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You know what is my biggest issue with the Star Guardian Skinline?

SaltyToplaneGoat·9/10/2017, 8:30:47 PM·45 votes·9,310 views

They have no real antagonist besides some brainless monsters and occasionally one that seems a little more mean than the others. Ten shining heroes and... absolutely no one to oppose them? Sounds like a boring as hell narrative in the long run. If I were to use manga-comparisions (given the japanese nature of the theme) I'd say it's perfectly ok to let the protagonist fight mindless goons for the first ten to fifteen so chapters, but at some point you have to introduce the first proper villain, not necessarly the "big bad", not even really an underling of said "big bad", but just SOMEONE who can fight the protagonist on an even footing and who has some personality to them.

I mean, you could also subvert the theme by having the magical heroes rip themselves apart in conflict, but a.) that has been done already b.) it was not necessarly something people wanted to see c.) it wouldn't really fit with the more "traditional" setting that the SG-Verse opens up.

It can be other champions that get "villain" skins (maybe expand the Superb Villain skinline from just Veigar to an entire group of villains? League's own "Sinister Six" so to speak. Or get the SG-lore rolling with a comic and get your own out-of-game villains, I don't really care, JUST GET SOMETHING DONE ALREADY.

Heroes without villains are lame.

Imagine Batman without villains - he'd be some random rich dude, spending the day either brooding or venting his aggressions by beating up random ciminals who all pose absolutely no challange to him or his ideals. No one would really want to read that tbh...

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Placentas9/10/2017, 9:03:46 PM33 votes

But this basically is the first 10-15 chapters.

First we had SG Lux. It was going to be stand-alone but the people fuckin' loooooved it.

So then comes the 2nd batch of SG. No real plan to add any actual lore behind, just more dope skins they know will sell. So they have the 1st team battle the baron.

Now with the 2nd wave of SG - we are actually starting the story. The first wave was more of a setting and feel for the story. This new wave of SG came with actual lore and only tells us the very beginning.

If we get more SG sets I am sure we will get a fleshed out villain/someone summoning these void monsters.

Cetri9/10/2017, 9:07:17 PM5 votes

I mean, you said that it's "perfectly okay to let the protagonists fight mindless goons for the first ten to fifteen or so chapters", and I'd definitely argue that the storyline of the skinline is still well within those parameters, tbh. We've got like.... two short cinematics and a short story, which introduce the two groups and have them meet, which is definitely Act 1 territory. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if next year's hypothetical SG event introduced villains, or at least revealed one of the Guardians to not be as good as they seem.

the weeaboo9/11/2017, 3:05:08 PM5 votes

Im hoping for the next team to be Vi Taliyah Irelia Xayah Rakan

STAR GUARDIAN XAYAH RAKAN FOR THE WIN

dogehkiin9/11/2017, 7:11:52 PM3 votes

The problem is that we don't have enough Hentai of them yet.