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Originally posted by PinkShortShorts

Why is there no variety in terms of the champions selected? Why did no mages or enchanters or tanks join the fight against Viego? It feels extremely limiting that the only ones that can be Sentinels are characters that fulfill a hypercarry ad fantasy. I’m not sure how much of a “ragtag” group it is if it only appeals to a specific subset of players.

Originally posted by Eragon_the_Huntsman

I appreciate the response and I agree with you on most parts. However if you don't mind a little bit of hopefully constructive criticism, I feel like it could have been better if either Irellia, Diana or Riven got the legendary instead of Graves, or if Vayne had more character growth in hers.

Right now both of them have the kind of "eh I don't really care that the world's ending I'm just here for the cool guns" vibe with their voicelines, which I feel takes away from the impact of the event since they're the front and center. Using your analogy, In Guardians of the Galaxy, Starlord has Gamora as the serious side to balance his more... carefree attitude, and I think a lot of the complaints come from people who expected more of an Avengers approach to this cataclysmic event than the Guardians who are a bit more silly.

TLDR: I dont mind that graves got a skin, I think it fits pretty well actually. I just feel like Vayne should be taking this a little more seriously, s...

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Originally posted by Tungvaumtp

This is unrelated but since you are currently active may I ask something: is there any reason why Viego's power is so absurd? Why can he revive a god? Why can the Black Mist corrupt petricite when it can hold the literal source codes of all magic?

Originally posted by Shadowfishy

I greatly appreciate the post from a human perspective and I thank you for taking the time to explain your process. Your words provide some insight towards the choices this event, but I also feel like some of the things said feel really off.

Skin choices aside, as we know this will always be a factor whether good or bad, the choices themselves still don't really fit what you've mentioned, for myself and a lot of others.

Where Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad and X-Men work is that there's either a common thread or mood attempting to be portrayed. Whether that's collective comedy of GotG (which Odyssey does very well), and some misadventures being funny, or with SS that all share bad guy statuses that don't play to anyone's rules other than their own. Or even X-Men where they are much more all over the place, but never feel out of place and all come together with very few actually being bad guys.

With the choices made, and yes even the narrative choices...

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Originally posted by Law-8374

I mean unfortunately this IS just PR bullshit, as much as you convey all of this its just blatantly all about money (obviously its what they have to do), but ill give you credit i think the inclusion of olaf, irelia and graves was very good and smart cause it hit a sweetspot of champs that dont get a crazy amount of love (except irelia) but feel just right in the event (but NOT graves repping pilt/zaun, you guys robbed a lot of ppl that love that region with that) in terms of where you guys missed the mark its just sad, “we thought this would progress vayne the best” what??? you must be joking, vayne has LITERALLY been in a absolute shit ton of events, you know that right??? Her and riven were LITERALLY IN SPIRIT BLOSSOM, im not gonna elaborate too much more cause its not worth, at the end of the day you guys just rely on your money grabbers such as vayne and riven. The last thing is i feel you maybe, justtt maybe Reav3 you should actually chat with ppl that know the lore, let me a...

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Originally posted by SomeoneNewToReddit

Hi,

I personally love what you guys have done with the event and just wanted to start of by giving you guys some positive feedback, the event looks amazing and I love the 1 year arc story that you guys have gone for this year.

The only "negative" (which could be proven wrong) feedback I have is that I would have loved to see Yorick either join the Sentinels or break free from the power of mist like Unbound Thresh. I want to make it clear that I don't know a lot about the lore/Yorick's connect to the Mist. All I know is that his persona/lore is based around the Mist and Viego so I really do hope he will make an appearance and received a good quality skin throughout this event.

I am someone who plays really unpopular champions (Ivern, Yorick, Pre-rework Mundo, Pre-and Post-Rework Fiddle, Maokai etc) which is why I think this "means more to me" than any other event/skinline that we have seen in recent times. Yorick would be an amazing fit for this story arc. Si...

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Originally posted by GeronimoJak

Vayne makes the most sense and is a good fit, Olaf is one as well, but characters like Pyke are kind of just ??? and he's legit one of my favorites in the game universe.

Not seeing Yorick, or how champions become ruined is another thing. In voice line interactions it speaks that people like Miss Fortune, Karma, and Draven sold themselves and intentionally sided with Viego which doesn't fit the cinematic of them being taken over, or their characters personality.

Maybe the pandemic did a lot more to change how things worked then anticipated but there's a lot of missing pieces that need to be filled or they just seem kind of mishandled or nonsensical from the current stand point.

Originally posted by CheddarCroissant

The event will have more cinematics right? I feel like the one we received has a continuation, graves pyke miss fortune etc

Originally posted by Raikeron

What is this Visual Novel you keep mentioning? Is it already available?
I feel like I'm missing a lot of lore about this event; people keep mentioning Gwen's interactions with the Sentinels but I haven't seen that yet...

Originally posted by -Falrein

Okay, this'll probably be buried under a lot of other comments but I ought to write it or I won't forgive myself.

First of all, I do appreciate the honest answer. I am personally not a fan of the cast choice, but I appreciate that you'd explain the reasoning behind it.

I am glad to read that you like the IP/World of Runeterra. I'm a huge fan of it as well, and it at least makes me feel better to know that you do to since you're overseeing the whole thing.

Now, if I may voice my honest opinion (and I ask that you believe I have no ill intention), I think that the idea of making a worldwide threat event may not have been the best idea to begin with. Of course, I understand the appeal and all, it's great to have heroes and characters from all around the world having to work together against a common threat.What I personally dislike is that in that sort of instance, there are many, many champions that could or would take action, and we likely never will see what...

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Originally posted by KingKensei

Alright if money isn't the reason, why include champs like Darius, Samira and Poppy in a cinematic if they're not even gonna be in the event at all? Could have Shown Draven and shyvana getting ruined cause you know their ruined skins.

Seems like shitty bait and switch tactics to me generate false hype and hope for their playerbase

I'd much rather Poppy not have been in the cinematic so I could trust Riot was just gonna ignore her existence again than get my hopes up for them to be ripped away for dollar store Bayonetta

Originally posted by moumerino

Wow thank you for taking the time writing this! Honestly I picked up on Guardians of the Galaxy vibes right away, and I love it, I just wish we got at least one truly good champion of light for the event. If we're talking Mass Effect, someone like Liara, Tali, and Garrus.

I hope it will be explained how Pyke and Rengar fit into this whole thing.

Originally posted by BADxW0LF1

Can I ask why Vayne was chosen yet again to be included in a big league event since she was also in the Spirit Blossom event? Out if all the Champs you have in this game, she just gets two in a row and even your only two big in client events. It just seems unfair (and I know you guys don't really care about fairness for champ skins, just who fits the theme best) to give your ONLY two big in client lore events to the same champ.

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

I can tell from the tone of this post and your other responses you’re being sincere and I honestly appreciate how open you are about strategy and your thinking behind decision making. I want to ask if you think the scope of the event can really do this story justice since this seems like the apocalypse and everyone reacts to the apocalypse so it might be a little jarring not knowing what X champ is doing during this

Originally posted by Masalar

I do appreciate you responding, but I want to try and express why it can still feel bad as player when you choose certain champs for events like this even if you have a good and valid “explanation” for it. And that’s the difference between and explanation and a justification. If unpopular champ A makes perfect sense for a story, but super popular champ B could also sort of probably be used, it feels like the better story would be told with A, and the lore would explain it. But since B makes more money you go with B (which is understandable even if not always enjoyable). But since the story isn’t a perfect when told with B, you’re not giving us an explanation for why the story is using them, you’re justifying why you’re using them instead of A. And the story will pretty much always feel worse when told that way.

When you guys tried to tell us why Viego had the appearance he does we already had a searchable history of male champ design. He was going to be a shirtless pretty ...

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Originally posted by hellhound39

Thanks for the response, we appreciate it. My only question is will there be any links to piltover or Zaun, it seems a little odd that they’re left out of this as far as representation for Ruined or Sentinels.

Originally posted by GGABueno

:c I hope it comes back eventually.

Originally posted by GGABueno

They're going to continue this Lecpardy between games, right?

Right?

Originally posted by Summaa

Great job :D Was the freestyle section written or actually freestyled?