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So we will see 4 new champs and 6 VGU's this year... Lets theorize

Killaburn··3 votes·1,010 views

first of all, for the references, I used spiderexe's thread with the help/confirmation from reav3 and other rioters. here

Along the way, I also come across some hints from the designers and some clarifications like xenogenics champ will come first before august.

So lets start( In order ):

1st - wav3break - VGU - Swain, which will come in a couple of days :) - Prediction Patch/Month in Live Patch: patch 8.2/January

2nd - RiotJag - New Champ - New ADC champ confirmed - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Late February

3rd - RiotSolCrushed - VGU - Irelia - Modernization like warwick - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Late March

4th - EndlessPillows - New Champ - No hints yet - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Early April (back to back patch reveal?? nothings impossible)

5th - RiotJag - GU - Aatrox - Biggest GU to date - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Early May

6th - CertainlyT - VGU - A top/jungle champ - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Late June

7th - RiotSquad5 - New Champ - No hints yet - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Late July

8th - Xenogenic - VGU - No hints yets - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Early August

9th - RiotAugust - VGU - A girl champ - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Early September

10th - RiotWrekz - VGU - Diffidently not Nunu ( I'm so sad about this one) - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Early October

No Novemeber. Pre-season stuff for the luls

11th - RiotSolCrushed - New Champ - In early ideation - Prediction Month in Live Patch: Early December

VGU Preditions with Swain Irelia :

in order: Pantheon Nunu Akali Mordekaiser

Dream champ designers to do in the future:

RiotJag - Do a rework for Kayle RiotSolCrushed - Do a rework for Fiddlesticks/Morgana CertainlyT - Do a rework for Dr.Mundo or Rammus. No new champs just VGUs please! RiotAugust - New champ jhin level

22 Comments

Chase Me Daddy3 votes

Can't wait for Akalis new 10 hit passive, which deals max total missing health true magic damage that also stuns for 4.5 seconds and raises her attack speed cap for 10 seconds to be 8 hits per second and she starts with 2.0 attack speed, but every 4th auto you have to hum the entirety of Jhins login theme in order to get a burst of % flat movement speed and port all ranged champions in the game right in front of you :^)

Seriously though, i'd be surprised if she doesn't have a 3 hit passive.

Killaburn1 votes

I lol'd but nothing is impossible considering that august is the king of 3 hit passive(except jhin cough 4 cough).

Warlord Dienekes3 votes

Alright. Got half a year to enjoy my main before he’s gone.

It’s ok. I’ve been ready for this for years.

HonestJohnTheCon1 votes

At least he'll get a lore rewrite in the process.

Then maybe we can actually know something about Pantheon.

Warlord Dienekes1 votes

Is the lore rewrite gonna kill Pantheon and instead focus on Atreus telling all the gods and their magic powers to fuck off?

If it doesn’t, I probably won’t like it. I don’t care about the new Pantheon or anything about him really.

HonestJohnTheCon1 votes

I know you don't like it, but at least we'll know something about the Aspects and stuff.

Warlord Dienekes1 votes

Woo.

GreenLore2 votes

I wouldn't be too sure about him getting a rewrite. Pantheon is still referenced as an aspect in Zoes lore and the aspect itself has almost no known characteristics besides the fact that he is a jerk to Aurelion Sol. So an expansion seems far more likely.

Killaburn2 votes

you main pant right? i think riot should invite you in their headquarters to help them with the pantheon rework

Warlord Dienekes1 votes

A nice dream, but if they aren’t going to invite players like Keegun they’re not gonna invite some random asshole that complains on their forums.

Blood Magicks1 votes

I just want a small mostly visuals-and-narrative focused Vlad VGU that fixes the hideous rig, models, VO and gives him a passive that isn't equivalent to HP per level and not much else.

How about a utility passive that fits his new lore? For Halloween?

[vlad-salute]

Killaburn1 votes

vlad will have his moment too but i hope he'll get a skin soon

Tomeksz1 votes

Pantheon -> CertainlyT Nunu -> Xenogenic Akali -> RiotAugust Mordekaiser -> RiotWrekz

Killaburn1 votes

Yep we're in the same ship my fellow tomeksz. I hope Rammus/Mundo should receive one next year for my friend SatomiKun

Tomeksz1 votes

yeah we gucci now.

Bultz1 votes

I'd rather see more new champions instead of VG. I agree some need it, but to prioritize it seems kind of meh.

MalignMetal1 votes

I'd rather see Nunu reworked over Morde. Frankly I don't think a Rework would help change the Ranged Vs Melee disparity anyway

warpenguin5551 votes

So Akali is pretty much confirmed to be August's VGU. As for Certainly T, while it seems likely he's doing Pantheon, there are still other possibilities. I think there's a pretty good chance for it to be Wukong, with a slightly weaker chance of it being Volibear. Others I saw while looking through the roster were Dr. Mundo, Cho'gath, Malphite, and Olaf but I don't think any of them will end up leap frogging Pantheon

Sukishoo1 votes

I think swain will be in 8.3 since we still haven't seen a teaser or reveal page.

There's the fact that Nunu is on the possible upcoming skins list, so I don't think the VGU will happen this year.

GreenLore1 votes

I think the last 4 VGUs could be Pantheon Mordekaiser Kayle Morgana (not necessarily in this order).

Lorewise Kayle,Morgana and the whole angel-thing is essentially iceboxed until these 2 get their VGUs,you could argue that the lore isn't that essential,but this also means that Riot couldn't do any other angelic champs until these 2 are finished,meaning that they are limiting their own creation process if they avoid them any longer.

And Pantheon and Mordekaiser are just extremely outdated.

Though I do have to say that I think Nunu definetly needs a VGU more than any other champ,but the leak that was looking at the WAD-files(whatever that is) seems to be pretty accurate,so Nunu might get a skin soon,which would make a VGU for him rather unlikely.

As for the new champs: I'm hoping that the new champs come with new lore updates for the void,freljord and bandle city(noxus and ionia are likely getting them with Swain and Irelia,so these 3 would be the only ones missing),though all 3 in the same year seems rather unlikely.

Xodiathe4bdn11 votes

I really hope the wad files also apply to other format changes cause if that’s not the case then MissFortune will be getting a new skin in the next two months and that will create waves of saltiness deeper then the ocean [zombie-nunu-bummed] - fingers crossed it’s about her splash update. Nunus presence in wda does point to him perhaps getting a new skin which would put the kibosh on his vgu being this year or even early 2019- again I can only imagine the complaints, especially from OP [sg-miss-fortune] Ionia and Noxus are highly likely going to be the regional updates of the year along with some mini updates coinciding with the other new champions and vgu And with the promise that we’ll get a full map of valoran, the southern continent and Ionia we may see new regions being introduced.[sg-jinx]

GreenLore1 votes

I'm honestly not familiar with WAD files,are they actually just focused on the splash arts of the skins? Because if they are,then the files might have been changed due to MFs upcoming splash art update.

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