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New Champion lore lacking

ThatWolfGuy·3/29/2016, 1:53:39 AM·3 votes·912 views

EDIT: So now I know that the longer lore's are on the site instead of the client, this thread is basically obsolete.

Okay, so here I am on the boards since I figured out I can't even post in the forums because of a specific level system or whatever,

but am I the only one who's noticing the newer champions' lore's are just straight boring and explain little to nothing about the champ? as if they completely forgot that League of Legends has it's own regions and it's own expanding world on Runeterra?

Braum and Gnar were the last ones with any type of origin story, after that it just seems like over the months they've completely gotten rid of their story writing team. It seems like they're just trying to make new champs for the sake of the game play mechanics, which is fine in a game that DOESN'T have it's own world and backstories, races, regions, etc. Not League of Legends, which does.

They're so vague now that you'd be just as knowledgeable about the Champ if you didn't read the lore at all. There's no connections with the Champs that you play as anymore, nothing to make them interesting and in that regard I feel like League of Legends is losing its colors.

Before when new champions released we had PARAGRAPHS to read and discover where they came from to make who they are in the League and who they were connected with[IE Demacia, Noxus, etc], but now you're lucky if you even get over 3 sentences.

Seems to me like they're just releasing champs that are gods or immortal so they can just say "They made it all lel they're immortal there is no lore" like the new Aurelion Sol which is the creator of universes or Kindred who is literally death. Where did they come from? How did they get the powers that they have?

Also I think that it's ironic that champion skins are getting more of a story than the new champions themselves with the PROJECT skins, trying to make a story with the skins that are technically non-canon because they're skins on champs that have already existed and have their own lore.

To me, it's just lazy.

7 Comments

LordHippoman3/29/2016, 1:55:49 AM5 votes

The new champs do not have their full Lores in the client. That was changed.

You can find the full, non 3 sentence lores for Jhin, Aurelion Sol, etc., on their Champion Pages on the website.

http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/aurelionsol/

Also, some newer champs (Rek'sai, Kindred) received mini-websites instead. They're hard to find now, but they are out there. Ekko has a comic as well, off the top of my head.

EDIT: The currently ongoing Mt. Targon "event" sorta thing has its own lore stuff that's only on that mini-site right now, which is here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/mount-targon/

Honestly, I think it'd be a great idea to have a Lore tab in the client that links to these or at least a stickied forum topic.

Kuzja13/29/2016, 3:03:05 AM1 votes

I was hoping we'd explore these lores more in special events. They did really good with the Gangplank vs MissFortune one. I want to explore Corki . Tell us the story about his younger days in with the Screaming Yipsnakes. How about Ezreal 's adventures within the most dangerous places he's ever explored without a map. Maybe give Annie a shot so we can know more about her parents and why the hell they would let a child go into the battlefield. I get she has powers but come on, at a young age like that?