The (potential) Champion Leak we Aren't Talking About

Firebeard·12/2/2017, 3:43:54 AM·3 votes·373 views
Dark Kin - Universe of League of Legends

I was excited to read through the revamped lore of my favorite character for years, and thoroughly enjoyed every detail, so a thanks to riot for that, but something struck me as curious when I read it. At the very end of his short story, Varus nearly comes into contact, or at least is in the search for another Darkin that we haven't come into contact yet.

The stone floor was inscribed with a magical script that had been ancient even before the darkin came to Runeterra.

“Warding sigils. Potent once, but faded,” said Varus, crossing the inscribed flagstones to where a towering statue of a great serpent-headed god had once stood sentinel. Some past catastrophe had toppled it, and beyond its sandstone remains lay a lightless chamber.

Varus entered, the glow from the smoldering light at his heart revealing nothing but bare stone, burned black and glossy with ancient fire. Varus sighed. “Where are you, sister?” he said.


And that is how the story ends. What we do know is that Varus is searching for a female Darkin, and with the lore updates Riot is undertaking, we might see the release of this champion not too long after Aatrox's long awaited rework. As for speculation, I believe that she would, or should be a support.

This would make sense, in the sense that there are 5 traditional roles in league, and 3 of the 5 are already filled (Aatrox for top lane Kayn for jungle and Varus for Marksman), and Riot had just released a mid laner in Zoe . Given the natural cycle of released champions, we aren't too far away from a new support, and if Riot should use the revamped Varus lore compounded with the release of Kayn, and the Aatrox rework on top of it all to kick off the Darkin story arc, it would make for a compelling few months of content that would be beyond exciting.

Now the only box left unchecked is the final Darkin... I just hope that it is a suitable mid laner, so we could play a full Darkin comp. That would be hella lit summoner 14 summoner 14 summoner 14

3 Comments

ConcreteLamp12/2/2017, 9:21:37 AM1 votes

I'm not sure if we can count on the role thing. Hell, there's no way of saying when she'll come out, if she ever will.

So 1 of the last 2 darkin is a female, we could get the other one instead. Who's to say they're done with darkin champions, and the last two is just going to stay lore characters?

It's a really cool idea, and I can see Riot working with it, and there's a pretty high likelyhood that they will. But having both the update for varus, the full VGU of aatrox AND a new darkin champion could seem to be a little much.

TL:DR, we can't take stuff for granted yet

iLBGAMing12/4/2017, 1:20:49 PM1 votes

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