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* [[An Ice Person]]: Her attacks inflict frost on her opponents. She also summons an arctic storm.

* [[Determinator]]: To an absolutely terrifying degree; her lore states outright that no one should have been able to survive the things she's powered through.

* [[Epic Flail]]: Her weapon of choice, and boy is it huge.

* [[Exposed to the Elements]]: She makes Ashe look like a nun. Explained in story as being part of her [[Training from Hell]].

* [[Full Boar Action]]: She rides one into battle.

* [[Glacier Waif]]: She's a pretty small woman; nonetheless, she wields a gigantic flail with ease and can take a massive beating.

* [[Master of None]]: There's a degree of dissension in the community about this, but most players generally admit that Sejuani is pretty unexceptional at everything she does, with her only real standout move being her incredible ultimate.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Subsequently, she's considered a very low-tier champ as she can only really jungle and most other junglers do it better than her. She's most obviously overshadowed by Amumu, who has a similarly devastating ult for initiation but is tankier, more flexible and puts out more damage.

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: She trained for 20 years in a frozen wasteland to be ready for her queenship.

* [[Mismatched Eyes]]: Normally his eyes both glow brilliant green, but his [[Alice in Wonderland|Mad Hatter]] skin shows he actually has one red and one green.

* [[Monster Clown]]

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Troll]]: Shaco seems custom-designed to enrage the enemy team as much as possible.

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.

 

 

'''Associated tropes:'''

* [[Counter Attack]]: His passive ability, Ki Strike, empowers his basic attacks every nine seconds, dealing extra damage that increases alongside his max health, but fits into the spirit of this trope by empowering his attack much sooner for every enemy attack that hits him.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Has two swords in scabbards strapped to his back, and keeps a hand on each while standing still. However, he only uses one for attacking (aside from crits or using Ki Strike, in which he uses both).

** [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Though he's less capable of killing you rather than helping the rest of his team do it for him.

* [[The Faceless]]: As a ninja, his face has never been shown.

* [[In Harm's Way]]: An integral part of his Shadow Dash skill.

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: He's a ''flippin' '' ninja!

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]

* [[Ninja]]: Duh.

* [[Shout-Out]]: His two alternate skins, Frozen Shen and Yellow Jacket Shen, resemble [[Mortal Kombat|Sub-Zero and Scorpion]], respectively. He also has a [[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja|doctor skin]].

* [[The Stoic]]: A necessary requirement for fulfilling his training.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: Her skin is grey-coloured... she is a half-dragon, though. Her alternate skins give her a light, caucasian skin tone.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Her abilities heavily reward aggression and being in the thick of things.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: Her ultimate, Dragon's Descent, lets her [[Dynamic Entry|jump right at her enemies and knock them a short distance back if they're in her way]].

* [[Giant Flyer]]: Well, for a second with one ability in-game. Her ultimate which turns her into a dragon and has her swoop down an area.

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

{{quote|'''Phreak:''' Shyvana is a melee fighter who scales particularly well with attack speed. Her playstyle revolves around sticking to a target and destroying its health bar. Also, she turns into a dragon.}}

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

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: About 15 feet long with a very bat-like in structure and small wings on the forearms. There were some fans who insisted that Shyvana was ''not'' a dragon, but a wyvern because of this.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Even in normal form, she'll fling fire at you or surround herself in flames like it's her job. Which it kind of is, since she's a dragon.

* [[Power Fist]]: She attacks with her hands, which have large gauntlets shaped like a dragon's head on them.

* [[Stripperific]]: Her default skin shows quite a lot of flesh, as does her Boneclaw skin. Her Ironscale skin, however, largely covers her like a suit of armor would.

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: She can turn into a dragon. However, doing so and staying in that form requires fury.

 

[[File:SingedSquare_8989.png|frame]]

Singed is a mad scientist and alchemist who was the student of Warwick until he was turned a werewolf. Now Singed is a mercenary who concocts all manner of poisons and toxins he unleashes in battle. Singed is a tank-type champion whose health increases as his mana increases. In battle, he can leave a trail of poison gas behind him, throw enemies behind with his shield, shoot out a pool of slowing glue, or chug insanity potion to increase his speed, defense, and ability power temporarily.

 

 

'''Associated tropes:'''

 

* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: His poison. It doesn't deal a lot of damage, but it's surprisingly deceiving and by the time you've realised you've underestimated it, it'll eat away three quarters of your health and leave you screwed since if there's one thing Singed can do really well, it's stopping you from escaping and exposing you to more poison.

* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: In the form of flinging the enemy behind his back, where they are happily met and befriended by Singed's team.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: An incredibly talented chemist who also happens to be a hulking juggernaut.

* [[Implacable Man]]: Once Singed gets going, you are NOT going to be able to stop him; attempting to do so means you'll get flung into a puddle of glue and some poison. And Singed? He'll just happily go about his normal business while you're choking on poison.

* [[The Juggernaut]]: Once Singed has popped his ult, there is pretty much nothing you can do to stop him.

* [[Laughing Mad]]: His /laugh soundbites stand out amongst the rest of his languid, casual dialogue for some reason.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: When Singed refers to his "patron" in his quote above, he's ''not'' talking about Warwick...

* [[Poisonous Person]]: More in terms of his arsenal than natural powers, although he is said to have a vastly improved physique due to all his chemical tests.

* [[Psycho Serum]]: His most powerful concoction is literally called the Insanity Potion. Upon imbibing it, in addition to the many positive effects, he begins foaming at the mouth. The foam in question is ''green''.

* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Go on, chase Singed. He'll almost always be faster than you, but he'll turn back around eventually after you've obliviously dwindled away your health chasing him through his gas cloud and you're completely at his mercy.

* [[Shields Are Useless]]: He carries a shield around, but it does not offer any explicit defensive benefits.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

{{quote|[[James Bond|Shaken, not stirred.]]<br />

To shake or not to shake?<br />

* [[Troll]]: Singed, like Shaco, seems to revolve entirely around pissing off the enemy team as much as humanly possible.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

Sion was an insane berserker and warrior of Noxus who was captured and executed by Demacian forces. His remains were stolen and he was brought back to life as a zombie/golem, adding dark magic abilities to his already formidable physical strength, to fight once more for his city. Sion is a fighter-type champion who is either built as a high-DPS attacker or a burst mage. His passive randomly resists a percent of damage taken from attacks, and his abilities allow him to stun an enemy with dark energy, create an explosive shield made of ghosts, increase his damage at the cost of health, gain permanent health whenever he kills a unit, and and go into a life-siphoning frenzy while simultaneously healing nearby teammates.

 

 

'''Associated tropes:'''

* [[Combat Medic]]: He doesn't fulfill the healer's role per-se, but his ultimate causes his physical attacks to heal both himself and his allies close by for the duration. When built as a physical DPS, Sion can easily keep his whole team alive with this massive lifesteal.

* [[Crutch Character]]: As AP, He starts off very good, but falls off late game.

* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]

* [[I Call It Vera]]: "Get on my Choppa!"

* [[Implacable Man]]: A fully leveled Sion is virtually impossible to kill and can take disgusting amounts of punishment thanks to Enrage's permanent health boosts, Cannibalism's sky-high lifesteal, and his natural bulk.

* [[Life Drain]]: His ultimate grants this to his melee attacks for him and his allies during its duration.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: He's undead too, do you need anymore reason to keep away?

* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Described as a "human battering ram" in his lore.

 

{{quote|''"Time and time again, Sivir proves that she has earned the right to call herself The Battle Mistress."''|'''Jax'''}}

 

 

Sivir is a ranged DPS-type champion who moves faster after she attacks an enemy champion and can cover herself in a spell-absorbing shield, cause her next attack to rebound amongst clustered targets, throw her crossblade in a straight line, hitting all in its path twice, and give off an aura that makes everyone around her move and attack much faster.

 

 

'''Associated tropes:'''

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Boomerang Comeback]]

* [[Breast Plate]]

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Of [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]], especially the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|warrior princess]] skin.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Although this was less to do with her objecting to the morality of Noxus invading Ionia than her objecting to the strategy they used to do so. More like Defector From Incompetence, at least in her eyes.

* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Her "E" skill is a shield that nullifies any one skill used against her in the next three seconds, which can block a ''lot''. Her Boomerang Blade ability does a lot of damage and can go from a very far range - but it's tough to hit against careful enemies without a set-up for it with a large mana cost to make missing hurt.

* [[Glass Cannon]]

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: An even-shaped [[wikipedia:Hunga Munga|humga munga]]... thing. Except they call it a glaive, like ''[[Warcraft]]''.

* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]

* [[Private Military Contractors]]: Sivir's mercenary activities have made her one of the richest people in Valoran.

* [[Rings of Death]]

* [[Stripperific]]: One of the most prevalent examples. No wonder she has such little armour at level one. She's not even wearing underwear!

* [[All-Natural Gem Polish]]: Both Skarner and the mines he awakened in have enormous, shiny, faceted, polished and colorful crystals all about, regardless of how sensical that may be.

* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: His starting (and scaling) attack speed is pretty poor, and his ability power ratios aren't terribly high, but good luck dislodging him once he's started his work on somebody.

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

{{quote|''"Eeaugh! Bugs are gross! Ugh!"''}}

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

* [[Scary Scorpions]]: Averted. He's ruthless, but not particularly more so then the average [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]. Really, he just wants to survive long enough to see his friends and family awake.

* [[Silicon-Based Life]]: While it's possible he's not ''entirely'' crystalline (his backstory suggests as much), what we see is a giant rock-and-crystal arthropod.

* [[Stealth Pun]]: Where have we seen a scorpion with the ability to [[Mortal Kombat|drag his opponents towards him]] before?

* [[Taken for Granite]]: His ultimate, Impale, does this. Whoever you hit is trapped as an crystalline block until the effect wears off, during which time Skarner can pretty much have his way with you (no, not necessarily ''that'' way).

 

[[File:SonaSquare_5180.png|frame]]

Sona is a support-type champion whose three main abilities create auras to buff her and any allies in the area: one shoots magic missiles and increases offensive power, one heals allies and gives greater defenses, and one increases movespeed. Her passive charges her next attack after casting three spells, dealing bonus damage with a secondary effect depending on which aura she has active, either increasing the bonus damage, reducing the target's damage for a few seconds, or slowing them. Her ultimate is a wave of sound that causes targets to dance uncontrollably, stunning briefly.

 

 

'''Associated tropes:'''

 

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

{{quote|''Sona: Now requires skill to play.''}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: It is possible to build Sona as a very good damage dealer without losing too much in way of her support power. While perhaps unlikely to take down a strong character alone, this can make her exceptionally dangerous in team battles where she can be healing, buffing and attacking at the same time.

* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: While she isn't a dedicated damage dealer, her Hymn of Valor and its accompanying Power Chord do a surprising amount of damage and can be very effective for harassing opponents in lane.

* [[Idol Singer]]

* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: Woot! The fact that she was released directly after [[Stripperiffic|Miss Fortune]] caused something of an backlash on the forums about the sheer amount of bewbs being added to the game.

* [[Jack of All Trades]]: Among the support characters. Instead of acting as a dedicated healer like Soraka or a dedicated crowd control machine like Alistar or Taric, her abilities bring a little bit of everything to the table.

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Crowd Control reduction doesn't work on Sona's ult, which is an incredibly potent disable. That's because it isn't technically a stun, suppress, or snare- it's forced dancing. CC reduction and tenacity don't cover that.

* [[Magic Music]]

* [[Musical Assassin]]

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Her etwahl.

* [[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).

{{quote|''"Only you can hear me summoner, what masterpiece shall we play today?"''}}

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

* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: And then descend back down again.

* [[Cherry Tapping]]: Starcall will do at best moderate damage, but the sheer frequency at which it can be cast combined with the magic resistance shred means that it can get pretty damaging if she continues to spam it.

* [[Implacable Man]]: Most heroes have to retreat for healing by the time they've got about 1000 Gold, sometimes 500. With luck and care, Soraka can stay on-station into the 3,000s. Some players will only head back to base ''because'' they've got so much gold that they might as well spend it.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Fell from grace to punish Warwick for his atrocities in the Noxus/Ionia war. She turned him into a vicious, deadly werewolf and [[Cursed with Awesome|he likes it that way]].

* [[Purple Eyes]]: Well, she was practically a goddess at one point anyway.

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: In a ponytail going down below her ''knees''.

* [[Sideboob]]

* [[Squishy Wizard]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Her standard skin.

* [[White Magician Girl]]: The straightest example in the game.

 

[[File:SwainSquare_9863.png|frame]]

{{quote|''"If you haven't yet lost the ability to ask, you may not yet ask for relief."''}}

 

 

Swain is a mage-type champion who can have his bird fire a slowing beam, snare enemies in an area with magical talons, curse enemies to take additional damage from himself, and assume the form of a giant, six-eyed demon-raven to send his raven pets to nearby enemies, damaging them and healing Swain for a portion of the damage done. His passive restores some of his mana whenever he kills an enemy unit.

 

 

'''Associated tropes:'''

* [[Cherry Tapping]]: Swain doesn't burst you with three or four spells (Though his ult hurts!), he basically throws so much stuff at you at once you die.

* [[Crows and Ravens]]

* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: Some speculate that the raven may be the one controlling him.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: His [[Pirate|Bilgewater Swain]] skin.

* [[Feathered Fiend]]

* [[Feel No Pain]]: His earliest appearance in any records was when he limped into an infirmary with a compound fracture in his leg. He gave no sign of pain, even as the bone was snapped back into place. He requested a spare crutch and hobbled away. The bird never left his shoulder.

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: There isn't much known about Swain except for his meteoric rise through the Noxian ranks. No one knows where he came from, how he got into the army, or what the raven on his shoulder really is.

** Reached its zenith as of the final Journal of Justice entry, which reports that Swain has officially become the Grand General of Noxus, the highest position in the state.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: He has a very noticeable limp from a severe leg injury from his youth. Despite Noxus' views about disabled people, he still managed to rise to Grand General rank.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Is really shaping up to be one of these.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Slow and has nothing to aid his mobility, but can fry anything he encounters with his combo and has survivability sufficient to allow him to walk right into a mob and not have to worry too much about making it out alive.

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

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Averted. Extremely bulky for a mage; while not as ridiculous as Morgana, he can still take a massive beating with ease and keep on fighting. His ult also helps healing him.

* [[The Starscream]]: Seems to be working with LeBlanc to assume control of Noxus. He's finally achieved that as of the latest Journal of Justice entry, though to what ends and at who's cost are yet unknown.

* [[Story and Gameplay Segregation]]: While in the backstory, he's almost entirely responsible for every political upheaval or underhanded Noxian ploy that wasn't caused by LeBlanc, ingame, his being a ''Master Tactician'' is not reflected in any of his abilities, which are fairly standard mage spells, although he is one of the most combo reliant mages alongside LeBlanc and Veigar, and his abilities ''are'' geared towards making fights more one-sided.

** He even lampshades this in his /joke command: "If we approach strategically from the flank... [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|ah, who am I kidding? Let's just morph and eat them]]."