User blog comment:YourPrivateNightmare/Brace yourself/ A time to appreciate/@comment-7709681-20140830203117/@comment-5077844-20140831093928

Well, if you think about it, hardly any of the new champions has a reason to join the League. LoL started off as a lore-focussed game, with all the backstories and stuff. However, in order to release quality champions, Riot must disregard lore. I mean, if it was all about, "wyh did he join the  league" Kha'Zix should have never been released in the first place.

What Riot tries now is simply to make a few major themes that newer players as wel as veterans can relate to. (seriously, do you think anyone who just started LoL is interested in the backstories ofe very character, or remotely concerned with the whole Noxus vs Demacia backstory?)