User blog comment:Nelraye/Lore Discussion: Riot, what happened?/@comment-24430045-20140221212400

This has been mentioned before, not only in the comments section but also in other blogs, but it's fairly easy to assume a lot of champs are there to learn about their enemies. Basically all the heavy hitters of Demacia and Noxus are in the League, so should strife break out outside the League, then they'll know their enemy's strategy/abilities etc. That Hand Wave applies to Rengar/Kha'Zix, Yasuo/Riven, and Lucian/Thresh, for example. Oh and Thresh's reason for going to League was said: he wants to torture the strongest souls in Valoran. Admittedly, Riot has been overusing said Hand Wave recently, 'cause it's an easy way to give champions a reason to be in the League AND connecting champion lores. I'd like to have a champ be introduced that isn't at all connected to any known champion, location, alignment, anything. We haven't had someone completely new for a good while now.