ITT: Characters retconned to be garbage

Original Varus
>Got assigned to guard some stupid pool of corruption
>Family gets slaughtered by Noxian army while he's stuck on guard duty
>Uses the pools corrupting powers to become an edgelord archer who only wants to avenge his family
>"Muh vengeance" trope that worked and was the entire point of the character

Nu-Varus
>Shoehorned gay romance between two archers
>One gets wounded, his buttbuddy throws him into the pool hoping to save him, somehow they both fall in
>Evil monster inside fuses them into one so he can use the body to do unexplained evil shit
>Spirits of the two fags survived and fight to regain control of the body
>"Love triumphs over all!" trope shoehorned into a character that was originally all about vengeance

What a joke. Riot's lore wasn't ever much to write home about, but it's gotten especially shitty with Anthony Burch and shoehorned "diversity" all the time. It would have been fine if they introduced some new character with this backstory, but they took one of the most straightforward and recognizable characters and mucked up his lore just to have "League first homosexual champ." Can't wait to see whose lore they fuck up next.

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>Niggas pretending to give a shit about Varus

There are legitimate lorefags out there that care about the whole thing in general, but I think has more to with the writers just being lazy and simplifying everything they work with. There's also the fact that they completely retconned his family and made him gay, so there's that whole forced agenda BS. I never cared about Varus's lore, hell, I didn't even know what it was but I think it's stupid that they retconned it and the biggest result of this retcon had to do with them deleting his family and making him gay.

I didn't give shit about his old lore and still don't give a shit about his new lore.

They've been retconning lore for years now. Hell, they even got rid of summoner's in the official lore a long time ago and they haven't given enough of a shit to remove "summoner" spells and mentions of summoners in the actual fucking game.

It never sat right with me now they changed up Warwick and Singed's lore too

>Characters retconned to be garbage
Xerath

>Only you can hear me Summoner. What masterpiece shall we perform today

Sona over here talking to her damn self according to Riot's lore department.

I saw shit like this coming the moment they hired Anthony Burch

>You only need to click once, fool.

and the main map is still called SUMMONER's rift.

I never got why people actually gave s shit about league lore of all things. It's been pretty much a joke all along, so why even bother with it. The whole universe sucks major ass.

It's actually just one archer, the other one wielded two swords

League of Legends lore is a fucking mess now. Nothing makes sense. There isn't even a reason anymore as to way people are fighting each other and trying to destroy the nexus on the other side. This Varus retcon is just one of many unneeded changes.

>playing League of Legends on Summoner's Rift, my champion calls me their summoner
>the League of Legends was removed from the game, as was summoners
wow quality game Riot

So he's just a D&D 5e Ranger.
I mean, heck, it's not like you're not constantly buying two longswords for SOME item.

>varus is now a demon and two gays
>skills revolve around spreading disease
really activates those almonds

Removing the institute of war/summoners will forever be a giant scar in the game, theyve dumped so many resources into patching up a mess they created themself

>mfw people give a fuck about LoL plot

>It would have been fine if they introduced some new character with this backstory
Wrong. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Yeah that shit was retarded considering how genuinely creative it used to be.

>Warwick used to be the MLG pro of alchemy and poisons, with his little fuccboi assistant Singed
>He caused SO much suffering with his concoctions that Soraka the magic star baby performed an astral curse so powerful she fucked herself up with it in the process
>Warwick rendered from brilliant alchemist to animalistic killing machine
>Rather than trying to find a cure or fight it, the motherfucker loves it and gladly embraces being a literal monster, doesn't give a fuck about alchemy or anything, anymore
>Singed graduates from apprentice to master, in the old master's absence
>Proceeds to gas everyone, especially Riven

Great, fun chunk of lore involving different characters and creative uses of them. Not it's just shit.

no one cared about lore, the whole gay fusion with a demon is fucking weird though, shoulda just made taric gay since he has a pink costume

>gay since he has a pink costume

No sounder logic.

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i actually liked the context that whole summoner thing provided... so, what was it replaced with?

Warwick has had multiple lore revisions hasn't he? Earliest I can remember is him being a mercenary fighting for Ionia and when shit hit the fan he drank a formula that turned him into a beast

changing a straight character to be gay is always wrong. it's lazy.
there are plenty of characters that are sexually ambiguous that they could have chosen from, but they pick the one with a wife and child.
hell there are characters that are already have homoerotic backgrounds that they could have easily chosen, Diana, Graves, Taric are the few that come to mind.

>what was it replaced with?
Literally nothing.

It used to be the whole thing with the Summoners and the Institute of War, and how in order to prevent disastrous wars in the world, nations and peoples would resolve conflicts and disputes in the Rift thanks to the Institute. Have a border dispute or political issue to content? Go to the institute and settle it in the Rift by sending your greatest champions to represent your side, rather than going to war.

Now, it's literally just everyone fighting in an arena, mostly for just personal reasons rather than any greater logical reason.

>Caring about League
kys

Is he actually gay now?
I watched about half of the music video and I just thought it was roman bromance influence

Basically the actual gameplay is non canon to the world Riot made except Riot is too lazy to remove all the references to old lore of old champs.

cataclysm ruined him

Who the fuck even cares about lore in league?

until one summoner decided to be a dick, troll you all game and just feeds

somehow he isn't put before a fucking war tribunal and is allowed to immediately queue again

I never played League but I always liked that the player was part of the canon, it was interesting. What's the point of removing that?

>Make a game world
>Nothing that takes place in that game is canon in the game's world

That is the stupidest shit ever.

Wait, really?

>What's the point of removing that?
pic related

Being a fruit doesn't necessarily mean he's gay.

It's called ASSFAGGOTS for a reason.

>implying varus had any character to begin with

Varus is a fag now? Lmao

wtf is this

Varus had no character, he was boring and edgy as fuck.
People are just bitching because now he's gay and they hate fags.

Don't forget about Miss Fortune's
>Sure you can handle me? Summoner?
I suppose because they wanted to write stories than around shit like Demacia/Noxus/The Void/ect without having some all powerful collection of wizards making every nation state their bitch and keeping a status quo. Unfortunately they just half-assed everything and retconned EVERYBODY'S lore to be significantly shorter if they weren't recently updated

>ASSFAGGOTS

>caring about lore in a multiplayer game where none of the lore has any impact on anything

Riot's lore division was killed because they couldn't or wouldn't justify endless inclusion of retarded edgy characters, so the Journal of Justice had to close. LoL was dead after that pretty much. It was a huge red flag about the direction the game was taking. Remember the whole Swain/LeBlanc/Jarvan thing? Something really great could have come out of it, but, alas.

It used to have. Ionian cooldown boots found in the game today were made to commemorate the Ionia vs Noxus match that was played using the champions of respective factions over a territorial dispute.

>item descriptions
ludonarrative on the level of dark souls.

The item was created as a result of that match. It would have been a different item with a different description had Noxus won.

>caring about lore
>in fucking league of legends
Most of the characters already look like they could be trannies

You need to be 18 or older to post here, buddy.

He's way better now. Everyone knew he was gay already, the devs just confirmed it.

>had no character

Even his animations reflected his character.

Yeah I can kind of understand that they had written themselves into a corner but they never actually did anything after they wrote themselves out of it. All they had to do was make up some bullshit event in which the summoners wound up significantly weaker, hell use it as an excuse to nerf dumb shit like flash while you're at it.

I almost forgot
>Summoner Spells
I'm also pretty sure they refer to the pro teams as summoners still but I could be wrong.
They will never significantly nerf flash since the entire roster is balanced around flash and the Jungle/Top/Mid/ADC/Support set up.

Ah, don't blame Universe. It's only been two years. Imagine being given different locations and people in the Lord of the Rings, and then being told to make sure they all connect in accordance to one canonical world. Oh and a new character or location gets added every two months. And you're also tasked with making Alternate Universe stories for certain characters while making the real universe. And Bilbo is a twelve-year-old girl and Aragorn is a magic puddle of green goop.

>there are people who care about lore in ASSFAGGOTs

I blame Overwatch to try to give characters romance, ""depth"" and other dumb shit. Even fucking Dota has this garbage now, and they are done by the company made TF2.

>"Love triumphs over all!"
how love triumphs anything in this case when clearly the darkin has the power and fags are trapped

iirc it would have been arpen boots

Zac's new lore was the worst retcon. He's not some adorable blob with a loving family anymore but an edgy sewer-living monster who's family was killed and who feels feelings or some crap.

>Comissioning a comic and producing a full 3D music video just to advertise a lore retcon
>a lore retcon that turned a brooding archer into a prancing la-la homo-demon
Good thing I stopped playing years ago

If I had to guess, They are trying to cement some kind of identity for the game before the next LCS split/Worlds. Last Worlds suffered in hype videos and elsewhere from not having a lore base to draw from like Overwatch and Heroes. Obviously not the biggest issue but they’re trying to be the premium option and esports entertainment.

>lorefags in mobas


I've seen it all

Well there’s content and then there’s context.

The more context stripped from a champion the easier they are to place in an overarching narrative. It’s the difference between having the Grinch fight crime and someone who doesn’t like Christmas fight crime.

The Varus summary might be how he is *now* prior to development. So rather than build the character and push them into a story, they are making a story and having it build a base character. There’s an event planned: perhaps it evolves Varus from killer guy to guy fighting against inner turmoil or something. And all of this hopefully leads to some dynamic or conflict that casual viewers can comprehend and enjoy.

Whether it will work I have no idea, I’m not on the Narrative team. I’m on balance.

>ASSFAGGOTS muh lore-ing
Sup Forums has truly gone to shit

>Actually playing League of Retards in our Lord and Savior's year 2017
Why do you guys hate yourselves so much?

It's not about MUH LORE, it's about retconning shit for shit's sake to a completely different thing.

Most of you don't care, because you don't use the champ.
But when YOUR champ gets changed insto something completely different of what you are accustomed to, the champ doesn't feel the same.
Trunde players and Urgot players knows the feel.

Sup Forums was always shit, newfag

user there have been lorefags in ASSFAGS since before you were old enough to read.