Riot's concept for a Mundo rework is bad, and here's why
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If Mundo did his haircut by himself with a cleaver, then heck, boy got a real talent
I like ya cut G
that should be a lore thing for new mundo
he cuts his hair with his cleavers so the hair is just horribly uneven and he has some scars on his head because he keeps cutting himself by mistake
I like the joke direction of making him a fantastic barber. Get some Sweeney Todd references in
Inb4 hairstylist Mundo becomes the new baker Pantheon
I mean, doctor barbers where a real thing...
"Mundo go where he pleases!"
"Mundo think you a big sissy!"
"Mundo go this way!"
"Mundo too strong for you!"
"Mundo smash!"
"Come to Mundo"
"Mundo say his own name a lot, or else he forget! Has happened before."
I'll miss these lines, I really will.
I really hope they keep mundo comedic he is one of my favorites
He does say his name a lot
New Mundo: “I do say, I go where I see fit”
“My word, you’re such a novice”
“Advancing to the position”
“Looks like I outrank you, tenfold”
“Smashing, isn’t it?”
“Yes, come to your demise”
“Hmm, I studied so much, yet I forgotten my name, Mango? Moodoo? (Sigh) it’ll come to mind eventually”
@@mimickrymoxxie7731 damn
0/10 not Hand Mundo
If we don't get that as a skin I will riot Riot.
Hando
Za hando, za warudo
*yoshikage kira liked that*
@@IHateNumbersOnNames haha get it, he said the word hand. Very funny, peak comedy.
Ffs even Mundo can't escape being made a marketable eboy
Riot.. do not turn me into a marketable eboooy
Riots gonna rework everyone into being fuckable
I prefer this new Mundo more.
@@saltyfinalboss Veigar you're already a marketable E-boy
@Grox- Boty oh no... bows-rammus...
Okay, so Riot condensed their new champion designs to:
"Cuter than Disney Pixar"
And
"Edgy and Sexy"
This will get boring quite fast.
Welcome to another game company owned by the Asian market
@@oliverhurst7399 Tencent doesnt really make decisions in game development tho. The only influence they have is in china where they modify skin prices or make a lottery system for skins to get more money. Other than that Tencent doesnt really mess with league despite owning Riot Games.
Are you a profit?
Did y'all forget fiddlesticks?
@@thisisfine5746 fiddlesticks was a champion that was already in the game you can't change a full monster into a human or humanoid but with Mundo he was already kind of a human so they had an excuse
I still say that Dr. Mundo should be a Brain in a jar, self-lobotomized and carried around by his mutated body.
It would be amazingly comedic for his character: the insane super genius doctor that lobotomized himself after an experiment that mutated his body, and the brainless body that carries him around bantering back and forth, similar to Kayn and Rhaast.
Mundo could keep his current stupid personality, while adding additional lore and had acted depth with Dr. Mundo’s brain.
that's so goood!
I was inspired by the piece of concept art with his brain in a jar on his shoulder, and it made me think of Old World Blues from Fallout NV, but then even more so made me think of doG-God from the Sierra Madre, which those types of personalities would fit Mundo’s design exceptionally well.
@@SpartanJ113 as someone who really love NV i'm 1+ THIS
THIS!!!!!!
Bro, send this to riot, for real they do ask for ideas
didn't his story change?? he's not really a doctor, he calls himself a doctor. He is a mutated kid in zaun, got experimented of torment for his healing factor... he tries to mimic the only adults around him and that goes really bad.... thats the thing i remember. plz correct me if im wrong.
you ain't wrong
@@johnd3421 thanks!
That just makes it worse D: the rework is like a Hollywood idea of "came out wrong" D;
You're right, his lore has been purple oaf playing doctor since the zaun rework -
I’m pretty sure he’s referring the outdated lore as a way to tell people why Dr. Mundo was designed so silly to begin with. His new lore is great and silly and all but it’s not tied to his original introduction to league of legends.
Things I have to say in favor of the concept:
-It's on early stage, so it's probable they change some things
-His comical nature was never in his vissuals, but personality and voice
-Except the face, he pretty much retains what Mundo is, big purple muscular man who think he is a doctor but he isn't
-They added more details to the previous simple design: asylum clothes under a straitjacket, a first aid kit that doesn't really aid, body augmentation that not only explain his size and color but also why he can take lots of pain with no repercusion.
-His body complexion is now realistic and not cartoonish
agreed on that i'm very excited for the mundo rework for they want to keep the elements i like on him so he won't end up like the aatrox rework for me and more like a pantheon styled rework keeping the core idea but updating it too fit better into the game
@@niklashasse6112 Yeah, from what they said about Mundo rework, they will keep his R and Q for sure. And since they said he will still "go wherever he pleases", his W will still grant him Tenacity, or maybe even cleanse heavy CC and make him immune to CC for a short time, but maybe it will have a decent cooldown to not abuse it. And likely he might have a new E since they never said anything about it yet.
My disappointment is measurable and my day has almost ended so only half ruined
same :
Yeah I'm so fucking disapointed in Riot to be honest. It will most likely happen, regardless of what the community says...
I dont get whats so bad about the rework. Its just mundo in high quality. The only reason old mundo looks ugly is because the model is old as shit.
He looks like a teenager, a high school jock
He even has an earring... It looks like their design idea was "what if we take a kpop boy and make him really swoll and purple?"
@@Zerhapy he doesn't look like a kid that got experimented very early on as a child, it is more like a 16 year old edgy kpoper (nothing against kpop lol)
@@helgenlane that's not an earing, it's a tag that you would put in cattle
Lore-wise, mundo isn’t much older than around 16-18. He’s a teenager.
Girl idk what kind of teenagers u been seeing
Here's a dumb idea:
What if Mundo put on T-shirt that is too small for him...ON HIS HAND.
YES
MUNDO: LORD OF FASHION!
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS
give him a little baby shirt with a kitty on it on his hand
Oh no, Hand Mundo flashbacks
I wish mundo can throw parts of his body that could be funny and it make sense because his abilities cost life
Or was even just this stitched-together thing, PLUS that. A real frankenstien's monster. It would be representative of how 'stitched-together' his concept originally was, and might even be workable as a skin base.
omg this !!!
Yeah, but... This would make him actually even more terrifying than fiddlesticks is. Imagine a hulking mass of flesh, that rips out its own body parts, throws them at you and then regenerates them on the spot. That legitimately makes me feel uneasy. That's a monster design for a new Diablo game, not League of Legends.
@@helgenlane And that's one of the problems. What is LoL anymore? Is it a funky Dota offshoot that became wildly popular? Is it a cunning edge MOBA; lean, mean, and made for esports? Is it an all encompassing property with a 'variety' of products?
What... IS... League right now?
@@AngelicDirt yes
"Hello doctors and design disasters." Skyen isn't wasting any time today.
How does he come up with those?
@@friendoftheoyster3906 every single vid he comes up with something new to say in his intro
@@davute9546 I know it must be hard to come up with bangers every time
why can't characters stay ugly
Peace Pham By ugly he (and I) don’t mean badly designed or badly realised.
Ugly as in “not a character that has to look incredibly badass or relatively sexy” (see old vs new Urgot and Swain).
Ugly, goofy and “weird” characters work too, it’s just that LoL seems to have forgotten that, sadly
I hope riot makes gragas hot with big muscles
@@bestaatroxeuw and I hope they follow Wild Rift making him "sumo-wresstler-fat" rather than "I-can-barely-move-fat"
When everyone is hot it gets really boring. I want more variety, champions being angry and goofy are perfect.
@@Mastattak the fact that mundo is basicly a guy on constat steroids and that he looks that stacked i don't find him that handsome he's suppose to look more like a monstrous man which he does look like in the concept art tbh
TL:DR New Mundo Concepts are cool, but he doesn't look silly as originally intended upon creation.
He doesn't need to be silly, he gotta be mad.
I actually think he still kinda looks silly! The big blue tongue and brighter purple when he beefs up is pretty funny.
I don't get the "intended to look silly", didn't all leage champs looked and sounded silly at the some point? Like, every single one of them (mostly the old ones [like mundo]) have strange designes and silly voice lines, so why is just mundo the silly one?
@@rafaelvivesgomes814 yes. League didn't have a strong lore or universe before so things were silly and nonsensical. This is just some typical "I don't like it so it's bad. REEEEEE" vid :)
And that's what reworks are for
Here are some suggestions for Mundo's new design:
1. Give him tons of veins and scars.
2. Give him mishapen hair with cleaver scars, indicating that Mundo cuts his own hair and does a very poor job at it.
3. Make his jaw a bit more crude and mishapen.
That's about it. The little chemtech modules on his arms are pretty cool, I'd keep them.
also like make hes body lop sided with one arm bigger than the other
@@TheSinBin512 charger from LFD2 approves
@@Jason-with-a-game hell ya
Yeah, my only big complaint is that he looks too clean, too well-put-together. Like, this is what Mundo THINKS he looks like. Now give us what he actually looks like
Glad I'm not the only one who was uh...less than thrilled about the design direction they seem to be going on for Mundo.
I really have fun with mundo, He is the joke of the game, I'll miss him ;-;
@@PedroMiguel-zv3fj I felt the same with Fiddlesticks. His goofiness was part of the reason I liked him but if his rework made him more loved I'm happy.
Same. He was my main when I still played, and I really dislike where they've taken him. Look how they massacred by boy! =(
@@1greninjawolfbossdeath648 I felt the opposite with fidd honestly. His lore took him very seriously as a horror monster. New fidd finally delivers on that visually. With Mundo, even his lore treats him as a comedy character so to shift him to serious is just really off.
Me too, they could have taken some parts from the initial designs and now... he's a purple e-boy on steroids.
Just gonna throw it out here that chainsaws were orignally designed for hospitals as a way to remove limbs easy and fast. So if his "Cleaver" is changed into something along the line of a chainsaw, it would somewhat fit the doctor design thingy.
Edit: It was brought to my attention thst it was actually made to remove parts of the pelvic bones so childbirth would be easier, thanks for that.
Well, you’re half right. They were originally designed to cut open pelvic bones for childbirth.
Chainsaw? Yeah okay, but I'm pretty sure his new cleaver is supposed to be a regular common bone saw. You know, like the one carried by medic in TF2.
You mean a bonesaw?
@@saulnavarro6868 No, I mean a chainsaw.
He looks cool
And thats the problem
Facts
@@TheBloodGamePL cool in a way that's boring
I think the word I was looking for is "e-boyish"
@@TheBloodGamePL That is not what Mundo is tho, he's not actually a doctor, just calls himself one, while in reality he's just a labrat
I mean this is literally 1 photo. If mundo was given a serious voice and updated graphics he'd just be a hulk with his tongue out and a syringe in his back. The voice is what gives him most of the silly element, you cant judge that through a piece of concept art. Also no one mentioned that mundo has a ladle in the bag.
Riot says that they wish to turn him into a dark comical champion. While I am excited to see this new side to riot games, this is a new idea of theirs. As a result, it wouldn’t surprise me if this concept art is focusing on what kind of art they are good at to START with, and then slowly explore what they could change to make the dark comical Mundo they promised.
except what does that MEAN? dark comedy is a ludicrously vague "reference point" and not useful from a design perspective, barely useful to describe a person's sense of humor.
@@alexanderthealright his appeal is already basic dark comical his mannerisms are comical while his actual actions and lore is dark i realy hope his rework enhances on that
Like with the fiddlestick design. There was like 40 different version of base fiddlestick on that paper.
I'm curious to how they'll do with Mundo's rework given the fact he's already in Wild Rift
Wild Rift won't be a factor, I think. As far as I can tell, they're keeping WR and LoL mostly separate
They won't touch him in Wild Rift
@@tktvr9703 actually a Rioter answered me on Twitter and said it that the champions updated on normal league would be updated also on Wild Rift, maybe simultaneous, maybe shortly afterwards
Nice, a Dota Player
He sort of looks like if Garen and the Incredible Blob had a love child who was then raised by Bane.
Bane? Hah, more like Warwick......
Now that he mentions it, he lowkey looks like a halloween-themed bara doujin character lol
NOT THIS😭😭😭
😏
help
Mundo will be "dark comical" according to the announcement so.. pretty sure they can nail that. The concept art is nothing but a concept, not final design.
Yeah, and since Seraphine and the tank shredding support will be the final champs of this season, what I can say is Mundo will come in early Season 11 hopefully.
@@suckerman7gm they said, in July, Mundo will come in the middle/end of 2021
They made Mundo hot. I'm not mad but... I don't like that I can call him hot...
What if you could call him hot because someone set him on fire?
I always thought that Toxic Dr Mundo was hot and kinda cute, should i rethink my choices in life?
He is Chad. More than just mere hot.
@@loverbatim just know that you have good taste
We talk a lot about how "silly" and "goofy" Mundo is as a character and the fact that he is all funny and kinda dumb but the original idea of mundo is absolutely not on the funny spectrum at ALL.
In the lore he litteraly tortured and killed poor little animals when he was a child for fun just because he loved seeing them suffer and was fascinated by pain as a concept, after all the animals in his neigbourhood were slaughtered by him he decided to go bigger and try his next experiment on humans and deliberately chose his own parents as his first subject. He both tortured them and they later died because of the excrutiable pain they were feeling. Then he kept on killing random people just to enjoy their suffering in the most gruesome ways possible all over Zaun.
He was supposed to be anything but goofy and fun.
In the lore he is more akin to some kind of monstruous bastard you could see in Berserk than a random joke character. (The head design on the bottom left corner at 16:43 is a perfect exemple for that.)
I hope they will finaly make him justice with this rework.
He was most definetely not supposed to be goofy and funny, but he is. I mean, all of his skins are pretty much joke skins (except for Rageborn Mundo, and perhaps the Winter Wonderland one, althouhg I'd call that borderline), his dialogue is obviously not meant to be very serious and I'm not aware of any interactions with new champions who suggest he's actually a dark and menacing character (correct if I'm wrong please, I'd actually love to see something in that direction).
I'm sure they will make him a somewhat badass and serious character now, and I'm happy that it will please you, but I really don't get this push&pull thing that they're doing with him. I feel like his lore condractics how he's portrayed.
That hasn't been mundos lore for a very long time. He's pretty much just a purple moron that runs around mimicking the doctors from the asylum that he spent his entire childhood at.
So what you're saying is that Mundo is going through a Fiddlesticks situation?
Fid was never intended to be or written as a goofy champ. But came out goofy because of his old in-game model, animations & overall design.
With his update, they fix this & made Fid a serious, horror demon. Killing his goofy champ misconception (Well, they pushed some of that goofiness into Surprise Party)
Are you saying that they should do that with Mundo? Update him to kill his goofy champ misconception?
@@Jeddy027 I always thought of Mundo as a mix between Bizarro's goofiness, and Joker's warped sense of humor.
@@Jeddy027 That is a perfect exemple I think they should choose one or the other, either go on the psycho / creepy vibe and transform him into the horror that his backstory suggest or decide to go full on funny / goofy and make it so that he will be seen that way for good but yeah his state as a character today as presented in the video is no good and must absolutely be changed in a way that will give us a clear idea of who he is and what he does putting aside the fact that he realy need a vgu simply because wow he did not age well.
Personaly as a Fiddle main I was realy happy to see the rework as it is now, I always loved fiddle for its kit and its appearance but also for who it was at the time. Again (sorry for the boring story time but I'm a sucker for lore) Old Fiddlesticks lore stated that it was found in a summoning room inside the institute of war after a summoner invoked it from another realm, after that, every single apprentice who decided to venture in the summoning room were instantly cut down by it and the ones that survived stayed mad for the rest of their lives. The situation was so out of hand that it was banished and kept under control in the very room it appeared for 20 years until the council of the institute of war decided to use it as an executioner for the league.
What an introduction amaright ? And yet look at this good old fiddle before its rework, it looks like a character from the wizard of Oz...
So yeah in my opinion I think they should definitly make him scarier and realistic or at least more believable. :/
Oof! You just burned Mobile Legends Bang Bang!! And Raid Shadow Legends too!!!
@@LesserLordKusanali He mentioned that mobile games use cool looking designed characters so that they can lure players into paying microtransactions, all while showing pictures from MLBB and Raid
... blah, blah, Fish and barrels...
I mean, he’s right.
They show good splash arts but the effects is too flashy and sometimes isnt even neccesary making it look like such a joke of a skin
“He looks supposed to be hot, actually, to people who are into those particular kinds of body types.”
Are you calling me out? Because yeah you right.
I think it’s important to remember with a champ like mundo we don’t know how cartoony he is until we see him in motion. If you showed me current mundo I would think he is just some dude, maybe a bit goofy but what makes mundo mundo are (imo) his voice lines, his really cheesy and goofy gameplay, etc. his design just kind of looks like hulk and the only thing that really makes me think he looks funny is the tongue (which is kept) and the weirdly beautiful hair (which is made even more amazing). His skins are also what makes him funnier too but obviously we aren’t seeing that.
TLDR what I think makes mundo funny are the things we cannot get from an image.
OKAY, half a coffee, and here's what I got...
All of this would have been great... five or ten years ago. Rito, as a whole, is probably worried about grabbing attention in a wide market (hence the TFT-spam and the Worlds animations), and this was tied into their campaign to try and stay hip and 'presentable'. Problem becomes that they might be sweeping a chance to defy all the cool-factor pressure and turn it into a chance to prove they can do both. That they can be both cool and funny at the same time, and still fit a certain style... that they are slowly losing, on purpose or by accident... and might lose completely in this one fell swoop. Because if they stay the course on these redesigns they might iron out the last of what is ACTUALLY unique about this game.
And this is me actually trying to respect this game and genre, because I hardly do. :v
Oh, thank god. I thought that was just me.
i am a little optimistic, if they can fully NAIL his animations, to make him clumsy and silly, doing things like dropping his cleaver on his foot then looking around for it, or just stumbling around as he falls over his massive feet, maybe if they give him a bodyslam attack where he lands on his face(and peels it off the floor like loonytoons) i think this concept design could, could still be what we want, i am worried about them losing the grasp of his identity.
But remember the Fiddlesticks rework, you were not terribly keen on it until we saw all the finishing touches were there. Mundo's animations and Voice could actually save him.
hope they don't take the fun and flavour out of my boy. and my favourite flavour is purple.
(Edit: the more i look at it...the more i see Void faction details on this new Mundo...and i do not know how to feel about that.)
Segafan243
this is a really good point but they need to lose the hair. the perfect hair betrays the goofy clumsy schtick
@@RacingSnails64 the haircut seems to be made by a claw, maybe that explains it... But who knows man...
Couldn't agree more my man, the animations and voice could do wonders!
Was thinking about how Kled wouldn't be so awesome without his amazing voice lines and silly animations!
I imagine him like Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy.
@@whydidyoutubeaddedthisfeature essentially yes. He is 9ft tall, wall of rippling muscle, strong enough to crack and break his steel restrants...
...shuffling on a carpet in his slippers and giggling.
I don’t like his head or the jacket style. I would give him a lopsided jaw and a apron hanging behind him like a cape or using it like a bib
These two concepts are still early concepts as we see. Like they had shown various concepts for new Fiddle and Voli, they are also showing the current ones for Mundo so we can understand how he will turn out.
There is a long time before his rework, so we never know whenever he gets released.
I would say the Hairstyle makes sense from a lore perspective, but what turns that back is the straightjacket. Because Mundo wants to be a good doctor so he might want to look presentable. In his own twisted Child mind way.
That was old League of Legends though, they used to throw whatever against the wall and did what stuck, the LoL Universe used to be an inconcsistent, incoherent and chaotic mess. Like a huge crossover of different IPs. Like pairing Master Chief with Mario.
Riot Games has been making the Universe more consistent, like a teenager finally finding their true identitity. It happens to be more mature, badass, serious and cool with a loot of innovative cool looking things mixed in (Hextech technology, unique spirits and deities etc.).
I happen to prefer the more serious designs, I like the Mundo concept art, except for his head, I think it needs to look a bit rougher, crazier.
they also do this to sell to the Chinese public who consume this type of mobile game design (cool and sexy)
LoL universe used to be a LoL universe. 101 generic hotty designs isn't really a universe... They could've made it more coherent and consistent underlyingly, but being chaotic and all over the place is very sensical and interesting to an attempted depiction of a broad whole world, rather than, I dunno, a wrestling ring?
@@CarissaNomadic you say this as though every single female character wasn't made attractive or even sexualised (with the exception of annie), randomly given generous cleavage for the sake of it and wearing mobile game-tier clothing even as far as back then, even while their male compatriots could be as hideous as riot wanted
the only difference between now and then is that they've realised men don't have to be goofy, hideous monsters and that they'll always be more popular if there's more to them that people like aesthetically
riot have made very few monster champions as of recent years because the existing ones are underappeciated and if you're going to make a character, why not make one that sells well? it makes sense from a business perspective and they ARE a business, in the end
Old League lore was a chaotic mess. New League lore is dumb mess ducted taped over Old League lore with a few things hastily scribbled over.
I think the simplest example of this is the yordle lore change, in which they replaced yordles with a superficially similiar race and then shoe-horned all of the pre-existing yordle champions in this new role. They decided to force yordles into the role of magical creatures who live into the spirit realm when 4/13 yordles are explicitly inventors (Corki, Heimerdinger, Rumble, Ziggs) and 4/13 are soldiers (Kled, Poppy, Teemo, Tristana).
Of the yordles who are left, Veiger and Lulu explicitly use magic foreign to yordles, dark and fae respectively. Kennen originally was the Heart of the Tempest and presumably any Heart of the Tempest would be able to have similiar powers, though they have retconned it so that he is the only Heart of the Tempest.
And the remaining yordles are Fizz, a random aquatic yordle with vague command of sea life powers who I don't even believe was originally a yordle, and Gnar, a prehistoric yordle who is mostly a martial fighter but has the ability to transform into a rage monster and I don't even think if it is stated if he is the only ancient yordle with that ability or not.
The character that most strongly implies the magical nature of yordles isn't a yordle and could have easily been written to belong to any other race, even human.
And as for the new Lore being more mature, at least in regards to yordles, as much as the yordles they were jokes among the community, I would argue that they were among the most "human" of the characters. One of the piece of character lore I particular like that makes no sense with the new lore was Rumble: he was runt enough yordles, as was bullied for it. He compensated by being more resourceful than everyone and by tinkering and had the opportunity to study under Heimerdinger but refused because he thought yordle technology was superior and that yordles in Piltover were selling out their pride for superficial praise while they mocked yordles in general. He got in a fight with some heimerdinger's human students over a few choice words, and got beat up and so decided to make his mech to show what yordle technology could really do, and also presumably so that he wouldn't be so little any more.
There is also Teemo, with esp a meme, but I also enjoy his old lore. He is a member of the yordle special forces, who is superficially bright and cheerful, but he was also in lore a unrepentant killer who ruthlessly carry out any mission needed to protect his homeland, and he is proud of that. There is also the fact that he uses toxins and poisons, something that is usually associated with villain characters but with Teemo is presented far more neutrally.
They took a race of technologically advanced fuzzy gnomes with a theme of mocked and under-estimated (To some extent Kled and Poppy, but to a major extent Rumble, Veigar and Ziggs) and made them immortal fairies that live in the spirit world. When one of the yordles entire theme is that she companions with an immortal fairy that lives in a spirit world and her experiences there changed her perspection of reality to the point where see seems like a quirky girl, when it is somewhere between madness and being genuinely confused.
@@leotamer5 I'm sorry but I never cared about Yordles. I'm sure you you had well thought out arguments, read it too but when I realized you only talk about Yordles I... disengaged.
Ok i have one criticism about this video, starts at 11:02, so what Skyen is saying is that mundo is a comedic champion and his old version invokes that, but his old design leans more heavily on the voice lines to do that, you wouldnt know Mundo is a comedic character by looking at his old design alone, he just looks like a psycho brute, we we all know he is goofy thanks to his voice lines, so who is to say the new one wont have funny goofy lines too?
I agree I want them to bump up the brute of his visual make him looks the part of a serial killer not just a mental patient. He should bring fear into the back line of teamfights!
Well it’s also his lore that makes him goofy and gross since he would legit eat toe nails for fun and slashing at himself or others or believe himself to be a doctor healing others while chopping him up he had a lot to indicate he’s goofy but scary but I agree with the video he seems hot which isn’t really the way his design should go I’d be nice to have a champ that’s unappealing looki but still cool since most are hot these days
His current desing fits perfectly with goofy lines! New one? No. I just hope they wont kill him for me as they did with Gangplank. Since Gp rework i havent even touched him and i mained the oranges guy. Cant stand his new lines. From goofy pirate to emo pirate. (banging my head to wall to this day about that)
"Make sure the champion is never more boring than the previous version"
*Cries in Mordekaiser's gameplay*
Mord is pretty fun
@@mohamedabdullahi3914 Eh, he's alright, but he's significantly less interesting gameplay wise to old Morde. He went from a champion with massive amounts of skill expression to a character with very little skill expression who follows the same gameplay loop every game. I will say his lore and visual design was a big improvement though, but oof his gameplay.
@@bfeldz1023 agree
@@bfeldz1023 This is anecdotal, but I personally enjoy playing Mordekaiser because he's simple but has enough skill expression (timing the shield) that it isn't braindead. The idea of being a giant metal fortress also appeals to me
I never played the previous morde, but I think gameplaywise, mordekaiser was a success.
Honestly, the old morde was probably one of the most skill expressive champions next to like shaco, you could immediately tell who was a god at the champ and who was new(ish) to them, now.. eh, not so much imo
It would be really interesting if Mundos abilities were each tied to a different body part and as he loses health those body parts fall off. So mundos goal is to stay at max health for as long as possible. Maybe even give him the ability to pick up the lost limbs to regain some health back and have a major buff to his regen/ult if he's lost all of the parts. For example if he Drops below 66 health Mundo loses his cleaver throwing arm, but if he can go pick it up he will gain back a portion of the health. Bonus points if he can pick up the wrong body part and start throwing cleavers from his legs.
That's just Zac then
What you are saying is, he becomes a sloppy meat when he is low, like how Zac becomes smaller as he drops health. This concept makes no sense at all and would literally change him totally, making a second Aatrox disaster.
They said Mundo will mostly remain the same in terms of gameplay, but he will be more stubborn to go wherever he pleases.
"He's hot and... that's not a bad thing but..."
Is this Kai'Sa?
90 % sure this is Kai'sa 2 electric boogaloo. Even have the purple theme too. Now we just need an oversexualized lulu with the line "that tasted purple" in a *very* wrong voice.
I fucking hate Kai'Sa, before her, the void was the one place I could go to escape sexualization and get non-humanoid characters. But then Kai'Sa came along and shot the void lore 50 times.
@@babyyoshi3099 the void had a decent amount of humanoid characters before kaisa
@@oswaldooswaldo349 I did not say there were none, I just said it was the one place I could escape it. Besides, it only had two, and you could not even see their faces. Also those two had normal names since they weren't actually from the void. Compared to Kai'Sa who for literally no reason was given a voidborn name.
@@babyyoshi3099 i think in the lore her name was just originally kaisa before she made a name for herself in the void and eventually she changed (?) her name into kai'sa. could be wrong though
Nunu and Willump quotes are absolutely adorable and I won't take such slander against him. 😠😠😠
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I think he might have been talking about the old troll nunu
I think he meant old nunu
I second this movement
I hate new nunu...
The death animation is too sad.
@@user-vu8ud5hs5o IT MAKE ME CRY!
I think the idea they have could be good if they changed his face that is literally all that breaks it for me. He looks a lil too normal and i think it revolves around the face. The rest looks cool and I like it and it still has this "Way too mutated for his own good" vibe but the face should show a bit more disfigurement.
I dunno why, but when I see the rededisgn I always have to think of the Dante redesign from the Dmc reboot
I think it's the hair
first things that pop up when looking at both design (old and new):
Old: Crazy, psychopathic, brute, Purple
New: kinky, psychopathic, beefy, smart, blue.
i think my major concerns with the design is it doesnt _look_ mundo. It just looks like a kinky e-boy with the personality of jhin ranting about how "pain is true art" or something like that. Mundo just likes pain, and wants to spread it to others in a horrifyingly disgusting yet somewhat innocent way. Mundo isn't evil, or at least, doesn't think he is.
mundo mechanic: he should wear shirts that say i love "champion" and every time he ults he rips it off and gets a new one after his ult is over.
To be fair, they could just update his model and animations and put the whole focus of the rework on the gameplay. Just put the splash art in the game and we're good to go
Uh oh. I see title and I just know that skyen is angy
I agree with you Skyen. I would also add that this idea riot had would fit better on Singed. A mad scientist that uses chemicals to enhance his body but with the trade off he slowly burns his body away. Imagine the current singed , but when he uses his R he becomes something like this mundo interpretation (not purple) and after the effect is over he becomes a frail man again.
Well here we are, the Rework is coming. What's the thoughts?
Meh.
@@TBSkyen I’m not surprised same with me as long as he’s viable, imagine what they will do to udyr
@@ZaxTheAl1en What Soul? He had no soul, he had some Voice lines that attempted to. Mundo has been turned from a soulless being with almost no voice lines and the worst animations and model in the game to the most expressive one. You sir seriously don't understand what soulless means and just said what others did, without any thinking!
I feel your analysis of this Dr. Mundo concept art made me realize how some champion reworks have changed the identity of champions in ways I would have rather them not do. If they go with this concept, it'd feel like another attempt to make an ugly looking champion look badass which just completely ruins the character to me. We have enough attractive or awesome looking characters in the game, why do the champions that are made to be ugly keep getting reworked to be...well, not ugly?
Urgot is the prime example of this to me; he was a bloated ugly mess because he's meant to be the crippled disfigured dead body of a Noxian general given new life through freakish Zaun tech, but they completely got rid of that interesting concept in his rework. Dare I say they actually made him look attractive, he's just a badass muscular character now with a fairly normal looking body aside from the spider-like legs even though that's not what he was ever meant to be. This Dr. Mundo rework gives me those vibes and I hope they don't go with that.
I feel like they could push Dr. Mundo's concept towards a Jekyll and Hyde type of character
Nah nah Skyen you've got it wrong.
They're taking Dr. Mundo out and replacing him with Dr. Fuccboi
Can't you see from his fresh af fade?? Mans be stylin
Basically how they took out Mordekaiser and replaced him with Garth
Honestly, that's a really good take. I like the new design but it doesn't have the same vibe as the old Mundo
We don't hate the design itself...we hate that it isn't...our Mundo..the comedic not the cool ass eboy..if the design was for a new champion it would be cool...but not for mundo
The way to the describe the design is, that it is a cool design, but it isn't a good MUNDO design.
@@Nico-zt5jl thank you
If they stay with this concept, I Hope they at least make him leatherface like. Kinda scary and dangerous but dumb at the same time, making weird sounds and throwing tantrums
Mundo goes where mundo pleases
Yeah, he will be almost unstoppable with the new Tenacity changes soon.
It would be cool if they gave his rework a split personality between mad scientist and experiment gone wrong "The Mask-Like" monster.
It would give him more personality and keep his silly nature as well
I quite like it. I find Mundo to be one of those champs like Nidalee, in that, their in game voice lines do not fit their lore at all. His lore is really dark, and not at all silly, but in game his voice is silly, not really his design, his design is just plain mad. I like that they kept him big and muscular, but also made him a bit more intimidating and scary, like the lore suggests.
mundo's personality is suppose to be childlike and goofy while being scary and intimidating on the outside which makes him a dark character his lore shows that
Niklas Hasse true, like murderous psycho killer who also has a somewhat innocent mind if that makes any sense, honestly I like it expect the hair lol
Yeah, Mundo in terms of personality is like Pyro from TF2, while Pyro is having fun and spreads joy as he thinks, while outside, he burns the shit out of everyone else and torments them.
Bruh, have you read his color story? He is a serial killer, but he genuinely thinks he's helping people and he's *hilarious* about it.
"TAKE TWO AND CALL MUNDO IN MORNING!" while hurling a cleaver into a dude's back. And when he tries and fails to kill Ekko, he does the skyward scream thing all "WHY CAN'T MUNDO SAVE THEM ALL?"
The guy isn't meant to be taken seriously. He's a joke character to his core.
The only one who I'm intrested with it's Seraphine... I WANT THE OLD DR.MUNDO
Bro he hasnt even been reworked yet chill lol
@@thatguyoverther6019 You'll see...
Hey look it's purple hulk. no really his face looks exactly like the hulk
Yes, actually really noticeable as you said it now.
Im having none of that dr mundo. Looks like an eboy that is on steroids. Man, im done with riot.
Those are just his early concepts. Certainly Riot would never disappoint us toplane mains ever again after Aatrox hopefully.
I think they should've went to a dr.jekyll and Mr. Hyde direction
Imo modern LoL designs have always been overusing "sizzle"
Am I the only one who thinks that the designers of the voli rework were having fun because they knew what to do? Don't see that here.
Kinda, and that is a problem sometimes, like in the case of mundo, where sizzle doesn't fit, skarner, rammus and Fiddles are examples of other champions where sizzle might not be the most fitting thing ever
@@PedroMiguel-zv3fj And to extend on that. It really should only fit on one champion as best as possible if you know what I mean.
Oh my god, the magazine comment is the most accurate statement I've seen in my life.
I’m just hoping they don’t fuck it up too much. Mundo was my first main and I had so much fun playing him as an unstoppable regen monster. Unlike Sion and Poppy, dr mundo is kinda supposed to be silly and dumb. That’s what made me main him, he was just that. Sion was an Arnold schrwarzneggar clone who just didn’t fit his lore and poppy was just straight up outdated. Please don’t make Mundo serious
New Dr. Mundo looks like Danny Phantom's Dad, idk what to do with this information
We all have a Mundo inside of us, don't let Rito destroy that.
i love how he pulls out ML characters when he talks about "all flash no substance"
Interesting take.
I'm a moderator on the Dr. Mundo subreddit and discord, we currently have both Twin Enso and Kindlejack here too which has allowed us to provide feedback/suggestions to them as they work along with the rework.
We welcome all opinions and in fact, we could use some criticism on the server at the moment. If anyone is interested in providing feedback on why they love/hate the direction it's taking then don't hesistate to join the discord!
I got really sad to see the goofiness removed I told my brother about it and sadly he didnt see why i was so upset to see his funniest turned to badass. To me he's just gonna be sion 2.0 bc he looks very similar. And likely will act similar.
To be honest, i do understand why they included a lot of the design elements that this design has. He got the asylum jacket because not only does it make clear that Mundo isn't an actual doctor like he used to be in the old lore, but a madman, who simply thinks he is one(also it emphasizes the bdsm-theme). The tag on his ear also shows that he comes from a facility where people were treated more like test subjects and these hextech-veins make him look way more like he belongs to Piltover and Zaun than his previous design. Overall I agree that the sillyness was reduced a lot with him, though this might have been done to appease to the fans who WANT Mundo to be a darker character(yes these people do exist, I've seen quite a few comments from people who do want Riot to play up the serial-killer-theme of him). I do wonder why Mundo doesn't wear a lab-coat, since it would fit his story and could have some joke-aesthetic too (like the whole "too-small-t-shirt-joke" you suggested or Mundo crossing out the original name on a nametag and writing Mundo over it, but spelling it wrong).
Also to be fair, you did miss one comical aspect of his design: The fact that his doctors bag includes a soup ladle!
0/10 character design, should have been a hand...
Also I think that the concept art ties him into the world in a way that would make sense in it.
Let's not forget that Mundo is one of the very first champions ever released. League's lore and aesthetics have evolved so much (to the point of lore retconn). In the case with this new Mundo concept art, I think it's designed in a way that makes sense from a "what would a crazy, mutated madman from Zaun would look like?"
I personally think it looks okay. I can't really comment on the whole mobile game design argument but I do agree with the joke character part, though.
Skyen I respect your opinion, but saying that mundos design was/is a mess Is something I can't get behind. Dr. Mundo is a physician, explaining the bonesaw and syringes. It also explains the s/m vibe. A doctor that inflicts pain, instead of healing it, is not something new and has been a stable "horror" concept for some time now. And his favourite test subject is himself.
The sillyness of mundo is just ironic sprinkles on top of his design and he can work as a serious character if you take that away.
How to fix this design: Completely start from scratch on the head, the hair, the earing, all of it, boom, gone. Then, remove the tool bag. It gives way too much of an "I am science" vibe that just isn't Mundo. Finally, cover the man in medical debris and scarring, he is a mad scientist, not a viktor-type man focused on self improvement, he was insane BEFORE the science. Make him look like he's been goofily experimenting with himself, bring back the same kinda feel as the syringe in his shoulder
.....but he got a promotion and corporate mundo now drives around in a car when leaving base
But seriously, I get the point of a rework trying to achieve what the original failed, a rework can be a complete reinvention too. A lot of this kind of sounds salty, I think the rework has aspects of the original Mundo but better fits within the world building of league
In summary I get you don't like that he's not as funny looking anymore and you really liked the original theme, but it is always going to be easier to criticise than create (criticism is essential but this vid came across as a personal rant as you said at then end, rather than a review or genuine critique)
But yeah the hair is bad. Should have only done the one side and made it looked like he cleaved it off
Here's my take: Mundo should get the Kayn treatment.
I'm thinking Invader Zim style personality, in which he starts out as his human self, completely over the top mad scientist, control mage with Hex chemicals as his abilities. Similar to Ziggs.
Buffing allies with chems, or debuffing enemies.
lvl 4/6, he chooses whether or not to become the purple tank mundo, or remain as his human self.
But Riot already said that he will continue to have a Goofy personality.
Yeah, and in terms of gameplay, he will mostly remain the same: He will have massive health regen, he will throw cleavers like crazy and he will go wherever he pleases, but more stubborn.
Let's be honest most of the recent new champs fall into one category: cool looking (sometimes edgy) boy or gal.
Samire - cool gal
Yone - cool edgy boy
Sett - Cool edgy boy
Aphelios - cool boy with edginess out of this world
Senna - cool gal
Qiyana - cool gal
Sylas - cool edgy boy
Pyke - cool edgy boy
etc etc. At this point it's just fucking boring. Silly or just fun champs are way more rare. And the last interesting design that wasn't either 'COOL AF HELL YEAH' or 'ooh what a cutie' for me was probably Ornn (neet who lives in the mountains and does his own thing)
Mundo goes to barber. He think he people!! 😂🤣
It is still kinda sad that riot sees the need to make every single champion - sorry, not sorry - "fuckable".
They did it with Swain, with Urgot, with Sion and now Mundo. I absolutely can understand that they do not want them to look as goofy as they looked before but all of these characters are supposed to be basically disfigured by their past. The only character that "survived" his rework still "fittingly ugly" was Singed and I hope that stays that way.
man I hope it wont dissapoint I was a mundo main!
What they could do is have mundo be a grotesque slab of meat, as in deformed and baloonish with muscles and veins. Then have the eyes be a bit cartoonishly too popped out, and the iconic flappy tongue.
Maybe he was a test subject, a laughable idiot that happened to be the reject of some Zultanite experiment by a chem baron, things went wrong and now MUNDO MUNDO is running around as a giant dumb nuisance that's just an unkillable troublemaker. You could have a Tom and Jerry or Saturday Morning Cartoon type of lore story where he's not understanding how he's causing chaos as the chem baron's forces are just hunting him down and getting awed and frustrated beyond belief as they try zanier and zanier things to recapture this giant walking, violent, unkillable toddler.
I like the design but it brings up the question of who's cutting his hair
The point is, we dont need him to be look good but we need him to be bad and funny posible
Yeah Mundo is the last thing that keeps me playing League and the second I saw the concept art it was clear that they were taking all the things that make me like him from his design so... See you never Riot Games.
I hope this is not the final design...Dr.Mundo was my favourite joke/light hearted character and if they take this generic "cleaner" look I'll be quite disappointed. Hopefully the personality doesn't go too far from his current state
someone bring back hand mundo, he's forgiven
This dude is honestly the channel antagonist, Dr. Mundo should appear in whatever review you’re doing as an evil force
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I would love to see a Mundo surgeon character who has to stitch on his body parts like a goofy Frankenstein monster. It would be awesome if he could "leave" arms and legs around the rift, sort of like Zac loses his blobs as a mechanic. Upon respawn he could crack a joke about needing a new arm and he saw a nice one on another champion, which would justify the cleaver. Like a silly Repo! man
Here is where I am stuck to understand as a game designer: you say his concept art is bad but you never really say why, instead you divert the spotlight to it being about his identity. And the problem I have is that anyone that plays league could probably tell that the concept art is supposed to represent Dr Mundo, and it's not like it's poorly made actually quite the opposite. And it even has some intriguing new additions to his design. So yeah idunno maybe i am crazy and don't get it. But regardless you should have probably criticized his design directly.
Mundo should be like Full metal Alchemist's Gluttony mixed with sloth. He can be funny with a upbeat attitude while being evil, he is not badass, he is batshit crazy.
I dunno, I like his Gorillaz face, and how he burst his straight jacket sleeves with his hulk arms.
The one design feature that makes me laugh my ass off the fact that the supposed ripped shoes is turning into like a flip flop. There is no way the design team didnt notice that.
Personal opinion, they might as well delete him as far as I'm concerned, such a cancerous champion in game mainly cuz his Q and R, his design his awful, his concept has no appeal, why does mundo even exist. The champion is meant to be a joke so idc tbh
But hey most reworks have been pretty awesome so, nevertheless, I'm curious.
I think it would be a good idea with Dr.Mundo to go in a direction where you basically keep his baseline design and just change the proportions to a ridicoulous extend. Make his body much bigger and rounder with short arms short legs, a small head without a neck. The best visual representation of what i'm thinking of would be something like the yugioh card "il blud". Let him be this akira-type body horror character that roams the streets of zhaun at night. His design would be funny looking on the face of it, but absolutely terrifying to encounter. Also make him silent most of the time and just sometimes say something nonsensical, to suggest that he might have once been a person but whatever there was is lost at this point, and you can never be sure what he's thinking or if he's even thinking at all.
4:17 uh....excuse me? He has the most complex voice lines out of all the Champs in the game! Or in other words....ok
They should make Mundo better in terms of well, having something to do.
Garen passive is better in lane by a long shot and he doesn't use health. Mundo gains AD but can't use it at all other than basic attacks but gets no on hit or AD scaling ability. Q is good to poke but doesn't scale with your stats. But has no CC or synergy other than running face front to the enemy and dying. Garen has silence, true damage , execute.
Darius has insane damage , CC, chain kill potential and dot
Nautilus shits in CC
Mundo has nothing. Maybe if he could get some interaction with health lost like every 300hp it loses it gains a charge of colossus smash and after X stacks the next E stuns and regains some HP, so having a lot of hp regen actually has a positive synergy
From that rework art id rather just keep the mundo we have now >.> that one looks like crap
Sion's original design was not a "mage." Sion came from the era of league where there was no such thing as AD scaling on anyone other than Pantheon. If you wanted strong abilities, you built AP. AD sion was perfectly viable, just more reliant on getting a strong item build.
There was no "mage" aspect to him other than people like to build him with AP. Which stands for ability points. They are points for your abilities (in season 1).
I respectfully disagree with you TB SKyen. They took everything that visually made Mondo, Mondo, and cleaned it up creating a very clear readable design. leaving room for animation to exaggerate a comical thematic. he looks like he escaped an asylum, and stole medical or experimental equipment. The sky is the limit as to what is in that bag. I think they did a great job with the concept art. I hope they deliver with the animations.
But I don't think they intended him to be goofy at his conception. I think they tried to put together things that seemed cool, and the execution made him age poorly and become a joke character.
So it isn't unsurprising they would want to make him what he was supposed to be originally; a roid-crazy sadist who went from torturing and killing animals to wanting to torture and kill people.