The League should have been destroyed, not retconned

rand0mredneck·Aug 7, 2016·18 votes·1,335 views

Now, before you say, I've never had a problem with the retcon like some do. But I've been thinking they missed an opportunity. Instead of just erasing it from canon, they could have gone for a big, lore shaking change-up. Like WoW did ages ago with Cataclysm. Like, Cho and Brand conspired together and just blew the place to smithereens or something to that effect. It would have been a fun new lore twist, and wouldn't leave scores of characters with outdated backgrounds.

19 Comments

MavenSongAug 7, 20166 votes

Problem with that is each Champion would still recognize each other afterwords. You wouldnt be able to have some unique meetings that we have now like when MF met Lucian and Olaf.

rand0mredneckAug 7, 20161 votes

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Problem with that is each Champion would still recognize each other afterwords. You wouldnt be able to have some unique meetings that we have now like when MF met Lucian and Olaf.

I hadn't thought about that...

FasmodeyAug 7, 20164 votes

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I hadn't thought about that...

And if League was destroyed, I don't think weak champions could survive. In the end, Summoners were formidably powerful entities. Only a few champion could match with them. If even they lost, at least one of those champions would be dead. I mean, please, how much chance does Nunu have for surviving?

SharjoAug 7, 20164 votes

Not to mention the Ori's and Fiddles of the world are left with no justification for their existence anymore.

Golden Tager XAug 7, 20163 votes

Jax

CobaltTheMadMageAug 7, 20161 votes

He could always have been part of some other Valoran-wide combat sport organization that would still have cried "Jax OP plz nerf" when he refused to retire after such a long winning streak.

Warlord DienekesAug 7, 20161 votes

Let's be honest they already have no justification for their existence. But having champions represent the failures of the League that were then let lose on the world after its destruction is as good a plot as any for them.

NarasimhaAug 7, 20163 votes

It's been discussed, and the prevailing argument is that if the Institute existed, theres nothing realy stopping them from rebuilding and doing it all over again. It doesn't really open anything new up, it just makes a temporary lull.

RogueWillAug 7, 20162 votes

there are ways to destroy organization for good, not just physically (that's a tad too shallow).

The easiest way woudl be to create a war that the institute couldn't control. This woudl indeed discredit it and will put in doubt if there is a point of it in existing at all (I'm guessing i paid by taxes from everyday people). Summoners woudl lose part of their status (like what happened to samurais) and at the same time you would give a few champion the oportunity for a shine and a change on their lore. You could have Aatrox intervening on another war, Garen, Darius, Sion, Xin Zhao would see more of the action, Poppy woudl join looking for her Hero, you also will have people opposing due to the damage to the land like Maokai and Skarner (not sure if his lore was changed so it doesn't do this anymore). You could even have added Jhin wreaking some havok thining the high heads of the Institute since it woudl be perfect targets for him.

MoesndAug 7, 20161 votes

Wait.... What did i miss out on that there is no league anymore?

rand0mredneckAug 7, 20162 votes

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Wait.... What did i miss out on that there is no league anymore?

Retconned...like, months ago.

SharjoAug 7, 20165 votes

Years in fact. T'was September of 2014, though it'd been a thing internally at Riot for far longer.

MavenSongAug 7, 20161 votes

Huh, I never realized the retcon was that close to me staring to play. I assumed it had been at least a full yeah prior but it was acutally only months... dang

Darius StradaAug 7, 20161 votes

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Wait.... What did i miss out on that there is no league anymore?

You're 2 years late in lore buddy

zlumpyAug 7, 20161 votes

Teemo was off planting a metric crap load of shrooms.

CobaltTheMadMageAug 7, 20161 votes

Actually, I recently hit upon the notion of stealing a page from Overwatch and having the League of Legends (or at least an organization by that name but with less total influence than the original iteration) and Summoners (not quite as OP as the original versions) still exist in-universe, but not necessarily have all the playable Champs be members, just the ones whose existence would not be justifiable otherwise.

Kinda like how technically only a handful of playable characters in Overwatch are actually members of the titular organization; the rest are just independent of or even directly opposed to Overwatch itself.

World EnderAug 8, 20161 votes

A Rioter mentioned somewhere that the League is not gone from the lore or 'erased from canon,' they're simply waiting for an opportunity to remaster it or work it back in or something. I can't find the post, but I remember reading it around a week ago. I hope they will do something with it eventually, but right now I'd rather have Void lore, Yordle lore, Darkin lore, etc etc before that.

Most likely though, they Summoners won't exist as 'controllers of Summoner's Rift' or whatever they were before; a more reasonable approach would be to make them a powerful magical council that oversees or influences events on Runeterra.

FasmodeyAug 8, 20161 votes

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A Rioter mentioned somewhere that the League is not gone from the lore or 'erased from canon,' they're simply waiting for an opportunity to remaster it or work it back in or something. I can't find the post, but I remember reading it around a week ago. I hope they will do something with it eventually, but right now I'd rather have Void lore, Yordle lore, Darkin lore, etc etc before that.

Most likely though, they Summoners won't exist as 'controllers of Summoner's Rift' or whatever they were before; a more reasonable approach would be to make them a powerful magical council that oversees or influences events on Runeterra.

League is retconned, Summoners are not. But they're still not the Summoners we know.

World EnderAug 8, 20161 votes

Right, my mistake there. But yeah, they definitely will be different than what they were before.