Why Ionia

MorganaIsMyWife·1/26/2020, 6:36:08 PM·4 votes·3,994 views

Why does Riot love Ionia? It’s honestly the most generic area in runeterra yet they keep getting all this lore, characters, and cinematics and honestly I’m just tired. We get it. Akali is sassy. Irelia is STRONK. Yasuo is Yasuo. If we had more Jhin stuff then I’m fine with it but nope. You had to shove in Akali and Kayn in the comic. Bad enough we barely get any Noxus or Void stuff(actual void stuff, not just Kaisa) Remember the conflict with Kass and Malz? Hell do you guys even remember that you have champs like Yi who gets no love in anything? Wasn’t he your star character years ago? That Darius comic was great! Why stop there? “Alright guys we added in one Noxus character. That’s our quota so let’s make skins for Akali and make another Ionian champ” Hell even Ekko and the Shadow Isles will get their own game!

Remember The Black Rose? What’s going on with Morde and Noxus? Remember General DuCouteau? Talon just stopped looking for him right? Is he dead? Oh no that’s not important. Garen and Kat making love jokes is important! You still haven’t made that official btw. The teasing is annoying. None of the Ionian champs have any personality besides Jhin and the ones who live in the damn jungle like Rakan. Says a lot about Ionia. Can’t wait for the 20th Akali skin.

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Ebonmaw Dragon1/26/2020, 6:43:28 PM4 votes

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If we had more Jhin stuff then I’m fine with it but nope. You had to shove in Akali and Kayn in the comic.

Even if i agree with the rest of the post... i dont agree with this part in particular. It makes perfect sense to add Akali and Kayn in a comic featuring Shen and Zed, in fact Kennen SHOULD be there as well, but Riot keeps ignoring the yordles.

Disco Swiss1/27/2020, 12:09:44 PM2 votes

I agree Ionia and most of their champs are lame. Even in-game Ionian champs just so happen to be annoying to fight.

Ill even go as far to say... People that like Ionia are big dum dum stupid heads.

GreenLore1/26/2020, 8:10:36 PM1 votes

I agree that Ionia needs to take a backseat, however I can understand why Ionia is getting so much focus. I mean:

  • Ionia is the faction who has probably the most subfactions and a lot of them are still unexplored.

  • Ionia is probably the faction with the most meaningful history for it, the nouxs invasion changed a lot and there are tons of people being affected by it in different ways in ionia, other factions have their history too, but its usually one big event that lies way back in the past.

  • The vastaya are of ionian origin, so it makes sense for any vastaya champ or vastaya related champ to be ionian.

  • Ionia doesn't just take inspiriation from japanese culture, but most asian cultures in general, meaning there is a wide variety of themes to draw from. Most other factions themes are mostly based on one countrys culture or have to share their theme with others(There are tons of european medieval themes, but Noxus and Demacia both draw from them).

Not to mention that the asian market is also pretty big, so ionia likely relates to that the most.

Posui Gart1/26/2020, 11:17:22 PM1 votes

You had to shove in Akali and Kayn in the comic

Well, its the fucking ZED comic, so I guess having his student(Kayn), friend/rival/enemy(Shen) and that friend/rival/enemy partner(Akali) to appear is pretty logical

Remember the conflict with Kass and Malz?

Yes. We had a whole champion(Kaisa) made out of that conflict. It ended with Kassadin bying some expensive artifacts and attempting to solo the whole Void or die trying, while Malz keeps doing his prophet things, pretty much resolved conflict

you have champs like Yi who gets no love in anything?

He is Ionian too, you know?

“Alright guys we added in one Noxus character. That’s our quota so let’s make skins for Akali and make another Ionian champ”

Sett is half-Noxian. In recent mecha skin line we had a Draven(he is from Noxus btw) skin and the only Ionian champion with recent skin is Sett, because, you know, every champion is supposed to get a release skin

Hell even Ekko and the Shadow Isles will get their own game!

Is that a problem?

Remember The Black Rose?

Yeah. And what of it? Just a bunch of nobles, with LB somewhat controlling them with false/real promises and fear. Its a big deal in-universe, not as much for us

What’s going on with Morde and Noxus?

A tribe of useless barbarians had enough of Morde's rule and killed him. With some help from LB and Vlad(who already had some experience in having enough of some evil lord's rule and killing that lord). Now he is back and wants his Immortal Bastion back, and the remaining world as a bonus. Sure, this isn't resolved really, but you cant expect Riot to show us how Mordekaiser solo clears the whole Noxus, or how united powers of Swain, Vlad, LB and Noxian armies managed to kill him again. They are a champions of the actual game and can't just die in lore.

Remember General DuCouteau? Talon just stopped looking for him right? Is he dead?

Yes, I do. No, Talon didn't stop, he just haven't found him yet. We don't know, perhaps he will appear later as a champion or in some other champion's lore

Garen and Kat making love jokes is important! You still haven’t made that official btw. The teasing is annoying

The teasing and "not making it official" is why this is so popular discussion topic. Nobody cares about Xayah/Rakan making love jokes, there isn't much to discuss

None of the Ionian champs have any personality besides Jhin and the ones who live in the damn jungle like Rakan

I would say most of them DO have a personality. Irelia, Zed, Shen, Yasuo, even Akali. And those who don't really have much just didnt have a way to show it, being somewhat old and outdated, like Lee or Wukong

Can’t wait for the 20th Akali skin.

Skins don't give money just because they are made on a certain champion. If a skin was sold a million times, this means that a million players now have a bit more fun playing League, which is not bad by itself.

Camille Ferrøs1/27/2020, 2:16:55 AM1 votes

It's not only annoying that one region is getting this much but the others getting neglected is bad. It's becoming the one hat thing. Pitlover everyone is about progress order Zaun is this damned Piltover, Demacia... let's not go there. Noxus is all about us strong you weak you die. Noxus especially has a lot of potential to be developed into something more than that quickly but... Oh yeah and there is Ixtal... lol

ScarletVixen2/23/2020, 7:27:06 PM1 votes

The reason is simple, China.