Firms usually go away bits of lore up for interpretation, however that is not the case with Riot. In an interview with US Gamer, “Valorant” director Joe Ziegler confirmed that the sport takes place in a separate setting from “League of Legends” as a result of his group discovered it tough to include points of “Legends of Runeterra” with what it wanted for “Valorant.”
“Our sport had bodily, weighty weapons that fired like actual life weaponry and our talents weren’t designed to dominate the battlefield over these weapons,” Ziegler mentioned. “In different phrases, weapons had been the star of the present and in Runeterra, magic was the star of the present. We did not wish to do an injustice to followers of the world of League of Legends by forcibly attempting to make it conform to our wants.”
Gamers could be confused as a result of “League of Legends” nonetheless technically made it into “Valorant” with the Sentinels of Mild crossover bundle. Nonetheless, that was only a beauty bundle — not an occasion or an extension of the lore.