The commencement of a season has always been a highly anticipated time for League of Legends and its community when hard-core fans of the game are presented with a cinematic video to hype up the impending new season.
As League of Legends enters Season 13, things haven't gone as planned for the game's developers, Riot Games. Being well-known for their exceptional cinematics, music videos, and VFX, one would not expect them to miss the mark at such an important time for their community.
Riot Games started League of Legends season 13 on a very disappointing note as their cinematics for this season, "The Brink Of Infinity," failed massively to match the standard benchmark set by the previous ones.
The developers have been widely slammed by their community for the League of Legends season 13 cinematics, as the video (The Brink Of Infinity) was an inadequate attempt from Riot Games because it did not feature any champions and was not adequately engaging with fans regarding the start of season 13's Ranked.
Riot Games' Riot Meddler said on Reddit that Aatrox was supposed to be one of the featured champions in season 13's originally scheduled cinematics.
He also stated that they had planned a significantly different cinematic than "The Brink Of Infinity," one that would be on par with the prior cinematics, with Aatrox as one of the main champions, possibly due to his heavy presence in Ranked Solo-Queue and professional play.
Before the start of League of Legends season 13, many speculated that Aatrox would be one of the highlighted champions in the season cinematics, similar to Ornn with his ward skin the season before. Riot Meddler stated that it was indeed correct, as that was what they had intended.
Riot Meddler, however, refused to
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