I heard that the league was removed from the lore, but I couldn't find a reason why. Did new champions just not fit in or something? Maybe what I heard was wrong, but if so then what is the overarching plot to become?
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/dev-blog-exploring-runeterra
This devblog helps to explain. Basically the Institute and the League seemed to be too much of an obstacle for Riot to write the stories they wanted to around, and so they decided to axe it and rebuild from the ground up. We're in the process of that rebuilding.
The league was a forced idea, it severely limits the story that riot could write because the league would stop every interesting thing also it started to become absurd how god like being was forced to work for the league. Without the league the story can evolve, before this change every story ended in the same way, the champion joined the league forever.
With the old lore, it was impossible to have events like the new Harrowing or the Bilgewater fight between GP, TF, Graves and MF (Because it was prohibited by the IoW) or champions like Aurelion Sol, Kindred and Bard.
Because Riot has bad writers.
Instead of working around the limits of their own universe like every other respectable writer, they decided to remove the limit, creating a fucked up world, where one champion is a space-faring, star-creating god, the next one is a hairy midget with a blowgun and the next one is personified death.
So pretty much League of Legends became what every other MOBAs in existence-an RPG. In the sense of playing as that champion instead of being a Summoner.
Riot just killed its own identity that separates it from other titles of the same genre.
Because everything can't be solved by a Battle Royale. Especially when the problems are national in scale. Not to mention any and all conflicts would have to have the limitation of games (you HAVE to have interaction in a balanced state). Hasn't stopped them Deus Ex Machina in every instance that the good guys are losing though.
it was basically this big contrivance they had to fit every champ into to explain the game. but really the lore can be more rewarding just telling stories about cool characters. its like, you don't need an overarching plot in super smash bros or something, the game doesn't need to make perfect sense lore wise, its just about the cool characters coming together to duke it out
