A couple of weeks in the past, League of Legends put up an in-client survey to see which champion gamers thought wanted a rework essentially the most. Champion apart, a “thematic replace” was additionally up for grabs for some forgotten pores and skin traces. At present, the survey outcomes have been revealed, and the winner is…
Skarner. Our favourite jungle scorpion is getting a rework, however will get to maintain his beloved final that provides the Brackern his id. Skarner’s present gameplay is nothing however one dimensional, each recreation with this champion is thirty minutes of spamming Q within the jungle, and kidnapping enemies periodically along with his R.
Skarner’s rework gained the participant survey by an enormous margin, as visualized on this graph.
Lead Producer of Champions Ryan “Reav3” Mireles had just a few phrases to share:
“We’re tremendous excited that Skarner gained the VGU vote, as we predict he has tons of potential to be one thing actually particular on the League roster. We’ve tried smaller reworks of Skarner’s package prior to now, but it surely by no means actually elevated his playrate, so we’ll be trying to do a large reboot of his package, theme, and visuals (much like Sion and Urgot). We’ll look to maintain his kidnapping ult in some type, however in any other case we’ll be rebuilding him from the bottom up.
The Brackern don’t have tons of lore presently, and we’re trying ahead to diving deeper into their world and backstory. It’ll nonetheless be a pair months till we get began, however as soon as we can we’ll share our progress in dev blogs so we will get your suggestions on our scorpion pal. So hold a watch out for a type of later this yr.
Earlier than I’m going, I wished to speak about our forever-a-bridesmaid, Shyvana. We all know a number of you’re upset that our favourite half-dragon girl retains getting so near profitable with out ever taking the crown. Like lots of you, we actually wish to see her up to date as a result of a badass half-dragon shifter has a lot potential. As you recognize we don’t do votes for each VGU, like with Mundo. So whereas we will’t promise that Shyvana would be the subsequent massive VGU we do, she is a fairly robust contender for the following one we discover exterior of a VGU vote.
Make sure to hold a watch out for updates on Skarner’s VGU this yr, and we’ll make sure to share any plans for updating different champions as they arrive up!”
For the second half of the survey, gamers get to choose a pores and skin line to “revive” and “revamp”. Emo children will probably be blissful to know that Gothic claimed the crown for this one.
The event group promised updates in 2022, and gamers can anticipate the Skarner VGU on 2023. For now, we have now an Udyr rework to be excited with.
