The most likely champions to get reworked next year from Reav3's list

ModJango Mage·8/30/2018, 6:25:53 PM·2 votes·5,311 views
Quick Gameplay Thoughts: August 29

Reav3 recently showed us what champions they are thinking of reworking in the near future. You can check his comment via the link. These champions are: Amumu DrMundo Corki Fiddlesticks Mordekaiser Nocturne Rammus Pantheon Volibear

I decided to try narrowing his list down to 4 champions that are imo the most likely to get reworked next year.

Amumu or Rammus We never had a shurmiean rework before(except if you count the sivir update from 10 years ago, or the xerath VGU which was the very update that made him shurimaen). We prolly wont get 2 shurimaen reworks in the same year(altough its possible since we had two champions from zaun last year.) so thats why they share a spot. Lore wise, both of them have good possibilities. Amumu could be the first(and possibly last) yordle emperror of shurima, since rioters have been hinting at that hes a yordle. For Rammus i think it would be really interesting if he became a demigod creature like Ornn Anivia Volibear , exept he wouldnt be responsible for creating the freljord, but for the creation of shurimas sand dunes instead. Gameplay wise tough, none of them are particulalry weak, and compared to some of the other champions on this list their kits are one of those that can still function relatively well even to this day. However their kits are a little bit bland when compared to modern champions. So altough they might not be in need of a rework from a gameplay perspective, it would make sense to rework them visually and make some changes to their abilities, while also replacing some of them, keeping the iconic ones. Also as i mentioned, we never really had a true shurimaen rework, so they could be prioritised because of that. Think GP level rework.

Pantheon The only targonian rework before, was for Taric but it was a simmilar case to xerath, he wasnt a targonian before the rework. And even that rework is going to be about 3 years old when a potential pantheon rework could come. Panthe both visually and gamplay wise, is just really outdated, and he basically has nothing in his kit or visuals that would represent him as a targonian aspect. His kit also tends to be really unfun to play against because of his opressive laning phase.(Make that q a skillshot already) Hes really in need of a rework, considering he does not stand aline with what hes like in the lore, and i will be surprised if he wont receive a VGU next year.

Mordekaiser Hes propably the most requested champion to get reworked from this list, by both his mains and just the overall playerbase. And for a good reason. Besides this he has everything, that a reworkable champion should be having: really outdated visuals(those sexy poligons)that do not represent what he should look like in the game according to the lore(altough hes doing a better job at this than panthe), and hes either really fucking strong or absolutely weak while only being good in the right hands. His 2015 rework was obviously a fail, and he really deserves a new rework after 4 years, so riot can finally fix their mistakes with him. The dragon was cool tho. Im pretty sure that in case he gets reworked riot is going to take good care of him, beacuse they dont want to face the wrath of mordekaiser mains.

So as we can see we had a tank a fighter and a magey tanky metalic thingy. Riot tends not to rework champions that are alike or from the same class, in the same year, so the last rework propably wont be anything from these classes.(So yea rip Volibear VGU, i really wanted to see it. Just imagine, he could be as cool as Ornn! But unfortunately hes not that likely to gte a reowrk next year.) Because of this the last rework is going to be for a champion thats different from the others.

Corki or Nocturne Originally i was going to put Fiddlesticks here instead of Nocturne, but since we had a mage rework this year, and an assasin reowrk last year, it makes it more likely for nocturne to get reworked next year. (Their thematic would propably be very simmilar since both of them are propably demons.) Nocturne should be this epic demon from a nightmare that kills people in their dreams, but in game...well his tail is still buggy as heck. Im sure riot could make him a very horroristic champion who could stand with Eve and Tahm as one of the demons. Also please replace his fear with an asleep status effect. It makes much more sense. If im correct, the last ADC rework that we had was the tristana rework back in 2015, and it was really minor. Corki on the other hand desreves a way bigger update. Hes current thematic is kinda bland and hes gameplay is quite outdated as well, and im pretty sure riot would be able to make him a really fcuking badass champion. The fact that we never had a Yordle lore update before, and Bandle city is the only faction that has not received an update yet, makes it very likely that we will get a corki VGU that will be paired with a bandle city lore update, that player have been requesting for a long time.

So yea these are my guesses for next years VGUs. What do you guys think? Which champions are going to get reworked in your opinion?

14 Comments

Chembaron Yamada8/30/2018, 10:50:39 PM3 votes

DrMundo He stated that Dr. Mundo is high priority and honestly, he is one of the champions with the most urgent need of it.

He has the worst model in the game, he looks like a weird cartoon character and not like a champion from the League of Legends. And his splashart still shows the old version of Zaun, when it was a city on its own and not a city right below Piltover.

His gameplay has huge problems as well. Except his Q, his kit is basically just a bunch of passive effects he can trigger on demand. Passive is literally just an increased stat, he has more health regen than other champs. W is a glorified sunfire cape with tenacity attached. E increases his AD. And his ult is passively healing him and giving him movement speed. He is basically just a stat check.

If he doesn't get the update next year, I will be extremely disappointed, he needs it badly.


I hope that you are right with Amumu/Rammus and Corki, tho. I would like to see their reworks.

Moody P8/30/2018, 8:40:24 PM3 votes

Volibear is already cooler than Ornn.

Warlord Dienekes8/30/2018, 6:33:18 PM2 votes

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Pantheon and he basically has nothing in his kit or visuals that would represent him as a targonian aspect. ... considering he does not stand aline with what hes like in the lore

Good.

Ebonmaw Dragon8/30/2018, 6:43:09 PM2 votes

I must be the only person who thinks that Mordekaiser, Rammus and Volibear look good

Fasmodey8/30/2018, 7:31:47 PM1 votes

Xerath was always Shuriman character though. He destroyed old Shurima too.

Asamas8/30/2018, 11:15:17 PM1 votes

I have a bad feeling that morde won't be in 2019's reworks sadly. But who knows. It is possible. I am really hyped for the next roadmap (I know it's a way off ); ) to see any new info on that chained champion and maybe a new rework.

Zoli Ben8/31/2018, 10:43:42 AM1 votes

Xenogenic a jungler main rioter who did Nunu and Xin mini rework is likely reworking jungler again. Rammus Nocturne are my best guesses, Axes is doing Wrekz VGU that was big and scrapped for a while, he did juggernau items in 2015 so Mordekaiser is my guess. Sadly i cant see them reworking a juggernaut again so Reinboom might do Corki or Pantheon

Meep Man8/31/2018, 9:00:08 PM1 votes

I'd say, based on what I think, unless the list changes, it will go like this, assuming they are considering that Kayle is a Top Lane champion:

First to last Fiddlesticks Pantheon Corki Mordekaiser Volibear DrMundo Amumu Nocturne Rammus

This is to go with the philosophy of need and that Riot would like to avoid reworking two champions with the same role back to back. Of course, this is also assuming they keep each of these champions in their current intended roles.

Blakiepug9/1/2018, 4:43:01 PM1 votes

I dread seeing Volibear on these lists because I just know that Riot will "Galio" him.