Orianna has lost her edge.

BigPimpingFresh·12/9/2016, 11:27:58 PM·7 votes·1,024 views

I just finished reading the new lore for Orianna, and I gotta say, I'm kinda disappointed.

Based on Ori's lore alone, she seems a lot less unnerving. Now, I have never read her original lore, but every time I saw Ori, she made me uncomfortable. It felt like they were going for a deadly reality with an innocent facade. Like, she has blood in her auto animations (I think), but now she's just some random woman. She doesn't feel scary outside of appearances. I've never been too hype about Piltover and Zaun in the first place, but if this is the direction that it's taking now, I feel like I won't be interested in anything other than the fact that Piltover is literally built over top of Zaun.

I implore you, share your thoughts, I just ask that you're kind.

Noxus for life.

6 Comments

Ulquiorra99512/10/2016, 12:34:55 AM8 votes

I really love her new lore. It's become by far my favorite piece among champion stories. I love how she actually is Orianna now instead of just a soulless machine bearing her name. How she's actually a person struggling with her new mechanical nature and not just an unnerving automaton. I feel like she's become the reverse of what you mentioned. Not a deadly reality with an innocent facade but the opposite - she's highly unnerving at the first glance with her unnatural motions and overall design which hides within what was once, and maybe still is, a caring and cheerful person.

However, I see the issue that she is not the old Orianna anymore; to the point that she absolutely requires a model update and full VO rehaul in order to properly reflect on her new background. While I feel sorry for those who prefered her old story, I'm completely in love with new one - hell, it alone made me pick up Orianna again after a long break.

23382622_DEL12/9/2016, 11:32:26 PM2 votes

Original Story: Inventor's daughter has bad ballet accident and dies - he engineers a replica of her that is semi-sentient. He dies. She is alone and needs to make ends meet Ends up in Macau working as a card dealer at a casino - can deal faster than anyone. Gets in a bad relationship and develops a drug habit. In order to fund her new addiction, she turns first to prostitution and then contract killing. One day she is approached by a summoner, a former client from her stint in prostitution, who tells her she can make even better money in League. She took him up on his offer and now kills on the fields of justice.

Edit: It was just different. I think they were trying to make her more relatable in the new story.

GreenLore12/10/2016, 12:24:26 AM2 votes

Overall I think they simply didn't manage to capture her offputting nature in the Fieram story(likely because it was mainly written from her perspective),though its not surprising as a lot of Oriannas uncanny-ness comes from her motions,design and voice,which are all things that can't be captured that good in a written text unless they write every small detail about it down,but that would get repetitive rather fast.

Zenbuuuu12/12/2016, 9:24:03 PM2 votes

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...every time I saw Ori, she made me uncomfortable...She doesn't feel scary outside of appearances.

Yes, yes, I completely agree.

This is why I liked her character. This is why I played her-- Hell, this is why I played LEAGUE. I don't have enough time to devote practice to a lot of champs, and honestly, Orianna was the only champion that I 100% liked and felt inspired by. I have a thing for creepy androids, what can I say? But it's not just that... I liked every inch of her design, from her lore to her visuals. I was excited for a lore update, it needed it. But not if it completely destroys what we knew.

Counter to what one other user said in this thread: If they change Orianna outside of her lore, I'll probably leave League because there is no one else I want to devote my time to. Lulu may be the only other character I'd try to continue with.

KuroCaliber12/11/2016, 5:17:02 AM1 votes

^This.