I really love all the big faction updates BUT

Rabbi Skittles·Dec 19, 2016·2 votes·1,288 views

When are we going to get to the folks who don't have reasons to exist in the game space anymore since their previous lore was retconned with the removal of the League of Legends?

Jax, Morgana, Kayle, Fiddlesticks and Malphite are all floating in the story-less void that has been around for what, a year or so now?

I know the prevailing process is to give folks new stories with updates but none of these folks are anywhere near the update list (tbh they are all fairly decent candidates for at least visual updates imo, different rant tho) and it would be great for these folks to have decent reasons to exist again.

11 Comments

OleandervineDec 19, 20163 votes

Jax isn't far away from the update list. He's an eggplant that thwacks things to death with a stick. He's been cited as being feast or famine, with a severely outdated kit design that relies too heavily on jacking his AS through the roof and really doing nothing but make him a ball of stats who basically makes enemies stat check against him to determine if they'll win. He's just like Irelia, and Riot has said that she is someone they are eyeballing due to similar issues.

Rabbi SkittlesDec 19, 20161 votes

To be fair, all five of the Champs I mentioned are fair candidates for visual updates at the very least. But I don't think it'll be anytime soon, Jax is probably the best contender out of that list for a VGU but I wouldn't imagine he'd get on the list till at least the middle of 2017 which would mean he wouldn't be out till end of year? There's just a good handful of folks who definitely need it much sooner.

GreenLoreDec 19, 20163 votes

The universe site at least changed their lores to not include the institute of war anymore. Sure in some cases you can be pretty sure that its still just a placeholder,but its at least something.

Variks the LoyalDec 19, 20162 votes

Jax has a new short-story that ties him to Icathia, and thus makes him an enemy of the Void.

Fiddlesticks has one too; he perpetually slaughters wanderers, bandits, and mercenaries that spend the night in his field. He presumably is related to the same source as Nocturne and Shaco (Listed as related champions).

Malphite, we know, must be some sort of giant elemental. A rioter commented that, in lore, he's literally the size of a mountain.

Morgana and Kayle will likely be VU'd together, and get proper updates then.

I am SpongeboobDec 19, 20162 votes

That's for damn sure. :D

Rabbi SkittlesDec 19, 20162 votes

I hadn't actually heard about the short stories about Jax and Fiddles, that's actually pretty sweet to hear! I'm hoping they elaborated on the Darkin backstory that's been hinted at forever, though I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they've retconned that as well.

But! While Im not really a fan of the little two-three sentence filler entries but even they would be better than the old stories that reference stuff that no longer exists.

I'm just bringing this up because they've touched on the Shadow Isles twice since the retcon and while I really do appreciate the big updates they've been putting out its sad that these last little blank spaces have fallen on the wayside.

My bet would be Kayle and Morgana will see some love with an update to Demacia. It would make sense for Kayle to be some kind of representation of Justice or some such.

Eye of TwilightDec 19, 20163 votes

All of the champions that referenced the IoW or LoL have had minor updates so that they don't. Check them out on the Universe page.

GreenLoreDec 19, 20161 votes

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I hadn't actually heard about the short stories about Jax and Fiddles, that's actually pretty sweet to hear! I'm hoping they elaborated on the Darkin backstory that's been hinted at forever, though I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they've retconned that as well.

Its not like there was anything there to retcon in the first place,I mean we never got any confirmation about this and it is entirely possible that this demonic figure in his splash art is just a bunch of flames that just happen to look like one.

SithesisLordDec 19, 20161 votes

My bet would be Kayle and Morgana will see some love with an update to Demacia. It would make sense for Kayle to be some kind of representation of Justice or some such.

All things considered, Kayle and Morgana are only alligned towards Demacia and Noxus respectively to further show how opposite they are. They should be independant characters with residence in those nations.

They´re angels, beings from another planet, and as far as Aether Wing goes, technologically advanced. They wouldn´t be allies to humans in general.