What do you personally dislike about the lore ¿

Camille Ferrøs·12/9/2018, 8:21:47 PM·9 votes·15,181 views

What do you personally dislike about the lore ¿ Do you dislike some character change,some champion's lore or maybe some short story ¿ Region maybe I'm generally curious to see since not many talk about the stuff they don't like and I just want to see what people dislike about this universe no hate or anything.

129 Comments

Malicious Metal12/9/2018, 8:43:22 PM16 votes

The plethora of world-ending threats, especially the void, kind of make more grounded, character-driven stories lose their weight.

Moody P12/9/2018, 9:52:42 PM13 votes

That Riot keeps expanding the scope of things rather than advancing specific storylines and we're stuck on cliffhangers for some of them for ages

Infernape12/9/2018, 8:58:01 PM12 votes

Varus' retcon.

######inb4 homophobic.

ChunLii12/9/2018, 8:26:27 PM8 votes

How much everything is related to Shurima. The latest addition being that Zaun was a Shuriman graveyard/old city instead of its own thing. It’s not an unpopular sentiment though as I saw a funny meme image on Twitter that showed Runeterra map as just one big Shurima.

4 Step Cadence12/9/2018, 8:39:57 PM8 votes

I'm not fond of the fact that some champions have amazing ideas and concepts behind them, yet their lore is so vague and out of date that its hard to enjoy them as actual characters in a story outside the game. For example, I feel like Alistar has a lot of potential to be a very intriguing character, yet he has a 2 paragraph bio that seems a bit outdated and nothing else. So much potential, so little attention.

Der Lindwurm12/9/2018, 9:23:33 PM8 votes

It contradicts itself way too much. Like the people who are making decisions about lore now have no idea what had been originally established, especially if there was anything the slightest bit nuanced about it.

That and this overall trend where they try to make everything about the characters' stories seem more extreme rather than nuanced. Gangplank went from being some random pirate guy to DREAD CAPTAIN GANGPLANK and isn't nearly as much fun as a character now. Annie was a smartalecky and talented little girl with an affinity for fire, now it's A TRAGIC TALE OF WILD MAGIC BEYOND HER CONTROL. Nautilus wasn't quite edgy enough, they needed something more extreme, so they made Pyke. It's getting silly.

QMighty12/10/2018, 7:30:03 AM5 votes

I hate the fact that so many champions from the old days have been left in the dust in terms of lore, most egregious examples being stuff like Soraka Alistar Malphite and everything involving Bandle. Yes, they're slowly getting through these guys, the most recent example being Nidalee, but it's really painful to know that these champs still have barely more lore than what was there in 2009.

Also, when most champs finally get updated lore, we rarely get to go back to them. For example, the was for the Freljord was set up in a big way through a huge lore event like five years ago, and we haven't heard anything from that since, except building on it a bit with the Void being integrated. Lore progression is so rare that it's a huge deal when it happens (Confessions of a Broken Blade).

And when these lore progressions DO happen, we don't see the champs change in-game. Look at Nidalee, who just got a lore update, or Lissandra, who was reframed in the lore. Neither is reflected in-game. Nidalee's still a stripper and Lissandra is still a Captain Planet villain. I realize that budget constraints don't allow Riot to implement EVERY SINGLE LORE CHANGE in game, and if they wanted to VGU every champ they released lore for we'd never get any lore, but it'd still be nice.

TL;DR - So I guess the thing I hate most about the lore is that there's not enough of it, haha.

P.S. - I'd put Kayle & Morgana in that little list of egregious examples, but they're not far off from a proper full update, so they get a pass.

NotaRobot100612/10/2018, 12:05:56 AM4 votes

That they gave Pyke a lot of Nautilus' old lore. The bit where he merged with his diving suit thanks to a nameless ocean horror gave me the best Metroid: Fusion vibes and I'm glad they kept a version of it in, but Nautilus' betrayal gives his backstory more of the flavor it currently lacks. He used to be an oceanic abomination set adrift with his one purpose (revenge) gone because he couldn't get back to land on time.

Now he's the world's angriest taxman, and much like the ocean where he collects, I'm still salty.

3 Tears12/10/2018, 3:25:37 PM4 votes

How do swords and bows fit in to a world of guns

Warlord Dienekes12/10/2018, 1:01:17 AM2 votes

Targon.

RyzeTheSmurfMage12/10/2018, 7:07:03 AM2 votes

Targon. Literally fuck Targon they are just a bunch of assholes that think themselves as the police of Runeterra when no one putted them there.

ez mental boom12/9/2018, 9:29:53 PM1 votes

The fact that so many people are fuckin obsessed with it when it means literally nothing

Lore only means something if you're interacting with it. Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, etc. There is no lore interaction except /taunts in this game. Therefore it is beyond meaningless.