Good god, Jayce

midnight oil24·12/8/2016, 1:16:14 AM·4 votes·932 views

Alright, I know that the lore is from Jayce's perspective and we don't have the Viktor lore yet, but I'm highly disappointed in the new Jayce lore. I always found Jayce to be an obnoxious jerk, and I was hoping that the new lore could redeem him. Instead, while it has a good enough start, it quickly devolves into a "look, even though he was an arrogant asshole who dismissed those who had difficulty for all those years, he just needed a push in the right direction!" story. Even worse, Viktor is depicted as a classic villain type: the old friend who goes insane and tries to kill the hero.

That is not what Viktor is about. Even worse, they outright state that Jayce doesn't think that Viktor cares about how people feel. Oh really Jayce? Isn't that the exact same thing you did for years that made countless people miserable?

So in the end Jayce destroys a bunch of sentient robots because he stopped thinking clearly and is praised as a hero and dubbed The Defender of Tomorrow even though he's spent years calling other people idiots and being a general asshole.

This man does not deserve another chance from the piltover folk. He is everything wrong with piltover. He is arrogant, finds himself to be superior to others, and then when he does one sort of good thing that involves smashing someone's life's work, everyone says he's amazing.

Jayce, you make me sick. Who here agrees with me?

32 Comments

TyrekGoldenspear12/8/2016, 1:19:41 AM1 votes

Jayce And then I drop an Acceleration Gate and blast 'em with a Hyper Charge!

For the Future!

To be fair, you don't know that Viktor isn't about starting his Glorious Evolution one way or another. Either way you slice it, in his old lore it clearly states that he doesn't have the morality he had as a full human, implying that it isn't as important as efficiency to him.

But I play Viktor, not Jayce, and even though he seems like a villain, know that he can still be an anti-hero as he's trying to help people via his own means.

Oelyk12/8/2016, 1:31:34 AM1 votes

Lets agree to disagree... I don't dislike Victor, but this is a classic archtype of old friend turned enemy, both on different paths destined to conflict...

I really like it, and you know Jayce is not a hero, he hailed because he did something the people deemed heroic.

It makes me want to like jayce, but also hate him. despite being a jayce main... I think its much better than the previous one, where he is an object... in this one he has character, he is Jayce.

GreenLore12/8/2016, 1:33:46 AM1 votes

Overall they made it clear that Jayce is a jerk,which I'm ok with,since his old lore tried to paint him as a flawless hero,despite the fact that his ingame quotes make him sound like a jerk. And honestly his lore maks it clear that while he is seen as a hero,many still don't like his arrogant behavior,so its not like they act like everything is ok now.

Requiemsfire12/8/2016, 1:36:05 AM1 votes

So you prefer your super man esque all round good guy who built a hammer and protects piltover from the nefarious viktor?

MXXXXXL12/8/2016, 1:27:59 PM1 votes

People care about the lore?