Legends of Runeterra
LOR Champ Design - How To Guarantee Longevity
LOR is a card game that is increasingly not only having superficial similarities with magic the gathering, but is also running into similar problems.
Namely, there are too many "set mechanics" being introduced into the game.
Culminating into perhaps what has been one of the biggest failures of an expansion to date, housing the first instance of dead champions.
Both Exodia (Rhyze) and empower (Kayle) don't really work or make sense in LOR as a game.
Like you could say we'll Bard exists and he can hard hand buff all your empower cards. Deck buff exists in freijord and a worse version of handcuff exists in Ionia, and now Targon has buff cards too.
So you should say that Kayle is amazing, she has more cross region support then any other champion in the game, but there in lies the problem.
If none of the synergies are worth pursuing then none of them will be played.
Similarly Rhyze isn't the first exodia card introduced into lor, fiora exists, healing fountain, and bandle tree.
So many of the most exciting cards in the expansion aren't actually the new champions but the pre-existing archetype support.
More ramp, more hallow (eww but yes good), more elite, more spawn for Illois, more self dmg and yes the list goes on.
For the first time in LOR history I'm more interested in crafting epic cards then champions as a free to play player because honestly who cares about this new garbage when you can play better designed decks with more support?
So what is the fix here longterm for LOR? For the first time ever I want to see more in archetype champion support. I want a 3 mana vlad enabler, I want a scout, I want a elite, I want a deep champion, a lurk champion, a daybreak nightfall champion.
In short take that massive league of legends roster you want to feed down our throat and just slam them in as an additional option for an already good deck.
Boom now everyone is a consideration and nothing is dead. While LOR believes the solution to its longterm health is just to delete old champions, I belive the opposite supplement them and stop churning out these one hit wonders.
Just my 2 cents feel free to hit me up in the comments.
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LOR is a card game that is increasingly not only having superficial similarities with magic the gathering, but is also running into similar problems.
Namely, there are too many "set mechanics" being introduced into the game.
Culminating into perhaps what has been one of the biggest failures of an expansion to date, housing the first instance of dead champions.
Both Exodia (Rhyze) and empower (Kayle) don't really work or make sense in LOR as a game.
Like you could say we'll Bard exists and he can hard hand buff all your empower cards. Deck buff exists in freijord and a worse version of handcuff exists in Ionia, and now Targon has buff cards too.
So you should say that Kayle is amazing, she has more cross region support then any other champion in the game, but there in lies the problem.
If none of the synergies are worth pursuing then none of them will be played.
Similarly Rhyze isn't the first exodia card introduced into lor, fiora exists, healing fountain, and bandle tree.
So many of the most exciting cards in the expansion aren't actually the new champions but the pre-existing archetype support.
More ramp, more hallow (eww but yes good), more elite, more spawn for Illois, more self dmg and yes the list goes on.
For the first time in LOR history I'm more interested in crafting epic cards then champions as a free to play player because honestly who cares about this new garbage when you can play better designed decks with more support?
So what is the fix here longterm for LOR? For the first time ever I want to see more in archetype champion support. I want a 3 mana vlad enabler, I want a scout, I want a elite, I want a deep champion, a lurk champion, a daybreak nightfall champion.
In short take that massive league of legends roster you want to feed down our throat and just slam them in as an additional option for an already good deck.
Boom now everyone is a consideration and nothing is dead. While LOR believes the solution to its longterm health is just to delete old champions, I belive the opposite supplement them and stop churning out these one hit wonders.
Just my 2 cents feel free to hit me up in the comments.