League of Legends/Characters/Four: Difference between revisions

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: His passive fully blocks any attack that does more than 40 damage, including tower shots.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Boy howdy...

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]: If the fact he's basically a Spartan is not obvious enough, his spear throws ''always'' hit, and his ultimate is ''jumping into the air to drop down 5500 range away from the start point''<ref>To clarify, the maximum range for abilities tends to be a few hundred over 1000. The few abilities that outstrip the range of Pantheon's ultimate are magical in nature or are projectiles flying, no others being powered by two legs. The 5500 range is also around 25% of the distance of the opposite corners of the Summoner's Rift map.</ref>. Before it was [[Nerf|Nerfed]], he could drop onto ''any spot of the map''.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: "I wanted to be a baker!" Also, a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[300]]''.

=== Poppy the Iron Ambassador ===

 

 

A Yordle who used to work at her father's smithy. When her father was killed en route to deliver a helm commissioned by the local general, Poppy took it upon herself to finish her father's delivery. The general was so impressed with her iron-willed determination he sent a recommendation to the king who instituted her as ambassador of the Yordle Kingdom.

* [[Action Girl]]

* Ambadassador:

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Best Served Cold]]

** Changes to the meta over time have made Poppy's early game issues less significant. She is a passable jungler and a strong solo top vs most AD top lane champions. Farming has become a lot less about how many creeps you can sweep up in a few moves, and more about beating your opponent to death in the lane, therefore preventing him from getting farm while you take the creep waves free and clear. Poppy is, if anything, ''really'' good at fighting, even in the early game.

* [[No Sense of Humour]]

* [[One-Man Army]]: A Poppy focusing on attack damage or a mixture of attack and ability damage can easily butcher the entire enemy team single-handedly and essentially eliminate even the basic concept of a teamfight come endgame. And, unlike other melee carries, she's FAR harder to shut down.

* Fighting is [[Serious Business]]: One of her lines. Of course, if any action has a legitimate claim to that label, fighting definitely does.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Until he uses Powerball.

* [[Memetic Sex God]]: In-universe, according to the Journal of Justice volume 1 issue 9.

* [[Odd Friendship]]: He's friends with Blitzcrank. Averted with Twitch; the Journal states that he was interested in the rat as firsts of their own kind, but that they never hit it off.

* [[The Quiet One]]: He has four lines, all one syllable each. As they're lines that he says in response to commands though, his words don't carry extra weight. The most anyone has heard him say is {{spoiler|"Shut up."}}

* [[Badass Normal]]: Like [[Boisterous Bruiser|Garen]] and [[Knife Nut|Katarina]], she lacks a mana bar and is cooldown dependent.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Character concept, underscored by her first ability being called "Broken Wings" and by her dialogue.

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: She definitely didn't take the truth about Noxus very well, if deliberately shattering her cherished Noxian weapon is any indication.

* [[BFS]]: Usually broken, but her ultimate reforges it temporarily to show it in its gigantic glory. Even in broken form, it's still quite large.

=== Rumble the Mechanized Menace ===

 

 

A blue-furred, short-tempered yordle with a genius for invention, Rumble scorns Heimerdinger and his kind as sell-outs who give superior yordle technology to humans while being secretly laughed at. He joined the League in his home-made [[Mini-Mecha]] "Tristy" to prove the superiority of yordle genius over humanity.

=== Ryze the Rogue Mage ===

 

 

A traveling mage and hermit who acquired forbidden and dangerous magic from around the world. Ryze is covered in magical tattoos that make his magic more potent, and carries a dangerous scroll on his back containing forbidden knowledge he seeks to protect from the world.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[Jerkass]]: He's kinda unpleasant in his lines.

* [[Power Glows]]

* [[Power Tattoo]]: The key to his unknown magical abilities.

=== Sejuani the Winter's Wrath ===

 

 

Princess of one of the three great tribes of Freljord, Sejuani was prophesied to be the one to unite Freljord as one people. She trained her entire life, pushing her physical boundaries beyond that of any of her tribesmen, until she was finally ready to take the throne as queen, only to discover that her distant cousin and fellow princess Ashe had already taken the role. Sejuani joined the League with her massive boar mount to prove on the world stage that she is the rightful ruler.

=== Shaco the Demon Jester ===

 

 

An entity from another world that takes the form of a murderous clown, he hires out his services as a mercenary, killing people with deadly toys and gadgets. Shaco is a fighter-type assassin champion who can deal extra damage when attacking foes from behind, teleport and become invisible, plant deadly jack-in-the-boxes that become invisible and cause enemies to briefly run around randomly when they're triggered, wield and throw poisoned daggers that slow enemies, and create a duplicate of himself to increase his damage and cover escapes.

=== Shen the Eye of Twilight ===

 

 

Shen is the final member of the Kinkou ninja. Shen's willpower manifests from his intense childhood training, chosen to be the judge of those who threaten the balance of Valoran, unhindered by emotion. Shen is a tank-type champion whose attacks periodically deal extra damage based on his health, the ability refreshing quicker if Shen continues to attack. He can throw his sword at a target to grant health to any ally that attacks them for a short time, give himself a health shield that makes his passive strike charge up faster while it's active, and dash through targets to taunt them into attacking him. His ultimate puts a shield on an ally and then teleports to their side, regardless of where he is on the map.

* [[Training From Hell]]: Culminating in a test requiring him to [[Extreme Doormat|show no emotion whastover]] as his own father is tortured before him. [[Nerves of Steel|Shen aced it]].

* [[You Are Already Dead]]: His taunt line invokes this:

 

[[File:ShyvanaSquare_9391.png|frame]]

=== Shyvana the Half-Dragon ===

 

 

Old Lore: The offspring of an ascended dragon in human form and a human woman. After her mother died, Shyvana found herself alone and at the mercy of an angry mob until she was rescued by Jarvan IV, who she followed into the military and eventually into the League.

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: The dragon-head gauntlets she wears look ''really freakin' cool'', but it'd make a lot more sense to wear something significantly smaller on your hands, or hold another weapon altogether.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z66n3UYfPE4 Champion Spotlight] puts it best:

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Mentioned on the last line of her background from her draconic heritage showing.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Dragon's Descent gives Shyvana passive armor and magic resistance -- a bonus that's doubled while she's in dragon form -- and she was made to get into your team and knock the living hell out of you.

** [[Shield-Bash]]: And he uses it as a weapon anyway.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

To shake or not to shake?<br />

[[Star Wars Holiday Special|Mix, mix, swirl, mix...]] }}

=== Skarner the Crystal Vanguard ===

 

 

Skarner is a giant crystal scorpion and a member of an ancient and powerful race of crystal beings. When his people went into hibernation underground to avoid the devastation of the Rune Wars, Skarner was among those who slept near the surface to ensure that, when the time came, the world would be ready for their return.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Megatron has stood taller in days gone by, yesss...

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: One of his jokes.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: EXTREMELY durable, but also terrifyingly fast and nearly impossible to flee from.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: Terrible early game; once he gets a Sheen, he instantly jumps from "dead weight to his team" to "oh crap guys please don't feed Skarner if you want to win". A fed Skarner is NOT pleasant to deal with.

* [[Boring but Practical]]: Is considered to be the absolutely easiest character to play in the game by many. Her difficulty bar used to make an near opposite statement which was a popular way to insult the developers. Now, though, she is the easiest champion in the whole game according to developers themselves.

** Lampshaded by Riot in a set of April Fool's Day patch notes:

** Her passive does add a ''bit'' of complexity: after every third spell, her next physical attack does extra damage ''and'' applies a debuff based on which aura she's currently running. But this is just a matter of being careful where you click, and it is completely possible to ignore it.

* [[Brown Note]]

* [[Spam Attack]]: The buffs don't last long, but still longer than the cooldown of the spells that imbue them. If you just keep hitting Q, W and E, you can keep Sona and her allies in a permanent state of powered-up (depletion of [[Mana Meter]] notwithstanding).

* [[The Speechless]]: Although she talks telepathically to her summoner (i.e. you).

** Thought strangely, nobody (not even the Journal of Justice) seems to have figured out she could possibly be [[Talking with Signs|literate]].

* [[Spoony Bard]]

=== Soraka the Starchild ===

 

 

Old Lore: A high priestess of Ionia, she was responsible for the rulership of the Ionians as it's source of guidance. When the Rune Wars came and ravaged the entire land with the Altairians invading Ionia. Soraka seeked the Institute of War's intervention in exchange for joining the League as Ionia's representive, commanding the entire cosmos to her aid.

=== Swain the Master Tactician ===

 

 

Jericho Swain is a mage and Grand General of the Noxian army, with no recorded past. He is followed by a strange, demonic raven at all times. His brilliance as a tactician is matched only by the mystery that surrounds both him and his "pet."

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Joked about in his dance, in which he carefully looks around him, then lets go of his cane and dances wildly.

* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: He has different emotes when you type /t in Raven form. And if you type /j three times...

"Think logically for one sec-CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAW" }}

* [[Shout-Out]]: His form while using his ultimate is awfully reminiscent of a [[Warhammer 40000|Lord of Change.]] His Tyrant skin makes this even more obvious.