Champions whose thematic is pretty weak

Darius Strada·Oct 25, 2015·1 votes·960 views

Why are you blue?Where do you come from?What are your dreams? You resemble a werewolf.That's it. He's an hemomancer but everybody calls him a vampire.How about making it different so people don't confuse that? You call yourself an explorer but sorry, what are your feats again?Founding a glove and a lantern? I am beyond Death Yeah sure. You're a nightmare.Nothing more to add. You're a scarecrow who likes crows.Nothing more to add. What are you?A background would be cool. Ok. You joined Yi and then what?

There are many more examples who could receive a lore or VU update but this were the ones who I found need it most.I didn't refer champions like Poppy and Taric since their reworks are near.What do you think?Who are the champions that really need an update on their lore or a VU?

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SEKAIOct 25, 20153 votes

{quoted} Champions whose thematic is pretty weak

Why are you blue?Where do you come from?What are your dreams?

He is a human rogue mage who goes around learning and collecting other lost arcane arts, he also has so much mana in his body to the point of himself appearing blue.

You resemble a werewolf.That's it.

He was once an alchemist until became a werewolf by a curse from Soraka who deemed him too destructive and shameful to live as a human.

He's an hemomancer but everybody calls him a vampire.How about making it different so people don't confuse that?

A mage who uses blood is always associated with vampiric attributes/references, it's really nothing new.

You call yourself an explorer but sorry, what are your feats again?Founding a glove and a lantern?

Pretty sure he also designed an entire sewer system of a city when he was barely 10. And has since been wandering around discovering and polishing ancient relics to his uses, be it to understand the past or use as his weapon like his gauntlet.

I am beyond Death Yeah sure.

He became a zombie because he failed to have a kid to fulfill his gravedigging duty when he's gone so he was resurrected until his job is done. Zombies are cool, and what's more cool is that he also summons other zombies.

You're a nightmare.Nothing more to add.

Physical manifestation of nightmares, or quite literally the very concept of fear itself.

You're a scarecrow who likes crows.Nothing more to add.

He was a test magical construct that went berserk which got himself into a rampage before being sealed and later released&leashed as a pawn on the field of justice.

What are you?A background would be cool.

I have no idea about this guy either. He's just a clown who is really evil I think.

Ok.

You joined Yi and then what?

He was born from a rock, met Yi and unintentionally got him out of his depression state which prompted him to agree and teach Wukong the Wuju style.

RalanrOct 25, 20151 votes

Warwick 's been changed around so many times I'm not sure what's up with him.

GreenLoreOct 25, 20151 votes

It was changed only once,people simply forget the change all the time

PeriditionOct 25, 20152 votes

Basically all champions who were originally just thought up as pop culture rip-offs.

Taric Shaco Alistar Evelynn Pantheon Olaf

RalanrOct 25, 20152 votes

Taric was a pop culture rip-off?

Of what?!

ShénzhìOct 25, 20151 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BZID081Vk

GreenLoreOct 25, 20151 votes

ah come on,that is just one joke of his,its not his whole character(not that he has much character though)

RalanrOct 26, 20151 votes

Every god damn line is about gems...

GreenLoreOct 26, 20151 votes

because he is a gem using knight.

Just because there was a series called jem,doesn't mean that everything that talks about gems is a reference to that.

Ironclad DragonOct 25, 20152 votes

MonkeyKing particularly strikes me as uninteresting. For some reason (though most likely to appeal to the massive Chinese audience), it became an expectation in popular culture to include Sun Wukong (LoL, RWBY, SMITE, Warframe). SMITE gets a free pass since its whole theme is about gods and mythological figures, but League of Legends and doubtless other MOBAs just threw him in. To me, LoL's Wukong doesn't have anything distinctive from other Sun Wukong cameos in other medias.

SEKAIOct 25, 20151 votes

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particularly strikes me as uninteresting. For some reason (though most likely to appeal to the massive Chinese audience), it became an expectation in popular culture to include Sun Wukong (LoL, RWBY, SMITE, Warframe). SMITE gets a free pass since its whole theme is about gods and mythological figures, but League of Legends and doubtless other MOBAs just threw him in. To me, LoL's Wukong doesn't have anything distinctive from other Sun Wukong cameos in other medias.

Can't see why you'd have a stigma towards Wukong when we have a team of Egyptian Gods, historical figure like Blackbeard/GP or Miyamoto/Yasuo and Nordic mythology buffet in the form of Olaf.

EDIT: Point is, Wukong is just as overused as any other popular concepts, figures or legends.

Ironclad DragonOct 25, 20151 votes

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Can't see why you'd have a stigma towards Wukong when we have a team of Egyptian Gods, historical figure like Blackbeard/GP or Miyamoto/Yasuo and Nordic mythology buffet in the form of Olaf.

I don't know, maybe it's just because I'm more aware that Wukong is everywhere? Western bias? It may be just that I don't find LoL's rendition of him that interesting. Not too much depth? Don't know. I can't explain it.

GreenLoreOct 25, 20152 votes

I'd say Irelia is someone who really doesn't use her thematic that much on a gameplay level. Don't misunderstand me,her lore is ok,but her thematic is pretty much "girl with levitating weapons",except that her levitating weapons are used almost just like any other melee weapon(only her ult has anything to do with her levitating weapons)

RalanrOct 26, 20151 votes

And that ult feels so out of place with the rest of her kit. In my opinion.

TsumikiriOct 25, 20151 votes

If you like these ones check out Eve's lore.

RalanrOct 25, 20151 votes

Oh yes. The "Windowmaker"

NarasimhaOct 25, 20151 votes

Wu's is actually meant to be pretty simple. He's based off of Sun Wukong, the monkey who literally challenged Heaven. And won. So in this incarnation, he's the monkey that challenges everyone. And wins, or works towards winning next time.

Darius StradaOct 25, 20151 votes

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Wu's is actually meant to be pretty simple. He's based off of Sun Wukong, the monkey who literally challenged Heaven. And won. So in this incarnation, he's the monkey that challenges everyone. And wins, or works towards winning next time.

I know.That's why I think his lore is pretty meh compared with the real Sun Wukong.

RalanrOct 25, 20151 votes

To be fair, everyone calls Vladimir a vampire because of his name.

And Pantheon has some weak lore.