User blog comment:A.Darkbloom/Institute of War/Summoners/etc no longer being canon/@comment-15244341-20140907144938

I'm the only one not surprised? Go look at the last champions made. Not a single one of them had any sort of connection to the Institute. The JoJ was discontinued. The Freljord event (only lore related event after of the Noxus vs Ionia thing which had the Institute involved in the lore) had no League-related stuff either.

I don't really like the gameplay being sort of Dr. Doom vs Batman fantasies, but there was pretty much zero effort made to integrate new champions and lore into the previous League canon, so we'll have to accept it.