.

FatTaco1 votes

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Other VUs kinda got ahead of his in development so thats why.

Source on where this was confirmed? And how long ago? People have forgotten about Ryze because they thought his texture color change and spell FX was the VU, Ryze is no longer on the list of upcoming changes.

Tesla Effect3 votes

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Source on where this was confirmed? And how long ago? People have forgotten about Ryze because they thought his texture color change and spell FX was the VU, Ryze is no longer on the list of upcoming changes.

Why do you need sources for proof, its just obvious. His VU was planed way before Fioras, Poppys, Tarics and such, and yet these champions got and will get theirs before him. Its quite logical for Riot to just push something back in order to do something else which probably will be released in a bundle of new things (aka Taric and Mount Targon).

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