So, what is the deal with this thing of good champions to be rewritten as evil with dubiously redeeming qualities?
First off, I am probably wrong and its probably nothing but I want to feel my feelings into the void so they leave the brain space.
But it has happened a few times now for me, Leona, Kayle, Caitlyn, where a champion I like the lore of has been rewritten to be 'more interesting' and by that I mean to be mostly evil with not a lot of actual depth.
Like, Leona got rewritten twice. Once, losing her martial pacifist angle (fair enough) to be more inline with the Solari before a go mad with revelation moment when she became the host of the sun aspect. And then rewritten to double down on the Solari instead of the mad with revelation and is just sorta cool with it.
Kayle and Cailtyn, you know the rework, and you know Arcane.
Now, I don't mind characters being complex, Garen for example having the additional lever of how he is willing to go with alot of terrible crap if it means keeping Lux safe is interesting. My issue is more when the things I like about a character just sorta stop being there. It takes away depth rather than adds it, and just causes me to be more likely to check out of a story or arc entirely.
Also, low key, good characters can be fun, cool, interesting, etc. provided the writing around them is actually good. Evil characters aren't inherently better writing or interesting, they are just more of a jerk about being boring when it comes up.