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Some Champions are still missing any actual decent lore

Davaken·7/12/2017, 5:45:15 PM·1 votes·422 views

So I was looking through all the champ bios on Universe and it stood out to me that a lot of my favorite champions have pretty much no lore. Usually, they only have a very short bio that really doesn't explain anything. The ones that catched my eye was:

Jax, Unlike the other champions mentioned, actually has a very short story, in addition to his bio (which fills about 4 lines). Riot had to remove his old lore when they made the League non-canon. The short story he got to compromise for this loss, sadly explains very little. It mentions his race, which for some reason that we know nothing about was destroyed. We learned that he roams Runeterra to find people, that will help him fight some monsters (probaly the Void, but we have no details). Also he fought Fiora on a bridge once, but we never learned the outcome.

Brand Is a flame that for some reason was locked in an ice-cage and somehow possed a guy named Kegan, and is now out to destroy the world. Wait. What?

Cassiopeia Went on a visit to Shurima, got turned into a snake, and is now fighting crime in the streets of Noxus. Wait. What? (also I lied, she has a short story too, but I felt like adding her to the list anyway. Also she's pretty much Batman. Snakewoman?).

Alistar Confuses me the most. He hates Noxus because they slaughtered his entire village and almost made him go mad in their prisons, before he managed to escape. Now he tries to get vengance by exposing military secrets and helping "those whom the Noxian government treads upon". This raises so many questions, I don't even know where to start.

Corki After reading his lore I still have no idea who this guy is. He went on "daring" missions behind enemy lines (what enemy?) and for some reason he got forced to retire.

There are probaly way more champions like this, so feel free to notify me about other champions facing this problem. It is really sad, that some of our favorite champions only have a few hastly-written lines of text as backstory. Riot has done an alright job so far, giving more champions lore and stuff. It would probaly have been a lot easier, had they given the champions good lore, back when they made them.

3 Comments

Ariel the Cruel7/13/2017, 2:34:52 AM2 votes

''OK.''

Idolized by many, dismissed by some, mystifying to all, the curious being, Meddeler, is an enigma. Protected by a Corperate Title, Meddler inspires increasingly disparate theories on his origin wherever he goes - from demigod, to sacred oracle, to a mere beast transformed by the CEO. Whatever the truth may be, Meddler keeps his own counsel and stops for no one as he roams the Internet.

Even has a short story that gives us. . . Nothing. Might as well be Eve.

GreenLore7/13/2017, 10:26:29 PM1 votes

Actually we do know some stuff about Icathias downfall. Namely that Ryzes master destroyed the place using the world runes.(most likely because Icathia was trying to use the void to fight the shuriman empire)

However you are overall right. Some champs pretty much have no story right now(I'd say Cassio is kinda lucky in that she has at least a canon origin story,others on this list don't even have that).

Fiddle is another candidate as he seemingly stands around fields and kills trespassers,because reasons. And Annie,who is probably one of LoLs most iconic champions,does have a lore that is pretty sure to get a complete overhaul,cause right now,Annies whole faction might not be canon anymore(and even if it remains canon,its name and background is going to get changed for sure) And lets not forget Kayle and Morgana whose lore is pretty much a placeholder until they get new lores.