As a Viktor main, not really. The New Viktor as I don't hate anymore, just isn't the same cyborg I came to love. They didn't change his enough gameplay to fit his new identity. His skins don't fit his new lanky alien body and removed key details from them. They change Deathswarn Viktor to be more human yet didn't change prototype Viktor to pre-cult arcane Viktor but to be Jimmy neutron? They simultaneously committed and not commit to Viktors new Identity confusing everyone.
I feel the same way like the design is amazing but it just doesn't fit the abilities and how he plays. They made it too celestial and doesn't make sense for him to have a death ray and an extra hand to shoot it from. They should have made him evolve into cyborg by choice and then evolve with the hexcore into the final arcane form. Would have made more sense IMO.
I really do like the new victor. I think the most visible "problem" is that he is now way taller and skinier as he was in the show to represent that he is sick and not well. And the fact that they did this and connected it to the lore that he looks this way because he is slowly dying since he was a child, so that he has more motivation to fix himself. I like it, he looks too much like hwei tho with his body structure and posture. EDIT: to be fair, he was always like this in the splashart, just probably was difficult and better to model him thicker in 2011/12.
@@matyasslavicek7513I still don't get the point in reping his sickness, dude gets robotic enhancement but still looks like a malnourished husk. Besides that he looks too godly or alien imo and less robotic in nature.
my favouite comments about vikotr for now have been: - this is the glorious devolution - the glorious downgrade - the glorious assassination - now i understand how others felt when they changed their main
@@stefanristic9245the funny thing is that Viktor mains have been asking for an update/upgrade on his horrible kits, for it to be relatively unchanged at all with this VGU (+ change in lore/character design that they didn’t ask for). I’d be pissed too if I were them.
@@TheEvenstar1993 Why his kit is horrible? Viktor is imo one of the most fun mages in the game. So much different builds. And I rly like the visual update (except deathsworn and psyops)
@@ardez8674 his abilities doesn’t support each other. His W is rarely effective/impactful. There is just no harmony between his abilities. It feels like a separate ability that doesnt belong in the same kit.
You missed the part of the battlepass that it removes all other systems to earn free rewards. They remove the the abilities to rerolls skins and the skin-rewards from future orbs&co will never be higher than Epic. So a F2P can't win a high value skin even by 1% anymore. It also reduces the maximum of possible skins a year from 75 (current system) TO TWELVE(12). It is a HUGE nerf to f2p players.
you can still reroll, you just won't be getting skin shards anymore at least not in any significant amount. Update is good for dads and moms that just want to get the prestige skin. Bad for everyone else.
honestly im pretty sure 90% of viktor mains dont like his new design. Its for people who watched arcane but the people who watched arcane arent really playing league.
@@jarenpocopio6033 but I like this new skin, I don't play viktor but I like the viktor in arcane like league but if it's a change by riot himself, I accept
You missed the announcement that a Noxus champ will be receiving a surprise VGU with the launch of Season 1, which is heavily implied to be LeBlanc due to her appearance in Arcane (and also her model and voicelines REALLY needing it)!
I wonder what they were going to change about LB Gameplay. She's been a consistent abusive mess every since they added her into the game, so her kit needs a MASSIVE restructure.
@@swissgoat4981twitter was a mixed bag, but more hating post than liking post, highest liked post I saw was from midbeast and he doesn’t even play victor 🤷🏽♂️
All of viktor's new skins have the exact same claw Old viktor every skin had a pretty distinct claw, but all viktor VGU ones have 3 'finger's Like psyops used t have 4 fingers, base viktor had a hand, etc New viktor is lazy skin wise
Wdym so much posivity? All i'm seeing is people crying about Viktor, Riot's decision to nerf the F2P experience once again, people begging to change the feats of strength and the boots, and all the fiasco with the jinx skin using the same model for $250 lol.
you must surround yourself with a lot of negative-minded content creators and players then. i've seen most people praising it. not everyone is gonna be happy, it's impossible to make everyone happy all the time, but the response to the new changes is DEFINITELY a contrast to what they usually are
@daydreamies I don't consume league content outside of lore or some compilations on TH-cam, just take a peek at the official subreddit or like a few things about Arcane on twt and you will be flooded with mixed comments about the changes. I personally love some of the changes, but there's a couple of FU's by riot too.
@@scuba2344 aight, but then don't make the video. Being dishonest about the community's opinion is a lot worse than not talking about it in the first place
I'm a Viktor enjoyer for a few years now and i specially LOVE the Viktor from Arcane. It didn't bother me that they decided to change his theme from all machine to partial machine and part celestial. But oh boy, the way they did it! Viktor's base model feels completely off and disproportional. I HATE his cape (and why is so similar to Azir's?). In Arcane we saw him with a perfect blue cloak and that was awesome, so i don't get why they didn't use it. Futhermore, his hair is awful and not accurate with the series nor with his own splash art! He's lacking so many textures. And, the biggest of the problems: His VFX SUCKS! In arcane we saw so many types of magic: Runic, celestial, voidish... All of them had an unique and interesting visual. But Viktor's new VFX are simply generic blue glow. It has no deepth, no special effects, no impact. They are plain boring. Viktor's rework rn seems like he belongs in a generic mobile game and that's not what i expected at all since they had EVERYTHING to make him awesome. But, of course, his new skin solves all that and is exactly what everyone was exepcting that Viktor would be after the rework. Wich make things even worst, because it shows that was not a problem with ideas/creation, but they purposely reworked him with the minimum effort possible so they could sell the skin. And this is a shame, because implies that now a single skin is more important than the ENTIRE CHAMPION (and his player base).
Yeah, this is a thing in alot of other games where "Rework" used to imply a massive change. Now it means 2 abilities get reworked, and only slightly at that. Idk who they keep letting run hero based games, nobody seems to understand how tf it works.
But ASU is only visual touch up not the erasing of a champion. He should still look the same just more onpair with 2024. It’s a half baked VGU with terrible design
They made the machine Harold a magic FUELED CYBORG.. into a generic ( magic magic) demon man thing so many plot holes because they think we need a discount xiarath instead of the unique cyborg
@@derpymule7977 Also while I understand some older Viktor mains not liking the idea of essentially a cyborg turning into a more typical mage, the thing is I don't get it is what's the problem with him being slim now? Literally all male characters but like 2 or 3 (Only Ezreal and Hwei come to mind) are your typical big dudes/chads. Like even Azir is a pretty buff mage that shared similar silhouette and body type with old Viktor. Variety is a good thing in this case in my opinion especially since him being thin and frail is not random and completely in theme with his lore of being a physically weak and sick zaunite. Neither mage nor machine needs bulk and strength. Like at all. If anything giving Viktor elegant appearance makes him more interesting and unique and it fits the character. Agree that him having slim profile now makes his two skins that were not designed with the new Viktor in mind, look a bit off now, however, they already didn't look that good and were quite outdated in the first place, where the default skin is definitely a big upgrade over the old one.
as a semi casual player who just gets to gold every season or 2, there is nothing more exciting than playing all the champs in new maps against different monsters and with different context League is a video game and should embrace big changes like this, rather than just turning into chess where you can spend an entire lifetime studying the same openings (no disrespect to chess) I get why some pro players might feel this is a disruption but the day that decisions are made around consistancy for pro players instead of fun for the average player will be the day the game dies
Not new maps... New skins for maps. The day Riot will give us more maps and I mean actual new maps that you will have to play in Ranked (decided randomly) is the day LoL will start dying. HOTS would still be alive if Blizzard would not add Starcraft maps... then Diablo maps... then Overwatch maps. Some people liked some new maps but reality is that everyone HATED some of them as well and that feeling of "I want to alt f4" as soon as this certain map appeared was worse than getting Gangplank Top and Shaco Jungle in your team.
They def need to add a classic skin later down the line for free for Viktor. I like the new design but it’s such a massive departure we have never seen from a rework since SION
@@adamqutaefan8969 As someone who played during Season 2 to Season 10 (which is to say I recognize and know the old Viktor quite fondly despite being Dr Doom) and still really liked what they did with him in Arcane, I must say the skin in game does not look good. And most of the modified versions of the other skins also don't look good. In fact this is a horrible situation as players may have purchased some of his skins to live the fantasy they used to deliver, and now that may be gone for some of them. It should've been only one Arcane skin and even then the skin they made does not look good enough.
I love Viktors design in arcane but in league it looks so weird. His current model in terms of shape and silhouette resembles hwei more then his og design Edit: They Massacred Deathswarm viktor btw
Old Viktor had nothing to do with Dr Doom except for the metal mask. Even when Riot made 2 versions of him before Arcane even released and they didnt know if they want to make him good or evil, neither of them resembled Doom in any way.
Well god damn Rito...it seems that they got together a pretty solid plan for how whole season should be put together but also how future updates will look...it really does look amazing and Riot basically abandoned crazy new ideas and sticked more to the core of League and its lore + also giving it a new fresh take on certain aspects Also I dont wanna sound biased but .....NOOOOXUUUUS!!!!!!!!! FINALLY YES THEY GIVING US MORE OF NOXUS!
ive conditioned myself to assume its a nerf anytime they touch the pass, rewards, etc. and 95% of time its going to be a nerf lmao. the other 5% is maybe a neutral change
It's insane how much less free content will be available for f2p players now. Like, yeah, orbs and masterwork chests were random, but they could give you anything in the game. Who wants to bet that now in the "free" battlepass we'll be lucky if we get one orb per season? Like, free skins are fine, but in the moment everyone has them as long as they play, who really cares? Also, 100% they'll be lower quality than "premium" content
I am not a Viktor main, but did play him a ton, and while I like that he's getting updated (I wasn't super attached to the old model) I am super disappointed in several of the skins. It feels very much like they committed to changing him to his ARCANE version, but then didn't follow through on so many things. Like why did they decide that he needed some fluffy weird hair in game? We may never know. He just feels SO plain. Death Sworn used to be so glowy and cool, now it's just some flat texture. I think the one I'm most disappointed in is High Noon though. That used to be my favorite skin for him... they made it so much less detailed, and completely changed the color on the jacket from a deep blue-gray to purple... so it doesn't even match his hat anymore. It literally feels like a half done mess. It just feels like a situation of 'If you're not going to do it right, why do it at all?"
No you aren’t. You didn’t even realize he hasn’t had it in years. No one plays this guy outside of Aram and now we are all pretending he’s some beloved design.
@@SH1NK1R01Same shit with old Aatrox and old Asol. Lowest playrate champs in the game, for years. When they get reworked, suddenly everyone cried about how their favorite champions got deleted. Like bs, no one played old Aatrox and Asol.
@@davidcoop8082 the majority of people that are writing on subreddits are doing so because something annoyed them. the people who are ok or like the change just have no reason to open it and write about it. This is why subreddits maily give negative feedback in general
@@davidcoop8082 If you think about it the paying side are only the people who aren't already a Viktor main that don't have his skins. It's a smart business decision even if it sucks for the people who already play the champ.
my only gripe with the new update is how they prettyfied victor as the machine herald, also how none of the arcane va got to voice their arcane skins so it's pretty jarring going from arcane voices to lol voices.
They should denetflixify their series from now on. Production team of Arcane totally discredits every previous cinematic, animator, VA and lore Simply they don't love it like fans do they are not passionate enough about things to give a fuck
The respawning nexus turrets will hopefully decrease those cheese games where that one tryndamere player just tp's while his team is fighting to defend and ends the game alone. so unsatisfying.
Do we just ignore we are losing, earning the Hextech Chests? We will no longer have chance to get legendary with new system, and get less content than ever.
Just started league myself like 2 days ago and I just wish that they took the opportunity to overhaul the tutorial now that Arcane is bringing in more people. Would really appreciate stuff like, how jungleIng works and such works. There is just so much stuff to learn between champions and so many mechanics and they are adding more without a good way for people to catch up aside from watching youtube tutorials instead of playing the game.
@@acedragonelf The tutorial basically just tells you how to do basic mechanics like move and teaches you to play one of 4 characters, buy an item, then explains how a moba works before running a 1v1 against a bot. Its super basic and tells you nothing beyond the most basic stuff regarding the game.
Did someone mention that they are removing one hextech chest from each champion mastery system? The new pass doesn't compensate the F2P players enough.
I play viktor casually and while i like arcane, I still love old viktor way more. I wish they didn't use the arcane viktor as the vgu but made it a legendary skin instead. I feel like the character i fell in love with got killed in the process.
You absolutely have to dive into the Viktor controversy. It's so bad because they completely got rid of all the good and kept in all the bad. He's not even the Machine Herald anymore...
12:00 It's actually a massive nerf to free pass. We know of which quality their free skins are, and the second free skin will be 1380- cost with no chance to reroll it. So yeah it's just trash compared to 2 orbs we get now. Not to mention the fact that they're taking away chests for mastery. Paid pass I would say is better than now, although now there won't be ME in it so gl farming it from gacha I guees.
I find it funny how League is slowly becoming Wild rift with all the changes They made started making 3 seasons a year that have a continuous theming just Like Wild rift started while ago Introducing another gacha system Making the gold and XP passive in new swift mode THE whole banishment of Ivern's passive in the void cuz WR had introduced buff sharing wo Ivern so Rito brought it over to League and also disrespected Ivern Its like actually so silly how this keeps happening over and over
-> insane nerf to f2p players -> adding a scummy and manipulative "free" battlepass -> adding a 250 dollars gacha skin and other insanely priced gacha chromas -> including the last batch of Arcane skins which are ugly as sin -> undercooked "rework" that doesn't change anything in the original champion except the whole aesthetic feel of him and almost completely removes his character fantasy (edit: like, why didn't they at least reintroduce his old hexcore item passive? It fit so well) -> patch cycles changed to "seasons" because it's the live service way to do things now, meaning undercooked narratives that will go nowhere (probably why Arcane ended the way it did. Who wants to bet that the first cinematics will be Mel traveling to Noxus?) Necrit either played too much Genshin Impact or has to pay rent this month.
@@Navue-cn2tx the moment someone tells you that including a permanent battlepass is good because it "streamlines" stuff, it's a good moment to stop listening to them.
Viktor got screwed over so hard, I just want my cyborg back. Also, monetization is HORRENDOUS this update. It's literally a worse version of the OW2 system.
Necrit, I disagree, I do not think it's a 50/50 spilt. I think it's 12/87. Nobody really likes him as new Viktor. They like him as a new champ or as a skin, but they don't like him as default Viktor. If they talked to Viktor mains at all about the LOOK, not just gameplay, I don't think a single person would have approved this. Arcane fans don't want it since it PLAYS nothing like how his powers worked in the show, and Viktor mains don't want it since it LOOKS nothing like a MACHINE herald would. No one wanted another sterotypical skinny mage with a staff. We have Karthus, Azir, and, debatably Hwei or Leblanc, for that. I legit cannot tell his silhouette difference from him and Galactic Azir. The only thing that made him unique was his MACHINE herald part. If he isn't machine anymore and just looks like a mage behind a mask...what's the fucking point? Every comment I've seen on SkinSpotlight's Viktor vid also seems to have at least one of these points on it. It just feels very half baked and not Viktor Main approved for a rework that, theoretically, had 3. FUCKING. YEARS. in development.
They took the unique magic fueled cyborg and turn him into another magically magic demon mage and fucked half the lore of all league in the process wow riot really big brain move
I think the new Viktor would be amazing if they simply added more meat to his model. Because that's not Viktor, that's a twig. I feel like the problem arises from him being really tall, skinny and him floating at the same time. He just looks really elongated.
I think the design is overall fine, the elongated proportions lend credence to it being otherworldly and uncanny for a potential evolution of humanity into what appears to be a porcelain mannequin. HOWEVER, the issue I have with the base design is why are his abs still there?
At least give him the accent! He should sound Russian not this. I donMt care if Riot hates Russia, Arcane also made it clear that Viktor even as a god have Russian accent!
biggest mistake they did was talk to the "viktor mains" The old design is badass but his overloaded kit and clunky abilities was cancer both to play as and against
THAT thing isn't Victor, anyone saying otherwise is a fake fan. Riot robbed us of a character and gave us another Malzahar. Where is OUR Machine Herald Riot?
Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that by eliminating hextech chests, 5+ chests will actually be eliminated from the opening timeline? They already eliminated the chests given to champs S? And now they want to gouge our eyes out with a battle pass that will have less relevant content.... Can they fool everyone?
Some critics i have for the "vgu": There are inconsistencies with his shape, in arcane he is much taller than a human, which helps with his uncanny look, looking completely malnourished, torso extremely thin, ribcages appearing, everywhere his human anatomy is visible and deformed, and yet being both taller and wider than jayce who is a tall and bulky man, which portrayed really well that alien feeling from looking at him, while in the game he just looks like a skinny regular guy and that's it, missing what makes his slender physique work and be uncanny in the show. They seem to have put someone who never watched Arcane to work on viktor, you can see that by the way they described his ultimate in the recent video showing the changes to his ultimate "we wanted to mirror that feeling from arcane where he manifests a massive growing storm..." When does he do that in arcane? The answer is never, that's at best a misconception of that storm that jayce has to pass through on that alternative universe which is a consequence of what viktor did and not something he purposefully made. He does not have an arcane design at all, his base skin differs from his final form in the show, they missed the ball x2 since they didn't double down in either his more machine look in league, or his more weirdly organic look from arcane, instead making that grey mess that is in league, too much machine to have the amazing uncanny look from arcane viktor while also having too little machine to look cool like old league viktor, and the arcane messiah skin isn't any Viktor we saw in the show, they could have made that old man viktor from the alternative world, they could have made a pre transformation viktor that would transform during the ultimate finally giving us both a maskless viktor and a design that more resembles his arcane appearence, they could have made a skin based on that godlike ethereal final form that jayce sees inside the hivemind, but instead we receive spirit blossom jesus that never appeared in arcane (these factors reinforce my belief that whoever worked on viktor never watched arcane season 2). They didn't even try to redesign viktor's skins, instead of doing like they did to skarner where they completely changed the design of his skins to better fit the new model's aesthetics while still maintaining their concepts, they just used the exact same design and removed 50kg from his body and called it a day, making them all look horrible and uninspired, trying to be what viktor was which he isn't anymore, and somehow some of his skins have worse quality than his old ones, they made a skin that has a worse model quality than a 6+ years old skin. And to add insult to injury they didn't even change his skills at all, becoming unfaithful to both Viktors and wasting the opportunity to make an amazing new champion with finally a innovative kit like finally having a champion that could interact with the minions from his own team by evolving them into his followers. (though now i must aknowladge that the old viktor mains may have had a finger on that flaw, but i still see it as riot's mistake to copletely rely on their critiscism, obviously the old players won't want to change anything in the champ they use to play on challenger, a mixture of feeling safe in their old kit and nostalgia shrouds their judgement and riot should know better than fully relying on them, in a way that's even ironic as the viktor players are denying his evolution that was supposed to make him more fun to play for everybody, which basically contradicts viktor's beliefs that humanity should evolve to make everyone happy) Final thoughts: Viktor should 100% go back to the oven to receive a proper rework and riot should send whoever made this dumpster fire of a v"gu" (no gameplay changes and definetly not a visual upgrade) back to training camp because he is clearly severely uninspired and lazy. at least those are my thoughts
Absolutely valid on all of this, though he does make a storm during the ending of Arcane, once he gets to the top of the tower. No lightning though, so point still stands
@@xandermcdonald8543 my interpretation of the storm is that it was more of a consequence of him using an extremely powerful spell with the hexgate rather than something he was actually trying to manifest also goated pfp edit: kind of like when ekko abuses his Z-drive to go back too much in time, the implosions and explosions are not intended in the project and are a consequence of reality not handling so well the overuse of the arcane
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@ 1. He is too skinny like bro look up old viktor and what is now 2. His old skins now look so bad like very bad 3. Missing details 4. 400 stack insted of 300
@@marius6208 he looks like a demon from another world all hex and no tech hes not a machine Harold hes magic magic man now discount xiarath if you will
i really really dislike the viktor update and it would all be fine if they just gave us a "Traditional Viktor" and if they didn't completely destroy his death sworn skin
It would be better for riot to give players options for the default skins, in this case it would be better if players can choose between classic skin victor and arcane version of victor. Kinda like overwatch 2
Making Arcane the main canon instead of branches things up like Marvel/DC will always be a mistake. It kills the superior lore of the connection between Hex crystal & Skarner then, it twinkified Viktor now
Well. They do change comics to fit more with movies. But if they ever going to make movies new canon, I'm not touching any comic from big two. And I'm sure I'm not alone of this opinion.
Well you know they are going to work that in right? They aren’t just going to make it canon and forget about storylines. Give em time to connect it all. Going the Marvel/DC route has been overdone since we’ve been saturated with their content. I def wouldn’t want to see another piece of media mimic it
For being my by far favroite TH-camr and me always agreeing with you, I think you missed the mark with the Viktor ”VGU”, i honestly havent read a single good comment on it, after reading the Viktormains and the Feedback thread in the PBE Reddit. It is lacklusting, looks wierd Ingame, lazy design and didnt adress his W at all. I could unbind W and it wouldnt change my winrate with him.
Damn i didnt see who was behind Victor rework Thank god im not playing this game anymore the people in riot are just DEI hires that broke lore for some trash skins
Nah i am far from loving it, sure some freshness is nice but: 1. Atakhan - as they have presented it, he is very very unlikely to ever spawn topside in a non-competitive game. 2. Feats of Strength - Why is first blood an objective??? - SoloQ snowball will be unstoppable if the early game winner gets an extra item in lategame 3. Deepward rune - this will also amplify snowballing as you can ward out the whole enemy jungle choking them out completely All in all the next season seems super snowball heavy, combacks will become even harder if not impossible
yea the ward change seems completely horrible to me. If you're able to ward in the enemy jungle, chances are you're already winning the game. So making the wards even harder to kill makes it basically impossible for the losing team to ever leave their base for the rest of the game. I get that it's a rune so it won't be in every game and you have to sacrifice power elsewhere to have it, but it still just seems like it benefits the team that's already winning so what's the point
@@jason.s.music. Yeah that is what i was thinking too. But even worse in my opinion is that if you are behind and have choosen that rune, it just does nothing for you, so its just a rune wasted. Basically a coinflip rune.
5:16 what we are wondering about is how can it be that riot cant bring back the winter map for the last 6+ years but now can afort to bring our 3 new map skins a year ?
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But where's Shaco's lore?
Riot: Who?
"Why would anyone… of course, that would trigger an alarm"
YOU ARE SHACO'S LORE
Shaco?
Who dat, bruh? 😂
Viktor got that Glorious Twinkification
Bro went on ozempic and heightmaxxed 😭
😂😂😂
I don't understand the 3d model, I like his look in Arcane but not inside the game as shown here.
Glamorous Evolution > Glorious Evolution
Glorious Malnourishment
As a Viktor main, not really. The New Viktor as I don't hate anymore, just isn't the same cyborg I came to love.
They didn't change his enough gameplay to fit his new identity.
His skins don't fit his new lanky alien body and removed key details from them.
They change Deathswarn Viktor to be more human yet didn't change prototype Viktor to pre-cult arcane Viktor but to be Jimmy neutron?
They simultaneously committed and not commit to Viktors new Identity confusing everyone.
Death sworn Viktor went from benching plates at the gym to being a regular California native
I feel the same way like the design is amazing but it just doesn't fit the abilities and how he plays. They made it too celestial and doesn't make sense for him to have a death ray and an extra hand to shoot it from. They should have made him evolve into cyborg by choice and then evolve with the hexcore into the final arcane form. Would have made more sense IMO.
Some players seem to forget that these skins serve as viewfinders into what the character may look like once inserted in a different universe/setting.
I really do like the new victor. I think the most visible "problem" is that he is now way taller and skinier as he was in the show to represent that he is sick and not well. And the fact that they did this and connected it to the lore that he looks this way because he is slowly dying since he was a child, so that he has more motivation to fix himself. I like it, he looks too much like hwei tho with his body structure and posture.
EDIT: to be fair, he was always like this in the splashart, just probably was difficult and better to model him thicker in 2011/12.
@@matyasslavicek7513I still don't get the point in reping his sickness, dude gets robotic enhancement but still looks like a malnourished husk. Besides that he looks too godly or alien imo and less robotic in nature.
“you’re not ascending to godhood, you’re just dehydrated”
my favouite comments about vikotr for now have been:
- this is the glorious devolution
- the glorious downgrade
- the glorious assassination
- now i understand how others felt when they changed their main
At least the kit is the same
What's about
Glorious twinkification
@@stefanristic9245the funny thing is that Viktor mains have been asking for an update/upgrade on his horrible kits, for it to be relatively unchanged at all with this VGU (+ change in lore/character design that they didn’t ask for).
I’d be pissed too if I were them.
@@TheEvenstar1993 Why his kit is horrible? Viktor is imo one of the most fun mages in the game. So much different builds. And I rly like the visual update (except deathsworn and psyops)
@@ardez8674 his abilities doesn’t support each other. His W is rarely effective/impactful. There is just no harmony between his abilities. It feels like a separate ability that doesnt belong in the same kit.
You missed the part of the battlepass that it removes all other systems to earn free rewards. They remove the the abilities to rerolls skins and the skin-rewards from future orbs&co will never be higher than Epic. So a F2P can't win a high value skin even by 1% anymore. It also reduces the maximum of possible skins a year from 75 (current system) TO TWELVE(12).
It is a HUGE nerf to f2p players.
You can’t reroll anymore? That’s awful.
realllyyyy ??? source ?
you can still reroll, you just won't be getting skin shards anymore
at least not in any significant amount. Update is good for dads and moms that just want to get the prestige skin. Bad for everyone else.
"everyone loves new update"
viktormains: we not say that
honestly im pretty sure 90% of viktor mains dont like his new design. Its for people who watched arcane but the people who watched arcane arent really playing league.
@@jasonochoa7876 source?
RIP our Metal Glorious Evolution Viktor
our machine isnt immortal anymore, its our tyranids are gays now
@@jarenpocopio6033 but I like this new skin, I don't play viktor but I like the viktor in arcane like league but if it's a change by riot himself, I accept
You missed the announcement that a Noxus champ will be receiving a surprise VGU with the launch of Season 1, which is heavily implied to be LeBlanc due to her appearance in Arcane (and also her model and voicelines REALLY needing it)!
uh, ojala
I hope so and that’ll be funny, might be the only champ who’s received a VGU twice
I wonder what they were going to change about LB Gameplay. She's been a consistent abusive mess every since they added her into the game, so her kit needs a MASSIVE restructure.
I hope she will be cool unlike Viktor.
Viktor vgu has to be most letdown thing i seen in this game
Not gonna talk about Shyvana rework being delayed by an entire year? That's kind of a huge deal
Where did they say that? I've been looking for info on future reworks and haven't found much
@@TomasccPTit’s moved indefinitely till a matching season comes
@@TomasccPT reddit comment by Riot Meddler
@@JosukeHigashikata that must mean we're getting a noxus vgu in act 1!!! (God I wish)
@ i think it was already said that we will
Viktor got the Glorious Ozempic.
the new viktor could have been just made as a legendary skin
THIS. I got no problem with Legendary being arcane version with clear malnutrition issues.
But why butcher the core version?
@@mrbuster3106 But the core version doesnt make sense anymore
just that and say that is lore correct and end with that , legendary is really good but this new model is just good for that skin
I mean, I think f2p rewards getting omega nerfed is a negative. And Shyvana's Rework getting put on stop.
Bro Viktors dance doesnt even look up to par. Viktors old dance had so much energy and speed compared to the new one.
Ye that's true even if people prefer new Viktor you gotta say his dance now sucks compared to original
To which Viktor mains did they talk? They didnt even talk about him in the viktormain subreddit. 100% lying
From what I saw, the subreddit isn't overly happy with it. Then again, it is reddit
@@swissgoat4981twitter was a mixed bag, but more hating post than liking post, highest liked post I saw was from midbeast and he doesn’t even play victor 🤷🏽♂️
Viktor mains before this update : None , Viktor mains when this hit pbe 1000000000% .Ugh ok
Necrit is a walking lie, i dont get y ppl still let this fan loli fool everybody
Of course they are lying. Nobody likes this. They asked the alleged “mains” at Riot
Riot should be charged with war crimes for what they did to Viktor, especially Death Sworn Viktor like what the fuck is that
they made him look like the people who play him
all the Arcane versions are downgrades,
@@christeraun4993ahahahaha truuuueee
Viktor just needs a trip to McDonald's and a new cape to be perfect
Strange choice on Rito to remove the base skin from Viktor and replace it with a warden skin.
Can we appreciate how Necrit went to Noxus to commentate on this video? I really have to appreciate the commitment
Yeah it's a long trip from the Shadow Isles, too
@@MattHatter360 and the local cuisine is terrible
no wonder Ambessa went on holiday in Piltover
The victor design does not look good in game, it really should have been a skin, especially since his kit didn't change at all.
All of viktor's new skins have the exact same claw
Old viktor every skin had a pretty distinct claw, but all viktor VGU ones have 3 'finger's
Like psyops used t have 4 fingers, base viktor had a hand, etc
New viktor is lazy skin wise
Viktor silhouette now overlaps with likes of Azir. Scrawny, twing body mages with big rod and 2 long capes
Yeah I wish viktor silhoutte had something different like a third arm or something.
unless u have blurry vission and cant read yes ur right, but to be honest no
Azir isn't scrawny. Dude is buff af for a mage.
big rod?
very big rod
victor's update feels more like a glorified replacement rather than a glorious evolution
Wdym so much posivity? All i'm seeing is people crying about Viktor, Riot's decision to nerf the F2P experience once again, people begging to change the feats of strength and the boots, and all the fiasco with the jinx skin using the same model for $250 lol.
you must surround yourself with a lot of negative-minded content creators and players then. i've seen most people praising it. not everyone is gonna be happy, it's impossible to make everyone happy all the time, but the response to the new changes is DEFINITELY a contrast to what they usually are
@daydreamies I don't consume league content outside of lore or some compilations on TH-cam, just take a peek at the official subreddit or like a few things about Arcane on twt and you will be flooded with mixed comments about the changes. I personally love some of the changes, but there's a couple of FU's by riot too.
@@daydreamiesendless positivity in the face of real backlash is bad for the game overall.
He's a Riot partner so he can't be much pessimistic over Riot's decision, which is understandable.
@@scuba2344 aight, but then don't make the video. Being dishonest about the community's opinion is a lot worse than not talking about it in the first place
I'm a Viktor enjoyer for a few years now and i specially LOVE the Viktor from Arcane. It didn't bother me that they decided to change his theme from all machine to partial machine and part celestial. But oh boy, the way they did it!
Viktor's base model feels completely off and disproportional. I HATE his cape (and why is so similar to Azir's?). In Arcane we saw him with a perfect blue cloak and that was awesome, so i don't get why they didn't use it. Futhermore, his hair is awful and not accurate with the series nor with his own splash art! He's lacking so many textures. And, the biggest of the problems: His VFX SUCKS! In arcane we saw so many types of magic: Runic, celestial, voidish... All of them had an unique and interesting visual. But Viktor's new VFX are simply generic blue glow. It has no deepth, no special effects, no impact. They are plain boring. Viktor's rework rn seems like he belongs in a generic mobile game and that's not what i expected at all since they had EVERYTHING to make him awesome.
But, of course, his new skin solves all that and is exactly what everyone was exepcting that Viktor would be after the rework. Wich make things even worst, because it shows that was not a problem with ideas/creation, but they purposely reworked him with the minimum effort possible so they could sell the skin. And this is a shame, because implies that now a single skin is more important than the ENTIRE CHAMPION (and his player base).
Completely agree
I say we as a community should riot against this game
Victor shouldn't be called VGU when it is clearly only an ASU
Or Viktor at all i call him magically magic man because his all hex and no tech man looks like a generic demon possessed mage form fantasy series 73
@@adamqutaefan8969 Yeah, we get it, you spammed the same comment all over this comment section.
Yeah, this is a thing in alot of other games where "Rework" used to imply a massive change. Now it means 2 abilities get reworked, and only slightly at that. Idk who they keep letting run hero based games, nobody seems to understand how tf it works.
we need new terms for when a VGU is Morgana level or when its fcking Sion lvl
But ASU is only visual touch up not the erasing of a champion. He should still look the same just more onpair with 2024.
It’s a half baked VGU with terrible design
14:15 And yes obviously i am gonna make a 30 minute video about it
I know a lot of people are upset about the Lord being changed and Viktor.
From unique cyborg fueled by magic to generic magically magic demonically possessed mage from random fantasy series 73
Viktor new VGU look like he needs a sandwich or 2.
They made the machine Harold a magic FUELED CYBORG.. into a generic ( magic magic) demon man thing so many plot holes because they think we need a discount xiarath instead of the unique cyborg
maybe he should drink some deep fry oil
@@adamqutaefan8969 you say that as if original Viktor wasn't the most generic villain
@@adamqutaefan8969 Cyborg Viktor was not unique in the slightest, he was literally just a clone of 700 other cartoon villains
@@derpymule7977 Also while I understand some older Viktor mains not liking the idea of essentially a cyborg turning into a more typical mage, the thing is I don't get it is what's the problem with him being slim now? Literally all male characters but like 2 or 3 (Only Ezreal and Hwei come to mind) are your typical big dudes/chads. Like even Azir is a pretty buff mage that shared similar silhouette and body type with old Viktor. Variety is a good thing in this case in my opinion especially since him being thin and frail is not random and completely in theme with his lore of being a physically weak and sick zaunite. Neither mage nor machine needs bulk and strength. Like at all. If anything giving Viktor elegant appearance makes him more interesting and unique and it fits the character. Agree that him having slim profile now makes his two skins that were not designed with the new Viktor in mind, look a bit off now, however, they already didn't look that good and were quite outdated in the first place, where the default skin is definitely a big upgrade over the old one.
as a semi casual player who just gets to gold every season or 2, there is nothing more exciting than playing all the champs in new maps against different monsters and with different context
League is a video game and should embrace big changes like this, rather than just turning into chess where you can spend an entire lifetime studying the same openings (no disrespect to chess) I get why some pro players might feel this is a disruption but the day that decisions are made around consistancy for pro players instead of fun for the average player will be the day the game dies
Not new maps... New skins for maps. The day Riot will give us more maps and I mean actual new maps that you will have to play in Ranked (decided randomly) is the day LoL will start dying. HOTS would still be alive if Blizzard would not add Starcraft maps... then Diablo maps... then Overwatch maps. Some people liked some new maps but reality is that everyone HATED some of them as well and that feeling of "I want to alt f4" as soon as this certain map appeared was worse than getting Gangplank Top and Shaco Jungle in your team.
They def need to add a classic skin later down the line for free for Viktor. I like the new design but it’s such a massive departure we have never seen from a rework since SION
New Victor is too much Hex and not enough Tech.
Yes i have been pointing that out but let the arcane fans don't care
@@adamqutaefan8969 As someone who played during Season 2 to Season 10 (which is to say I recognize and know the old Viktor quite fondly despite being Dr Doom) and still really liked what they did with him in Arcane, I must say the skin in game does not look good.
And most of the modified versions of the other skins also don't look good. In fact this is a horrible situation as players may have purchased some of his skins to live the fantasy they used to deliver, and now that may be gone for some of them.
It should've been only one Arcane skin and even then the skin they made does not look good enough.
Holy moly Mackivor stares right through your soul.
Where did you see an even split for opinions on Viktor? I don't think i've seen anyone that liked it on reddit yet.
I love Viktors design in arcane but in league it looks so weird. His current model in terms of shape and silhouette resembles hwei more then his og design
Edit: They Massacred Deathswarm viktor btw
Old Viktor had nothing to do with Dr Doom except for the metal mask. Even when Riot made 2 versions of him before Arcane even released and they didnt know if they want to make him good or evil, neither of them resembled Doom in any way.
Well god damn Rito...it seems that they got together a pretty solid plan for how whole season should be put together but also how future updates will look...it really does look amazing and Riot basically abandoned crazy new ideas and sticked more to the core of League and its lore + also giving it a new fresh take on certain aspects
Also I dont wanna sound biased but .....NOOOOXUUUUS!!!!!!!!! FINALLY YES THEY GIVING US MORE OF NOXUS!
Don’t change Viktor into that. How did that even pass the pipeline
I mean... if you ignore the ABSURD nerf in f2p rewards.
Even more reason for me to never give them another dime 😂
ive conditioned myself to assume its a nerf anytime they touch the pass, rewards, etc. and 95% of time its going to be a nerf lmao. the other 5% is maybe a neutral change
One would assume to know league isn't really a f2p or p2w game, but... :v
It's insane how much less free content will be available for f2p players now. Like, yeah, orbs and masterwork chests were random, but they could give you anything in the game. Who wants to bet that now in the "free" battlepass we'll be lucky if we get one orb per season?
Like, free skins are fine, but in the moment everyone has them as long as they play, who really cares? Also, 100% they'll be lower quality than "premium" content
Indeed
I am not a Viktor main, but did play him a ton, and while I like that he's getting updated (I wasn't super attached to the old model) I am super disappointed in several of the skins. It feels very much like they committed to changing him to his ARCANE version, but then didn't follow through on so many things. Like why did they decide that he needed some fluffy weird hair in game? We may never know. He just feels SO plain. Death Sworn used to be so glowy and cool, now it's just some flat texture. I think the one I'm most disappointed in is High Noon though. That used to be my favorite skin for him... they made it so much less detailed, and completely changed the color on the jacket from a deep blue-gray to purple... so it doesn't even match his hat anymore. It literally feels like a half done mess. It just feels like a situation of 'If you're not going to do it right, why do it at all?"
Well, RIP to our Metal Glorious Evolution Viktor. I'm gonna miss your hexcore item buddy.
he hasn't had the hexcore item for ages now...
No you aren’t. You didn’t even realize he hasn’t had it in years. No one plays this guy outside of Aram and now we are all pretending he’s some beloved design.
100%@@SH1NK1R01
@@SH1NK1R01 I do play him in normal League, but i really like the new version and will get his legendary skin on launch.
@@SH1NK1R01Same shit with old Aatrox and old Asol. Lowest playrate champs in the game, for years. When they get reworked, suddenly everyone cried about how their favorite champions got deleted. Like bs, no one played old Aatrox and Asol.
Just 15 minutes? This isn’t the Necrit I know.
he became a shill for league not so long ago...
Yup. So disappointing.
he became Riot's corporate lapdog
U can tell the ppl saying “‘not everyone likes the update cuz viktor” haven’t watched the video cuz necrit literally addresses it at the beginning💀
he says it is 50/50, that is DEFINETLY NOT the case on the paying side (viktormains) aswell on league subreddit
@@davidcoop8082 wll they will have to take it
@@davidcoop8082 the majority of people that are writing on subreddits are doing so because something annoyed them.
the people who are ok or like the change just have no reason to open it and write about it.
This is why subreddits maily give negative feedback in general
@@davidcoop8082 complainers are usually louder than the praisers in any situation
@@davidcoop8082 If you think about it the paying side are only the people who aren't already a Viktor main that don't have his skins. It's a smart business decision even if it sucks for the people who already play the champ.
Kind of a big ask, but can you make a playlist with up to date and still true to the main universe lore videos?
my only gripe with the new update is how they prettyfied victor as the machine herald, also how none of the arcane va got to voice their arcane skins so it's pretty jarring going from arcane voices to lol voices.
Yeah I'd say Viktor's VA for the game has the least accurate impression of his Arcane counterpart
They should denetflixify their series from now on. Production team of Arcane totally discredits every previous cinematic, animator, VA and lore
Simply they don't love it like fans do they are not passionate enough about things to give a fuck
How they prettyfied his base form when he literally has body horror elements and an not appealing type of body.
@@catoblepas8697It’s different. People are going to be mad. If it wasn’t different, other people would be mad.
They made the arcane savior skin as twinkified as possible. They saw arcane viktor and said it wasn't appealing enough to twink lovers
So did Blitz and Camille and Zac lost their Lore now cuz of Arcane?
Sadly yes😞
The respawning nexus turrets will hopefully decrease those cheese games where that one tryndamere player just tp's while his team is fighting to defend and ends the game alone. so unsatisfying.
Hahaha you haven't seen a 60 mins ranked game at diamond with a 1500 stack Nasus tp'ing on Nexus and doing penta then dancing
Over 800 negative comments on PBE thread about Viktor VGU, not so sure if "everyone"
I like his theme and lore, but old Viktor is just so much cooler looking
I mean yeah, his Arcane design was rushed in the series and looks atrocious ingame...
Good thing necrit says “not everyone” in the video.
yeah, if only necrit said that in the beginning of the video
if only you actually watched the video
Do we just ignore we are losing, earning the Hextech Chests? We will no longer have chance to get legendary with new system, and get less content than ever.
It's so sad that they've replaced viktors scientific, robotic look with these cosmic visuals
there are 5 persons who liked Viktor's old design. But NOW that they changed it, you all liked the older one more. Cmon people
@@WarlosFZ i dont think its about liking or disliking it, its more so how they implemented his new visual into the game, it just doesn't look good.
he's still made of metal, just metal with magic
@@WarlosFZ dumbest comment, if your house is fine no issues do you talk about it? Or do you start talking about your house when it is on fire?
@@WarlosFZ bruh have you seen the model comparisons? All of his skins got downgraded, it's not even funny
What most people don't know is that they are deleting also mastery chests, free loot is heavily reduced
14:38 KLED MENTIONED, GRAHHHH !!!
NOXUS WOULDN'T EXIST WITHOUT HIM!!!! HE IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN THE LORE!!!🦡🦡🦡🦎🦎🦎
Just started league myself like 2 days ago and I just wish that they took the opportunity to overhaul the tutorial now that Arcane is bringing in more people. Would really appreciate stuff like, how jungleIng works and such works.
There is just so much stuff to learn between champions and so many mechanics and they are adding more without a good way for people to catch up aside from watching youtube tutorials instead of playing the game.
I remember the tutorial when I first started playing and I was so confused at first and then super bored :/
@@acedragonelf The tutorial basically just tells you how to do basic mechanics like move and teaches you to play one of 4 characters, buy an item, then explains how a moba works before running a 1v1 against a bot.
Its super basic and tells you nothing beyond the most basic stuff regarding the game.
i agree, but its still beter than it was a few years ago. It told u 2 buy thornmail as first item on Ashe...
@@darklimitshadow9983 Oh wow that... is a choice. It certainly is much better than that now at least.
Everyone except the victor mains
And the ww mains too , every ww main hate the new arcane "buff", ligit make champ feel awful to play , ww mains reddit is on fire rn
@@dangng7079good, we need to push back against this crap! The arcane content is garbage. All the skins, buffs and this VGU.
Did someone mention that they are removing one hextech chest from each champion mastery system? The new pass doesn't compensate the F2P players enough.
I play viktor casually and while i like arcane, I still love old viktor way more. I wish they didn't use the arcane viktor as the vgu but made it a legendary skin instead. I feel like the character i fell in love with got killed in the process.
As far as I'm concerned, people aren't happy with the exalted skin lines and Viktor mains are just brushed off by Riot
You absolutely have to dive into the Viktor controversy. It's so bad because they completely got rid of all the good and kept in all the bad. He's not even the Machine Herald anymore...
I can't believe the 250$ Jinx skin is only 10$ in WildRift
12:00 It's actually a massive nerf to free pass. We know of which quality their free skins are, and the second free skin will be 1380- cost with no chance to reroll it. So yeah it's just trash compared to 2 orbs we get now. Not to mention the fact that they're taking away chests for mastery. Paid pass I would say is better than now, although now there won't be ME in it so gl farming it from gacha I guees.
So ME can only be earned through pulls now?
removing chests from mastery is scummy as hell but how is 2/3rds of a random skin better than a random skin and a cheap legacy?
@@AlexAlex-hs2sp It's might be that it's 1am and I'm tired but I can't undesratnd what are you talking about in the second half of ur comment
I find it funny how League is slowly becoming Wild rift with all the changes
They made started making 3 seasons a year that have a continuous theming just Like Wild rift started while ago
Introducing another gacha system
Making the gold and XP passive in new swift mode
THE whole banishment of Ivern's passive in the void cuz WR had introduced buff sharing wo Ivern so Rito brought it over to League and also disrespected Ivern
Its like actually so silly how this keeps happening over and over
i do pref the old viktor look
Idk why they removed the visual effects from the deathsworn and high noon skins...
-> insane nerf to f2p players
-> adding a scummy and manipulative "free" battlepass
-> adding a 250 dollars gacha skin and other insanely priced gacha chromas
-> including the last batch of Arcane skins which are ugly as sin
-> undercooked "rework" that doesn't change anything in the original champion except the whole aesthetic feel of him and almost completely removes his character fantasy (edit: like, why didn't they at least reintroduce his old hexcore item passive? It fit so well)
-> patch cycles changed to "seasons" because it's the live service way to do things now, meaning undercooked narratives that will go nowhere (probably why Arcane ended the way it did. Who wants to bet that the first cinematics will be Mel traveling to Noxus?)
Necrit either played too much Genshin Impact or has to pay rent this month.
Content creators just got special treatment due to Arcane's celebration so they all are collectively licking Riot's shoes
I dont know how there s no one talking about them removing mastery chests, its just so insane to me.
@@Navue-cn2tx the moment someone tells you that including a permanent battlepass is good because it "streamlines" stuff, it's a good moment to stop listening to them.
f2p's are gonna get like 80% less now its absurd
@@cudizem what about the hextech chest rewards in masteries?
They shouldve made the new viktor a new champion so people would be more torn on having 2 viktors in 1 game xd
Everyone happy except Viktor and Jinx mains because wtf is that VGU and wtf is that cheap Exalted skin
Viktor got screwed over so hard, I just want my cyborg back.
Also, monetization is HORRENDOUS this update. It's literally a worse version of the OW2 system.
Necrit, I disagree, I do not think it's a 50/50 spilt. I think it's 12/87. Nobody really likes him as new Viktor. They like him as a new champ or as a skin, but they don't like him as default Viktor. If they talked to Viktor mains at all about the LOOK, not just gameplay, I don't think a single person would have approved this. Arcane fans don't want it since it PLAYS nothing like how his powers worked in the show, and Viktor mains don't want it since it LOOKS nothing like a MACHINE herald would. No one wanted another sterotypical skinny mage with a staff. We have Karthus, Azir, and, debatably Hwei or Leblanc, for that. I legit cannot tell his silhouette difference from him and Galactic Azir. The only thing that made him unique was his MACHINE herald part. If he isn't machine anymore and just looks like a mage behind a mask...what's the fucking point? Every comment I've seen on SkinSpotlight's Viktor vid also seems to have at least one of these points on it. It just feels very half baked and not Viktor Main approved for a rework that, theoretically, had 3. FUCKING. YEARS. in development.
They took the unique magic fueled cyborg and turn him into another magically magic demon mage and fucked half the lore of all league in the process wow riot really big brain move
I think this is being bias and nitpicking. I think there’s plenty of people that don’t mind and even enjoy the change to be like Arcane’s version.
@@adamqutaefan8969 "unique" btw. Definitelly not a carbon copy of dr doom.. down to the ACTUAL NAME.
@@janah6473 Looking like a hairy protoss is not really unique too but at least his old design made sense to his purpose.
they don't care about league players, they only care about arcane watchers
I totally agree on giving updated champs 'classic skins'
I think the new Viktor would be amazing if they simply added more meat to his model. Because that's not Viktor, that's a twig.
I feel like the problem arises from him being really tall, skinny and him floating at the same time. He just looks really elongated.
I think the design is overall fine, the elongated proportions lend credence to it being otherworldly and uncanny for a potential evolution of humanity into what appears to be a porcelain mannequin. HOWEVER, the issue I have with the base design is why are his abs still there?
So making the magic fueled cyborg into a discount xiarath magically magic man was not a good idea who could have known
He only floats when he ults.
@@adamqutaefan8969 Wow, you really went all out with the spam.
At least give him the accent! He should sound Russian not this. I donMt care if Riot hates Russia, Arcane also made it clear that Viktor even as a god have Russian accent!
biggest mistake they did was talk to the "viktor mains" The old design is badass but his overloaded kit and clunky abilities was cancer both to play as and against
The more updates they release for League, the more they are applying what they learned from Valorant to League.
What is it?
@Navue-cn2tx The addition of Swiftplay
@@Navue-cn2tx Nothing aside from the esport system. That guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
Valorant doesn't have agent skins!! D:
@@dieptrieu6564 Swiftplay?
THAT thing isn't Victor, anyone saying otherwise is a fake fan. Riot robbed us of a character and gave us another Malzahar. Where is OUR Machine Herald Riot?
He is Hwei 2.0 now
Everyone? Who's everyone? Not me. I don't like lots of things about it.
Hyperbole, this update is just a lot more well liked than most updates in the last few years
The comedic timing of "I hope the 'feats' is a very intended pun." XD
BRING US VIKTOR BACK!!!!!
"everyone" is a strong word
victor looks like hes from demacia
Or possessed mage from dark fantasy series number 43
Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that by eliminating hextech chests, 5+ chests will actually be eliminated from the opening timeline? They already eliminated the chests given to champs S? And now they want to gouge our eyes out with a battle pass that will have less relevant content.... Can they fool everyone?
They nerfed rewards, so not everyone
I do have one complaint: the new map hurts my eyes. It feels jarring to look at and play in, it's too dark
Some critics i have for the "vgu":
There are inconsistencies with his shape, in arcane he is much taller than a human, which helps with his uncanny look, looking completely malnourished, torso extremely thin, ribcages appearing, everywhere his human anatomy is visible and deformed, and yet being both taller and wider than jayce who is a tall and bulky man, which portrayed really well that alien feeling from looking at him, while in the game he just looks like a skinny regular guy and that's it, missing what makes his slender physique work and be uncanny in the show.
They seem to have put someone who never watched Arcane to work on viktor, you can see that by the way they described his ultimate in the recent video showing the changes to his ultimate "we wanted to mirror that feeling from arcane where he manifests a massive growing storm..." When does he do that in arcane? The answer is never, that's at best a misconception of that storm that jayce has to pass through on that alternative universe which is a consequence of what viktor did and not something he purposefully made.
He does not have an arcane design at all, his base skin differs from his final form in the show, they missed the ball x2 since they didn't double down in either his more machine look in league, or his more weirdly organic look from arcane, instead making that grey mess that is in league, too much machine to have the amazing uncanny look from arcane viktor while also having too little machine to look cool like old league viktor, and the arcane messiah skin isn't any Viktor we saw in the show, they could have made that old man viktor from the alternative world, they could have made a pre transformation viktor that would transform during the ultimate finally giving us both a maskless viktor and a design that more resembles his arcane appearence, they could have made a skin based on that godlike ethereal final form that jayce sees inside the hivemind, but instead we receive spirit blossom jesus that never appeared in arcane (these factors reinforce my belief that whoever worked on viktor never watched arcane season 2).
They didn't even try to redesign viktor's skins, instead of doing like they did to skarner where they completely changed the design of his skins to better fit the new model's aesthetics while still maintaining their concepts, they just used the exact same design and removed 50kg from his body and called it a day, making them all look horrible and uninspired, trying to be what viktor was which he isn't anymore, and somehow some of his skins have worse quality than his old ones, they made a skin that has a worse model quality than a 6+ years old skin.
And to add insult to injury they didn't even change his skills at all, becoming unfaithful to both Viktors and wasting the opportunity to make an amazing new champion with finally a innovative kit like finally having a champion that could interact with the minions from his own team by evolving them into his followers. (though now i must aknowladge that the old viktor mains may have had a finger on that flaw, but i still see it as riot's mistake to copletely rely on their critiscism, obviously the old players won't want to change anything in the champ they use to play on challenger, a mixture of feeling safe in their old kit and nostalgia shrouds their judgement and riot should know better than fully relying on them, in a way that's even ironic as the viktor players are denying his evolution that was supposed to make him more fun to play for everybody, which basically contradicts viktor's beliefs that humanity should evolve to make everyone happy)
Final thoughts:
Viktor should 100% go back to the oven to receive a proper rework and riot should send whoever made this dumpster fire of a v"gu" (no gameplay changes and definetly not a visual upgrade) back to training camp because he is clearly severely uninspired and lazy.
at least those are my thoughts
couldnt agree more
Absolutely valid on all of this, though he does make a storm during the ending of Arcane, once he gets to the top of the tower. No lightning though, so point still stands
@@xandermcdonald8543 my interpretation of the storm is that it was more of a consequence of him using an extremely powerful spell with the hexgate rather than something he was actually trying to manifest
also goated pfp
edit: kind of like when ekko abuses his Z-drive to go back too much in time, the implosions and explosions are not intended in the project and are a consequence of reality not handling so well the overuse of the arcane
Also, it's worth mentioning that some SEA servers (MY/SG/ID) , (TH) and (PH) will be merged to reduce lesser queue times and unite players under one server. It also has to do with the professional scene in the area
They killed my main Viktor like wtf is this
i agree , i'm still crying over it.
Idk why so many people dislike the viktor asu, because i personally think its almost perfect!
@ 1. He is too skinny like bro look up old viktor and what is now 2. His old skins now look so bad like very bad 3. Missing details 4. 400 stack insted of 300
I was hoping for more of a gameplay update so he isn't a hyper abusive lane bully but felt more thematic, and they made him into a twink.
@@marius6208 he looks like a demon from another world all hex and no tech hes not a machine Harold hes magic magic man now discount xiarath if you will
Intervention to get Viktor off the Ozempic
i really really dislike the viktor update and it would all be fine if they just gave us a "Traditional Viktor" and if they didn't completely destroy his death sworn skin
Most of the lore is kinda all over the place now like what happened to Camille
RIP Viktor's swagwalk
no he still swagwalks, he only floats when he's using his ult
@@thatrainbowquickie8395 or has homeguard(i believe), he zenyatta ults
It would be better for riot to give players options for the default skins, in this case it would be better if players can choose between classic skin victor and arcane version of victor. Kinda like overwatch 2
Making Arcane the main canon instead of branches things up like Marvel/DC will always be a mistake. It kills the superior lore of the connection between Hex crystal & Skarner then, it twinkified Viktor now
Well. They do change comics to fit more with movies. But if they ever going to make movies new canon, I'm not touching any comic from big two. And I'm sure I'm not alone of this opinion.
"Superior" is a strong word
Well you know they are going to work that in right? They aren’t just going to make it canon and forget about storylines. Give em time to connect it all.
Going the Marvel/DC route has been overdone since we’ve been saturated with their content. I def wouldn’t want to see another piece of media mimic it
@@kauanjos3199a very strong word
"they should have made it more like Marvel/DC!" Yeah.... You lost me.
No way viktor controversy is 50/50. more like 80/20 at best. New visuals are unacceptably bad.
15 minutes???? Necrit is going insane confirmed.
For being my by far favroite TH-camr and me always agreeing with you, I think you missed the mark with the Viktor ”VGU”, i honestly havent read a single good comment on it, after reading the Viktormains and the Feedback thread in the PBE Reddit. It is lacklusting, looks wierd Ingame, lazy design and didnt adress his W at all. I could unbind W and it wouldnt change my winrate with him.
You know who else everyone forgets about...
Shyvana.
-We "talked" with "viktor mains" and they said that whole kit is "fine"
Damn i didnt see who was behind Victor rework
Thank god im not playing this game anymore the people in riot are just DEI hires that broke lore for some trash skins
The women with the side shave who’s leading the lore team was a sign of DEI infestation
i absolutely love how riot griefed the viktor mains lmao
They literally killed our character 😂
that one guy is horrifying
old viktor skins looked better and now they charge more, cool
Typical Riot
Nah i am far from loving it, sure some freshness is nice but:
1. Atakhan - as they have presented it, he is very very unlikely to ever spawn topside in a non-competitive game.
2. Feats of Strength - Why is first blood an objective???
- SoloQ snowball will be unstoppable if the early game winner gets an extra item in lategame
3. Deepward rune - this will also amplify snowballing as you can ward out the whole enemy jungle choking them out completely
All in all the next season seems super snowball heavy, combacks will become even harder if not impossible
yea the ward change seems completely horrible to me. If you're able to ward in the enemy jungle, chances are you're already winning the game. So making the wards even harder to kill makes it basically impossible for the losing team to ever leave their base for the rest of the game. I get that it's a rune so it won't be in every game and you have to sacrifice power elsewhere to have it, but it still just seems like it benefits the team that's already winning so what's the point
@@jason.s.music. Yeah that is what i was thinking too. But even worse in my opinion is that if you are behind and have choosen that rune, it just does nothing for you, so its just a rune wasted. Basically a coinflip rune.
Funniest thing, Atakhan is supposed to be a comeback mechanic 😂
5:16 what we are wondering about is how can it be that riot cant bring back the winter map for the last 6+ years but now can afort to bring our 3 new map skins a year ?