What's the deal with Vladimir? || character design & lore discussion

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Everyone's favourite Definitely Not A Vampire Vladimir has received himself a substantial lore update, finally, turning him into honestly a VERY different character than he used to be. Fortunately, it's entirely a change for the better! Now if only they'd get rid of his stupid, stupid haircut...
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  • @ApexGale
    @ApexGale5 жыл бұрын

    i pray for the day they change vlad to a character whose entire set of voicelines isn't literally just blood puns

  • @timothymclean

    @timothymclean

    5 жыл бұрын

    Aright, they'll add three Putin jokes.

  • @chrisodwyer5473

    @chrisodwyer5473

    5 жыл бұрын

    Zenith Tempest j

  • @sirnonsense5033

    @sirnonsense5033

    5 жыл бұрын

    u mean they should pool themself together?

  • @SuperYoshiBrosFan

    @SuperYoshiBrosFan

    5 жыл бұрын

    Go ahead. Be negative. You'll be just my type.

  • @generic_artist9527

    @generic_artist9527

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's bloody beautiful

  • @davidshadow1019
    @davidshadow10195 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to talk a bit about Vladmir's character design: His clothes surely makes him look like a vampire, but more than that, they make him look like a real aristocrat, what the lore said he was, but as you said he needs to show more of Noxus itself trough his clothes, so I think his clothes should be the representation of Noxus aristocracy, just like Swain's clothes represent Noxus military group

  • @bornulhu4549

    @bornulhu4549

    5 жыл бұрын

    Vlad's clothes look like Pennywise styled clown clothes. I mean... He has striped pants and fully red like that looks odd...

  • @gigifabulous
    @gigifabulous5 жыл бұрын

    I want Riot to turn his knives for hands into just acrylic nails.

  • @lepotato2156

    @lepotato2156

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is everything about Vladimir that I never knew I wanted...

  • @gerome022

    @gerome022

    4 жыл бұрын

    or it could be like those aristocratic claw-like finger accessories which is more intricate and tamer than his claws rn

  • @cheshirefiend4130
    @cheshirefiend41305 жыл бұрын

    If Riot were to change anything about Vlad's character and design, then I have two rough suggestions. 1. Voice. He doesn't have a single line that isn't a blood pun, and that doesn't really work for his new conceptualization. New Vlad is supposed to be a wickedly cultured, manipulative, egotist who has a rather "been there done that" view of the world. Someone like that should have a more refined, if not regal, and somewhat cruel way of speaking that just screams "evil aristocrat", not just endless puns. 2. Regarding his design. I think that, yes, his hair should be de-onion-ed, and his knife hands should be toned down, perhaps they can become more like armor rings but a bit more pronounced so that they can still be seen in game. I think his massive coat still works for this new lore for Vlad with him just swimming in this ornate and luxurious coat that shows off wealth and status. I would add some additional designs or patterns or something to it so that it looks particularly ostentatious. However the knives on it, particularly the ones on his back, may need to be toned down or removed altogether. I specify the ones on his back because we have another Noxian rocking the badass jacket with the metal bits on the back, Swain. With Swain, his pointy looking additions to his coat are there to create a visual connection to ravens and they also somewhat fit in with the aesthetics of Noxian military. With Vlad, they're just there because "Hey, did I mention I like blood and killing?" The ones on his sleeves I thinks can be reduced in size and be made into decorative tassels that dangle from the sleeves on small rings instead of being stiffly sewn onto the sleeves. That way he still has noticeable sharp things on his jacket that look more decorative and fashionable but still a bit threatening, and less like a really silly way of making it clear that "he like likes blood."

  • @alcazar8224
    @alcazar82245 жыл бұрын

    Picks vladimir Game starts /all WRYYYYYYY

  • @Ladazotz

    @Ladazotz

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cant be the only person that thought of that scene with polnoreff and dio on the stairs at the end of that "art is life" story?

  • @aifakinkilyu

    @aifakinkilyu

    5 жыл бұрын

    Is that a JoJo's reference?

  • @Ajehy

    @Ajehy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aifakinkilyu - Everything is a JoJo’s reference!

  • @00Gerundiv00
    @00Gerundiv005 жыл бұрын

    🎵HE REALLY LIKES BLOOD MAN! 🎵 HE IS THE MAGIC BLOODMAN!🎵

  • @forresttoyne8559
    @forresttoyne85595 жыл бұрын

    Onion hair is an indicates of extreme magical power... Evelynn prime example...

  • @Dhorannis
    @Dhorannis5 жыл бұрын

    Another interesting idea about his outfit: Why not just make his coat out of floating blood? It shows his flamboyance and extreme expertise with hemomancy, it gives room for some really cool animations during his spells, and it would really fit an artist to make a part of his clothes himself with his specific craft. I have to admit though that there already is a character in fiction who does that. In the manga Shaman King, a descendant of Count Vlad Teppes Dracula appears and uses blood as the medium for his shaman powers in form of a cape that can change form to things like solid red spikes or claw-like long structures that suck blood from those they pierce. He actually pretends to be a vampire (even bites someone and controls him from within by controling his blood) at first but quickly shows that he is just an ordinary human with a very creative way of using his power as a shaman.

  • @luuna_asteria
    @luuna_asteria5 жыл бұрын

    Wait so does this mean most of Vlad's skins could be canon? Since he's reinvented himself numerous times...

  • @davidshadow1019

    @davidshadow1019

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's exactly what I thought when he talked about that, and I guess the answer is yes

  • @anthonymorales9869

    @anthonymorales9869

    5 жыл бұрын

    @TonyDanatop If they do that, I'm gonna start calling him Saruman the Red.

  • @lonerimortal8

    @lonerimortal8

    5 жыл бұрын

    Luna Actually ... Yes

  • @interycreeper1152

    @interycreeper1152

    5 жыл бұрын

    the highschool skin xD

  • @lefiex8199

    @lefiex8199

    5 жыл бұрын

    I can't imagine the time he reinvented himself into Nosferatu, that must been dark time xd

  • @PsychoCodina
    @PsychoCodina5 жыл бұрын

    I'm disappointed that the superiority of the Marquis Vlad design wasn't mentioned

  • @delgande

    @delgande

    4 жыл бұрын

    Elite500 squad represent

  • @henriqmorgenstern9197
    @henriqmorgenstern91975 жыл бұрын

    vlad need´s a ezreal like rework

  • @Keroruto
    @Keroruto5 жыл бұрын

    So... anyone else thought that the new lore where Vlad absorbs the blood magic and life force of his darkin master was Riot leaning into diablerie from Vampire the Masquerade? Essentially Vlad is a lower gen vampire who ate an Antediluvian

  • @cezzan6586

    @cezzan6586

    5 жыл бұрын

    I've been thinking the same thing for a while! Vladimir is a Ventrue/Tremere mix

  • @lonerimortal8
    @lonerimortal85 жыл бұрын

    17:35 It's hard to look at this and not remember about Onion's brother from "Steven Universe" :^V (yes, Onion is literaly the character's name and his brother looks like in game Vladimir :^V )

  • @lepotato2156

    @lepotato2156

    5 жыл бұрын

    Onion is secretly Vlad :^)

  • @anthonymorales9869
    @anthonymorales98695 жыл бұрын

    If they ever did redesign Vladimir, maybe they could use his Count skin as inspiration.

  • @Nemenian
    @Nemenian5 жыл бұрын

    Vlad is one of my favorite characters! Hell yeah!

  • @Pedropaulopoloni
    @Pedropaulopoloni5 жыл бұрын

    Make his clothes be made of blood. You're welcome, Riot.

  • @greenwren5072
    @greenwren50725 жыл бұрын

    20:45 How about coattails made out of blood? That would look kinda cool.

  • @ninjakirby777
    @ninjakirby7775 жыл бұрын

    Yes please do LeBlanc she’s my favourite character

  • @felipefelpamoura3548
    @felipefelpamoura35483 жыл бұрын

    Hi, have you ever considered puting the audio of those lore explanations/explorations as a podcast like on Spotify or similar apps? I love listening to your thoughts and, except for the animation analysis, those could go extremely well in a podcast format. As a designer and game freak, i'd like to thank you a lot for sharing your comments. I admire your work a lot. Please, don't stop. 💕 (Sorry for my english. I'm Brazilian and I'm posting this as I go go bed and my brain is slow and lazy now). Again, the content u're building, u're doing it very well 🙏🔮 i hope you have no doubts about it

  • @anthonymorales9869
    @anthonymorales98695 жыл бұрын

    Also, Vlad needs a new voice-actor. I'm getting old-school Ezreal flashbacks!

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean5 жыл бұрын

    4:30: He likes blood, _and_ he likes killing. That's two notes! 10:10: That sounds interesting, and could be one of the few non-cliche takes on "Immortality ain't all it's cracked up to be" in existence if they take it in that direction. 15:20: Another useful consequence of making Vladmir a blood mage is that they don't need to debug an animation where Vlad pounces on champions of all shapes and sizes and suck blood out of their neck-equivalent. 19:00: Maybe replace the elegant, bright red flowing Seto Kaiba coat with a practical, drab red flowing military coat? Oh, and replace the ridiculous hairdo with a slightly-less-ridiculous Noxian-style helmet. 21:15: Let me guess, half of the character design is wasted on showing how sexy she is.

  • @snoovian7951

    @snoovian7951

    2 жыл бұрын

    21:15, actually the opposite in skyen's opinion! skyen thinks more vla-daddy works

  • @timothymclean

    @timothymclean

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@snoovian7951 ...isn't the opposite of the glass being half-empty, the glass being half-full?

  • @dominik3017
    @dominik30175 жыл бұрын

    HEMOMANCER not VAMPIRE, how dare you call a lord of vampires himself like that? :P

  • @RainyBoyLV
    @RainyBoyLV5 жыл бұрын

    14:29 HEMOMANCER NOT VAMPIRE

  • @crypticmrchimes
    @crypticmrchimes5 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Vladimir is here! I'm interested to see your analysis for him since I personally found it... interesting. Edit: Drink some lemon juice tea/water/something. I find that it helps break down in situations like that.

  • @captainChernihiv
    @captainChernihiv5 жыл бұрын

    His hair denotes his relationship to Onion family from SU

  • @delgande
    @delgande4 жыл бұрын

    I thought he just had really long fingers

  • @SquabsMcGee
    @SquabsMcGee4 жыл бұрын

    I just- pls- New voicelines. You did it in runeterra- can- just one. These puns are killing M E E E E E E

  • @aleksandrekaishauri9977
    @aleksandrekaishauri99775 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos!

  • @AbstractTraitorHero
    @AbstractTraitorHero Жыл бұрын

    The sheer idea of a character concept being. Lol blood. And then being expanded like this is hilarious

  • @Therealpigeonboi
    @Therealpigeonboi4 жыл бұрын

    The reason he has the blades on his fingers is because blood magic allows you to alter your body, jut like how aatrox transmutes his body every time he possesses someone

  • @ChinoWantan
    @ChinoWantan5 жыл бұрын

    I cant wait for the Twitch's one :D

  • @Junior2000625
    @Junior20006255 жыл бұрын

    Maybe that's the point Vladimir looks different from the typical Noxian person by choice

  • @standupman
    @standupman5 жыл бұрын

    That ending deserved a like as well

  • @Ferno209
    @Ferno2095 жыл бұрын

    YES! THANK YOU!

  • @namespara6669
    @namespara66695 жыл бұрын

    i dont usually watch your lol vids but ohmylord PLEASE cover the godlike animation and design of the K/da music vid IM BEGGING YOU

  • @pastamasta6814
    @pastamasta68145 жыл бұрын

    I don’t know about anyone else but Vladimir has the coolest pants in League.

  • @gexianhen
    @gexianhen5 жыл бұрын

    orb of blood? he already have that...

  • @snowpawzvideos
    @snowpawzvideos5 жыл бұрын

    what’s the deal with Nidalee?  does she even have lore?

  • @projespecterdesigns2789
    @projespecterdesigns27894 жыл бұрын

    New Challenge! Take a shot every time he says "Why"

  • @Ajehy

    @Ajehy

    3 жыл бұрын

    You trying to kill people?

  • @cezzan6586
    @cezzan65865 жыл бұрын

    Finally, my main gets some time in the spotlight

  • @kyuumann500
    @kyuumann5005 жыл бұрын

    A Blood Onion!!! Bloody Layers!!!!

  • @34alexray
    @34alexray5 жыл бұрын

    *best pants in the game*

  • @heccsa7532
    @heccsa75325 жыл бұрын

    HEMOMANCER!

  • @aifakinkilyu
    @aifakinkilyu5 жыл бұрын

    YAAY! LeBlanc video in it's way!!

  • @blackcat013
    @blackcat0135 жыл бұрын

    He just became a blood mage from Dragon Age, maybe mixed a little bit with Vandal Savage. Also it would be nice for the Darkin not to be the catch all for every champ that might be somewhat difficult, or not difficult in some cases, to tie in otherwise.

  • @TheJPKaram
    @TheJPKaram4 жыл бұрын

    “He is a bit like doctor who” Almost he is like “Me”

  • @gyroinquisitor8618
    @gyroinquisitor86184 жыл бұрын

    He was not good at blood magic. He got forbidden lessons of it. And he killed his master to surpasses his human condition so he is a Darkin that is keeping human look. Because he consider himself as one. That’s only my vision

  • @MisplacedRaven
    @MisplacedRaven5 жыл бұрын

    My boooooooooooy

  • @demoniktusk758
    @demoniktusk7585 жыл бұрын

    I know you probably don't like this answer, but he has knife hands for the sake of looking cool, even though they don't make sense, i like them just because they look cool and i think his design would be less interesting without them, i think sometimes details don't have to have a reason other than looking cool. Off with the Onion head tho, they fixed it in the splash art, so why not in the damn model?? And another thing, i hate when characters don't have pupils just for the fuck of it, characters without visible pupils just dont feel alive to me, i i really think its stupid that its such an common design characteristic.

  • @EMWISE94
    @EMWISE945 жыл бұрын

    What's that smell...? It's Blood!!

  • @orchestratedeath8669
    @orchestratedeath86695 жыл бұрын

    is there any chance for getting an update about recoloring blood with an option on settings (just like colorblind option) especially Vladimir abilities for people with blood phobia or we should keep banning Vladimir every single game :c

  • @nickghilea3624
    @nickghilea36242 жыл бұрын

    2 years ago Still relevant

  • @sleepyimpskel5654
    @sleepyimpskel56545 жыл бұрын

    Is no one going to mention the fact that his hair is long in his splash art but not in his in game model? Like I wanna love Vlad but hhhgggggnghnghn

  • @timothyvandyke9511
    @timothyvandyke95115 жыл бұрын

    1:55 I've Heard this one before!

  • @hanna-liminal
    @hanna-liminal5 жыл бұрын

    if they wanna keep his whacky, off-putting, off-kilter design, it occurred to me that i'd like the idea of him looking kind of David Bowie in Labyrinth! (anything to make him look less like the Blood Elf mage from Warcraft)

  • @TMithu
    @TMithu5 жыл бұрын

    A slimmer Bloodstone Taric would make a great Vladimir

  • @TalontedM7
    @TalontedM75 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a Talon video at some time in the future?

  • @sir_gregory3528
    @sir_gregory35285 жыл бұрын

    whats the deal with Cassiopeia next pls

  • @ME-hs7ll
    @ME-hs7ll5 жыл бұрын

    magic blood man !

  • @karljohan2300
    @karljohan23003 жыл бұрын

    why not make vladimir kinda like bloodless in bloodstained game just a vampire using blood as clothes and weapons

  • @luc.k7736
    @luc.k77365 жыл бұрын

    Vladimir reminds me of Shu Tsukiyama(Gourmet) from Tokyo Ghoul.

  • @frozi3193

    @frozi3193

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nah, Vlad is too classy for napkin sniffer.

  • @josephgabriele8400
    @josephgabriele84005 жыл бұрын

    I didn't understand one thing reading his new lore, is mordekaiser the darlin that taught him blood magic?

  • @hugob.d5650

    @hugob.d5650

    5 жыл бұрын

    No, Morde isn't a Darkin

  • @Lazycandle
    @Lazycandle5 жыл бұрын

    Still havent played since they reworked my boy aatrox Sill like your videos tho

  • @frozi3193
    @frozi31935 жыл бұрын

    As ironic as it sounds, I hope Kha'zix won't get changed.

  • @nex7402
    @nex74025 жыл бұрын

    So how long do you spend on finding words for those intros?

  • @mechahiyoen3554
    @mechahiyoen35545 жыл бұрын

    Do Udyr!

  • @Danothyus1
    @Danothyus15 жыл бұрын

    Isn't his hair a reference to Bram Stoker Dracula? I agree is stupid looking and all but there is a basis for it at least.

  • @wilberttorrens161
    @wilberttorrens1615 жыл бұрын

    Find it funny some one got the crow to fly 3 times at the fork for the dislike

  • @thrall6647
    @thrall66475 жыл бұрын

    Greetings! Look like Word of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade :P Edit: or Vampire Requiem more like this :P yea I know he isn't oficial vampire....

  • @TheShiningMetagross
    @TheShiningMetagross5 жыл бұрын

    But T.b whats the deal with Cho gath?

  • @neintruchipat
    @neintruchipat5 жыл бұрын

    Do Elise too, so we have all the black rose champions

  • @rabgix8805
    @rabgix88055 жыл бұрын

    What’s the deal with Volibear?

  • @Dinodroid3500
    @Dinodroid35005 жыл бұрын

    What's the deal with Anivia?

  • @silverun280
    @silverun2805 жыл бұрын

    14:50 isn't Dracula's first name Vladimir?

  • @gokbay3057

    @gokbay3057

    5 жыл бұрын

    Just Vlad but yes

  • @niffry
    @niffry2 жыл бұрын

    I honestly love Vladamir as a character, but his current design kinda makes him look like one of those edgy OCs you'd make as a kid with way too many unnecessary details. (Also yes I'm speaking from experience. Pre-teen Niffry had some interesting ideas about what was cool.)

  • @AbstractTraitorHero

    @AbstractTraitorHero

    Жыл бұрын

    I kinda do love some edgy oc's sometimes though

  • @mirarobin4096
    @mirarobin40965 жыл бұрын

    There should be no knives. Not even his in game uses the knives. Every attack is ranged. Lives are dumb

  • @ME-hs7ll
    @ME-hs7ll5 жыл бұрын

    btw I think vlad is older then lb

  • @QuestionableObject
    @QuestionableObject5 жыл бұрын

    Wait Elise is Noxian now?

  • @lepotato2156
    @lepotato21565 жыл бұрын

    Blood-imir. Okay bye.

  • @horrorreadersanonymous3533
    @horrorreadersanonymous35333 жыл бұрын

    I'm probably giving them too much credit here, but ritualistically breaching the "barrier" of something's skin could be a fundamental rule of hemomancy. Unfortunately the scalpel hands are still very silly even if this was the case.

  • @t.r.s.queiroz8082
    @t.r.s.queiroz80825 жыл бұрын

    give me my WTDW malzahar

  • @jordanhoman0212
    @jordanhoman02125 жыл бұрын

    So am I supposed to just leave the video paused at 2:00? ;)

  • @AngelicDirt
    @AngelicDirt5 жыл бұрын

    Yay, everyone's favorite onion vampire. :B Not only is he a vampire, he's Capcom's vampire. And by that I mean that he's the twice-boomeranged vision of what a vampire is, bounced directly from the Japan-colored-crack-vision-glasses, which itself was bounced from early monster movie pulp cinema, which is of course bounced from the old novels. This is probably the only reason I actually like Vladmir's design; it's like a messed up art-version of Telephone. I could watch cultures mimic each others tropes until the end of time and be eternally happy. :P Announcements are cool. -This vid, btw? No notification. Not for me anyway. You showed up in my recommends, so that still works.- EDIT: False alarm... It showed up late. :v ... I followed the crow, but there was an ice cream shoppe. You sure that was the right set of directions? :v

  • @ghost-zx3ki
    @ghost-zx3ki4 жыл бұрын

    So vladimir is just a copy of the infamous vlad the iimpaler.

  • @TBSkyen

    @TBSkyen

    4 жыл бұрын

    I mean, yeah, pretty common archetype, really.

  • @v3rmilli0nair3
    @v3rmilli0nair35 жыл бұрын

    Count Dislike-button-ula doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.........

  • @lucasp4186
    @lucasp41865 жыл бұрын

    HEMOMANCER ..... Kappa

  • @chantevandyk7155
    @chantevandyk71555 жыл бұрын

    Can I use that dislike button story in a book I'm writing?

  • @generic_artist9527
    @generic_artist95275 жыл бұрын

    Main point of the video: *Hair*

  • @augustoqueiroz6829
    @augustoqueiroz68295 жыл бұрын

    Getting expensive ads lol

  • @CRSB00
    @CRSB005 жыл бұрын

    still no Nidalee...

  • @yarinice1
    @yarinice13 жыл бұрын

    So dumb that the "league of legends" isn't canon anymore.

  • @nicolascifuentes4017
    @nicolascifuentes40175 жыл бұрын

    Love some shameless self promotion

  • @ladymissfit7843
    @ladymissfit78435 жыл бұрын

    BLEH!

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