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Udyr's Visual Problem

CrimsonDragon49·6/20/2018, 12:36:22 AM·6 votes·5,528 views

Udyr's visual design is pretty bad. Many people may not agree with me but when I see Udyr's splash art, I see a wild man trying to control his anger. In game, I see a man wearing a skirt, dabbing while running in Tiger Stance, Naruto Ninja running while in Phoenix Stance, and having a gentle jog while in Bear/Turtle Stance. His skirt makes him look silly and doesn't give the impression, of this man who lost his master and struggling to control both his anger and the animal spirit's within him. His clothes should be torn and ripped and his head piece should be one thing, a hollowed out bear skin instead of a tiger/turtle/phoenix skin upon changing stances. He should be wearing a torn shirt and pants, with scars all over his body. He should have 4 different basic attack animations, one for each stance. Tiger Stance would be Udyr clawing at his enemies, Turtle Stance should be Udyr punching his enemies, Bear Stance would be a mix of clawing/punching/headbutting, and Phoenix Stance should be a mix of all previous stances with fire thrown in. Please give your opinion and feedback, and I hope Riot see's this post.

6 Comments

Salamencę6/20/2018, 5:34:54 AM2 votes

Spirit Guard Udyr is his visual update. Unfortunately they chose to make it a skin so we will never get it.

NA Darklarik6/20/2018, 5:34:57 AM2 votes

Lmfao do you think your the first to point this out? Or the hundreth's? Udyr base is arguably the ugliest model in the game. Problem with remaking him, and this has been stated by Riot, is that it would almost be like making 4 champions in 1 rework.

Each of his stances has his own model, animations and FX. Thats almost 4 champions of work from just his base. Then there is his ultimate skin. Which would also require it be brought up to par with today's standards.

Im an udyr main, so you can imagine my frustration at this. But Riot is just kind off always turns a blind eye to him in favoritism of champs who are in a visually decent place and offer a chance to also rework his kit. Udyr dosent need a kit update of any sort, he just a ton of artistic work

Sancre6/20/2018, 2:16:10 AM1 votes

It would be ok if he stopped looking like as if he was made of play-doh, but Riot kinda refuses to acknowledge Udyr because of the ultimate skin, even through he is in dire need of a visual update, and maybe a gameplay update too at this point

GreenLore6/20/2018, 7:22:29 AM1 votes

They actually clarified that by now he is among the Tier1 VGU-candidates mostly because he looks so incredibly outdated.

That being said,there are like 20 champions on that list,so he has a lot of competetition.

Infernape6/20/2018, 7:25:09 AM1 votes

Ultimate skin? No VGU for you.