The Ruination Finale... What Happened?

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[@makky223]

this cinematic would have been so cool and epic if I didn't know the lore...

[@ClownLouie]

Yeah,when you know it is like:hey,the super dangerous guy who has been destroying the world is defeated in 4 minutes with a couple of shots,gg ez

[@blaze_icephoenix2695]

Also that they legit removed like half of the actually sentinel team for the cinematic.

[@tenritniehtnoyugmodnar5661]

Let's face it, It was really really bad.

[@GlamdringandOrcrist]

Couldn’t have said it better lol

[@ClownLouie]

@@tenritniehtnoyugmodnar5661 I don't think it is just bad,i would say it is disappointing

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"So we really don't know why all of this happened, even though it looks cool" Necrit just summarized the entire cinematic with one sentence

[@thefroirl2016]

More like event

[@lostdeeply397]

How are you evrywhere

[@venixuro3503]

Yeah.

[@DM-dy9bq]

Correction : the entire event.

[@dhelminglana6747]

Your everywhere and im everywhere

[@Nicolas-wl3qm]

Always thought that this event was going to be a BIG EPIC event. Like avengers: endgame but in League, somehow they managed to fuck everything up.

[@Furrito_272]

I think part of that was the selection of champs, and it feeling a bit too short I mean PYKE??? I would have enjoyed it more if there was a handle city chapter where they recruited sentinel Lulu while fighting vex

[@kooldudematt1]

What we wanted: _Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame_ vibes What we got: _Justice League: Joss Whedon Ed._ vibes

[@simonvillarreal623]

@@Furrito_272 now that would be cool maybe instead of cutesy stuff she makes stuff relating to sentinels and her and pix are just confused and.annoyed

[@pablo1006pr]

@AddictedToCoffee nor volibear, or the watcher or xerath, or aurelion. sad that you have to be an anime character to get a cinematic or even story

[@nhentainet7088]

@@pablo1006pr well, all bad examples because none of them could fit into the story, voli is a god that is self centered, Aurelian is still imprisoned etc. But yeah they could’ve done much better

[@FolliYt]

This was such a weird event for me right from the start that I'm literally left speechless. I know that the pandemic made everything worse, but why was this happening if it clearly wasn't ready to happen. Was the game in such a dire need of some form of event that they really couldn't have waited a couple of more months? I really dont think so... Shadow Isles was such a cool place in the world before Viego... Gosh, what a missed oprotunity. Hopefully the next event ends up being better :)

[@ousemaabdennadher1016]

riot is just making commercial events and champs at this point starting from seraphine that was completely out of place to this whole event that give us so many cool skins some edgy characters and new champs but weak lore .

[@EmbersAnimations]

“The Shadow Isles were such a cool place before Viego” I couldn’t agree more…

[@angelvalentine9354]

I appreciate all the work the artists did, but this should have been bigger and better, Riot, someone should have managed this professionally and made sure it was complete and would satisfy the fans expectations. We know they have the money, they barely do anything to the game beside make new skins, why do they always minimize and fire people and go on budget and cut everything?

[@LYNNJACKY]

probably because they want to start a corporate structure thing where they're able to pump out 1 big event a year or something, starting from fates. this year it's ruination. gotta meet them KPIs and deadlines. even if they give a half hearted result. but yeah, i guess their (Riot's) learnings from this are probably that they need more efficiency structures and stuff. not necessarily more firepower (staffing), just work the current staff harder and guilt them into thinking that riot gives them a good work life balance :)

[@doodlertoodlert8728]

It’s probably got to do with the class action lawsuit going on, ngl

[@AT7outof10]

Riot's first big miss with a cinematic; it had to happen eventually, but it sure feels weird.

[@Draylenn]

It's unfortunate that it happened with their biggest, most hyped lore event.

[@yosefochoarosales3274]

Sad that it happened at the biggest event the have done

[@ioiwut4874]

not being able to praise a league cinematic feels blasphemous. yet here we are :/

[@alonnie1919]

It's not horrible. Besides, now hopefully they can learn for future events. The story is there, we know what's going on and it's just one cinematic that doesn't follow everything quite right

[@areallyrealisticguyd4333]

I was so confused when the visual novel and cinematic were different. It feels non-canon because of how much is missing but I know this is all leading up to the Ruined King game where we'll probably see even better fights

[@scarletred616]

The Rest of the Sentinels and Ruined Champs are Having a tea Party with Vex, Yorick, & Maiden

[@rickarddonovan5913]

Maoki wasn't even invited to the tea party

[@sr.365]

@@rickarddonovan5913 mao is just tending to his fields. Good man.

[@Alex-hx4on]

Nice to see another Wanda stan :)

[@capitanspoiler7393]

a tea party hosted by j4 and swain, with ryze doing the entertainment and darius and garen serving the cookies wearing a nice apron -_-

[@endersplitt2435]

Not i just can't imagien it all as a movie set with Thresh as the director and the other champ that are missing here behind him

[@TigerKirby215]

Me: No fear Necrit: "Please... Don't ruin Mordekaiser." Me: One fear

[@Karaamjeet]

the whole budget excuse doesn't cut it though... we have seen Riot put more into cinematics before, plus this is the biggest event in League History, which is canonical and has been planned for multiple years... they could've and should've increased their budget... especially considering they released 10+ skins for this event for champions they knew would sell well (not to mention that Riot as a company implemented the event in WR, LOR, and even Val but Val can be excused for just being a crossover).

[@xanxus5933]

exactly. look at Awaken, they have 9 champs there shot at 3 different locations and the art looks really realistic so it's probably a lot more expensive to animate.

[@sskyshade]

My question would be how would this affect gameplay? When Senna was released Lucian got some new voice lines but how would viego's banishement affect league gameplay? is he going to get...deleted?

[@snqoqo]

THIS IS SO TRUE

[@emrebahakaba9853]

@@sskyshade He’ll probably get a banished Viego skin at most.

[@sskyshade]

@@emrebahakaba9853 When gangplank "died" during burning tides it only meant he came back, and made his old classic skin captain gangplank, could that be the outcome of viego

[@mitjahladen6699]

Nothing should have been too much work for one of the biggest lore events ever.

[@pweaseadoptme5312]

justifying it its pretty idiotic from necrit imo... if you dont have the resources for the event then you shouldnt do it and riot deff had enough resources lets not kid ourselves its where they put all the focus thats wrong... I understand that covid also makes things more complicated but they just have to organise themselves better and take more time to work on things witch they did have ... There is no excuse for this bullshit except that they didnt have their priorities on it instead they made the skins sold them by lying to their community and cashing on it... People here lore event and their fav champ is getting a lore skin they buy them and they are barely canon at all and make no sense they literally scammed their community and they dont give a shit there is no excuse at all for this and this event make me make a choice to never read a league story ever again cause the lore doesent matter at all and its so fabricated and feels fake

[@AG_Mat]

@@pweaseadoptme5312 yeah, since Unbound Thresh was released the lore feels more artificial to me too That skin just censor him and sell good in China (Wild Rift objetive audience) Riot has learned that don't looking at the lore sells (Seraphine) so it will not surprise me if they keep going that way, the way of the Mobile Mobas

[@nananyfo4752]

@@AG_Mat let's be real seraphine's lore isn't bad it's just not good i still don't understand why is everyone hating on her because she's "Normal" and ofc she would sell she has an ultimate skin with a new theme (social media account)

[@pweaseadoptme5312]

@@nananyfo4752 seraphines lore is fine but they made the skin before a champion lets be real... making an ultimate skin on a new champion is kinda a cash grab and marketing off kids that are 13-14 with mental issues on twitter is kinda fucked up

[@JurgenKristoff]

Yeah man, this cinematic should have been the "Avengers endgame battle" for LoL fans.

[@otako8255]

Even for non lore fans it was depressing since they may have not got to see their favorite sentinel duke it out with Viego

[@Namelessg-no6vy]

LMAO like wtf was the point of that fcking event.. recruiting people that wont even appear in the cinematic. SHIT EVEN VEX,HECARIM, KALISTA AND THRESH ARENT THERE. but hey lets put pantheon in there.

[@pole8740]

i honestly really dig the “my wife is dead, imma destroy the world” motivation so much and to see viego not even putting a fight, leaving the door literally open, froze? how? and the ending where haha its an avenger age of ultron ending everybody hug yay we kill the bad guy in 2 seconds with some strings and some gun. fuck they did viego dirty, they did the whole shadow isle dirty

[@sr.365]

@@Namelessg-no6vy and Yorick. The one guy who literally dedicates his entire existence, being the last of his kind as well. Just completely gone. Not even a slight mention.

[@Wolvahulk]

@@pole8740 ikr I've been saying this all over the place. His motivation is a really cool spin on the entire anime edge lord villain thing. In addition he's like a god damn Lich king something I love so much as a concept. At this point I just want to forget that all of this even happened and just pretend that Viego in and beyond the game is still just looking for pieces of Isolde's soul while planning the ruination.

[@NOBODY-jy6hv]

@@Namelessg-no6vy because skin same with greaves and vayne such "wonderful" fanservie

[@KekPafrany]

Simple: they just skipped the "ugly monsters" and kept the "sexy humans" on the Sentinel side, because a water zombie or a big cat doesn't sell well.

[@the0glitter]

The community isn't separated in two halves, more people dislike how the story was going than those who like it.

[@pumba9393]

I couldn’t find a single comment on the cinematic saying anything positive😂

[@kooldudematt1]

It's just like how "half the community" has not…and will not…accept the "New" universe and its lore. Many of us have not forgotten that we are _summoners,_ a part of the living breathing world of Runeterra. In actuality, it is far more than half. With every new addition to the lore that is done hastily, Riot further removes lore-fans from their base.

[@bigs42069]

@@kooldudematt1 Yes, I can confirm. I have hated the lore since the decision was made to erase the institute of war, aka, the separation of the game and the lore.But I gave it a chance, something that I regret having done I do not deny that they were freed from the chains that the old lore imposed, but at the same time that is what gave you a base to work on. The new lore expanded the history of the world but in turn the characters ... Honestly seeing them interact with people outside of their region or city seems weird. Sure, I'll be honest, I stopped following the lore since varus was formed by 2 homosexuals. Is that still canon? I honestly forget half of the new lore. What I do remember was when he was a simple man who decided to catch demonic AIDS to avenge his wife and daughter. To continue my honesty, I don't read much about new lore, it bores me a lot, the only thing that entertained me was the lore from sett and patheon. Because it felt like old lore. it told you a little about the character, who he was, what happened in his life and what he wants. Simple and to the point. Unlike the rest of the lore who seems to want to be the next big hit. Take a look at the lore, and most of the time it has to have airs of grandeur or social criticism, or betrayals, conspiracies. REVENGE !!!!. etc etc. Fuck, you don't need that much tension. I'm already ranting, but to give one last thought. See how the community does less and less for the game, here reference to fanarts or things like that. Fuck, who doesn't remember Sona and Ez's classic couple? just because you always see them in games together because they were a pretty strong bot lane. Remember Ez and janna? The legendary Garen and the bush meme? Bronzodia? Do you get it? You no longer see that kind of connection with the game, I don't want to say it's the new lore's fault, but since its arrival, I've noticed that people no longer care to do anything with the champions. (we do not count r34 or porn in general). Now all you see are memes that Viego is a gigasimp (an exaggeration here, but I think you get the point) and SUPER ULTRA OP BUILD MLG PRO NO SCOPE. But the ship of Ez x Taric XD is still standing Forgive my shitty english, google translate is being retardedd.

[@animeworld5847]

The community is divided into two halves, those who hate the event and cinematic and those who only play the game and skip dialogues

[@animeworld5847]

@@bigs42069 tbf I did like the removal of the institute of war in favor of a more living universe, I liked the Targon changes with Aurelion Sol, the changes Camille brings into the Piltover lore, heck even the Demacia changes with Kayle, Morgana and Sylas. Meanwhile some others....I couldn't care less about the Darkins ever since the Aatrox rework and backstory changes, the furries failed to pique my interest and this current event is the definition of a failure imo. Such a big event centered around Death, you'd expect Kindred to spearhead it, maybe a mention that the order Lucian and Senna hail from worships them or have weapons blessed by lamb, nope, no Yorick or Karthus either and the cherry on top : The new Thresh look, if they make it canon, I'm dropping the lore. Now I'm even afraid of what they'll do with Xerath/Azir and the watchers in Freljord...

[@adamantium2311]

For yall asking where is yorick He was digging a grave for the lore that just got murdered

[@frankjoseph8830]

bruh

[@tadanohitohito6813]

Bruuuuuuuuuh

[@nuvana7480]

Bruh

[@zerozephyryum9131]

bruh

[@Symasas225]

True

[@yannickbiemans8946]

Mordekaiser watching the scene from the death realm and saying: "fine, i'll do it myself" while opening a gate to the realm of the living.

[@MartialArtsForY]

YES

[@pole8740]

lol hes gonna get 1 shot by rell probably since its riot

[@thetoymaker1353]

@@pole8740 Yeah, but also ı dont understand doesnt mordekaiser made is armor from "souls". How is it considered as fuking normal iron. How can rell bend something made out of souls? If ı am misaing something please explain to me.

[@OPGardevoir]

@@thetoymaker1353 no his armor is just normal metal

[@pole8740]

@@thetoymaker1353 look what they did to viego, they'll just hype up morde then have him die by the power of bisexual or love or what ever stupid disney bullshit they pulled to kill viego or what ever

[@charliepea]

They defeated Viego so easily like slapping a mosquito that's sucking your arm. They did not even show the SI champs, the other sentinels, and new yordle mage. I wish I could say the whole cinematic is bad, but what makes me stop from is the quality of the animation :(

[@zenixvampirchik652]

Well if what is said is true - it's just budget reasons. Spending to much on one cinematic... IF they did it - it probably would turn to a freaking regular episode lenght around 11-22 minutes - and would consume hella lot of money. For one event... Idk Probably didn't seem worth it

[@johnconnor3337]

It's awful, pretty but awful

[@SilverWarrior95]

@@zenixvampirchik652 so...like the Yone and Yasuo cinematic?

[@zenixvampirchik652]

@@SilverWarrior95 yep, but much more costly (effects and renders are much better, plus computer 2d is cheaper nowadays.) And considering the scope... For the same level of cinematography as in yone/yas trailer... It probably actually would require full 18-22 minutes episode... Which is a lot for a trailer. But then again, it's a biggest lore event in the runterra universe

[@PopeZach]

This whole event is bad. This event just makes Viego seem useless and not powerful compared to his release/ruination trailer where he seemed like he was going to be the end of Runeterra. Instead we got some rushed event made by people who aren't event part of the lore team.

[@Akidragy]

Everyone: fighting against the Ruination Syndra: *really loud SNORE*

[@stormdragon2529]

literally every important champion in the story with the power to fight viego: LOUD SNORE

[@shelluwwthebrave751]

@@cryptic2121 i wish I could like a comment more than once

[@karenboy1005]

This is what happens when you have 150+ characters in your story.

[@mymomsaid4825]

fr though. where are they???

[@phyokyawkhaing2251]

@@karenboy1005 Doesn't really matter if the studio decided to animate a few clips of champions in other regions battling the mist.

[@rickarddonovan5913]

I love how Riot cares so much about the lore. That's why characters like Yorick and Maoki who's life purpose is to get revenge on Viego just sat there and got little or no mention. Also love how the 2 ex-generals Kallista and Hecarim had no mention of screen time. Absolute genius work by Riot

[@faustsies1366]

this event was made with the ruined king game in mind, but it got delayed. So expect the shadow isles characters to show up there.

[@blazingbowman9295]

@@faustsies1366 hopefully

[@trifarianboi3043]

@@faustsies1366 no excuse for this shitty event

[@faustsies1366]

@@trifarianboi3043 okay.

[@rafaelsousa2633]

In the comic, after Isolde dies, there's a part where Viego is holding a map of the Blessed Isles and he says something like "Finally, I have found it!". Bitch please, Kalista found it, not you. Not only they didn't put Kalista but also removed her agency in the lore. Hecarim, Karthus, Ledros, Maokai... so many cool characters that would be relevant in this event get thrown aside just to sell skins

[@larshanhart7138]

I feel like the ruination is a story that would have deserved a 2h+ movie.

[@Quasarii]

Indeed, that's why i'm optimistic about how not complete this "finale" is

[@rokayawael5467]

Agree i wouldve loved if we got a movie about camavor where we see all the champs from there get to know more about there lives and how they used to be in life than we get second one to show this story. Honestly the finale should have been like kin of two blades where it is 10 or 20 min long i hate how necrit is trying to justfiy this awful event as riot not having enough money they are a billion dollar company they couldve made it great but insted they wanted to sell skins to steal our money thats all we are to them a cash grab

[@SpaceDragon14]

I'd loved if the cinematic was like the othter cinematics they have, I don't have the stylized look but videos like The Climb would fit perfectly, since that's when they started the Ruination and followed it with the Senna Reveal

[@Fancjak]

instead of making jinx netflix series they should do this but movie

[@wyvern723]

Agreed.

[@bryancalle103]

“Riot has always been good at learning from their mistakes” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one 😂

[@randomname8616]

One thing that I see almost no one mentioning is how the Hallowed Mist was seemingly being set up as a counter to the Black Mist being at equal strength or maybe even able to cleanse anything touched by the Black Mist but they literally didn't do anything with it after Gwen came out nor try to explain what it exactly does.

[@carlosfacundo5636]

It is almost entirely exclusive to her, the closest thing I can think of is yoricks vial of blessed water

[@shelluwwthebrave751]

Hatsune Miku needed to be special you know

[@christianlayne2824]

@@shelluwwthebrave751 I think that's SERAPHINE.

[@WitchNakime]

@@carlosfacundo5636 Yorick's vial is explained. All the monks had one vial but the Maiden made them take it off. Making them vulnerable to the Black Mist, but Yorick is built different and doesn't obey to the maiden, but they still work together to.. uh.. Take down Viego with a massive army of Ghouls apparently ?

[@seiwokatsu1379]

Akshan really came in, said: "Yo look at this dope ass weapon" then made every single death that is coming in the future pointless. Also the Ruined King really just got 2 shot after being hyped for years. Great story Riot, way to go fuck up one of the biggest events in league history.

[@theunk0wndead663]

"2 shot" While he dominated them in the beginning and then sent Pantheon to prevent the others from following up, the loss of Isolde is something that made him heartbroken as it took him a millennia to get her back. So it enough to be distracting, and while he wasn't enraged yet (you can hear he is at the end) and just confused, they used the chance to banish him, the important point being that Gwen immediately restrained both of his arms opposed to only one like in the beginning, and it seemed like he lost some of his strength as Senna took in the Black Mist that his closing chest omitted. I don't know how else you think the Sentinels were supposed to fight him, he bested Pantheon and corrupted him, so some Sentinels wouldn't have stood a good chance, at least without the right circumstances, which were provided here.

[@pochimaneim5316]

same. even worse is all a mess with the comic and ingmae event.

[@toaaxxon123]

"making a longer cinematic with more characters would take more time" ok? and? didnt riot state this was supposed to be a year long event???

[@Wolvahulk]

@@theunk0wndead663 Well it's really hard to believe that he fought off pantheon and corrupted him, when at the begging of the cinematic they basically just tickle him with a few shots making him kneel down and almost cought him right then and there if he didn't just magic his sword around and "stab" Gwen... It feels more like he just got lucky with Gwen and not that he's actually that powerful that he needs to be incredibly weakened before he gets sealed...

[@nananakeson]

Tbh riot made every single death pointless by bringing Senna and Yone back

[@jynxed66six54]

My favourite part of the event was when yorick gave away his life waters saying its all that was left, meaning riot clearly forgot about the treant walking around like a tanker full of the stuff on the shadow isles

[@Chakrazx95]

If I remember correctly, Maokai got partially corrupted in the ruination, so the water that it drank it's probably corrupted too

[@jeremytewari3346]

I actually thought that the point of that was gonna be that Yorick didn’t know about Maokai and he’s come save the day

[@iisakkihaapalehto5574]

Ironically the small impact that Yorick had in the visual novel was made with a tiny retcon. Originally the blessed water that Yorick has is really the only piece left, period. But in the client novel they explain that Yorick just happened to go to the place where Viego tried resurrect Isolde and for some reason he decided to save all the blessed water there. This never happened in the old story and does not really make sense in the big picture. But this now allows Yorick to have lots of blessed water waiting for our daring heroes. Totally worth to carry all that stuff around over 1000 years i guess :D Seems Necrit also missed this tiny wording in the novel since he explains the water thing with maiden being controlled by Gwen so Yorick would not need the water. But that is not really the best explanation either. Since there is no way that tiny bottle has enough for like 10 people. And Yorick would still need it to survive on the isles even without maiden. But nonetheless this whole event has fucked up so much lore that this is kinda inferior information, but still decided to point it out

[@DerikHendric]

​@@iisakkihaapalehto5574 Dude... the visual novel explicitly tells that he gives a droplet of water to each sentinel. He gave away so little cause that he could resist the mist cause 1: he still has some water and 2: the visual novel says that Gwen took the Maiden away. And yes, that vial has the water that Viego tried to ressurect Isolde a millenia ago, cause Yorick is alive for more than a thousand years. He was around when it was still the Blessed Isles, he took the water on the Ruination, and not that he has a lot of it right now cause he just found it.

[@tostupidforname]

@@Chakrazx95 how.. convenient

[@Rokuns]

This event felt incredibly rushed and poorly handled when all is said and done. Felt like more of a cash grab for new skins and a new "Hero" I couldn't care less about. Developing lore and building characters to be more then just "One Note" or "Jokes" are key components to great story telling but that was nonexistent throughout this event. Now that the story is already over before it even began, what do I as a reader, have to keep me interested in? If I was a brand new consumer of this story who didn't know the characters, their backstories, or even the world I was about to plunge into, would I be compelled to keep reading after this fiasco to find out more? I'd consider it a waste of time and chalk it up to being as well written as the last Star Wars trash fire and never consider picking it up again and outright mocking it if it ever entered normal conversation. Honestly they should have finished the "Ruined King" game they are working on where you control the hero's and can swap around your team comp to discover cool tidbits about both characters and lore while exploring a unique world, securing better items in the process to encourage such exploration. This would allow them more time so they could have set up and told a far better story that would have had way more of an impact when it finally reached its conclusion. They could have still done a LOL event but instead of rushing out a full novel they should have made a comic book instead. I wanted Viego to be the next proverbial "Lich King" as both a menacing and powerful figure coupled with an interesting backstory I could delve into. I would have loved to have seen the characters and how they interacted with each other, just the story alone of how MF (A Captain) and Pyke (A wraith hellbent on murdering all Captains) joined forces, let alone met and interacted with the others we saw from the cinematic being Illaoi, Braum, Yasuo, and Ahri. That would have made one hell of a story and event in and of itself, no need to send in the Clown yet and start the main quest!

[@entropicplays162]

Please use paragraphs D: But I agree; I hated how the characters had no depth and were literally just a one note thing. I also disliked how Senna and Lucian had 0 chemistry even though they were supposed to be together. Yet they spent most of the story arc arguing over details rather than seeing things through a common lens. I don't expect them to always agree, no couple does that, but Lucian was literally hurr durr at every opportunity which just didn't work out since they actually tried to give Senna some depth. Another thing about Lucian which I hated was it really just ended up coming across as needlessly chauvinistic, which is ironic since Pride month just ended, and it would be cool to have male leads that actually don't act overly controlling around women. Like no matter how I tried to view it, I couldn't understand why Senna would be with Lucian: he was just toxic through and through. He never supported her or tried to see things her way, and I feel Senna only got her way because she was actually written as a strong female lead with a sense of personal agency. I also disliked how they handled Viego. I don't mind Viego receiving a bittersweet ending; I would have preferred him to be more akin to an antihero, but Viego had no depth, which just goes back to the overall writing being incredibly shallow. I began to skip everything about in-game VN after 3 areas unlocked, because it was really just a lot of repetition of the same story with no actual layer added to it, i.e. Senna, Lucian and Gwen go to X area, find out that it's messed up by the Black Mist, solve the problem, find powerful ally, moves on to the next area. I think the reason why The Spirit Blossom event was actually so successful was because Yone and Yasuo were *not* one note characters, and their personal conflict was well developed and there was a lot of background given as to how Yone became the way he is, and how he and Yasuo ended up the way they did. We just got to learn more about two characters we actually didn't know a lot about, whereas in this event, we learned nothing new, because their character motivations are never fully explained nor explored in detail. I understand that the way the event is written is much easier to manage given the amount of characters introduced in the event, but then why make so many characters? I would rather have half of the characters we see in the event but the characters actually given depth. It would be nice to have an actually meaningful narrative rather than something that really comes across as a shitty fanfic. I mean, this is supposed to be the official lore of how Viego met his downfall, and it just leaves a sour taste in the mouth. It's possible to have a character both a villain and antihero, I think Aizen from Bleach is a great example of that, in that he ultimately did evil things and was clearly evil, yet had a noble or personally significant goal. I'd rather have a return of the Spirit Blossom event than this, especially since I never got to experience the VN part.

[@eafesaf6934]

You have said it all what I thought! Thank you!

[@joshwoodferd5737]

"All right gang, we've got him pinned down. Lets all do an Avengers pose instead of riddling him with bullets, someone one go get the camera"

[@metopsy6091]

Their not supposed to kill viego tho

[@gui2neu112]

My favourite part was when Yorick camr to save the team, but Hecarim and his army were summoned by Viego.. The part where Tresh killed Viego and Kalista faced Hecarim and the Iron Order was cool too !

[@asefnirumand2355]

Yeah man riot is doing an insane job they've done really good for a small indie company

[@antwangr]

stop they are already dead

[@patrickcarter2829]

Dude, you forgot when Karthus almost got a pentakill with his Ult, but Makoai stopped him; that was the best part.

[@magapiff1]

did you all just miss the part where Elise riding on the back of Vilemaw comes out of nowhere just to fuck people up? shit was lit.

[@imfunkingivincible886]

I have a feeling that hecarim will come to free his king.

[@outokana2632]

Even with corona going on this event was pretty disappointing overall and it's such a shame because the story was actually really interesting and this whole thing could have been so much better!

[@emmacatte]

People forget that this is a multimillion dollar company that hires professionals that have proven themselves and use covid as some sort of universal excuse to provide the bare minimum.

[@outokana2632]

@@emmacatte exactly, like I understand it's a bit harder to work like this but if it really is that much of a problem why didn't they just delay the event for a bit more??

[@itsgonnabeokay9341]

@@emmacatte what has money to do with anything? Blizzard has even more money and look what they did to WoW.

[@emmacatte]

@@itsgonnabeokay9341 money is literally a non issue for such a huge company so I don't know why necrit is talking about budget of all things, given that these people are professionals with several means of communication and quality control.

[@sr.365]

@@itsgonnabeokay9341 not only that, the ruined king has been hyped up for years. This shit looks like a highschooler forgot he had a deadline and pumped it out on the weekend.

[@davidgillard-allen6840]

My hope is that during the Void invasion, when all hope is lost, our heroes have no choice but to turn to the Ruined King to spread his undying armies across the world again to combat the Void. Everyone loves a good redemption arc.

[@nikoraasu6929]

They can't win against the void. Zilean predicted all futures and in none they win

[@IEatYourSandwiches]

No. That's stupid.

[@IEatYourSandwiches]

Correction: zilean is in the process of researching all possible futures and has yet to find one where they fend off the void

[@remen8021]

Naw I think Varus would make much more sense, he has a history with the void and I think deserves redemption (esp after the new voice overs). I think Valmar and Kai can convince him to fight the void. I mean his whole thing is vengeance against those who wronged him and the entity that caused the most of his suffering is the void.

[@Dude_of_the_twel-sevent_order]

Yeah exactly. Because at the end of the day Viego wasn't trying to destroy the world. He was just trying to revive his dead wife. Viego seems like the best redeemable option

[@lordsnia2152]

was not fine. was an absolute waste of potential and pre-existing lore. real sad here😢😢😭 " *my disappointment is immeasurable and my days are ruined* "

[@TheRealDawny]

"ruined" I see what you did there

[@thetoymaker1353]

Me a lore enjoyer watching the cinematic and event: *dies from dissapointment*

[@sergejmartac3842]

Agreed

[@pakokroko.7529]

That has to be one of the most anticlimatic endings

[@toaaxxon123]

"having all sentinels in the cinematic would be too costly" yeah, this is supposed to be the biggest lore even we've ever had, they are a multibillion dollar company, and yet, it is inferior to spirit blossom in every single way im sorry but i can't help thinking you're trying too hard to find something good in this whole fiasco, they didnt care about the characters, yorick and the maiden werent present because they were a last minute addition because Jared had to fight for it, FIGHT FOR YORICK TO BE INCLUDED IN THE RUINED KING EVENT, and im pretty sure this cinematic wasnt made by the same people. and how convenient the only sentinel skins we see here are the two legendaries. Where was hecarim during the comic and VN? where was Kalista? Ledros? Karthus? MAOKAI? are they not relevant to the ruination? do you TRULY believe that crap?

[@rowwiemckeown78]

I mean, if I had been inducted into the Sentinels by Senna through a specially made and personalised puzzle box, I might feel like the edges of this event were a little less harsh as well... But I didn't, so I think it was bad. Riot's excuses about it being hard to work during a pandemic and it's so expensive to make cinematics... Fall on deaf ears. The way they farmed out the responsibilities on this project alone is enough to make me raise an eyebrow. This was done so poorly and people who are invested in the lore are justifiably upset.

[@DerikHendric]

Ledros, Karthus and Kalista are not relevant to the ruination. Ledros and Kalista have their own story. Karthus is just a guy that happily died to the mist. Maokai is debatable, even tho I don't think he is relevant to the ruination, the ruination is relevant for his story and that's all. On the other hand, Hecarim and Yorick are really a missed oportunity.

[@yvanthepcgamer7993]

Ikr, is almost like he's kissing ass or something. Like, he's scared to truly criticize it and such

[@raedbaffoun5819]

im gonna have to ask you to calm down xD

[@yvanthepcgamer7993]

@@raedbaffoun5819 Nah, he can't go around calling himself self proclaimed Lorewalker, League of Legends Lore Master? and then be like, nah its fine lol but anyways

[@wayofdaweeb3997]

The cinematic was honestly amazing. My favorite part was when Thresh showed up and explained that he was puppeteering Viego all along to meet his own personal goals and that even though the ruination is over that the harrowing will still continue.

[@kooldudematt1]

My favorite part was when they setup Mordekaiser as the next villain at the end, showing him looking at the events from the Death Realm.

[@TouchMeh]

Which cinematic is it ?

[@anythingatall7670]

My favourite part was when the cinematic was good.

[@chatoicchaos1470]

I have a theory, that when Senna came out from Thresh’s lantern, he purposely released her. When she absorbs the black mist, that’s a clear indication she isn’t your regular mortal sentinel with a gun.

[@Cab8819]

Well senna as far as I'm aware is supposed to be like a have dead sentinel. Lucian has voice lines about it in game.

[@pokeystick5952]

Why can't Senna just stack her passive without people freaking out over it?

[@eafesaf6934]

@@pokeystick5952 lol

[@Tyblimp]

I'm honestly surprised that lol made a lore based event and somehow managed to upset most of the lore community 😂

[@bobob6128]

They put a lot of effort in it and ended it with a facedive into concrete

[@pole8740]

@@bobob6128 bro thats not a lot of effort, spirit blossom was effort, this is mediocre lore

[@pochimaneim5316]

Lot of effort haha. riot go brrr "car crash"

[@yorickpaidefamilia3374]

@@bobob6128 i didn't see the effort they put, please show me

[@earthrise2001]

Only effort we saw was the artworks and 3D models.

[@ABIGPLAN]

I wonder how much the cinematic costs if small indie company like Riot couldn't afford a couple more ruined characters for it to even the field out.

[@potat5140]

They can afford it easily, theyre a billionaire company afaik. They just didn't care

[@nezothgarone2319]

money was not the problem, it was time and lazyness. They procastinated way to much blaming it on covid, delayed the event and the ruined king game(that riot doesnt even mention when the heck will be released) so much that this mess happened, rushed up with every team member by himself and patching everything together with tape like a kid school project at the last days before it went live. I won't be supriced if i know that riot did not had on time the script for the animation team until was to late, so many champs on a cinematic is not that hard but the lack of time to actually do the darn thing is the problem, gwen lack of details, not even a wound when she is stabbed, the lack of dialog, the lack of actual mist around viego that is "constantly pouring out of his chest" all of it screams lack of time and rushed work

[@Vadriel1209]

They have 3 games where they can get their ROI from they just don't want to do so. 4 games if count Ruined King game and used the cinematic as promotion

[@GuessIsuck]

let's just hope that when Mordekaiser eventually comes , the event will be better

[@kooldudematt1]

Personal head-cannon prediction: Mordekaiser starts wreaking havoc, bringing *REAL* ruination and they have to revive Viego to get him to control the Black Mist. What's the only way Viego would help? By getting back Isolde. Isolde's [actually confirmed] release date? November. This means right after Harrowing, with Mordekaiser.

[@ML7WL]

By the looks, seraphine will defeat mordekaiser with the power of e-girling...

[@eafesaf6934]

@@ML7WL She will drown him in his bath water

[@viklifts-zk8bl]

Necrit defending this cinematic was something I didn't expect to see

[@wejwyj2230]

I love how they have been teasing Isolde and ruined champs only for them to appear for 2 seconds and do nothing of consequence, Riot almost accidentally used old champs for something but remembered themselves and decided to make them along with Viego as underwhelming as Akshan's winrate

[@AdventureSteve7]

1:32 Yeah, the 25 billion dollars company couldn't pay the animators to animate a unpopular character

[@sleepyyam5391]

that isn't how animation pipelines work, if employees are sick or unable to come to the studio due to lockdown (and other disruptions, some areas lost power earlier this year due to weather) they aren't going to have all the tech or files needed to complete an animation - it's a matter of time constraints and available personnel not just throwing money at a problem

[@DerikHendric]

And Riot is not a standalone company anymore. If the placeholder don't release enough budget to deal with the unforeseen issues, there's not much Riot can do.

[@zerospectator4119]

Wonder what they were thinking when they made the storyboard for it before animating.

[@Najemniczkas]

They should've delayed the event. With the Ruined King game being delayed, they had time to polish the story. But now it's just a letdown... After so much build up, the story revolved more so around others but Viego, people were left out on parts of the story cuz of different and contradicting sources and we were left with more questions than answers. It's quite sad

[@jmcvz]

Lucian: "Let's not fight Viego we don't have enough companions yet senna blah blah blah" Viego: **gets 1v3ed while Pantheon takes the others**

[@russelloats]

Personally, I would've made the event last most of the year and have other events happen side by side. Release each region every three or four patches, delve into the story in more detail. You would've been able to explain why characters decided to join the Sentinels or become Ruined more effectively. Releasing the skins associated with the region and people could've gotten excited with theorizing who was next to become a Sentinel or Ruined. Build up Viego as an intimidating villain and presence. Could've released Vex towards the end too. But end of the day, Riot do what Riot do. Too bad about the virus ruining their planning and communication.

[@pedrodomingues1553]

They join cause the outfits are cool and shiny weapons that are worse/ can't use (Irelia/Riven/Diana)

[@rowwiemckeown78]

I have been saying this to my husband for weeks. This even should have been the culmination of something huge. This should have been ages in the making, not a few weeks with janky progression through a story where the only things that really got ruined are the champs canon lore...

[@OPGardevoir]

Tbh people need to stop using covid as an excuse it isn't hard to send an email detailing what changes you made to the lore

[@jamiesadf5829]

@@OPGardevoir honestly. Covid is such a crutch at this point. we live in an era of instant mass communication. I get working from home CAN be hard, writing for a visual novel isnt something that should really be affected that much by that. I could understand art direction being affect. I can see animation being affected. But writing? Dude just like use google docs or something so everyone can see it in real time.

[@cadhla2989]

I wouldn't call covid an excuse or crutch overall, because it does have plenty of affects in the industry. However, it seems like riot didn't care to do this right, knowing that people would blame anything wrong on the virus. As previous commenter said, it's not like this should effect a storyboard, or writing in general. I doubt they'd be allowed to use Google docs in case it got leaked (viewable by public setting or whatever), but that doesn't change that communication is the least effected thing of quarantine. Tldr; covid is a crutch when riot shoots their own foot to make the crutch sound legitimate.

[@Macaulyn_97]

"It's fine"? Honestly, trying to see positive in everything can only go so far, Necrit. We had better quality of lore for years now, we cannot tolerate this kind of awful event and say it's fine. Because even if you're defending this because you're part of the partner program, do consider that if this kind of disregard for lore becomes standard, that if all stories from now on become this awful, your content is gonna be meaningless because nobody will care about a lore full of inconsistencies and bad writing. If you're not going to actually criticize it, at the very least don't say it's fine, because it is not, we need to hold Riot to a higher standard at least in this aspect.

[@estebancastillo3149]

No cap 🧢

[@nagasolaire8462]

Couldn't say better. Everything about this event is just bad and cannot fit to the standarts that Riot set themselves! It feels cringy how Necrit trying his best to defend Riot no matter what. I feel that it is very possible that things has changed, the quality level just dropped and probably will not recover any soon again.

[@akatosh6299]

Totaly agree with you i seriously don't know how can he be "fine" with this crap. There are so many errors and the writing is so bad that i can't believe he is "fine" because makes no sense at all. HE is just trying to stay on riot good side that's all.

[@ljoden1363]

You're 100% right i can't agree more

[@PsicoPrime]

As if he can criticize riot that much

[@eternal7912]

This event seriously disappoints me. They basically through out Yorick's whole purpose, and defiled Thresh with a new cannon skin that is quite honestly trash compared to his old default skin. I would have loved to see a story that involved more of Yorick and Maokai and did a better job at setting up Thresh as the next ruler of the Shadow Isles. And as a former Thresh main, I'd have loved an Unbound Thresh skin that didn't make him look like a pretty boy.

[@yveltala]

The first line in the Maokai's lore (on the official website) is literally 'Maokai is a rageful, towering treant who fights the unnatural horrors of the Shadow Isles'. And we didn't see him fight anything once. Same with Yorick. It is so unfair, because most of the shadow isles champions are now stuck with their lore, and I have no idea how Riot is going to fix this.

[@pumba9393]

If there’s anything Riot does great nowadays, it’s alienate niche champ communities😊 I still feel sorry for Skarner after the Seraphine shit

[@0JasonSunleaf0]

@@yveltala heck like where is hecarime and kalistra in this, they were Viego's royal guards

[@angeloottolini7412]

Oh god; Oh god; Oh god; It's just fitting that in the ruination event Viego got ruined

[@FenrisRM]

the "haha moment" at the end with Vayne and Akshan... that should have been Graves becuase he was hitting on her in the VN too, like they didnt even do that right...

[@OPGardevoir]

He actually just wanted to be friends akahan is just a flirty character

[@brendanr4961]

Right? I don't even think vaybe and akshan talked to each other in the visual novel.

[@enderzebak2863]

@@OPGardevoir akshan is gay

[@enderzebak2863]

@@OPGardevoir i dont think a character like graves want to be just " friends" with a hot character like vayne

[@OPGardevoir]

@@enderzebak2863 i wish he was but alas

[@turdanc]

"to get it down to a reasonable budget" yeah I wonder how this poor multi dollar company is able to make a living anymore ;(

[@Zozakaoo7]

I know what you meant, I just found it funny picturing Riot with a small stack of dollars. "multi dollar"

[@N12015]

If i have to guess i think he's talking about time budget. That august 3rd really hurt the cinematic.

[@kooldudematt1]

@@N12015 WHY IS THERE A TIME BUDGET?!?!?!?! THEY MAKE THE FUCKING TIMELINE! lol

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

Pokemon fans: First time?

[@david-ii4li]

Don’t really like you excusing their laziness as much as possible , the event and the cinematic is subpar especially when compared to last year’s Spirit Blossom which was not as important lore wise but felt way more polished and thought out.

[@carlyoung8723]

I don't think anyone cares.....

[@tastydirtydan988]

Yeah it was so anti climactic that I didn't know that was actually the end of the ruination at first. Lazy

[@carlyoung8723]

Nevermind. Apparently that guy cares

[@webdude15]

@@carlyoung8723 youre watching a lore video on a fictional event. nah you care too dont lie

[@carlyoung8723]

@@webdude15 I meant I don't think anyone cares whether or not this guy "doesn't like Necrit excusing Riot's laziness".

[@legendarysuperkaiju7986]

What coulda saved the cinematic at the end: Vex: "To challenge them, is to court death..." Mordekaiser: *Turns around and faces the camera with a little glare*

[@bungusfungus4925]

This comment gives me chills just imagining that XD

[@Zolaalathaia]

I'd love that. I still don't get why they made Mordekaiser Noxian

[@Rodoet001]

@@Zolaalathaia Because Riot has this strange trend with rather than taking cool story ideas and expanding on them, they need to replace it with something else someone thought up with. It all has to be new and fresh, never built upon. They did it with Mord, they did it with Xerath, they did it with Aatrox, and they'll keep doing it. Building upon lore seems less and less to be what Riot is interested in, and more and more like they just want to make new lore as if League was a long running TV show and not a larger setting. Which seems to be more and more a trend in general when it comes to lore writing in general, not just Riot. "Forward.. Forward..." - Nautilus, Riot lore spokesperson.

[@legendarysuperkaiju7986]

@@Zolaalathaia they doubled down on his old lore ties to Noxus since he’s less magic now and more death and bloodshed, typical run in and kill you type, like most in the Noxian pool. They wanted to give him his “own thing” to make him more grand while ultimately making him more drab in removing him entirely from his aesthetic roots.. It makes sense that he paved the way for what Noxus is, but since he’s now classified as a Noxian champ, it’s a bit of a letdown he has absolutely no relation to anything Shadow Isles and the making him completely separated from the mysterious dark magic region he used to be the boogeyman of.

[@Zolaalathaia]

@@legendarysuperkaiju7986 that's so retarded. They rework him with a shadow isles design and put him into noxus. Gg

[@sovitus5991]

Maybe Rengar and Pyke were in the cinematic. They were just in stealth the whole time.

[@mycatsnameisbii8323]

Exactly 😂

[@huebcite5016]

LMAO THIS NEEDS LIKES

[@pwpqwq7648]

And both Irelia and Riven had draktharr

[@Namelessg-no6vy]

yeah they waiting on someone to be low to ks. unfortunately their team is the one always low.

[@pedrodomingues1553]

Feels like there were no melee champs from the sentinels side cause they are harder to animate

[@emmacatte]

"We may have multiple teams and several ways of communication with one another in order to quality control the story but nah, just blame it on covid, disregard that we are all professionals" Please, I beg of you, STOP using covid as an excuse, coming from a grad student, a lot of us still had to provide good work throughout this.

[@rowwiemckeown78]

Totally agree. Lots of companies are discovering now that teams are working even better from home, communication is faster and easier, and productivity is up. My husband works in software development and his company has only expanded during the pandemic because productivity has soared. Riot's excuse sounds like a childish cover up. The pandemic has also been going on so long now that if general practice hasn't adjusted by now you've got much much bigger problems...

[@isawalker4469]

Love your PFP, and I completely agree. How hard is it to send ideas over to each other through any messaging app? How hard is it to have people check over the work? Since it’s all digital, you would think it’d be easier…. Plus- it was doomed the moment the people who literally wrote the story and set up these wonderful characters were not given creative control over this.

[@rokayawael5467]

They are using pandamic as a execues and yet they keep doing what sell the most in china who CREATED CORONA IN THE FIRST PLACE and had arcane and the ruind king game deylaed along with all the other problems that covid caused . I swear the reason unbound threash exist is bec in china ghosts and skeletons are such a big deal for some reason and thats why we couldent have karthus who is leach and hecarim or kalista or ledros or yorick bec of his ghouls and the maiden being a four arms corpe (remeber when you used to think that she is how isolde looked like when she was "revived" yeah that aged like milk ) though i dont understand what was the problem with mawokai he is not skelton and his tree babys are cute prob bec he is not a anime dude that china like 😑😑😑😑 they keep using covid as a execuse and yet they keep doing what china like

[@erigeron9858]

Plot twist: The real story writers were on Mordekaiser's come back and they left Ruination story to skin and animation team

[@Examus93]

To be honest this event doesn't even hold a candle to Bligewater Event from 2015. New gamemode with totally game changer stuff( special minions mercenaries, TONS of new items with great mechanics, gankplank was considered dead for a while and LOCKED OUT of the game....special aram, fantastic GP Announcer that i still miss....fk me THAT was the best event lol ever had and ever will.

[@anythingatall7670]

That event was so much fun, now I’m gonna reminisce about the good times to make up for this fuckfest of an event

[@Lowrholler]

I'm really upset we never got to see Yorick flirt with Graves. Like, he LITERALLY digs graves

[@Xedlord]

Just like the cigar joke, this joke is overused and was never funny to begin with.

[@wastedsoul1024]

@@Xedlord boohoo

[@buildawall5803]

Now morde plz comeback

[@sjejdjsjdjs]

Garbage ass joke

[@galacticpotata8192]

@@buildawall5803 most likely the demacia event with the mage rebellion would happen first before mordekaisers return to the mortal realm which Leblanc has been preparing for

[@jynxed66six54]

Necrit you didnt mention how viegos hole is back in the shot when the portal closes. Very good work from riot there

[@Xamerat]

LOL true didnt see that untill now as well, thats really not so clever :D

[@tostupidforname]

keen eye

[@user-pr1dh2bw6k]

Given that the continuity is somewhat lost and this is a far-away take, most likely that one was a mistake. The team didn't notice that they had left that detail on the model when finishing the cinematic.

[@Minute_Sniper]

When riot makes so much money and yet their excuse for everything is lack of budget 😐😐

[@zenixvampirchik652]

Not lack of budget - but more like they considered not worth it to put so much resoureces into one event cinematic... Can't say if it's a good choice. Or to be fair - i'm far from leads mentality - so whatver i would prefer - doesn't mean that i would be right. Perhaps event truly wasn't worth so much investment in their eyes

[@Minute_Sniper]

@@zenixvampirchik652 welp... They litterarely put as much of an effort as a small youtube channel doing a fanfic animation while riot is a billion dollars company

[@a-drewg1716]

@@zenixvampirchik652 bruh they literally did a 10 minute cinematic which beautifully mended 2d and 3d animation together and then another absolutely stunning 2 minute cinematic for the Spirit Blossom event (a event which had essentially no bearing on the lore) but couldn't put the effort into the cinematic about the "biggest" event they had to date (lore wise, the event though sucked)

[@zenixvampirchik652]

@@a-drewg1716 yep. But it is what it is.

[@redfuckinghood]

Wish there was some kind of post credit scene with Mordekaiser saying "Fine, I'll do it myself" like Thanos in AoU

[@shade4835]

So Viego was basically the Ultron of League, didn't have much setup and wasn't that great of a villain. Now we need Mordekaiser to be like Thanos.

[@OPGardevoir]

And hopefully just like ultron we're going to forget

[@czechpatriot2230]

Or maybe they should totaly avoid being like Marvel.

[@shade4835]

@@czechpatriot2230 why's that

[@TheJamieellis]

You're kidding right? He's had possibly the single most amount of build up for any champion. He's been referenced by an item in the shop for years, referenced by other champions lore and voice lines... Viego was probably the single most anticipated champion ever.

[@shade4835]

@@TheJamieellis I more so meant much setup since his release but yea you're right.

[@ConfusionFace]

I was hoping at the end, Senna would talk to Lucian, and it would pan back to the shadow isles to an unbound Thresh miming Senna's words, revealing that Senna was an unintentional pawn of Thresh. It would explain the little mist drain thing with Veigo.

[@JC-jb9fr]

The plot twist that I didn't even know I wanted. A shame there are so many missed opportunities in this event.

[@brendanr4961]

Yeah this is great! They would just have to remove the part where kuxianbmakes a deal with him and make it so he discovered the absolved on his own. (Which makes more sense anyways) so that way thresh could reveal that he wanted viego dead all along anyways. Perfect way to set up future stories and justify the mess that is unbound Thresh

[@Fireballtobyg]

Senna has always absorbed the back mist though, that’s literally her passive

[@nikolasmahendra7016]

honestly this event just brings up more frustration and question than answers

[@wastedsoul1024]

They rushed to release the event for "Summer" The event is best served with the Harrowing.

[@idoisraeli3348]

I am honestly willing to completely forget this event happened and let Riot try again (from scratch) next year.

[@ultimoengin7826]

Maybe not next year, but the year after would be very nice (just to let things settle down).

[@idoisraeli3348]

@@ultimoengin7826 The thing is, Riot has released some champs (Akshan and Vex soon) that relate, or at least should relate to the event. Even in a year's time they are going to become irrelevant...

[@brendanr4961]

Yeah. I know it sounds insensitive to just say, "throw the whoke event away" but it doesn't feel like they event put a lot of effort into the event sooo. I only understand the cinematic taking a while because visual novels are easy as shit to make so idk man maybe they'll try again

[@NovaDrakers]

Literally all they needed was for thresh's hook to cameo at the end of the finale. And boom, The story becomes 100x better

[@atomikmeanmachine]

As a Yorick Only Main this was just sad...i was excited for the whole year to finaly see him in action...

[@TerraLuna2001]

Yeah me too the exact way

[@rivy-lurk-869]

Same, I was so excited for Yorick to be slamming his shovel against Viego's skull while his army of ghouls fighting Viego's own army but nope. Popular champs get everything and the champs meant for that storyline are forgotten. So disappointed

[@TerraLuna2001]

@@rivy-lurk-869 even more disappointing is that they create new champs to be on the story instead of putting those who should be there

[@Alex-hx4on]

I really want to see riot making Syndra big villain to Runterra. She is mad, crazy and there seems to be no limit to her power so I really hope to see some thing like that. She kinda reminds me of Dark Phoenix and Scarlet Witch so if Riot could take inspiration from their story and make it like Syndra is free and goes mad vs. Karma and the rest of Ionia, that would be really nice

[@Reoki]

Yes I'd like to see Ionia getting destroyed.

[@rokayawael5467]

And then they will have wukong hit her with his staff and she falls and scream like in a tom and jerry cartoon and not have her do anything or hurt anyone bec they want to make more 20 champs there

[@DadaDada-ry8ij]

@@rokayawael5467 omfg I can't breath :))))))).I laughed so hard at this wtf.

[@karenboy1005]

Syndra has the opportunity of being a sick ass villain and make Riot a ton of money by selling big booba anime skins at the same time, so it's a win win. I just doubt they could pull a good lore event after what happened with this one.

[@nathanlawson5351]

This event was kinda disappointing. I don’t think it was bad, but it just feels like so much missed opportunity.

[@thomasway0320]

Like most stuff, games these days aren’t usually “shit”, most of them are just disappointing.

[@allenchristianarizapa6232]

It wasnt bas, it was trash

[@imfunkingivincible886]

Yep the event was not bad, but its lore is so confusing

[@watson2196]

I really love that they named a charakter in "the ruined king" after you

[@Mossymushroomfrog18]

I think they could have explained the lack of sentinels and ruined champs by starting the cinematic with little snips of it like Gwen’s death, the portal opening and Viego going through it, then we see Lucian from the other side of the portal and he’s surrounded by mist and sentinel gun fire (and maybe a little Yorick ghoul) to cover up the sentinels without models but to show that they’re there, and then we cut to Camavore where we get all of the fetters (they’re little trinkets it won’t be hard to model) being placed on pillars with Gwen, Senna and the Maiden lying next to them, then Viego resurrects Isolde and it carries out normally from there

[@0verWay]

Can't wait for the next huge event being teased for 5 years before it disappoints within 5 minutes

[@yvanthepcgamer7993]

I swear, if they mess up the WATCHERS ARC, I'm just be done with LOL including LOR, for good. That is, if we even will get that far since that event is and will, or would be even bigger than this one. Then there's also the Void that might return or whatever.

[@bingdiggus8579]

I kinda feel like they just plopped Yorick in because people would have been mad if they forgot about him.

[@NormalSpeedGamer]

They changed main character for this lore 3 times lol, first it was yorick then miss fortune and suddenly it’s senna and lucian like wtff just stick with one

[@xavierchristiantorres7847]

I really want to see Riot making a story in writing about the after effects of the Ruination event, perhaps in Thresh’s perspective and how he now gains power. Perhaps a set up for Mord to just deal with thresh like nothing

[@zachthundergold8917]

im not happy with how veigo was handled at all. i never really liked him past the release but i know on his teaser and when he was hinted at, im sure others like me were exremely hyped that THEE ruined king was going to be a part of the lore. the shadow isles were one of the most interesting places in the lore for me, and the fact the man behind the item was joining was huge for me. though he never felt like a king once during this, and i still dont see why he HAD to be a bad guy and treated JUST as a bad guy. he was crazy and over obsessive but even his wife (no way i can type her name) never seemed to even give a shred of understanding or sympathy to him. or even try to reason. though i never really followed alot of this lore because i was extremely put off about it, especcially because of lucian and how back and forth of a character he seemed. hes like always moody and switching from stupidly pessimistic to cocky in the client... story thing. i didnt want to go through it all so its possible that it was all explained, but i would rather an ending where he was recovered from "ruin" and possibly used as a plot point against characters like mordekieser in the future. i also dont understand why the sentinals were neccisary at all either because with how they made the ruination spread around the world, it made it really seem like A the world was ending and TONS and TONS of devesation happened so i guess the world is just going to be affected for ever? or B veigo would have encountered another champion which i dont know for sure but i would assume theres tons of champions that would absolutely fuck him up. especcially since past his army, even in cutscenes he seems extremely weak. i ALSO hate how thresh just gets away with all this? and is barely a part of any of this even though hes the main cause. i feel like thresh should have swapped to the main bad guy and veigo should have experienced clarity whilst learning about all the betrayal. I really didnt like this one, as much as id like to and the only champion i feel like i like more after all this is gwen and senna. every other champion exluding vayne kind of just seemed stupid here to me.

[@kooldudematt1]

The cinematic really made it feel like the sentinels were just physically abusing someone with _serious_ PTSD. Honestly I think the stupidest thing from a lore perspective is tying the Black Mist up with a "love" story line. The Black Mist fits more with a brutal dictator's story, such as Mordekaiser, not some misguided Romeo-esque king of an exotic land who just wants his girl back.

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

Viego literally decided to destroy the entire world just to revive his wife who didn't even WANT to be resurrected. The ending could've been better, but how is Viego anything but a villain in this story?

[@kooldudematt1]

@Revenger "Mordekaiser's weakness is teenage girl with mommy issue" who on earth are you talking about? His primary rival is the millenniae-old Emelia LeBlanc.

[@kooldudematt1]

@@gazelle_diamond9768 So a soldier returning from a war with PTSD and extreme amnesia is "evil" if they commit a crime under psychological duress? Viego very obviously loved Isolde and it even lets us know that _he has no memory of her stabbing him._ All he knows is she was there alive, sick, then she died, and now she's broken into pieces; now he has a chance to bring her back and these "random people" (sentinels of light) are trying to stop him from doing it.

[@gazelle_diamond9768]

@@kooldudematt1 Are you seriously comparing a person who was willing to destroy the entire world to a soldier with PTSD? And yes, if a soldier with PTSD did this shit, they would be considered evil, because - surprise - committing mass murder isn't suddenly okay just because you're mentally ill. Viego obviously has some mental problems, but that doesn't excuse his actions. And even before he died he had a ridiculous nad unhealthy obsession with Isolde, as you can see when he wiped out the entire Blessed Isles because they wouldn't let him revive her.

[@TheDovahkinia]

The "too hard to animate" argument doesn't really mean anything, Riot has a lot of money they can sink into production...

[@tostupidforname]

Time is more of a problem as well as return on investment. I would argue to not do a story you cant pull off but maybe they miscalculated

[@NormalSpeedGamer]

Riot usually collaborate with blur studios, they make hollywood movies as well such as deadpool and love death robots, it definitely is not too hard for them XD, but for this one i think it’s not blur studios since the style is not realistic enough

[@TheDovahkinia]

@@tostupidforname I agree with that, though Riot tried to be ambicious with what they were showing through the years. So much build-up, character stories and hype to be left with dissapointing ending. Now I just hope they won't massacre Noxus/Black Rose storyline. Overall this isn't animators fault, they did their best, but people responsible for writing messed up big time.

[@enverpasa8567]

@@tostupidforname That is irrelevant as this event ended way too quickly and could have lasted more, no one would give a fuck about it lasting like 3 more motnhs.

[@enderzebak2863]

@@NormalSpeedGamer so did blur studios make each years opening cinematic,

[@pokfen1812]

It's not about budget. It's about time that Rito rushed, bcs they didn't want to wait with profit and ordered the event already.

[@MrBossOver9000]

Something that's super important to the music box scene at the very end- Gwen's theme is a transposed, reversed version of Viego's theme. The music box plays in reverse once it's broken and only has Isolde on it, playing Gwen's theme. It's not something you would initially notice if you didn't know about their themes, but it's still a cool Easter egg!

[@opheliastanghelleeriksen8053]

Neat! :)

[@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz]

Man, I come back to check on league and this is what I find.

[@OneWayTwoBrazil]

Gragas has arguably better lore than this entire event.

[@niklasmaier2664]

Beer!

[@rowwiemckeown78]

Zyra has better lore than this event and her lore is legitimately not good. Sprouts up from ancient garden and is mad. The end.

[@pumba9393]

@@rowwiemckeown78 Viego want wife and get beaten up, the end

[@IMGSince]

True

[@AM-eg2kw]

Shaco has the best lore tho "Exists ig"

[@aptalsandvic5355]

The only thing the ruination arc ruined was my love for the games universe and lore :')

[@kimmmmm871]

Yeah... it wasn't done pretty well. I don't know what happened. Riot mostly make good stories...

[@aptalsandvic5355]

@@kimmmmm871 I feel like the creatives needed more time. Riot could give them more time to polish their biggest lore event ever but they wanted the money now. None of the characters got satisfying emotional arcs. Gwen didn't even say a word in the cinematic...

[@ChaseTheCrim]

@@aptalsandvic5355 creatives yerine story writers kullanman daha uygun olurdu

[@Zamun]

Thanks for the content.

[@thekingofprotoss4376]

i cant believe mord had zero cameo in this whole event, the event that is ruining the world you would think would pierce the veil thin enough that mordekaiser can slip through if but for a moment, maybe LB becomes ruined and forgets to stop mords entrance and he comes in when all the characters are fighting, looks around, they all stop fighting and look at him, and then he just vanishes again with a chuckle and whispering "inevitable" or something along mords quotes. or this can happen near the end where they stop viego. also did anyone else notice the fact that in the ruined cinematic, poppy and darius and samira were in it, yet they were literally nowhere to be found in the entire event?

[@n0adezeiic206]

For such a huge event, the Ruined King, the villain that has been in the game since the beggining of league it's very anti-climactic. This should have been a 10 to 20 minute cinematic having an emotional battle featuring if not all of the characters at least most of them, especially Yorick. I think riot made a big mistake ending one of the most imporatnt events in such a lazy way. You can argue that they had a time limit or it would cost a lot of money, but Riot is a multi million company this is just lazy and dissapointing.

[@DerikHendric]

Riot is not it's own company anymore. If the shareholder gave them a budget constraint, nothing Riot could've done.

[@zzzlulzzz5080]

@@DerikHendric still a multi-billion company that's no excuse for poor or lazy script writing

[@n0adezeiic206]

@@DerikHendric I know but it doesn't take money to write a good story to end the event :?

[@DerikHendric]

@@n0adezeiic206 the visual novel could be way better yes, but if the community say that was all garbage, they may as well never do this again. Or make something worse trying to listen to everyone. Yes, doesn't take too much money to write a good story, but I thought the story was good. But poorly executed, and to execute it they need the time/money.

[@pathtoredemption6643]

1:38 Early lol cinametic had nocturne Vs Ryze. With nocturne animated well for its time. 😆. Maiden looks similar. It's fine, not best but fine.

[@brendanr4961]

Them not being able to animate the characters to any extent isn just a load shit. They had literal years to prep for this and there's no excuse for it to turn out the way it did.

[@granzon7396]

The ruination is stopped. "For a while, while the crownless king sleeps."

[@unichan1999]

Viego grasping senna face is like "Poor soul getting ripped again" or "You thought you could escape me but you can't escape me."

[@raistlinmajere1000]

So many good champions' lore thrown to the rubbish bin in this event... The finale was ok, but they forgot vex and many others. This event was completely disappointing.

[@Chakrazx95]

I think the reason vex didn't appear on the cinematic is because she hasn't been properly revealed, so all the people that hadn't seen the visual novel would be really confused

[@raistlinmajere1000]

@@Chakrazx95 They spend more than eight months to create a cinematic, so I don't think they would have time to do that (imo)

[@thejoe9175]

The only reason I could see why Viego caressed Senna's face is because there is still a piece of Isolde inside Senna, an action more of saying that "Finally, I will be reunited with you once again." to Isolde than a flirtatious intention to Senna herself.

[@monhbatonon6333]

the way viego is designed is more of a fuckboy than a loving husband at least his aesthetics. so thats was something from that perspective imo

[@thejoe9175]

@@monhbatonon6333 design wise you can say that but lore wise he didn't have a hint of that "fuckboy" attitude. I think you have the same sentiment with TB Skyen. Heck, the whole reason for the Ruination is because all he wanted to do is to be with Isolde. He is more of a very toxic lover than the fuckboy that you pertaining with.

[@elpocholoko2792]

"Riot, please dont *Ruin* mordekaiser* I see what you did there

[@arthurhubert4849]

Necrit before : here we see all the details you missed Necrit now : here we see all the details Riot missed

[@tanks608]

Tbh not much happened and half of the team wasn’t there.

[@KuroiFukuro]

Rito took Viego's title quite literally, "the RUINED king"

[@tablechums4627]

Underrated comment.

[@kooldudematt1]

Riot wanted so badly to make a sympathetic villain that they forgot the villain part.

[@SweetJuliaBrown]

tldr: event felt rushed and half-ass, felt more like a cash grab than actual character building and developing an actual story. SPIRIT BLOSSOM >>> Sentinels of light

[@w5im597]

hi ... are u going do explain more detail about the story ? recap ? am as many how did not ready the game event story , there is something about thresh offering something , what is it and why he helping ? and vex ? , what thresh goal ? u mention the undead kings !! like mord !! how many of them ? much love

[@Bruh-el9js]

This has all been a disaster, someone explain to me how fucking Pantheon of all people became corrupted by Viego

[@chiramarian2921]

Or how tf does pantheon not kill anybody HES A GOD and not even Diana is there

[@MartialArtsForY]

Viego used the mist to his advantage and killled pantheon cowardly instead of facing him head on

[@mahmoudsherif7373]

According to ingame skin , he used mist to revive the dead aspect inside pantheon

[@Namelessg-no6vy]

well it was forced. ATREUS has control of his body but the PANTHEON who was currently dead inside him ( AATROX knocked him out of control of the body) was resurrected by VIEGO. Atreus as a mortal couldnt really overpower an aspect of war. since he is using the Pantheon's power. so the aspect of war got resurrected and vowed to fight for viego.

[@chiramarian2921]

@@Namelessg-no6vy Atreus has so much Will thats why he defeated aatrox where pantheon could t thats why it feels so weird that someone can control him again

[@muhammedobeaid1252]

I am 100% sure that there's a part 2 of this cinematic. Better be...

[@unopaz4970]

Hopefully there will be another twist, I mean it is the year of the ruined king and it’s only august and thresh (to my knowledge) is still lurking around and the ruined king game is still coming idk this could just be me hoping for a better finale

[@godsknite]

OK, the real question. Who was Isolde if little pieces of her soul were strong enough to create several powerful figures in Runeterra, was able to help Senna be able to fight off Thresh, create the maiden, create Gwen...what was this woman!? Was she a god or something? Also, yeah, I was waiting to hear what Thresh does with the power vacuum, and had anticipated a final scene that teased his next play or something. And Mordekaiser and Veigar were my other big questions. Mordekaiser was the most terrifying monarch Runeterra has ever seen, had Viego bound his soul as well? Hard to swallow. And Veigar, the little yordle of doom...seems like he'd be making a beeline to take Vex's power, not to mention Mordekaiser is Veigar's nemesis, and if they plan to have Morde come, Veigar would be the villain/not villain to set that up, building himself stronger to face Mordekaiser's return. Which I think would be amazing to do for a Morde chapter. Veigar shows up and starts taking power from heroes and villains alike indiscriminately and people think he's the villain to fear, when really he's gathering power to face a stronger threat, and his damaged mind doesn't trust anyone else to help.

[@AK47inTheBush]

Riot fucked up such a potential. First the story itself, then Thresh

[@custodianguardofthemagyari216]

Are you talking about that champ in that knockoff mobile game?

[@custodianguardofthemagyari216]

@Theunwantedwings i know. I was joking about unbound tresh being the base skin on wildrift

[@firecruncher2615]

When Gwen was able to hide senna in the hallowed mist, and senna realized that she still had a piece of Isolde inside her, I thought that senna would learn how to use the hallowed mist and use that against Veigo. Honestly though I don't like how it ended. I feel that they could have used this as an opportunity to lead to the next part of the story. That my opinion tho.

[@jamiesadf5829]

could have given senna a Hallowed skin too.

[@lucasgroen5519]

I HAVE THE COOLEST IDEA, so for the mordekaiser cinematic. A group of heroes (hopefully og champs pre 2017 like yi and nami) go and fight morde, morde deals with them BUT THERE COMES YORICK, morde and yorick clash with their mace and shovel and send a shockwave flying out. there comes master yi, slashing with his Q through all the hordes and nami with her gigantic tidal wave bashing all the minions, THEN, WHEN THEY ARE EQUALLY STRONG YORICK SUMMONS THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST AND WITH HER POWER HE BREAKS MORDE'S ARMOR WITH 2SWIFT BLOWS AND 1 FINAL STRIKE/SLASH. And all yorick's ghouls will also be chipping away at him or someone like hecarim or kalista.. thats it, yorick redeemed and finally in a cool cinematic (not the pentakill one) and kalista and heca also getting cool action scènes. Maokai at the end finally becomming a happy tree and all is well :)

[@FanOfMinatozakiSana]

This explains why the event is called RUINATION. I totally get it now.