Diversity in League

The Vile Vandal·1/28/2019, 11:56:09 AM·6 votes·7,328 views

League of Legends is a game with an AMAZING amount of Diversity. The inspirations for the characters are well thought out to whatever culture they were inspired from. We get to see a lot of cool warriors, mages and so on based on cultures like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, African-American, American, Egyptian and European. However, that is pretty much where it ends, and it feels like it is often overdone, I can't even count how many Ionian champions we have already, we get it, Asian culture is awesome. What we don't really see at all are champions based on Mesoamerica for starters, and I am sure League of Legends has a HUGE fan base that is from the US that is Hispanic and a pretty decent fan base in Southern Americas. It feels like those cultures get no love at all, besides maybe a few skins based of Mexican Luchador. Skins is all they pretty much get.
I hope in the future that Riot might consider Mesoamerica based heroes, I can already imagine a cool champion with some cool Aztec armor or even some cool Mesoamericas weapons or magic. Heck, maybe even some gods based on Aztec, Mayan gods. Anything would be awesome. I know Riot can do some amazing work, and doing so, would make the cast of League of Legends feel more unique!

29 Comments

RyzeTheSmurfMage1/28/2019, 2:12:58 PM4 votes

Kumungu jungles could be that?

AbiwonKenabi1/28/2019, 1:18:54 PM4 votes

The World breaker skin line draws from some mesoamerican aesthetics. That said, I would love to see a mesoamerican inspired Champion as well (I'd put them in the Kumungu jungle maybe). It's a very underused concept in fantasy in general.

Lady Sylum1/28/2019, 1:14:30 PM1 votes

Honestly Indigenous characters from any continent ( that is not a stereotype) is sorely lacking in any media. I do like what they did with Nunu tho.

tamaya1/28/2019, 5:51:36 PM1 votes

I am interested in Eastern European culture and I think that it would be nice to have a character with a motif of Baltic myth. It is too local?

Zyranium1/30/2019, 10:03:05 PM1 votes

Would be great to have Kumungu as a faction, and make some characters from there shine like Zyra & Nidalee, what we got was good, but really underwhelming.

If their lore gets expanded, I want them to reflect a culture, Zyra could be the ultimate villain of Kumungu or somewhat a version of mother Nature that protects the ecosystem and decimate the intruders, and for Nidalee she would probably have some ties with other Vastayan tribes and I'd love to see what kind of stories and people live there, because for me Kumungu screams Meso-American.

Rathar Dashing1/28/2019, 12:10:19 PM1 votes

Isn't Neeko Brazilian?

Tesla Effect1/31/2019, 1:55:53 PM1 votes

Current Map of Runeterra is only 1/6 of the whole planet. Its safe to say there are other continents with their own cultures and races that wont be the same as the ones we currently know.

Lv60 Retri Pala1/28/2019, 12:11:48 PM1 votes

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Heck, maybe even some gods based on Aztec, Mayan gods.

Quite unsure how to turn this into a league champion tbh. XD https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Quetzalcoatl.svg/800px-Quetzalcoatl.svg.png