More ACTIVE in lore champion interactions please

ChunLii·12/21/2017, 4:36:32 AM·6 votes·658 views

I understand the need to world build and set up a backstory but if we get some champion interaction it will make the universe feel more alive. Blidgewater was one of my favourite events for this reason. By active I mean that in a way that progresses the current timeline like the Jinx comic. Some examples of champion interactions I would love to see

Zed/Akali/Shen/Kayn

Vladimir/LeBlanc/Swain

But I think my favourite would be the ones that you don’t expect at all for example Miss Fortune and Lucian we saw in Burning Tides. So cross faction interactions. How cool would a Caitlyn and Vi vs Jhin story be?

4 Comments

Blaiz Fenix12/21/2017, 5:20:19 PM4 votes

It would be nice to see some connected champions interact more, like Kayn and Akali, but in general Riot avoids cross faction interaction like Lucian and Miss Fortune for example because it make the world seem a lot smaller is every champions are interacting with each other a lot.

It also makes them seem less rare if they are just bumping into each other a daily basis. I think more in-depth interactions would be nice, but I wouldn't expect to see cross-faction that often.

HalfTangible12/22/2017, 11:44:40 PM1 votes

The big issue with the lore is that it's mid-transistion. That wouldn't be such a big problem in and of itself, but it means that the status quo for each champion in the "modern day" has to be set up. Which means that almost all the lore we get is set-up for either the character in question, or for future stories.

Burning Tides and the Harrowing are remembered so fondly primarily because they ADVANCED the plot and story; TF and Graves got their final show-down, MF took out Gangplank and then took his job, Lucian discovered Thresh had his wife and now seeks to save her rather than just straight vengeance. However, most of the lore we've gotten since then has been stuff like Into the Abyss (Nami's webcomic?) or For Demacia; I like For Demacia and Into the Abyss, don't get me wrong, but they didn't really change anything about the involved characters.