+10 to the lore team this time around.

Okay, so I am decidedly among the people that were annoyed to see all the old lore thrown out. I still am, honestly. I think a lot could have been fixed, but actually having a League of Legends as a plot point was really cool. An actual, legitimate reason for all these random champions to fight in an arena? Maybe not unique, but rare enough that it stood out to me.

But, credit where it's due.

Regardless of how you felt about the storyline for the event, I personally think that shifting Gangplank's old base to become a skin and giving him a new base to match the events of the RP event was absolutely brilliant. One thing that I always like to see is character development of some kind. It doesn't have to be much, but static characters are, generally speaking, boring. The problem with character development in League is that a lot of them are out for one another's blood, but you can't just have them killing each other off in the lore because they still exist in the game, right? That hinders quite a few things you can do. Integrating the lore with the game by updating the base look of a character while keeping their classic looks as a skin? Not gonna lie, I never thought of it, and I'm kind of annoyed at myself that I didn't. So Miss Fortune has had a sort of resolution. She didn't get to kill Gangplank, but she did to him what he did to her. And Gangplank now looks the part, instead of remaining "generic pirate" in the game even while losing an arm in the story.

So, from me to the lore guys and all the VA guys that made it possible? A lot of things you guys have done have bugged the crap out of me. This? Is not one of those things. This is great, and I thank you for it, and I hope this is going to become a policy moving forward <3