[{quoted}](name=King Braum,realm=EUW,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=AghKzAi9,comment-id=000500000000000000000000,timestamp=2019-02-19T14:14:01.976+0000)
A few things I have to say about that.
First of all, If you change the lore of a character, their design, their personality and more, can you really call it the same champion?
How many aspects of a champion can you remove before you consider a champion lost. What of their lore, design, kit or more needs to be kept alive.
It depends on how much detail was used to make a champion. Like, almost none of the current champs have bios they used to have when League was launched.
In terms of the grotesque champions of league I feel quite strongly towards them. Yet that's quite the unpopular opinion as most would rather play the handsome or badass hero than some monstrosity, though does that make my opinions any less valid?
Should all champions be steared towards pleasing the many over the few, especially in a game with over 100 champions, can we not keep some champions that are aimed at pleasing the few?
However the grotesque characters aren't made less so. Urgot is terrifying in his new design and his ult is something straight out of The Saw.
And as a small note, even with the world update a lot of champions didn't need to be changed the way they were. Yorick was always a tragic character of the shadow isles, the setting hadn't changed but they specifically created a backstory for the shadow isles for Yorick, turning him from a tragic character to a sort of hero in his own way.
Was he really changed much?
And the same goes for Galio, Demacia already had an order of magic users which served the kingdom in secret. And what's more secretive than a stone statue, simply appearing as a part of the city to the naked eye. (oh and Galio's sculpture has been long dead, even his old lore, the man was killed and afterwards Galio basically acted like a statue out of shame until he met poppy.)
Demacia can barely stomach human mages, but a living gargoyle? I doubt they will ever try to use something like that. Also Illuminators are obviously getting retconned.
Oh and as a final point the thing I should really be driven home is that Kayle's new armor design adds nothing to her character and actively clashes with her current personality, as someone that strives for justice, valor and used to quite shy away from her more feminine traits, unlike her sister morgana, You'd think she'd atleast wear anything more than a spandex suit.
Kayle didn't shy from feminine traits and she acknowledged her good looks, she thought that she did ugly things to make justice happen, so she wore a helmet.
I know skins are mostly not character-canon, but there still is a tendency. Like Vi skins are tomboyish more or less. Sona is elegant. Kayle is somwhere between business and graceful feminity (Iron Inquisitor Kayle, Aether Wing Kayle, etc.). And we did not know much about Kayle since her lore was untouched and she had like 2-3 phrases + reference to League.
Right now, with the updated lore, Kayle is centuries old and is not burdened by Justice and doesn't hide her face out of guilt for doing things she does (as implied in her old lore and I think "She was beautiful but oh she had to hide her delicate features under the helmet" cliche is silly). She is willing to deliver justice left and right and smite people. She is proud of her heritage. And she considers herself a paragon, while fighting her mortal emotions.
