The worst thing about how Riot develops Lore: Other champions don't evolve with them

JainaProudgurl·10/30/2019, 7:44:46 PM·9 votes·6,759 views

This is actually one of the biggest things in league that still annoys me to this day. For a world that is actually incredibly cohesive and alive, with all these champions interacting with each other, Riot never bothers to highlight these interactions in-game with old champions. Sure, the new champions get interactions, but what about the old ones? Is Lucian just going to keep yelling "For Senna!" every time he ults even though she's with him again?

If you want a better example, lets head over to Riots multiple comic series they've released.

Sylas is a mage that seeks to release Demacia from its oppressive ways of punishing mages for whom they are. Sylas has a lot of interactions between many of the highest ranking and well known people in Demacia, between Jarvan, Garen, and Lux. Sylas got voicelines for most of these characters. However, Lux, Jarvan, and Garen still seem to sit on the rift oblivious to what happened between them and Sylas. When you release a new character, you have to accept that the characters around them also evolve, for better or worse and that should be reflected with mannerisms within the game. As it stands right now, only the characters getting released are really showing any knowledge of events that have occured within the universe, and it does pull away from the immersion. Its a very glaring issue, and it should be something that is addressed sometime soon up the road.

28 Comments

Ebonmaw Dragon10/30/2019, 7:48:13 PM14 votes

Sure, the new champions get interactions, but what about the old ones? Is Lucian just going to keep yelling "For Senna!" every time he ults even though she's with him again?

They literally updated the voice of Lucian with the announcement of Senna.

4 Step Cadence10/30/2019, 7:56:07 PM7 votes

That's cause its a lot harder to change in-game interactions than it is lore interactions. Lore interactions don't need voice actors that have to be auditioned, scheduled, tested, scrapped(if internal testing doesn't like them, see MF's scrapped voice update), and either redone and tested again or trashed indefinitely. With the lore, you can just write it and go, changing whatever you want with little to no work required to bring it to life.

I'm sure they want to bring the lore into the game more with VO updates and such. Its just a pain in the ass to do that constantly.

KABLUMP10/30/2019, 8:13:27 PM2 votes

I was hoping this would be about Yorick/Hec/Kalista/maokai not getting any development with senna's lore

But it's anger that the devs don't redo every voiceline for every champ release*[slayer-jinx-unamused]*

Lewanor10/30/2019, 8:49:21 PM2 votes

Well some doesn't even exist yet [sg-ahri-1]

HonestJohnTheCon10/31/2019, 12:34:46 AM1 votes

While this is ideal in theory, in practice it's a hell of a lot easier to pump out a few stories that progress a champion's arc than it is to re-hire a voice actor to record the same lines. Particularly as most champions' VOs have become iconic over time, and a lot of champions' voice actors are considerably well-known in the field and might be busy with something else.

I believe a lore Rioter on here has said that one of their favorite hobbies was coming up with new potential champion interactions in-game.