Riot, can you please stop changing lores like this
This isn't a request or critique about a specific update. This is a discussion about the world building team making radical changes to a champion's lore.
All I want to say is this: please honor the original spirit, personality, and lore of a champion and when you go in to update it.
This is very important because personality matters to some players when it comes to liking a champion. I feel like I have to ask this because riot obviously isn't respecting these things and when you get an idea, you run with it without asking if it's a good idea for this champion. It's like you guys were given the keys to batman and went full ASBAR Crazy Steve with him.
If you want a champion with a trait or lore of X, Y, and Z and none of your champs are even close to what you want, that's your decision but please do that with new champions. I can't stress that enough. NEW LORES AND PERSONALITIES THAT DON'T EXIST IN LEAGUE BELONG ON NEW CHAMPIONS. Even reworks are sketchy when it comes to major personality shifts.
is a good example. It's not that her new lore is terrible, it's alright. However it isn't what her old lore was and personally speaking, I thought her old tough and determined yordle personality was a lot more interesting than the new her. Again, it's not bad but for me and some others it failed to capture Poppy.
Another example is
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For her we need to talk about the color pie test. What is the color pie test you might ask. Well it's pretty simple: look at magic's color pie. Each color stands for something about personality. So ask yourself does the color pie after the new lore match the one before the new lore. If the answer is no, if the answer is on the completely opposite side of the pie, you've made a yuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake.
Before Ahri's lore was butchered, I'd call her a white-green champion in terms of personality. She was something between an animal doing its thing (foxes are predators) and a human slowly learning responsibility, morality, and the nature of humanity. She was a like a kid without parents or education and had to learn a few things the hard way, because all she knew before was that meat is delicious. The new Ahri seems more red-black, a selfish emo. Going from Selesnya to Rakdos is a pretty big shift in personality. I could see, but not like, shifting her to gruul or azorious... azorious seems better given the direction of personal growth she was taking. Her going naya or bant or azuban would be an expansion of what's already there... the new color might work as a splash at best. It wouldn't be ideal, but it could work in a rare circumstance. However flipping her to the opposite side of the color pie is just wrong.
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