Patiently waiting for NUNU's VGU in the future...

Wait and see.

If they can nail Eve, they'll earn some of my faith back, that's for sure. She's sorta already a blank slate at least, so they can hopefully flex their creative muscles enough without making her some happy-go-lucky character.

Is that true? I haven't heard that if it is. Not saying you are wrong, just haven't seen it. Might have missed that.

about Evelynn, what's the closest patch we have till release on PBE?

I assume either 7.20 or 7.21

Isn't Stashu the guy who made the original failed rework of Cassiopeia, and made Fiora into the feast or famine monster she is now that people simply can not stand to face? So Evelynn will likely ship out feast or famine and horribly broken. :|

Not to mention the mini-game passive he gave Cassiopeia that Fiora also has in terms of how her passive functions.

{quoted} The goals I put together are based on many factors. Old Galio (and current Nunu) was one of are least thematically resonant champions in the game. I felt and still feel strongly that keeping Galios old theme would have not hit our current champions standards and would not have been as successful of a project. One of the goals set from the beginning on Galio was to drastically update his theme. Warwicks goals were not to update his theme, but rather modernize his theme as it was very resonate with players, it's just that most players felt his old kit was very boring to play.

I'm self aware enough to know that I'm hyper critical of the champ up and skins teams because of Sion and Fiora, so I want to make sure that it's known that I'm saying the following out of blunt curiosity, not any position of aggressive frustration, because I know I've done that in the past.

With that said I have to ask, Who cares? It feels like "modernization" is just slang for "Make this champ liked by the same demographic we target every change to". A range of styles and gameplay preferences doesn't seems acceptable, and it feels like there's no respect for what already exists. You think his theme wasn't thematically resonant, but what about the people it did resonate with? What do they have now that it was changed from what drew them to what draws you?

And it's strange, sometimes it seems like you guys get it, when I see WW or Urgot or this new Xin, but then there's ones like Galio that just make me think champ up is just a Russian roulette, and I should just hope the champs I like aren't the ones that get shot.

The thought process makes me scared for updates Like Kayle, because I really like Kayle, but I don't know if she'll be Kayle at the end or if it will end up like Yorick's update and she gets deleted and a new champ gets added with her name.

I understand that maybe the theme "didn't resonate" with a lot of people, but there's no way it didn't resonate with ANYBODY. I remember old Galio's backstory more than most Champions. I completely understand not keeping 100% of old Galio's theme...but in my opinion you kept 0%. I don't think either is a good solution. I feel that, since it is a re-imagining of a character and not straight from the drawing board, that players' expectations are set to expect some retention of the old Champion's theme or personality, and I think Galio missed the mark in that regard. A more melacholic Champion or a protective tankish mage are relatively unexplored spaces in League, but Galio retained neither of those traits (well, kinda protective tankish, but that's a longer conversation that I'm not really equipped to have).

Thank you for the insight into how the teams work, I honestly wasn't sure how much of each team stayed and who left to work on other projects. I won't go around spouting misinformation anymore.

In regards to Nunu in particular, if he becomes some sad yeti character who takes care of a kid or something(exaggerating, obviously), I think its a given most of his core playerbase will be disappointed, because it's not Nunu. I'm actually really interested to see Nunu and Willump's relationship given more depth, as I think it's an opportunity to have a brotherly duo as a character, something that not only does League not have but is also still in line with Nunu's character. And I'd love for him to have more to do in teamfights while ramping up his identity as "counter jungler" with Consume.

Anyways, enough of my rambling. Thanks for talking with us Reav3. I'm always happy to see that Rioters are so open to conversation.

Except new Galio just is not fun to play. Old Galio really resonated with players, at least those that played him. His spells, his gargolye thematic, everything was unique and cool. Now? It's boring and just awful.

You should have kept him the way he was. He was fine besides his high mana costs. You could have successfully reworked him without changing his whole theme and spells. People wanted his spells to be the same but you didn't do a good job of it, his reworked ult isn't fun and his taunt is just gross.

You didn't make a successful rework, in my opinion.

New Galio doesn't seem to have much personality either, in all honesty. I'm not sure if he's "resonating" with anybody.

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The team members change pretty drastically from project to project. For example, CertainlyT was the designer on Wawick but not the designer on Urgot or Swain. SolCrushed was the designer on Galio, and StashU is the designer on Eve.

One thing I want to make clear as well is that the degree in which a Champion changes "Warwick vs Galio" is not set by the team working on it, but by me in the goals I establish for the VGU. The goals I put together are based on many factors. Old Galio (and current Nunu) was one of are least thematically resonant champions in the game. I felt and still feel strongly that keeping Galios old theme would have not hit our current champions standards and would not have been as successful of a project. One of the goals set from the beginning on Galio was to drastically update his theme. Warwicks goals were not to update his theme, but rather modernize his theme as it was very resonate with players, it's just that most players felt his old kit was very boring to play.

The goals of Eve from the beginning were to keep her current theme intact since it really resonate with many players.

Glad to hear you are modernizing Eve's theme, she was one of my first champs and I'm super excited (and a little nervous) to see her get updated. Why does the name StashU sound so familiar who else did he work on?

{quoted} Old Galio (and current Nunu) was one of are least thematically resonant champions in the game. I felt and still feel strongly that keeping Galios old theme would have not hit our current champions standards and would not have been as successful of a project.

Could you talk to us a little more about why you think his old theme (sorrowful gargoyle?) wouldn't have been as successful as a modernization/VGU? What explorations led you guys to believe it wouldn't have worked as well as his current one in terms of gameplay/art/theme?

So... you are the one behind the abomination that is Mordekaiser?