Is Star Guardian Kai’Sa and Akali’s story a copy of Star Guardian Lux and Jinx’s LoL story?
League of Legends fans complain that the current Star Guardian story copies from the first installment of the series.
The Star Guardian universe in LoL has been around for a long time and has grown a lot from what it was at the very beginning. Aside from the fact that it all started with a single skin for Lux, which heralded nothing bigger, the series released in 2016 could be considered the first full-fledged Sorceress team – then the skins were given to Jinx, Janna, Lulu, and Poppy.
This is how the first Star Guardian team was created, led by Lux. Probably most of the players know this story, the plot of teenagers who are ordinary schoolgirls during the day and save the city from evil at night.
Over the years, more Sorceresses with teams and more have come into play – some Star Guardians have succumbed to corruption (such as Zoe, Xayah, and Rakan) or alluded to the fact that there were other teams in the past that broke up for some reason ( eg Neeko).
The current event tries to merge the entire story and explain what has happened over the years, what relationships connect individual characters, and who actually is bad at all of this.
In theory, it sounds good, and probably many fans of the universe are happy that Riot has not abandoned the old threads, but in the current form of the event, it returns to the topic of Ahri or Lux teams. There are also those who complain a lot and believe that a new story is a mere copy of what has already been. Is it true?
The stories of the heroines in the Star Guardian universe
As is well known, the Star Guardian series is based on the magical girl genre, a subgenre of manga and anime, about girls, usually teenagers, with magical powers. Certain elements are therefore always practically the same – a group of young people who go to high school during the day and deal with typical teenagers’ errands, transform at night, and fight evil with the help of magic.
In this type of genre, the topic of getting to know oneself, fighting with one’s own weaknesses, or building relationships with a group, most often including friendship, which is subjected to various tests, cannot be missed.
It is no different in the Star Guardian universe, which from the very beginning showed that the Sorceress’ team is not only a cluster of random characters but a group connected by friendly relations.
The first team focused primarily on Jinx and Lux. This happened, inter alia, that one of them was the leader of the group and the other got a legendary skin, so Riot just wanted to promote it.
Lux is presented as a girl who is very serious about the role of the Sorceress and the leader of the group – she worries about the rest, tries to smooth out conflicts, and has a hard time arguing with Jinx.
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According to some, this type of scenario was repeated in the latest installment of the universe – in the relationship between Kai’Sa and Akali. One of the players wrote:
The story between Star Guardian Kaisa and Akali is copy-and-paste Star Guardian Lux and Jinx
New Star Guardian squad leader just trying to be a good leader and struggling? Check.
“Rogue” best friend Star Guardian that’s angsty and isn’t crazy about the whole Star Guardian thing? Check.
Above point slowly driving them apart, but will most likely reunite them in the end? Check.
Seriously, at least Star Guardian Ahri had a completely unique backstory and personality. And her squad had experience. Hell, even the other half of this event on Wild Rift with Star Guardian Xayah and her squad is so much more unique (and the event and story are soooooo much better).
Of course, under the cited entry, there were comments that ridiculed the entire event, a text that nobody cares about the naive story about teenagers and most people do not even read it, but there were also opinions that strongly disagreed with the author’s statement.
According to some, accusing Riot of copying its own ideas about the already well-known story about the friendship of magical teenagers simply does not make sense, because the author listed very general characteristics of the characters that can be matched not only to Kai’Sia and Akali but many characters, e.g. from anime. Some have also noticed that what drives Akali and Jinx are completely different.
Jinx and Akali similar? What?
Jinx is not angsty, she’s a gung-ho girl whose issue with the Star Guardian stuff is that it’s boring as f*ck. Fighting monsters and such is fun to her and she doesn’t really care about the consequences of it. She shoots a monster and it falls on people, it’s not her f**king problem
Akali, by contrast, enjoys her powers, but is terrified of the consequences of it. Akali is scared of losing her friends and watching people die. Her issue with the Star Guardian stuff is just how likely it is to kill her friends and innocent civilians. Akali stabs a monster and it falls on people… she’d be guilt-ridden and horrified at what she did.
They are not the same. Kai’sa and Lux are somewhat, but I do like the idea of Kai’sa trying to be like Lux. After all, that’s the leader she knows and attempts to emulate.
Another player wrote:
Akali isn’t a rogue or angsty, she is scared to death of dying or losing her friends, while also being haunted by Fiddlesticks. Meanwhile Jinx couldn’t give a f*ck about anything and just wanted to use her cool magic powers. Clearly they are the same characters.
For real, I’m convinced nobody actually read through the spirit blossom event either, evidenced by OP who seemly skipped most if not all of the dialogue and came here to complain about a story they didn’t even try to read.
Yet another player noted that there is no point in over-analyzing a sorceress story based on the popular manga and anime sub-genre that targets teenagers. In their opinion, with the appropriate generalization, each of the threads is very similar to each other.
Lux takes on a similar role to Ahri in the second story, as she’s now an inspiration for the other Star Guardians, especially Kai’Sa.
If Akali falls, then Kai’Sa and her team are going to try and save her like Rakan/Ahri/Neeko did to Xayah in the third Star Guardian story (and what Xayah is doing in the Wild Rift event.
So, can it be said that Riot is copying its own ideas and creating the same thread twice? Not necessarily. It is true that the stories of teenage sorceresses are naive, sweet, and childish at times, but it must not be forgotten that it was often these traits that attracted fans of the genre. Threads of friendship, disputes, misunderstandings, and then attempts to save the relationship just fit here.
In the whole quarrel about the quality of the event, those who like League of Legends lore and read every story with enthusiasm feel the most disadvantaged. In their opinion, the behavior of players does not make sense, as ridiculing the plot and boasting about skipping it won’t make Riot try harder. On the contrary – the creators may find that the stories should be even simpler because nobody wants to read complex threads.
