League of Legends: Difference between revisions

** 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.

** 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.

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: More or less explains most of the female characters. Mentioning it is virtually [[Memetic Mutation]]. [http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=6974712#post6974712 It] [http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=6134758#post6134758 has] [http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=6134703#post6134703 been] [http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=6133044#post6133044 explained] that being subtler doesn't quite work for the game engine.

* [[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."

* [[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]].

** 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.

* [[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.

** This also happens if you get in a team whose strategy is to faceroll the opponents' team so hard they surrender, and the other team is ''very'' stubborn and refuses to surrender. And if you're doing this in a bot game? This will ascend beyond [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]] and go into [[And I Must Scream]]. Unlike players, bots don't surrender and get items for free, so really, you shouldn't just decide "I'll farm kills cause it's a bot game" Because they ''will'' outgear you if you let the game go on too long. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though; if the players who turtled the game decide enough is enough they can always turn 'em around and fight Baron or backdoor them.

** Riot then released [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrSihRXTrq4 this "spotlight"]. Game Breaking... no DESTROYING power, a "blurry" screen debuff, and the ability to kill members of ''your own team'' who defect to the other side. They released an actual spotlight video shortly after.

** Their 2012 prank (a really bad 3D mode) was obvious (made even more so by the Urf cameo at the end), but nonetheless hilarious. Incidentally, they've actually named April Fool's Dy "Urf Day."