It seems confirmed, they are merging main lore with Arcane, so it's no longer its own thing. So good luck getting any champion to die in season 2.
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Arcane is now canon in the lore.
NO NO NO FRICKING DAMN IT
Riot once again proving their ineptitude. Non-canon stories were a proven moneymaker and here they are kneecapping themselves by forcing everything to adhere to the garbage pile of existing lore.
>more posible than ever
>comfy show about the champions hanging out when they aren’t on the rift
>geopolitics stop mattering after a while because they all fight with and against each other
>Cinemaphile finally gets a CGDCT that isn’t aimed at toddlers
One can dream.
>a CGDCT that isn’t aimed at toddlers
no such thing, the genre is inherently aimed at mantoddlers
Mantoddlers are adults. The anime version of the genre is aimed at grown men. The western version is aimed at literal children with shit like DCSG.
No one honestly cares about the lore. It’s just something Riot keeps throwing out for some reason.
Very unlikely. Arcane writers and VAs are pro Ekko x Jinx.
I hate shippers so goddamn much. Jinx as a character is infinitely better without romance.
I agree. At best Ekko x Jinx only works as a one sided deal that ended tragically. Jinx is too mentally unstable to be in a relationship. Not even Silco or her sister could keep her sane. Why would anyone else?
imagine if they finally decide to stop blueballing ezreal and lux and have them finally meet in canon when ezreal finally mans up and starts a conversation with lux
I won't be surprised if they finally go through with it in the continuity of Arcane. Their constant teasing has to compel the writers to do something with them there. They are both very popular characters Riot has been neglecting outside of selling skins. Besides we could get some fun adventures out of it like an Indiana Jones movie.
>Besides we could get some fun adventures out of it like an Indiana Jones movie.
ezreal would have been a perfect protagonist for a more oldschool 65-episode type cartoon
>excuse to be in any of the different regions (looking for treasure)
>excuse to meet/fight any number of champions (they help him on a job, they oppose him on one, or they are simply passing through)
>appeals to younger audiences very well, due to being a hot-headed pretty boy
>naturally gifted but lazy gives an obvious path to physical development, slowly learns to hone his technique instead of relying on sheer force of his gauntlet
>obvious path for emotional development, someone like lux could give him the incentive to go straight or at least remind him to be true to himself instead of putting on a persona (lux could hate his showy hero facade, but start to thaw when he shows whats underneath)
>doesnt really need a huge myth arc to keep people invested, as long as ezreal loses all the money he makes at the end of the day, he has an excuse to get back out there to find the big score
>but you can choose to drop a soap opera plot if need be, like him finally finding out what happened to his parents, or him getting involved in noxus/demacia/ionia three way and be forced to take a stand instead of following the money
wrong they're JinxXSilco
still dont fully understand the steps that lead Jinx into a love square with Ekko, Lux, and Ezreal
>lux x jinx
the sibling issues are what really do it
and the contrast between a kind-hearted, traditionally-styled mage and a steampunk, graffiti-core punk gets the opposite attracts crowd hard
the wild rift trailer also shows jinx granting luxs wish to go out and fight monsters, meaning theres one universe out there where they meet
>lux x ezreal
really popular with the old crowd, since they were all but outright stated to be dating
and are alive and well in alternate skinlines like star guardians
>jinx x ekko
timebomb is not so subtly supported by many riot employees and they have an enemy thing going down
>lux x jinx x ezreal
jinx and ezreal are some of the most popular ADCs in the game, and they have some really good synergy with lux who can cover their fragility with her W and give them easy access to CC to hit tricky targets with their R
ezreal and jinx fighting over lux might as well be your average botlaners trying to attract their support
All inferior to Jinx x Silco
They're both moronic.
Isn't it just that one white girl writer?
No, at the studio they have a wall full of fanart. Some of it is art of Ekko and Jinx. Ekko's VA also ships them. Then there is one of the showrunners, but don't quote me on it.
someone made a imgur that was filled with nothing but ekko x jinx hints stretching back years
some of it was pretty shaky, boiling down to "they were next to each other"
while others were the aforementioned confirmation from storyboarders
I think I can find that link. It had a lot of stuff.
Weirdly in Valoran Town Ezreal and Jinx are somewhat treated as co-admirers of Lux. I mean they fight over her a lot, or join forces when they think they can impress her.
What is?
valorant city, a korean web series
Chinese
Cute smug Jinx.
>the face of Zaunite terror
LOL. Seeing how east asians whobare LOL main demographic loves lux Ezreal theres zeo chance that happens
I mean, that show already threats her as Lux friend, so I'm fine if that happens.
>lux and ezreal can interact with each other like normal people
>but obviously are just one step away from banging in the middle of the room
Lux belongs to toucan Sam
No
Cute
it was never its own thing to begin with
Does LoL have a robust extended universe? Novels, comics, whatever?
Like, Arcane was cool, but what does it matter if its canon or not for a MOBA?
There’s not a ton of material, no. But the lore they do give you is absolute spaghetti thanks to the way they give it to you. It’s basically “X champion is friend with Y and Z, and A and B are his sworn enemies, and there was one time he met C, and D was his childhood friend until they split apart thanks to E’s evil machinations to get back at F.
Huh. That...does not bode well for the MMO.
Thanks.
Not in the OP but Riot did a video discussing the canonization of Arcane essentially making Skarner, Seraphine, and Camille no longer canon until they get their proper rewrites to go with Arcane.
>reworked out of reality
Poor Skarner.
Sounds like it'll frick up a lot of the timeline, with Noxus/Ionia and the ages of champions there.
Also hextech and the gates. Frick, S2 is going to be filled with plot holes.
>plot holes
The show is going to become the new canon that the game will adhere to. If there’s a conflict in s2, the game lore will change to reflect that. The game lore is already rewritten on a monthly basis, anyway.
Not a day passes that I am thankful I quit that game.
I assume then that the Ionian invasion is happening parallel to Arcane? It'd need total overhaul for champs like Sett, crabman, and ZAC.
Good bye Blitzcrank's dating services.
No, if going by the flashbacks from episode 7 or 8, the Ionian War still happened in the past.
>still happened
But... Singed...
It retconned Hextech.
>It retconned Hextech.
and?
based moron
>viego will visit there in the future
You could easily make the case that Jayce and Viktor didn't invent hextech in Arcane, but instead innovated and built on existing, though much more rudimentary, technology. There. Now Camille can have existed with hextech before Jayce.
Wan't Jayce introducing it in the first episodes? Thought the crystals were known but no invention left the prototype phase before Jayce.
I think they'd just overhaul the game lore to match Arcane and let the latter do its thing, no one cares about flavor text anyway long as the character is still playable.
Jayce was messing with hextech in the first episode. You could say Jayce invented it, or you could say it was a niche and secretive technology that already existed. I mean Jayce didn't invent the crystals. And when his workshop was discovered people automatically new what Jayce was dealing with.
Arcane piltover was magic phobic, and while ingenious hextech is mostly seen as a developmental dead end until Jayce.
Game Jayce was like Steve Jobs, who revolutionized hextech but definitely not the first in nor the master of the industry. Case in point Vi's gauntlets retconned into being from Jayce.
Did they bring up how hard they've been fricking Yorick for years now?
Not surprised.
It seems blatant obvious after Project L incorporated Arcane's character designs instead of the default League ones.
Good Seraphine was always shit and Skarner was under-developed. The only downside here is whatever retcons they apply to Camille, who was a well-written champion.
That whole original Seraphine lore should've been what they stuck with. Being able to *hear* a Brackern soul sing inside the hextech crystal? Being able to communicate, and coming to some sort of agreement with it to prevent the mistakes of the past? Everyone else finding out their Hextech is built on the soul crystals of a fallen race and that they're still alive in there? The absolute fallout of that? I wanted that story so bad. I wanted to see Seraphine eventually discover Skarner and realize that his voice and the voice in the crystal resonated the same. It was such an interesting setup, and we threw it away for generic pop idol, and now I feel just a little backstabbed by Arcane too as a result of this new lore reset.
I was so excited for all of that possibly happening from the moment Seraphine's original story released, and then they backpedaled, and now years later they've retconned it entirely.
The crystal scar is now metaphorically upon the lore itself, and it is weeping.
I wonder what they will do with her now.
She sells crack
You mean shimmer.
>some sort of agreement
Only if it's "Amazon warehouse employee contract" agreement. Lean on her being a narcisstic ZauBlack person and chembaron nepobaby.
League had short stories, cinematics, two books, an in-game event, and a few comics. The in-game even I am referring to is the Ruination event which was so bad and inconsistent Riot never recovered. The lore was a mess until Arcane did something coherent.
There exist a few comics and like 1 game (mageseeker) that have detailed stories I have not played ekko's game.
Everything else is more world building than story.
Big enough for dedicated youtube channels.
the lore problems started a lot earlier than that
the setting itself I think has a lot of potential but everything that's happened inside it is really messy
everything has been constantly reworked or updated or reorganized.
on top of that, a lot of the writing is mediocre.
>but what does it matter if its canon or not for a MOBA?
none of the lore is important to play league of legends
I will not be surprised if stuff in Arcane gets retconned down the line
i used to. I gave up in the mid 2010s. that is also when i stopped playing the game
>I will not be surprised if stuff in Arcane gets retconned down the line
>rewrites
This is when I stopped caring about lore, the first rewrite they did. They don't give a hit sbout canon, why should I?
The first one I understood because the Institute made no fricking sense.
>This is when I stopped caring about lore, the first rewrite they did. They don't give a hit sbout canon, why should I?
They have to now, with Arcane and their future shows/movies being the default.
Kinda? it was really just a hodgepodge of different shit coexisting, and it really isn't until recent years that riots have been trying to tie all these shit together. Arcane being canon does require major rewriting on certain characters and lore like Ekko and Heimerdinger (and Yordles in general). League has slowed down its short stories and lore reveals for a more multimedia approach
Ekkos' backstory was a lot more lighthearted with him being a happy go lucky kid enjoying his time powers (with the implications that his friends purposely would kill themselves so that Ekko would save them). and him trying not to disappoint his parents while in Arcane, he's a hardened gangleader orphan.
Heimerdinger was supposed to use a human disguse because Yordles are hunted down and Yordles don't live side by side with Humans but in Arcane we see Yordles in the background just chilling.
>Heimerdinger was supposed to use a human disguse because Yordles are hunted down and Yordles don't live side by side with Humans but in Arcane we see Yordles in the background just chilling.
I mean, the human disguise thing was never brought up again since that comic. Poppy was able to wander around Demacia despite being a magical creature. Legends of Runeterra shows a statue of Heimerdinger in his yordle form outside the university of Piltover. Most agree Riot quietly retconned the glamour years ago.
while the Glamour thing might have been quietly written out I do want to say that Heimer and Poppy are exception to the rules. Most Yordles are still hunted and even one of the recent cinematic confirmed this.
>even one of the recent cinematic confirmed this.
Which one?
don't mess with Yordles
Am I the only one who ever thought league cinematics were non-canon?
no they are canon
That doesn't mean anything when it comes to what I said
Thats graves being graves
glamour should have never been a thing, its literally never referenced in any other media except that fricking terrible comic and its a shitty ripoff from Fables anyways (inb4 glamour exists in folklore, you know what i mean. the dynamic of having magical creatures exist in plain sight in the city even though its a fricking inherently magical world with shit all over the place)
That's a very good point, now imagine a scenario where Arcane was written to be canon to unified LoL canon and can't possibly ignore Glamour. This is the reality now.
That literally ruins the cliff hanger, but that is to be expected of westernized shounen.
I never saw Arcane, what's the cliffhanger?
Guess someone better watch.
Jayce is in an explosion and could be dead (no one thinks he’s dead). This reveal means he’s confirmed alive.
There is another Reddit post they made implying they will kill off characters. Their physical presence in the game will probably no longer be a hindrance. It won't be like what they did with Gangplank where he was removed from the roster after he was killed off. The game is just its own bubble now as Arcane shapes the lore. Also, they plan to add more large scale conflicts we have never seen before.
I guess since summoner's rift hasn't been canon in years, I guess there's no reason characters have to still be alive.
That said, I still suspect they won't kill anyone playable.
>That said, I still suspect they won't kill anyone playable.
>they kill C-list non-meta champs
>twitch shows up for 10 seconds so warwick has someone to kill
If it was by popularity, Nilah would have been killed ages ago.
Does anyone actually give a flying frick about the lore in that godawful game? Seriously, it's a clusterfrick of "wouldn't it be cool if" pitches, with no reason or cohesion.
Pretty sure all the skinlines are their own separate canon universe.
It is basically capeshit.
so.....where is the giant talking rat
most people assume that the shimmered lab rat is twitch
singed somehow survived the explosion, so its possible that the mutant rat did too and is now prowling the sewers of zaun, learned to speak common tongue, learned ninja martial arts and poison making like an evil master splinter
What further fueled the theory that the lab rat is Twitch was that Riot edited his splash art to give him shimmer colored eyes. His lore was also very outdated and devoid of content. It would be easy to insert him into Arcane as another life touched by Singed.
Also Claggor’s googles are the exact same as Twitch’s googles.
Aren't Vi's (in-game) goggles claggors?
yes.
ever since the twitch visual update, his splash had those eyes
>It seems confirmed, they are merging main lore with Arcane, so it's no longer its own thing.
and thats a good thing
many of the characters lore was always kind of vague to begin with
and some like singed didnt even have any concrete backstory
arcane easily provides the most in-depth and detailed accounts for these characters and you would be crazy not to make it the official version
>some like singed didnt even have any concrete backstory
This. For Singed, the writers of Arcane wanted to explore what agenda he could have had behind his research. I do hope they keep his involvement in the Noxian invasion of Ionia.
>and some like singed didnt even have any concrete backstory
He didn't have a solid backstory BECAUSE THEY KEPT CHANGING SHIT
He was fricking fine as warwick's apprentice, the successful one, who sold chemical weapons to noxus but then they fricking retconned warwick like 4 different times and then singed had to change too
No frick you
I liked the lore where Warwick was just a random Jackass who attacked Soraka and got cursed.
I also liked the lore where Nasus was just a space alien
This is not a surprise. It was the first exposure to League for a lot of people, and it has the most consistent narrative out of anything Riot has done with the IP using multiple characters. Newcomers would be expecting the lore in Arcane over the isolated short stories that barely advanced the overall plot that much. Riot wants to appeal to more people and the show goes beyond the base game.
is this the "it's canon because parallel universes" excuse or did they retcon it hard since anybody who got into league lore (lmao) found Arcane to be the gateway drug for it? because honestly it works either way since Arcane is better at expanding the backstories for every character there despite how incredibly edgy it was
Hard retcon. In a recent development video explaining in more detail they said Arcane is the new origin story for hextech. This is making Riot doing a rewrite for Camille.
Arcane is the only league lore.
>but
No. 3 paragraphs of biography do not count as story. And neither do pictures from a card game with some flavor text.
>Jinx is a canon homophobe
Well, well, well, looks like I get to have a hardy laugh and chuckle.
Jinx and Ruby will reinstate homophobia as an institution.
Knowing Riot, they're gonna do something stupid in a bid to "fight back" against Homophobic Jinx memes. I know they already tried the "homophobia doesn't exist on Valoran" card, but I mean something more.
>homophobia doesn't exist on Valoran
This is some owl house bullshit. There’s racism, segregation, enslavement, privileged people, witch hunts, genocide, tyrants and cults, but no homophobia? Just conveniently not that one type of hatred in a world with all the others? So dumb
Only people who have no capacity for homophobia are as evil and depraved as they are in Arcane.
thats why she's best girl
Dykes are but misguided women who haven't been properly dicked anyway. Jinx is right in being disdainful of them since Silco already showed her the way with his dick.
>any champion to die in season 2.
Long as it's S*raphine we're all good.
LoL isn't even canon to itself, the game has been irrelevant to the lore for like 10 years
I mean it doesn't matter all the lore became garbage when they removed summoners.
you're right but league devs as well as league's audience has changed. Pretty much all the Institute of War stuff, including the lore and old art/assets is considered crap by new players; who really don't care if it's any better or worse they just want something new.
Like say what you will about the old lore and plotholes but I found it infinitely more interesting than what they would put out now. Like we will never get anything like the champion judgements ever again.
Same, the journal of justice was great even if inconsistent
>they removed summoners.
The strange thing is that they keep calling players summoners even though it no longer makes sense.
We now write a lore based description of how Powder lost her freckles.
I came on her face so much that her skin changed color.
Um... um... something something Singed's surgery causes pale skin?
More makeup?
How do you fricking autists notice every little thing?!
Look
No fekkles.
Kys
Black person
Black person
Black person
Based
Based
Baded
League of Legend still HAS lore?!
League of Legends still EXISTS?!
If it's canon, how do they get to be roomies like that one trailer? Is the sex just that good?
Those cinematics weren't canon to begin with, and nothing outside of Arcane is canon. Everything is going to be rewritten.
Honestly this is for the best. The problem I've always had with LoL is that it was way too "corporate mandated positive energy and any villains are saturday morning cartoon tier". I'm not asking for Shakespeare, but Overwatch has the same shit and it is so soulless how nobody is allowed to do or say anything that wouldn't be on brand. Arcane is appealing because people and situations are genuinely shitty, and the conflict feels genuine rather than cartoonish.
>and any villains are saturday morning cartoon tier
imagine needing a motivation
sometimes, people dont need a reason to be evil
Nah, I'm not talking about motivations, I'm talking about behavior. Like take the villains of Overwatch, which try to be "grey morality" but instead they just come across as weak because they never actually do anything of consequence.
>dont need a reason
>Pic
>Wants to fix the world after shitshow war
>Good guy Mordekaiser shows him a proper way to do this ie 'tard wrangle everyone and rule Runeterra with an iron fist'
He was tortured into insanity
I love how Veiga backstory is being tortured by Mordekaiser so much that he goes mad, then tries to conquer like him, just to actually free every region he visits from evil warlocks
>corporate mandated positive energy
Opposite. Lore and esports homosexualry killed the dumb fun early LoL had.
Imagine TF2's scout being turned into a socialist and the fire guy a caricature of PTSD.
Horrible example. TF2 has exactly the right amount of edge that LoL and Overwatch lack. TF2 characters regularly talk shit about each other, Overwatch and LoL can barely manage a playground insult.
LoL bants among characters as well, and I'd say WW becoming a werewolf after raping a goddess is edgy enough.
Guess the difference between 3 games is just biased preference.
Say what now? old lore ww:
"hey singed, make me a better bounty hunter"
Singed : "ogey:DDDDDD"
WW: "wow i'm a wolf this is hard, let me eat soraka's heart ot be a real wolf"
New ww lore:
"hey singed, you're a fricking notNazi mad scientist, make this guy into a weapon"
Singed: "ogey:DDDD"
WW: "the man i was, i killed him first, now i'll be bat(wolf)man in Zaun"
I miss the old lore.
i started right after Azir, summoners weren't a thing, except summoner spells and Sona talking to you. I don't miss it, i wish the tone was consistant. Shit like Seraphene just shoves "hey, we know you kids love plucky music makers!" into my face when i'm just like Demacia > Noxus.
I do too. Summoners-existing era had a lot of cute gameplay/story integrations -- like back when Gangplank had to execute a minion to buff people, but a Journal of Justice segment when Miss Fortune pulled him aside for a talk coincided with when he got changed to not do that anymore. Besides the Journal, I really enjoyed League Judgments.
Probably didn't help that one of the first things they did after was fricking ruin my man Trundle.
arguably old Fiddlesticks was better, he's just slenderman now
New Fiddlesticks is actually scary while the old one was a silly scarecrow monster
New fiddle feels painstaikingly crafted by a committe of college grads based on aggregated data.
i.e. old fiddle = creepypasta you read in middle school library PC, new fiddle = hollywood flick based on a stephen king novel
I like new eldritch fiddlesticks. One of the few changes I liked.
>le actually scary
Why the frick does this matter? In what fricking world was being frightening important? He's fricking magic, he doesn't need to be a literal monster in order to cast fear on your ass.
Just admit you have certain tastes, not once in any of your posts did you present any objective reasoning.
Old lore was riot trying different shit with little to no constraints, partly why tyey won over DOTA who had to base its updates to Warcraft assets.
>Just admit
Is this an accusation?
an observation
God, you fricking late arrivals are cancer.
That’s not old lore Warwick, that’s his in between.
Original lore Warwick is when his champion tag was “the death maker”. He was Singed’s mentor. Together they created the most horrible nightmare chemical weapons for Noxus, and they were national heroes. Soraka in Ionia was healing the wounded of the war, but after a certain point, 90% of her patients were caused by this 1 dude, and even her divine magic couldn’t cure them because of how fricked up the magi-chem toxins were. She broke her do-no-harm vow and lost her immortality just so she could curse Warwick with lycanthropy and make him pay.
THEN came Warwick “the blood Hunter” where he was a bounty hunter and friend of Singed.
Finally we arrive at his current lore (“the uncaged wrath of Zuan”) where he’s Vander but experimented on.
>old lore ww:
>"hey singed, make me a better bounty hunter
Fricking wrong
old lore WW was singed's master
and he pushed all his apprentices to their literal breaking points and singed was the only one smart enough to be resilient against it
And then he turned into a werewolf because soraka got so butthurt treating the victims of all his poisons and shit that she gave up her connection to the stars to curse him
New lore several iterations of trolling soraka as a bounty hunter and being cursed from it
Nu-new lore is being mutated by singed.
Also, Scout did end up with a (funny) tragic backstory, with the Spy being his absent father.
>morning cartoon tier
This shit is still going on? That moronic trope belongs in 80s/90s
>Positive energy
What? Most of the backstories are tragic. Most of the Ionian champs are victims of war crimes.
This is literally the exact opposite, they turned everyone into a mopey character with a bad backstory.
I'm waiting for fricking Gragas to have a depressing backstory.
I'm fricking pissed they killed Zac's parents and made him a shitty Batman.
But now they're doing the opposite and giving everyone sad, trauma-induced backstories.
Welp, it was fun while it lasted. I genuinely think people working at Riot are just too stupid to comprehend the unintended consequences of this retcon. Arcane was good specifically because it was ignoring them, not through them.
>So good luck getting any champion to die in season 2.
Don't be so certain just yet
In 2015, Riot released an event where Miss Fortune canonically killed Gangplank in the LoL lore, so they made Gangplank unplayable in the game (though not permanently). It was funny seeing Gangplank mains seething over their character killed.
VGU killed GP
yeah what a fricking waste.
Miss Fortune died there too
I think it's just lazy.
>greatest intro voice
>best ARAM bg art
This might be the last truly inspired even they did.
Really it was because the Gangplank rework was totally broken
This is a good thing. League of Legends always had inconsistent lore. I could never understand why people seemed to care so much about it when Riot themselves couldn't be bothered to.
Arcane provides the perfect starting point for a complete rework of the lore. Riot knows that more and more people are going to be attracted to the world because of the show and it would be weird if the League and any future games weren't in line with what Arcane established.
Also, this means that League Jinx and Arcane Jinx are the same Jinx, which further means that Jinx canonically becomes happy again. This is a wonderful thing because she deserves happiness.
No, this is awful, Riot should not be trusted with Riot's lore as they are built in mystery box and story implication bullshit. Jinx and Vi were designed as rivals, NOT sisters. It's Arcane and Arcane's writers that took the outright de-confirmed theory, put their foot down and made them being sister the crux of the story, going in spite of Riot's approach to storytelling, they had a story, not implication of having a story. Retroactively, under the condition of unified lore, it might end up a cage for someone to try to go outside of lore established by Riot, the storytelling will be done only through them now, and before Arcane they've done nothing but bullshit, and they sure as hell aren't going to suddenly start making anything but bullshit.
I don't see how that goes against what I said. League has spotty, inconsistent lore based around the Rule of Cool. Arcane was an attempt to make sense of it all, and it was hugely successful, so Riot would be foolish to not use it as a foundation going forward. Maybe just have Arcane's writers be the go-to lore consultants from now on in order to ensure consistency in the future.
>League has spotty, inconsistent lore based around the Rule of Cool. Arcane was an attempt to make sense of it all, and it was hugely successful
Yes, we agree on that both, here's what my point is
>so Riot would be foolish to not use it as a foundation going forward.
Yes, once again, absolutely agree. They just announced they are doing the exact opposite. Now League and Riot will be attempting to make sense of it all and Arcane will have to adhere to it.
Ideally, I imagine that in Riot's head they should just sort of iron out and tie up any minor lore loose ends, but in reality, more often than not, this control over several medias by one entity never works out and just limits the possibilities of what could be done with them and sometimes even ruins the story not to create any more loose ends or contradict the lore. Think about it from the opposite end, if Arcane was written with only what Riot had established, it wouldn't have been possible for Jinx and Vi to be sisters.
>They just announced they are doing the exact opposite. Now League and Riot will be attempting to make sense of it all and Arcane will have to adhere to it.
That's not what I took away from the announcement. And, even if that were the case, Arcane has done very well so far being its own self-contained thing and I doubt whatever Riot has planned in the future is going to affect the next season (which, people have to remember, has already been written). What happens after that is anyone's guess, however, but I don't think doom-posting about it is very productive.
To me, it seems as if they're finally realizing just how poor their worldbuilding has been since League's inception, have acknowledged it, and are now making a unified effort to have it all make sense.
>Think about it from the opposite end, if Arcane was written with only what Riot had established, it wouldn't have been possible for Jinx and Vi to be sisters.
It's possible that a good story could've come out from that.
Anon, I am not doomposting, this is merely logical conclusion Riot itself had acknowledged and all but confirmed. They are in control now and Arcane can't contradict Riot, they just don't understand how better writers are now worse from it either out of stupidity or arrogance.
>It's possible that a good story could've come out from that.
Again, great point. However, in an instance where Riot lore makes it not a good story it's now impossible to go against it, which limits your storytelling possibilities objectively by half at least.
The screenshot you showed doesn't seem to reflect what you're saying.
>At the same time though we're pretty convinced it gives things a lot more resonance, helps build stronger again connections if you know the character development shown will also be reflected everywhere else etc.
While that's an awfully vague statement, I don't see how that led you to your conclusion that Riot will somehow influence Arcane. Really, this statement seems to imply that the opposite is more likely, i.e., the character development in the show will be reflected everywhere else, which is a good thing.
What the, how does it not?
>Having a shared world certainly brings SOME CONTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES FOR TELLING STORIES IN THINGS LIKE ARCANE
Which is exactly my fricking point.
Do you think that Arcane didn't already have certain constraints when it came to storytelling? I'm sure it did, and we still got a great show out of it. And, as I said previously, I doubt that whatever they want to do with the lore now is going to affect what's already been written for the show.
It literally didn't because it wasn't canon to the overall LOL and Riot's lore, it was an adjacent adaption like what MCU is to Marvel. Now the Riot says Arcane will have to adhere to THEIR rules directly and all storytelling will be done by guys who are trying to pull this shit for the fourth time already. Not once they gave me confidence that they can pull it off and now they are just getting Arcane, one good thing they had least to do with, join the fold.
>It literally didn't because it wasn't canon to the overall LOL and Riot's lore, it was an adjacent adaption like what MCU is to Marvel.
That's what we on the outside looking in assumed. However, I don't remember anyone at Riot stating that was the case, and now we have confirmation that it's not.
>Now the Riot says Arcane will have to adhere to THEIR rules directly and all storytelling will be done by guys who are trying to pull this shit for the fourth time already. Not once they gave me confidence that they can pull it off and now they are just getting Arcane, one good thing they had least to do with, join the fold.
Now it really seems to me as though you're just looking for an excuse to be angry. I'll be the first to tell you that Riot sucks and Arcane was the best thing to come out of League since Jinx herself, but I just can't get behind the idea that the direction they're now taking is somehow wrong. I'm all for having a consistent universe, at the end of the day. Will they frick it up? That remains to be seen.
They will frick it up, how can you browse Cinemaphile and not have seen this before. Such consistency is hard to pull off for something within its own media (Marvel comics, DC comics, and now MCU is imploding on itself and can't juggle both movies and TV series at the same time for shit and its continuity has been a jumbled mess for years now). And now Riot says they can pull it off with games and TV shows, when games had nothing but shitty lore, and Arcane was better off in spite of LOL lore, not because of it. It's not that it's impossible to pull off, because looking back, no one thought MCU could work, when it ended up working, at least financially. I am saying Riot definitely can't pull it off and will end up messing up Arcane by binding it to games. What makes sense in X media, rarely makes sense in Y media, and in this case X media wasn't good to begin with.
>I am saying Riot definitely can't pull it off and will end up messing up Arcane by binding it to games. What makes sense in X media, rarely makes sense in Y media, and in this case X media wasn't good to begin with.
I have a question for you, then. If all of the Champion characters in the show become what they are in the games, will you accuse Riot of meddling with the writing process?
In an instance where it doesn't make sense, of course. For example, imagine if season 2 just starts with Jinx being besties with Lux because it worked so well for marketing! And since it worked so well, despite them never even meeting in canon before, Riot decides to make it canon and now Jinx HAS to have Lux best friend in Arcane! She definitely ended S1 for exactly this kind of quirky funny relationship!
Well, that example is funny given that they've already let it be known that Jinx is going to have "friends" in S2. Whether those friends will be Lux and Ziggs or some totally new characters remains to be seen, and I doubt that she's just going to have them without any explanation.
More like she learns to have fun with the chaos.
If Arcane makes it work, then by all means, Arcane is doing good job, Riot isn't impeding on anyone else's creative processes and by extent doing a good job themselves. However, historically, cross-media serialization has never worked. What do you get when you do that, you get fricking Matrix (with Path of Neo and Matrix Online, and Matrix Online is reason why Lawrence Fishburne was spared from Resurrections), you get Defiance (remember that shit?), hell, it wasn't the sole problem, but you get Jesus in Walking Dead the New Frontier, the worst season in Telltale series with most fricking pointless comic book character appearance shoved in for no reason other than marketing.
What if Arcane ends up writing a story where the only conclusion that makes sense is that a game character dies, what then? Rewrite the story and avoid all stories where game character die? Or piss off players for the sake of consistency like Riot did with Gangplank. They were already burnt on that shit, you think they are going to do that again?
>What if Arcane ends up writing a story where the only conclusion that makes sense is that a game character dies, what then? Rewrite the story and avoid all stories where game character die? Or piss off players for the sake of consistency like Riot did with Gangplank. They were already burnt on that shit, you think they are going to do that again?
I feel like any decision they make for the sake of consistency is going to piss someone off, so the goal shouldn't be to please everyone. Ideally, they should let the Arcane writers tell the story they want to tell and then go from there. On top of that, I think we're going to have to accept that Riot clearly wants the world of League of Legends to be more than just a game, with the game itself being on the same level of canon as a quick match in a fighting game, which is none at all.
>I feel like any decision they make for the sake of consistency is going to piss someone off
That is exactly what they set themselves up for by making Arcane canon rather than be adjacent adaption. It's going to happen, it will happen, it's just a matter of when.
>so the goal shouldn't be to please everyone
Completely unrelated goal to making a unified or adjacent cross-media canon. It's not about pleasing people, it's about allowing creative freedom for Arcane writer and not having conversation about who they can't kill or what they can't do on the table at all.
>That is exactly what they set themselves up for by making Arcane canon rather than be adjacent adaption. It's going to happen, it will happen, it's just a matter of when.
Arcane being canon is something I've always wanted, so they aren't pissing me off. It being separated from League just creates needless confusion, if you ask me. Working yourself up over this when we've already established how awful the lore has been is, again, pointless.
>It's not about pleasing people, it's about allowing creative freedom for Arcane writer and not having conversation about who they can't kill or what they can't do on the table at all.
We seem to be going in circles now. The writers have already made it clear that they're going to tell the story they want to tell, which is likely going to be what Riot uses going into the future.
You are the one who is running in circles
>Yeah, Lol lore is shit, I am so glad now Arcane is canon to that shitty, worse lore!
>Gosh, it's so confusing that TV show isn't exactly like video games, now it's so simple, now you just have to follow both video games and TV show for it to make sense!
But this one, yeah, this is in circles
>The writers have already made it clear that they're going to tell the story they want to tell, which is likely going to be what Riot uses going into the future.
I just don't trust them, I don't trust chaining Arcane to shitty lore made by shitty company who never made anything good until Arcane showed that it can be good if you just tell a story instead of implying there is a story. Why would you ever trust them?
>Yeah, Lol lore is shit, I am so glad now Arcane is canon to that shitty, worse lore!
Stop putting words into my mouth. If Arcane is canon, already that means drastic changes are going to have to be made to bring League of Legends in line with that. Much of the old, shitty lore will be wiped away. For example, everything regarding hextech will have to change, which means timelines and the origins of certain characters will have to change as well.
>Gosh, it's so confusing that TV show isn't exactly like video games, now it's so simple, now you just have to follow both video games and TV show for it to make sense!
That's like saying someone has to play Warhammer 40,000 in order to understand the setting of Warhammer 40,000, and given that GW is doing their own cross-media thing, that's clearly not the case.
>Why would you ever trust them?
Where did I say that I trust them? Arcane being canon ensures that they have a foundation to build off of. If they want to make a consistent universe while acknowledging Arcane, they'll have to take all of the changes Arcane made to the lore into account. That's not me "trusting them". That's me pointing out the obvious.
I think the problem's more than you're treating the argument in the lens of "how will Arcane affect League" when
is fretting about the opposite: "how League will affect Arcane". But I'm just observing this from the side.
Oh, I'm aware. I'm just explaining my stance. Anon is clearly looking for something to be angry about, though, which is par for the course on Cinemaphile.
Look, I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree. I don't think what you're saying is going to happen and you don't think that what I'm saying is going to happen. As it stands, it's far too early to tell what shape this new phase of the lore is going to take. I, for one, am really only looking forward to S2 of the show. If Riot intends to build on that going forward, great. It won't make me want to play their shitty game again, but great.
Stop being so condescending, I don't actively seek something to be angry about, I am just explaining my stance.
>I am just explaining my stance.
As was I. I'm just so sick of the kneejerk "NEW THING BAD" response that everyone seems to have to anything these days. When I saw the statement in the OP, my mind didn't immediately jump to the conclusion of "this is bad because Riot Games is bad". Instead, I thought "this is good because Arcane is good". Maybe I'm not nearly as pessimistic and jaded as I thought I was.
These are two completely separate and largely unrelated responses though because as I view it, Arcane is the new thing and I am telling you new thing good, while you are telling me it's good that they are going back to old game. If I were actively seeking something to be angry about I'd say some bullshit like you are bootlicking Riot fan, which not once have I even implied, so you trying to discredit my stance like that like I am just angry for no reason is really rude.
>while you are telling me it's good that they are going back to old game.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I think you're misunderstanding my position and, admittedly, I may be misunderstanding yours.
>If I were actively seeking something to be angry about I'd say some bullshit like you are bootlicking Riot fan, which not once have I even implied, so you trying to discredit my stance like that like I am just angry for no reason is really rude.
You have a point. The tone of your writing just strikes me as being rage-fuelled, as all.
It's all so tiresome, though. I miss being happy for things.
Well, you could at least see how someone can see this viewpoint as pic related.
I mean, I like to think that I've made it clear that I don't like Riot Games (or their Tencent overlords, for that matter). I haven't played League in years and was content to forget all about them until Arcane came along and, even now, what happens outside of Arcane doesn't concern me (unless it involves Jinx, because she is perfect). Not really "JUST CONSUME PRODUCT". However, I think constantly beating the "Riot bad" drum helps absolutely no one, especially when we don't know what form this new decision they've made will ultimately take.
Frankly I don't blame people for having the viewpoint; if something new was assumed good by default because its predecessor was good, the remake epidemic would be lauded, not shunned. Especially when it means the good thing having pollination with something generally agreed to be bad (Riot at large)
And I am pointing out the obvious to you, again. Season 1 was written with luxury of not adhering to the LOL canon strictly, Arcane being canon to LOL is a bona fide retcon, and Arcane season 2 and any subsequent season would have no such luxuries. So when Arcane made changes to LOL lore than needed to be made because they are better than LOL's shitty lore they were allowed to, and yes, Riot will absorb Arcane's changes into Riot's lore, however, they can't be doing that with every subsequent season and retcon game's lore every time Arcane needs the lore to change to yield better writing, now that Arcane and games are canon to each other indefinitely they can't be not canon to each other, because that's not how S1 was written.
Warhammer 40000 is actually a great example of what I don't want them to do, because Warhammer 40000 IS a fricking mess and Black Library both allowed retcons that are genius and complete bullshit and it only causes a fricking mess in the end. So having Arcane as its own little thing is much much much more preferable, yes.
This Jinx looks fricking scary.
She looks fine to me. Not Fortiche Jinx, but she's still very cute. Here's another picture of her from that same video.
Yeah she's cute there. I think it was because she looked so big compared to Lux.
That's probably because she's standing up while Lux is sitting down. She literally teleported into Lux's room.
I think I might've become to used to Jinx' design from the show looking younger.
>Jinx and Vi were designed as rivals, NOT sisters.
This actually isn't true, you should try to catch some streams from their creator since he loves to talk about Jinx in particular. Jinx was supposed to be the older sister at first.
I won't, Riot is least credible source on Riot's lore.
She becomes happy in the sense she goes so insane that she doesn’t even think about her past sadness and anger.
I just wanted to say that the introduction of Kindred and later Aurelion Sol to the game forever changed and irreparably damaged the lore to gameplay cohesion.
League lore has been garbage ever since we lost the JoJ.
Every single thing about Arcane was setting up these characters to become what they are in the game. They added more depth to them, but their ending was always settled in stone.
Vi is gonna end up losing her memories and Caitlyn is not gonna tell her the truth to keep her for herself, away from Jinx. I remember some game audio of characters teasing Vi of her friends keeping secrets about her past and the S2 writer said something happens between the two that shippers will really hate
Jinx and Ekko making out and canon
All I want is a show with the real monsters of the setting. Show the absolute frozen shithole that is the Frejlord where the only civilized people allied with an army of barbarian warriors to defend themselves against all the other buttholes living there.
The Void is the best faction. It's good Lovecraftian horror.
Void is a bunch of scrubs. They may have been mindbroken by the horrors of war but the Ascended of Shurima were still able to push back a full scale void invasion and the OG Iceborn of Frejlord were able to indefinitely imprison their gods in a glacier. Coolest villain is Xerath followed closely by the Darkin.
I don't get why Ascended exists as a concept.
Like the character was strong, but now they're even stronger now?
what?
>be me
>see digits
I don't check my own digits usually but I am officially spooked
They are the divine empowered superman warriors of an ancient magical empire it's not complicated and they aren't stronger from turning into Darkin just a lot harder to kill and mentally fricked up. Nasus or Renekton could kick the ass of basically any Darkin and the Avatars in Targon could do the same if they fully channeled their patron god.
ok
but lorewise, why does it matter?
Riot just wants to add real life myths from different religions into their fantasy world. The Shuriman gods are the Egyptian gods. Taric is literally Zeus. Diana didn't even get a name change. So when
thinks Riot fricked up Kindred's backstory, it really wasn't surprising or unexpected that Riot would do that. Kindred is two of the American gods afterall.
The ones in Shuriman are not exactly gods. They are just humans that became demigods.
Well Riot refers to them as gods and they call themselves gods and they're based off of real life gods so I'm going to call them gods.
They are Egyptian gods but they used to be human so their backstories are more endearing
>what?
It's like Captain America getting to hold Mjolnir.
Why does Demacia matter? Why does the Harrowing matter? Elaborate on your questions anon.
If you are asking how it affects the world then it adds a purely artificial divine power source and gives Shurima a force to keep the status quo.
The issue I have with Ascended is that it adds a layer of depth that is completely unnecessary. It's not limited to Shurima; this problem also exists with Targon with the Aspects(as well as some other characters).
I can understand that Riot wants to have the concept of gods and myths in the world they've created as some other anons mentioned, but they way they've restructured a lot of the characters to have some sort of connection or motivation related to it makes things way too complicated.
Characters used to have their own motivations and reasons to do things. Now, it seems that a good amount of them have been concentrated around a few ideas. A lot of them lost their uniqueness with these changes.
That's what I don't get I guess, is why they went this route with the lore. It's complex but without a real purpose.
Pretty much. Shit used to be able to just exist in a vacuum away from one another which would allow you to make actually novel tales off their interactions with peoples, ideas, and institutions that were foreign until the Institute of War brought them together. I remember fanfictions about fricking Poppy and Trundle or Karthus and Irelia, characters who had thematic similarities that were only interesting to explore when they're strangers. Or just the journals of justice like Blitzcrank's matchmaking.
Now nobody interacts with anybody outside of their pre-approved set of characters in boring and predictable pre-approved methods
I don't understand your hang up on Ascendeds. It's a simple premise:
>In ancient Shurima there was a ritual to turn into a demigod
>If you were worthy you became an Ascended
>If you weren't worthy you got destroyed
And they use that premise for simple backstories like "The strong brother was willing to be destroyed to help his weak brother ascend" and "The slave risked being destroyed to get power to take revenge on the pharaoh for not ending slavery". Riot has definitely done some moronic retcons like turning Varus into a darkin controlling a gay couple, but for the most part I don't think the Shurima ones were bad. Nasus' old lore was just "He's an alien and he got summoned".
TEEMO CONFIRMED FOR S2??
he was there the whole time, he was just using his passive
Masterfully animated gay sex scene between Graves and TF in arcane S3!
Yummy
dragon's blood chads, we win again!
Shut up the dota show was more garbage
>Cinemaphile can't appreciate MANime
>prefers dramas about sad lesbian feels
Many such cases.
>dragon's blood chads
Who?
The only good thing to come out of the dota show was Marcy.
By whom it was decided?
I wish characters I liked got the arcane treatment instead of the characters I don't like.
Don't worry. Eventually your favorite characters will show up Arcane.
Karthus, Maoki, Malthzar plz.
>Least popular champs
Malazhar is more likely since Shurima and the Void are big deals. Not sure about the others.
maybe Riot should greenlight other shows with the animation studio, instead of do whatever this move is
They probably did.
Then update Viktor model and VO to reflect that, you expect Arcane viktor in his mecha form and you get a model from PS2 era with a voice that reflect nothing of the arcane character
>everything is canon
That doesn't make any sense, the point of multiverse shit was to sell more skins without the constraints of main lore. Arcane is now the main canon? Cool, but they are stories from LoR, Riot Forge, and the old lore that don't fit with Arcane canon. They should be more specific with how are they going forward instead of just speaking on broad terms in a short video.
Arcane is a clean slate.
It was always canon, idiot
>expecting good lore from premise of "two gods got mad at each other and brainwashed a bunch of randoms to fight for them"
>Arcane and the Harrowing happening in the same setting
It's ruined now, majority of LoL lore is trash.
The Harrowing is no longer canon now.
>League is also in that same canon
So Arcane is the primary product?
No, I think Riot will incorporate retcons to make Arcane's S1 make sense within LoL's lore, however, Riot will make sure no product with same amount of freedom Arcane had will be possible from now on. So Arcane won't be able to write something like Jinx and Vi as siblings unless Riot explicitly confirms it first.
>Supplimentary spinoff proves so influential you have no choice but to make it the new basis of your universe in order to capitaliz off newbie synergy ASAP
>immediately institute draconian mandates on all future spinoffs to firmly control future lightning-in-a-bottle which you will never get precisely because you're being so heavy-handed
Many such cases
Finally someone else gets what the situation is in this thread. It always happens.
Who gives a frick provided they keep churning Jinx and Silco style relationships.
>he's still pissing and moaning
Anon, this thread should've died days ago. Let it.
Ok, schizo?
Thank you.
No, I NEED more discussion about Mel's whoriness and how strong Jinx smells after several days without a bath!
All I heard was jilco is canon
Just let Legends of Runeterra handle the world building.
Legends of Runeterra adds too much unnecessary bullshit. It fricked up Kindred's basic backstory.
Kindred was mangled by LoR but in general its hits are so much greater and more numerous than its misses I still think it deserves the spotlight.
release the mmo already
https://www.riotgames.com/en/mmo-recruiting
The prison rape is canon let’s go!!!!!!
YES! Vi really had her butthole widened in prison!
>the warden had many pleasures of the job
>whether reforming the men into upstanding citizens and or punishing those who got out of line.
>his biggest pleasure came from a simple red headed prison prostitute.
>it’s dinnertime, all the prisoners loved dinner time and if they got lucky, desert would be served.
>As the warden, watched over the prisoners he notices a certain Red head was out uniform.
>As vi was finishing up her meal , she is greeted by the warden standing over her.
>”you’re out of uniform”
> “what uni-“ she then gets memory of their last “meeting”
> “you weren’t serious”
>he grins, a playful but sinister look in his eye
>she sigh, stands up and begins to hesitantly pull down her pants just until the waist band is under her spherical ass.
>although she prefers to have her pants baggy and sag, she found it quite piggish to have her bubble butt on full display as her pants work as a makeshift alter.
> each rounded cheek was on display, with enough muscle and fat to have good form and a bounce when she walks.
> “Now march back to your cell” commanded the warden.
>with her face red as her hair and head held low, she turns around giving the whole cafeteria a great view of her big ass.
>the whole cafeteria erupts in a roar laughter ,whistles,and wolf calls as the other prisoners watch their prison prostitute’s jiggly ass bounce and clap with each step
>but as she gets to the exit, she is tripped by a fellow inmate and a dog pile commences.
>one of them calls out “desert is ready!!”
>the prisoners have finished their dinner and now they got their desert
> a spit roast begins with 1 fricking her throat and bouncing his balls off her pretty face, tears running down her blushing faces. And the other is switching off from fricking her pink buttholes to sandwiching his wiener between her perfect cheeks
>the entire lunch rooms forms a circle around them
>they take turns, passing Vi around, doing whatever they please with her, from blow jobs to rim jobs to anal and Eiffel towering
>Although vi’s pride had been destroyed, her wiener lust had been fulfilled to the max
>the warden approaches the circle and begins to break it up, but not before he had gaped her ass with his 10 inch wiener and used her ass as a trampoline and him and the other prisoners and guards had showered her with their seed
>as they dispersed, Vi Lies their with gallons of cum across her body and leaking out of her holes, and a face painted mixed with shame and ecstasy.
Oh wonderful. It's awake and it's here in this thread.
lAME
Why does everything even need a "deepest lore" bullshit bait?
Can't we just go back to the old wacky lore that was more akin to a fighting game.
The old lore sucked and the new lore is much better. You can have Kaisa use her being a hot female who sells skins powers to fight monsters wich could singlehandedly topple nations and at the same time Vi and Caitlin use hexteck rockets to bombard Zaun civilians due to a unprecedented agression of a Zaunite child throwing a rock in Piltovan airspace.
Timebomb canon
Jinx x Silco is the superior ship
Ekko doesn't want to stick his dick into crazy anymore. He wants to frick Janna though
Genocide all Underdweller scum!
Was Jayce in the right or not for dating Mel Medarda?
He aims to colonize the lesser races.
I wish he got to colonize Medarda's butthole
he did
her colon is full of cum
Jayce is a fricking chad
Strange how they never tried to make her a champion.
I am still hoping. I would love to lick Mel Medarda's pussy. I bet being a Noxian and a politician she is quite "skilled" in linguistics and "diplomacy" using her toned hips.
I am guessing that whatever things were glowing on Mel in the last moment of season 1 will tie into whatever her inevitable abilities are. Likewise, as we know, many champ pipelines are at least a year long and I imagine Mel would be closer to a Support character. If true, I think a good sign of her becoming playable would be whether we get any new Support champs around the time season 2 debuts.
Also, I am enjoying the new reworked Skarner. I’ll miss his whole crystal-theming, but the new wall-charge ability and rock throw looks super neat.
Next champions
>a dragon
>a neet
>a bunny girl
could honestly make an anime off that trio alone
>reworked Skarner
Again?
So can we get Twisted Treeline back now?
they're bring back nexus blitz so maybe
I can only hope that brings us more Mel porn
Was Viktor that important to Hex Tech?
It seems like Jayce was the visionary and Viktor was the one who made it work.
You did remember to wish her a happy birthday, right?
dumb b***h crack prostitute
Yeah, that pretty much sums up your mom, but what does that have to do with Jinx?
she needs to be shot in the head
Why are you Jinx haters so violent and unhinged?
So glad a good story is getting knee-capped by its connection to a backlog of lore that no one gives a flying frick about.
Ypu don't seem to understand. Arcane is the foundation for new lore. The existing lore is essentially no longer canon.
So? No one cares how Arcane will influence LOL because no one cares about LOL, the problem is how that control will boomerang at Arcane and future possible projects, because it rules out a possibility of a show existing that doesn't make sense only outside of Arcane/LOL lore, aka the exact amount of freedom Arcane had.
>aka the exact amount of freedom Arcane had.
Were you one of those people who genuinely believed Arcane was ever its own separate canon?
Did you honestly think they would keep Vi's backstory from back when summoners were still a thing, after they retconned summoners?
What? No, I just want Arcane nothing to do with League of Legends because everything about league was bad before Arcane.
>This show about lol characters that takes place in the world of lol should have nothing to do with lol.
Yes, just like MCU, where's the issue here?
>Comic is named Age of Ultron
>Movie is named Age of Ultron
>Obviously it's an adaptation of Age of Ultron!
Though, the movie isn't any good either, but you get the point. How is that a hard concept to grasp?
Arcane doesn't have a comic moron. Vi's backstory is 12 paragraphs long. Her other story is 16 paragraphs not counting dialogue. League never had lore. There's no single player campaign, no story mode, nothing. Arcane is literally the first time we're getting actual story. Beginning, middle, end with details and depth.
Arcane isn't based on LoL, it is the story in LoL. There literally was nothing before.
Also Viktor's backstory sucked
What was his backstory in it?
Just a man who wants to turn people into machines. That's all there is to him
And it should stay that way, exactly, what's hard to grasp?
it is going to stay that way
How much of a bawd is Mel?
Not at all. Her ass and pussy are closed to all but Jayce and Ambessa.
I thought they were but tools for her to do her "diplomacy"
thats what her mouth is for
If her mouth (and maybe hands) are all she needs to get politicians to agree to her demands, she must be a real pro doing blowjobs. Is she also willing to munch rug to get female politicians to agree to her proposals?
Most leaks say lux is in it, so how can they integrate her into the story without feeling force?
>so how can they integrate her into the story without feeling force?
just passing through on the way to ionia after leaving demacia
ends up just being a background event where she ignores ezreal while on the way out
>leaks
Where?
Diplomatic visit to Piltover, considering Noxus is already making moves for the city.
>Most leaks say lux is in it
What leaks?
Mel is hot and all but damn if I wouldn't love to have a filthy one night stand with her mother. Noxian women are something else and sex with them is legendary
What would raping Jinx be like?
dangerous
More than fricking Mel's mother?
Cool. I'm never fricking watching it or playing the game.
Your loss. Arcane is amazing! Great characters, great plot, great animation.
Can't wait until they animate Briar's giant fat ass.
Silco must have dicked Jinx pretty good.
Jinx is made for hatefricking!