The Old Standard For Champion Releases

Impetual·7/10/2015, 8:39:00 AM·5 votes·655 views

I miss how excited I used to be about lore/narrative releases.

In the old days, we used to hear whispers of a a yet to be released champion through the hints dropped in the Journal of Justice.

Usually there would be a political event that would have an impact on the world of Runeterra and develop its story upon a champion release.

WIth each champion release, the story of Runeterra would be continued.

These days champions feel like they're produced in a vacuum. They don't feel like they have any impact on Runeterra and simply just exist.

The "narrative element" just hasn't been up to par for the last few champions. The new champions just don't feel important or significant to Runeterra.

Despite their reduced frequency, champion releases feel much less like an "event" than they used to.

6 Comments

Solideus7/10/2015, 1:32:22 PM5 votes

You think a few words in the JoJ about a "sighting" were the most exciting way imaginable to introduce a champion? Really? How aren't todays pre-release content better in every way?

And what exactly makes new releases so very one-off compared to early releases? You say champions were "usually" released with a political event; whom was, exactly? I can barely think of one, and that's Lee Sin who was on fire for a while. How well does his mention in the JoJ compare to the content released for Diana, Zed, Vi, Quinn, Lissandra, Lucian, Jinx or Azir? Doesn't rework-events, like Sion's, count as release-content? I really don't think we get more one-off champions than way-back.

NorthernDruid7/10/2015, 12:23:59 PM2 votes

Well that's just how things are now. Riot doesn't want to tell that story anymore, they want to tell a completely different story unrelated to anything but general character names and themes.

It became clear to me that as a world, Runeterra wasn't going forward, when they claimed they were replacing major core setting elements and then didn't do anything for 10 months.

Tesla Effect7/10/2015, 4:02:49 PM2 votes

He is just biased, nothing will really change his opinion unless its like the old.