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Are all the plotlines going anywhere?

Johnny El Rojo·6/8/2019, 7:22:02 PM·22 votes·12,960 views

I get it. We have 145 champions right now, and a lot of story to cover. So if we want to see the conclusion or the progress to any region or champion story, we might have to wait years in the making.

The thing is, that with the incorporation of Qiyana and this new whole faction inside Kumungu, I'm starting to question if we ever are going to see those conclusions. Because new champions imply new plotlines, that many times are intertwined with those of precious champions, so that might not only slowdown any kind of resolution for the related champions because their stories must keep the pace with one another, but in some cases, take the story back to previous events. Exactly like what happened to after the introduction of , where right now we are just before she starts using her powers for Demacia in the dark.

Another example of that, is and his late rework. Just as his new story points out, we are left in the cliffhanger of him coming back to the world of the living. But because his coming would be such an upheaval, his storyline is going to remain frozen until many others related to Noxus and the nations in conflict with them are solved.

I say all of this because even if the lore interests me and I'm making the effort of reading any story in Universe I can... not seeing ever the conclusion to many of the storylines I'm reading about is really taking a toll in my interest. And is just very disappointing that there isn't seem to be any kind of resolution for any of the plotlines on the near future.

53 Comments

Camille Ferrøs6/8/2019, 7:30:53 PM19 votes

Well no, and the direction that they are headed with creating more and more and more plotlines it's going literally nowhere. Is Morde really going to invade? No. Because if he does invade it's over. Are Azir and Xerath going to clash against each other? No, because if they do one of them has to die. Will Aurelion be free from Targon? No, because if he is freed it's over for Targon.

Things will remain frozen until a retcon comes...

Darrosh Jewfist6/8/2019, 7:27:58 PM11 votes

League of Legends has a lot of Warhammer 40k writers working on their staff. Warhammer 40k lore, for a loooooong time was very stagnant and slow moving. It's only very recently WH40k started to advance it's story and timeline and even then pretty glacially. Literally years would move by and a lot of ongoing major campaigns would be untouched. The expectation was the only real advancement you would see would be in small, relatively insignificant throwaway side stories where the major balance of powers wouldn't change featuring cameos of major characters.

This is pretty much modern League lore - throwaway color stories, throwaway side characters that die, and ongoing storylines that don't go anywhere. Oh, and I forgot the excessive worldbuilding with quirky names just because.

I do not expect the plotlines to ever really go anywhere. And even if they do, it's hard to really care or feel any impact on them since so much of League's world is unrealized and poorly developed and has no effect on the gameplay.

Velzard of Koz6/8/2019, 10:00:19 PM7 votes

Much bigger problem is that with the many retcons and reworks we had, cynical part of me imagines by the time we get to some older left-open plotline it'll become obsolete and will be rectonned and changed. But that's just to be cynical, I hope they know what they're doing.

ModCaptainMårvelous6/9/2019, 2:14:55 AM6 votes

League still has huge amounts of unfixed and unresolved characters from the retcon. Advancement does happen (Burning Tides, Sylas, Ixtala, etc.) but it's rare due to how it often has to coincide with something, be it a champion release, a champion update or otherwise.

Terozu6/9/2019, 11:33:00 AM5 votes

Support the comics so they'll release plot advancements.

DeusVult6/9/2019, 2:29:11 AM4 votes

Video game storylines are a lot like old school comic book ones. A lot of build up, but it never actually goes anywhere. When a fight happens, both parties come out the exact same as they went in. Because you cannot have champion growth if their kits remain the same, unless you get Riot to separate the lore from the gameplay, which I don't see them doing.

The best lore we ever got was when GP "died" and was removed from the servers for a week or more until his rework came out. That and the lore barrage that we got at the time was awesome

TheMan2926/9/2019, 12:37:40 AM4 votes

I've read some of the books by the warhammer writers, such as the adeptus mechanicus line, skarsknik, swords of the emperor, headtaker, etc. these books are actually very high quality with interesting storylines. if LoL could have novels like this besides comics, I think they could sell very well, even if they are a story that's not part of the big thing. for example, a book could be made for Lucian and Thresh, kled and skaarl, or yorick and his internal conflict with the maiden of the mist

Ionian Vulpix6/9/2019, 1:31:28 AM4 votes

How could they advance it? What medium could they use to advance the story in a game that has no story? They can't up and change the game every time something happens to advance the 'plot' along like Fortnite does with its world (Just using it as a comparison b/c it's also a FTP game where story takes no meaning for the most part). Summoner's Rift doesn't even exist in Runeterra any more.

FSRER6/9/2019, 5:11:46 AM4 votes

The plot has reached a dead end again huh. Welp, took people long time to realise. Back with the war institute at least, we knew everyones lore and backstories because the player was a summoner and it explained itself. For so long, people have not realised that there is a huge question in this lore. Who, us the players, are in runetera? Are we a celestial being? Are we the watchers? What or Who are we and are able to know everything that is happening in runetera and the history of past milenials? That question was raised long ago and yet has to be answered.

Dyromic6/9/2019, 7:16:39 PM2 votes

Well, the Freljordian update happened in S3-S4 and all we've got since is a retcon that the Frozen Watchers are actually firstborns of the void and probably the biggest threat Runeterra has ever faced and that's it. Their prison is still weakening but not weak enough for them to burst out of it (so we are in the same place we were 5-6 years ago) .

hhaavviikk6/9/2019, 6:16:18 AM2 votes

riot's wallet as you buy more and more skins and champions that have to do with ''lore''

JackMcCarry6/8/2019, 10:13:45 PM2 votes

The plot cant advance because nothing of actual impact can happen. The most that has ever happened is GP being disabled for a few days in the burning tides event, which was very cool but also annoying for GP players.

Killin off main characters would make it weird playing a "dead" champion for people who actually read lore, everyone who mains a champion looks at the world through their champion's story, so you cant really have a "main" hero and "expendables".

ModRowanstar6/9/2019, 4:32:06 PM2 votes

There are many comics and additional stories (the MF and GP big story during Burning Tides and the hallowing) that enhance and move these forward.

TheMan2926/9/2019, 3:50:48 AM2 votes

I dont understand why so many of yall think if the plot line advanced in any way it would be an immediate conclusion. you really think Azir and xerath are going to have one big battle, where the both of them just find each other and BLAM problem solved? it would likely be more like an actual civil war. who thinks Yorick will just find the ruined king as soon as his story advances? and who here believes that the psychopathic, theatrical, yet utterly ingenius Jhin will be unable to evade Zed and Shen (and likely sees them as the biggest play of his life)

people seem to think a story is from point A to point B, when in fact it's a series of steps