Talk:Orianna/@comment-27066268-20161208141849/@comment-27066268-20161209083038

I have to agree with pretty much everything you said (aside from the part about Camille since I haven't read her lore yet. Personally I can't take her seriously with those legs but that's not the point). Still, what I don't like is that instead of reconnecting her lore so that it made sense again and touching up her a bit here and there when needed, they basically scrapped her as a character and put a new one in her place. I understand that the old Orianna was "narratively dead", but with a couple or tweaks she could have been made to fit very well into the new lore. There was a lot of potential they completely wasted. Plus, this new Orianna honestly is far less intruiguing than the old one.

As for the Viktor part, it's more about how Viktor was supposed to be the greatest authority (shunned and mistreated by everyone but still) in the field of augmentations, and Orianna, though with the help of her father, has surpassed him by far. This Orianna is close to being the realization of Viktor's dream, as she is a human turned 100% machine. Had she lost her emotions too (only those, not her own self), then Viktor could have very well been sent home as a jobless invenctor.

For how I see it, they pulled a Trundle-Xerath-Pantheon on her, which is to say they took the lazy route and replaced her with someone who is simply not Orianna anymore.