It's time to update Blood Lord Vladimir, Riot.

Trinity1996·3/2/2018, 5:51:59 AM·64 votes·7,764 views

I personally am quite happy with how the default skin for Vladimir looks on his splash art even if he looks horrible in-game but when it comes to his skins, it almost seems as if they've been forgotten about, and have been left in past seasons (As their art shows)

Blood Lord Vladimir is one of the best skins for Vladimir as it fits him ENTIRELY with 100%, Soulstealer really doesn't, but looks a lot better and costs less. Blood Lord Vladimir is an 1820 skin, and his most expensive skin, but even on skins that are worth less than Blood Lord Vladimir, they have more animations and more unique features on them, that makes it seem like Blood Lord Vladimir isn't at the price it should be.

As I've previously said, Blood Lord Vladimir looks like it's from past seasons, and is not up to date, or belong along with the other champions and skins that are in Season 8 League of Legends, for example, Dragon Master Swain, (I know with his rework he received a lot of attention) but, with all of his skins, they all have at least one unique animation (Speaking more specifically of Bilgewater Ult), whereas his Tyrant Skin, Northern Front, and Dragon Master skin, are ALL unique have COMPLETELY different animations and recall animations, but they cost less than Blood Lord Vladimir?

Blood Lord Vladimir doesn't even have a recall animation, none of his animations are different besides what's on his model and his auto attack animation, which is HARDLY ANYTHING, Soulstealer Vladimir doesn't cost as much but has more than what he does (visually, animation wise, etc), the only thing good about Blood Lord Vladimir is the quotes and things he says.

I have talked to multiple Vladimir players, a LOT of players who don't even play Vlad, and they all agree it looks super outdated, I'm not saying there are not players who don't enjoy how it looks right now, as I've encountered a few, but a good amount of Vladimir players dislike the skin.

I will end this by restating what the main point of this is; Blood Lord Vladimir does not belong with Season 8 League of Legends Champions and Skins (Art wise ofc) and needs to be updated.

Here's a few links to pictures of his model:

https://gyazo.com/e274e237b866ecc4adff80c464e1340d

https://thumb.gyazo.com/thumb/116_w/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpbWciOiI1ZjVlZDAwMjhhZjA1Y2M0NzdkZTljZjAyMTEwZDYwNyJ9.ub0u3lguh4uuYdpt4HEX4FEkdNiAjjTXYb_f3bOXvCI-png.jpg (May need to zoom in for this one)

Also, here's a video of the skin spotlight, to get a better look at it if these pictures aren't good enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG5K1Qh4o6Y

Come on Riot, show Vladimir some love. Vladimir

All opinions are welcome.

32 Comments

Digielf3/2/2018, 8:27:59 AM16 votes

why just the blood lord specific, all of vladimir looks crap anyway, like an early alpha model of the new Swain

kargish3/2/2018, 11:43:06 AM7 votes

It's not just Bloodlord Vladimir that requires an update, all of his skins (default included) need visual update.

swanington3/2/2018, 8:56:18 AM6 votes

I have this skin and can confirm: 100% looks like a rejected KISS member.

ÆnÐeavør3/2/2018, 8:40:31 AM5 votes

yes please the quality of this skin is like 975 rp of nowdays skin

Zedex3/2/2018, 12:17:15 PM5 votes

They will not update this unless he recieves a VU, unfortunately.

No idea why they went back on their policies and remade PFE.

Jerry SeinfeId3/2/2018, 8:21:07 AM4 votes

firefighter trist, gentleman cho, magnificent TF, etc...

it's not a unique problem and fixing one means they have to fix all of them, they won't.

Frozen Diva3/2/2018, 10:58:25 AM3 votes

I don't play Vlad just because of his visuals. Especially Cound Vladimir: It looks amazing on the splash art but terrible in game. My favorite skin is Academy Vladimir but it does not change much.

Rude Name3/2/2018, 11:18:34 AM3 votes

Swain literally just got updated, geez

/s

Tesla Effect3/3/2018, 1:45:00 PM3 votes

Vladimir needs a Full Relaunch anyways.

GreenLore3/2/2018, 11:05:10 AM2 votes

Overall riot tends to only update skins once the champ gets a VGU or sometimes if they release another skin of the same skinline. However bloodlord is kind of a specific skintheme and I doubt it'll be used for anyone else and I think Vlad is in the Tier 2 for VGUs at best.

ReySolomon3/2/2018, 9:28:07 AM2 votes

I made a thread about him not having a special recall animation but it didn't get anywhere, Hope this one does.

the weeaboo3/2/2018, 4:01:47 PM2 votes

Blood Lord Vlad looks like a shitty version of what Swain is right now. I agree wholeheartedly with giving it a revamp.

Also please give me DARK STAR VLAD. Imagine it! His "bloodball" would be a black hole. Q would suck matter into it. For his W he could turn into a galaxy or something. E would be a dark star that goes supernova. Ultimate could be some cool dark matter. I'm nutting just thinking about it.

DunkmasterDennis3/2/2018, 2:08:27 PM1 votes

They still need to update base Udyr and Spirit Guard Udyr

Catastrop3/2/2018, 2:56:39 PM1 votes

Don't forget that when they reworked him, they also took the flair out of his Q animation. It used to had this dope siphoning animation and then it got replaced with a a crappy red BotRK animation.

4262873/2/2018, 11:24:20 AM1 votes

Soulstealer Vlad feels so good.

T I X vuky3/2/2018, 11:08:22 PM1 votes

actually if you look at it in another way

vladimir deserve a new skin

not saying that cuz iam playing him alot but if we look at his latest skins its the academy one which also came out in 2015 with academy ahri ekko and darius

since that all these champs got another new skins but vlad

ahri got arcade ahri and star guardian

darius got dread nova

ekko got project and skt t1 champion skin

but vlad still cant get animtaions update

2Behold3/2/2018, 11:28:02 PM1 votes

Unless he gets a total vgu i doubt they will do anything with the skin. Im pretty sure Riot's stance is except in specific circumstances they would rather make new skins rather than update old ones.

option paralysis3/2/2018, 12:14:58 PM1 votes

His pre rework Q animation on blood lord skin was glorious. Now you cant even see it.

Magical Zoe3/2/2018, 11:33:26 PM1 votes

Since when do they update skins, oh yea, never!

They keep it like that for a reason.