Is the expectation to give every Noxian an LU likely or unlikely?

Whyte Lyon··4 votes·664 views

Okay so I'm not going to hold my breath expecting an official answer to this, especially since Swain's VGU is still 6 months away. But I thought I would try regardless. And Im not looking for spoilers (lord knows Sharjo is for that) just a little insight is all, however I am aware that perhaps it is too early to comment about anyway.

Here's the thing though, I don't think its fair that a potential Lore update for Sion and Cassiopeia be left out because they already have canon lore, yet neither have a Bio story. (holy mother, the kind of bio story Sion could tell- more history, more personality, more tragedy for what he is now compared to once was. Cassio could give us more insight into her family drama, which sounds mundane but the Du Couteau's are worth knowing more about.) Nor do I want them to take up space as the few that might get lore updates, when there are so many Noxians and all of them can have a moment to shine.

Now Im pretty confident that Narrative always intend to give every champ associated to a region a lore update. But that doesn't always happen, for different reasons. Which is why I ask about Noxus. And recently the community here has taken notice that, although I think you guys are progressing lore as fast as humanly expected there is no denying this will be years in the making. Even worse when you guys only ever do massive LUs with reworks or sometimes new champs, while plenty of champs with no connection or no association to a region are in abundance too. And i think personally it's been a wildly missed opportunity to not finish off the Zaun LU with Urgot's rework.

Edit: on phone, accidentally clicked up load before finishing. I still have more to say. finished.

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Valor Bot1 votes

Well, regional lore updates in the past have tended to leave out Champions who don't represent the faction well enough as a whole. In this case, that would probably be Riven, seeing as she's an exile who represents values that differ from the standard Noxian's. I'm not sure when they'd get around to updating her if they decided to leave her for a later date, but it's possible they'd include her, seeing as much of the Noxian cast already has up-to-date story content (Sion, Urgot, Kled; Cassiopeia already has her own short story so she'd just need a bio update).

Whyte Lyon1 votes

How about the potential Freljord LU? There are plenty of champs from that Region; 11 to be exact as well as the need for a region specific short story.

I'll assume for argument sake that the 11 people (i know of) on the Narrative team really can't as much as they would like to update every freljordian. And poor Braum, he's in a similar boat to Sion (and all the champs from his year of release too) it feels weird that all we know about him is his personality. 11 Freljordians all with their own unique and intricate backgrounds, sure freljord has lore (arguable if canon or not) but that event from way back when didn't really establish their character very well so much as just stated their position in life. Anyway, which of the lot (unfortunately) gets the boot because certain "Champions don't represent the faction well enough as a whole" ? Udyr most likely, Nunu perhaps but giving lore to champs on the VGU list hasn't stopped them before, the rest are either embodiment of the land or key leaders in an ongoing civil war.

Or what about the Zaun LU, how is Dr. Mundo "represent" more than Twitch? No I don't believe that is Narrative's excuse, more likely they want to do certain champs justice with their stories so withhold and/or don't have the time. Though they could have had the time to complete the Zaun update with Urgot's rework, that's another question I would like to know.

Now sure Narrative can split LUs up into parts. We all assumed with Urgot's rework that he might be the forerunner for a small Noxus LU, then maybe Swain could be a Black Rose focused LU. This would give Narrative an easier chance to focus all effort onto fewer characters, but we didn't get a small Noxus LU. And now we have to wait and see if all Noxians are completed or wait longer still for another rework or the slim chance of a new champ before Noxus, Zaun and Demacia can be fully up to scratch.


TL;DR: I hope Narrative take much more prime opportunities to complete unfinished LUs in the future. As Urgot's updated had the option either to finish Zaun's or slowly start Noxus' so far it has done neither. And I have my doubts that Evelynn's rework will come with a major LU either, although I do want it to be a demons lore update instead of a Shadow Isles update part 3.

GreenLore3 votes

Freljord will likely not cover everyone.

I imagine that they'll either go by their subfactions(so if the new champ is an avarosan,they might update all the avarosans and leave out the others) or they might update the most important characters of each tribe,which would likely include Ashe Anivia Tryndamere Sejuani Lissandra and possibly some others(Braum seems like a potential candidate as he only needs a new bio)

Whyte Lyon1 votes

What? ... That doesn't change my other points though but sure you're probably right about this potential Frel update.

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