▪ Aatrox
▪ Nothing big for him, but there is a discussion ongoing about the uniqueness of the old design, especially of his sword.
▪ Dominator
▪ It looks like a supreme skin for him, where he has conquered almost all runeterra.
▪ Ahri
▪ Graphic update incoming, focus on the tails with new technology (think of Aurelion Sol, Zoe)
▪ Also updates for older skins to match the rework
▪ Skins
▪ Unnamed
▪ There is the idea of an high quality skin for her, themed around the demon-fox, it will be like an enhanced version of the base model, but everything depends on how the graphic update ends.
▪ Akali
▪ A lot of debate on her for now (4)
▪ Alistar
▪ Model update is planned, but not yet explored
▪ Amumu
▪ Model and visual update is planned
▪ Anivia
▪ Model update and visual update for older skins
▪ Annie
▪ Nothing planned (4)
▪ Ashe
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Aurelion Sol
▪ Skins
▪ Deep Terror
▪ High level skins, with new Vfx, based on greens and black, with white lights
▪ Instead of Stars orbiting he has 3 black deeps sea fishes.
▪ Azir
▪ Always an hot topic, but nothing definitive
▪ Skins
▪ Riot
▪ A simple skin, with riot shields on his ult.
▪ Bard
▪ He (as well as other champions like Thresh, Ivern, Nunu) is discussed, but a precise direction has not been taken yet (1)
▪ Skins
▪ Jazz Band
▪ Well dressed, plays a saxophone, a lot of effects with chimes, which are musical sheets, W, musical notes etc..
▪ Explorer
▪ Indiana Jones like, with a telescope, collects maps
▪ Cosmic wanderer
▪ Bard looks like gas, like star dust, themed around him being celestial
▪ Blitzcrank
▪ Model update
▪ Brand
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Braum
▪ Skins
▪ Bloodbath
▪ It is a "what if?" skin, which depicts Braum as a savage fighter
▪ Caitlyn
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Camille
▪ Skins
▪ Insurgent
▪ No composture or self care, only survival and hiding. Her appearence hasn't changed too much anyway, but the blades on her legs are tinted in red now…
▪ Cassiopeia
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Cho'Gath
▪ Only model update
▪ Corki
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Darius
▪ Skins (4)
▪ Hero
▪ It is a "what if?" skin, which depicts Darius as a hero
▪ Overlord
▪ Diana
▪ Exploration for a gameplay update
▪ Dr. Mundo
▪ Visual update is being explored, and also gameplay if it turns out fitting
▪ Draven
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Overlord
▪ An older and more twisted Draven
▪ Ekko
▪ Nothing planned (2)
▪ Elise
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Evelynn
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Ezreal
▪ Nothing planned of course
▪ Fiddlesticks
▪ There is a lot of exploration for it, surely model update
▪ Skins
▪ Free hugs
▪ An April's fool skin, kinda cute.
▪ Fiora
▪ Skins
▪ Insurgent
▪ She has abandoned her challenging and elitist attitude.
▪ VoidHunter
▪ Fizz
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Skins
▪ Peter Pan
▪ He throws an alarm clock for the ultimate and Renekton appears.
▪ Galio
▪ Nothing planned (4)
▪ Gangplank
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Garen
▪ Skins (4)
▪ The Villain
▪ A reversed theme skin where he is the bad guy
▪ Gnar
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Gragas
▪ Only model update, not a priority for now (4)
▪ Graves
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Hecarim
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Skins
▪ Steam powered
▪ Smoke trails, flames and new effects for hecarim.
▪ Heimerdinger
▪ There is debate over him, but currently nothing planned
▪ Illaoi
▪ Irelia
▪ There is a lot of debate on her for now.
▪ Skins
▪ Insurgent
▪ A sadder and more mature irelia is ready to fight for freedom
▪ Ivern
▪ Same situation as Bard
▪ Skins
▪ Famine
▪ It looks to be a reversed like skin: his skin is grey like ashes and parts of his body look dead or burning.
▪ Janna
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Jarvan IV
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Jax
▪ Model update, probably vfx update as well
▪ Skins
▪ VoidHunter
▪ Jayce
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Jhin
▪ Skins
▪ Rebel
▪ It seems he decides to join forces with Vayne and her group because his tendencies are not tolerated and he wants to stay free. Vayne accepted his compromise.
▪ Jinx
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Kai'Sa
▪ Skins
▪ VoidHunter
▪ Kalista
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Karma
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Karthus
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Kassadin
▪ Model and vfx update
▪ Katarina
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Kayle
▪ Big update incoming as it is known
▪ Kayn
▪ Freljord Kayn
▪ Assassin form will be light blue, almost white, while Rhaast will be based on black ice (the same of blackfrost anivia)
▪ Kennen
▪ A lot of exploration in both gameplay and visual
▪ Kha'Zix
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Kindred
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Kled
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Kog'Maw
▪ Nothing planned
▪ LeBlanc
▪ Model update
▪ Lee Sin
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Leona
▪ Skins
▪ Sun Guardian
▪ Basically an enhanced version of the base/valkyrie skin
▪ Lissandra
▪ Nothing planned of course
▪ Lucian
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Lulu
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Lux
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Skins
▪ Black Sorcerer
▪ An evil version of Lux
▪ Malphite
▪ Model update, and general brainstorming
▪ Malzahar
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Maokai
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Master Yi
Nothing planned
▪ Miss Fortune
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Mordekaiser
▪ Model update
▪ Morgana
▪ Same as Kyle
▪ Nami
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Nasus
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Nautilus
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Nidalee
▪ Model update
▪ Nocturne
▪ Model update and generally a discussed topic
▪ Skins
▪ Elderwood
▪ Nunu & Willump
▪ Same as Bard
▪ Olaf
▪ Visual update, but not a priority
▪ Orianna
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Ornn
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Pantheon
▪ Model update, and like Nocturne, hot topic
▪ Poppy
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Pyke
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Quinn
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Rakan
▪ Skins (4)
▪ Championship
▪ It looks like they are trying to combine this skin with Challenger Xayah (4)
▪ Season
▪ Rammus
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Rek'Sai
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Renekton
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Rengar
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Skins
▪ VoidHunter
▪ With new vfx and animations Rengar is ready for his greates hunt. Also his experience against voidborns may be useful to Jax
▪ Riven
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Rumble
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Ryze
▪ Always discussions over him, but nothing planned
▪ Sejuani
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Shaco
▪ There is a lot of discussion over him.
▪ Shen
▪ A bit of debate over him… essentially he works well, but lacks thematically
▪ Shyvana
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Singed
▪ Same as Shen
▪ Skins
▪ Steam Powered
▪ Leaves a Trail of black smoke and during ultimate you can hear the typical locomotive sound.
▪ Sion
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Skins
▪ Steam Powered
▪ Instead of blood, fire burns in his fournace.
▪ Sivir
▪ Nothing planned (4)
▪ Skarner
▪ Model update, but not a priority, also hot topic
▪ Sona
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Soraka
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Talon
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Taric
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Teemo
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Thresh
▪ Same as Bard, but less than others.
▪ Added VFX for its E passive
▪ Skins
▪ Vantguard
▪ It looks like a reversed thresh, a light version of him, with whites and yellows all over
▪ Soulstealer
▪ It looks like an enhanced quality of the base Thresh. He can toggle on/off a hood and tones are of a darker green, with more blacks and a long cape.
▪ Redline
▪ Early concept, maybe like Bear Cavalry Sejuani
▪ Reversed
▪ It is a bit a "Jack O' Lantern" skin in which you can change the lantern with Thresh's head
▪ Jazz Band
▪ He plays a cello and collects notes instead of
▪ Captain Hook
▪ His head is a skull, with black hair, his lantern is an alarm clock, and his hook is actually an hook
▪ Tristana
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Trundle
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Tryndamere
▪ Model update for now
▪ Skins
▪ Warlord
▪ Aatrox completed his work on him in this reality.
▪ Twisted Fate
▪ Model update, but not a priority
▪ Twitch
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Udyr
▪ There is debate over its model update
▪ Urgot
▪ Skins
▪ Jailkeeper
▪ He keeps care of the few rebels which tried to oppose the new Domination. Reddish and purple colours
▪ Varus
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Vayne
▪ Skins
▪ Insurgent
▪ Untied hair, ripped mantle, but a strong sense of vengeance.
▪ Veigar
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Vel'Koz
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Vi
▪ Nothing planned, but some brainstorming
▪ Viktor
▪ Nothing planned, but they are waiting for results of preseason (2)
▪ Vladimir
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Volibear
▪ Both gameplay and visual updates
▪ Warwick
▪ Skins
▪ Jailkeeper
▪ Together with Urgot he can satisfy his bloodthirst
▪ Steam Powered
▪ A steampunk wolf will hunt on summoner's rift, it seems.
▪ Wukong
▪ Same as Vi
▪ Xayah
▪ Skins (4)
▪ Challenger (4)
▪ Season
▪ Xerath
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Xin Zhao
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Yasuo
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Yorick
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Zac
▪ Skins
▪ Lava Lamp (With Chromas)
▪ As if a lava lamp walked around
▪ Abyssal
▪ White glowing parcticles in a dark blue body. The appendix on his forhead glows a lot
▪ Rainbow
▪ Jazz Band
▪ Volcanic
▪ Explosions of magma everywhere.
▪ Cosmic Reaver
▪ A dark purple body full of floating stars and galaxies
▪ Knockout
▪ Wears an headband. The appendix on the forhead becomes a punching bag in the taunt. Fun skin
▪ Mecha
▪ Zed
▪ Skins
▪ Rebel
▪ Agreed to cooperate with Vayne under Jhin's suggestion in exchange for his evasion from the jail he was imprisoned in.
▪ Ziggs
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Zilean
▪ A bit like Bard
▪ Zoe
▪ Skins
▪ Starguardian/Darkstar
▪ This will be like Lancer Paragon/Lancer Rogue blitzcrank
▪ Zyra
▪ There is some debate over her, nothing serious for now anyway
▪ (3)New Champions
▪ About new champions: there is this "painter mage" which a new mechanic, then there are in development
▪ A new Dragon, the opposite of Aurelion Sol or something like that, but centered on fire, "darkness", smoke and destruction (seems like it can destroy walls for a brief time), an Armor Conjurer Tank/Fighter, a "Beast Controller/Knight" jungler, a Totem Tank Support, an Abiurer Mage and a Blade Summoner "adc", which actually is called "Glordingal", and a four armed fisherman; then there is further exploration in many directions but nothing yet established: there are a cloud/storm based mage, coming from scrapped kits of Ao Shin, a water mage, a new archer adc, a new race to be developed ecc… Also it looks there will be a Darkin using the old aatrox weapon as a whip, but there is debate over this.
▪
▪ (4) Skins
▪ About skins there are some skins (or groups of them which i have details for)
▪ The insurgent line skins are set in a timeline where some "evil" guys win and take over runeterra and Camille, Irelia, Vayne and Fiora group up to rebel against them. The four women look a bit older or broken or just wild/survivors.It looks like Jhin and Zed will help out them against: Draven, Urgot, Warwick, Swain, Darius, Aatrox, Syndra, Tryndamare
▪ It looks this will be a long term group of skins, like project or starguardians, with more releases. Some cool interactions beetween Aatrox and Fiora, Zed and Syndra, Camille and Urgot.
▪ There are many reversed/fun/what if skins, some are paired, like Black Sorcerer Lux and White Mage Swain, or Garen "The Villain" and Darius "The Hero", while others are standalone, like Famine Ivern or Avantguard Thresh
▪
▪ Then there are some "names" for star guardian universe skins, the only certain one is Zoe, which will have a darkside/lightside skin, while the others are just there under investigations and brainstorming:
▪ Urgot, Garen, Darius, Taric, Sivir, Akali, Annie, Galio
▪
▪ The season skins for Xayah and Rakan are high quality with extra visual effects if the "partner" is in team or not. They both bloom near each other, and then are based on different seasons, like summer and autumn for Rakan, while Winter and Spring for Xayah.
▪ About Challenger and Championship the idea is that colours will be complementary: gold and blue for Rakan, while Red and Silver for Xayah. The shared recall has Xayah sneaking up to a confident Rakan sitting on a throne and taking her space there, with a kiss in the end, really a fun animation.
▪
▪ The Void Hunter squad is a team assembled by Jax to fight the Void, it counts Jax himself, Kai'Sa, Fiora and Rengar, for now at least.
▪
▪ (5) New maps and modes
▪ There are some tentatives for a fast paced mode, like overwatch, with every champion playable, no health regen, fast resource regen and no items. It is really difficult to implement anyway and requires a lot of balance. Pre alpha testing, also it requires different maps.
▪ Then we have some battle royale developments, (think of battlerite), with big maps (a beautiful one set in a wildland near Bligewater, with a big swamp that triggers a new Tahm Kench line, another one set in Ionia). Also this in pre alpha.
▪ And then we have an hoard mode centered around the harrowing in which you and your team must defend against hoards of enemies (like mistwalkers, Kalista, Zombie Brand, Hecarim, Evelynn, Nocturne ecc…)
It seems i forgot this piece, sorry.
▪ Swain
▪ Skins (4)
▪ White mage
▪ "what if?" skin, where Swain is an old good guy
▪ Supreme Leader Swain
▪ A Skin which enhances his base one. More violet and purple than red.
▪ Syndra
▪ Skins
▪ Supreme Queen
▪ She got more twisted but also more powerful than ever. New animations and VFX, it looks like an enhanced version of the base model.
▪ Tahm Kench
▪ Nothing planned
▪ Taliyah
▪ There is debate over her (2)
▪ Skins (Quite a lot for her)
▪ Elder
▪ It is an elder version of Taliyah, which has mastered her powers
▪ Twisted Mind
▪ It looks like a corrupted verions of Taliyah, her rock structures ar all contorted and oddly shaped
▪ RainbowRider
▪ An April Fool's skin, reall ycolourful. Practically what the name suggests
▪ Architect
▪ Instead of rock there are buildings with cool shapes
▪ Gothic
▪ Dominance of dark grey and black, cool sculptures in her skills
▪ Metalbender
▪ Instead of rock… metal
I've read. I have to clarify some stuff it seems: first of all not everything is at the same development level: in some cases there are just names and concepts, while in others the work is deep, Alpha stage or beta stage.
Secondly this is not everything where there is written "nothing planned" .
I don't find believable that there are concepts for 6 taliyah skins and not a single one for katarina.
About the guy who told about "peter pan" fizz... the name is of course a place holder, it seems the skin will pair with Thresh "Captain Hook" and the fact that Fizz will escape Thresh's grasp, this is the symbolism around the skin, for what i got.
I don't know if there is something else i should detail more. Ah yes, about Syndra. As i said it seems she was "twisted and brainwashed" as well as tryndamere, and there are quotes from Irelia and Zed about this.
Today there was a leak. Some adds about it. (May take more than one post)
-The Overwatch like mode will have no levels and no scalings, all skills will be unlocked except ultimate that will start charging at the beginning of the match. The player will be able to change to another champion at the spown, as long as he own it. For now there is experimentation on Capture the point maps only, while payload was tested a bit in the mini events live months ago. Many cool map concepts. The idea is to have this modality fixed, like Aram.
-Same goes with the battle Royale mode, or at least they want to give a try to it. There is debate over putting levels and scaling in this one or keeping it the same as the "overwatch like" one. Surely there will be items that you can find around and you must adapt with what you get, while there are doubts about money and if there will be "roaming sellers" in the map. There is debate also over having mobs or not. Another discussion regards the "lock in" system where, altough you cannot ban in this mode you can lock in a champion preventing others from taking it, but this is most likely to fall and let "doubles" to be playable.
I should add details on map geography, but no space now.
-About the Harrowing/Halloween mode:
it is an hoard "tower defense" like mode. You pick your team among some champions and you must defend against waves of enemies. Small fries are like mist walkers or the sentries of Kalista, while randomly enemy "harrowing/horror" enemies will spawn, altough, for now, no voidborn are considered. Headless Hecarim will lead a charge of ghostly riders, while Kalista will torment players spamming ghosts. Nocturne will be able to bpass "map defenses" and go for kills or damage ecc... It's uncertain the position of Yorick and the Maiden, for now. The idea is to launch some skins together with the mode, that will not be permanent, but will come from time to time.
I'll make a followup post about new champions and mechanics.
About new champions instead:
-the painter one will have a new mechanic (that is probably going to be used often) that is "painting" where the player can actually draw the trajectory of skills on the map.
-the armor conjurer will be a bit like kayn, but more flexible, so that you can play her (appears to be a woman) more as a fighter or a pure tank.
-there are many directions for the blade summoner, but mainly it's about either summoning different swords which will give different effects on skills and auto attacks or make him more like a mage that uses magical blades to attack. There is even the idea to split the character into two different ones. Ultimate will summon a giant sword that will also act as terrain.
-the hunter champion, will have some beasts to control and interacting with them will give it different abilities. The idea is that the beasts will be mythical creatures.
-the totem support-tank will be an enemy of shadow isles, may be linked to freljord or bilgewater
-not mentioned before, but there is in development a "Zac Brother" with the ability to parasite allies and support them, giving shields, invisibility, movement options, lifesteal etc...
-the four armed fisherman comes from scrapped ideas from pyke that came up to form a new champion, probably offtank, cc centered.
-about the new dragon champion: it has the ability to shoot lava/fire and destroy walls, dealing damage in the explosion. Walls will reform from the lava itself later. It also leaves a smoke trail which denies vision to enemies.
not a lot more to say except that the general idea about new modes/maps is to give different champions different places to shine properly
