Subjectively: "It kind of looks like that robot from the anime with the sad kid." The entire anime mecha community: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Funny fact, even though in game malphite comes across as rather dumb in personality, in his short story, "Roots of a Poisoned Tree", Malphite actually comes across as old, wise, and cryptic in the way he speaks to miners who would unleash the void if they dug any further into the earth below him
Honestly, who he is in the lore is plenty interesting with the conflict that not only his sister being a mage, but his own ability towards magic. Just needs an voice over update to reflect those interesting bits
Yeah I was think about that while I was sketching! It’s a design that wouldn’t be used in the final, but helps the artists explore more variety in concept execution!
I actually really like the idea of Hand Mundo, like every time he regenerates from damage the severed limb also regenerates (though rarely correctly). This could be used to update his lore, going from a simple Zuanite boogyman to a one-man infestation.
@@Subjectively I mean a champion that's just a hand or even a pair of hands could potentially work, as well as have a lot of varied skins as you could easily make a Hextech or infernal skin that wouldn't get confused with other champions with that skin theme
My favorite Mundo design was definitely the one with the giant tongue and straight jacket. The hand one was pretty bizarre but it could definitely be used in another champion design
As a Malphite main, i think they should "decide" with his passive. By looking at his eyes and mouth, you see a green energy, but with his shield down, he's dripping magma. Then he needs to be more clunky then refined, since he's a living mass of rocks, not a man made golem. He should still have big, hammer-like fists, the engine on the back is perfect, but the head with those tooths looks more like an armored dragon warrior. Maybe one big fist for his abilities, and a blaster on the other hand, since in the lore the monolith shoot a beam that glassified everything that got hit by. And with that, instead of a rock appearing out of nothing from his Q, you got him shooting at the enemy, slowing him by glassing his legs, and the blaster's energy empowers Malphite. Then for his W, he just uses his blaster on his big hands and empowers it, making it deal AOE dmg.
If they were to give malphite a VGU I'm pretty sure his abilities would be updated too. His current Q is practically just a Blade of the Ruined King's active that does more damage.
The passive is detail left unadressed in this video that could be used to say something quite interesting about the character. They could for example work something about the void into it. Like the Void contained within him over the years glows purple in his chest when his armor cracks and falls.
i think you could probably have the magma be replaced with that green light that he has going on inside of him leaking out to signify when he's in "shields down" mode.
@@gretchling5012 YESSS!!! maybe when the rock shiel falls it reveals more of the engraved structural pieces that truly conform him, full of engravings and magic cristall shards that power him, and the rock parts he just pick up as an armor
You don't actually need to keep his passive in a rework. This video was only a visual update, but realistically it would 100% come with a gameplay update too, in which case everything could easily be made to fit his new design. Considering specific outdated gameplay mechanics in his designs would just be a stupid limitation.
Tbh I think he has one more problem that Malphite didn't had that is an outdated gameplay, the times I used him I just eished that at least one of his abilities was different. But also a redesign of him would be incredible.
@@RamonMGBatista Malphite's kit design is absolutely horrendous, one of the worst, if not the worst, in the game. Udyr has his problems but even he's not even close to Malph in terms of faulty gameplay.
The fact that you could take a literal rock creature and turn him into something a lot more interesting amazes me, i love that. I really dont play Malphite at all just because i find him so boring, his voicelines lack so much as well.... but this, this is really interesting and cool. Id actually try him out.
Based on his lore I think it's ok for him to have a jetpack due to the fact that he is a shard of a floating magical fortress that fell. And the thing is magic is the reason he is alive and it would make sense that a lot of magic will be stored in a part of a fortress that will make it float there for it would cement the idea that he is the shard that is keeping the fortress floating and it would make sense he is a rocket like structure.
Yeah the whole jetpack thing doesn't sit well with me either. He is a shard from a structure created by *magic*, not by some kind of technology. Still great art though. Just not very fitting for malphite IMO.
I really wish this was actually in game. It is quite interesting and a nice explanation of both his gameplay capabilities and lore. I know I couldn't ever make anything like this If you are going to redesign another champion, might I suggest Udyr? His design doesn't give him time to shine (as his Ultimate skin does a much better work). And his gameplay capabilities are... Straightforward and monotone.
He literally described Galio. I feel like if he had removed the "Friendly" keyword, and instead replaced it with "Unbothered," he'd have gotten an even more creative design.
@@cuckhands there's actually very little "friendly" in his final design tho I think similarities between galio and malph aren't that bad because they are both literally "thing that was made to stop other thing"
I love how you tried so hard to circumvent the Galio look, but Claire just used a Galio picture as a reference anyway. Edit: How can we suggest new redesigns? I think Brand would be fun to see.
Subjectively *rocks!* They make *solid* character designs! Wow it’s really *hard* to sum up how amazing they are! I *marble* at everything they make! We should never take them for *granite.* -Insert another rock pun from replies
It looks really amazing. The splash art is amazingly well made, but for me, it doesnt catch the impact of the concept. I woud have gone for something like the "hero landing" pose to make it have impact (no pun intendet), since that is something I would connect more to "Malphit's Ultimate" thatn the "launch off". Nether the less, amazing video, amazing arts and the overall way to take this sort of "problem" can be applied to many other artistic things. Good Job both of you :D
@TheBuragi I think malphite flying remember more Galio (Because he has wings) than he landing. And you dont need a "Hero landing" like Galio, just Malphite landing in both of his feet with an gigantic explosion, just like a gorila jumping
@@PorthoGamesBR If anything, Malphite would smash into his target head-first. The huge triangular shard of rock that's part of his back and extends above and in front of his head is the ideal part of his body to use as a battering ram, and his head, shoulders and collarbone all have jagged parts facing the same direction.
I love this! When you were explaining the designs I kept on thinking that he shouldn't have had ant legs, or maybe just the one leg, to show that he was part of a bigger weapon and he just ran with whatever pieces were attached to it - and it would make their ult much more impactful (big hopping rock that's kinda clumsy but determines rocket launches towards you all of a sudden). Superb job as usual!
This is really great and I love how you take on the lore of the character and add it into the design, I'd love to see some other champs like alistar reworked in your style.
Galey Luu uhh well if you actually followed either of them on Instagram then you would have known about it for a long time... I’m more surprised that there are so many people shocked by this. They did a really beautiful collaborative art piece this past Valentines Day.
I love how this redesign made malphite's ult make sense. I never understood how a giant rock monster would be able to fly towards the enemy in mach 5(fun to play though). Also i would love to see the 'eliminate the enemy inside of his magical stone body' part of the lore be used on malphite someday. Trapping and crushing the enemy inside the body sounds fun.
Gotta say you're doing great with these videos and PLEASE do more! I like that you're actually improving on your methods with redesigining champions as well! Initially, the issue with Elise was that she looked too Ionian, which I'm glad you made a statement about and made more a focus on integrating lore with the character designs. Then secondly, the issue with Zyra (despite being a really good design) is that she wasn't too coherent to be seen as an in-game character, and making a mock-up model like you did with Malphite's redesign really helps!
I REALLY like your redesign, it makes a lot of sense and reinforces his fantasy SO WELL, based on his lore, his original look, his signature ultimate... it all comes together 👌
You did malphite justice. He looks exactly what i imagined him to be. A SHARD. A piece of something that was once great. A like his triangular bagpack jetpack design. It suits him. Great work. You got yourself a sub
I would really like for you to take a look at lee sin or twisted fate, they are probably one of the least interesting characters in the game (visually).
I guess Lee, TF and Ryze suffer from the same problem, they are quite generic but too iconic to be changed. The latter two were reworked didn't have their appearances changed too much.
Think lee is pretty impossible, a blind, strong man, what can you really do? I guess you could try to make the dragon part of him a little more obvious. Twisted fate could be really cool tho, there should be more than a guy with a hat
I really liked the first design with him as a comet!! The sillhoutte was just really unique but all the designs were pretty great! Can’t wait for more!!
Wow, this design is really cool. He is no longer giant rock monster #37. Would have liked some bigger fists though since he is a giant rock monster that punches things. When not ulting anyway. Amazing work :)
Damn. I love the process of conceptualization up to the implementations you guys made. I loved jow malphite fits and actually looks like a hero of LOL. Looking forward to you guys redesigning gragas. I wonder how you guys are gonna make that a loveable character.
*chefs kiss* I love these videos, but more so because how much I learn every single time I watch them. Great job and thank you for everything you guys do. I'm gonna' go and join your discord now...
Just wanna say i’m really happy at how the “fixing designs” videos have changed on this channel. Ive been rewatching the Pokémon redesign videos and while i enjoy the work and discussions you and the gang put in, i feel (along with many others going by the comments) that the design changes were almost purely cosmetic and detached from the rest of the evo line (when it applies). So after watching that and then coming here again, i really appreciate how you (and presumably the whole crew) took what everyone said to heart and now make it a point to include the lore of the characters, and try to stay true to it when redesigning them. Its really inspiring to see creators i look up to take criticism and learn from it, and i wanna thank you for doing the same, and hope you continue to do this in future videos!
First: Please redesign Lulu, she's cute but i don't really feel she have an interesting design that reflects her lore, she is just a little purple kawaii Witch. Second: Why don't you try to create your own character? Take a time to read about runeterra and then try to create a character, it would be epic!
Aaawww I loved the idea of 2.0 Malphite being this jetpack gorilla. His ult would be him using a burst of magic to jump into the air and come slamming down both of his fists, which definitely makes more sense than his current ult Guess he'll now just belly flop into battle
I love the art and original concept, but a big problem I have with this is that you based the design of his ult which unfortunately in the lore he really doesn't do it. The design makes him look like he is a fast moveing rocket which was your intent, but his lore tells a different story. With this VGU the abilatys would be completely changed by Riot to match the lore. Malphite is a slow moveing monolith that has been infused with in the land of Ixtal through it's magics. He does not rocket in to punch the void; no matter how cool that would be. He finds it and captures it, entoumbing it with in his mountain like form. I think if a redesign were to come from Riot they would lean on that more, changing the character from the rock golem brawler, to a mountain sized prison for the horrors of the void. I love this design and the idea of a mountain sized comet rocketing towards you, but with the current lore of Malphite I don't think it really suits him. Love your content and keep up the amazing art.
While you are correct that his ult does not fit his lore very well, I would argue that Riot does not necessarily have to go that heavy into that redesign aspect of Malph. They could easily just do a Morgana or Ezreal style rework where they just update him visually but keep all of his kit because it works well enough in the game that there is no need to change anything about it. He is in Wild Rift after all. They would have to implement those gameplay mechanics into that game when they already have current Malph's kit in WR already. Besides, we already have a champ that gobbles people up, two actually (Cho and Urgot), so having a third that devours people is a bit much. And if they did get rid of that ult, then much of Malph's in game personality just kinda gets lost, turning them into a completely different champ, though when has that stopped them from redesigning a champ anyway? (Galio, Morde, though these were for the better imo). While you do make good points trying to connect the lore with the gameplay, I feel Malphite will always be that one super simple champ that just works the way he does because Riot needs simple champs for new players and players who just like to have fun and meme around in general. We already got our over complicated and skill based champs. Our big rock boi, imo, is fine with his current kit. But he is definitely my top 10 for visual updates. Plus he's my second champ so I'm a little biased haha
THIS Malphite, makes me wanna try tanks! He looks awesome! Maybe someone from Piltover next? Like Cait, I feel like she has too much stuff just like Vi does. Something that's more of a challenge would be Kennen. :0 But y'all havent drawn Runeterra humans before 🤔 so that would be interesting
Dayum, those LoL redesign episodes just get better and better. I like how you went from doing pretty much whatever you wanted in the first episode to REALLY diving into a process similar to what riot is doing. Taking lore and original themes into account to make an ENHANCED version of the original design without making a completely different champion. I enjoyed this episode thoroughly and I'm exited for what you'll do next :)
Soooo as someone how is absolutely love's the redesigns you're doing, could you do Skarner? I love Skarner's design right now, but I wonder how u could make it better!
Ngl with your terms or “dutiful, friendly, oblivious, not the smartest” I was thinking of groot. Also I love these videos, please do more of these champion redesigns.
You are just doing riot's job and im loving it, these videos are so good and you all did such amazing jobs. I just wish riot could put this in the game, even if I will miss old malphite
I'll be honest that, this isn't my favorite. You'r art is great, and the process you followed were perfect, but (and there is always a but) one interpretation you made from the story, at the begning, differs a lot from what i've had on my mind, so i ended up the whole video biasesd xD Thing is, the feeling i had about Malphite new lore, is that he is almost a simulacrum of a humanoid form, still powered by a fragment of the monolith. So, i would have gonne with a stone body, with a literal spike, shard, piece of the ruins of the monolith inserted, probably on an unconfortable position (No butt jokes, please), that powers the body. Similar to the concept of Aatrox always beeing decaying flesh and having to stay on a killing spree to replenish it? I felt that the new malphite, by the fact that it seemely can move through earth magicallly, is something like that. A core of energy, that holds it's purpouse and personality and an amalgamation of rocks, stones, minerals that it uses to take form. Yes, his ultimate is iconic, but not enough, at least in my eyes, to be the sole base of a redesign. Acutally, if they re-worked him, i would like to keep the concept of "unstopeable force" but change the mechanics, going to something similar to Sions ultimate but ,lower range, quicker casting, something that would fit well with an "lego" body build. Ironically, when you showed the 4 image, i thought it was going on a good way. Yeah, too straight and to thin to be malhite, but the floating rocks, the unconnected structure could be good, an colossus made of what minerals are around him. (Something, that would fit well with some concepts like one that part of the fiddlesticks skins, are actually his "main" skin depending on the region he's manifested, tha same could be applied to Malphite) So, a more "Core Shard of the Old Monolith" as the real "soul" of the creature, and a simulacrum of minerals making an humanoid, or maybe a gorilla shape body. Another concept that his backstory gave me, was not for a rework on him, but for a possible new champion, an "Ruin Colossal" kind of thing, going for Shadow of the Colossus immagery and a body made of pieces of the original Monolith. Could even be a point of attriction and conflict between it and malphite, as the "Ruin Elemental" (For those that played DnD 3.5 would may have encountered) would be wanting the piece, that keeps Malphite alive back into itself. Maybe the Ruin Elemental have power over the elements, like an Tanky version of Qiyana (Her region REALLY needs more champions doesn't it?) but it lacks the rule over earth, minerals adn stone. Why? Because Malphite got it own mind and started doing it's job. Sorry for long post, love your videos, even thorugh on this one i disagreed with the direction you took, as concepts and illlustrations per-se they are FANTASTIC! Thanks for the amazing content :D Edit: Freak, imagine if the secret of the original Monolith were that it was powered by a Runestone. And a shard of that runestone is the heart of Malphite, this would put more conflicts for the chcaracter to develop, and impose on Ryze the dillema of "This weapon of mass destruction is not only giving life to a good and protective beeing, but it's working to save the world against the Void, should i take it or leave it be? Should i protect it and help it?"
Also, i totally wanna do an "Moving Volcano" on my dnd Setting that is actually an cool primordial elemental stuck on the prime material plane, and use your concept of the old wise guy with a giant freaking volcano on his back xD Seriously, this may be a good way to introduce a primordial oposed to some of the princes of the apocalypse adventure for my homebrew setting, and take even some inspiration on the avatar dragon turtles :P
I'd love to see your take on Kai'Sa cause imo she feels the most wasted design-wise. A child born in the void with a living weapon, only for it to look like Generic Sexy Lady.
More Xenomorph tubes I remember in the recent alien movie there was a picture of Shaw (don't remember her name, she was the main lady in the Prometheus ) she had been experimented on by the android and she dead and has got tube things running around face and every where.
She already had concept art that looked way more unique, like a mixture of Metroid and Prototype. Unfortunately it got scrapped because some higher-ups probably said "no bobs and vegana means no skin sales, make her sexy".
I loved the design and splash art, but the perspective from which the splash art was taken just kinda bothered me. In any champion splash art in which the champion is in midair, the perspective of the picture is always below the champ, seemingly to accentuate their superiority, whereas in this one the perspective is on level. Also, the splashes are usually from a plausible perspective from which an onlooker could see the champ in action, and gives a sense of scale for champions for which it's unclear just how massive they may be, like how Malph and Cho'Gath have soldiers in their splashes for scale. I loved the designs, just thought I'd mention a few of my observations for future consideration. Keep up the great work!
When you were mentioning he looked like a giant turtle that will protect you if he must, that made me think of Gamera. Gamera is a giant turtle kaiju for who havent heard if him.
This is definitely my favorite league design you guys have done thus far. My only input is that the jewel on his head, especially in his splash-art, kinda looks like his other eye :o
I feel your rework more like a rocket than a meteor, maybe instead of a rocket to propulse him, a volcano like explosion would fit more. But I love the architectural pieces. Great work and keep it up!!!!
The splash art is just amazing! it feels like a gigantic being, i like to imagine myself standing in the edge of his "somewhat" horn, it would be terryfing and beautiful at the same time. Another thing about the splash is that it really gets the feel of a AP Malphite going to get you of the world once and for all
"It kinda looked like that robot from the anime with the sad kid" To quote a certain nuclear-powered villain: Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Instead of a jetpack it could be a literal volcano that explode and send Malphite foward. I feel like the Jetpack breaks the ideia of a tribal design, but i liked the idea of something pushing him in his ultimate
Great redesign! Being new to this channel I've gone back and noticed that a lot of the older redesign videos got a lot of flak for not taking full lore into consideration, but this one felt very educated and thought out (although I don't play league so I couldn't say). There does appear to be a lot of improvement since then regardless, keep up the good work!
I feel like the best way would have been to throw darts at a print out of the monolith and then randomly assign them to different body parts. Malphite is an amalgamation of a broken fortress, but your rework feels too well designed. It still feels very purposeful and put together, like a stone mech. For example, the pointy head piece that has the symbol of Ixtal could have made for a peg-leg that would have made his walk cycle less stable. He could have a completely flat chest or back as one of the walls of the monolith, but the other side would just gorge out with a bunch of boulders. Maybe somewhere in his chest is just a hole where he subsumed a hallway or a room of some sort and it’s just still there.
malphite left the previously chaotic world to bring much needed equilibrium in another universe much needed of his help, this time dressing as a super kappa brother
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Malphite isnt just a generic rock monster, he's THE generic rock monster.
it is him: the earth elementals from vanilla WoW
malphite is an ixtali word for bad rock... so... generic bad monster living rock?
Geodude. Graveler or Golem.
A rock with arms. Tick.
ROCK SOLID
Subjectively: "It kind of looks like that robot from the anime with the sad kid."
The entire anime mecha community: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
8:27 Judging by the hunch, probably evangelion.
Though guessing from just the quote is effectively impossible
Funny fact, even though in game malphite comes across as rather dumb in personality, in his short story, "Roots of a Poisoned Tree", Malphite actually comes across as old, wise, and cryptic in the way he speaks to miners who would unleash the void if they dug any further into the earth below him
late answer, but I think turtle design fits old, wise and cryptic pretty well
@@Grimmy1060 Yeah, I liked the turtle design too
"The anime with the sad kid"
SHINJI, GET IN THE MALPHITE
Evangelion ?
@@NOBODY-jy6hv power rangers : the last color bender 7
Gurren Laggan works too (I'm sorry I can't remember it's name)
Gundam not even just one most of the dam franchise
"That robot from the anime with the sad kid."
You know, I feel like "the one with the sad kid" describes a lot of them actually.
Favourite part is that if you go "That one Gainax anime with the sad kid" it doesn't narrow it down at all despite getting us closer.
@TheBuragi I dunno. I though FLCL because of the more exaggerated proportions of the malphite design.
@TheBuragi true
gurren lagann and evangelion both popped into my brain at the same time
@@immortalandundead5554 same
the ultimate challenge: make garen’s design interesting
Make his body less wide
@@kamiosumeragi8198 so you want thin garen from the LoR video
I don't think Garen needs to be all that interesting, he's the champ meant for new players to learn the game.
Honestly, who he is in the lore is plenty interesting with the conflict that not only his sister being a mage, but his own ability towards magic. Just needs an voice over update to reflect those interesting bits
@@kamiosumeragi8198 It's the pauldrons. His body isn't as wide as you believe.
The last concept design where malphite is a hand, just like mundo rework design concept of a hand with a head lol.
Yeah I was think about that while I was sketching! It’s a design that wouldn’t be used in the final, but helps the artists explore more variety in concept execution!
I actually really like the idea of Hand Mundo, like every time he regenerates from damage the severed limb also regenerates (though rarely correctly). This could be used to update his lore, going from a simple Zuanite boogyman to a one-man infestation.
@@Subjectively I mean a champion that's just a hand or even a pair of hands could potentially work, as well as have a lot of varied skins as you could easily make a Hextech or infernal skin that wouldn't get confused with other champions with that skin theme
I want 'X champion but they're just a hand' to be a running gag in this (or any) series.
My favorite Mundo design was definitely the one with the giant tongue and straight jacket. The hand one was pretty bizarre but it could definitely be used in another champion design
If the jetback was just a volcano waiting to burst, it'd have make his whole character comes together
And thus the third character of the new game, “League of Subjectives,” is born
I don’t understand, please explain
@@void-cd4wh the joke is relating to the youtubers name and that this is his third "new character" in a completely new fictional game
@@codyy2637 I like that idea
As a Malphite main, i think they should "decide" with his passive. By looking at his eyes and mouth, you see a green energy, but with his shield down, he's dripping magma. Then he needs to be more clunky then refined, since he's a living mass of rocks, not a man made golem. He should still have big, hammer-like fists, the engine on the back is perfect, but the head with those tooths looks more like an armored dragon warrior. Maybe one big fist for his abilities, and a blaster on the other hand, since in the lore the monolith shoot a beam that glassified everything that got hit by. And with that, instead of a rock appearing out of nothing from his Q, you got him shooting at the enemy, slowing him by glassing his legs, and the blaster's energy empowers Malphite. Then for his W, he just uses his blaster on his big hands and empowers it, making it deal AOE dmg.
If they were to give malphite a VGU I'm pretty sure his abilities would be updated too. His current Q is practically just a Blade of the Ruined King's active that does more damage.
@@100organicfreshmemes5 yeah but it works, don't fix it if it's not broken. He needs it to get closer or escape as he got no gap closers
@@skyper8934 He can have a gap closer that's more unique or interesting, it's not just "he has BoTRK active or nothing".
alternatively, instead of his blaster giving him a speed boost, he launches forward a bit, to better reflect his whole rocket theme
The passive is detail left unadressed in this video that could be used to say something quite interesting about the character. They could for example work something about the void into it. Like the Void contained within him over the years glows purple in his chest when his armor cracks and falls.
I really love the design, but his passive is a shield, and when it breaks, he gets “scars” all over his body, and you can see the magma inside
i think you could probably have the magma be replaced with that green light that he has going on inside of him leaking out to signify when he's in "shields down" mode.
@@gretchling5012 thats a good idea!:)
@@gretchling5012 YESSS!!! maybe when the rock shiel falls it reveals more of the engraved structural pieces that truly conform him, full of engravings and magic cristall shards that power him, and the rock parts he just pick up as an armor
You have to consider this is the base skin, so it pulls the most from lore. The obsidian skin can fully embrace that idea though.
You don't actually need to keep his passive in a rework. This video was only a visual update, but realistically it would 100% come with a gameplay update too, in which case everything could easily be made to fit his new design. Considering specific outdated gameplay mechanics in his designs would just be a stupid limitation.
"Dutiful, friendly, kinda dumb" - are we talking about Malphite or Galio?
Galio isn't dumb! If he doesn't understand something he smashes it!
Honestly I just kept thinking about Odyssey Malphite
I would really like to see how you can re-visualize udyr with his model. Because his problem is the same as malphite, great story bad game design.
Tbh I think he has one more problem that Malphite didn't had that is an outdated gameplay, the times I used him I just eished that at least one of his abilities was different. But also a redesign of him would be incredible.
@@RamonMGBatista I think Udyr should come first, his kit is a walking right click and it's very outdated but I see what you mean
@@RamonMGBatista Malphite's kit design is absolutely horrendous, one of the worst, if not the worst, in the game. Udyr has his problems but even he's not even close to Malph in terms of faulty gameplay.
@@jacobnorris8256 ?
@@zivior1090 "Tbh I think he has one more problem that Malphite didn't had that is an outdated gameplay" -the guy I responded to.
"Riot can make interesting character designs"
Also Riot: Here's neeko but she's a deer
And she has a different accent
Creating neeko in the first place was a mistake
Heres yasuo but different
heres yasuo but even more edgy
@@AreroniumPlaysL here's Blood Moon Yasuo. again. with 2 swords.
"no offense Yuumi"
*ALL THE OFFENSE YUUMI*
a meaningless demon i agree and want to like, but the gods of funny numbers prevent me from doing that
Me and all my homies hate Yummi
End Cat everyone except their teammates and mains harte yuumi
@@MJ123and5 I play quite a bit of Yuumi and my friends play them quite a bit, I still think they're a cancerous parasite
@@RealRinka Think?... *Change it to know right now.*
The redesign you made is PERFECT imo, to the point where I wish Riot would buy the design from you and make it official!
never knew how much I needed Turtle-Gorilla malphite until now. Oh boy I love him. What a guy
I like to imagine that this Malphite screams "YAHOOOOO!" when he ults.
The fact that you could take a literal rock creature and turn him into something a lot more interesting amazes me, i love that. I really dont play Malphite at all just because i find him so boring, his voicelines lack so much as well.... but this, this is really interesting and cool. Id actually try him out.
u ever play ap malph? Shits a blast u press r, e then q and they just die if they aint a tank
"Rock solid" "Yeah" "OK" "Hurt!" If this isn't peak writing and voice acting I don't know what is.
I hate malphite... He's my highest winrate, farm advantage and kda champ
Complaining when you don’t even play the champ fk off leave my boy alone
I like the pillars on his back, giving the feel that he can carry a whole city, but I think that "jetpack" is going a bit too far
Based on his lore I think it's ok for him to have a jetpack due to the fact that he is a shard of a floating magical fortress that fell. And the thing is magic is the reason he is alive and it would make sense that a lot of magic will be stored in a part of a fortress that will make it float there for it would cement the idea that he is the shard that is keeping the fortress floating and it would make sense he is a rocket like structure.
Yeah the whole jetpack thing doesn't sit well with me either. He is a shard from a structure created by *magic*, not by some kind of technology. Still great art though. Just not very fitting for malphite IMO.
I really wish this was actually in game. It is quite interesting and a nice explanation of both his gameplay capabilities and lore. I know I couldn't ever make anything like this
If you are going to redesign another champion, might I suggest Udyr? His design doesn't give him time to shine (as his Ultimate skin does a much better work). And his gameplay capabilities are... Straightforward and monotone.
Dutiful, friendly, kind of dumb
So, you wanted to make him into a himbo
He literally described Galio. I feel like if he had removed the "Friendly" keyword, and instead replaced it with "Unbothered," he'd have gotten an even more creative design.
@@cuckhands there's actually very little "friendly" in his final design tho
I think similarities between galio and malph aren't that bad because they are both literally "thing that was made to stop other thing"
or hodor
@@rafasilva1265 I would like to see a cinematic where galio and malphite do battle against cho'gath
@@baonkang5990 that would be so cool
I love how you tried so hard to circumvent the Galio look, but Claire just used a Galio picture as a reference anyway.
Edit: How can we suggest new redesigns? I think Brand would be fun to see.
Galio*
Brand would be a good idea, Sometimes I just forget how generic he looks without a skin.
@@hiunaut2833 agreed; love to see him taken in a direction that isnt angry Bolvar
You see I think a redesign for Zac would be cool
I thought that was more a reference of "Don't make it look like this".
The dutiful, oblivious, and friendly ideas made me think about the Iron Giant
"A friendly big stupid rock"
So the rock is a himbo?
Rock taric
Claire alway does an incredible job with the splash art!
I love the Buzzwole theme in the background of the beggining part
I love the bgm pretty sure its gen 4 pokemon music, really a nice fit with the voiceover! Great video friend
Subjectively *rocks!* They make *solid* character designs! Wow it’s really *hard* to sum up how amazing they are! I *marble* at everything they make! We should never take them for *granite.* -Insert another rock pun from replies
It's hard to find rock puns.
see what i did there? no- oh ok..
Haskel thanks!
Stoned
I marble at your pun varieties
we should never take artists for granite (g..granted sjfnmd)
A+++
You two are so talented. The way you both play to your strengths and complement each others work is absolutely magical.
It looks really amazing. The splash art is amazingly well made, but for me, it doesnt catch the impact of the concept. I woud have gone for something like the "hero landing" pose to make it have impact (no pun intendet), since that is something I would connect more to "Malphit's Ultimate" thatn the "launch off".
Nether the less, amazing video, amazing arts and the overall way to take this sort of "problem" can be applied to many other artistic things. Good Job both of you :D
@TheBuragi I think malphite flying remember more Galio (Because he has wings) than he landing. And you dont need a "Hero landing" like Galio, just Malphite landing in both of his feet with an gigantic explosion, just like a gorila jumping
@@PorthoGamesBR If anything, Malphite would smash into his target head-first. The huge triangular shard of rock that's part of his back and extends above and in front of his head is the ideal part of his body to use as a battering ram, and his head, shoulders and collarbone all have jagged parts facing the same direction.
As Malphite himself would say : "Rock solid". As me myself: I'll take your entire stock
You could probably make your own game out of these redesigns, and the Pokemon armour sets... please let Subjectively make their own game!
Copyright bruv
For Pokemon, a rom hack is the closest someone can get to remaking the pokemon without making an actual game
Or work for riot.
“The entire discord told me he looked like winston…not again”
I love that reference to The Freelancers
A large floating hand will never be in league... Mundo rework sketch G would disagree with you
If they do put hand Mundo in League I'll sell my soul to Riot
@@ameaninglessdemon9030 good luck then. It may be next years april fools release
@@magicalbananass1211 If it is then I'm more than happy to become a Mundo OTP
I love this!
When you were explaining the designs I kept on thinking that he shouldn't have had ant legs, or maybe just the one leg, to show that he was part of a bigger weapon and he just ran with whatever pieces were attached to it - and it would make their ult much more impactful (big hopping rock that's kinda clumsy but determines rocket launches towards you all of a sudden).
Superb job as usual!
This is really great and I love how you take on the lore of the character and add it into the design, I'd love to see some other champs like alistar reworked in your style.
Am I the only one who didn't know Claire was his girlfriend until now
Well up until now we all assumed that she was just a roommate. He never really mentioned what their relationship was like until now
no
Galey Luu uhh well if you actually followed either of them on Instagram then you would have known about it for a long time... I’m more surprised that there are so many people shocked by this. They did a really beautiful collaborative art piece this past Valentines Day.
I love how this redesign made malphite's ult make sense. I never understood how a giant rock monster would be able to fly towards the enemy in mach 5(fun to play though). Also i would love to see the 'eliminate the enemy inside of his magical stone body' part of the lore be used on malphite someday. Trapping and crushing the enemy inside the body sounds fun.
Gotta say you're doing great with these videos and PLEASE do more! I like that you're actually improving on your methods with redesigining champions as well! Initially, the issue with Elise was that she looked too Ionian, which I'm glad you made a statement about and made more a focus on integrating lore with the character designs. Then secondly, the issue with Zyra (despite being a really good design) is that she wasn't too coherent to be seen as an in-game character, and making a mock-up model like you did with Malphite's redesign really helps!
I don't even like league, but these videos are so interesting that I watch them anyway! I'd love to see more!
I REALLY like your redesign, it makes a lot of sense and reinforces his fantasy SO WELL, based on his lore, his original look, his signature ultimate... it all comes together 👌
LOL: Take it down, we can’t have evidence that were taking his idea, it’s to good
OKAY. ALL of your concept sketches in this video are so extremely friend-shaped. I just wanna hug him and give him a smooch on the rock cheek
wow, this looks amazing! he's like if zorah magdaros was a superhero. Rock Solid!
You did malphite justice. He looks exactly what i imagined him to be. A SHARD. A piece of something that was once great. A like his triangular bagpack jetpack design. It suits him. Great work. You got yourself a sub
These concepts are so cool! Frickin' awesome, man! A jetpack! A JETPACK!
malphites lore is just him building full ap and ulting khazix and reksai
I would really like for you to take a look at lee sin or twisted fate, they are probably one of the least interesting characters in the game (visually).
I guess Lee, TF and Ryze suffer from the same problem, they are quite generic but too iconic to be changed. The latter two were reworked didn't have their appearances changed too much.
Think lee is pretty impossible, a blind, strong man, what can you really do? I guess you could try to make the dragon part of him a little more obvious.
Twisted fate could be really cool tho, there should be more than a guy with a hat
@@ensiemen9836 Lee isn't even blind he wears that over his eyes for his training.
@@Skullkaiser Nope. He's completely blind. He melted his own eyes when he used the Dragon Technique for the first time in a rage.
I think TF is quite a cool design, at least going of the LoR cards
I like how the crack in the rocks kinda look like veins. a good way to naturally implement that hard hitting style without making it weird
I wish riot would hire this guy
He's creative af
I really liked the first design with him as a comet!! The sillhoutte was just really unique but all the designs were pretty great! Can’t wait for more!!
YOURE GIRLFIREND IS A MONSTER WHEN SHE STARTED DOING THE PAINTING PART
ITS SO DAMN COOL XD
Wow, this design is really cool. He is no longer giant rock monster #37. Would have liked some bigger fists though since he is a giant rock monster that punches things. When not ulting anyway. Amazing work :)
Damn. I love the process of conceptualization up to the implementations you guys made. I loved jow malphite fits and actually looks like a hero of LOL. Looking forward to you guys redesigning gragas. I wonder how you guys are gonna make that a loveable character.
This Design is Brilliant! In the end, you captured the feel of sketch Seven; in that I look at both of them and just surge with Joy.
*chefs kiss* I love these videos, but more so because how much I learn every single time I watch them. Great job and thank you for everything you guys do. I'm gonna' go and join your discord now...
Just wanna say i’m really happy at how the “fixing designs” videos have changed on this channel.
Ive been rewatching the Pokémon redesign videos and while i enjoy the work and discussions you and the gang put in, i feel (along with many others going by the comments) that the design changes were almost purely cosmetic and detached from the rest of the evo line (when it applies).
So after watching that and then coming here again, i really appreciate how you (and presumably the whole crew) took what everyone said to heart and now make it a point to include the lore of the characters, and try to stay true to it when redesigning them.
Its really inspiring to see creators i look up to take criticism and learn from it, and i wanna thank you for doing the same, and hope you continue to do this in future videos!
Beautiful paint job from claire.
Less important comment: have Jack and claire always been a thing or did he just casually graze over it.
Bit of both
I love how the in-game sketch he's looking up and mean mugging you, like a grumpy turtle
First: Please redesign Lulu, she's cute but i don't really feel she have an interesting design that reflects her lore, she is just a little purple kawaii Witch.
Second: Why don't you try to create your own character? Take a time to read about runeterra and then try to create a character, it would be epic!
Aaawww I loved the idea of 2.0 Malphite being this jetpack gorilla.
His ult would be him using a burst of magic to jump into the air and come slamming down both of his fists, which definitely makes more sense than his current ult
Guess he'll now just belly flop into battle
I love the art and original concept, but a big problem I have with this is that you based the design of his ult which unfortunately in the lore he really doesn't do it. The design makes him look like he is a fast moveing rocket which was your intent, but his lore tells a different story. With this VGU the abilatys would be completely changed by Riot to match the lore. Malphite is a slow moveing monolith that has been infused with in the land of Ixtal through it's magics. He does not rocket in to punch the void; no matter how cool that would be. He finds it and captures it, entoumbing it with in his mountain like form. I think if a redesign were to come from Riot they would lean on that more, changing the character from the rock golem brawler, to a mountain sized prison for the horrors of the void. I love this design and the idea of a mountain sized comet rocketing towards you, but with the current lore of Malphite I don't think it really suits him. Love your content and keep up the amazing art.
While you are correct that his ult does not fit his lore very well, I would argue that Riot does not necessarily have to go that heavy into that redesign aspect of Malph. They could easily just do a Morgana or Ezreal style rework where they just update him visually but keep all of his kit because it works well enough in the game that there is no need to change anything about it. He is in Wild Rift after all. They would have to implement those gameplay mechanics into that game when they already have current Malph's kit in WR already. Besides, we already have a champ that gobbles people up, two actually (Cho and Urgot), so having a third that devours people is a bit much. And if they did get rid of that ult, then much of Malph's in game personality just kinda gets lost, turning them into a completely different champ, though when has that stopped them from redesigning a champ anyway? (Galio, Morde, though these were for the better imo). While you do make good points trying to connect the lore with the gameplay, I feel Malphite will always be that one super simple champ that just works the way he does because Riot needs simple champs for new players and players who just like to have fun and meme around in general. We already got our over complicated and skill based champs. Our big rock boi, imo, is fine with his current kit. But he is definitely my top 10 for visual updates. Plus he's my second champ so I'm a little biased haha
@TheBuragi oh yeah. Havent seen him in a while 😂
This is super cool, I like how it looks like it could sit down to take a nap, and just become a mountain.
THIS Malphite, makes me wanna try tanks! He looks awesome!
Maybe someone from Piltover next? Like Cait, I feel like she has too much stuff just like Vi does.
Something that's more of a challenge would be Kennen. :0 But y'all havent drawn Runeterra humans before 🤔 so that would be interesting
Dayum, those LoL redesign episodes just get better and better.
I like how you went from doing pretty much whatever you wanted in the first episode to REALLY diving into a process similar to what riot is doing. Taking lore and original themes into account to make an ENHANCED version of the original design without making a completely different champion.
I enjoyed this episode thoroughly and I'm exited for what you'll do next :)
Soooo as someone how is absolutely love's the redesigns you're doing, could you do Skarner? I love Skarner's design right now, but I wonder how u could make it better!
I came into this video expecting a more casual gameplay-oriented video, but this was insanely high quality. This was really interesting and well done.
When you’re so early the “first” comments aren’t here yet..
This is a first comment
Ngl with your terms or “dutiful, friendly, oblivious, not the smartest” I was thinking of groot. Also I love these videos, please do more of these champion redesigns.
20:47 No shade towards the artist, it looks good, but... That's literally just Geb from Smite.
Was on the lookout for exactly this comment. You are abslutely right.
You are just doing riot's job and im loving it, these videos are so good and you all did such amazing jobs. I just wish riot could put this in the game, even if I will miss old malphite
I'll be honest that, this isn't my favorite.
You'r art is great, and the process you followed were perfect, but (and there is always a but) one interpretation you made from the story, at the begning, differs a lot from what i've had on my mind, so i ended up the whole video biasesd xD
Thing is, the feeling i had about Malphite new lore, is that he is almost a simulacrum of a humanoid form, still powered by a fragment of the monolith.
So, i would have gonne with a stone body, with a literal spike, shard, piece of the ruins of the monolith inserted, probably on an unconfortable position (No butt jokes, please), that powers the body. Similar to the concept of Aatrox always beeing decaying flesh and having to stay on a killing spree to replenish it?
I felt that the new malphite, by the fact that it seemely can move through earth magicallly, is something like that. A core of energy, that holds it's purpouse and personality and an amalgamation of rocks, stones, minerals that it uses to take form.
Yes, his ultimate is iconic, but not enough, at least in my eyes, to be the sole base of a redesign.
Acutally, if they re-worked him, i would like to keep the concept of "unstopeable force" but change the mechanics, going to something similar to Sions ultimate but ,lower range, quicker casting, something that would fit well with an "lego" body build.
Ironically, when you showed the 4 image, i thought it was going on a good way. Yeah, too straight and to thin to be malhite, but the floating rocks, the unconnected structure could be good, an colossus made of what minerals are around him. (Something, that would fit well with some concepts like one that part of the fiddlesticks skins, are actually his "main" skin depending on the region he's manifested, tha same could be applied to Malphite)
So, a more "Core Shard of the Old Monolith" as the real "soul" of the creature, and a simulacrum of minerals making an humanoid, or maybe a gorilla shape body.
Another concept that his backstory gave me, was not for a rework on him, but for a possible new champion, an "Ruin Colossal" kind of thing, going for Shadow of the Colossus immagery and a body made of pieces of the original Monolith. Could even be a point of attriction and conflict between it and malphite, as the "Ruin Elemental" (For those that played DnD 3.5 would may have encountered) would be wanting the piece, that keeps Malphite alive back into itself.
Maybe the Ruin Elemental have power over the elements, like an Tanky version of Qiyana (Her region REALLY needs more champions doesn't it?) but it lacks the rule over earth, minerals adn stone. Why? Because Malphite got it own mind and started doing it's job.
Sorry for long post, love your videos, even thorugh on this one i disagreed with the direction you took, as concepts and illlustrations per-se they are FANTASTIC!
Thanks for the amazing content :D
Edit: Freak, imagine if the secret of the original Monolith were that it was powered by a Runestone. And a shard of that runestone is the heart of Malphite, this would put more conflicts for the chcaracter to develop, and impose on Ryze the dillema of "This weapon of mass destruction is not only giving life to a good and protective beeing, but it's working to save the world against the Void, should i take it or leave it be? Should i protect it and help it?"
Also, i totally wanna do an "Moving Volcano" on my dnd Setting that is actually an cool primordial elemental stuck on the prime material plane, and use your concept of the old wise guy with a giant freaking volcano on his back xD
Seriously, this may be a good way to introduce a primordial oposed to some of the princes of the apocalypse adventure for my homebrew setting, and take even some inspiration on the avatar dragon turtles :P
wow, the relation between rune and ryze that develops with malphite lore is very amazing, and it also very suitable for the first forty champion pool.
I LOVE it. I do like his old more hunched proportions where his head is placed, but other than that. *chefs kiss*
I'd love to see your take on Kai'Sa cause imo she feels the most wasted design-wise.
A child born in the void with a living weapon, only for it to look like Generic Sexy Lady.
More Xenomorph tubes
I remember in the recent alien movie there was a picture of Shaw (don't remember her name, she was the main lady in the Prometheus ) she had been experimented on by the android and she dead and has got tube things running around face and every where.
She already had concept art that looked way more unique, like a mixture of Metroid and Prototype. Unfortunately it got scrapped because some higher-ups probably said "no bobs and vegana means no skin sales, make her sexy".
You got your wish, Demetri.
The second concept is just rock avalugg
And now I want Gallio and Malphite to meet and be bros since they’re about the same side
Malphite is WAY bigger than Galio, but the probably will be pals
I loved the design and splash art, but the perspective from which the splash art was taken just kinda bothered me. In any champion splash art in which the champion is in midair, the perspective of the picture is always below the champ, seemingly to accentuate their superiority, whereas in this one the perspective is on level.
Also, the splashes are usually from a plausible perspective from which an onlooker could see the champ in action, and gives a sense of scale for champions for which it's unclear just how massive they may be, like how Malph and Cho'Gath have soldiers in their splashes for scale. I loved the designs, just thought I'd mention a few of my observations for future consideration. Keep up the great work!
Nice touch. I love learning.
I don’t play league, but I am obsessed with its lore and read the story constantly,
Malphite’s lore is just badass fantasy iron giant
When you were mentioning he looked like a giant turtle that will protect you if he must, that made me think of Gamera. Gamera is a giant turtle kaiju for who havent heard if him.
Wow something inside me really needed to see that collaborative painting between you and Claire.
this actually could be the malphite rework cuz its accurate and well done
I thought he was a literal mountain which is way cooler the what you said the law is.
lol i keep seeing an owl face when looking at his eye and nostril. Such a cool rework. Love the awesomeness that this channel keeps pumping out
This is definitely my favorite league design you guys have done thus far. My only input is that the jewel on his head, especially in his splash-art, kinda looks like his other eye :o
I feel your rework more like a rocket than a meteor, maybe instead of a rocket to propulse him, a volcano like explosion would fit more. But I love the architectural pieces. Great work and keep it up!!!!
The splash art is just amazing! it feels like a gigantic being, i like to imagine myself standing in the edge of his "somewhat" horn, it would be terryfing and beautiful at the same time. Another thing about the splash is that it really gets the feel of a AP Malphite going to get you of the world once and for all
Sometimes I rewatch this videos, and I can't get over the love I have after the second design... It's just so amazing.
"It kinda looked like that robot from the anime with the sad kid"
To quote a certain nuclear-powered villain: Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Instead of a jetpack it could be a literal volcano that explode and send Malphite foward. I feel like the Jetpack breaks the ideia of a tribal design, but i liked the idea of something pushing him in his ultimate
Duuuuuuude the splashart looks so good!
Great chill video as always btw.
Just you explaining the process makes the video so interesting and fun to watch
Good job man, riot would never do something amazing as this (obv).
A cho'gath redesign would be pretty cool. He's been the same since his introduction.
Great redesign! Being new to this channel I've gone back and noticed that a lot of the older redesign videos got a lot of flak for not taking full lore into consideration, but this one felt very educated and thought out (although I don't play league so I couldn't say). There does appear to be a lot of improvement since then regardless, keep up the good work!
I think this is my favourite redesign of the LoL characters so far. And Claire's splash art was amazing!
I feel like the best way would have been to throw darts at a print out of the monolith and then randomly assign them to different body parts.
Malphite is an amalgamation of a broken fortress, but your rework feels too well designed. It still feels very purposeful and put together, like a stone mech.
For example, the pointy head piece that has the symbol of Ixtal could have made for a peg-leg that would have made his walk cycle less stable. He could have a completely flat chest or back as one of the walls of the monolith, but the other side would just gorge out with a bunch of boulders. Maybe somewhere in his chest is just a hole where he subsumed a hallway or a room of some sort and it’s just still there.
I love it so much! I didn’t think he really needed a rework, then I saw this video.
malphite left the previously chaotic world to bring much needed equilibrium in another universe much needed of his help, this time dressing as a super kappa brother
I think it would be really cool if you tried to visually remaster Cho'Gath,
I really want to see how you would visualize this awesome void champion.
Time traveler here. Boy, do I got some news for you