@Reav3 @Meddler Can we consider adding AT LEAST one more Pod to the VGU team?

Garentheon·10/27/2016, 5:29:20 PM·58 votes·16,488 views

I know you have mentioned there's been discussion. And I know we have 2 pods working on VGUs at the moment, as oppose the 1 last year. But given how much work still lies ahead i think it would great if AT LEAST ONE MORE POD was added to the VGU team. I'm thinking allocate them from champ team. Yes we still want our new champs. I get it. But I believe it would do wonders for the game if we had more hands for the VGU team

Pod: a group that has a designer, splash artist, concept artist, animator, writer, etc. (VGU team has 2 of these groups/pods)

Having 3 or 4 teams working on a character each? Imagine the amazing year of VGUs that will produce

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RiotReav310/27/2016, 7:56:06 PM38 votes

VGU and New Champion pods are actually quite big.

Currently both New Champion and Champ Up have 3 pods. There are 3 New Champion pods, 2 VGU pods and 1 Roster Pod. Since we have ramped up ChampUp to 2 pods the cadence of Champion content has been pretty quick.

If you look back over the last year or so you will see that there has been some kind of champion release almost every month.

Nov (Illoai) Dec (Poppy) Jan (Shen/Jhin) ASol (March) Taric (April) Mages Roster (May) Taliyah (June) Ryze (July) Keld (August) Yorick (Sept) Ivern (Oct.) Assassins Roster (Nov)

That is a champion release of some kind roughly every 4 weeks or so. I'm not saying we are going to maintain this cadence since some champions are more complicated and require more time then others, but I do think it might be TOO fast if we added another VGU team.

I can see a point in the future when one of the New Champion pods become a VGU pod (Or maybe some kind of hybrid team that swaps between VGU/New Champion) but I don't think we are quite at that point yet.