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The [[Excuse Plot]] is that magical "summoners" do battle with each-other by summoning creatures, heroes, and champions and pitting them against each other in gladiatorial combat. Your [[Player Character]] is one of those summoners; it is persistent and gains experience with every battle, as opposed to champions who start every match at Level 1. This opens up various customization options which have a practical effect on gameplay: summoners can bring two [[Support Power|Support Powers]] into battle, and have access to "Runes" and a "Mastery" skill-tree to directly improve a champion's stats during gameplay.

* '''Dominion:''' A capture-and-hold gamemode with five control points. Controlling more points than the enemy team damages their nexus. Champions start off at level 3 and gain gold and experience much faster for quick and fun matches. Crystal Scar is the only map available for this mode.

 

 

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: The end result of any game. The question is ''whose'' base are [[Translation Train Wreck|belong...to...um...who.]]

** Exhibited by how every game ends with the camera going to a position centered on the losing team's Nexus blowing up - this happens even if one team surrenders.

** ''The Jack'': actually almost everybody has more than one build that emphasizes a specific stat or play-style. And yes, we do mean almost everybody. At one point, the dominant build for Annie (high magic-damage nukes) was physical DPS. Hybrid-built characters, who rely on ability power as well as attack power can also be called Jacks. But remember -- just because you can, doesn't make it a good idea.

* [[Announcer Chatter]]: At the start of the game, when minions are spawned, whenever someone goes down, destruction of important buildings, and killing sprees.

* [[Arch Enemy]]: The League is home to several of pairs of champions who would love to see each other dead.

** Nasus and his brother Renekton were literally at each other's throats before they were summoned to the League. Their relationship hasn't improved much.

** Sejuani joined the League to oppose Ashe for control of Frelijord.

** Zilean and Volibear hate each other as a joke because of Riot employees; Zilean was named after Zileas, who was against the idea of armored bears, while Volibear was named after Volibar, who wanted armored bears.

** In-game art became much better post-release.

** Summoner's Rift recently had a Graphics update, complete with a new Yordle Shopkeeper.

** Some of the older champion portraits are being redone. Morgana above has a new portrait, as does Sivir, Veigar, Kayle, Tryndamere, and others. You can really see a difference between the old style of art and the new ones.

* [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: The whole point of the League's Champion Judgement process is to ask two: "Why do you want to join the League?" and "How does it feel, exposing your mind?"

* [[Artificial Brilliance]]/[[Artificial Stupidity]]: The bots zig-zag between these two. The bots on Beginner are notoriously poor players, running into towers without minions and rarely going back for more health. The Intermediate bots, on the other hand, are a whole order of magnitude more difficult, ganking weak champions and making much better use of their abilities -- and yet they ''still'' make stupid decisions like chasing "weakened" champions all across the map while their lane stays wide-open.

* [[Ascended Meme]]: Many.

** Gentleman Cho'Gath. French Maid Nidalee may or may not be related.

** Amumu got an Emo Mummy skin. Emumu!

** Corporate Mundo deals what he pleases.

** The 'Battle Training' has a tip to inform of being careful around the brush since an enemy champion maybe be hiding in it to ambush you... using images of Garen appearing out of the brush using his infamous [[Spin Attack|Judgement]]. You can practically hear the "DEMACIAAAA!".

** Brolaf, the King of Bromacia. Now at an in-game store near you.

** The item "The Brutalizer" costs [[Leet Lingo|1337 gold]]

** Surprise Party Fiddlesticks, released on the game's second birthday on October 27, 2011.

** [[Playboy Bunny|Battle Bunny Riven]] was released in response to [http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1239078 the biggest thread in the history of the LoL forums].

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: If you do this, your teammates will hate you.

** Of course, some champions play this trope perfectly straight (at least when they get well-farmed) like Olaf and Tryndamere, capable of simply ripping into the enemy team and slaughtering everything within reach of their blades.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Barbarians and Noxians.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Played literally with Dr. Mundo, Sion, and Olaf, all three of which wield axes, have abilities that hurt themselves in the process of hurting the enemy, and are designed to charge straight into a fight.

** Olaf especially was designed to be an "Ax wielding maniac".

** Darius decapitates others with his huge axe.

** Everyone respawns after death for sometime. As it likely gave your enemies time and extra gold over you, it will eventually get to a point where a dead team's buildings and base should logically be razed by the other side before they can respawn.

** The respawn timer increases as the game progresses.

** Soraka has two heals, a silence and a mana refill and one damage spell.

** Janna technically has several damage spells but they do little actual damage and are loaded with slows, knockups and knockbacks. Her most effective playstyle involves leaving every single minion kill to her allies, falling hopelessly behind in terms of levels and gold, but using her spells to set up enemies for her team, earning her team potentially a dozen kills while doing insignificant amounts of damage herself.

** Taric can actually do some decent damage himself, but his main job is supporting his team. He can heal his allies, passively boost their armor, stun enemies that would otherwise cause trouble, but his Ultimate is the real kicker. It does a decent amount of AoE burst damage, significantly boosts Taric's offensive stats, and gives nearby allies half that bonus for 10 seconds. It's absolutely fabulous for teamfights or tearing apart a tower.

** Averted by Karma, whose abilities both make her allies stronger and deal significant damage themselves. This leaves her in a bit of a weird spot in the metagame.

** A number of champions use this kind of weapon, especially Tryndamere, whose sword is so big he drags it on the ground behind him.

** Slightly Subverted with Mordekaiser and Jarvan, who have a B.F.Mace and a B.F.Spear respectively.

* [[Bash Brothers]]: Jax and Gragas. They go drinking and get in [[Bar Brawl|Bar Brawls]] together. [[All in The Manual|In the lore, anyway]].

* [[Battle Cry]]: Lux, Jarvan, and Garen all shout DEMACIA!

** Jarvan has a spell that summons an actual shield (as in the kite-shaped object) in a transparent hexagonal shape.

** Poppy's ultimate puts a miniature barrier around her.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: All Yordles except Veigar, who is a megalomaniac, and Rumble, the Yordle equivalent of a mad scientist in a mech with tasers and flamethrowers.

** Especially scary with Teemo. It's heavily implied that the constant use of his abilities for assassinations, as well as the isolation he suffers, is slowly driving him insane, which gives nightmare fuel when you look at the constant smile he always wears. He's starting to crack, and it won't be too long until he uses his poison outside of the League.

** In a meta example, Riot Games themselves: "Hi, guys, there's a popularity contest for online games over there, the winner is decided by number of votes. Oh, and if we win, everybody will get a free rune page. Here's a vote link. No, we're not implying anything."

** However you need the IP boosts if you want to quickly get IP at an early level. Once you get past level 10 you no longer have IP bonuses.

* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: In addition to each champion having a very different physical appearance, they each perform a very unique role in team compositions.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: In nearly every champion spotlight since Yorick (as well as many times he shoutcasts games or in other League-related videos), Phreak makes it a point to use the phrase "tons of damage."

* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Champions can be a [[One-Man Army]] later in the game, but you need items to do that. You will lose the game if you can't get them. See [[Level Grinding]].

** Depends on the champion in question. Carries need expensive and specific items, casters and tanks are less reliant on them, supports are the least reliant. Janna, Alistar and Blitzcrank can be fine with just boots and lots of wards, as they mostly provide crowd control, which doesn't scale. This is in fact the reasoning behind a strategy for grouping a support in a laine with a carry. The carry gets as much gold as possible from the enemy minions in the lane to make use of their high potential, while the support remains a useful member of the team without that gold.

* [[Conscription]]: Demacia requires at least three years of military service for all citizens, and Noxus has a mandatory service of six years, requiring being in active military reserves until too old, and a compulsory draft that may affect any citizen, regardless of age and sex, when the Noxian High Command sees it necessary.

* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: An actual in-game mechanic for Shen, Kennen and Akali: they each get -1 health for each other ninja on the team. It used to be -1 damage, but this actually made a huge difference over an entire game, so it was changed.

** Some champions have passive abilities that boost a stat according to how high another stat is. This both nudges the player in a certain direction for building items and makes stacking one stat a bit more viable. Examples include Singed (+1 HP per 4 mana), Galio (ability power bonus equal to half his magic resist score) and Rammus (attack damage bonus equal to one quarter his armor). However, none of them are strong enough to encourage overspecialization to benefit more from the passive (The examples respectively would be have too much mana and nothing else, be vulnerable to physical damage, and be vulnerable to magic damage).

*** To a point also Malphite, whose most practical general-use attack scales its damage to his defense.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: As an in-game/in-universe meta-example, it should be noted that the game is designed to give the players this feeling. There's lot of ways to win a situation in ways that make you feel like an epic fantasy hero. Having the narrator announce to the world that you are "unstoppable" and "godlike" and all that kind of stuff doesn't hurt either. ''Never mind'' if [[Hero of Another Story|your enemies]] get these moments ten times as often as you do.

* [[Crutch Character]]: Any character that is said to not scale into "late game" is this. The trope isn't nearly as bad as it may seem, as each game has all champions start over from scratch at level 1. Using a early-game monster to kill and stop [[Magikarp Power|the enemy carry]] from becoming the late-game powerhouse that he will become is as valid a strategy as any other. Of course, if the enemy can hold out they will have a major killing machine in the game's crucial last moments while you are left with a below-average champions under your control. [[Competitive Balance|Part of the fun and strategy of the game is figuring out when such a strategy is viable and when it isn't]].

* [[Cute and Psycho]]: The database asserts that Teemo is slowly cracking under his prolonged isolation from others of his kind. He's doing a bit better now, though, now that he has Tristana as a friend.

** This is also what drove Veigar insane.

** Lampshaded in the [http://youtu.be/WPDtBsQsxV4 League of Legends Season 1 Commentary], with Phreak treating the trailer like a real "600 ELO" match (which is very, very low on the ranked ladder).

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: When you die, you can't participate in the game for up to a minute and a half. You miss out on some gold and experience, you give your buffs if you have any to your enemy (not counting Baron buff which you just lose), you waste some valuable time of battle Elixirs and instantly lose Oracle's Elixir. You will still inevitably die in pretty much every game, and your number of deaths is only ''very'' weakly correlated to whether you win or not.

* [[Double Entendre]]: [http://youtu.be/WPDtBsQsxV4 Start at 1:30 for this "commentary" on the Season 1 CG trailer.] The actual [[Double Entendre]] is at 1:38.

** [[Ms. Fanservice|Miss Fortune]] has abilities named "Make It Rain" (a shower of bullets from the sky) and "Double Up" (a bullet that bounces and hits two enemies).

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Any champion with a dash or a blink really.

** Turned up to eleven with [[Death From Above|Pantheon's Grand Skyfall]].

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: The item Phage, which can be later upgraded to the bigger hammers Frozen Mallet or Entropy.

** Taric and Poppy both use hammers, as does Sion while using his Hextech Sion skin.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: There are a few here and there. Cho'Gath and Kog'Maw are monsters from the Void (which is apparently filled with such creatures), Fiddlesticks is an extraplanar horror who killed the guy who was stupid enough to summon him, and Nocturne is a dream-born monster who hunted and killed Summoners in their sleep until he was dragged into this world. Xerath also borders on this, considering that he's become entirely inhuman in almost every way, including personality, and is absurdly powerful even by the standards of the League.

** Jax may be an example of this. While he appears to be human, it is not known where he came from. What is known, however, is that when he joined the League, he got so many consecutive wins that they forced him to use a LAMPPOST instead of a real weapon. The worst part is that it apparently didn't affect his chances at all, so the requirement was rescinded while he kept using the lamppost.

* [[Eldritch Location]]: The Void.

* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: You can be promised from the start of the game that only your team will have disconnects, only your team will have a support that doesn't know how important wards are, and only your team will have the Jax that does bad. It's positive that THEIR team will have the Akali that gets 12 kills by 10 minutes, their team will know how to communicate, and their team will always have the better jungler.

* [[Evil Twin]]: A confusing instance on Riot's forums. There is an Associate Game Designer, Shurelia. There is also an apparently official Riot account posting on the forums called DarkShurelia. Who is comparatively ruder and [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkier]] while posting. One other Riot poster seemed to indicate this was because people made fun of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxGQ3gWdrM her voice].

** Garen is the king of this Trope. If you walk into a brush and there is a Garen on the enemy team, expect it.

** Hilariously parodied with Wukong's ultimate. He spins and knocks up enemies, but the kicker is that in the code for the game, the trigger for Wukong's ultimate is actually called "spintowin"

** A few classic champions got their prices lowered, perhaps helping even out the average somewhat. Even if it's not that big a difference.

* [[Fan Service]]: See Stripperific.

* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: Shen, Kennen and Akali, the three ninjas, are a tank, a fast medium-range nuker, and fragile speedster, respectively.

** The three champions available in the Battle Training tutorial -- Garen (front-line fighter), Ryze (mage), and Ashe (ranged damage dealer).

** [[The Evil Genius]]: Swain/Singed (Not a Noxus native, but a hired mercenary)

** [[The Brute]]: Sion

** Katarina and Talon isn't considered here since they are both against Swain. Cassiopeia and Riven also, for obvious reasons.

** The evil team in the season 1 trailer:

*** [[The Chick]]: Ashe

* [[Fog of War]]: You can only see areas within the immediate vision of your team's units. There are special Sight Wards that allow you to lift the fog over a certain area for a few minutes, as well as a Summoner Spell that allows you to take a peak at any section of the map you want for a few seconds.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Whatever you do, ''do not disconnect from the internet mid-match''. Lagging out is fine, but actually losing modem connectivity will screw you up. For instance, if an enemy champion was respawning at the time, your client will insist that champion is still dead and cannot be interacted with. ''His'' client is under no such compunctions. Congratulations: you've just made an enemy invincible.

** Though rare, there is a bug where Nocturne can slow your FPS to a crawl. Understandable, since he is somewhat resource intensive.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Some champions (unofficially known as "nukes") are designed to deal tons of damage very very quickly. Their defensive stats and abilities are usually quite low. An interesting case is Karthus who, thanks to his passive that lets him continue casting spells for seven seconds after he's killed and his ultimate that damages every player on the enemy team, actually has the potential to deal ''more'' damage once he's killed, allowing him to focus entirely on offense and ignore defense for the most part.

* [[Glowing Eyes]]: Common for a number of champion's portraits for the English version of game. A [[Watsonian Versus Doylist|Doylist]] explanation is that eyes are very hard to draw.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Demacia is the moral opposite of the [[Chaotic Evil]] Noxus... which [[All Crimes Are Equal|punishes all crimes equally]], has universal three-year conscription for all citizens, and does not allow its soldiers to [[Attack! Attack! Attack!|surrender, flee, or make excuses]].

* [[Guide Dang It]]: If you have never played a game like this, you'll probably need to ask for help from more experienced players to get your head around it.

** Needless to say, due to the negative effect of just [[The Load|one single newbie]] on your team, if you actually ask for help during a match you are more likely to get bombarded with insults and reported for intentionally helping the enemy than to receive advice.

** Caitlyn has her trusty rifle.

** [[Outlaw|Graves the Outlaw]] uses a customized double-barreled shotgun. And an ability that fires [[MST3K Mantra|three bullets simultaneously]].

* [[Hammerspace]]: You can carry up to six items, which can be breastplates, katanas, axes... none of them are even shown being held by your character or appear on their person. Some of them cause your character to have specific auras to let the enemy team know you have the effect up, but you never see the items themselves.

** Possibly hand waved with the idea that the champions themselves don't get the item, but the summoner backing them does and merely channels the artifact's power to increase their champion's abilities.

* [[Heroic Willpower]]: Tryndamere's Undying Rage. For the duration of the buff, his HP cannot be reduced below one, allowing him to tank the combined attack of an entire team and laugh in their faces.

** Olaf's Ragnarok.

** Poppy's Diplomatic immunity. The text states that she focuses SO INTENTLY on her target that the rest of the enemies attacks and abilities do nothing to her.

** Ezreal's dance is the dance from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

** [[Captain Ersatz|Nasus]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|walks like an Egyptian]].

* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: [http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Magma_Chamber Magma Chamber], a canceled map.

* [[Homing Boulders]]: All ranged autoattacks will track you. This is most obvious from caster minions, whose projectiles are fairly slow. Some abilities do this as well, most of which are magical in nature.

* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Compared to other MOBA games, League of Legends is known for lots of fanservice.

* [[I Call It Vera]]: Sion's Chopper, Poppy's Whomper, Miss Fortune's Shock and Awe.

** Nunu's Willump or Willump's Nunu?

* [[Image Song]]: A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuOWR0xTZpo fan-made Mundo one].

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: [[Homing Boulders]] aside, Ashe's Enchanted Crystal Arrow and Ezreal's Trueshot Barrage can be aimed across the whole map. Interestingly, truly impossible shots are the ''player's'' [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] (or, more likely, blind luck).

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Averted. Although several items are very powerful in the right hands, there is no one strongest item in the game.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Most of the Yordle champions are kind of cute to some extent. That doesn't make any of them less deadly.

** Invoked with the Yordle Teemo's Easter bunny outfit. Extremely fluffy, extremely deadly.

** Just racking up a killstreak without dying will cause the announcer to declare after 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8+ kills respectively: killing spree, rampage, unstoppable, dominating, godlike and legendary. A variation is that it does not give anything for the player, but rather gives nice gold bonus to whoever dealed a killing blow on the player, bringing his kill streak down. Thus, those with big streak become primary targets and hunted by all means.

** Getting a bunch of kills one after another, with no more than 10 sec gap between the subsequent two has her announce double kill, triple kill, quadra kill and penta kill. Pentakills are considered quite a feat amongst players, and those who got one receive [[Bragging Rights Reward]]. It is even possible to kill past that if a newly dead player uses the Revive summoner spell to run back into the fight to get killed again, giving a very, very rare legendary kill (kills in quick succession over 5 are just 'legendary kill').

* [[Knight Templar]]: The city-state of Demacia in general. A more specific case is Kayle "The Judicator," a literal angel of justice.

** An interesting distinction though as Kayle, although superficially an ally of Demacia (as her [[Cain and Abel|dark sister]] [[Fallen Angel|Morgana]] is allied with their rivals Noxus), appears to place her final allegiance with the League as the arbiter of law on Valoran (placing her on the "Law Before Good" end of the [[Lawful Good]] scale). Demacia on the other hand acts out of an unshakeable belief in their own righteousness in opposing the "evil" of Noxus -- a column by a Demacian writer in the Journal of Justice argued, not that Demacia was ''not'' responsible for breaking the cease-fire with Noxus or that they had been framed, but that they were ''justified'' in attacking the Noxians in Kalamanda, citing their moral superiority and quoting a section of Demacian Creed that is honestly rather scary:

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Katarina used the British pronunciation of the word 'Macabre' (Muh-cahb-RUH) in the earlier stages of the game. When her voice actor was changed, she was given a new joke that subtly called attention to this.

** Ditto with Janna.

** Skarner the Crystal Vanguard fits this to a T. One of his quotes; "I miss my kind."

*** However in case you couldn't tell from his name he isn't the last, he is just the first of his kind to wake up.

** Technically, Twitch the Plague Rat is the first of his kind, as are Blitzcrank the Steam Golem and Rammus the Armordillo.

* [[Large Ham]]: Some champions fall in this category, most notably Demacian ones. The way they scream [[Battle Cry|"DEMACIA!"]] has reached [[Ascended Meme]] status.

** All champions talk to their summoner in the game. Since the players act as summoners, this can lead to some playing with this trope as some champions remark about things that don't always make sense in-universe.

'''Akali:''' So many noobs. Will matchmaking ever find true balance? }}

** “Come on, Orianna. Time to learn how to tower dive."

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: This is both the worst kind of feeding and the best way to [[The Millstone|lose the game for your team]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: You download the downloader that downloads the installer, the installer installs the game, then you run the launcher that downloads patches and launches the client that launches the game. If you want to play on EU with an US client and vice versa, though, you can also grab a fan made client launcher launcher launcher.

** In almost every game there's that ''one'' guy that takes roughly five minutes to load the game so everyone has to wait and mentally sling curse words at the slowpoke. In the worst case, it takes so long that he disconnects from the game, leaving his team a man short. For [[Everything Trying to Kill You|obvious reasons]] this only happens to ''your'' team.

*** [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/08/26 "Look, comrade dog! Can LOL playing on Nokia N-Gage!"]

* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: Most champions are human with Yordles as the most common after them. The rest are a wide assortment of monsters and humanoids that range from animal-like humanoids to [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], with a few "classic" creatures like trolls and minotaurs thrown in.

* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: For most public matches, you don't get to choose who your teammates are.

** Gangplank's ultimate ability used to cause cannonballs to strike randomly in a target area, damaging and slowing anything hit by the cannonballs. The area used to be so large that every cannonball could miss hitting anything entirely ([[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|which is when YOU used it]]), or have every cannonball smash your face into the dirt. ([[Everything Is Trying to Kill You|Which was typically when you were playing against Gangplank.]]) It was changed to be much more reliable with a smaller ability area that the cannonballs drop on, and having the slow being applied constantly from standing in the ability's area rather than happening from being hit by a cannonball.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]:

** Mundo is so mad he ended up creating the monstrosity you see as a champion now from experimenting on himself.

** The "prevailing scholar" of Zaun, Professor Stanwick Pididly, who enabled Urgot to come back as an undead warrior, by essentially building him a new body with mechanical crab legs, a plasma cannon and pneumatic claw for hands.

** The trope isn't exactly as positive here as it is in other games, due to the nature of MOBA's to reset character levels at the start of every match. At first glance, having a team full of [[Magikarp Power|carries]] is an excellent idea, but the enemy may capitalize on top of this and grab an early victory by merit of stopping you from reaching your peak in strength and scoring an early victory. See [[Crutch Character]] up above.

** Nasus and Veigar recieve special note here. Most carries scale into the late game by getting better items. Veigar and Nasus, however, can scale without items. Veigars basic energy blast skill will give him extra ability power whenever he kills an enemy with it, including minions. Nasus basic special attack skill does more damage for each target it's killed. While fairly weak early game, a well fed Veigar or Nasus is capable of absurd amounts of damage late game, as their power scales off of more than just items or levels.

* [[Mana Meter]]: Most champions use mana when they cast spells. Both their total mana reserve and the rate at which it replenishes itself increase with champion level and items. There are some exceptions and variations on the theme:

** Akali, Shen, Kennen, and Lee Sin use Energy, which has a fixed cap and regeneration rate. The cap is low, but the regeneration is high, putting a limit on how man spells they can cast if they don't space them out.

** Tryndamere, Renekton, and Shyvanna all use the Fury resource very differently. About the only consistent features are that it generates when they attack an enemy and they can expend it to enhance at least one of their abilities.

** Instead of draining mana, Rumble ''gains'' Heat whenever he uses one of his abilities and his abilities get a boost if he has enough. If he maxes out, though, he [[Overheating|overheats]] and is briefly silenced, giving his attacks a little extra punch until he cools down.

** Garen, Katarina, and Riven don't use any resources and are completely reliant on cooldowns to cast their abilities.

** Miss Fortune is all over this trope, especially in her Make It Rain and Bullet Time.

* [[Multiplayer Online Battle Arena]]: [[Trope Namer]]. The term ''MOBA'' was coined by ''Riot Games'' for ''[[League of Legends]]'' as a marketing term specifically because everybody referred to the genre as "DotA clones" and they didn't want their game always being compared to ''DotA''.

* [[The Napoleon]]: Veigar, the Tiny Master of Evil. Emphasis on Tiny.

** "'It's just a short way?' ''WAS THAT A SHORT JOKE?!''"

** This is actually an [[Averted Trope]] comparing the champions together. Even champions who could later kill the entire enemy team alone if they all just used auto-attack require help from other champions because there's a lot more to the game then just those statistics. Players who think they can [[One-Man Army|win the game alone]] just end up feeding and eventually losing.

* [[Our Elves Are Different]]: Runeterra has all sorts of supernatural creatures, monsters and gnomes, but what it does not have is elves. The two pointy-eared characters are explicitly ''not'' elves.

* [[Play Every Day]]: You get an extra 150 IP from winning once every 22 hours.

* [[Power of the Void]]: There are two champions who draw their power from this, and [[Eldritch Abomination|there are two who are FROM there]]. And you had better fear them, too; all of them have relatively high difficulty ratings, but all of them are quite powerful as well.

** Cho'Gath is a powerful tank with a silence, knockup, and a devastating ultimate that inflicts heavy true damage. He can also grow in size and health by using his ultimate to get kills, making him large enough to simply prevent the enemy from clicking on the carries as targets.

** Pantheon, for sure: ''"They disgrace the art of war!"''

* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Are you a tank? If yes, are you out of escape buttons? If yes, are your enemies all present at the same time your teammates are all absent? [[This Is Gonna Suck|Take a deep breath. This won't be over any time soon.]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The warmongering Noxus is Red, Ionia and Demacia are Blue with spiritual enlightenment and pursuit of justice, respectively.

* [[Retcon]]:

** Originally Yordles and Meglings were seperate races -- the tiny Yordles varied from somewhat animalistic little critters like Teemo to gnome-looking fellows like Heimerdinger and Corki, while Meglings were equally tiny, blue-skinned and white-haired, but otherwise humanoid. This was eventually retconned to make Tristana and Poppy Yordles as well, with "Megling" becoming the name of the Yordle commando unit that Tristana belonged to. [[Word of God]] is that this change was made because [[Viewers are Morons|players would be confused by two species of tiny humanoids at once]].

** The lore entries of several champions have changed over the years, some in slight details, others in major character overhauls. Teemo and Nunu have probably been hit the hardest with the Retcon Hammer; Teemo's lore took a big step towards [[Darker and Edgier]] and then a slightly smaller step back towards [[Lighter and Softer]]. Nunu's lore changed him from a boy to a girl and then ''back'' to a boy, causing much [[Viewer Gender Confusion]].

** The name of the tribe of warrior mountain-dwellers to which champions Pantheon and Leona changed from the Stanpar to the Rakkor, most likely to make the [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|parallels to the Greek Spartans]] a little less obvious.

** Ziggs can use his Satchel Charge to leap over map geometry.

* [[Rule 34]]: Compared to every MOBA Game out there, League Of Legends is well known for it's rule 34 and a doujin dedicated to it...god help us when Japan properly gets League of Legends with their own seiyuus voicing the game.

* [[Running Gag]]: Tamat, Lead Community Manager at Riot Games, is well-known for his favourite champion being Pantheon. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2_mp3hX3g This patch preview featured him looking slightly unhappy hearing about upcoming changes that would reduce Pantheon's power]. A later patch preview had him say he took a break from Pantheon to play Nocturne, and asked how he would be buffed. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkdP-Xp0N6o Morello holds in laughter and tells him Nocturne would be nerfed]. Tamat is again, displeased.

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Despite being a fairly magic heavy fantasy world, the Lore journals reveal that Runeterra is actually pretty technologically advanced above and beyond their magical capabilities. For instance, the Journal of Justice reveals that there have been dirigible races for the last 16 years with ships, at the smallest, being 27 meters. Such ships are worked on by both mages and engineers as one ship was modified by a chrono mage to be faster.

* [[Secret Test of Character]]: League Judgements, depending on how well Champions had studied the League beforehand.

* [[Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains]]: No, really.

** [[Hotter and Sexier|Ski]][[Evil Is Sexy|mpy]]: Katarina, Morgana, Eveylnn, Cassiopeia, Leblanc

* [[Sentry Gun]]: Heimerdinger's turrets.

** Subverted with Lux's skimpier original outfit, which was met with negative feedback by the community (she looked more like a cheerleader than a battle mage). Riot listened and gave her a make-over.

** Averted with Karma, Vayne, Irelia, and Riven, all of whom are dressed at least kind of sensibly.

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Tristana is almost more gun than Megling Gunner. If you count the ammo she carts around, she probably carries more in weaponry than she weighs.

** Miss Fortune's pistol barrels are thicker than her arms.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'', but at the same time, it tries to be different and even diversifies the MOBA Genre with adding a Capture-and-Hold mode.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Many of the mages, particularly Annie and Veigar. An aversion are the "Battle Casters", which are hybrid melee and spell-slingers and good at everything but [[Master of None]]. Even more averted by the ones who can heal others, including themselves. A careful player who can heal may rarely have to return to base aside from buying items.

* [[Summon Magic]]: The justification for the game.

* [[Support Power]]: Most summoner spells, but especially Heal and Clarity which restore health and mana respectively to all nearby allies.

** Kayle is a notable aversion: she wears full plate armor and a helm. Subsequently, [[Samus Is a Girl|people think she's male]].

** Garen's sister, Lux, wears plated armor pieces that don't cover her midriff, thighs and upper arms, but she wears chainmail and blue clothing which covers those areas. This after fan criticism, in which that design [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101013212150/leagueoflegends/images/f/f3/Lux_OriginalSkin_old.jpg lacked that clothing covering her thighs and midriff].

** Annie is a child, so she averted that for a long time to reduce creepiness... but the popular fan-made Teen Annie skins often portray her as a skimpily dressed teenager.

** Soraka doesn't wear much at all, and there is a Dryad skin if blue doesn't turn you on.

** The Exiled Morgana skin. Angelic and very revealing.

** Ruthless Pantheon. Amusing He-Man reference, or eye-candy for the ladies?

** Miss Fourtune's in-game sprite is practically topless, and almost all of her quotes are a double entandre.

** Ashe and her basic outfit which is similar to Sivir with slightly more clothing (and she lives in the coldest part of Runeterra). Woad and Sherwood Ashe justs amps up the fanservice.

** Akali anyone? Epic [[Sideboob]].

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: When you really really hate your teammates during a match for some reason, but are close to winning your team becomes this.

* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Many Karthus players ''intentionally'' sacrifice themselves so they can use his passive to take champions down with them. Other times, champs such as Xin Zhao intentionally dive into the fray and allow themselves to die so the team can wreak havoc while they're focusing on them.

* [[The Magnificent]]: Each champion has a title that applies to them examples of such:

** Irelia The Will of Blades

* [[Total Party Kill]]: Also known as ACED by the announcer.

* [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: this game, like most MOBA titles, features this quality, particularly via gank loops. If we're laning opposite each other and I kill you, I get a Gold and EXP advantage, not only from ganking you but because you then have to spend upwards of 75 seconds out of the fight (dead, respawning, traveling back up the lane). This G and EXP advantage lets me gain new equipment and abilities with which to repeat the process. When the page refers to a Champion getting "fed", it means that s/he was the beneficiary of this vicious cycle... and because it only has to happen two or three times for the advantage to become insurmountable, the match can be all but over within ten minutes.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]:

* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: [[Time Master|Zilean]] can plant [[A Worldwide Punomenon|time bombs]] onto units, including enemy champions. It's very possible to get one of these on you while you're running away and accidentally [[Idiot Ball|get a teammate killed]] if you don't keep your distance.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9DtuE0QIW8/ And then there's this.] [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* [[World of Badass]]: League requirement for joining: be a [[Badass]].

* [[World of Buxom]]

* [[Wretched Hive]]: Zaun and Noxus both qualify. Especially Zaun: sure, they may respect sentience of every type (as evidenced by Blitzcrank's freedom), but it's an industrial cesspool that values science above everything else, including morality, and is loaded with complete sociopaths who are given a free run of the place.

* [[The X of Y]]: Most champion's subtitles are this if not simply [[The X]].

 

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