The fun thing about Khazix not having % damage ... he used to have it on his Q before it got removed. So his original iteration actually fits here aswell.
@user-jq2rw1hi5h max damage on what I suggested for kha zix would be 900 total true damage which requires level 16 and R evolve. For Sett, max true damage is probably over 8000
that's another thematic thing I like about Bel'veth as a character and as a champion in League. She carries herself as some sort of forward thinking, sophisticated void creature unlike all the rest, but she's really just as aggressive and all consuming as the rest of her kin, lol. It's great
Thats exactly why she doesnt click for me. Everything in her lore, personality and character design says "Mastermind", "controller", "cold blooded strategist", and then the gameplay is just "purple master yi with no brain". Plus the mantarray model and the fast slapping just don't work
@@nsotomayor6024in a strange way, it works very well. Here we have a void creature with delusions of grandiour. She thinks very highly of herself yet still attacks like a complete animal.
@@JDReC100 i love the concept you just described but i don't think thats Vel Beth, at least not intentionally. She is just a character where the gameplay and the concept are miles apart
@@JDReC100this is also my impression of her. I think her fake face thing is an example of that. She has this idea of a grand ruler because most likely she has already consumed a lot of great rulers and absorbed them. She tries to mimmick that ideal in a very superficial way (like the fake face that doesn't even function like a human face) because ultimately she's still just another void monster whose sole goal is to destroy and consume. Hence why she has that "empress" aesthetic but in practice she just kills stuff
There's also a Void rift beneath Zaun that Malphite is currently blocking off with his ass like the king he his. Though in Arcane it might be the source of shimmer, so maybe he's hasn't done it for long
Or maybe "blocking" just means stopping most of it, remember how the original thing malphite was from got completely destroyed by the void? I don't know if Malphite will last forever
I like the biological theming of the Void. Velkoz is the eye, Kogmaw is the mouth, Chogath is... also the mouth, Reksai... only really has a mouth, Belveth is... like 90% mouth... When will we the "The nose of the void"?
In lore Rek'sai is a hunter so maybe the claw? and Bel'veth is actually more linked to the brain seeing as she really gains intelligence as she consumes an entire town. maybe face/identity/mind/evolution
They're more about the senses: * Sight: Vel'Koz & Malzahar. * Taste: Cho'Gath & Kog'Maw. * Hearing: Rek'Sai. * Touch: Bel'Veth, Kai'Sa, & Kassadin. The only thing missing is Smell. We need a Void Tracker. [In a way, Kha'Zix embodies all them.]
Void is by far my favourite region, so much otherworldy power, so much enigma and so much story behind their destruction. It is said that before nothing existed, the void did and happily lived on this state of nothingness, then the universe started to exist and it was like the biggest pain concievable for the void and thus its relentless destructive march started. And even though its major desire is for nothing to exist, it is so efficient creating its destructive tools and upgrading them to be better at destroying whatever they are surrounded by.
I think lore wise that Cho'gath is the most terrifying void creature. I think us as players tend to forget that Cho'gath is actually REALLY intelligent because all we see him do in game is eat and I'd say that makes him absolutely horrifying. He's bigger than you, stronger than you, likely more intelligent than you, and uses everything at his disposal to consume you.
As a Cho'gath main i am begging riot for some lore. Bel'veth said to Kaisa to "find someone stronger than her". Please let that be Cho, the first voidborn and probably the one that embodies the void the most.
Feel like if they want to give Cho'Gath lore, make it so that way he consumes just about everything from what he eats, from nutrients to intellect. Which could be why he can say coherent voice lines and not just make monstrous noises like Rek'Sai
Friendly reminder that his taunt is "Death... is not the end for you! I have seen to it: for eternity, you are mine!". He's absolutely more than just a monster, and as opposed to some other voidborn who are mostly driven by their hunger, he's also driven by malice.
I think they did something like that many years back with Ionia vs Noxus event, where Ionia won and we got Ionian Boots of Lucidity introduced to the game
I love this region lore series. The league lore is so rich and interesting, and having Vars to explain it and point out how does it reflects on the champion's gameplay is amazing!
As a Chogath main, this video is such a treat, love the void champs and hopefully Riot does more with it rather than well....just leave it until they need to retcon something
Love your videos man , could you possibly do A rough timeline on swain's life , and maybe make a series on in-depth battles and champions , I would love an hour long video explaining the ins and outs of the void wars and the darkins
Something else that helps accentuate the void's destructive force is that every voidborn that has hard cc has it in the form of a knock-up, one of the most powerful and destructive forms of cc in the game. I see this detail often overlooked, however I don't think its a coincidence that its not only on 4/6 of the voidborn, but also on a basic ability at that. It's one of the reasons why The Void is my favorite region of Runeterra, the devs have nailed the consistency of the region to a tee.
Until I watched your series, I neve really noticed that different regions have different kit designs focused on where the champ is from! So glad I found you all that time ago vars, keep up the awsome work!
Most Void champion can feel very unfair to fight against, and as I much as I too hate facing them, I think it makes the void scarier, as in lore, they are supposed to be « unfair » (because they want to destroy the whole runeterra and are on the brink of doing it)
I'm glad you're picking this series up after so long of, well, it being dead and depraved. Might be too early to celebrate, but hey, I'm kinda excited to see the rest of the mythos surrounding the other, yet-to-be-discussed mythos or lore of Runeterra.
Excellent video and presentation, it's food for thought! Well, I think the design of a Void Support would be tricky and interesting. Imagine a Void Champion that focuses on growth but has the ability to make its teammates grow: Sha' dim, the Purple Nebula (I imagine it as a menacing, almost formless nebula in the colors of the Void). PASSIVE - Infinite growth: Dealing damage to enemies grants stacks. After a certain amount, using abilities to allies consume the stacks to further aid them. Q - Icathia's beam: Sha' dim sends a straghtforward beam, that deals damage increased as it passes through enemies. PASSIVE BONUS: The beam grants movespeed to allies it passes through. W - Expansion Cloud: Sha' dim creates a thick cloud in an area that expands slowly for 5 seconds, slowing and dealing damage. PASSIVE BONUS: Allies inside the cloud get tenacity and slow resist. E - Clutches of the End: Sha' dim instantly stretches its body to all directions in the form of voidlike arms, dealing damage to all enemies hit. PASSIVE BONUS: Allies near Sha' dim get an Attack Speed and Ability Haste bonus for the next 3 seconds. R: Exowordly Surprise: Sha' dim disappears and, after a brief delay, teleports to a point in a distance of up to 1000 units, dealing true damage and slowing all enemies. Takedowns increase the perimeter of the teleport point. PASSIVE BONUS: Allies inside the teleport circle get a decaying shield. Of course, the passive bonuses are interchangeable but I designed them having in mind offense and defense according to the ability's theme. The point is to keep the Void theme of infinite growth and damage in a mid-range fighting, without losing the primary point of supporting. I don't know if all of this has any usefulness as a true Champion Insight, but it was fun and created as I watched your video.
Thank you so much for this video! I started playing league with Vel’kos and have been a void player ever since. Will say the reason the void wants to destroy is because there was anything there was the void and when stuff started to exist it made the void realize that it did and it hates it so much.
The Void is League's version of the Tyranids, they exist to look like theyre the end all be all antagonists, only lose and make the good guys look strong.
One minor correction, while Kai'sa says she survived the "Void", she has never been to the Void dimension, rather she is referring to the Void corrupted lands of Shurima. It is still correct however, for her to call this the Void because those same Void corrupted lands are the same "Void" in which Bel'Veth claims to be. That aside, thank you for pointing out something many critics of Kai'sa's visual design will ignore "whether man or monster one glimpse at them and you'll know what region they come from", this is what Kai'sa means when she refers to when she calls herself a "monster", this is why the shurimans fear her in the lore.
Gotta say i love the void especially cho and kha. Cho littlery being the biggest/most powerful. Kha littlery having a grudge against rengar i love it. But i wish they would add more lore to fiddlesticks and voicelines. Like come on riot you have had loads of new champions yet 0 voicelines for fiddle and there fears. I would love to hear fiddle completely roasting void or asol lol
Something interesting for void champions: their only hard cc are knockups and malz ult suppress. For a region that is so focused on dealing damage and annihilating existence, they all in on damage and dont really offer utility
One more thing about Malzahar is if you keep his E's and Voidlings unchecked in lane, it could eventually get to you as punishment. Also, during the late game, just like a cult leader himself, you may sometimes end up questioning how 2 lanes are simultaneously crawling with voidlings while Malzahar himself is nowhere to be seen.
10:50 love that Vel is such a crap champ Vars just didnt have the energy to go find a clip of him carrying a fight or anything. Most of them just look like >R
The concept of the void is Destroy and devourer(in same way ish) adapt to be better at it then do it again. Their goal is to silent the world(destroy it completely) to do so they have to learn about the world and feed on it is the most easiest way.
Huh, I didn't realize till when you were talking about how Void champs all center around dealing damage and killing, that there isn't a single Void champ that was designed to be a support. Sure Vel'Koz is played there, but he was originally designed to be a midlaner. Interesting
Out of all the void champions, Vel'Koz might be the least hated and most balanced, at least arguably. If you ask people about him, you rarely hear anyone hating him and in fact a lot of people seem to respect the damage and pressure he gives to their team, making the game overall easier to them. Sure, if the Vel'Koz is bad they're going to be a problem for the team but that applies to all champions, and with how unpopular the artillery make archetype is (at least compared to other mid archetypes), there's not a lot of people who play him and as a result, most who do have a lot of experience. As for balance, all you need to know is that until the mage reworks that also affected Vel'Koz, he had some of the least if not the least amount of major changes made to him, for many years. Pretty much all of them were just very small adjustments and bug fixes, nothing that ever really affected him all that much. Then they tried to do what was basically a mini-rework for him and that lead to a lot of trouble but since things calmed down, Vel'Koz has once again returned to his former quiet existence.
man, i love the concept of the void, but I can be mad about reading kai'sa's lore and them see her visuals and think that are 2 diferent champions. But I understand the riot's point, monsters don't sell skins and so on.....
May I remind you that three of Vel'kozs abilities have significant utility? Q deals a lot of damage yes, but it also slows the target substantially for a respectable amount of time. E deals relatively small amounts of damage, but is coupled with a knock-up and knock**back**, both CCing and displacing the enemies hit. And lastly, Vel'kozs ult slows all enemies caught inside. Sometimes, his ult can be used simply to keep an enemy from escaping his teammates.
Rek’sai has utility in her tremor sense passive ^^ only one small counter example for the “void champs have no utility” argument but she’s my favorite and my main so not leaving her out
isnt it funny how this video came out and one week later riot revealed the 2024 preseason changes that are all void themed , with the new baron rift herald and all
we need a video about Icathia because we only have a few champs in the game and yet there are so diffrent from one another, For example Zilean and Jax.
As yes The Void, Void champion's entire thing is about devouring Cho'gath. Obvious Kha'zix. Eating and absorbing their physical traits to evolve himself Kog'maw. Breaking down the enemy with acids to eat them Vel'koz though he doesn't eat he hungers for knowledge and breaks everything down to learn them
I want Riot Forge to make a metroidvania with the Void as its setting. Make Kai'Sa or Kassadin the main character, maybe have Kha'Zix as an alternate game mode when you beat the main game.
"Teraform then destruct" is the best phrase I can describe some part of the void's theme. It feels sily to think of them as something simply "consume" then grow into filling the environment gap, that's earthly concept. They're cosmic eldritch, cool they may evolve into some sane looking creatures, but the writers should sometimes express how their everything will never feel "natural". The way they(1) do things should feel nonsense yet rationally trick us(2) into thinking we(2) have gotten their(1) motives, plans, directions in our hands, and so we have the solution to win it over (looking at Lissandra story, writers are nailing that part) and that we can have the false sense of whatever (looking at you Kai'sa. If her disney story doesn't twist into the most fucked up falsehood/false hope ever, then I'll drop this lore) For Velkoz & Belveth, they can pretend to take part in the world all they like, they have their ways to hook you into those perspectives about them but eventually you can never "resolve" "their conflict", nor really stall them out by making deals.
How much these champs are feared, vel koz WAS one of the least played and under appreciated, but because of Azzap he is finally getting the fear he deserved. My friend plays vel with over 1.5mil pts, me going as Malz meant our late game dmg was insane,
Jax also was touched by the void according to his newer lore but only he's apearance was changed according to the lore Jax was just always super strong to the point of being the only mortal character to have killed an ascended being he now roams the land searching for worthy fighters to join him on his quest so one they he can return with the last light of Icathia and destroy the void for good.
I remember when Jax lore was just "insanely overpowered dude is forced to fight using a lamp as a weapon and wins". The new lore isn't bad, but I'm not a big fan of it.
I’m wondering if you have thoughts on champions that has association with more than 2 factions? Like Sona who has Ionian roots but grew up in Demacia and Udyr who is Freljordian but learned alot of his discipline from Ionia.
I have a base idea for a void champion. Bel veth is like the matriarch of the void, and she consumes from runeterra and I think creates more void life kind of like a mother. I think a male void almost impregnator would be interesting, where he would infect a populous essentially forcing them to birth more void creatures for him
I’m so glad vars exists man. My lunch breaks are so blessed
The lunch break TH-camr saves the day once more!
read my mind, eating takeout rn
Also watching this on my lunch break lol
Mmm The Void is a Cheeto
@VarsVerum more the void evolutions and reality evolves to protects itself
The fun thing about Khazix not having % damage ... he used to have it on his Q before it got removed. So his original iteration actually fits here aswell.
Would be cool if his R made his next Q do 100/200/300 bonus true damage
Terrifying.@@Kyle-nm1kh
@General_Draco not as terrifying as Haymaker true damage on a much lower cooldown
@@Kyle-nm1khyeah but for max damage on haymaker you have to lose half your health
@user-jq2rw1hi5h max damage on what I suggested for kha zix would be 900 total true damage which requires level 16 and R evolve. For Sett, max true damage is probably over 8000
Like Mariah, this series has defrosted
Funny. We have one vocalist in Poland and were joking about her in exact same way as you did about Mariah 😂
@@oski1500same here, in the Philippines, we have a Christmas guy too and the whole country just kinda knows that September 1 is his defrost day 😂
Same here in brazil
that's another thematic thing I like about Bel'veth as a character and as a champion in League. She carries herself as some sort of forward thinking, sophisticated void creature unlike all the rest, but she's really just as aggressive and all consuming as the rest of her kin, lol. It's great
Thats exactly why she doesnt click for me. Everything in her lore, personality and character design says "Mastermind", "controller", "cold blooded strategist", and then the gameplay is just "purple master yi with no brain". Plus the mantarray model and the fast slapping just don't work
@@nsotomayor6024in a strange way, it works very well.
Here we have a void creature with delusions of grandiour. She thinks very highly of herself yet still attacks like a complete animal.
@@JDReC100 i love the concept you just described but i don't think thats Vel Beth, at least not intentionally. She is just a character where the gameplay and the concept are miles apart
@@JDReC100this is also my impression of her. I think her fake face thing is an example of that. She has this idea of a grand ruler because most likely she has already consumed a lot of great rulers and absorbed them. She tries to mimmick that ideal in a very superficial way (like the fake face that doesn't even function like a human face) because ultimately she's still just another void monster whose sole goal is to destroy and consume. Hence why she has that "empress" aesthetic but in practice she just kills stuff
@@nsotomayor6024 me but with Renata
There's also a Void rift beneath Zaun that Malphite is currently blocking off with his ass like the king he his. Though in Arcane it might be the source of shimmer, so maybe he's hasn't done it for long
Or maybe "blocking" just means stopping most of it, remember how the original thing malphite was from got completely destroyed by the void? I don't know if Malphite will last forever
I like the biological theming of the Void. Velkoz is the eye, Kogmaw is the mouth, Chogath is... also the mouth, Reksai... only really has a mouth, Belveth is... like 90% mouth...
When will we the "The nose of the void"?
In lore Rek'sai is a hunter so maybe the claw? and Bel'veth is actually more linked to the brain seeing as she really gains intelligence as she consumes an entire town. maybe face/identity/mind/evolution
Isn't Rek'sai the skin? The whole tremor theme is about feeling the vibrations in the earth. So touch/sense.
They're more about the senses:
* Sight: Vel'Koz & Malzahar.
* Taste: Cho'Gath & Kog'Maw.
* Hearing: Rek'Sai.
* Touch: Bel'Veth, Kai'Sa, & Kassadin.
The only thing missing is Smell. We need a Void Tracker. [In a way, Kha'Zix embodies all them.]
We have "Definitely not Vel'Koz". Certainly, the nose of all time.
The nose of the Void crawled off its face and died because it was too stanky
Void is by far my favourite region, so much otherworldy power, so much enigma and so much story behind their destruction. It is said that before nothing existed, the void did and happily lived on this state of nothingness, then the universe started to exist and it was like the biggest pain concievable for the void and thus its relentless destructive march started. And even though its major desire is for nothing to exist, it is so efficient creating its destructive tools and upgrading them to be better at destroying whatever they are surrounded by.
I think lore wise that Cho'gath is the most terrifying void creature. I think us as players tend to forget that Cho'gath is actually REALLY intelligent because all we see him do in game is eat and I'd say that makes him absolutely horrifying. He's bigger than you, stronger than you, likely more intelligent than you, and uses everything at his disposal to consume you.
Its actually prolly velkoz not only strong but strategic what we have on lol is baby vel lore vel is a monstrosity and huge as fuck
As a Cho'gath main i am begging riot for some lore. Bel'veth said to Kaisa to "find someone stronger than her". Please let that be Cho, the first voidborn and probably the one that embodies the void the most.
Cho should be the #1 most powerful void being imo
Feel like if they want to give Cho'Gath lore, make it so that way he consumes just about everything from what he eats, from nutrients to intellect. Which could be why he can say coherent voice lines and not just make monstrous noises like Rek'Sai
Friendly reminder that his taunt is "Death... is not the end for you! I have seen to it: for eternity, you are mine!". He's absolutely more than just a monster, and as opposed to some other voidborn who are mostly driven by their hunger, he's also driven by malice.
That would be cool to choose a faction to fight for instead of just a champion ; i hope they do this in the mmo
I think they did something like that many years back with Ionia vs Noxus event, where Ionia won and we got Ionian Boots of Lucidity introduced to the game
completely not what i said XD@@shaderunner7.0
You got one thing wrong. The Void is not "League of Legends' equivalent of hell."
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That would be Summoner's Rift.
So in love with the distortion world theme being used in this video. Extremely fitting
From all series that you make, this is my favorite. Love to see the lore and gameplay shaking hands thematically.
I loved the lore summary at the start. Adds so much to the narrative you re trying to tell.
I remember seeing this series early on and not being able to wait for the Void and Targon, halfway there now, hoping the other half comes soon :D
I love this region lore series. The league lore is so rich and interesting, and having Vars to explain it and point out how does it reflects on the champion's gameplay is amazing!
thanks for the awesome content! Im so happy to see you continue this series!
I love void championship because the remind me of Tyranids, The Swarm, anything with a hive mind, which I'm convinced they have
Really loved that region series thanks for the great content vars :D !
As a Chogath main, this video is such a treat, love the void champs and hopefully Riot does more with it rather than well....just leave it until they need to retcon something
Love your videos man , could you possibly do A rough timeline on swain's life , and maybe make a series on in-depth battles and champions , I would love an hour long video explaining the ins and outs of the void wars and the darkins
Necrit
Yeah but I want Vars perspective and personal opinions and jokes@@__kvodii8917
Something else that helps accentuate the void's destructive force is that every voidborn that has hard cc has it in the form of a knock-up, one of the most powerful and destructive forms of cc in the game. I see this detail often overlooked, however I don't think its a coincidence that its not only on 4/6 of the voidborn, but also on a basic ability at that. It's one of the reasons why The Void is my favorite region of Runeterra, the devs have nailed the consistency of the region to a tee.
All void champs are a ticking time bomb before they fuck up your game, aka hyper scalers. Thats a huge thing I think they all have in common as well.
nvm he mentioned it, i just hadnt made it there yet.
Until I watched your series, I neve really noticed that different regions have different kit designs focused on where the champ is from! So glad I found you all that time ago vars, keep up the awsome work!
Most Void champion can feel very unfair to fight against, and as I much as I too hate facing them, I think it makes the void scarier, as in lore, they are supposed to be « unfair » (because they want to destroy the whole runeterra and are on the brink of doing it)
Yeah but once you learn how they do it, It becomes manageable
Kinda like rpg enemies
Using the distortion world music from platinum was a great touch
Waiting for the next one, let's go!
Absolutely the most awaited series continuation of a series by vars. I love this series so much and I'm excited to watch this one
Should also do demons the masters of passive pressure, showing their blight on the places they inhabit, new kench an exception and nilah don't count
I'm glad you're picking this series up after so long of, well, it being dead and depraved. Might be too early to celebrate, but hey, I'm kinda excited to see the rest of the mythos surrounding the other, yet-to-be-discussed mythos or lore of Runeterra.
The pokemon dpp soundtrack goes incredibly hard
i love this series sm and im so excited if you do ever make one about shadow isles!
Excellent video and presentation, it's food for thought!
Well, I think the design of a Void Support would be tricky and interesting. Imagine a Void Champion that focuses on growth but has the ability to make its teammates grow:
Sha' dim, the Purple Nebula (I imagine it as a menacing, almost formless nebula in the colors of the Void).
PASSIVE - Infinite growth: Dealing damage to enemies grants stacks. After a certain amount, using abilities to allies consume the stacks to further aid them.
Q - Icathia's beam: Sha' dim sends a straghtforward beam, that deals damage increased as it passes through enemies.
PASSIVE BONUS: The beam grants movespeed to allies it passes through.
W - Expansion Cloud: Sha' dim creates a thick cloud in an area that expands slowly for 5 seconds, slowing and dealing damage.
PASSIVE BONUS: Allies inside the cloud get tenacity and slow resist.
E - Clutches of the End: Sha' dim instantly stretches its body to all directions in the form of voidlike arms, dealing damage to all enemies hit.
PASSIVE BONUS: Allies near Sha' dim get an Attack Speed and Ability Haste bonus for the next 3 seconds.
R: Exowordly Surprise: Sha' dim disappears and, after a brief delay, teleports to a point in a distance of up to 1000 units, dealing true damage and slowing all enemies. Takedowns increase the perimeter of the teleport point.
PASSIVE BONUS: Allies inside the teleport circle get a decaying shield.
Of course, the passive bonuses are interchangeable but I designed them having in mind offense and defense according to the ability's theme.
The point is to keep the Void theme of infinite growth and damage in a mid-range fighting, without losing the primary point of supporting.
I don't know if all of this has any usefulness as a true Champion Insight, but it was fun and created as I watched your video.
I actually never knew you had this series, it's super interesting and really well put together. Can't wait for the darkins to make an appearance
Thank you so much for this video! I started playing league with Vel’kos and have been a void player ever since. Will say the reason the void wants to destroy is because there was anything there was the void and when stuff started to exist it made the void realize that it did and it hates it so much.
So glad to have this series back!
The Void is League's version of the Tyranids, they exist to look like theyre the end all be all antagonists, only lose and make the good guys look strong.
Omg I’ve been waiting for more lore epasodes I love the way you combine the lore and the gameplay.
Congrats on reaching 200k
(in advance)
I swear I reached 5.0 attack speed on Bel Veth.
Best video on TH-cam.
Finally! been excited for this series to come back
Man I’ve been dying for a region based videoooooo!!!!!!
Yessss!!!
One minor correction, while Kai'sa says she survived the "Void", she has never been to the Void dimension, rather she is referring to the Void corrupted lands of Shurima. It is still correct however, for her to call this the Void because those same Void corrupted lands are the same "Void" in which Bel'Veth claims to be.
That aside, thank you for pointing out something many critics of Kai'sa's visual design will ignore "whether man or monster one glimpse at them and you'll know what region they come from", this is what Kai'sa means when she refers to when she calls herself a "monster", this is why the shurimans fear her in the lore.
Freljord and void are my favorites and a few shuriman too.
Love seeing lore blending together
The void, the region with the most attractive champions.
I love this series, pls more 🙏🏼
Just perfect timing since I just learned my new main Velkhoz and been destroying game since
the glorious retourn of my favourite series!
Cool vid I like this series a lot, it would be cool to see zaun next
Gotta say i love the void especially cho and kha. Cho littlery being the biggest/most powerful. Kha littlery having a grudge against rengar i love it.
But i wish they would add more lore to fiddlesticks and voicelines. Like come on riot you have had loads of new champions yet 0 voicelines for fiddle and there fears. I would love to hear fiddle completely roasting void or asol lol
Something interesting for void champions: their only hard cc are knockups and malz ult suppress. For a region that is so focused on dealing damage and annihilating existence, they all in on damage and dont really offer utility
One more thing about Malzahar is if you keep his E's and Voidlings unchecked in lane, it could eventually get to you as punishment. Also, during the late game, just like a cult leader himself, you may sometimes end up questioning how 2 lanes are simultaneously crawling with voidlings while Malzahar himself is nowhere to be seen.
Even in LoR, Rek'Sai for example gets stronger the longer the match goes on until she one shots you
6:21 Vayne is a void abomination, confirmed.
Hello Vars, great video as always. I was wondering, what’s your favourite series to make in terms of research and how much fun you have making it?
My favorite is probably anything entailing old stuff. I'm a sucker for nostalgia haha
The pokeremixstudio distortion world remix, now that's a big fave ❤
i still say that that champ... bel'veth should have been either an octopus or a cuttlefish
it would make so much sense, think about it
Once you've run out of runeterran regions to cover, I think it would be cool to cover the various skin universes. (Especially Blood Moon)
10:50 love that Vel is such a crap champ Vars just didnt have the energy to go find a clip of him carrying a fight or anything. Most of them just look like >R
The concept of the void is Destroy and devourer(in same way ish) adapt to be better at it then do it again.
Their goal is to silent the world(destroy it completely) to do so they have to learn about the world and feed on it is the most easiest way.
The distortion world music fits so well with the void
Huh, I didn't realize till when you were talking about how Void champs all center around dealing damage and killing, that there isn't a single Void champ that was designed to be a support. Sure Vel'Koz is played there, but he was originally designed to be a midlaner. Interesting
My favorite series Is back!!!
To be fair,Kha'Zix actully had a %missing hp damage before they change his Q(change is good)
Out of all the void champions, Vel'Koz might be the least hated and most balanced, at least arguably. If you ask people about him, you rarely hear anyone hating him and in fact a lot of people seem to respect the damage and pressure he gives to their team, making the game overall easier to them. Sure, if the Vel'Koz is bad they're going to be a problem for the team but that applies to all champions, and with how unpopular the artillery make archetype is (at least compared to other mid archetypes), there's not a lot of people who play him and as a result, most who do have a lot of experience.
As for balance, all you need to know is that until the mage reworks that also affected Vel'Koz, he had some of the least if not the least amount of major changes made to him, for many years. Pretty much all of them were just very small adjustments and bug fixes, nothing that ever really affected him all that much. Then they tried to do what was basically a mini-rework for him and that lead to a lot of trouble but since things calmed down, Vel'Koz has once again returned to his former quiet existence.
I mean I also don't see any hate towards cho gath he is in my opinion a really balanced champion he is only strong when the items he builds become op
You didn't mention it but on void's first tft set their augment was straight up they deal true dmg, truly vicious
11:55
That Malz hate sounded personal, lol.
We return to the glorious series
man, i love the concept of the void, but I can be mad about reading kai'sa's lore and them see her visuals and think that are 2 diferent champions. But I understand the riot's point, monsters don't sell skins and so on.....
Me: life is cruel, and it is just a constant state of suffering
New Vars video: allow me to introduce myself
Me. The saviour!
tbh I want a void support champ
and no velkoz doesnt count
10:45 nah, as a lillia main, theres no point where cho'gath is ever a serious threat
May I remind you that three of Vel'kozs abilities have significant utility?
Q deals a lot of damage yes, but it also slows the target substantially for a respectable amount of time.
E deals relatively small amounts of damage, but is coupled with a knock-up and knock**back**, both CCing and displacing the enemies hit.
And lastly, Vel'kozs ult slows all enemies caught inside. Sometimes, his ult can be used simply to keep an enemy from escaping his teammates.
we're in dire need of a video featuring the shadow isles champions
Can't wait for the Shurima episode!
little interesting thing is allot of these points can apply to aurelion sol as well with his rework.
Rek’sai has utility in her tremor sense passive ^^ only one small counter example for the “void champs have no utility” argument but she’s my favorite and my main so not leaving her out
Bros point: they deal damage, therefore they want to atacc
sure man, good thinking I'm impressed
isnt it funny how this video came out and one week later riot revealed the 2024 preseason changes that are all void themed , with the new baron rift herald and all
I’d love a lore video like this on Targon
Thanks to LoR we know what runeterras hell is, the Grey realm, mordekaiser/Sahn-Uzal's realm of death
Absolutely based of you to use the Distortion World theme for this one
Man, that Bel'Vussy got me acting strange
we need a video about Icathia because we only have a few champs in the game and yet there are so diffrent from one another, For example Zilean and Jax.
please add more regions to this series
i NEED more of these
shurima, ixtal, targon bilgewater, shadow isles, piltover & zaun, camavor(?)
As yes
The Void,
Void champion's entire thing is about devouring
Cho'gath. Obvious
Kha'zix. Eating and absorbing their physical traits to evolve himself
Kog'maw. Breaking down the enemy with acids to eat them
Vel'koz though he doesn't eat he hungers for knowledge and breaks everything down to learn them
Knowledge through... Disintegration.
I want Riot Forge to make a metroidvania with the Void as its setting. Make Kai'Sa or Kassadin the main character, maybe have Kha'Zix as an alternate game mode when you beat the main game.
How about a class update retrospective. Would really enjoy that. I mean the ones where they reworked all the champs at one time
If Riot’s MMO allows me to talk to Vel’koz and not have to kill him in a boss fight I’ll be happy.
Vel is my favorite void champ.
"Teraform then destruct" is the best phrase I can describe some part of the void's theme. It feels sily to think of them as something simply "consume" then grow into filling the environment gap, that's earthly concept. They're cosmic eldritch, cool they may evolve into some sane looking creatures, but the writers should sometimes express how their everything will never feel "natural". The way they(1) do things should feel nonsense yet rationally trick us(2) into thinking we(2) have gotten their(1) motives, plans, directions in our hands, and so we have the solution to win it over (looking at Lissandra story, writers are nailing that part) and that we can have the false sense of whatever (looking at you Kai'sa. If her disney story doesn't twist into the most fucked up falsehood/false hope ever, then I'll drop this lore)
For Velkoz & Belveth, they can pretend to take part in the world all they like, they have their ways to hook you into those perspectives about them but eventually you can never "resolve" "their conflict", nor really stall them out by making deals.
How much these champs are feared, vel koz WAS one of the least played and under appreciated, but because of Azzap he is finally getting the fear he deserved. My friend plays vel with over 1.5mil pts, me going as Malz meant our late game dmg was insane,
I still love Riot keeps the character design consistently, n' yes, ain't them being the biggest menace in both soloq n' pro play
It will be interesting if riot release support or enchanter void champion
judging by the concept of Void, Chogath IS the Void himself
Jax also was touched by the void according to his newer lore but only he's apearance was changed according to the lore Jax was just always super strong to the point of being the only mortal character to have killed an ascended being he now roams the land searching for worthy fighters to join him on his quest so one they he can return with the last light of Icathia and destroy the void for good.
I remember when Jax lore was just "insanely overpowered dude is forced to fight using a lamp as a weapon and wins". The new lore isn't bad, but I'm not a big fan of it.
I’m wondering if you have thoughts on champions that has association with more than 2 factions? Like Sona who has Ionian roots but grew up in Demacia and Udyr who is Freljordian but learned alot of his discipline from Ionia.
You should do a video like this but for the Darkin, it would be awesome
Tell ne you haven't actually ready void Lore without telling me you haven't ready void lore
"We scale"
-the void
I have a base idea for a void champion. Bel veth is like the matriarch of the void, and she consumes from runeterra and I think creates more void life kind of like a mother. I think a male void almost impregnator would be interesting, where he would infect a populous essentially forcing them to birth more void creatures for him
Don't use impregnator like that, I just got _that_ song playing in my head and almost formulated Void Gragas in my head
@@shaderunner7.0why are you imagining gragas impregnating you
@@shaderunner7.0why are you imagining gragas impregnating you
Writers thingly disguised fetish
@@thegreatscribbles960 Me?