How would you rank your favourite Runeterra factions?

BLIGHTBRINGER·1/22/2019, 11:20:05 AM·2 votes·3,902 views

Personally...

Mount Targon
Ionia
Shadow Isles
Zaun
The Void
Shurima
Piltover
Bilgewater
Freljord
Bandle City
Noxus
Damacia

12 Comments

Pale Mask1/22/2019, 11:28:45 AM2 votes

Shadow Isles
The Void
future corpses

The Iceborn1/22/2019, 11:53:40 AM1 votes

1.Freljord 2.Shadow Isles 3.The Void 4.Noxus 5.Ionia 6.Shurima 7.Piltover ...

RyzeTheSmurfMage1/22/2019, 12:14:03 PM1 votes

Shurima
Noxus
Freljord
Piltover/Zaun
Shadow Isles
Void
Bilgewater
Demacia
Bandle City
Ionia
Targon SHURIMA IS THE BEST NATION EVER! SHURIMA SHURIMA SHURIMAAAAAA

Otivnaig1/22/2019, 3:30:57 PM1 votes

Freljord
Ionia
Shadow Isles
Noxus
Demacia
Everything else

Warlord Dienekes1/22/2019, 4:22:41 PM1 votes

Ok let's see, from best to worst

Bilgewater
Noxus
Demacia
Zaun
Freljord
Piltover
Void
Ionia
Shadow Isles
Icathia
Darkin
Shurima
Kumunga Forest
Bandle City
That land between Demacia and Noxus
The undiscovered parts of the map
Targon

Wrathof3001/22/2019, 6:52:39 PM1 votes

Targon is my favorite and also number 1 on my list. Runner up: Demacia.

However, there are a few reasons why Targon won't score high on other people's list/ why it wasn't that popular on the popularity poll.

Prior to the retcon, Mount Targon only had 3 champions: Leona Diana . Meaning Targon fans were fans of the Leona and Diana/ Solari vs Lunari conflict or fans of Sparta and Greek aesthetics. This was a niche target audience, as the Leona and Diana conflict governed the entirety of Mount Targon lore and Pantheon was the sole spartan character in game. Compared to Freljord's heavy viking/ barbarian/ celtic aesthetic, Ionia's heavy Asian aesthetic and 4 ninjas Shen Akali Kennen Zed and Demacia's knights and mages fantasy, Bilgewater's pirate country and so on.

Then came the retcon, Targon was moved into the "Greek gods on top Mt Olympus" thematic. This concept holds a lot of potential for the future, however a lot of the new lore was not well accepted. The lore allowed itself to be misinterpreted by fans, the main one being Leona's, however their are also instances where the new lore can be simply be better Diana's agency as a "scholar" rather than just "someone who doesn't fit in" and Pantheon's biography ending without any context on Pantheon himself. In addition to this, the new Targon champ AurelionSol was solely based on hating the Targonians, basically an in-lore funnel for disliking Targon. Which isn't normally a bad thing however compared to the actual villainous factions, the Shadow Isles, the Void, the Watchers, the Black Rose, no one actually hates these regions/ factions.

Targon has no antithesis... Look at Piltover and Zaun, Demacia and Noxus (pre-retcon at least), having an antithesis bolsters a factions popularity, Piltover and Zaun work off of each other they are 2 sides of the same coin. Post-retcon there was some attempt to set up the Void as the antithesis to Targon, the problems with this, the Void was and still is, set up as a problem that is a danger to multiple factions and as well as a force of nature that as a whole, has no need for ideals. Meaning there was nothing for Targon to bounce their own ideals off of.

That being said however, Targon has a lot of potential and we having been seeing some decent set-up/ follow-up in the lore.