Riot Video games has confirmed Viktor is getting a brand new pores and skin in League of Legends, which is able to flip the champion again into his former design.
The mage acquired an enormous visible and gameplay replace final December to extra intently match the character from Netflix’s Arcane collection.
The Viktor LoL VGU provided some nice, quality-of-life gameplay adjustments like his final, Arcane Storm, growing in dimension after taking down opponents.
Nonetheless, the brand new visible route was disliked and closely criticised by a number of Viktor mains.
The preliminary PBE replace acquired no upvotes and a couple of,000 feedback on Reddit and members of the r/viktormains subreddit even petitioned for Riot Video games to cancel the visible rework.
Riot did make some further touch-ups to Viktor’s reworked skins earlier than the adjustments went reside however many have been nonetheless discontent.
Riot is effectively accustomed to controversy surrounding new League of Legends skins bulletins.
There was a blended reception to the costly pores and skin that can include legendary esports professional Uzi being inducted into the Corridor of Legends.
Nonetheless, Riot mentioned they take suggestions in the newest dev weblog and confirmed the brand new throwback Viktor pores and skin will launch someday later in 2025.
Nonetheless, no different particulars have been talked about, together with how a lot the pores and skin will price.
After the information leaked earlier within the day, many questioned if this Viktor pores and skin would retain his earlier operating animation.
And one other massive query is whether or not the pre-work Viktor pores and skin may have his outdated, mechanical voice strains return.
Following the announcement on Reddit, one commenter questioned if throwback skins will change into extra widespread in LoL.
Riot’s Head of League Studio Andrei ‘Meddler’ van Roon responded: “‘Conventional’ skins – unsure if we’ll name them that or not but.
“If Viktor’s [throwback skin is] very well acquired we’d need to take into account doing others sometimes.
“We stopped doing that type of pores and skin years in the past as a result of they weren’t in any respect common on the time, together with with gamers who owned the pores and skin however seldom selected to make use of it.”
Meddler additionally took to the feedback to ask what followers most popular identify for the pores and skin could be, with ‘Machine Herald Viktor’ one common suggestion.
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