User blog comment:SirAston/Gnar's Lore OR How Riot decided to un-lore/@comment-5035765-20140801194116/@comment-5955640-20140803000112

That's definitely not what I said. My point is that the lore has no value in game and this is a video game. In fact in terms of importance to the design of this game in order for it to be effective at what it's doing it has to be a game designed around players and the competitive always online atmosphere and that all the characters in the game are potential to make money and to aid the players in achieving the goals by either subverting or following through with the meta which has nothing to do with the characters so much so that it's the players.

At the very end of the spectrum is the lore and the detailings of the character which exist just as a pretense for this character to exist at all I mean do you remember some of the lores? Karthus' old lore was that he was a guy. Then he became a lich. and then he joined the League of Legends.

Or Teemo in which his old lore couldn't have been more stupid and took the complete piss out of the act of world building in fact all of the Yordles are counterproductive to serious story telling because they are just a joke in the game and out of it.

Gnar is just a pretense to have another character in this game and a Yordle no less. They came up with him who knows when. The concept is simple and they threw together a fun kit. Just like it was with many other champs that came through.

I love writing. I like to write myself. I love characters and fun worlds and I am a huge fan of sprawling fantasies but until the day when Riot releases a standalone title that's like an RPG and is inherently linear and single player orientated I'm just going to not be bothered by anything that feels like the bare minimum because it's actually standard and any detail is a luxury because it isn't what this game is about at all.