Reav3

The current event takes place from the Sentinels PoV so we will see what they see. We can always expand on what happened with other champions at different locations like we did with the recent Hecarim short story. While I cant confirm anything we have not announced I can say I agree that it would be exciting to see what happened to different champs around Runeterra during this moment. I don't think it would ever be possible for us to tell what happened to the entire cast of 150+ champions during a massive event like this, nor do I think having a cast that size should cause us to never do world ending threat events. I think u can tell a really compelling story with a smaller cast during a world ending event that is still worth telling, even if the answer to what every other champion is doing can't always be answered

The SS thing happened like 3-4 moths before the current SoL event. This is also why Poppy and Vayne are no longer together. They don't just hang out for 3-4 months after that moment. The SS was about Viego coming after Senna and when he starts to pull the soul out it triggers mini-ruinations across Runeterra. This is separate from the SoL fighting back against Viego. Connecting everything super close like that (the exact champions that randomly get involved in the mini-ruinations just happen to ALL run into the SoL and join them) makes the world feel very small. I think having some connected champions in the various stories we are telling about the Ruination is cool and makes sense, but having everything that connected starts to feel unrealistic in a world the size of Runeterra. SoL is one story directly revolving around Senna/Lucian and their fight against Viego and it involves the Champions and characters they run into during their journey. Also if we put the exact same champions...

Irelia is truly good. Senna, Lucian and Gwen are pretty close to truly good as well, Senna for sure. And yes it will be explained how and why they join in the visual novel

I explained in the response. Vayne was the number one choice for Champions that would make the most sense to join the Sentinels and to advance her lore

I think for the event story yes. The in-client experience is long and is from the Sentinels POV, not the entire world. I think for the Sentinels and champions in the main story, and for many of the main characters we will do them justice. Obv different champions all over the world are having their own experiences that we don't see from the Sentinels POV and we can always touch on those in the future (like how we recently released a story about what Hecarim is doing during all this since the Sentinels never run into him directly.) Like I don't think you needed to know what was happening all over the galaxy for ME2 to be a good story, for example.

Right but I think your A and B example is very subjective. I personally was very excited to see a story with these Champions and I think others will be as well. I think different players as well as different writers here at riot will have different opinions on who they think will make a more exciting story. The main writer of the event for example, was the MOST excited about Graves being in the story then any other Champion and felt he would add a lot to the story. Other writers and players will have different opinions. I think it's impossible to just say "These specific champions would 100% make a better story then these other specific champions" It's all very subjective

I don't want to spoil the story ahead of time especially for a chapter that comes out 2 weeks from now, but while u acquire Graves in P/Z he is not the sentinel(s) you meet with in P/Z. I'll just leave it at that for now

Hey all, Reav3 here, Creative Lead of this Event. Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier but I just now got on reddit this morning and checked out this thread. I'm probably insane for even responding in this thread since I think a lot of people in this thread won't care what my response is, and will assume bad intentions no matter what I say here, but hey I like talking to players and I'm also apparently a masochist (I also think this will reach a lot of players that are genuinely interested in the answer here)

So there's a lot covered in this thread and I will try to answer as much as I can. Let's start with the main question, which I don't think is specifically about "Skin politics" since events like this and spirit blossom are massive events that stretch WAY farther than just skin. I think the real question being asked here is "Did Riot care about event ROI (Return on Investment) when choosing the Champions that got skins? ' ' The answer to that is that of course we did....

As seen in her release trailer Gwen can magically change the size of her scissors at will to be any size she wants

I’d love to answer this but it would spoil a lot of the story. You will have to play through the story for answers

Once again I’m not going to spoil the story here for people that want to experience themselves. I would suggest playing through the in client narrative experience if I want to get context on everything

You will have to play through and find out :)

I would suggest playing through the very lengthy in client narrative experience. I think you will find a lot of answers that

I’m confused as to what your argument is? You are saying the Vaynes lore doesn’t progress in a story u haven’t played through with the vast majority of the story not even released yet? Your argument is based on skin VO? I’m totally fine with constructive criticism but I would appreciate if it was after u have actually played through the entire event story. I can’t say a lot now since I don’t want to spoil any of the story.

Bandle city is in the spirit world so it didn’t make sense for the Sentinels to travel their or for the mist to reach bandle city since the ruination takes place in the physical realm

I mean that's what she is doing at the moment from a lore perspective. We don't have plans for her in the event, but that isn't specifically because we didn't think her skin would sell or anything. It would have been impossible for us to fit every single Champion that we could of in this event as the event already has a enormous about of art assets in it, way more then spirit blossom. We wanted one champion per region, and we didn't really have the scope to add lots of champions per region. We had to choose between Poppy or Vayne for Demacia and we chose Vayne because her story progression made the most sense (since she is already a monster slayer so joining the Sentinels in order to get better tools to hunt more monster's made a ton of sense for her, and her lore already has a lot of overlap with the Sentinels) That's the honest answer. Of course in a world where we have infinite scope and resources I would have loved to include every single Champion players would want in this sto...

You will have to play through the even story to get context into why Vayne joins the Sentinels and why she is allowing stuff like that

It is important to have multiple pairs of glasses in case one breaks though

Protecting the citizens of Demacia while Vayne goes after the big monster

Why? I didnt say which side wins