Women's armor in this game

The Ecdysiast·4/9/2018, 6:37:42 AM·2 votes·1,281 views

Edited because I missed a few women while scrolling through the little icon box. The important points stand, as the beginning of the previous edit was just to point out Kayle.

The shape of a character's armor doesn't matter in this game to begin with. Many champions have no armor whatsoever. From the very beginning, we've had seven-year-old Annie going onto the battelfield against giant-pauldrons Garen with no sort of protection besides her purple dress. Despite the existence of guns and electric cannons on Runeterra, characters fight with a variety of clothing choices--- some fight fully armored opponents with no shirts on (Ryze, Rakan), some wear fancy clothes (Caitlin, Jayce), and some wear more traditional armor (Garen, Darius).

Evelynn One champion in particular goes into battle with nothing but a g-string.

And why is that? Functional armor shape means little on a battlefield with magicAnnie, magic swords Irelia, guns Caitlyn Jhin, magic guns Lucian, flamethrowers Rumble, magic flamethrowers Ornn, and literal godsAurelionSol Bard. Even Kayle the most functional armor of any of the women who wear it doesn't do anything. She relies on magic to protect herself. So there's no point in asking for women to appear less like women in this particular game. Their choice in clothing has no bearing on this battlefield. In fact, their clothing of choice may be specifically to show that they are women so as to further interest in them and their cause-- whether that cause is sustaining from the suffering of lustful humans, proving that magic isn't evil, spreading their name as a hired hand, showing off a giant muscled body, or simply being sexy.

As a last note; any normal footsoldier poses no threat to someone powerful/smart/skilled enough to be considered a Champion.

14 Comments

Arakadia4/9/2018, 6:48:01 AM9 votes

I don't understand why people keep trying to justify the unrealistic features Riot has put in their art with the non cannon gameplay.

Yeah Lux's armor will do literally nothing against A Sol, Bard, etc. In the real lore, Lux will never be fighting A Sol or Bard, or Kindred.

Thats why the game isn't cannon. The institute doesn't matter anymore, so we shouldn't be designing characters' armor as if Lux was literally going to be hit with a new born star.

LankPants4/9/2018, 9:50:15 AM3 votes

Uhhh, are you sure that Sejuani, Vi, Quinn, Kalista, Shyvana and possibly even Elise don't wear some sort of armour?

In Sejuani and Kalista's cases it's full armour suits while all the others wear at least as much as Diana.

SEKAI4/9/2018, 6:43:52 AM2 votes

Then there is this guy Gragas who goes onto the battlefront with nothing but BDSM ropes (I don't really get the ropes tbh, is it to somehow tighten the body like how muay thai fighters bind their fists?) and his favourite wine keg.

woodvsmurph4/9/2018, 6:57:39 AM1 votes

Urgot

DerMangoJoghurt4/9/2018, 9:54:21 AM1 votes

Only five women in this game are wearing armor at all.

What about Kaisa (unconventional, but definitely armored), Kalista , Lissandra , Quinn , Sejuani , Shyvana and Vi?