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LoR: Hint that Yone might become a champion

Chembaron Yamada·2/19/2020, 4:36:19 AM·1 votes·9,865 views

I am afraid that I found something that could turn out to be a hint that Yone is truly about to become a champion in League of Legends.

It might feel like a stretch, but here it is: the way they named him in Legends of Runeterra. Yone, Windchaser. https://img.rankedboost.com/wp-content/plugins/legends-of-runeterra/assets/card-images/01IO056.png I wondered why they didn't just call this card Yone, since people familiar with the lore would know who this guy is and there are other cards with really short names.

But taking a closer look, the format of the name of the card is special. Name, Title. This kind of naming format is used just on one other card in Legends of Runeterra: https://img.rankedboost.com/wp-content/plugins/legends-of-runeterra/assets/card-images/01DE038.png Senna, Sentinel of Light

This card represents Senna in a state before she got caught by Thresh. A state before her actual champion status in League of Legends. And I think that they have worded the card this way instead of just "Senna", because it opens up the option to add Senna as a champion card to the game at a later state. And this champion card then will just get called "Senna", just like every other champion card just has the actual name of the champion without any title.

And I think the same could apply to Yone here. Maybe they named the card "Yone, Windchaser" because there are plans to add him as a champion later, when he is in a different state of being. Maybe as a vengeful spirit, hunting Yasuo.

Believe me, I don't want this to be the case. I am tired of Ionian champion releases and wish that we would not see another Ionian champion for the next 6 years. But this detail kinda made me think. Please convince me that this is not happening.

34 Comments

Sulghunter2/19/2020, 5:27:22 AM3 votes

Riot had an in-lore excuse as to why Senna was able to be introduced into the game as a champion. She was imprisoned in Thresh's lantern, not killed and then her soul harvested by Thresh. Thus, this was essentially Riot's foot in the door on bringing her into the game. Thresh and Lucian even had quote's around the idea of Lucian and Thresh being arch-nemesis over Senna being trapped in the lantern.

With Yone, he was straight up killed by Yasuo. His death after their duel was played up in Yasuo's lore as a tragic point, the guy being made to kill his own family for a crime he did not commit. There's no if's, and's or but's, Yone died, and Yasuo felt incredibly bad because of it. Yet, none of his quotes directly reference his late brother, or any desire to see him again.

Another point in my case against Rito bringing Yone back from the dead, is that necromancy, or any such revival of the dead does not fit Ionia's esthetic at all. Noxus can get away with because they're willing to acquire power by any means available, no matter how wretched or evil it may be, case in point: Sion. Ionia is about being in tune with nature, and the magic all around one self, and going with the flow, so to speak. Even the more radical members of Ionian society, such as Karma and Irelia, still respect the nature and the magic of Ionia, and being at peace with them.

For my third point, Yone, or Yasuo, had any theme of life, death, undeath, or playing around with the fore-mentioned. Wind-based ronin doesn't really speak lich-warrior to me.

Unless some third party is going to bring Yone back to life as some massive middle finger to Yasuo, I really don't see Yone coming back.

The Iceborn2/19/2020, 2:00:16 PM3 votes

I was generally thinking about why they would bring Yone as a card... It makes no sense to bring a dead character intoa game, well at least it feels hella weird for us lore fans. I do think that he will become a champion.. I guess we will see

GreenLore2/19/2020, 10:22:35 AM2 votes

Man when I saw this thread I thought it'd be another "Yone has a card, so he must become a champ"-theory, but I do think that your arguement is pretty solid.

Though with that being said, I'd say it might be just a coincidence. A lot of other named characters do have titles too, they are just worded differently (like Kato the Arm, Cithria of Cloudfield, Commander Ledros), so this might be more of a case by case basis of when they give a named character a title and what kind of title they give them.

However this could also be just a way to make it clear when a card depicts a past version of a character. "Sentinel of Light" tells us that it depicts Senna when she was uncorrupted by the shadows and "Windchaser" tells us that it depicts Yone when he was chasing Yasuo, so these titles are there to give us an indication of when they depict the character in question as that is actually important for both of them.

Camille Ferrøs2/19/2020, 1:13:29 PM2 votes

Everything is possible after Senna honestly.

General Esdeath 2/19/2020, 4:47:34 AM2 votes

nice catch

UNKN0WN44442/19/2020, 5:41:14 AM2 votes

Relax m8 we won't gonna get another ionian champ again Lulu

Foxynth2/19/2020, 4:17:38 PM1 votes

Two issues with that.

One, using title followed by name usually leads into an awkwardness of presentation, i.e. Sentinel of light Senna and Windchaser Yone. They sound more like potential skinlines than proper presentations for the characters, while name followed by title gives them more dynamic and more punch to their introductions.

Two, these are important characters to the League universe, whether they are champions, champion cards or neither. To give them their titles is appropriate because it serves world canon and supports the worldbuilding by making them immediately recognizable as character, with title, to directly relate to [Yasuo and Lucian in this case.] If you don't believe me, we can talk about Tarkaz the Tribeless, Cithria the Bold, and Tianna Crownguard, who all have their titles, albeit in a different format, while not being either champions or champion cards in both games.

Sukishoo2/19/2020, 9:31:09 PM1 votes

I don't believe he will be because he is absolutely meant to be DEAD. Senna on the other hand really wasn't dead, she had her soul trapped in Thresh's Lantern, so when it was freed she'd been corrupt by the mist and that's why she now appears in-game as she does (vs how she appears in LoR pre-mist).

LoR though also takes place like outside of LoL so it can showcase things that happen in a time before what we know in League.

Caretaker Jack2/27/2020, 1:52:33 AM1 votes

No. NOO, God, please No!!