Come on Riot, April Fool's was like two months ago

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We have absolutely no evidence that they changed his VO because of that reason. If it's true, then why does Malzahar still have his VO, which is also done by Vic Mignogna ?

Maybe not, but they've given no explanation for the change, and this is far more likely than "we just felt a new voice was better" out of nowhere. Lee is also the champion with the more recognizable voice over. Malzahar has effects over the voice that make it more difficult to discern who the VA is.

Because they don't record them all at once. They just got one done, and his will be up next if they are replacing him based on the VA. Though it more than likely was based on the VA considering God Fist also got changed, when yet it was a modern legendary that came out in 2017 and didn't need a new VO (especially since none of the lines changed).

This, this, this and this is all the proof you need. Riot is just trying to appeace to PC culture in an attempt to cover up their own mistakes.

Malzahar is a much more complicated character when compared to Lee, who's just a monk living in a temple so naturally he won't have much to say. He has connections to Kassadin, Kai'Sa, Shurima, Icathia and the Void with the latter two being pretty important in the lore right now. How do you write a literal prophet of one of the most hyped events in the lore without revealing too much? An update for him would also require pretty heavy lore updates. He must also have plenty to say about Lissandra, the Ascended, the Darkin and many many other things. Not to mention it would have been too obvious and dumb to replace them all at the same time and with the same voice actor, obviously they're gonna use a different one for him.

My problem with this though is that the voice is actually awful for Lee, I didn't quite care about Hanzo's voice in OW and I certainly didn't enjoy it here, he's "fine" but it sounds nothing like the Lee people have known for years. Vic's voice for God Fist was absolutely flawless so the new one feels like a massive downgrade, it's actually funny how they managed to make base Lee sound more agressive yet God Fist more boring and dull. They tried to get a known and "beloved" voice (even though no one was quite blown away by his work) from another game but it backfired badly since most people hate it, and the funniest and most ironic thing of all is that Genji's voice actor would have made a better Lee Sin than Hanzo. If the voice was actually good this thread wouldn't even exist, even though it's still shitty to remove someone's work because of some (proofless may I add) rumors.

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Its called PR.

It's called appeasement. Anything to try and win favor with That group of people.