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A Plea to the Lore Department

Swollwonder·7/12/2015, 9:13:49 AM·2 votes·883 views

I really am not sure how to start this so how about this. I love the champs. I love Yasuo I love Aatrox I love most of the champs. The champions are what makes me want to play league. Why? Because when I play champions I AM that champion. Heck people even identify you by calling you the champion you play adding immersion to it in its own way. I become important to the world or Runeterria as the incredible combatant. When I play Aatrox I'm the borderline god of war. When I play Yasuo I'm a man with an arrogant tongue who is pondering his place in the world. When I play Xerath I am a being of near infinite power.

Which is why new champs are disheartening. Not all of them are like this but take Ekko for example. He's a kid who has a device he made just cause and runs around Zaun trying to clean things up. Ok cool that makes for an interesting narrative just like the seconds trailer and the comic. But that doesn't flesh out WHO Ekko IS. Again when I play Aatrox I know my identity. I am a being who loves war and thrives in it. All of my dialogue suggests this as well as my background.

Then theres Ekko. His background has a lot of implied narrative that could be really interesting if fleshed out more to how it affects him in the present rather than "time doesn't heal all wounds". Ok cool. Something happened he couldn't fix. Whats he doing about it now. Cleaning up Zaun? Again thats only implied in his dialogue. Barely. Ekko doesn't have the characterization Aatrox does. Ekko is a kid running around with a time machine with the only reason being "just cause".

Not all the champions are like this. Bard does a decent job of you saying "oh I'm this god thing that has incredible power". Azir is the emperor. They both have purpose and feel like they have purpose even if their exact purpose is very iffy with the little amount of lore on them all kinda impled. Tahm Kench, on the other hand just likes to eat people.

I know you're probably sick of hearing us complain about the lore. But how hard is it to write a paragraph and then later retcon it again if you REALLY want to change it again.

Tl;dr Some of the characters need more fleshing out in order to make their general characterization meaningful beyond "just cause thats how they are"

6 Comments

Embertine7/13/2015, 4:30:08 PM2 votes

You aren't the champion you are playing as.....otherwise Sona wouldn't be saying "Only you can hear me summoner."

Where did you get that you are the champion you are playing? People call you the champion name because it's easier than having to remember some random person's name whom you will likely not be matched with again for several months.

Impetual7/12/2015, 9:18:10 AM1 votes

Agreed. Despite his cool mechanic, Ekko doesn't have a good enough story to match it.

Tikail7/13/2015, 9:07:19 AM1 votes

TL;DR version: Rito unfuck the lore fuck you did and give the game back its innocent virginity.

Yeah, I agree with you especially after the gutting so many champs received, there's a lot of personality that needs to be developed and/or redone. Like how Tahm and TF NEED to be connected in a similar fashion as Lucian and Thresh. I actually swore that the Tahm teaser was a new TF epic skin until the end.

Valaran Nara7/13/2015, 4:09:15 PM1 votes

Personally, I think Ekko is plenty fleshed out. He's only missing a larger lore piece that is pure text.

You can give him several comics over what he's doing and the things he come up against, but in all honesty, people may still gripe until they see a giant wall of text.

Ekko isn't "cleaning up" the streets just because it's the morally "right" thing to do. He does it out of a sense of pride for himself and the people he actually cares about.

I mean, if you're constantly being discriminated against by people who sees you as gutter rat purely because of where you came from, you'd get pissy too. He just decided to handle it by making things look better as opposed to making others look worse.