https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt731acb42bb3d1659/blt872033ce479a267b/5ed7f773ff1cb239b9500a61/03_Mundo_Boom.gif Uhm what's that champion portrait in the bottom of the gif? LEAK?
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This thread was added on June 10, 2020, with posts from RiotRayYonggi, Reav3.
Original Post
https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-kicking-off-dr-mundo-s-vgu/
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so no Sailor Mundo :(
Sailor Mundo
That's genius
/u/Reav3 will Mundo still be able to go where he pleases
Of course! No one tells Mundo where he should go but Mundo
Was there any reason why Mundo was chosen over other potential candidates as the non poll VGU, since most of the champs you noted are showing their age as much as Mundo
Largely because we just finished 2 junglers with Fiddlesticks and Volibear and wanted to do a VGU on a different class (Top lane) to add better role diversity to our VGU line up. I mentioned it in the VGU Poll as well that we wouldn't necessarily VGU the champs in the order of most votes.
Do you think Mundo will remain as a juggernaut?
We don't plan on changing his identity as a tank/juggernaut hybrid.
Are you aiming Mundo to be a broad/popular champ or would you be alright if he remained relatively niche
We are targeting him to stay niche, we mostly want to increase his depth by rather then his breadth
Hey Reav3, can we expect a rework thinking Dr. Mundo in two lanes?
With Fiddle's rework, we lost him as support. Going from tier S+ (3% pick rate) to less than 1% pick rate due to changes. Can we dream with Dr. Mundo viable as support (like Maokai for example)?
Or are there 0% chances and he only be defined as top lane? Thanks!
I think we will likely be able to make him work in both top and jng (It was much harder to make Fiddle work in Jng and support) Though we would be looking at top primary, and jng secondary if we can make it work
But both Pantheon (pre-rework) and Mord were top laners, maybe a bot or mid is better.
If we had one that was as high priority sure, we currently don't have any bot or mids that are as high priority as Mundo. All the champs I put on the last voting poll where high priority and 4 were junglers with only Mundo being Top
Would you guys ever be open to discussing specific champions that do not end up on the VGU poll? There are champion the community seems to want reworked, but they never come up in discussion with rioters. For example RiotAugust recently said that you wanted to rework Malphite, but found out he is very popular. Are you open to more transparency like that?
Of course, i talk about those kinds of things all the time with players, though its usually in reddit comments like this rather then big blogs
Could you share what do you guys think about Tryndamere. It looks to me like he is hitting all the criteria for a VGU, but he isn't mentioned often.
Gameplay: He is the last remenant of small crit % and stat increase/decrease aoe. Attack speed, his best stat, makes him look kinda silly swinging that large sword like it's a balloon. He has very little skill expression specific to his kit.
Visual: His design is okay, but it's kind of generic. Most new champions/VGUs are now you guys taking a trope and owning it, making it unique to the League universe
Potential: He has a dedicated playerbase and there is nothing wrong with his playstyle, but I feel he is a concept that could be executed so much better both gameplaywise and visually. What are yours and the teams thoughts on him?
I mentioned in a post not long ago, but yeah Trynd is high on our list for a VGU we just haven't got to him yet
Mr. Reav3, Sir, pardon the offtopic question but is the Edgy champion that is getting released soon only for middle lane? Or can it be also played top?
While we are primarily testing and balancing it around mid I think it will also be pretty viable top
When you guys say he will be released after the jungler, do you mean after summer event is over, or next patch, or what?
They are both a part of the summer event. I’ll leave it at that
I was just wondering, I know development was probably delayed a fair bit from covid, has it impacted the release of the champs coming after the summer event at all?
So far it hasn’t
Hey u/Reav3, are you able to tell if we're gonna get a Champion Insight for the next champion? I really liked what you guys did to Aphelios and Sett, it's really cool to see the devlopment
There will be yes