When conceptualizing new champions don't try to fit them in the lore.
Characters should feel naturally emergent from areas in the lore where there is potential. Do not fit the lore to suit new characters.
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Upvoted, it feels like all recent champs have been created by design then power set then shoved into the lore instead of 2015-2016 champs where seemed to be all lore champs given design then given gameplay.
You look at Kindred, Sol, Tahm, Jhin, Taliyah, all great champs who seem to fit the lore better than Qiyana, Sylas, Kai'sa and Yuumi could. Neeko and Pyke are just kind of on their own.
We actually even have quite some characters already established in the lore, which people would love to see as a playable champion in League of Legends.
Baron Voss as a LoL champion, when, Riot?!
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This! So much this! I know it's hard to not change somethings in the lore when a new champion is released, but some recent champion releases change entire concepts and/or make villain characters and hostile concept seem weaker/less threatening because they want to make a new champion and the story they want to tell couldn't be told if the lore was the same.
Another thing.....what is The Lore?
The lore used to be all about The League of Legends.
People talked about Riot removing the League in 2012 and many suspected it then. But it took 2 years for it to be proven right.
Are you new there? When a new champions comes in they will always rework the story of at least an existing one, or change something about their past etc etc
Im probably in the minority here but I disagree. Champions like shyvana don't really fit the lore; the lore had to be changed for them. Same with my main, nidalee. She pretty much had no place in the lore which caused them to have to add a new region just for her and like 2 other champions as well as releasing a new champion just so there'd be someone for her to have lore interaction with. If they only made champions based on what already existed in the lore nidalee would never be a thing.
Nothing about demacia in the lore would remotely suggest that a half dragon lady would live there so they had to bend the lore to fit her archetype. Kayle and morgana had their own lore for a long time but it had almost nothing to do with the rest of the lore, so they changed it so that kayle and morgana were aspects and had something to do with demacia or something.
Another example is brand. There's nothing in the lore suggested of someone like him existed so they created him without the lore in mind, and then added him to the lore in the form of ryze's student.
My point is that when they disregard lore, they can come up with unique characters, and then make changes to lore to include those characters. This will cause the lore to evolve based on new characters, and character choices aren't constrained by what's currently in the lore.
When conceptualizing new champions don't try to fit them in the lore.
Do not fit the lore to suit new characters. Fit the new characters to the lore.
Wait. Don't try to fit the new champions to the lore. Fit the new characters to the lore. What?
