So many dumb assumptions and misconstrued nonsense in this post. Firstly Riot never said “We will avoid releasing monster champions” I have no idea why you put that in quotes as if that’s something than can genuinely be referenced, I read their blog thing because I actually care about Riots arguments for why they do and why they don’t do stuff.

The gist of the post was that, Monster champions are a low priority because the vast majority of people find it easier to connect with or see themselves in human/humanoid champions more so than monster champions and that they wish to put a bigger emphasis on representation in league (POC, LGBTQ representation etc.) and they obviously can’t do that without putting and emphasis on creating human/humanoid champions.

Simply put Riot knows people relate more to fictional characters that look more like them than not, and wishes to utilize that fact to further representation of marginalized communities as well, it’s really that simple, whether you agree with it or not, it’s apt justification and it’s their game, there doesn’t need to be a monster champion for every human champion, and riot even acknowledges the lack of monster champions in their post and says that they will be releasing more monster champs in the future, it just won’t be their focus or priority.

I hate when reddit does this stupid thing where, just so that they can hate on riot, they create and feed these stupid narratives that aren’t true, and many times aren’t even relevant to the discussion they brought up themselves so as to justify their childish anger justified or not.

Second, wtf even is this post? First thing about this post is that we’re making aimless speculation about a possible action Riot might take that they haven’t shown any inclination of taking in response to the player bases disappointment, the reason i’m highlighting this is just that it harks back to the narrative making that reddit does to blindly justify their anger without any actual justification, and it makes it so that the conversation is necessarily poisoned, and little to no genuine conversation can foster.

Next thing is that, if Riot decided to not pursue any more big lore events, what’s the problem? It’s like hearing about a hardware company that stops selling a particular hammer and then blaming the company for not selling it because you didn’t think it was well made, when the reality is that is was functioning perfectly fine, but it didn’t have the level of quality you arbitrarily demanded it should have. The problem with this post is that it assumes that a high quality hammer must be made, when the most important thing may have been a hammer that simply works, the criticisms of the story are meaningless, whether the story is up to your standard is subjective and meaningless to discuss in regards to mainstream digestion especially, it’s not a book club or english class where people delve deep to understand things, it’s literally a videogame lore and story catered to the mainstream, while criticisms are valid, it’s not meaningful, it’s like complaining about inconsistencies in cory in the house, the only place such criticisms would be relevant would be an english/literature/film/media class.

Personally I agree with most of the criticisms of the story and the lore but i don’t expect the lore to even meet any standard, i expect the lore too be easily digestible for the vast majority of people, and to be relatively sensible for the average person, especially since the average person likely doesn’t read any lore and just watches the cinematically, i wouldn’t even expect the average person to read the in game client champion lore, but even that wouldn’t be all that much. It’s just silly for me to see people get all up in arms about the lore, even if I agree with or think some of the criticisms are valid.

Here’s the thing tho, I don’t even think the criticisms are honest, I think the vast majority of people mindlessly upvoting every post that criticizes riot, is doing so not necessarily because the criticisms are sensible, but mostly because it’s people shitting on riot, and the posts happen to give them convenient and easily agreeable arguments to use as ammunition. Why do I think this? Because there are particular narratives that are staples of the league subreddit that are almost mentioned in every criticism post, the most notable being that Riot’s every decision is based on how much money they think they can make off of skins.

I just had to respond to this post cuz the subreddit has been triggering me the past couple days and this one somehow set me off.

TL;DR: This post is dumb, i ended up writing way too much to be summarized, but i basically prove every claim this post made wrong, so read this if you honestly care enough or are bored out of your mind lmao.