Talk:Sylas/@comment-33548321-20190110201250/@comment-13144248-20190111113816

While Riot does some very questionable things industry-wise (loot boxes, and recently the event passes), I would not say them borrowing concepts from other games is any sort of a problem. The game industry is inherently derivative, down to the very idea of a game genre.

MOBA genre is a result of "stealing ideas" as much as FPS genre. Many well-regarded games (Darksiders series especially so, but even Overwatch can be described in such a way) are also the result of "stealing" ideas.

Borrowing concepts is not a problem, as long as they are iterated on, appropriated and made to mesh creatively with the resulting product. Had Sylas been 1:1 Rubick, aside from the general coat of paint, I would have agreed that he is "stolen". But he isn't. Rubick appropriated the "copycat" boss character from fighting games into the MOBA genre. Sylas appropriates a DotA's Rubick into LoL.