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- Welcome to the second episode of my lore/factions series! Last episode we talked about the mystical Yordles and their elusive dwelling Bandle City. Today we're gonna take a step back and go to a more established and concrete location, one of the classic regions of Runeterra: Demacia!
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#LoL #Demacia #Lore - Hry
Garen's ultimate is actually him calling on Kayle, the aspect of *_"JUSTICE!"_* Notice how Garen and Kayle are the only champions who summon golden swords from the heavens?
Although it is technically magic, due to Kayle being revered as a deity in Demacia it's acceptable for him to do that... It's possibly even considered an honor for him to be recognized as worthy by her.
I always loved that touch personally
Reality: Garen then presses r on kayle in a top skirmish because she misused ult on an ally.
Fun fact: That's old Lore, nowadays it's very much assumed that this is not Kayle's power, but Garen's, how would Sylas steal it on the Warrior's cinematic otherwise?
He doesnt do that in the Lore tho. Its just a gameplay thing made when summoners were still a thing.
@@zema9401 it's pretty safe to assume that he can actually do it in lore, just didn't do it yet because his armor nullifies his own magic.
Both Swain and Sylas imply that Garen is a mage, warriors cinematic basically confirms it.
Do you like Demacia? Do you like Justice? Do you like bushes? Do you like... Demacia? Then Demacia, the DEMACIA, is for Garen.
Okay bricky XD
@@VarsVerum Admit it, you can hear it perfectly in your head. I miss Dunkey and Bricky league videos :(
The most honest champions
"Horrific flashbacks of fiora performing her ult in under a second and blasting u to kingdom come"
She may have too many useful tools to be fair, but she is still honest. Her passive warns you where she wants to strike, her riposte only stuns if you CC her during it, etc.
@@HamsterPants522 "fair" xD
this champ literly has an rng passive, deals 100% damage of your health as true damage mid-late game, has perfect mobility, and her outplay button is the most fucking cheesy ability in toplane, and I didn't even mention her ult, I do realize that she is "the grand duelist" but for fuck's sake, she is just too good, you can't make mistakes while playing against her because she will punish you hardly and you probably won't comeback, and after all she has one of the best split push potential in the entire game, can build almost every ad/bruiser item in the game, and can 1v9 easily.
You'll have to wait for the video to see what I mean :3
@@VarsVerum you mean that the kits of the champs in Demacia don't use lies like stealth and etc and that their kits are pretty straight forward?
@@Livor_ but tbh fiora has a bad teamfight capabilities
Besides Poppy and Sona, Xin Zhao is also a Champion who was not born or even raised in Demacia.
Xin Zhao was an ionian warrior who was held captive during the noxian invasion of Ionia and was forced to fight in arenas (his Viscero skin depicts that timeperiod). He then escaped and sought asylsum in Demacia and Jarvan III made him Jarvan IVs mentor
He wasn't a warrior, he was a fisherman, his boat was called Viscero, that's why he chose that name on the Noxian pit. When they couldn't kill him there, they make him join the Noxian military, until one day he was the only survivor of a battle, then Jarvan III gave him home in demacia, in gratitude he joined the demacian military
@@ArtDumbster Thanks for the correction/clarification!
my guy has one of the best stories.
@@ArtDumbster this has to be new lore
@@ArtDumbster so what your saying is Xin Zhao is more deserving of Jax's passive than Jax himself?
Can we talk about how Demacia champs also tend to have killer designs? Like, I don't even use my skins on Galio, his aesthetic is so clean.
Yes! He's one of the best looking champs in the game in my opinion!
"Poppy is an outsider of demacia"
Poppy is the first who ever stepped in that teritory, she is the one who showed the people this magic free forest during the rune wars and then the people founded demacia there
yea it wouldn't be right to say shes a founder of demacia, however yordles are hundreds- millennia of years old and shes one of the oldest demacians
@@GreyGrim She literally stood alongside Demacia's founders (namely, Orlorn, the original founder of the Demacian settlement.) She founded the city with him, and recieved her hammer upon his death.
She still was born not in demacia. Not that shes an outsider as in an outcast. Shes an outsider just because she was born somewhere else. Simular to sona and xin zhao, both of which belong to demacia much more than their home countries
Poppy is God?
@@notoverwatch6991 Orlon's best squire/partner
"Demacia's champions fight honorably"
Sylas: steals your ultimate, heals 50% of his HP on a spammable targeted dash
Sylas is notably a REBELLION from the established order, so it makes sense to some degree.
His dash is not targeted
Yeah but imagine if sylas has a stealth or untargeratable ability
Sylas despise demacia
sylas is not demacian, he is a prisoner of demacia
I cant wait for Zaun, i feel like healing will be mentioned a lot, or execution for Noxus
we already got zaun, insanely high mobility and damage
for example; ekko e and ult, vi q and ult, jinx passive, singed passive, janna passive and w passive, warwick q, ult, and w passive, etc
Zaun and piltover seem related but also have some distinctive features:
they both have self buffs(zaun that used to focus on steroid like effects) while piltover has a lit if ways to augment their reach in order to stay out of arms way.
Talking about those formerly separated regions how they reflect each other.
@@bortloverfan5780 i think mobility better describes Ionia, but you got point
@@eldritch0golem698 One thing I also find with Piltover champs is set-up attacks. Jayce Shock Blast + Accelertion Gate, Caitlyn's traps and passive interactions, Ez's W, Orianna's ball, Heimer turrets, Camille's whole basic abilities, etc. I think it's a bit of a stretch but I thing this emphasizes Piltover being a center of inventions and thus having flashy, inventive tricks up their sleeves. And I guess that theme exists in Zaun as well (Singed E + W, Ekko's whole kit, Viktor's W and E, etc).
Just some quick lore facts!
The Mage revolt Sylas started would have succeeded in getting Mages more rights, however after Jarvan the Third gave the order to disband the mage seekers he was Assasinated by an unknown party. Jarvan the Fourth upon hearing of his fathers death, burnt the orders as he blamed Sylas' rebels for it. Later on Sylas would form an Alliance with the Winter's Claw, they'd aid his rebellion and he'd give them access to the Demacian countryside.
3 of the 4 demons in the game are known to plague Demacia in particular. Evelynn, Fiddlesticks, and Nocturne all go around preying on innocent Demacians, with Lux having to expel Nocturne and Vayne hunting down Evelynn for killing her Parents. Despite this, the only Demon with a canonical Region is Tahm Kench.
You could also consider Raum as apart of Noxus, though they're not a champion.
@@cn2673 His entire rebellion is as hypocritical as the oppressors that held him. Though it is pretty poetic, he became what Demacia feared the most.
Forgetting Raum, Swain’s demon?
@@freshlymemed5680 his rebelling against genociders is just as bad as genocide?
@@Rose-ew7bv Fighting fire with fire is a severely overrated philosophy that actually only works in very niche situations. Most other times it's only feeding fuel to the fire.
I understand Garen's ultimate as a blessing form the winged protector, rather than a magic sword. The Demacian military pray to her before going to battle.
u know u can just say kayle right?
Garen ulting Kayle be like: "I use justice to destroy justice"
Demacians worship Aatrox not Kayle.
“None of its members have stealth or untargetability”
Duskblade Garen: im gonna pretend i didnt hear that
Vayne: “laughing”
xin zhao is also not born in Demacia. He was from Ionia and was spared by demacian soldiers so after that, he decided to join demacian army or something like that. But main clue is that Xin i also not from Demacia originally.
He is an ionian that was taken to Noxus as a gladiator. He fought alongside Alistair probably. Jarvan III saved him and took him to Demacia, I think.
@@cloroxholic yeah that's him
@@cloroxholic I'm convinced they never truly met in the arena, as those things are usually to the death. Maybe outside the arena.
@@cloroxholic Alistar was also saved from Noxus by Demacia. But he is unaligned.
I tend to forget that morgana is a demacian champ
Yeah. Her and Kayle were raised in Demacia as kids, and got into a quarrel later in life. Kayle left Demacia to seek out the truth of their mother's death, but Morgana stayed there in hiding.
Just remember that the divine magic which demacians have access to comes in two forms: their own soul energy, and the blessings of Kayle who is the subject of their national religion. Morgana is kinda like the equivalent to Lucifer.
@@HamsterPants522 damn, send me to Demacian hell then 😍
@@OnyxOblivion Same
Nocturne and Fiddle are in Demacia rn or sth xd
Hey Vars,
Something else to consider is that because of the nature of how the champs are designed, Demacia has the most "starter" champs in the game. By that I mean, for a new player coming into League and wanting to learn the basics of the game, Demacian champs by and large are the best option for this. Want to learn how toplaners work? Garden for tanks, Fiora for skirmishers, Kayle for late game scaling. What about supports? Morg/Lux for mages, Galio for tanks, etc.
I think Demacia is the most "archetypal" region of Runeterra, even moreso than its counterpart, Noxus. This baseline simplicity however is more often than not used to its advantage.
fiora is far from beginner friendly, shes literally one of the most difficult champions to play, her gameplay is nothing like any other champion in the game and doesn't carry over to any other champion, unless youre maining fiora, she is never a good first pick up, garen however is a bruiser, not a tank( he can be built tank just like any other champion however) and does plenty of dmg and is pretty straight forward, fiora unlike what Vars is saying is the least 'demacian playstyle' that exists in the game
@@GreyGrim Saying that Garen is a bruiser and not a tank is like saying Morgana is a Mage but not a support. Just because he's one doesn't mean he's not the other.
Off the top of my head, Zaun is definitely the beginner-friendly region. Mundo, Janna, Warwick and Singed work wonders to teach you the game properly (as in, positioning yourself in fights & on the map, along with focusing on your role). Twitch, Blitzcrank and Ekko teach you how to properly catch people off with setup, and Jinx, Viktor and Urgot are some of the simpler DPS champs in the game that'll teach you proper spacing/kiting (Viktor's pretty unforgiving though imo).
@@GreyGrim why are you defending Fiora in every single comment lmao
@@EmrysMerlin8807 disanalogous and semantic, your comment is invalid.
Sylas' addition to the lore is one of the best expansion of lore in league
Honestly, a havoc inducing, rebel character was predictable in a region such as demacia, although ur right
@@radjetpack631 yeah thats the thing, it was bound to happen, but how it ties with the story with Demacia's prominent characters and his execution was just top notch
I think it was all right and a good way to shake things up, but it was too heavy handed for an attempt to make Demacia more "morally grey" by swinging too hard in the other direction. The fact that Vars' summary of their approach towards mages as "basically the holocaust" kinda goes to show that they went too far with it, as so long as that is the definition, none of the formerly good aligned characters can be seen as truly benevolent since they don't fight against that system. Instead of being "good characters with flaws" they just get flipped to evil because the system they support is no longer good. As a fan of heroes who are paragons, this change does not work for me.
You can see the inverse on Noxus, although it's a bit less extreme there. Pretty much all the objectively evil things (chemical weapons, child soldiers and other mass atrocities) got shoved onto Darkwill and the Black Rose, leading to the impression that now that Swain is in charge, everything is better now and there's nothing wrong with Noxus. The only bad thing that he has on his list is Rell and even that only counts because they had to mention in an obscure tweet that "he knew about the academy but did nothing" when everything else implies that he should have been opposed to it.
he single handedly made the region a lot more nuanced and less one note.
Demacia: Short Range, Anti Magic, Defensive
Freljord: Resolve and hard CC
Piltover: Dynamic (Heimer ult, Jayce, Camille Passive)
Zaun: Speedy and Specialised
Noxus: Murderous Intent (Executes Reset Mechanics)
Ionia: Mobility and Fluidity
Bilgwater: Income and Slows
Shadow Isles: Leeching and Constant Damage over time.
Shurima: Large and Grandiose structures and champions
Ixtal: Resourceful (Using environment and elements)
The Void: Evolution and raw power
The Aspects and celestials: Protection (except for zoe and Aurelion Sol)
Yordles: Ranged anti carries (even poppy and gnar have ranged auto attacks)
Are there any other champions from Ixtal besides Qiyana right now? Just curious because I'm not that deep in the lore
@@panlis6243 Nidalee, Neeko, Rengar, Zyra and Malphite were all retroactively added to Ixtal but Qiyana is the only one who is actually part of Ixtal society.
Targon ?
@@Wuhaboo I presume they are in the aspects/celestials category. 4 targon champs come to mind (diana, leona, panth, and taric), and they are all aspects.
@@FluffMango Whatever bullshit is going on with Aphelios, he's not an aspect.
7:56 The "Magical Sword" Garen summons is him calling upon on the aspect of Kayle.
Yes that's what he believes because Garen or anyone can't know that his bloodline has magic. Garen is basically in denial because Demacia want's to commit genocide on mages.
@@treymtz that doesn't make sense they know lux is a mage and actively hide her why wouldn't garen be cautious if he could use magic at most her releasing the magic stored in his weapon since all demacian equipment stores magic instead of destroying it
It's Aatrox really.
vars,
you take now full responsibility if demacia gets an assassin!
3 item Vayne has joined the chat
Demacia have assassins Evelyn and nocturne
@@Crybaby-hy3ec I mean they're demons, not really citizens of Demacia. If I remember correctly most demons are considered from the Spirit Realm or just Runeterra when categorised.
@@Crybaby-hy3ec they aren't considered Demacian since they neither originate there nor are they in any way tied or linked to it specifically, they've just happenned to interact with Demacians (like Eve and Vayne). Most demons we know of in Runeterra (fiddle, eve, noc) roam the entire continent and some are older than the places themselves. They are generally manifestations of twisted emotions mostly revolving around fear.
Isn't Vayne an assassin?
"No one in Demacia fights dirty" - cue Sylas using his r on me before I hit lvl6 and killing me with my ult that I don't even have yet
I would love to see a video about "why no one plays gnar". I hardly see him ingame and last time I checked his pick rate also wasn't too high.
It’s easy: rage bar management/ult/mega gnat transform is not controllable
Mini gnar isn’t “strong” vs many matchups
Gnaaarnanaaaa
How you check those stats?
@@betoverse8370 I use programs like statistic checks that tell me stuff like what champ are meta where you can play x champion and other stuff
@@sphereorbit5620 static checks is the name?
I feel like kha’zix and kai’sa ambidy the void the most. They both have evolution mechanics and can turn invisible, plus are better against isolated targets
I remember that Vars once said in a video that the void champions are centered around the idea of doing a lot of damage at once.
Yeah the void champions are designed with the motif of total annihilation, hence why all of them are just raw damage, even Cho'Gath, the "tank".
@@VarsVerum the only tank that can oneshot while building tank
While kog maw is the opposite. An ADC designed to do consistent damage
@@luizotavio44 Sion would like to know your location
Quick little corrections
5:52 Xin Zhao was an ionian who was captured by the noxians and sent to fight against demacia
7:56 Garen's ultimate is heavily implied to be Kayle smiting the enemy down
11:44 (this ones a meme) They would lose a 1v1 to rell
Great video though I look forward to the next episode
The second one with Garen's ult doesn't seem to make much sense with the cinematic trailer since Sylas stole Garen's ult. Perhaps it's just Garen innate strength that calls down the mighty sword versus Kayle. I just couldn't see how Sylas could steal Garen's ult and then Kayle is like ight i'll drop one down for Sylas.
@@Mach2style I believe that it is just her responding to the call, if it isn't it would be that she still somewhat believes that sylas is innocent.
Sylas is able to steal Garen’s sword because it still contained some of Kayle’s magic. We saw it before when Sylas absorbed Morgana’s magic from petricite. It would be easier to grasp as kayle use to deal true damage in the early stages of her rework.
PLEASE DO SHURIMA! It seems to have the most diverse cast being as it's almost runeterras africa or Egypt. I'd love to see shurima next.
Almost?
fun fact, Egypt is in africa
@@pyrokatarina In Egypt, every sixty seconds, a minute passes.
@@pyrokatarina shows you how much i was taught in school. but hey, at least i can find an imaginary number on a 3 dimensional graph.
@@NBSF41917 its Alright bro no judgment, to be fair i suck at math
I like Demacia. Simple. Straight forward. Not everything has to be complex in my opinion. Sometimes being simple is good. Yes. Good.
Sona was being followed by Mage seekers though. In her story she was performing in a tavern and had to flee out the back. She ended up using her magic on some mage seekers. Lux also has to keep her magic hidden, only her family really knows.
Except even if she's exposed it will be covered up because of rich privilege
@@ethanstyant9704 if I remember correctly she injured the mage seekers chasing her. Possible her family is rich however if her magic got out she would still be crucified. Tatiana was also fearful of Lux’s magic being seen hench trying to get her with jarvan.
ugghhh thats why i hate demacians tho lmao they despise magic so much yet a lot of demacians use magic D:
@@ckpn4771 Lux's mum: drink this "no magic" poison potion
Lux: no 😢
Lux mum: damn
Gotta love how Sylas is the "villain" I get his actions are extreme but still
@@ethanstyant9704 LMAO lets just settle with the fact that both parties are bad and... hypocrites maybe
I feel like Sylas is just the first one to show change in Demacia as he gains more lore and changes things, he’ll allow future champions to break the restrictions previous Demacians had.
Honestly, mainly like Demacia the most when I started playing was simply because of Shyvana (anyone related to dragons immediately grabs my attention).
One of the reasons I dislike Demacia is because of the way Shyvana has been treated, kidnapped, horrifically deformed, saved someone and then was forced matricide and is now stuck in a country that despises her for something she never asked for. Also J4 is a terrible person
@@ethanstyant9704 Well I know she was in the Capitol during the ruination, it was never really clear if she was arrested, or there by choice.
@@ethanstyant9704 Wait what? Wtf. that's horrible
@@ckpn4771 yeah her egg was stolen by a mage and she hatched out like a purple humanoid later ehen her mother looked for her she didn't recognise her as her child anymore but burnt the mage's home (and surroundings) to the ground. Later saved J4 because she's nice and that gets her into a literal anti dragon outpost and her mother later attacks again and Shyvana kills her. After that J4 likes his dragon (not) gf but chooses to do the opposite of support mages and is essentially honorbound to Demacia while everyone actively hates
"demacians don't use dirty tricks"
lux literally throws invisible spells
Lux specific magic powers being light is really an antithesis when in lore. In game you can see them for gameplay purposes but in lore instead of shielding with light she could just creates light barriers to make illusions and stealthing herself out.
I think it was a concept at first for Lux. Giving her W a stealth instead of a shield but a potential entire team stealth was seens as too broken.
@@adrien4269 Cant wait till they buff Lux that all of her abilities blind people for a few sec, because you know, bright light blinds you.
@@adrien4269 no you can't see them in game, her e is extremely transparent and her q hitbox extends far beyond what is visible,
that's why i made the comment
vayne literally being invisible 50% of fight time:
Garen didnt have an AP ratio, but his ultimate originally dealt Magic Damage for the most part (unless the target was marked as Villain which caused the target to take true dmg). That change happend in the same patch they released Sylas.
How does the villain thing work?
@@velconx15 The enemy with the most Kills/Assists, Is the Villain.
If Garen ults him, He deals true dmg and his E Judgement does bonus dmg. Only against the Villain.
But its gone since S9
@@NLFAST Damn he had more depth unlike today
@@velconx15 Yeah... he was
Before the rework, i wished if they added more to him. but whatever
When Garen uses his ultimate, he is praying to Kayle to help her smite his enemy. It isn't him casting a spell.
Yeah, the Ability even says "Garen calls upon the might of Demacia trying to execute an enemy champion" or like that
Can't wait for the lore over the demon champs and how they are implemented in the game should be a good one!
I really like how you blend together lore with the gameplay, as I think it's one of League's strengths as a game. I stopped playing league years ago but always kept up with the game because of its lore and character design.
I honestly feel like it would be interesting to have an assassin from Demacia. It's a class that relies on dirty tricks and is usually full offensive, but it would be pretty cool as a kind of subversion of expectations, similarly to what Rell did with Noxus (which used to be a region without supports, and no, Swain doesn't count as one).
The only assassin that really defies the class would be Diana, who definitely has a bit of Demacia with her approach (but also the Targonian fantasy of that one big moment where you overcome and explode everything, which is also present in champs like Aphelios, Aurelion Sol and Pantheon). It would be pretty cool to see an assassin with an honest and a straightforward approach, while also having some protection. It could end up as a 200 years champion, but that's probably unavoidable with assassins anyway.
This may be me being a Quinn fanboy, but I always felt that she fit a pseudo-assassin role. Her Q does "blind" which could be argued as a "dirty trick". And the video and lore state that she has done some hitman-type of missions. Plus, her passive and the two extra ways to apply it mean she can deal a large amount of burst damage like an assassin.
That's mostly speculation on my part.
Edit: Fuck me, I should've watched the whole video before commenting. Still, I stand by my opinion.
@@popemaster24 I'm not sure why he described her as a "hitman" since that's very misleading on what she does. She's a Ranger Knight, a soldier who mostly spends time on solo missions patrolling the forests and wilds of the nation, and occasionally scouting beyond the borders. She's trained in hunting and ambush tactics but that has nothing to do with contract killing which is what a hitman is.
"The most honest champions"
-Fiora
-Vayne
-Lux
-Sylas
Vayne makes sense as a niche exception because she hunts the demons in demacia who are very tricky and cannot be fought effectively by normal means.
Sylas
@@collinpasta6569 Sylas is honest, though.
Your legally allowed to bring vayne against fiora top
@@HamsterPants522 ironic since he runs around stealing ults
Been playing for like 6 years now. I love this new perspective!! Keep up the series:)
Can't wait for Ionia!
This is by far my favorite series in your channel. I love the combination or lore and game play nice work vars!
I've been waiting for this series!
Genuinely loving this series. I think it's super interesting how you analyze the regions through the lenses of lore, but how the gameplay overlaps as well. Super interesting, so keep up the good work!
Loving this series. Really good analysis of these champions. Can't wait for more!
"the most honest champions"
Lux: I'm a pacifist but honestly, you're about to be ripped apart by a light beam
What I’ve learned before is that most of Demacia’s cetizens are actually accepting of mages, somewhere there was a village that accepts mages.
You may be referring to the story Turmoil, where a mob forms to attack a mageseeker because he took away a child who turned herself in.
Ionia, land of balance.
Master yi, irelia, yone, yasuo: allow us to introduce ourselves
This is quickly becoming my new favorite series! Looking forward to more videos :)
This series is SO intriguing seeing the underlying reasons behind certain designs in league. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NOXUS NEXT :))))
I love the moment when the music stopped and Vars said "Yes, I know you're an adc main". I felt that, dude, I FELT that. By the way, what do you think about the change to teleport? I think it would really help botlane to get less early ganks (jungle will have to help top and mid more, since they will be far more isolated, and both top and mid would have to go all the way across the map to gank, or waste a huge cooldown while only being able to tp to tower, which would allow the opposite team to just walk out).
Its truly insane how you can pump out so many high quality videos so quickly
I enjoyed this greatly! Keep up the good work and I can’t wait to see the next one.
I dont think we will never get any of certain roles in any region. Sure it might not be thematic of the region. But there is no reason why assassins cant exist in Demacia.
There could be an assassin guild created through underground methods, or a group of secret mage seekers created because of the mage rebellion, or a Demacian that got involved with the black rose.
As you said, Demacia is on a slow decline as a nation, and as such, they will have to make changes. As long as Riot can do it right and make it work, literally anything is possible.
I’d love to see the freljord, but I feel it needs to be divided into all the tribes. It cannot be painted with one brush
I look forward to seeing the takes on the other regions! Especially toward Noxus.
Great video, we need more of these
While I understand the point of that Demacia can be boring, I think a lot of it has to do with Riot just neglecting it as a region for so long. If I were given a couple hours, I could cook up an interesting champion or two for Demacia with no issues that adheres to the ideas and aspects of the region, and I'm just one dude with a barely functional chair. I think it's really just almost entirely based around that they don't want to make new Demacian champions, not that they can't, and as someone who loves Demacia that's a problem I've had to deal with for years.
I think at this point, Ionia has become much more boring, because it has very few rules and a huge bloat of champions nowadays. Demacia would actually force them to rein things back in a bit and make something more reasonable and easier to read and more satisfying to play against, but instead we get Xin Zhao's ultimate made into a Basic Ability.
I don't think they're necessarily neglecting regions, its just that they're mostly focusing on regions where events are happening. Ruination, Spirit Blossom, and the next 2 champs are from Zaun and Piltover which is probably because of the Arcane Hype.
I know they release champs like Samira, Sett, Aphelios, etc who sorta just exist and aren't tied to anything but with the current state Demacia is in they can't really just release a new champ with Demacian ties without having to progress the whole mage rebellion thing.
Except Gwen can't be hit by ANYTHING outside and can't be targeted while also gaining defenses. Xin just gets a zone which stops DAMAGE outside. Still able to be targeted outside AND can be cc'ed
If you think you can do a better job than Riot, honest to god I hope you join a competitor in the field, because I highly doubt you can and if you can, breeding competition is great for us consumers. Also get a gaming chair, you'll have a better chance to write something good.
@@SiMeGamer I don't think I could do a better job, but I could do something with a Demacian champion with decent design. Obviously I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I'd make one better, but it's not something that takes a multi-billion dollar company to design a kit and concept for was my point. I just think they're neglecting Demacia out of a lack of care to make a champ from it, not a lack of capability. Also my back is gonna thank me when I finally get a chair in a couple weeks!
TLDR - I just think they could totally do something if they wanted to, I just don't think they want to and used a fairly comedic example to show that point.
@@MajinMattPlays pretty sure their pipeline is planned for many, many months ahead. And maybe there is a Demacian champion there.
Also, I'd appreciate of you and others stop using the excuse of Riot being a billion dollar company as of that means anything. If you are a billion dollar corporation, it doesn't mean you can allocate all those billions towards whatever the fk you want. You need to look at growth and revenue margins, unavoidable expenses and the redistribute your assets to EVERYTHING you do. Riot can't just come and pay a billion dollars so that they can satisfy your Demacia champion craving. They have a plan. After each instance of the plan, they modify the pipeline. They invest a ton of the revenue into more projects or expanding current ones. Riot as a whole may be a billion dollar company, but the department in charge of champion design is probably not more than a few hundred thousand *a year* for the entire department. And you can't just pour money into it. It's a creative process. If you get too many people involved, you are likely to actually stifle creativity and productivity because too many ideas is a problem and laying for people to either do nothing or make it worse for the rest is a terrible investment.
Riot has INSANE standards. The push boundaries but they still adhere to a standard. You, some random player/enjoyer of Riot properties, have no idea how complex it is to make something both unique and cohesive, especially for a region that has so much developed lore (one of the downsides of having more fleshed out lore is that you make it harder to retcon and introduce characters that have potentially existed and altered the entire history of a region). You need to make a character that has lore that is meaningful, doesn't plat hole other characters and lore events, has a style that is consistent with the region and its history, a unique gameplay kit that feels good to play and you need to make the character attractive (attractive as in making people like them aesthetically, not necessarily make them beautiful). What I just outlined here is crazy complex and requires weeks of hard work from people who treat this as a job that they love. This is not something I think you or any one individual can do at the drop of a hat. Granted it's unfair to you since you don't have all the resources Riot has but that's also part of the point. Riot does put a lot into this. It's just that people want more Noxus champions and more Ionia champions and more Void champions and more monster champions and the Chinese want anime motherfkn looking champions and you need to balance all of this while coordinating it with countless departments. From art, to other games, to lore and media like Arcane, to technical limitation and legacy hardware support, not conflicting with other designs. This is millions upon millions of dollars and thousands of man hours of work. Money can only get you so far. You need a coordinated team and a coordinated system if you want to ship something good.
You may be able to design something in 20 minutes with a pen on a napkin and it will be good, but Riot doesn't go for good. It goes for exceptional. That's why they fail so much too, because they try to push as far as possible and sometimes it just falls flat. See Seraphine and how insane that campaign was. Nobody has ever done something like that in the history of video game development (probably for a gold reason). It ultimately was one of their worst things they ever released (mainly the method, aesthetic design and lore) but at least now they know. Same goes for the Ruination event that a lot of people who cared even a little bit, hated. I believe they are going to release a video addressing that specific event. Just for a single splash art, from start to finish, do you know how long it takes them to do it? It takes about a month. For a single digital drawing. Something many artists would argue they could do in a day or two. But that's the point. It takes a long time to do good sht. It's not just money. It's time. Creativity. Stuff you can use the billion dollar excuse for because even if they were a multi trillion dollar company, none of that would change. Some things just take time. I can promise you that something as amazing as Arcane was never going to be as good as it is but faster even if they poured 10 trillion dollars into it. Good things take time. A new Demacian champion will take time no matter how much money you put into it and there are other priorities probably over that, so it will be pushed that much further (maybe they will release Cithria at some point).
I don't like everything Riot does. I'm critical of them often, especially when it comes to PR. But one thing I can assure you - good is not good enough for them.
Don't use the excuse of a billion dollar company. It's an argent in bas faith because it doesn't address anything and assumes they have infinite money laying around for whatever your heart currently desires. It's unfair to basic economic principles. Sorry of this was a long rant. Writing it before I go to sleep. Hope you enjoy your future chair!
I'm a professional animator btw, which is why I find it important to stress that some things cannot be done faster no matter how much money you invest in them. Especially on the short term. That's why great things are usually done by people who care and not people with an infinite budget. Can't stress enough how bad scripts are for most Hollywood films despite being 200 million dollar projects. Has nothing to do with money. They have the money and they invest it. They just don't give a damn is all. Gn!
Very cool, now answer me this Vars: Who is the Hero of Demacia that I've been searching for?
Its me b!tch
I really like this type of video that connects lore to gameplay and design choices, very cool! I would love to see one for each region.
great vid! loved watching it keep up the great work
I’m waiting on a Gnar video. OTP gnar and would like ur insight
3:28 to be fair after watching arcane and heimerdinger's (and all of the council's) fear of magic, its safe to say most of the world hate or are atleast very wary of magic and magic users because of the potentiality to abuse it.
3:40 I would said ionia(the overall size is smaller as well) is the most homogenous(huh-mah-jin- us) demacia, specifically fiora has a whole different accent depicting different cultures, and since the Laurent family(her family) is very affluent, you can assume that they were one of the first families in demacia so they aren't just immigrants or new to demacia.
also demacia is both massive and most hospitable area to live in(there may be some social bias however the environment is unmatched in the entirety of runeterra , next to piltover and ionia for livability, however ionia is an island and cut off from the rest of the world which is good strategically for military if they can fight off enemies at the sea, its difficult to get reinforcements there which ionia seen during the noxus invasions , shadow isles and piltover both sh1t for obvious reasons, targon is a mountain.., shurima is sand and too hot, ixtal is too humid and a crazy forest with god knows what type of animals, rengar.
since demacia looks like it has luscious greenery , water source(not sure how open the borders are but I recall from watching poppy's lore she was traveling around and searching for the hammer wielder) and has a sea port with major trade routes amongst the rest of runeterra, many probably live there that wouldnt have otherwise(think of Demacia like the United States of runeterra where they want people to migrate to demacia 'legally' after having a major deep dive background check etc to see if theyre 'worthy')
because of said travel, seeing as though the only other options for people to go in that general area is noxus which is not a very welcoming place socially( because getting your head chopped off for looking at the wrong person and they have no or very little consequences for doing so, doesnt sound fun) and freljord which is not a very welcoming place environmentally(cause freezing conditions).
I would say though the majority of demacian characters are in fact less skill expressive, the minority of them like vayne and fiora do not make the rule over the majority of the less skill expressive champions.
I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by "Homogenous"
This was amazing. I very much enjoy lore videos
You are one of the best league channel! I really like your perspective and all the new series! Keep it up
i love demacian champions😍
Yep honest in their discriminations against anyth that isnt like them
Which isn't that different from their neighbors and their discrimination actually has a solid foundation as to why they fear them, so what's the point you're getting at?
I don't respect their dogmatic attitude about it either, but I don't think there's anything wrong with not wanting to use forms of magic which are harmful to the world. Demacians are probably the most 'environmentally friendly' people in all of Runeterra.
@@HamsterPants522 Ionia could probably be on par with the eco-friendly nation thing.
@@conejitorosada2326 Oh, that's true, but for them it's more relevant to the land of Ionia itself, rather than the entire world.
@Conejito Rosada well if you mean noxus I find noxus much more "honest" then demacia
At least noxus don't care who you are as long as you are powerful you can do anything. they believe in one thing and one thing alone power look at swain or daruis or even samira lore they all grow up poor but managed to reach hight places because of there straight
Now what I hate about demacia is there hypocrisy they say they are the place of justice and they have place for anyone yet they imprison and torture mages who there only " crime " is that they were born mages "that basically hittler ideology
I started play League at around 8 years and the demacia vs noxus was so easy to understand for me. That's how simple it is. And then there are more complicated things like Bandle City which i needed your yordles video 8 years later to understand it.
This is my favourite series! Keep it up vars
I dislike them as a region in Lore but I can’t deny they are interesting and that I can’t wait to see what their common thread in game is. I think that the way character gameplay and narrative connects in League is a fascinating topic that needs more discussing
Also I can’t wait for the Noxus episode.
For me the region was pretty boring lore-wise(apart from Shyvana) until Sylas and his comic were released
Well they are honest considering most of them seem to work on one braincell.
Lux, Galio, Garen, Xin Zhao, Jarvan, Quinn, Shyvanna, Poppy, yea I see your point
I guess Fiora and (kinda?) Sylas are the only exceptions I can think of
@@jairartis disagree on Quinn. Even tough i don't play her, i'm main top and to use her properly one must know how to apply pressure and how to use it to snowball in the game, as when you die 1-2 times your game basically ended and you are useless as shit
Ooga booga magic bad
@@max-potato-muncher WHAT THE HELL IS THAT TRANSLATION
@@josevitorag I agree with you. Quinn is far from being a simple champion to understand how to play properly, because her design is very confused (and she's the only true 'scout' type champion in the game).
Nice series. Can't wait for the other regions.
I absolutely love this new series!! Id love to see a bilgewater episode. I think it's one of the most thematic and cool regions
5:54 Xin Zhao is also not from Demacia, he is from Ionia, got captured by Noxians and later spared by Demacians in battle and allowed to join them.
The words Demacia and Honest are probably words I have never expected to be together
Demacia currently on the verge of civil unrest lmao
They're honest about their hatred of magic :p but it isn't the good type of honesty
Great vid, the best in a while, keep it up!
i cant wait for the next episodes of this series im especially excited for a future bilgewater video since i cant see anything connecting the bilgewater champions gameplaywise
Would have been fun to know your thoughts on fiora’s old ultimate that made her untargetable while being from demacia and their straight forward abilities, but cool video nonetheless
Vayne is also a borderline assassin who has a prominent stealth mechanic and a "defensive tool" that's also prominently used as offense due to it's stun mechanic.
I guess that goes to show how the demacian "bounty hunters" like lucian, vayne, and quinn blur the lines of fair play.
Quinns blind is quite indicative of "dirty fighting"
Funny how that's now a basic ability 🙃
Of all the episodes in this series, I think I'm most excited for Targon and Ionia the most. Ionia's pretty easy, you're going to be talking about balance nightmares, but I'm genuinely curious what your opinion on Targon will be.
Targon is the place that should theoretically have literal gods... but literally no one ever plays the champions from there cause they're weak or heavily overshadowed 😭
@@NBSF41917 Leona:
I love this. As a lore head this is amazing I didn't even notice this.
Please make more
coming from LoR, this is a really cool vid seeing the breakdown of faction traits in league. Thanks for the content!
Is this about the lore or the game? Either way Demacia > Noxus because Noxus = Darius (or that mean mother from Arcane)
The game
That's exactly why Noxus are better lol. Demacians are just like n4z1s to mages
@@apollyon1311 lost it :c
@@josevitorag or the USA to communism
@@josevitorag Well, at least Demacia have a prerry valid reason to discriminate agianst magic, and they are openly honest about it. Noxus, on the other hand, are assholes for the sake of being assholes.
I hate demacian champions😭
Why
me too, but Quinn. love playing Quinn
tho Kayle and Morgana are ok to play as well
this is dope, imma sub
lookin forward to the next one
Love these episodes. Hope to see more.
The most honest and most genocidal
I'd put Noxus above tbh
@@conejitorosada2326 Noxus? Pshaw, what about the guy who built their city - Mordekaiser? Now that it's framed this way, Mordekaiser is a sort of black sheep in the lore. He alone represents an entire nation of souls which are enthralled to his will. lol
@@conejitorosada2326 Noxus wants to conquer, not kill them all
Pls continue this series, im craving it. I don't know how many times I've watched this and the yordles video.
Will do! Ionia is coming soon :D
I like this video much more than others you have, good work
Liked that subtle touch in the subtitles about Vayne
Galio is a great example of a demacia champ, high defense/mr, magic shield, simple and straight forward, not to mention he's made out of petricite which is the material that a majority of demacia is built out of. Great rework
I love this series because I love seeing how lore reflects in gameplay
Make more of these. I can't wait for the Ionia one
thank you so much for the subtitle, some of us really need them to understand all the informations you give in your videos
if you want to know what each region's design philosophy is about, just go and play Legends of Runeterra, Demacia is region with cards with bug number who prefer head on confrontation through combat, Frejlord's card is full of cc, Ionia is filled with whimsical approach to combat, Shadow Isle is all about utilizing the dead, Noxus is about wrecking havoc through overwhelm dmg that cut through defense, so on and so forth. In short, a game really worth checking out
that was great. I love the bit about how they all have AP ratios.
Great vid !!! It would be interesting to see you do a lore explained video explaining interactions between cities and champs
“Have no form of stealth or deception”..wow this ADC Neeko with sunglass is something else
I love the videos man!
Honestly a really interesting concept I hope to see more interesting future.
this is a great idea, i love it
I like that you brought up that Demacia has no assassins
Would love to see the most and least common class from each region and your takes on what that means and the like
need more of this
8:56 the fact that you used that reference gives you +50 social gamer community respect credit
i absolutely love this series and i can't wait for ionia :D
This is such a cool series.
amazing series a pitty that there are only 2 episodes waiting for more