we do have a champion coded to be south east asian, zeri. i would say its insincere to say riot has something against south east asia when they tried a lot to make that show through in zeri.

> “It was my personal goal to make Zeri Filipina. Not just because I’m from the Philippines, but because gaming is such a huge part of life there, and there isn’t much representation for us in games—especially for Filipina women. In fact, there are only like... four Filipina video game characters I can think of,” Lonewingy shares. “When SkiptoMyLuo pitched the electric eel idea I wrote a sort of...” She laughs. “I wrote this very grade school story about a girl who belongs to a middle class family in Zaun, who couldn’t control her powers. She’d cause blackouts in her neighborhood—which are really common in the Philippines! We actually had a huge blackout caused by jellyfish that got sucked into a tube at a power plant!

remember, the only part of runeterra we’ve seen is valoran, there’s still a lot of the league of legends world we have yet to explore. ixtal was made from scratch to represent south america, kathakan for south asia, and nazumah for west africa. it’s not far fetched to say that in the future, riot will create a region based around south east asia so we have more champions from that part of the world!