What are some of the hardest champions to make a lore for?

Shadowkirby14··8 votes·1,108 views

This goes out to the Narrative team, who are known for making the lore and backstories for some of our favorite champions. However there are champions that still retain their pre-retcon lore, and I'm starting to wonder why they're not updating them.

Making lore for these champions may sound easy, but it does take quite an amount of brainstorming to actually think of where they came from, how this'll fit with their kits, gameplay, and personality, and how they'll interact with other champions.

Now my biggest question is, what are some that are super hard to make a lore for? I'm talking about champions that has their own kind of niche that it's nearly impossible to actually create a lore based around that said champion. Champions that were there since the beginning of LoL and now since the retcon, creating new lore has become even harder; especially for champions that were created specifically for the Institute of War. Without a proper setting or story, they can't truly exist and thus can't be proclaimed as a champion.

So what champions that has given you the hardest time to create a lore for?

12 Comments

Ebonmaw Dragon6 votes

Rammus He is there, doing things, and he is okay with that... We dont know anything about him, but its OK.

I mean, sure, he has an extended lore... but it doesnt really explain anything, and that is ok.

Whyte Lyon2 votes

Brand TahmKench Zac

Is it really that big a deal if some champions are completely one dimensional in character?

XIII Vanitas1 votes

He isn't talking about the depth of the characters, he's talking about the information given by their lore. Rammus' lore gives us basically no real information: he's just been around for a long time, lives in the Shuriman desert and... does things. We don't know his backstory, we only know that he's there.

Whyte Lyon1 votes

When I said the above champs are one dimensional I was encompassing the idea that creating a story arc for them would be difficult too. The above champs are only one dimension as a direct result of them being confined to their origins, therefore would be difficult to create any on going stories, that includes Rammus. At the same time I was trying to say that their isnt any problem with that. In fact I don't think Zac is solely one dimensional in character, but I don't see how his story could progress beyond what we already know about him, same goes for Brand and TK.

Edit: Excluding champs that are likely to get massive reworks in the near future. I imagine Kayle Morgana Malphite Nautilus Zilean are difficult to fully establish. Though these guys don't fit under the impossible to create lore for, there's a reason why it's taking Narrative so long to iron them out.

XIII Vanitas1 votes

Zac can be used to further explore Zaun. Tahm Kench could have ties with any champion. Brand's lore has been recently expanded during the Shuriman event and there is much more to learn about him.

The only limit is one's own imagination.

Skelenth4 votes

Corki should be hard, because I still can't believe there are aircrafts and no nation really cares too much about it. How do they want to explain that?

FloRaider421 votes

Runeterra has sentient robots, nukelike runes and demonic entities and you think aircrafts are scratching the willing suspension of disbelief xD

Zac could be hard, seing as he is a sentient blob with no real purpose apart from being a good Zaunite

Mogarl3 votes

Chogath Even in the old lore, Cho did not exist in Valoran. He was summoned directly from the void in the general hope that it would delay him from forcing his way into Valoran. Cho as he is Can Not be allowed to physically exist in Valoran without demanding a story where he is immediately kicked out. The longer Cho stays in Valoran the Bigger problem he becomes. If you let him stay too long Even Aurelion could have trouble removing him.

For that reason I think it would be difficult to have any meaningful lore where Cho actually shows up without it being a "beginning of the end" situation.

Nunu My runner up. The biggest problem Nunu has is that he may have trouble transition into a universe that is now a few shades darker while retaining his character. Personally I hope they are able to retain what makes Nunu himself when they eventually update his lore.

Beastyboy387IVC2 votes

Fiddlesticks Nocturne Shaco they all have something to do with the summoners and/or are unknown by anyone.

FloRaider421 votes

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Fiddlesticks Nocturne Shaco they all have something to do with the summoners and/or are unknown by anyone.

They could rather easily be retconned as beings from the shadow isles or as demons like Tahm.

TBakes2 votes

Jax

Ralanr1 votes

Xin.

Much of his story seems centered on how he became what he is. But I'm not sure how you can portray him in current events.

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