It's time for a mid-2019 lore update check-in!

Trolosaurus·6/21/2019, 7:21:12 PM·8 votes·11,527 views

I usually post this at the end of the year, but to heck with it, let's see how the lore overhaul is progressing.

To qualify for this list, you simply need to lack an up to date extended bio. We're now at a point where the majority of champions have reached this point. Note that a few of these, like Jax or Rek'Sai are in the weird position of having a short story but no extended bio. In a few of these cases, like Vel'Koz, these short stories can change as the character receives updated lore.

With that in mind, here is who we have left to update. I am excluding Fiddlesticks/Volibear from this list as their VGU's are confirmed, so I am counting them as done for all extents and purposes.

Alistar Anivia Bard Braum Chogath Corki Draven Gragas Heimerdinger Jax Kennen KogMaw Khazix Lucian Malphite Olaf RekSai Rumble Shaco Singed Sona Teemo Trundle Talon Twitch Ziggs Zilean

These two don't count, but as their bios were among the first released during the lore overhaul phase, they're criminally short and deserve more IMO. Gangplank Kindred

That's a pretty small list. When I last did this, we were at 38/142 left to update. As of now, we're down to 27/145, around 18%. We've also added 3 champions since then, as previously mentioned.

By region, the numbers left look like this. Freljord: 5 Bandle City/Yordles: 6 Void/Icathia: 6 Demacia: 2 Zaun: 2 Noxus: 2 Ixtal: 1 (now that Malphite has been moved to it). Other: 3

It gets smaller and smaller fellas. Notably, the Void/Icathia remains consistently untouched. This means that, from what we had prior and including Fiddlesticks/Volibear, Riot has updated the lore of 11 champions since the start of the year. A bit slower paced than last year, but any progress is still worthwhile, and these consistent lore patch notes really help to keep track of all this.

Edit: Forgot Talon, woops. Also took off Udyr, he's already done.

20 Comments

tamaya6/21/2019, 11:44:29 PM5 votes

Talon

mrmeddyman6/22/2019, 5:38:12 AM5 votes

Malphite is coming on Wednesday

Rengar and Zyra are probably going to get minor passes to integrate them into Ixtal

If Rito are benevolent masters maybe Khazix will be addressed??? Since he roams the jungles as well even though he is a Void champ

Probably a short story for Ixtal and Qiyanas' color story as well

So should be a good update.

The Iceborn6/21/2019, 7:23:37 PM2 votes

I would love to see what is going on with Anivia and Trundle.

YDy2ZkRq026/22/2019, 12:30:17 AM2 votes

Wait, why is Udyr there? His biography was updated when Ashe: Warmother was on going, together with the release of Silence of the Damned. I thought about it being because he has no color story, but a lot other champions dont and arent there, so why is he there? Also, you forgot Talon.

Chembaron Yamada6/21/2019, 11:03:45 PM1 votes

I am craving for an update for Singed and Twitch, alongside of a big update telling us more about chemtech in general.

TheMan2926/21/2019, 7:45:53 PM1 votes

trundle has a lot of potential to be honest. I would love a story highlighting his cunning and his thoughts on what he needs to do in leading his race (basically an objective of his own)

may I ask, why is Bard here? isnt his lore pretty concrete?

Zoli Ben6/25/2019, 5:52:38 PM1 votes

Malphite Zilean Skarner lore update just in, woohoo.

mrmeddyman6/22/2019, 5:34:46 AM1 votes

Please follow up with more Bandle City lore. What we got was really insubstantial and still leaves Bandle City and most of its' champs floating in the air.

Falrein6/21/2019, 7:36:46 PM1 votes

I'd like to note that champions who have updated bios but no color story should count as well, maybe in a different category :p We hold a list on the Lore of League Discord with LordRedStoneNr1, if you're interested!

Farih Danh6/22/2019, 10:53:21 AM1 votes

WHERES SYNDRA?

Kenneky6/22/2019, 2:25:56 PM1 votes

Nothing for my boi Talon? I really want to love his character and lore, but there is none really. I love his gameplay, but he is such a bland character, no personally, no extended lore, nothing really...

Whyte Lyon6/21/2019, 10:48:52 PM1 votes

Then you realize, all the modern bio's made before 2018 are subject to inevitable revisions/edits of their current content. Even though the changes should only be words and/or phrases different, it still means there's a lot of biographies to be brought up to the standard.

I'd assume that will come to include many of the Shurima champions, a few from Bilgewater and Targon, probably one or two from the Shadow Isles as well. Then any other champion whose bio is around 3-4 years old now and hasnt had some revisions already. Plus any champion's bio that contains some kind of timeline inconsistency.

There's (at the most) 30 more champions that might require bio revisions in the unforeseeable future. So its more accurate that the lore 'overhaul' remains a substantial task that will continue for a while longer still.