The Projects For Every Designer on the Champions Team for 2018 so far

Spideraxe·12/20/2017, 8:37:01 PM·29 votes·6,798 views

Disclaimer, this is is a word for word repost of my Reddit post and since I can't be bothered to learn boards formatting I cant do any fancy word links like on Reddit please keep that in mind

Hi I'm /u/spideraxe30 and I usually create the posts telling which designers are working on the next new champion but today I'd like to share my knowledge on who's currently working on what for the champions team, the champions team is the team handles designing new champions as well as the big reworks otherwise known as VGUs and the occasional rework like Xin and Aatrox, in 2018.

At the time of me posting there are 9 designers on the champions team: /u/RiotSolCrushed, Riot /u/wav3break, /u/RiotSquad5, /u/EndlessPillows, /u/RiotXenogenic, /u/RiotJag, /u/CertainlyT, and /u/RiotAugust joining relatively recently. /u/RiotScruffy is the lead designer on the team and /u/Reav3 is the producer who sets the high level goal for each project. Each designer has one or more projects as they start exploration on their next whenever the next goes into production.

Currently these are the designers what their working on:

/u/wav3break is currently working on Swain, he took over the project from /u/20thCenturyFaux. In the past he has done the Shyvana, Azir and Kindred reworks.

/u/RiotJag is working on the next new champion as well as the Aatrox rework. In the past he was the designer of Camille.

/u/RiotSolCrushed is working on the Irelia VGU and in the past he did the Viktor, Gragas, Poppy, Galio, Yorick, and the most recent Sejuani reworks. He is also doing ideation on a new champion

/u/EndlessPillows is working on the following champion. This will be his second champion as his first was Xayah.

/u/CertainlyT will be working on another VGU. In the past he was the designer of Zoe, Yasuo, Thresh, Kalista, Darius and Zyra and responsible for the reworks of Mordekaiser, Caitlyn, Graves and Warwick.

/u/RiotSquad5 is working on a new champion. He was the designer of Ornn and Ivern and did some work on Vi, Jinx, Jhin and Azir and the keystone masteries systems.

/u/RiotAugust having recently returned to the champions team is working on another VGU. In the past he was the designer behind Vi, Jinx, Ekko, Gnar, and Jhin and some of the keystone masteries.

And lastly /u/RiotXenogenic is working on a VGU. This will be his first major rework but he was the designer of Xin Zhao's rework.

Also /u/RiotWrekz who is returning from Systems is doing exploration on a VGU. He was the lead on Runes Reforged, Kindred and Braum.

So at the moment there are around 10 different projects for the champions team as a whole.

Edit:I'll be around to chat further about what i know

Edit 2: Edited some stuff from /u/Reav3

Btw Reav3 confirmed that this was all true https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/7kxiic/all_projects_for_the_champions_team_in_2018/dri0i5a/?context=3

71 Comments

Ralanr12/20/2017, 9:25:20 PM9 votes

Can’t wait to see which VGU’s are next.

ªTeemo12/20/2017, 9:47:44 PM9 votes

CertainlyT working on a vgu, oh boi

GreenLore12/21/2017, 8:33:20 AM5 votes

So the big projects for the first half of 2018 are Swain VGU summoner 12 New Champ Irelia VGU summoner 12 new champ summoner 1 new VGU

with Aatrox being somewhere in between those.

And additionally summoner 12 1 champ summoner 1 3VGUs

However I think they mentioned having 5 projects in ideation phase at almost all times,so I guess a second champion ideation project,so I guess they'll have another champ in ideation soon.

Overall this sounds like we'll get 6 VGUs next year,which would be amazing [sg-lux] (or we get 5 VGUs next year and a Kayle/Morgana VGU at the start of 2019,because that dual VGU will definitely take longer than a single one)

ModCaptainMårvelous12/21/2017, 3:55:45 AM3 votes

That reddit crosspost.

DariusDemiurge12/20/2017, 10:55:31 PM2 votes

Mandatory, hope one of those VGUs is the Kayle+Morgana combo pack, want my disappointment sated already and to start the road of coping with the likely dramatic loss of the two.

Forhonor32112/21/2017, 4:24:56 AM1 votes

As much as I know CertainlyT gets a lot of flak for his work, I'm kinda curious to see what his VGU is on considering his last update was Warwick and he so far seems to be the most balanced champ in the game so far with no buffs or nerfs to him since being reworked.

Still waiting to see what the Swain rework looks like though!