Disclaimer: I'm about to mention a few champs that might be considered newer, rather than older, who, even though, need some technical polish with their models, are not top priority for me and are far down on my list.
While her texture looks better than the original, she still looks like a painted carton board with clunky animations and really bad-looking VFX.
And I think that it won't be so hard to update her if they just use Blackfrost's rig and animations a little to speed up the process.
While people might find him pretty ok in terms of visuals I think that he could use SOME updates, a little polishing up won't harm. Though there are, obviously, other priorities.
He has a lot of potential to become something greater.
As IronStylus once said, he could look, design-wise, better, less of monster-hunter x prince sort of mix.
In my opinion he could use some polish. His arms are looking weird at the very least and I find some of his animations pretty clunky.
Now that Fiora has a gameplay update with some visual polishes in the work, I can't help but wonder... What if Zyra was made nowdays? How would she look? She always had this thing about her, which I can't really explain, that wasn't very visually appealing to me. Her textures seem a little noisy to me (even though they're kinda new) and she never get a texture update of some sorts. Someone here brought up some stuff that are worth taking a look at. Would be cool if she got some new, shinier VFX, perhaps, and new models for her plants.
Although, again, I might be seriously wrong about the whole Zyra thing.
While his model doesn't look all that bad after his texture rebalance, it would be cool if he got some VFX and perhaps animations updates. I will happily accept a new model though.
What if he actually looked like his icons, this concept by Riot Zeronis (For a statue) and his splash (which all share the same, new design that his model never had)? Wouldn't that be pretty cool? New animations could be really good too and he never got a texture rebalance. Also, Demonblade could look a lot better, and perhaps be based on A Twist of Fate's design for this skin or its concepts.
Even after the texture rebalance, while she looks better, she still has 'noodle arms' and her VFX could look really epic. Her animations could also get some polish.
Okay, so I might be over exaggerating, but I think that, at least in terms of her blade and her VFX, she has a lot of potential to get a few really cool tweaks. Might be just my opinion.
Same thing like with Zyra and Riven, I think that she could use a little polish, a few tweaks here and there. I mean, if she looked like this, it would be pretty nice. But again, she's not a priority at all for me.
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Personally, I'm currently really looking forward for the upcoming Sion-size updates (For
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