@@MrKinglydude Yeah it was breaking/retconning of his canonical lore :D he should be dead for giving the sentinels his waters of life. So it's actually worse than literally nothing.
"Graves with no TF" - FINALLY someone mentions that! I still haven't forgiven you, Necrit, for saying that you hoped TF died in the Ruination, but I was very much hoping for him to be ruined, giving Graves a real incentive to become a sentinel. When he didn't show up or even get mentioned at all, I was absolutely furious
TF saw the future with cartomancy and Destiny Gated out so he wouldn't be involved in this dumpster fire of an event. It's why he gave Graves the card if he wanted out too.
Probably TF was appearing in Ruined king game and maybe he teleported himself somewhere else, we also don't know what Gankplank, Illaoi, Yasuo, Braum, and Ahri did. Also why MF got ruined? What she did in the game? We will never know (Fun fact: Pyke skin says it got controled by the power of Nagakabouros, but we don't have Illaoi helping with that) Could that have happened in the ruined king game?
I personally consider his Underworld skin canom and not a "What if?" situation. He would have given his blue card to Graves before falling or something. 😌
The rage and anger I felt. T.F. is usually the one that has cover Graves in case Graves efs up or something so when T.F. didn't show up during the event I was pissed
Also… Kalista… she got another story doing the exact same thing, again. She was the literal cause of Isolde getting poisoned because she deflected the dagger. She played no part in the entirety of it and could’ve had some sort of story arc. But again they kept her in the shadows with Yorick.
There were so many Champions that could have benefited greatly from being involved and they only really used the bare minimum, with the rest being skin'd Champs. Maokai, Yorick, Kalista, Hecarim, Karthus, any world leader, KINDRED....we only really got Lucian and Senna (and the new champs literally made for the event). I don't mind the skins being canon or their involvement in the event, but I think the story overall would have benefited greatly from downplaying their involvement to be more local to their region--they defend their region and then that's where we leave them, to clean up. Instead involve other characters, or don't and use that time to focus more on the core conflict with Lucy, Senna, Gwen, Viego and even Akshan. At least that way we'd get a more focused narrative.
Wouldn't have liked Kalista tbh. She has a Story with her Husband Ledros where they describe that she lost her sense of self. Her whole identity now is being the ghost of vengeance. And her universe story reflects that really good. Her spirit is broken and she's just another pawn for whomever controls the black mist now. Right now i only know about Viego, Hecarim, Karthus and Thresh who retained their sense of self. Yorick too of course but he's not a mistcreature.
@@tamikuru7936 and who controls the mist? its viego. Hecarim and kalista and the rest should have been with viego. Also Kalista seeing Isolda might have led to her getting her sense of self back as isolda was the catalyst for everything that went wrong in her life.
Kalista was literally the main character of the entire first ruination arc, and they completely deleted her from the story in the comic. Her and Ledros could have easily showed up in this story. Ledros is one of the main players in ending the ruination and one of the very few wraiths other than Viego and Thresh who haven't lost themself to the black mist (thanks to his love for kalista). If the sentinels met him, he would've helped them. Imagine If Hecarim showed up to fight the sentinels, Ledros could save them by fighting Hecarim. We could also see a lucky encounter between Kalista, Hecarim and Ledros where they'd fight and kill Hecarim, which would greatly help the sentinels. In LoR we even see a picture of a solari sentinel doing something to Ledros but it's never explained.
Ruined Pantheon is character assassination at its finest. A dude who literally reignited celestial weapons and walked off a stab wound from a Darkin Blade with nothing but his own fucking willpower, was mind controlled by an emo undead toxic goth bf. He's literally the most mentally unbreakable being on Runeterra, Riot.
If most of the sentinel champions didn't make sense, why would we expect the ruined champions to make sense? They could as well make a ruined Aurelion Sol at this point for all I care.
I think this is the reason he is not ruined Atreus(as in his mind control was special because he wasnt controlled ) , like the other champions who were controlled, he was ruined Pantheon(the aspect of war) because somehow Viego revived it. And the prestige edition was Atreus gaining controll of his body back, a pity was the fact that we were not shown Atreus geting control in the main story.
@@Ghostonm but it was interesting for karma. we finally saw a different version of karma and during invasion that forced her to use her powers for war instead of being pure pacifist who could stopped many noxian invasion.
My headcanon is that yorick being pissed at riot pickep up every single powerful artifact and power that he can, ascended mount targon beat the shit out of thresh, and ascended the game realm to punch the devs at riot in the face
Ideed, yorick is one of the least played champions of the game, they didnt care that he is a mayor character in the ruinations history, potentialy the only hero of fhe shadow isles, but no, screw that, well just put riven, and some other popular champ that was never ever been related in any way to the shadow isles lore, good job
Imagine having a Sentinel Yorick instead of *UGHH Sentinel Irelia* Riot did us dirty when they just made our hardest counter a bigger part of the story that was meant to be ours...
Let's not forget that it's Necrit's birthday. So let's show him some love. Happy birthday Necrit ❤️🔥 As always ur videos and the comedy in it are the best so keep it up man.
The ruination was a huge spit in my face. I've been waiting for a event like that since they introduced the harrowing lore that dropped years ago. I honestly almost cried because it felt like soulless corporate marketing.
I found the event highly underwhelming. I didn't pay too much attention to it but when I was looking at the in-game cut scenes after completing missions it felt like an alternative universe like Spirit Blossom, except I found Spirit Blossom endearing. This didn't seem at all like the culmination of years of lore in the main universe.
Yeah, it felt like a soggy story. Characters are here because we need one champion of every part of runeterra, some become just goofy comic reliefs (with the worst being Rengar becoming a literal kitty more than a ferocious panther as he is in lore), no one learns from this story, not the ones who joined the sentinels nor the ones corrupted by viego (whose all characterisation is “I shouldn’t get hypnotised by one of the gods of death next time!”), many champions/characters like Galio, Yorick or Ledros don’t appear, or for like 2 seconds, so we can give the maiden to Viego, and obviously the Ixtal part where, actually, the only problem are ghouls, and not the fact it’s literally the Amazon jungle but with purple bugs bigger than you, that could eat you whole. Okay ixtal isn’t a big part of runeterra story, but you can’t make it a filler episode where what you do is see the baddie’s right arm, he tells you to get that isolde’s part (the frick it got there, I still have no reasons why), and he tells you the way to beat the baddie
Actually spirit blossom was cannon. They made all the spirits look like champions but they said that the spirits themselves were canon. So they exist as a parts of the world, the only difference is that they look different on the story.
@@rolay7730 yeah, and the event had no repercussions on the overall lore. The spirit blossom was a way to show off both yone and Lillia, but the event itself was a fun dating sim with no repercussions on what happens in lore. On the other hand, ruination puts you in the place of a person that both exist and doesn’t exist, thanks to how the story is told differently depending on what medium you use. And it’s a major plot of the lore, a bit like in ww2 one guy who did a lot doesn’t exist if you take the written documents, but exist in the filmed documents taken.
@Warren McAleister You can disagree, but if a lot of people have a problem with something and these are the people who buy the most skins, then it is an actual problem. You can disagree about whether you like the ruination, but objectively was... low effort, to say the least. I expect more from a company that makes billions, and if people have a problem with them, it is their right to complain. It is not your job to badmouth people when they have actual complaints. Just like it is not their place to badmouth you if the company actually listens to the feedback and changes the next event. "I will not let you idiots dictate the narrative of League of Legends lore just because of your own stupid agenda" Way to be belligerent. Also, with this much backlash, I doubt the company will do nothing. So how exactly do you plan to "not let us." You have no power to do anything here other than complain online. But thousand who played that crappy event have beaten you to it. So Riot either listens, or I honestly think we might have to protest the next event if it is this bad. Either way, you can't do anything about it.
"did anybody actually wondered what would happen if we let Viego revive his wife ?" Funnily enough, this isn't the biggest problem of the ruination event xD
@@Kronosfobi If you think about it in MCU movies, Viego is essentially Avengers 1 Loki, Aatrox is Ultron, and Morde is Thanos. They're definitely saving them for later The Void is probably Galactus
I'm going to have to disagree that hype was evaporating and that Riot simply "couldn't" delay it any further. It's just as Skyen said. If there is any company that could afford to take extraordinary measures in extraordinary circumstances it is Riot games with one of the most played games in history. Instead we got an event that left the lore in shambles.
Yeah nowadays Its like if ppl hear that something is going to be delayed or that’s it’s not coming out for a while they just don’t want it anymore or want it to be released right then and there even though it’s being delayed for their well being
True. No amount of good hype can equate to a good product. I would rather wait months for a story that will stick with me for years rather than rush it.
To summarize, the Ruination Event was like one of those group works at school, where each person does a part and then combine everyone's parts at the end. Maybe at Rito they had people working separately on each part of the event and then they just released it at the same time, not caring too much about the parts making sense or not. XD Then it came out, the parts were inconsistent, but they were like "Oh well, it's already out now..." I would rather not have "Rookie" in the event and have the story progress just like when we are watching a movie or reading a comic. Just with the canon champions, and no outsiders (aka Rookie).
@@wakkaseta8351 self inserts are only cool if There are real decisions to made which wasn't a thing. This Event made no sense it was neither canon nor did it have interesting decisions
And to add to that, its like that group of people are the smart ones who are not welcome to suggestions from anyone which made everything a mish mash of hyped ideas
And he still has to make a part 2. For all it's faults the Ruination did have a positive outcome... it gave creators a cow of content to milk for as long as possible XD.
Happy birthday, Loremaster Necritos of Camavor! I haven't gotten excited for a video in a very long time until I saw this one. And no disappointments, either!
The point of "giving Isolde to Viego VS fighting Viego" could have been a good plot. Lucian would likely want to fight Viego, since he woudn't want to see Senna die again. Senna, on the other hand, would likely try to sacrifice herself in order to save the world. It would be cool to see the sentinels dividing themselves, maybe we could see some infighting or something, but no, all wasted, like everything else in the event.
I mean they kinda took any competence away from Lucian so that wouldn't work as he would just let people do what they want :/ how they wrote it at least
Honestly, the objectivity and extremely funny editing (especially the beginning) made this video amazing. This really is your magnum opus like you thought it would be.
I love how you can tell how much love and attention this video has. Like this is screaming "RIOT, YOU REALLY FUCKED UP," if necrit along with a bunch of other lore content creaters join together to make a video.
I also noticed they compared Lucian's old motives and emotions to Viego's a bunch, like how Graves mentions he's a spitting image of him. But that never really went anywhere? I was half expecting for Lucian to let Viego revive his wife to see the truth for himself or something. Or at least have some sort of sorrow for a man who lost his way over romance
*"An event worthy of the end of the world"* Eh, with the sheer amount of world-ending threats Riot's shoehorned into the lore the past few years, they'll have plenty of chances to get it right someday.
By the time the Void rolls around everyone in Runeterra is gonna be so tired of world ending threats. Like yeah, OK, eldritch horrors from an alien dimension? Sure why not. After the demons, fallen god-warriors and TWO UNRELATED undead overlords, it’s a nice change of pace.
Aurelion Sol rolling into Runeterra can end the world. I never understood why they used that tag line. It's as if they aren't aware of how expansive their own lore is.
The thing that hurts most for me is the way they treated the end of viego's storyline. The moment could've been SO powerful if they wrote him actually listening to Isolde and seeing that what he did was in the end in vain, that the love of his life didn't want this. He then realizes what he did and that it didn't matter. He's now broken, with a distant, melancholic gaze, not even reacting to Isolde being "absolved" in front of his eyes. Visibly broken, he simply accepts his fate of being sealed, showing at least SOME character development for him.
Yeah but that would mean letting the writing team write anything that actually advances anything meaningfully in any way. And they didn’t have a ‘sad Viego’ skin ready so it can’t happen.
Technically he can't feel that way because he's the first wraith. He is the absolute embodiment of the black mist. Of all the feelings of a toxic love, he cannot feel any other way because he is dead and he cannot grow anymore.
@@ethanv.a.t.exclamador4030 that would be a really cool skin idea. At least a pre ruination one. If anything I think they'll have to make a spirit caller or some other witch champion who will summon him from camavor and bind him to her. It would be an interesting dynamic. From prince to king to undead ruler to minion.
I think its ok that Viego never grew as a person, further adding to his tragedy that his biggest problem is quite simply his own character. A very common and valid way to write a villain is as someone who doesn't grow, but the main characters do and thus are able to take down the villain. They had this sort of setup with Lucian and Viego, showing that Lucian could have easily had the same possessive toxic love for Senna as Viego does for Isolde, but instead Lucian learns to be supportive; even if it means potentially losing Senna, Lucian accepts she is a person who can make her own choices. Viego has a hard time accepting that Isolde made the choice to stay dead, hence why the Shadow Isles exist and the Ruination happens. He can't accept it even after the final confrontation. Of course they only really set this up properly in the comic version, so who knows how much of that was intentional. My point might be kinda moot.
I still do not see how Necrit can defend the Sentinel Points. If you did not play ARAM or a champion that was great for missions you could end up needing 25 games per region in ranked. In the final region I was getting 96 points from a ranked win and 46 from ranked loss. I did not escape the first region until week 3. Only 1/4th through video. The points were a MASSIVE problem.
@@katansnipe8121 The was my presumption because it was the only game mode that you could get alot of points and play the champions that weren't basically point vampires, any low kill split pusher with one damage profile. Something about that point really irks me because even Riot admitted people were not even close. 600 points per win is basically saying "we are in week 3 and a majority of people are still in Demacia."
Musical, crossover, critique, recap and everything driven in an amazing plot. Gotta say, may sound like to little, but this masterpiece of video is far better than 10 ruination events
Fun fact: The next arcane skins are gonna be given to Irelia, Riven, Zoe, Vayne, Yasuo, Kai'sa, Master Yi, Akali, Ahri, Yone, Samira, and Teemo Who's Viktor? Never heard of him (Also Happy birthday Necrit!)
28:45 My god. Necrit, holy cow is this song insane. But also 3:00 I think the mist curropted the petricite but I am not a lore expert so I could be wrong 3:023:11 I think the sentinel weapons was just placed on top of the weapons so Irelia can control the blade because the blades are inside, and that is the reason why Riven switched his weapon to a sentinel weapon it is because it is still her weapon just inside. Again I am not a lore expert so I could be wrong
This was a chance to open league lore to a next level. We could’ve gotten viewpoints of different champions during a world ending event, or even showing the aftermath of the event. They claim it’s a retelling of the main story but which story? There was never a main one in the first place. I get covid screwed everyone over but to go and throw continuity out the window over these amazing characters and design just to make your money is very unfortunate. They made their money and it doesn’t matter :/
First of all, the event in my opinion was a disaster. As a huge lore fan I didn't even read the novel in the client and just skipped through everything. The story made almost 0 sense and the presentaion was lackluster. I had so much hype for a lich king like story where everyone needs to fight togheter to stop him. And on top of it the world situation could actualy make the event better because I understand it is hard to portay the whole runeterra fighting without having an MMO like game but what riot could do and this would give them time to release Vex and the ruined king game was every month they could have an event about different region fighting the mist. In this case, people would have the feeling that something really massive and important is happening ( for all the people who consider lore at least a little) and for all the rest they could get some rewards connected to the region every month so people would grind the game even more which riot wants. Overall, I do not agree with the covid excuse at all.
They could do series of events, similer to Bilgewater brawl. Where they expand on the story for the next couple of months while slowly unraveling a bigger picture. This way, they would have time to represent majority of the League of Legends characters, even those that dont tie to the story normally but now has to deal with it (such as Sylas, OR RENGAR). But instead, they got lazy and ruined it with a over-night project of an event called ''dating sim 2''
in the ruination teaser where they first introduced viego (when he attacked lucian and senna) we saw samira and darius. at first i thought darius would get a ruined skin and samira would get the sentinal skin. but here we are
Damn, this was just an great Necrit wideo but the additional youtubers just being there made it such great work, i mean even Falconshield made the music can my "playing the game since 2009 ass get happier". A collaboration truly greater than the ruination, at least when you compare the amount of workforce and budget. Thank you
I like the way this video was being presented. The concept of dividing the vid into parts which has the intro, good and bad side (TB Skyen), the criticism part and deeper dive into the lore (all of them) and the song (Falconshield)...dang what a collab
something that makes all this even worse, EVEN WORSE, is that arcane was amazing as well as the tie ins, However the ruination left such a bad taste a lot of people, myself one of them avoided it like the plague thinking they were gonna fuck it up and go the way of blizzard, i wish arcane came first.
A great video! Solid points all around. I'm not a musical person but I loved the song! Atreus has been reviving the constellation of war for a while now. Viego reviving the Aspect of War was actually an interesting twist, because Atreus being ruined wouldn't have made sense for his character, plus it would have been a retread of his lore, being possessed. Ruined Pantheon falls short however, because Atreus remains defeated because Ascended Pantheon isn't canon, thus he never triumphs over the Aspect playing into his strengths as a character, always getting up when defeated.
The only redeeming quality of this event, to me, was the Graves skin. And that's only because it's a really good skin and I love Graves, not because it actually improved the story at all :/
The reason why people love sentinel Graves is because... well, it's actually Graves. It's one of the few characters that didn't get MURDERED, SLAUGHTERED, DEMOLISHED by the ruination, so sentinel graves was basically a VGU with his real current characterization and updated voicelines.
Really liked the video, the concept and execution was amazing. I am sure it was a lot of work and props to everyone who participated, and would really like to see something like this again in the future.
"Did anyone wonder what would happen if we just let Viego revive his wife?" THANK! YOU! SOMEONE FINALLY ASKED THE HARD QUESTION! PS I'm sure Arcane will restore their rep because it's an animated series and not a game. RIOT Games, seems particularly good at making anything that *isn't* a game...
They only interfere when they want to make a skin out of it. The series don't seem to be made to sell a new skin for Jinx, therefore it's going to be good
"RIOT Games, seems particularly good at making anything that isn't a game... " *Sweats nervously thinking of their MMORPG* Also, Arcane has given them some stock for future fuck ups.
I... skipped this event. The grind was real, the confusion was unbelievable, and I kinda felt cheated with my time. Even completely missed the free thresh skin cause I just couldn't be bothered with how flat the event felt. When it came to Spirit blossom, I didn't even like the event & feel as a whole all that much, but at least I was able to play it for all the free stuff in it. I just wish we got the Ruined King game on time. Would've at least explained why MF was ruined & Pyke of ALL people became Sentinel.
I personally got into the event like the last 3 weeks, played 10 games to get all the tokens, and totally dismissed the thresh skin because I hated it, like many people, because you’re transforming the already few monsters champs into shirtless anime boys. And no the “change” in his skin isn’t worth still. I first didn’t really care about the story, and after I finished the event, I started watching some regions, Ixtal being “haha Rengar big kitty, his biggest “prey” is ghouls and not big purple bug, Ixtal is just a filler so Thresh can have Isolde’s soul, somehow, in a temple no one knew it existed before” and half the stories felt like fillers with no real repercussions or just ditched lore. Diana whole story is “I shouldn’t give up!”, all the corrupted champs’ character arcs are “oh well, I shouldn’t get hypnotised by one of gods of death next time!”.
@@zileantimekeeper7464 oh right.. I remember yasuo and ahri on a ship or whatever to like bilgewater I think? I was so hyped but well.. nothing happened
@@azertykeys9011 the Void is anything that isn't the perceivable universe and who's only inhabitants as far as we know are the Watchers, so calling it a region its a stretch since it represents a lack of geography or space. And what I meant is that neither them or the Voidborns created on Runeterra have actual identity within the story overall, they're used as narrative tools to move other plots forward. It ain't surprising they feel underrated since they lack identity and character, and thus far seems intentional.
it would have been incredibly cool if viego actually won on purpose and resurrected Isolde, and then the ending of the event would have been reminiscing on how petty their war with viego was as his soul and mind heal with time on the last few pages of the story. Would have subverted expectations in a great way by letting the villain win, and maybe the way Senna, Lucian come to the conclusion that resurrecting Isolde is their only play is by slowing getting to know Viego through every interaction they have in each region of runeterra, like maybe in the first region (Demacia and Freljord) hes a typical villain but each time after that Senna and Lucian get a glimpse of how desperate and noble viegos motive is for starting the ruination in the first place and we actually get a real villain when the plot twist is that Thresh was working behind the curtain. Now that would have been a great way to end the story as it is, Viego being stuck in his homeland and only getting rejected by Isolde before she came back to life is fine, just not that compelling.
This is the kinda 'fandom' that I can respect. You can love something AND be critical of it at the same time. Because if you don't hold them up to a certain standard, who else will?
"Senna wouldn't sacrifice herself to save the entire world? What kind of plot is that?" *looks over at the Avengers refusing to let Vision die to stop Thanos from obliterating half the universe.*
But thats the thing isnt it? If they gave the mind stone to Thanos then half of the universe would perish. If Viego reviving Isolde would cause the world to end then that would've been a GOOD reason why Senna wouldnt want to give the piece of Isolde's soul back. But nope.
@@kaiplue but they gave it by not destroying it/not sacrificing vision in the first place. Thanos gets it because they wait too long to make that call.
i think you’re forgeting the fact that Vision was willing to give up on his life to keep the mind stone safe. And later in the Endgame, everyone was willing to sacrifice themselves for greater good (shown through Nat, and Clint) Edit: And also Tony
They really need to explain what’s up with the Black Mist now that Viego is defeated. Is it still there? Is Thresh controlling it? I thought Thresh was gonna be the new big bad of the Shadow Isles but apparently he just left to pal around with Bort in Noxus. So what’s up with the Shadow Isles now?
@@nicolaspereyra420 Nah Morde isn’t associated with the Shadow Isles. And it wouldn’t make sense to have TWO big bad undead overlords in the Ruined King’s story.
The land is cursed not just viego itself i guess... The only thing viego does was spread it Outside shadow isle with the help of vex... While thresh can now go everywhere without the mist.. while viego can't...
Thr fact the music is by falconshield just makes it one fo the most iconic league creator videos for the game and not the gameplay to be ever made, IT'S PURE GOLD EVERYONE OF YOU!
Great concept for this video and its amazing to listen to while eating something and i love the ace attorney theme, absolutely GREAT job on this video and happy birthday necrit!
One thing i really noticed with this event, was the power creep in the lore really making it bad for me. Like… Azir, the other Ascended, and the Darkin, alongside with the whole Targon region, didnt do anything, even though they should be far more powerful than some emo. Targon even has goddamn fking AURELION SOL under their control.
I really, REALLY wish Riot would literally offer you a job. You are a genuinely wholesome person with the best intention and very good ideas! You have excellent attention to detail and actually care about the game and the lore. I appreciate this video because even though you're acknowledging what didn't work, you actually made suggestions on how it could have been better.
im pretty sure riot already has got many brilliant people working on the lore.. i think the bigger problem is that good lore doesnt make money as fast as appealing champs and skins, so their word probably doesnt have the weight in the company that it should have.. but maybe, hopfully riot learned from the huge negative feedback..
@@DarthIHE Not saying Necrit should *write* the lore as much as he should be some sort of a Director honestly. And yes, skins do sell, but we've seen that skins that come with some sort of lore or story that's more of an experience for players sell much better. They have the market, they need to listen to that market and Necrit has such a good way of interpreting what people want and could genuinely be a huge asset.
YES EXACTLY! Thank you for making this video Necrit, it was exactly my reading of the ruination event and I am so glad you made it. I feel bad for always being put down because I enjoy the lore and sided with Viego for what they gave us but the evidence or rather the points are there in what Riot gave us. If they would have actually realized that what people have always wanted was a good story and good plot points, then it would have never been so money driven in the first place. Even within Spirit Blossom, the reason why the graphic novel was fun was because it was an interpretation of different characters acting within the lore of runeterra. They were the characters that we knew and love living as the embodiment of mythical characters within Runeterra. It wasn’t all just “sexy Thresh and Kindred skin”.
"the one thing at which riot's mastery is undeniable is music" absolutely, holy fuck Riot is amazing, genuinely losing my mind every time I hear a glimpse of music from them
I always thought it was weird that neither Lux or Leona were involved. I mean Lux whole thing is the Light. And Leona is the Sun so also the Light. The fact that neither of the two Light Champions being Sentinel's of Light just didn't make any sense to me. I think it could have been really interesting to have Sentinel Leona and Sentinel Diana.
"A lot of Rioters took that personally" yeah well they should. The whole thing was trash except for the pretty cinematics and music. Everything else really just pushed me away from LoL till i dropped it. Still havent logged in.
Just imagine what it could've been, it seriously could've been the payoff of like 15 different stories, and to me that's the saddest part, the missed potential is gigantic, and there is a chance that it not only not use the potential, but destroyed it entirely TT
Just going to say one thing, if the event wasn't a complete mess, this splendid video wouldn't exist. It's such a masterpiece, thanks a lot, I loved it.
I was excited because LoL for me didn't have a centralized story. But when I heard about the ruination and how it would help tie certain things together I was all for it! I wasn't expecting perfection but I was expecting something decent. Sadly it was the same thing that got me to not play league anymore and not enjoy the lore or the game. At the time WoW was getting some backlash for its own story and it showed they didn't care then soon after the lawsuit happened. So I went from one game to another, only to be out again due to how the story was written and how it disappointed me. It was like "fuck again?" Granted I understand that there was some things like the pandemic and everything going on. But considering the choices that were made, the way the visual novel told the story, how they basically fucked up alot of characters and excluded some and then to add insult to injury, riot says "its how you interpret it" im sorry that misses the point and if riot has to put something out like that, the writing his trash. Just like how on WoW we are gonna have to wait for a book that details why a certain character did what she did. If a game company has to put out a statement "interpret how you wish." or some other supplement material outside the game to explain its context (WoW and the books they have to explain the beginning of each expansion plus the chronicle books that were marketed as Canon only to be retroactively told that its from another perspective.) Then the story has failed majorly
@@kriskitt I don't blame the writers. I blame the executives that threw out the competent script because they wanted funny characters because "kids like jokes like that". The writers at riot are amazing and make amazing lore. They have been for a while now. The executives saw that people liked the lore and tried to be hands on and tell them how to write a good story for the big important event and ended up ruining it all.
This is so great. He included other youtubers, a song, and a Phoenix Wright parody? Where can you go from here... League: "Add abs and a a marketable face"
"the kinkou didn't help Ionia" they don't do that, the kinkou doesn't really meddle with war, the Navori brotherhood with Irelia and Zed's shadow clan does that. The weird thing about that part is Irelia should've been with resistance fighters guarding the shores or the Lasting Altar for Karma so she can focus communing with the spirits, but she was all alone hiding in the bushes jumping the sentinels. We should've even gotten Zed somewhere in there, because his whole thing is succumbing to the shadows to save Ionia, why didn't he save Ionia this time. Have you ever thought about how it was unnecessary to even include the corruption of Ionia(the land), because of Karma (being the spirit of Ionia) when she could have handed the fetter to Viego so the entire region wouldn't succumb to the mist. How and why was she even holding onto the fetter while she knew it was the ONLY thing Viego was after, it was never explained why Karma was holding onto it in the first place and it lead to her downfall- it was unsatisfying. Exploring Darha's identity crisis and personal struggles was the best part for her inclusion within the event alongside with Irelia's connection to her, but the execution of her corruption and the sentinels leaving her succumbing to the mist was at most- unnecessary even though it sets up a good premise for Irelia to become a sentinel wanting to save Karma and restore their land.
she is a goth female yordle, we know what internet can do to them, necrit has not seen art of tristana and poppy? xD vex had "thicc" art within HOURS of her first sight on the day the visual novel launched
Imagine what they could have done with the ruination event in a more serious arcane like 3-6 episode mini series. I thought it had potential and was a flop
Sentinals should have been: riven, senna, gwen, lucian, illaoi, kalista, maokai and yorick I dont understand why they had to shove so many champions in to sell skins
Honestly they should have focused on Gwen, Lucian, Senna and Vayne, and Akshan later. Would prefer more quality interaction rather than mashing a lot champs into a b grade avenger plot
@@nicolaspereyra420 Maokai was once a peaceful nature spirit, now he battles to unruin the Shadow Isles and restore his home to its former beauty. He might not be an official member, but he would certainly be part of the event.
Yes! We do love the lore and the characters! That's what makes the game alive. Since the balance system is messed up and the gameplay isn't really fun anymore, especially ranked games, we are essentially hoping for the events and more fun stuff. I want riot to focus more on fixing the issues or the game itself, rather than making skins for their waifus and husbandos.
I really missed the special game mode that they used to do to promote new skin lines, like Star Guardians and Odyssey with dungeons crawl style, Blood moon with assassins mode, and Project with ADC mode. I was expected Ruination to bring them back because last time we have these was around Odyssey which is out for 3 years, but it’s not :(
Song was fire! I need separate video with just the song so I can repeat it non-stop! UPD: YT recommended me your second channel (I didnt know it exist) with the song. I'm very glad (and little scared)
The canon version is that the Ruination was just a delusional dream on Mundo's mind, it simply never happened
same
sounds more plausible then what actually happened
My heart will rest if this is how it happens
It's one of gragas drank dreams that he then forgotten about.or one of zelins weird visions that he didn't care about
it was the friends we made along the way
I like the judge
You do a judge very well
Yeah, he's so impartial that it's inspirational...If you ignore some of his nitpicks, i'd say that the judge is a great role model!
what an excellent judge, I wonder who it was.
very handsome chap
Poyo!!
Holy moly, the artwork of the court room is so cute
Art by Nebura!
Ye i know necrit looks cute
who are the other characters in the court?
@@federicoapl Fellow League lore and design content creatures.
@@federicoapl TB Skyen and Dinka Kay
"Riven fighting with a bucket"
Soldier: dear god
Riven: theres more
Soldier: noo
I read It with the soldier and spy voice
Ah yes tf2 reference
It contains...a bucket.
@@PineappleDevourer dear god
@@PineappleDevourer Scout? Seduce me~!
Im so sad for Yorick, literally nothing during the event and expected so much from him during that event.
I remember the time back then when the community theorized that the Maiden is actually Viego's wife. Remember that?
It wasn't "literally nothing" but yes he was underutilized.
@@MrKinglydude maokai had literally nothing
same for syndra too
@@MrKinglydude Yeah it was breaking/retconning of his canonical lore :D he should be dead for giving the sentinels his waters of life. So it's actually worse than literally nothing.
"Graves with no TF" - FINALLY someone mentions that! I still haven't forgiven you, Necrit, for saying that you hoped TF died in the Ruination, but I was very much hoping for him to be ruined, giving Graves a real incentive to become a sentinel. When he didn't show up or even get mentioned at all, I was absolutely furious
TF saw the future with cartomancy and Destiny Gated out so he wouldn't be involved in this dumpster fire of an event. It's why he gave Graves the card if he wanted out too.
Probably TF was appearing in Ruined king game and maybe he teleported himself somewhere else, we also don't know what Gankplank, Illaoi, Yasuo, Braum, and Ahri did. Also why MF got ruined? What she did in the game? We will never know
(Fun fact: Pyke skin says it got controled by the power of Nagakabouros, but we don't have Illaoi helping with that) Could that have happened in the ruined king game?
I personally consider his Underworld skin canom and not a "What if?" situation. He would have given his blue card to Graves before falling or something. 😌
The rage and anger I felt.
T.F. is usually the one that has cover Graves in case Graves efs up or something so when T.F. didn't show up during the event I was pissed
@@nicolasarroyo1746 In my opinion yes,Pyke is being controlled by illaoi’s Nagakabourus and using him as a weapon is hilariously absurd.
Also… Kalista… she got another story doing the exact same thing, again. She was the literal cause of Isolde getting poisoned because she deflected the dagger. She played no part in the entirety of it and could’ve had some sort of story arc. But again they kept her in the shadows with Yorick.
There were so many Champions that could have benefited greatly from being involved and they only really used the bare minimum, with the rest being skin'd Champs. Maokai, Yorick, Kalista, Hecarim, Karthus, any world leader, KINDRED....we only really got Lucian and Senna (and the new champs literally made for the event).
I don't mind the skins being canon or their involvement in the event, but I think the story overall would have benefited greatly from downplaying their involvement to be more local to their region--they defend their region and then that's where we leave them, to clean up. Instead involve other characters, or don't and use that time to focus more on the core conflict with Lucy, Senna, Gwen, Viego and even Akshan. At least that way we'd get a more focused narrative.
@@abiwonkenabi7027 also they couldve showed how some Black mist tries to take over a voidborn like kha zix. And how it wouldve not worked
Wouldn't have liked Kalista tbh. She has a Story with her Husband Ledros where they describe that she lost her sense of self. Her whole identity now is being the ghost of vengeance. And her universe story reflects that really good. Her spirit is broken and she's just another pawn for whomever controls the black mist now. Right now i only know about Viego, Hecarim, Karthus and Thresh who retained their sense of self. Yorick too of course but he's not a mistcreature.
@@tamikuru7936 and who controls the mist? its viego. Hecarim and kalista and the rest should have been with viego. Also Kalista seeing Isolda might have led to her getting her sense of self back as isolda was the catalyst for everything that went wrong in her life.
Kalista was literally the main character of the entire first ruination arc, and they completely deleted her from the story in the comic. Her and Ledros could have easily showed up in this story. Ledros is one of the main players in ending the ruination and one of the very few wraiths other than Viego and Thresh who haven't lost themself to the black mist (thanks to his love for kalista). If the sentinels met him, he would've helped them. Imagine If Hecarim showed up to fight the sentinels, Ledros could save them by fighting Hecarim. We could also see a lucky encounter between Kalista, Hecarim and Ledros where they'd fight and kill Hecarim, which would greatly help the sentinels. In LoR we even see a picture of a solari sentinel doing something to Ledros but it's never explained.
"A shirtless JoJo Characther"
Never laughed so hard in my entire life
**Sett joined the Chat** :D
@@K27StUdiO Image RIOT made Sentinel Sett
@@hellspawnx3526 Everyone's down and all hope is lost when suddenly out of the silence of the black mist the aztec stripper music starts playin 🤣
Except JoJo characters are distinctive with interesting personalities and designs. Akshan is way too boring for that.
Ruined Pantheon is character assassination at its finest. A dude who literally reignited celestial weapons and walked off a stab wound from a Darkin Blade with nothing but his own fucking willpower, was mind controlled by an emo undead toxic goth bf. He's literally the most mentally unbreakable being on Runeterra, Riot.
If most of the sentinel champions didn't make sense, why would we expect the ruined champions to make sense?
They could as well make a ruined Aurelion Sol at this point for all I care.
I think this is the reason he is not ruined Atreus(as in his mind control was special because he wasnt controlled ) , like the other champions who were controlled, he was ruined Pantheon(the aspect of war) because somehow Viego revived it. And the prestige edition was Atreus gaining controll of his body back, a pity was the fact that we were not shown Atreus geting control in the main story.
Well, they ruined fucking Karma as well. The literal spirit of Ionia was ruined by a malnutritioned emo boy.
@@Ghostonm but it was interesting for karma. we finally saw a different version of karma and during invasion that forced her to use her powers for war instead of being pure pacifist who could stopped many noxian invasion.
Riot:So... You don't like Ruined Pantheon? Ok, then here is Ruined Ryze :)
The fact that this could’ve been a recast of the Odyssey pve with different ghouls as the enemies and Viego as the boss
Sad truth
@@nayrim1674 I never got to try the pve game modes sadly.. I really want to but it will never happen again sadly..
Oh that would have been so nutty
@@nahrikkon an Even more sad Truth I fear :/
it would have been perfect, using different sentinel comps, even more variety than the odyseey event. I hate Riot.
A 40 min video dedicated to talking about how bad the RotS event was? Nothing has made me happier as a Yorick main.
Not utilizing Yorick in that event was probably the thing I hated most. So disappointing.
My headcanon is that yorick being pissed at riot pickep up every single powerful artifact and power that he can, ascended mount targon beat the shit out of thresh, and ascended the game realm to punch the devs at riot in the face
Ideed, yorick is one of the least played champions of the game, they didnt care that he is a mayor character in the ruinations history, potentialy the only hero of fhe shadow isles, but no, screw that, well just put riven, and some other popular champ that was never ever been related in any way to the shadow isles lore, good job
Imagine having a Sentinel Yorick instead of *UGHH Sentinel Irelia* Riot did us dirty when they just made our hardest counter a bigger part of the story that was meant to be ours...
Imagine being validated as a Yorick main. It would almost defeat the purpose.
Let's not forget that it's Necrit's birthday. So let's show him some love. Happy birthday Necrit ❤️🔥
As always ur videos and the comedy in it are the best so keep it up man.
Ooo.
im trusting you on this then. HAPPY B DAY NECRIT (if i found out you lie il drop kick you once)
@@citizen1969 Deal.
HBD
hbd necrit 🎂
Can we all appreciate how Iconic Skyen made me? 😭💖
Huh.
Honey he didn't make you iconic, YOU ARE ICONIC.
I was like "Who is this sexy voice?" while grinning because we ALL know who it is.
With the beer belly too
In my own comment, "dinka best girl". love the jojo refrence off the WWWWHHHRRRRYYYYY pose.
The ruination was a huge spit in my face. I've been waiting for a event like that since they introduced the harrowing lore that dropped years ago. I honestly almost cried because it felt like soulless corporate marketing.
It WAS soulless corporate marketing.
literally same... i was expecting the whole world to fight it not a random few champs
"Maybe arcane will restore the reputation"
Hell yeah it did
I found the event highly underwhelming. I didn't pay too much attention to it but when I was looking at the in-game cut scenes after completing missions it felt like an alternative universe like Spirit Blossom, except I found Spirit Blossom endearing. This didn't seem at all like the culmination of years of lore in the main universe.
Yeah, it felt like a soggy story.
Characters are here because we need one champion of every part of runeterra, some become just goofy comic reliefs (with the worst being Rengar becoming a literal kitty more than a ferocious panther as he is in lore), no one learns from this story, not the ones who joined the sentinels nor the ones corrupted by viego (whose all characterisation is “I shouldn’t get hypnotised by one of the gods of death next time!”), many champions/characters like Galio, Yorick or Ledros don’t appear, or for like 2 seconds, so we can give the maiden to Viego, and obviously the Ixtal part where, actually, the only problem are ghouls, and not the fact it’s literally the Amazon jungle but with purple bugs bigger than you, that could eat you whole. Okay ixtal isn’t a big part of runeterra story, but you can’t make it a filler episode where what you do is see the baddie’s right arm, he tells you to get that isolde’s part (the frick it got there, I still have no reasons why), and he tells you the way to beat the baddie
Actually spirit blossom was cannon. They made all the spirits look like champions but they said that the spirits themselves were canon. So they exist as a parts of the world, the only difference is that they look different on the story.
@@rolay7730 yeah, and the event had no repercussions on the overall lore.
The spirit blossom was a way to show off both yone and Lillia, but the event itself was a fun dating sim with no repercussions on what happens in lore.
On the other hand, ruination puts you in the place of a person that both exist and doesn’t exist, thanks to how the story is told differently depending on what medium you use. And it’s a major plot of the lore, a bit like in ww2 one guy who did a lot doesn’t exist if you take the written documents, but exist in the filmed documents taken.
@Warren McAleister I can’t even say if it’s satyre or you’re just going full Ben Shapiro…
@Warren McAleister
You can disagree, but if a lot of people have a problem with something and these are the people who buy the most skins, then it is an actual problem. You can disagree about whether you like the ruination, but objectively was... low effort, to say the least. I expect more from a company that makes billions, and if people have a problem with them, it is their right to complain.
It is not your job to badmouth people when they have actual complaints. Just like it is not their place to badmouth you if the company actually listens to the feedback and changes the next event.
"I will not let you idiots dictate the narrative of League of Legends lore just because of your own stupid agenda"
Way to be belligerent. Also, with this much backlash, I doubt the company will do nothing. So how exactly do you plan to "not let us." You have no power to do anything here other than complain online. But thousand who played that crappy event have beaten you to it. So Riot either listens, or I honestly think we might have to protest the next event if it is this bad. Either way, you can't do anything about it.
"did anybody actually wondered what would happen if we let Viego revive his wife ?"
Funnily enough, this isn't the biggest problem of the ruination event xD
Viego and the ruination is just a bootleg Lich King and the scourge
@@PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman holy shit, I get it when u put it that way
@@PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman And to make it worse, Viego isnt even enough to replicate the stance of Lich King.
Mordekaiser should've been released..
@@Kronosfobi If you think about it in MCU movies, Viego is essentially Avengers 1 Loki, Aatrox is Ultron, and Morde is Thanos. They're definitely saving them for later
The Void is probably Galactus
@@maddoxio aatrox > morde
Necrit: The Musical is not what I expected, but it is fucking amazing
We gotta get more.
With a metal track it could have been a mesmerize soad song lmao
Encore encore!
Cringe
Ikr!
I'm going to have to disagree that hype was evaporating and that Riot simply "couldn't" delay it any further. It's just as Skyen said. If there is any company that could afford to take extraordinary measures in extraordinary circumstances it is Riot games with one of the most played games in history. Instead we got an event that left the lore in shambles.
Yeah nowadays Its like if ppl hear that something is going to be delayed or that’s it’s not coming out for a while they just don’t want it anymore or want it to be released right then and there even though it’s being delayed for their well being
True. No amount of good hype can equate to a good product. I would rather wait months for a story that will stick with me for years rather than rush it.
To summarize, the Ruination Event was like one of those group works at school, where each person does a part and then combine everyone's parts at the end. Maybe at Rito they had people working separately on each part of the event and then they just released it at the same time, not caring too much about the parts making sense or not. XD Then it came out, the parts were inconsistent, but they were like "Oh well, it's already out now..."
I would rather not have "Rookie" in the event and have the story progress just like when we are watching a movie or reading a comic. Just with the canon champions, and no outsiders (aka Rookie).
But how are they going to appeal to asians and weaboos without shoehorning in a generic self-insert VN protagonist?
@@wakkaseta8351 self inserts are only cool if There are real decisions to made which wasn't a thing. This Event made no sense it was neither canon nor did it have interesting decisions
And to add to that, its like that group of people are the smart ones who are not welcome to suggestions from anyone which made everything a mish mash of hyped ideas
This is the most ambitious crossover I've ever seen and it is so good
Move aside Avengers
@@miljan775 avengers has been pushed into the mud so many times lmao.
Who was the guy with the orange hair?
@@loamandronjewski7518 it's Nickyboy
@@Lemonman-mf8cn thanks!
Its so funny to see Sky trying to act "Neutral" after making his own video dunking on the events
Events trash bro
And he still has to make a part 2.
For all it's faults the Ruination did have a positive outcome... it gave creators a cow of content to milk for as long as possible XD.
I think not really neutral , but not really having an opinion in the whole video and just asking for things for the video to continue.
And after rousting the S@#₹ out of Riots managements
Happy birthday, Loremaster Necritos of Camavor! I haven't gotten excited for a video in a very long time until I saw this one. And no disappointments, either!
it is Nynos Necritos of Camavor
The point of "giving Isolde to Viego VS fighting Viego" could have been a good plot. Lucian would likely want to fight Viego, since he woudn't want to see Senna die again. Senna, on the other hand, would likely try to sacrifice herself in order to save the world. It would be cool to see the sentinels dividing themselves, maybe we could see some infighting or something, but no, all wasted, like everything else in the event.
I mean they kinda took any competence away from Lucian so that wouldn't work as he would just let people do what they want :/ how they wrote it at least
Captain America: Civil War but it's with the Sentinels of Light
Pretty sad that the Odyssey (a random event) was more memorable than the thing we have been waiting for years.
the ruination shouldve been pve
@@bigvidboi4909 Honestly best idea that i have heard in a while
Skyen calling him Mr. Crit implies his first name is just Ne, which is amazing.
I'm so calling him Mr. Crit from now on
To everyone involved in this project: my deepest thank you. God bless LoL's lore community.
At this point, the Lore community is actually more reliable than the ones in charge of making the Lore.
@@titocristobal5573 Arcane: Are you sure about that?
Honestly, the objectivity and extremely funny editing (especially the beginning) made this video amazing. This really is your magnum opus like you thought it would be.
I love how you can tell how much love and attention this video has. Like this is screaming "RIOT, YOU REALLY FUCKED UP," if necrit along with a bunch of other lore content creaters join together to make a video.
I also noticed they compared Lucian's old motives and emotions to Viego's a bunch, like how Graves mentions he's a spitting image of him. But that never really went anywhere? I was half expecting for Lucian to let Viego revive his wife to see the truth for himself or something. Or at least have some sort of sorrow for a man who lost his way over romance
*"An event worthy of the end of the world"*
Eh, with the sheer amount of world-ending threats Riot's shoehorned into the lore the past few years, they'll have plenty of chances to get it right someday.
By the time the Void rolls around everyone in Runeterra is gonna be so tired of world ending threats.
Like yeah, OK, eldritch horrors from an alien dimension? Sure why not. After the demons, fallen god-warriors and TWO UNRELATED undead overlords, it’s a nice change of pace.
@@cartoonishidealism582 Aurelion sol breaking his crown "Sorry, am I laye for the end of the world party?"
@@cartoonishidealism582 Also The Volibear and Lissandra and Qyianna can make a lot of death while making The Watcher return faster
Aurelion Sol rolling into Runeterra can end the world. I never understood why they used that tag line. It's as if they aren't aware of how expansive their own lore is.
There can simply never be enough anti-Ruination videos
@@Angellycraft300 I wonder if we can make a yearly event to talk shit about the ruination, like, never forget (even if yuou want to)
The thing that hurts most for me is the way they treated the end of viego's storyline. The moment could've been SO powerful if they wrote him actually listening to Isolde and seeing that what he did was in the end in vain, that the love of his life didn't want this. He then realizes what he did and that it didn't matter. He's now broken, with a distant, melancholic gaze, not even reacting to Isolde being "absolved" in front of his eyes. Visibly broken, he simply accepts his fate of being sealed, showing at least SOME character development for him.
Yeah but that would mean letting the writing team write anything that actually advances anything meaningfully in any way. And they didn’t have a ‘sad Viego’ skin ready so it can’t happen.
Technically he can't feel that way because he's the first wraith. He is the absolute embodiment of the black mist. Of all the feelings of a toxic love, he cannot feel any other way because he is dead and he cannot grow anymore.
@@RaTecLov youre right, but the lore could have been better imo, and i hope we can get a unruined Viego or Redeemed Viego skin, dat would be cool
@@ethanv.a.t.exclamador4030 that would be a really cool skin idea. At least a pre ruination one. If anything I think they'll have to make a spirit caller or some other witch champion who will summon him from camavor and bind him to her. It would be an interesting dynamic. From prince to king to undead ruler to minion.
I think its ok that Viego never grew as a person, further adding to his tragedy that his biggest problem is quite simply his own character. A very common and valid way to write a villain is as someone who doesn't grow, but the main characters do and thus are able to take down the villain.
They had this sort of setup with Lucian and Viego, showing that Lucian could have easily had the same possessive toxic love for Senna as Viego does for Isolde, but instead Lucian learns to be supportive; even if it means potentially losing Senna, Lucian accepts she is a person who can make her own choices. Viego has a hard time accepting that Isolde made the choice to stay dead, hence why the Shadow Isles exist and the Ruination happens. He can't accept it even after the final confrontation.
Of course they only really set this up properly in the comic version, so who knows how much of that was intentional. My point might be kinda moot.
I can't describe how amazing this is. Especially the songs!
I need a lore album, Necrit.
We all know you want it too.
I still do not see how Necrit can defend the Sentinel Points. If you did not play ARAM or a champion that was great for missions you could end up needing 25 games per region in ranked. In the final region I was getting 96 points from a ranked win and 46 from ranked loss. I did not escape the first region until week 3. Only 1/4th through video. The points were a MASSIVE problem.
Bc he played aram and ultimate spellbook mainly
@@katansnipe8121 The was my presumption because it was the only game mode that you could get alot of points and play the champions that weren't basically point vampires, any low kill split pusher with one damage profile. Something about that point really irks me because even Riot admitted people were not even close. 600 points per win is basically saying "we are in week 3 and a majority of people are still in Demacia."
lol i only played normals and finished in 3 days i mostly played with premades that were higher rank than me and could carry so ig thats why
@@diodio678 In The end of the event u could speed run preety easily. Or do it bit by bit in each region easy as well but felt more slow
Musical, crossover, critique, recap and everything driven in an amazing plot. Gotta say, may sound like to little, but this masterpiece of video is far better than 10 ruination events
Imagine me waiting for Harrowing every year since 2013 because of Ruined Kings lore.
What a huge let down tbh.
To think that the Harrowing I learned of all those years ago would end up being caused by lovesick emo king depresses me.
The harrowing seemed so scary and overwhelming, ruination was soo much the opposite
Like when we didn't know anything yet omg that was a thrill by itself
I saw the thumbnail and IMMEDIATELY clicked it.
Fun fact: The next arcane skins are gonna be given to Irelia, Riven, Zoe, Vayne, Yasuo, Kai'sa, Master Yi, Akali, Ahri, Yone, Samira, and Teemo
Who's Viktor? Never heard of him
(Also Happy birthday Necrit!)
you forgot about arcane lux, also what's a viktor?
@@jurescudiana Idk, i've also heard of something called a warwick? Anyone here know what that's supposed to be?
This hurts
You forgot arcane ezreal. Anyways whats an oriana
Wait is this real or fake?
28:45
My god. Necrit, holy cow is this song insane.
But also 3:00 I think the mist curropted the petricite but I am not a lore expert so I could be wrong
3:02 3:11 I think the sentinel weapons was just placed on top of the weapons so Irelia can control the blade because the blades are inside, and that is the reason why Riven switched his weapon to a sentinel weapon it is because it is still her weapon just inside. Again I am not a lore expert so I could be wrong
This is a fantastic format! The banter was so fun, and I just love the live action sprite! If you ever do this again, I am all for it!
I love how dinka is there to take every chance to poke the bear lmao iconic
This was a chance to open league lore to a next level. We could’ve gotten viewpoints of different champions during a world ending event, or even showing the aftermath of the event. They claim it’s a retelling of the main story but which story? There was never a main one in the first place. I get covid screwed everyone over but to go and throw continuity out the window over these amazing characters and design just to make your money is very unfortunate. They made their money and it doesn’t matter :/
I hope mmo changes something
It won't but I hope
@@fitmotheyap an MMO is the last thing that will provide a chance to move the lore forward.
@@rimurutempest4945 a few have tbh... but yeah its unlikely
First of all, the event in my opinion was a disaster. As a huge lore fan I didn't even read the novel in the client and just skipped through everything. The story made almost 0 sense and the presentaion was lackluster. I had so much hype for a lich king like story where everyone needs to fight togheter to stop him. And on top of it the world situation could actualy make the event better because I understand it is hard to portay the whole runeterra fighting without having an MMO like game but what riot could do and this would give them time to release Vex and the ruined king game was every month they could have an event about different region fighting the mist. In this case, people would have the feeling that something really massive and important is happening ( for all the people who consider lore at least a little) and for all the rest they could get some rewards connected to the region every month so people would grind the game even more which riot wants. Overall, I do not agree with the covid excuse at all.
They could do series of events, similer to Bilgewater brawl.
Where they expand on the story for the next couple of months while slowly unraveling a bigger picture.
This way, they would have time to represent majority of the League of Legends characters, even those that dont tie to the story normally but now has to deal with it (such as Sylas, OR RENGAR).
But instead, they got lazy and ruined it with a over-night project of an event called ''dating sim 2''
in the ruination teaser where they first introduced viego (when he attacked lucian and senna) we saw samira and darius. at first i thought darius would get a ruined skin and samira would get the sentinal skin. but here we are
Damn, this was just an great Necrit wideo but the additional youtubers just being there made it such great work, i mean even Falconshield made the music can my "playing the game since 2009 ass get happier". A collaboration truly greater than the ruination, at least when you compare the amount of workforce and budget. Thank you
THE CROSSOVER/COLAB EVERYONE WANTED. EVEN THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT OTHER LOL LORE RUclipsRS EXISTED
Now we just wait for NickyBoi's "The Lore is seen as disposable" video
So we're getting a version of that sick diss track to listen to on loop, right? Right? RIGHT?!
The song is in his 2nd channel, I think you can loop it with YT's loop option
I like the way this video was being presented. The concept of dividing the vid into parts which has the intro, good and bad side (TB Skyen), the criticism part and deeper dive into the lore (all of them) and the song (Falconshield)...dang what a collab
something that makes all this even worse, EVEN WORSE, is that arcane was amazing as well as the tie ins, However the ruination left such a bad taste a lot of people, myself one of them avoided it like the plague thinking they were gonna fuck it up and go the way of blizzard, i wish arcane came first.
A great video! Solid points all around. I'm not a musical person but I loved the song!
Atreus has been reviving the constellation of war for a while now. Viego reviving the Aspect of War was actually an interesting twist, because Atreus being ruined wouldn't have made sense for his character, plus it would have been a retread of his lore, being possessed.
Ruined Pantheon falls short however, because Atreus remains defeated because Ascended Pantheon isn't canon, thus he never triumphs over the Aspect playing into his strengths as a character, always getting up when defeated.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NECRIT, always loved the content since i got into league 3 years ago
The only redeeming quality of this event, to me, was the Graves skin. And that's only because it's a really good skin and I love Graves, not because it actually improved the story at all :/
I love that skin but the lack of reload animation is... well, strange since I got used to timing with the reload sound.
And because he make fun of shirtless
The reason why people love sentinel Graves is because... well, it's actually Graves. It's one of the few characters that didn't get MURDERED, SLAUGHTERED, DEMOLISHED by the ruination, so sentinel graves was basically a VGU with his real current characterization and updated voicelines.
@@sebawuba8533 For me goes the same aswell to Gwen because…i dont know shes just too adorable to even hate her in the entire story.
@@gunlyte4661 She had a separate writer for her, that's why she's the only with mildly enjoyable dialogue
Really liked the video, the concept and execution was amazing. I am sure it was a lot of work and props to everyone who participated, and would really like to see something like this again in the future.
"Did anyone wonder what would happen if we just let Viego revive his wife?"
THANK! YOU! SOMEONE FINALLY ASKED THE HARD QUESTION!
PS I'm sure Arcane will restore their rep because it's an animated series and not a game.
RIOT Games, seems particularly good at making anything that *isn't* a game...
They only interfere when they want to make a skin out of it. The series don't seem to be made to sell a new skin for Jinx, therefore it's going to be good
I think they kinda imply that this would mean the Ruination would consume the whole world...
Aged like wine i quess
"RIOT Games, seems particularly good at making anything that isn't a game... "
*Sweats nervously thinking of their MMORPG*
Also, Arcane has given them some stock for future fuck ups.
LoR was pretty good.
I... skipped this event. The grind was real, the confusion was unbelievable, and I kinda felt cheated with my time.
Even completely missed the free thresh skin cause I just couldn't be bothered with how flat the event felt.
When it came to Spirit blossom, I didn't even like the event & feel as a whole all that much, but at least I was able to play it for all the free stuff in it.
I just wish we got the Ruined King game on time. Would've at least explained why MF was ruined & Pyke of ALL people became Sentinel.
And where the rest of the ruin king game cast was, whats dis yasuo, brum, ilaoi and ahri just not exist anymore why did they not help.
I personally got into the event like the last 3 weeks, played 10 games to get all the tokens, and totally dismissed the thresh skin because I hated it, like many people, because you’re transforming the already few monsters champs into shirtless anime boys. And no the “change” in his skin isn’t worth still.
I first didn’t really care about the story, and after I finished the event, I started watching some regions, Ixtal being “haha Rengar big kitty, his biggest “prey” is ghouls and not big purple bug, Ixtal is just a filler so Thresh can have Isolde’s soul, somehow, in a temple no one knew it existed before” and half the stories felt like fillers with no real repercussions or just ditched lore.
Diana whole story is “I shouldn’t give up!”, all the corrupted champs’ character arcs are “oh well, I shouldn’t get hypnotised by one of gods of death next time!”.
@@zileantimekeeper7464 oh right.. I remember yasuo and ahri on a ship or whatever to like bilgewater I think? I was so hyped but well.. nothing happened
in avengers everyone was going to make the sacrifice even vision... but some chick w red glows dint want to lett his sex toy die
Perfectly done, and the part with rap god was pure gold
I see the Sentinels event as the Void from “Where Icathia Once Stood”. Riot literally doomed themselves with it lol
The Void is so underrated :(
@@azertykeys9011 it really is, really glad we’ll have a void champ next year
@@azertykeys9011 the Void, and by extention the Watchers, are not a faction but a plot device. It has been this way for almost a decade.
@@diegosaez4885 the Void is not just a faction, its a region.
@@azertykeys9011 the Void is anything that isn't the perceivable universe and who's only inhabitants as far as we know are the Watchers, so calling it a region its a stretch since it represents a lack of geography or space.
And what I meant is that neither them or the Voidborns created on Runeterra have actual identity within the story overall, they're used as narrative tools to move other plots forward.
It ain't surprising they feel underrated since they lack identity and character, and thus far seems intentional.
it would have been incredibly cool if viego actually won on purpose and resurrected Isolde, and then the ending of the event would have been reminiscing on how petty their war with viego was as his soul and mind heal with time on the last few pages of the story. Would have subverted expectations in a great way by letting the villain win, and maybe the way Senna, Lucian come to the conclusion that resurrecting Isolde is their only play is by slowing getting to know Viego through every interaction they have in each region of runeterra, like maybe in the first region (Demacia and Freljord) hes a typical villain but each time after that Senna and Lucian get a glimpse of how desperate and noble viegos motive is for starting the ruination in the first place and we actually get a real villain when the plot twist is that Thresh was working behind the curtain. Now that would have been a great way to end the story as it is, Viego being stuck in his homeland and only getting rejected by Isolde before she came back to life is fine, just not that compelling.
This is the kinda 'fandom' that I can respect. You can love something AND be critical of it at the same time. Because if you don't hold them up to a certain standard, who else will?
"Senna wouldn't sacrifice herself to save the entire world? What kind of plot is that?"
*looks over at the Avengers refusing to let Vision die to stop Thanos from obliterating half the universe.*
But thats the thing isnt it? If they gave the mind stone to Thanos then half of the universe would perish.
If Viego reviving Isolde would cause the world to end then that would've been a GOOD reason why Senna wouldnt want to give the piece of Isolde's soul back. But nope.
@@kaiplue but they gave it by not destroying it/not sacrificing vision in the first place. Thanos gets it because they wait too long to make that call.
That's a "What If...?" episode waiting to happen
i think you’re forgeting the fact that Vision was willing to give up on his life to keep the mind stone safe. And later in the Endgame, everyone was willing to sacrifice themselves for greater good (shown through Nat, and Clint)
Edit: And also Tony
@@kaiplue tbh viego was only destroying the world because he wanted Isolde back unlike thanos he had like 0 interest in ending the world
The distrack meme was godlike LOL
They really need to explain what’s up with the Black Mist now that Viego is defeated. Is it still there? Is Thresh controlling it? I thought Thresh was gonna be the new big bad of the Shadow Isles but apparently he just left to pal around with Bort in Noxus. So what’s up with the Shadow Isles now?
It would make more sense for mordekaiser to be the next boss, but he didn't even appear...
@@nicolaspereyra420 Nah Morde isn’t associated with the Shadow Isles. And it wouldn’t make sense to have TWO big bad undead overlords in the Ruined King’s story.
The land is cursed not just viego itself i guess... The only thing viego does was spread it Outside shadow isle with the help of vex... While thresh can now go everywhere without the mist.. while viego can't...
that side character Yorick was really cool! I would love to see him as a champion!
Thr fact the music is by falconshield just makes it one fo the most iconic league creator videos for the game and not the gameplay to be ever made, IT'S PURE GOLD EVERYONE OF YOU!
this colab is AMAZING. congrats to everyone who participated you all did great :D
This is a true masterpiece and I hope Riot gets your song stuck playing in their heads. Or on the PA system at the office, on repeat, FOREVER
Great concept for this video and its amazing to listen to while eating something and i love the ace attorney theme, absolutely GREAT job on this video and happy birthday necrit!
This event was so horrible that I wish the Ruination and everything related to it was completely non-canon.
One thing i really noticed with this event, was the power creep in the lore really making it bad for me. Like… Azir, the other Ascended, and the Darkin, alongside with the whole Targon region, didnt do anything, even though they should be far more powerful than some emo. Targon even has goddamn fking AURELION SOL under their control.
exactly i feel like most of the champions of each region if they werent dumb couldnt take care of veigo
would kill to swain knock veigo around
I really, REALLY wish Riot would literally offer you a job. You are a genuinely wholesome person with the best intention and very good ideas! You have excellent attention to detail and actually care about the game and the lore. I appreciate this video because even though you're acknowledging what didn't work, you actually made suggestions on how it could have been better.
im pretty sure riot already has got many brilliant people working on the lore.. i think the bigger problem is that good lore doesnt make money as fast as appealing champs and skins, so their word probably doesnt have the weight in the company that it should have.. but maybe, hopfully riot learned from the huge negative feedback..
@@DarthIHE Not saying Necrit should *write* the lore as much as he should be some sort of a Director honestly. And yes, skins do sell, but we've seen that skins that come with some sort of lore or story that's more of an experience for players sell much better. They have the market, they need to listen to that market and Necrit has such a good way of interpreting what people want and could genuinely be a huge asset.
"We are aware of that..., anyways" LMFAO
YES EXACTLY! Thank you for making this video Necrit, it was exactly my reading of the ruination event and I am so glad you made it. I feel bad for always being put down because I enjoy the lore and sided with Viego for what they gave us but the evidence or rather the points are there in what Riot gave us.
If they would have actually realized that what people have always wanted was a good story and good plot points, then it would have never been so money driven in the first place. Even within Spirit Blossom, the reason why the graphic novel was fun was because it was an interpretation of different characters acting within the lore of runeterra. They were the characters that we knew and love living as the embodiment of mythical characters within Runeterra. It wasn’t all just “sexy Thresh and Kindred skin”.
"the one thing at which riot's mastery is undeniable is music"
absolutely, holy fuck Riot is amazing, genuinely losing my mind every time I hear a glimpse of music from them
Don't forget about animation
I always thought it was weird that neither Lux or Leona were involved. I mean Lux whole thing is the Light. And Leona is the Sun so also the Light. The fact that neither of the two Light Champions being Sentinel's of Light just didn't make any sense to me. I think it could have been really interesting to have Sentinel Leona and Sentinel Diana.
"A lot of Rioters took that personally" yeah well they should. The whole thing was trash except for the pretty cinematics and music. Everything else really just pushed me away from LoL till i dropped it. Still havent logged in.
Is there some video about the response? I completely missed the reaction to Necrit's video
They should take it personally because they should work in a Team together not everyone does a bit and try to make it fit
Dude, while the event was not the best, don't lie to yourself. You just don't like the gameplay, it's that simple
@@nightknight8541 dude ive been playingt since thresh popped out
@Morizet both cuz they could of staged a walk out on the project
Just imagine what it could've been, it seriously could've been the payoff of like 15 different stories, and to me that's the saddest part, the missed potential is gigantic, and there is a chance that it not only not use the potential, but destroyed it entirely TT
My favorite league content creators are collabing to roast league
We live in truly blessed times
Please drop the full disstrack soon. The beat and gesture was just sooo good. Would love to hear it as much as I love every new video 👍
Just going to say one thing, if the event wasn't a complete mess, this splendid video wouldn't exist. It's such a masterpiece, thanks a lot, I loved it.
I was excited because LoL for me didn't have a centralized story. But when I heard about the ruination and how it would help tie certain things together I was all for it! I wasn't expecting perfection but I was expecting something decent.
Sadly it was the same thing that got me to not play league anymore and not enjoy the lore or the game. At the time WoW was getting some backlash for its own story and it showed they didn't care then soon after the lawsuit happened. So I went from one game to another, only to be out again due to how the story was written and how it disappointed me. It was like "fuck again?" Granted I understand that there was some things like the pandemic and everything going on. But considering the choices that were made, the way the visual novel told the story, how they basically fucked up alot of characters and excluded some and then to add insult to injury, riot says "its how you interpret it" im sorry that misses the point and if riot has to put something out like that, the writing his trash. Just like how on WoW we are gonna have to wait for a book that details why a certain character did what she did.
If a game company has to put out a statement "interpret how you wish." or some other supplement material outside the game to explain its context (WoW and the books they have to explain the beginning of each expansion plus the chronicle books that were marketed as Canon only to be retroactively told that its from another perspective.) Then the story has failed majorly
same here.
@@kriskitt I don't blame the writers. I blame the executives that threw out the competent script because they wanted funny characters because "kids like jokes like that". The writers at riot are amazing and make amazing lore. They have been for a while now. The executives saw that people liked the lore and tried to be hands on and tell them how to write a good story for the big important event and ended up ruining it all.
The "interpret how you wish" is the worst kind of cop-out to do in this situation.
Happy birthday btw looking forward to this one 30 seconds in and i can already tell this is going to be a great video :D
This is so great. He included other youtubers, a song, and a Phoenix Wright parody? Where can you go from here...
League: "Add abs and a a marketable face"
"the kinkou didn't help Ionia"
they don't do that, the kinkou doesn't really meddle with war, the Navori brotherhood with Irelia and Zed's shadow clan does that. The weird thing about that part is Irelia should've been with resistance fighters guarding the shores or the Lasting Altar for Karma so she can focus communing with the spirits, but she was all alone hiding in the bushes jumping the sentinels. We should've even gotten Zed somewhere in there, because his whole thing is succumbing to the shadows to save Ionia, why didn't he save Ionia this time.
Have you ever thought about how it was unnecessary to even include the corruption of Ionia(the land), because of Karma (being the spirit of Ionia) when she could have handed the fetter to Viego so the entire region wouldn't succumb to the mist. How and why was she even holding onto the fetter while she knew it was the ONLY thing Viego was after, it was never explained why Karma was holding onto it in the first place and it lead to her downfall- it was unsatisfying. Exploring Darha's identity crisis and personal struggles was the best part for her inclusion within the event alongside with Irelia's connection to her, but the execution of her corruption and the sentinels leaving her succumbing to the mist was at most- unnecessary even though it sets up a good premise for Irelia to become a sentinel wanting to save Karma and restore their land.
Necrit wasn't kidding when he said the production value was off the charts xD And happy birthday Necrit! :D
The collab that i always wished for is finally a thing !, my lore soul may put to rest now.
This video gave me something I never expected to have - actual enjoyment from something related to the Ruination.
Thanks!
Necrit needed more "OBJECTION" in this video.
I did NOT expect that musical performance! Amazing stuff! Love every single second of it!
"Sure, Vex is not a sexy character."
Oh I'm sure there are some that would say otherwise my friendo.
she is a goth female yordle, we know what internet can do to them, necrit has not seen art of tristana and poppy? xD vex had "thicc" art within HOURS of her first sight on the day the visual novel launched
Heh
Imagine what they could have done with the ruination event in a more serious arcane like 3-6 episode mini series. I thought it had potential and was a flop
This piece of art is literally the peak of content creation .... So when's that sick diss track coming out on spotify ?
Sentinals should have been: riven, senna, gwen, lucian, illaoi, kalista, maokai and yorick
I dont understand why they had to shove so many champions in to sell skins
Illaoi, yorick, maokai, and kallista aren’t traditionally hot and don’t have high pick rates, that’s why they weren’t involved.
Honestly they should have focused on Gwen, Lucian, Senna and Vayne, and Akshan later.
Would prefer more quality interaction rather than mashing a lot champs into a b grade avenger plot
It doesn't make sense for maokai to be a sentinel bc he is an undead and doesn't have a weapon, also I think jayce would be a great part of the team
@@nicolaspereyra420 Maokai was once a peaceful nature spirit, now he battles to unruin the Shadow Isles and restore his home to its former beauty. He might not be an official member, but he would certainly be part of the event.
@@judit5173 that and he can fight back against the black mist without a special sentinal weapon
"Maybe Arcane will restore the reputation" Oh boy, it sure did
It is
Yes holy trinity of league commentary and lore , necrit, tb skyen, and tenebrix
Yes! We do love the lore and the characters! That's what makes the game alive. Since the balance system is messed up and the gameplay isn't really fun anymore, especially ranked games, we are essentially hoping for the events and more fun stuff. I want riot to focus more on fixing the issues or the game itself, rather than making skins for their waifus and husbandos.
"You Will Remember Yorick Mori"
Before rito forgot about him... :(
I really missed the special game mode that they used to do to promote new skin lines, like Star Guardians and Odyssey with dungeons crawl style, Blood moon with assassins mode, and Project with ADC mode. I was expected Ruination to bring them back because last time we have these was around Odyssey which is out for 3 years, but it’s not :(
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leblanc: well that was easy
Song was fire! I need separate video with just the song so I can repeat it non-stop!
UPD: YT recommended me your second channel (I didnt know it exist) with the song. I'm very glad (and little scared)