@Riot , Before you Rework Yorick Please Consider...
... that the Pentakill Skill line is still not metal enough. I'm pretty sure this has been said before, but with Yorick's VGU back on the table it must be said again.
https://cdn1.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/000/184/085/large/chengwei-pan-1.jpg?1443932202
When
was reworked he was given and alternate VO for his Pentakill skin. Karthus set a new standard that sadly none of the other skins (except maybe Olaf) quite reach.
There is a lot of potential for
for example to simply have_** alternate musical sounds**_, but she doesnt.
was totally neglected in the juggernaut update's possible minor visual tweaks when you did not correct his dance animation by allowing him to play his axe. I get that he is literally metal incarnate, but his abilities could do so much! Make his W do clouds of metal music notes instead of random shrapnel. Make his pet dragon blacker than the blackest black times infinity. Add instrumental sounds to his Q that get more metal by the swing! It doesn't have to be anything drastic.
I understand there's probably something to excuse not updating them quickly (even if they are extremely simple changes that any modder seems to be able to do in a week) like wanting to wait til Morde's VGU or Sona's if it ever comes up again, but now you are on the verge of reworking yorick. Now would be an awesome time to add simple placeholder changes till the others get their own VU. Now is a good time to get the band back together.
's skin currently changes nothing and I hope you are already planning to keep the bar for Yorick at least as high as it was for Karthus. While you have the VA on payroll for the vgu give him Pentakill band voice lines! Make his guitar make guitar sounds! Let him play the guitar in his dance emote too!
The most important thing you can do though... Remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpCCCDBn0X4
That is my biggest wish for the Pentakill skin line- a group recall! All five of the band grouping together for a metal recital commemorating the enemy team who was just brutally out-rocked and rolled as they head back to base to tune up for their next performance!
Finally, if you can find some way to sneak a reference to this into one of the skins in the future (maybe as a voice line for Sona) thatd be great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwaD9tb1P50