In post 34400, Iecerint wrote:They should have had a "world event" that destabilized the league/institute and ended the league as a system for resolving international conflicts. Then they could carry on and promote trading card games or comics or whatever else in Runeterra. The gameplay would simply all take place prior to that world event.
This would have the same effect without the need for a retcon.
First part's alright, TCG part is kinda eh. I do understand why they decided to scrap that part of the lore, even if I don't necessarily agree with it--Hell, I loved how the unveiling of the Dominion battle area was weaved into the overall plot and story between Demacia and Noxus--and I feel that bemoaning it is a little needless.
However, I AM pissed that the whole "Kat's father is MIA" plot thing and all that which just got cut short by the League newspaper's abrupt cancellation has apparently not been resolved. Granted, I don't really crawl the official LoL site for news about that, but it'd be nice to know if that ever got completed.
Bulge: Buttonmen is right, especially for build-tailoring. That shouldn't be taken as "never build sunfire" because unless the AD is someone like Corki or Kog where some AP scaling goes with their abilities and core items you'll still need something to avoid getting ripped to shreds by the AD, and even for them you have to make sure that they can't just tear you to pieces at their proper spike times (mid game for Corki and late game for Kog). Just make sure that you recognize that it's far more important in the early-midgame to focus on mitigating the majority of the damage (AP, in following TBM's example team) and then start building towards the other when the threat/s that cater to it (AD) start becoming threatening.
(of course, I didn't watch the game so my advice is more generalized, but still.)
P-EDIT: Don't worry, whenever I tried my hand at jungling in S3 I always felt like farming because I normally main ADC. Then again, I don't think Olaf and Volibear are supposed to be ganking champions and instead countergank, so yeah.