Riot Games' lead visual effects artist Oliver “Beardilocks” McDonald recently previewed the latest League of Legends VFX update for Kog'Maw.The VFX modifications are currently being made, and the update will soon hit the League PBE, along with a new Model Texture and a tweaked Armor/MR shred icon. Beardilocks took to Twitter to announce that the project's prime focus is to improve Kog'Maw's "gameplay clarity on missile widths, R edge indicator, and W/P empowered state."Coming soon to a PBE near you, it's everyone's favourite void pupper, Kog'Maw with a VFX update!Updated Model Texture!Updated Armor/MR shred iconProject goals:Improving gameplay clarity on missile widths, R edge indicator and W/P empowered state. pic.twitter.com/SO0YvTprLY— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021Many of his skins are just 520 or 975, but since they all had custom recolors when he was in W, I went through and made them all feel much more empowered. As a reminder, we don't add unique VFX to anything less than a 1350, unless it already had some. pic.twitter.com/qQRElFEsPu— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021Many of Kog'Maw's skins cost around 520 and 975 RP. According to Beardilocks, Riot devs do not usually add exclusive VFX tweaks to champion skins worth less than 1350 RP. However, he made a few exceptions with Kog’Maw.Upcoming Kog'Maw VFX updates in League of LegendsClassic Kog'Maw skin got a minor reworkThe Classic Kog'Maw splash art (Image via Riot Games - League of Legends)The classic skin of Kog'Maw is getting an updated character texture. He will now have a slim, polished and glazy appearance with distinctive skin details.Yeah updated character texture. Unfortunately, this was more of a serendipitous coincidence that a character artist had done this update, and we bundled it. We still don't have dedicated character artists on the VFX update initiative. pic.twitter.com/wneqwxJA9T— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021When fans asked the devs to come up with more such updated champion model textures, Beardilocks highlighted the current shortage of dedicated character artists at Riot Games."Unfortunately, this was more of a serendipitous coincidence that a character artist had done this update, and we bundled it. We still don't have dedicated character artists on the VFX update initiative."Lion Dance Kog'Maw skin got a new E - effectThe Lion Dance Kog'Maw splash art (Image via Riot Games - League of Legends)Since Lion Dance Kog'Maw happens to be one of the costliest skins (1350 RP), Beardilocks made sure to provide him with a unique E - Void Ooze effect.Since Lion Dance Kog'Maw WAS a 1350, I made sure he got a unique E effect. He now spits up a big ball of goopy fireworks that rolls at you pic.twitter.com/COyyzdA818— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021League of Legends' "Mouth of the Abyss" in his Lion Dance attire will now throw up big balls of "goopy fireworks" that roll at opponents.Pug'Maw's ult animation got cleaner visual effectsThe Pug'Maw splash art (Image via Riot Games - League of Legends)As stated by the Beardilocks, Pug'Maw's VFX were all "updated to match the new fidelity."Pug'Maw's vfx were all updated to match the new fidelity.I also added some broken pieces of ball when his ult lands, as it was weird how the ball just disappeared before pic.twitter.com/ljZovjOWRe— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021Previously, with R - Living Artillery being cast, Pug'Maw's ult-ball used to disappear after landing. Beardilocks fixed the weirdness of this animation, and the ball will now break into pieces after ricocheting off the ground.Range indicator added to Kog'Maw's ultimateMost of his modern skins just got a tidy up, and the R range indicator subtly added, as they were in a pretty good spot pic.twitter.com/Zre3Ewjf92— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021Beardilocks also subtly added the range indicator to Kog'Maw's R - Living Artillery. According to the dev, this modification could be implemented on the champion as most of his League of Legends skins just got cleaned up and were in much better shape.Kog'Maw's W - animation getting minor tweaksBeardilocks is also working to provide all his skins with better empowering animations while Kog'Maw casts his W - Bio-Arcane Barrage.Left (Green) - Original colorsRight (Yellow) - Thematic colors pic.twitter.com/rqjv6eSdlT— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021The dev has also opened a public poll on Twitter to let fans vote for their choice.Kog'Maw VFX updates will be on the PBE in at least two different cyclesThese will be on PBE for an extended period - at least 2 PBE cycles, so check them out. I'll post a context post on /r/LeaguePBE soon for your feedback— Riot Beardilocks (@Beardilocks) April 8, 2021Beardilocks confirmed that these tweaks and updates won't be coming to the League of Legends servers anytime soon. They will be available to players only after rigorous testing and experimentation. The VFX updates will be on the Public Beta Environment for an extended period in at least two different cycles.