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My Problem WIth RetconTerra Is That It Creates Stagnant Champions That Don't Develop!

Impetual·5/12/2015, 7:17:11 AM·3 votes·569 views

To be honest, the retcon decision still does not sit right with me, so I feel the need to post about its downfalls.

I'll agree that I might do it a bit too often, but please try to understand that I'm one of the players that got really invested in the old Runeterra, and that I have issues with it being retconned out of existence.

The new lore format doesn't seem to allow for much character devolopment/flavour in champions. We don't hear about their day to day shenanigans in the new lore, it's just summarized concepts.

Champions don't have any way to develop anymore! They are becoming stagnant!

It feels like Riot want to set each champion up with a cool theme, and then leave them stagnant in a never changing position. (lore-wise)

There is no Journal of Justice to tell us about how champions are interacting with one another, or Runeterra, and their effects on that world.

Riot's new lore direction doesn't seem to have any outlet for change in Runeterra outside of Retcons.

To me at least, the new lore removes the personality that champions had built in the old lore, through removing the events that no longer happened in cannon.

Based on the new lore release format, nothing ever happens in Runeterra....just stuff that used to be there that you didn't know about is there now. It's kinda lame.

Also, I think we can all agree, the revised lore backstories kinda suck.

Now all we actually know about most champions are a few sentences.

7 Comments

GreenLore5/12/2015, 7:52:38 AM4 votes

What you are complaining about however hasn't really anything to do with the retcon itself. Even if they didn't do the retcon,the lore would be still stangant,they wouldn't be able to suddenly push out tons of lore just because of a different lore direction.

If they wanted to they could do something like the JoJ again,but the thing is that they simply don't want to do that and instead choose different types of lore tellings.

Tesla Effect5/12/2015, 12:32:26 PM4 votes

It first real problem of the retcon is the complete silence from the devs. When they should be the most active answering any questions about the retcon, they are mute to the lore fans. This only makes it even worse for people to understand their decision, like yourself.