The Worst League of Legends Event - Ruining The Ruination

like what was the point of any of that and then to prove that they care they made him only a little bit uglier mr crit enough ranting about mundo let's get back to the topic at hand in your infamous tweet you called the rise of the sentinel cinematic and i quote uh it's fine but that was before you released a rant calling it and i quote again a freaking dumpster fire in a later video you have a duck that sensor swears here i'm using these we are aware of that anyway what was the sudden turn of events about how did you arrive at that shocking conclusion your honor you see it all started a few weeks after the ruination ended well and so with quite the finale the sentinels of light event has reached its conclusion and as we predict it while the details of the story often ran into brick walls the overall story as scary as it sounds without context was fine enough and that's really only if you forget that half of the champions happened but even so was the conclusion good enough to carry the entire event well that's what we will explore in today's video as we go into the good and bad sides of the sentinels of light your honor the defense attorney is obviously just stalling for time to add more ads into the video can we skip the intro mr crit yes your honor so without further ado let's get into it [Music] then i will strike him down even before people started data mining accidental sentinel files in wild rift it was obvious there would be some kind of a ruination event and from the data mining it felt like we would get an event with a much more serious tone an exact counterpart to what we saw in spirit blossom an event worthy of the end of the world of course that's not really what happened but more about that a bit later what didn't help the beginning of this event is that the ruination has been coming for quite a while at this point it's been 9 months since the ruined king was revealed and 6 months since the cinematic that set up the entire story arc so unfortunately as big as the hype was after the ruination cinematic launched six months later people just got tired of constant teasing and what was worse originally the ruined king game was already supposed to be out and we were already supposed to have vex as a playable champion but without these two we essentially had six months of nothing now on one side one could argue that it wasn't entirely riot's fault the entire world was pretty much on fire literally at times and so the delays happened because it was difficult to coordinate with outside studios and even internally within riot games this meant that when riot had to change vex from an artillery mage to a classic mage that change was way more difficult to pull off that's why delays happened and that's where the real issues began with all the delays becoming unavoidable riot got into a position where they had to release something they needed to follow up on their release schedule viego was out three months after him we got gwen then we were supposed to get vex but since that wasn't an option anymore the focus went onto aksha but akshan was the key to the conclusion of the entire ruination storyline and so at the same time they had to start pushing the event out as well so now we were getting too much setup none of the payoff and after spirit blossom everyone was waiting to see if we could get another big summer event and that's the thing the event was ambitious but it was within the scope of wright's ability however that was before time started playing against them with a delay of at least 3 months the event could get back to the spirit blossom standard but the ruination hype was already vaporizing and 3 more months would have killed it there was no going back the train was already moving and riot had to build the tracks as it ran forward reckon it's time for a reckoning straight from the bet the event felt good we immediately jumped into an introduction where it became obvious that riot was going to use the tech from spirit blossom and adapt it to the ruination a feature which nobody complained about since the spirit blossom dating seemed like conversations were a massive success but whether this adaptation of the conversation system would also be so memorable we would learn a bit later before that we arrived at the first issue which really crippled the first impressions the event felt grindy whether it actually was is debatable it really wasn't difficult to unlock everything in a reasonable time but the point is that it simply felt grindy and you felt like you were being forced into playing seven games per day and when it comes to these systems the feelings matter that's what drives first impressions overall the idea of this event was great we got a map that showed us that all the different regions were under siege by the black mist and one by one you chose in which order you wanted to save the regions and depending on the order you chose you unlocked different ways to earn points to progress through the other regions faster for example the first week you could decide whether you wanted to recruit riven from noxus or olaf from the freljord first if you went with olaf first you got extra points for taking down turrets as a team and if you went with riven first you got extra points for dealing physical damage and here's the thing the order which you chose could actually affect your grinding times quite a bit it was very easy to get points for taking down structures as a team it wasn't so easy to deal physical damage to your enemies reliably every game this meant that you could min-max the speed out of this event and there was an optimal route to unlock all the things in the shortest amount of time while i'll be honest it was cool to see the community developing a meta around this event it really didn't help the event feel fun it started feeling more like a chore and what was worse you could only gain points for the progression by playing pvp games quick co-op vs ai didn't work and neither did tft both of which previously worked for spirit blossom so yes the event felt grindy thankfully after week 2 wright realized that players weren't really happy about knowing that it took around 12 games per region to go through the event so during week 3 they released a hotfix which added in a new mission this mission awarded 600 points which was about quadruple what you would normally get per game all you had to do was to play one game to complete it the mission was infinitely repeating and it now also worked for tft so by releasing this mission riot essentially took months of their work and threw it into the bin now it didn't matter in which order you completed the regions it didn't matter how well you did during the games it didn't matter what games you played all the time spent developing the progression system was wasted at that point all that mattered was that you could complete the entire region while playing a single game of tft on your phone on the throne and while this was universally a welcome change it still invalidated the entire adventure which we were supposed to have i understand mr crit riot wasted their time working on a system which would essentially be scrapped but surely that doesn't mean the entire event went into the bin it's been worked on for years even if one developed part was removed the rest of the event should still be a solid experience and about that as mentioned for the most part the event was fine but as things went further and further along with the story even those who are not interested in the lore started to feel things were weird we as the main character got a teleportation gun which granted can only teleport sentinels to a platform which the sentinels had built themselves so i can let the technology slip remember the sentinels are based on the blessed isles and their mages could use teleportation but curiously lucian somehow didn't know about this being a thing even after becoming a veteran sentinel then a holographic magical projection pops up and once again lucian is confused how is this possible i myself have no idea but things got weirder than riot giving the sentinels a teleport just so they can quickly move around the world during the event so far the main marketing were the cinematics and those alone threw off a lot of people there was the cinematic where vayne fought shyvana lucian and senna appeared and together they defeated her but in the visual novel lucian and senna found vayne in a ruined pub where they teamed up and together they found shyvana inside a mate seeker compound where somehow petricite is entirely worthless and the entire point of the macia being a massive anti-magic fortress is entirely ignored at the very least petricite absorbs magic and with enough power it can morph items and buildings but none of that ever happened and galio the titan who's woken up by magic being present in the city is never even mentioned regardless now we had two versions of the story one in the cinematic and then one in the visual novel so why don't we throw in a third one while all of this was happening every week wright released a chapter from the ruination comic this comic series followed the same storyline but since it was promoting wild rift it only included the champions who got their skins in wild rift and even there the encounter with vayne happened totally differently there vayne actually tried to kill senna calling her a monster which is an interaction we haven't seen in either the cinematic or the visual novel so this event essentially had three different versions of the story and people didn't know which one was canon why do i have a feeling like he's gonna pop off ah please get ready mr duckington don't let him rip before the event was revealed when we only had the skins on bbe riot confirmed that all the skins were canon and that all the skins represented the champions and their stories so going into the visual novel everyone expected everything the champions say to be canon just like it was stated but then oh after a bit of backlash at how silly the characters behave in some scenes like olaf farting in ionia so he wasn't allowed into a temple hahaha we got a correction and now it wasn't exactly canon it was just a retelling of the main story and then we were told that some people interpret the word canon in different ways what canon is canon how is anyone actually confused about that good job dunkington if it's canon that's how it happened word for word that's all we wanted to know but the scariest part came when they explained how the story was structured we were officially told that the visual novel was canon the cinematic was just a retelling of the demacian chapter and the comics were a slightly different version of the story because it didn't have all the characters so now since the visual novel wasn't exactly canon we didn't have the canon story to this day we legitimately don't know how things actually happened and on top of that wild rift had its own event with a simplified version of the visual novel and there the characters behaved totally differently at that point all i wanted was a bit of consistency your honor i respect that cards have not been dealt in riot's favor the world was really not having it at times but that doesn't justify the damage that had been done mr crit perhaps you should do what you believe would be best it sucked i don't know what happened mr crit i didn't mean for you to drop a diss track on riot oh i was hoping you could perhaps try and find something good about this event ah right okay despite what many people may believe it's really not difficult to find the good parts of this event in all the areas where a riot is good riot is really good first of all the one thing at which wright's mastery is undeniable is music we first got a tease of what the ruination theme was going to be at the end of the first cinematic and just like was expected of course the sentinel theme was awesome but that's not where it stopped this theme was later altered to be used during the visual novel and it really set up some heroic moments especially the victory theme on top of this we got new altered versions of the other themes which served as moody background tracks and with these just like spirit blossom got its fair share of really iconic moody scenes based around lelia's theme here we got gwen's action theme her set theme for when senna gets depressed viego's creepy theme when things got creepy viego's dramatic theme when he went insane and we even got the classic action theme and this strange one was eventually revealed to be part of vex's theme but of course there were many more simply said once again the music department nailed it they sure did can we go back to that diss track real quick connected to this from a technical level the visual novel was an improvement over the spirit blossom version during spirit blossom all conversations were linear and every time you had an option to say something the conversation would sidestep before collapsing back into its place during the ruination whenever you had the chance to say something sometimes your response opened up a new conversation path with its own separate choices of course eventually it would also collapse back into that one path but at times you could have double the width of the spirit blossom conversations and when it comes to the technical presentation the ruination also surpassed spirit blossom here we got double the amount of sound effects for all the different things that happened during the story so anything from targon crumbling to riven fighting with a bucket to diving into the seas with spike it all had its unique sound effect and it also supported far more sprites than spirit blossom did here we got numerous new side characters as well as new enemies and we got more than 3 times as many unique backgrounds i counted them personally spirit blossom got 17. android nation got 60. wright was able to do this because they could just alter some of the already existing art when it comes to the story believe it or not it did actually do some really cool things it evolved certain champions and put them into places which absolutely made sense for them despite vayne's story playing out in three different ways her outcome at the very end of the story was cool unlike all the other sentinel champions who decided to return to their normal lives vane decided to stay as a sentinel and represent the sentinels in demacia this absolutely makes sense for her character her life was ruined by a monster that's why she became a monster hunter but over the years of killing monsters out of hatred she slowly lost her purpose in life the sentinels gave it back to her and on top of that she could keep killing monsters another storyline that concluded in an interesting way was irelia and riven while riven was always open to teamwork irelia refused to fight alongside her she remembered her from the noxian invasion and so despite riven trying to atone for her crimes irelia deeply hated her but by the end of the story after seeing how much riven tried to bury her old self in all the good deeds irelia recognized the pain inside her and the two became sparring friends the conclusion to their story became an amazing tiny bridge between native ionians and the deserting noxians also even though akshan is not the most interesting character him shooting is old was a really great twist that perhaps scarred viego more than we thought we will probably learn more about that when he eventually breaks free in a distant mmo and by the way the fact that viego's heart was healed and he stopped spewing out the black mist because action killed the one who killed him that was also a really cool moment so yeah if you look beneath the surface some of the inner stories were great and this was especially shown in the wild drift version of this event it didn't focus on the overall story what viego was doing and how the event concluded wasn't really even mentioned there but instead it focused on the champion's mental state during this horrifying war especially the scene where senna visited her own grave marked with a lamp was incredible whoever was responsible for the narrative take of wild rift nailed it lastly we can't take away the one thing from the ruination that made this entire event more fun the game mode the one where you picked a champion and you could choose an extra ultimate from another champion now personally i still believe that star guardian and odyssey were by far the best gamemodes league of legends has ever had but damn for the pvp scene the ruination was the best far better than something like the bilgewater brawl or whatever the blood moon got though to be honest even though we got new models for the monsters it's a shame it didn't take place on a new map your honor the defense attorney is obviously just trying to play into our emotions they're reminding us about the good things before they talk about the bad things so that the bad things look less bad we've seen this trick before they should get back on the topic and explain what made them snap your honor that guy really wants to make me snap again mr crit you know that you're on this trial because you swore in a video on a family-friendly channel right so that's why the duck is here well i really didn't want to come back to that a lot of writers might have taken it personally and i would really hate for that to happen again but if you insist let's talk about the bad side we have already mentioned some of the bad things surrounding this event the event feeling grinding the event having three different versions of the story but there is more we mentioned before that just like spirit blossom the ruination also had the illusion of choice meaning that no matter the dialogue options you picked eventually it all collapsed back into the main path well the thing is that for spirit blossom the illusion actually worked because you were the one forming your own relationships there you were the one directing the story the fact that you didn't really do that was hidden really well but since here we were supposed to get a canon storyline from the very beginning you knew no matter what you said the story would always continue in its canonical way you knew your decisions didn't matter on top of that what happened to the tone i remember when i first saw the event hub this image was actually data mined in wild rift weeks before the event launched and based on this image alone with the high contrast shadows cast over the characters i thought this event would be a dark version of spirit blossom i was really getting dark as dungeon vibes and yet that didn't happen at all instead of getting a dark setting for a really dark story we got spirit blossom again everything was light-hearted a few serious moments but eventually everything would return back to jokes it was the same thing again but at least it did fit spirit blossom when cassiopeia tried to kill you it was funny to joke about how you enjoyed it when she crushed your bones because you were in a comedic environment that stone was set for you at the very beginning of the event when lilia got you naked when it comes to ruination when the sentinels traveled to the freljord vane constantly slapping you didn't feel funny because we were facing the literal end of the world not to mention pike's only drive in this story being him checking if people are on his list also him joining the sentinels was just another joke they really could have placed any other champion here instead of him all of these jokey bits amalgamated in one big flaw despite the ruination being all about viego waging war on the rest of the world the event didn't really feel like a war we never heard about any of the regions fighting back we didn't hear from any of the other major champions involved in leading the regions the triforce never did anything despite swain having the power to see everything we got stories about hecarim heading to the massia and how they had to let jarvan know what was happening but then jarvan never did anything either we did see shyvana though who is somehow in the middle of the masia's capital even though she was supposed to be around red wall in the mountains because she can't hide her draconic side like we actually don't know why shyvana was there was she in the mage seeker compound because the mage seekers locked her there or was she put there simply because that's where the sentinels were heading and there had to be some kind of a boss fight in ishtal we were told that kiana did have a canonical reason why she wasn't there i guess that will be revealed later but the shadow isles didn't have maokai or karthus not to mention uric whose story which was written to be the conclusion to the ruined king's story wasn't the conclusion to the ruined king's story the freljord didn't have any of the tribe leaders mentioned the kinku didn't help ionia and azir's all mighty sand soldiers certainly didn't help in shurima but all of this is rooted in another problem the reason why this event didn't feel like a war was because the visual novel could only show up to 4 characters on screen but for an actual war you need to show proper legions of defenders this means that for an event like this the visual novel really wasn't the right choice they should have picked a better format in fact this event tried to do something better but they never properly leaned into it the only time i felt like something was actually happening with the regions was when i looked at the map no not that map for some reason riot did nothing with it even though they could have shown the mist actually floating around instead they ignored it what i meant was the map in the hub there as you progressed you saw little pawns moving around but that's really where it ended it just showed you where the champions were at that moment in the capital cities which was quite pointless because you had no say over where to go or what to do on the map which would have been a feature that would have actually felt like you are playing a strategy game during a war but alas instead the map was just a visual guide to help you understand the story which wasn't hard to do considering the fact that there wasn't much story to explain in the first place but on top of all of that for some reason we got to play through the story from the point of view of a sentinel known as rookie once again just like it was in spirit blossom it's not a bad idea to play our own character instead of a champion with their own canon story but here it doesn't make sense to play a side character because even the side character is crucial and canon in the overall story so choosing their dialogue doesn't make sense riot even gave rookie a literal teleportation gun so without them the sentinels couldn't do anything and yet to this day we still don't know if rookie is canon they never appeared in the cinematics and without rookie the fast traveling around the world wasn't explained in the comic either so what's happening with rookie we don't know and speaking of rookie being a strange out of place character after playing through the regions it quickly became apparent just how unnecessary some of the sentinel champions were if you removed olaf rengar pike graves and diana the story wouldn't change so it became obvious these champions were literally added in just to have skins to be sold and funnily enough it was shown how unnecessary they were in the comic because there none of them were present and the story still happened just fine and somehow dare the story happened without gwen 2 the one who was supposed to banish viego on camovor at the very end and the brilliant cherry on top of all of this is that yes it was cool that all the champions of 2021 were supposed to be related to the ruined king's story but for some reason every single one of these champions was a sexy attractive character the ruined king a shirtless emo boy i have to admit him being a young inexperienced ruler was a brilliant subversion of expectations we all thought he would be some plumpy bearded king nope shirtless emo boy it is but after him we got gwen we thought she would actually look like a doll that came to life not a sexy human after which you would model a doll but sure she's fine but after her we got action a shirtless jojo character like have you seen the original concept have you seen what action could have been just why did we go back to this and after him we got vex yeah sure she's not a sexy attractive character i think but god damn i would love to get a proper serious character to fight in this war how is it possible that all the side characters that were created specifically for this event are far more appealing and interesting than any of the champions we got i literally want every single one of these as a champion instead of any of the other ones we got and this takes me to the main issue the main plague that really caused the downfall of this event a thing which you can't ignore especially if you want to keep this game and its world growing there were fundamental things about the lord that were bad mr crit you keep saying that the lore was bad but bad is quite a relative term don't get me started oh you better get it started different versions of a story don't automatically render all of them bad was that really a reason for you to swear in a family-friendly video i'm gonna do it he's gonna do it you need solid evidence to prove that the law is not accepted by anyone [Music] oh yeah baby let's frank go what do you mean all the evidence is right here we were told that was canon but that was just a lie so i cried and fortified my anger with the question why why was there plot armor in all the different cases why were all the champions in all the wrong places why wasn't vane hostile towards santa why did they use fans what they could have asked jenna this is not how i wanted things to be at all what a goofball of the ruins [Music] so why pike and graves and rengar not jayce at least he would have had a really cool hammer but that's the problem it feels like they shoved in random champions for their new cool sentinel weapons i can already imagine the beach meeting [Music] we are going to the shadowhouse to stop the king but we don't need an army just marketing the premise is cool the expectation's high so no your igmori no maokai reestablish story what is that let's give a goat-like power to an acrobat serious stones the world's ending no it's just jokes or misunderstanding mr crit i don't think you have enough evidence unless you bring up something else i will be forced to well devastation of a nation questioning association education levitation plot armor imagination conjuration meditation preemptive humiliation separation fragmentation revival of consolation dissipation hesitation ignorant impersonation implication liberation curious exaggeration augmentation defecation unlikely negotiation invitation termination and telecommunication explanation dedication images of desperation validation indication will development translocation speculation destination unknown ramifications recognizing publication involving hyperventilation celebration vegetation not explaining preservation declaration inspiration maybe discombobulation penetration mutilation and oversimplification but most [Music] this weird narration should get some did anyone wonder what would happen if we just let diego revive his wife your highness i am done this is the last straw the lore is really where everything falls apart there are simply a lot of things that didn't make sense objection none of it made sense mr nikki boy aren't you supposed to be disagreeing with him ah who cares about him swearing in a video he's right i frankly hated the ruination yeah it was bad it was trash like did anyone pay attention to what actually happened akshan having the power to resurrect people with a sentinel gun sure i guess it's a magical world where spirits and the magic realm interact with each other in such a way that it would be possible maybe when a killer kills someone they get tainted by the soul of their victim if the absolver then kills the killer it returns the soul to the victim sure that can't be explained but even with that logic why did the absolver revive senna and gwen the visual novel hinted it's because izolt ripped the souls out of them to revive herself therefore is old killed them both but that's not what happened viego was clearly the one who ripped the souls out he was the one who murdered them not is old so how does that work then what about olaf the skins were supposed to be canon right so why is olaf missing an eye i get it it's so he looks like odin no not that wimpy guy the real odin so olaf's skin would actually sell but still you could have at least given him a reason to wear the eye patch maybe it was some kind of a wraith-seeking sentinel device or you know olaf only cares about his glorious death so since rengar got a new glowing eye out of nowhere why in the story didn't olaf give rengar his own eye that would have been such a good story but now it's just nonsense again and what about diana the sentinels recruit an actual celestial demigod into their ranks and the demigod just stands by and occasionally hits one or two wraiths it's not like diana can call down the burning white light of the moon disintegrating entire armies in a blink of an eye nope here one of the most powerful beings on runeterra literally didn't really do anything important even though she could have tried to commune with the twilight a celestial who is an expert at banishing dangerous beings the celestials could have done what gwen did at the end and speaking of gwen how did she find the sentinel headquarters in her story she started on the shadow aisles she traveled across the entire world we assume she did it on her floating scissors and with no idea where to go she just followed the mist which was scattering across the entire world but she happened to pick the path that led her directly to the sentinel hq what are the chances of that happening then did anyone notice how in the visual novel vex used an ability which she was supposed to have before her kit was reworked in the freljord when she fought the sentinels just like the other really cool character she summoned shadow and slowed everything around her the story mentioned how even bullets flew slowly around her so in her original kit she was supposed to be able to slow projectiles if that's the case i can understand why she was changed i don't think the spaghetti would be able to hold that together but regardless the visual novel didn't even reflect on what vex was being turned into the list of these strange mistakes just keeps going on and on but what's the weirdest thing by far is the main plot of this story why didn't we let viego get back is old if he got her back he would be happy and the ruination would have stopped there was literally no reason to fight viego back and worse than that why did the sentinels fight viego they learned that he was trying to resurrect his queen and the only reason why the sentinels mercilessly beat viego was because sanna had a piece of the queen inside her and she didn't want to let her go the ruination was a messy war because sanna didn't let viego have his love back i mean sure sana would likely die without isolde inside her but really senna wouldn't sacrifice herself to literally save the entire world what kind of a plot is that like yeah sure viego is a spoiled brat who became a king as he looked for the pieces of his wife he simply enjoyed using his power and so he corrupted someone every now and then but was it worth to start a whole war instead of letting him toy with a couple of people as he looks for his old wedding gifts i just don't think the entire plot had the right motive and this brings us to the magnum opus of this event the main side story which obviously became a setup for something big in the future human thresh objection this is a really old topic at this time i don't think we need to waste any more time with this again he's already talked about it i've already talked about it in my own video so did i oh yeah i did too it's like an hour long and i still need to do part two all right yes i know human thresh didn't really start as something people would like and even now people may think that human thresh was an absolutely bad decision but out of all the bad things i think there is more behind this you see in the comic riot carefully put thresh in to let us know that everything that happened to viego was according to some kind of a plan thresh was the one who showed him the waters of life he was the one who let him try to resurrect isolde and even though this was never directly shown in the story in the comic it was confirmed that a thousand years after the blessed isles got ruined it was thresh who decided to bring viego back remember the ruined king has not been around for the past thousand years the mist was active but something was holding viego back in the heart of the shadow isles so if the ruination was thresh's master plan all along it makes sense why he was the one to absorb viego's mist at the very end thresh's entire story was leading to the point where he would become more powerful than the ruined king himself this seemingly human form was the reason why he allowed the shadow isles to be created in the first place the issue is even though all of this sounds cool we only learned about all of this by piecing together all the tiny details and that's because we are missing one massive context we are missing the ruined king game which in case you don't remember thresh will likely be one of the main characters off if you listen to the trailer at the beginning you may notice that the story is told through thresh's perspective so i believe the game will focus on viego's resurrection and what was thrash's real plan with him that's why unbound thrash looks like a weird decision it's because it is supposed to be the outcome of the ruined king's storyline but without the game we don't have the context just yet uh were you supposed to mention the bad parts of this event now yeah the splash art freaking sucks the old one was horrible the new one has a noble idea but the perspective on the face is wrong it looks like it was photoshopped on from another picture that has a different angle i see well i think we've heard enough since we can't get mr crick to stop swearing i hereby announce that this court has no outcome quite frankly i don't even know what the point of this was people swear in family-friendly content all the time like have you seen the incredibles 2 oh so that's it i'm free of all charges i mean what did you expect we're a bunch of sprites and v-tupers we don't have any real power well in that case let me end this session with one final note it's interesting to see that despite all the technical issues the event had the real downfall of it was the story it was the story which people didn't like and it was the story that received the most burns meaning that in reality people care about the lore they care about the stories behind league of legends the times when people blindly accuse league's lore of being bad are long gone the story has been amazing for years now and this this is the proof the proof that people care because they want the story to stay good so how did viega revive a star constellation that was light years away god dammit [Music] you

Channel: Necrit

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Keywords: Lore, Story, Necrit, Necrit94, Narrated, Explained, League of Legends, LOL, TFT, Teamfight tactics, legends of runeterra, Ruination, event, Viego, Gwen, Vex, Sentinels of Light, Ace attorney, parody, Song, Sing, Ruining the Ruination, Monetization

Id: Xd_c_zCIS6M

Length: 40min 7sec (2407 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Antergaton]

The production and way this video was done was great btw, well done Necrit and his guests.

Regardless of the lore issues, the grind, the insult to Yorick and Kalista. The biggest issue I have with it is that the characters we know about the Shadow Isles or Ruination, we've read and played for nearly 10 years weren't involved. Viego was defeated and the problems solved by new characters... all of them, Senna included. Senna is the reason Lucian changes path, Gwen has Isolde soul and fought the Black Mist without knowing what it was and the biggest issue, a literal Deus Ex Machina to just fix it at the end. Even Vex increased Viego's power and allowed the team to go back at the end in the VN.

With all setup for Yorick, Maokai, Kalista and even Lucian and not one of them were involved at the end. I don't give a crap about any of these new champs, they mean nothing, I care about the ones I've played and read about for years.

[u/Timeiaft]

two things in general that I didn't like about the story:

1. Viego being the classic villain
2. The heroes being so ignorant and unprepared. Especially when they belong to an organization that is dedicated to fighting the mist, they didn't know a fuck about it.

If it weren't for the power of the script and Karma, Yorick or Akshan don't help Senna or Lucian, they would just have died.

Senna can be badass and whatever, but what poorly she was prepared and how lucky she was.

I hope that in future lore, the protagonist is better prepared and don't have the writer to save him every 5 minutes. It Feels forced

[u/Dann_just_Dann]

Personally I found Rookie to be one of the most annoying characters in the entire story. Also, anyone else had the feeling that the whole battle was way too predictable besides Akshan shooting Isolde?

[u/Zernii]

I remember that Riot were planning to do a blog about what gone wrong with Ruination and what they've learned. Well, We're still waiting

[u/HandsomeTaco]

When I made a post listing a lot of my personal issues with the VN and the way that the event had been laid out a couple of months ago, it was week 3 of 4. I didn't expect the ending to be anything amazing or halfway redeeming and I was right, for better or for worse.

But even then there were things I didn't expect, the obvious one being that Yorick was completely left out of the final battle in Camavor. But there's more, despite Reav3 saying all the skins were canon, they announced that Ascended Pantheon was not canon mere hours before the last chapter launched.

I grinded the event because I thought making a lore skin like that was actually nice even as I had strong doubts about whether or not I liked the plot, and they managed to somehow screw that up and made me feel like an idiot for supporting them.

There's a lot wrong with the event, most of them listed in this video, and in countless other discussions that spawned since the VN started being released. In lore circles, it's universally reviled and, as the song so eloquently puts it, everyone is hoping that Arcane can actually restore some of that reputation.

It's saddening in a way that this is the most I've seen lore actively discussed online but at least people spoke up.

It's difficult to believe that even now, months after it happened, we have no idea how Thresh really became Unbound. In the VN, he just says he absorbed a lot of Mist, as if that had ever been a plot point (absorbing the unlife Mist somehow made him alive again?). In LoR, it says he awoke some ancient power from the Blessed Isles. In the WR comic, he's just already like this, fuck any explanations.

It's even more confusing because no part of Thresh was ever the "big brain manipulator" they seemingly want to push. He's always been a much more down to earth character, interested in personal suffering but already jubilant with the powers the Mist had afforded him. Even if you say he now became ambitious, no doubt because of the skin, despite bragging to Ledros on how they are now gods, his plan in the VN amounts to: finding Lucian conveniently in the middle of the jungle, telling Lucian about the Absolver, giving Viego an Isolde shard that never has relevance again, and contributing in no other way to ensuring that Lucian finds the Absolver and that the Absolver is used on Isolde.

It's extremely telling that if Senna didn't send Lucian alone with Rookie in a random direction, the Sentinels would have lost. That's the kind of plot contrivance we're dealing with. Ignoring the fact that the Sentinels have no idea where the shards are but conveniently bump into one per region and the Mist never tries to claim more than one at a time.

How did Viego win against Pantheon in Targon but lose to Gwen, Senna and Akshan? Neither the VN nor the cinematic truly make it clear: the VN just says he's weakened and then Senna uses her Mist powers (that she somehow still has while being alive despite her whole thing being that she was empowered by Isolde's curse) on Viego to rip his chest hole out. And the hole is back on his body by the final shot, so it's not even clear what the intent is (Necrit says he no longer spews Black Mist, but the VN makes zero mention of him being fixed like that).

Reav3 explained that a major plot beat they had to omit was that Vex was super-boosting Viego into this demigod-level status, but then you read Vex's bio and discover that...she was barely relevant before coming to the Isles. So there's basically a massive power boost coming in that relies solely on a teenager's shadow magic + the Mist somehow being super good together. I guess Nocturne + the Mist would crush everything in the setting then.

The comic meanwhile just has Senna using Isolde's power to teleport and bind him in Camavor.

And why did Isolde's soul split to begin with? Was it just the Ruination? But then why is it never explained? Why was Senna's shard active long before?

None of this is even mildly addressed. We can only hope Ruined King tackles some of this but that's doubtful.

I'm looking forward to Arcane because I have more confidence that it wasn't tainted by corporate meddling and that any flaws it may have are entirely grounded on actual, justifiable, creative decisions. We'll see if that hope is validated or not.

[u/MaleQueef]

If there was one thing I would have done in how they presented the story in the client it'd probably be having different POV's for every region.

You clicked Demacia, and it informs you the story is being told in Lucians POV.

You go to Ionia, the story would have been told in either Riven and Irelia's POV for the first half and back to Lucian or Senna in the 2nd.

Same thing for the other regions. And also make the ruination timeline be at least 6 months long, not a few days lol.

Then the comics Riot released would have been non POV oriented to fill the gaps.

[u/dragknight11]

Necrit always does a good job with the videos.

[u/tafaha_means_apple]

On the whole a very good summary of the various issues. Go to 28:44 for the best part of the video though, the song.

Only hold-ups is the suggestion of just letting the mass-murdering guy actively trying to corrupt the world get what he wants in the dubious hope that he would just go away or something, listing Irelia and Riven's interactions as one of the "good" things from the event (I guess it's less bad than some of the other plot lines that went nowhere), and implying that Unbound Thresh would make sense/will make sense when we get The Ruined King game.

[u/Ok_Raspberry_6282]

Is this not better content than the entire event?