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**** Poppy's already has a passive that shrugs off really powerful attacks. It simply channels her inner mental reserve to unspeakable levels except for her enemy.

** Who created Nocturne? He was found at Twisted Treeline, home to Thresh who is a sadistic jailer and both have similar death animations (struggling to stay alive in a really horrifying way). Nocturne was one of Thresh's finest creations.
*** Nah, that Treeline was a completely different one, near Zaun instead of the Shadow Isles one Thresh comes from. Noc probably comes from some alternate nightmare dream dimension that he rents from Freddy Kreuger
*** Given how the Treeline merged may have caused Nocturne to split from the Lantern and go do what he was meant to do by Thresh's orders: Kill and torture.

** Why would pantheon, who even without memetic mutation, is very sturdy and focused, want to be a baker of all things? Well, his village would most likely always be strained for food, so a baker would most likely be just as important to them as strong warriors.

** It's stated that Nami is searching for a group of people with a "Moonstone". It's fairly obvious, though not stated that she's searching for the Lunari (Diana's people), who are all about the moon. This isn't so impressive to figure out. However when you consider how closely related the moon and the tide is (and Nami is the Tidecaller), this relationship becomes a lot more symbolic and clever.

** This also leads to a little bit of FridgeHorror when you realize she's looking for the Lunari, who were almost entirely eliminated by the Solari.
* FridgeBrilliance:

* FridgeBrilliance: Talon's title, The Blade's Shadow. He worked under General Du Couteau, and in French "Couteau" means "knife."
* FridgeBrilliance: The ammoral mutant scientists in League of Legends both have a damage dealing spell that does a percentage of health (Warwick and Mundo). Guess they know enough about Runeterran anatomy so that they do damage on a unit's maximum health. Likewise most of the Void Champions have a silence.
* FridgeBrilliance: Why does Thresh, a sadistic monster, spend so much time being helpful and saving his teammates? [[INeedYouStronger He wants them stronger]] before he takes their souls too.

* FridgeHorror: It rapidly becomes apparent when reading his backstory that Brand's body is just a burnt charred corpse controlled like a puppet...
** This also lends a terrifying edge to his line "This body is just one of many..."

*** Likely most of this is due to time constraints in efficiently making new heroes since anything with more than two legs or flight becomes more difficult to animate without horrible {{Squick}}-inducing animation bugs.
*** This will be averted by Skarner.

**** Hang on, wouldn't it make more sense for her NOT to clothe herself then?
* FridgeHorror: Who created Nocturne? He was found at Twisted Treeline, home to Thresh who is a sadistic jailer and both have similar death animations (struggling to stay alive in a really horrifying way). Nocturne was one of Thresh's finest creations.
** Nah, that Treeline was a completely different one, near Zaun instead of the Shadow Isles one Thresh comes from. Noc probably comes from some alternate nightmare dream dimension that he rents from Freddy Kreuger
** Given how the Treeline merged may have caused Nocturne to split from the Lantern and go do what he was meant to do by Thresh's orders: Kill and torture.
* FridgeBrilliance: Zac and his CasualDangerDialogue. His dialogue sounds the most like a RealLife person than any other champion. He actually says "How's it going?" and "Why thanks! I do work out." in the middle of beating his enemies to death. It's because he was raised by loving parents (well, the married scientists that created him anyway) and had a very normal upbringing (by RealLife standards).

** Given how the Treeline merged may have caused Nocturne to split from the Lantern and go do what he was meant to do by Thresh's orders: Kill and torture.

** Nah, that Treeline was a completely different one, near Zaun instead of the Shadow Isles one Thresh comes from. Noc probably comes from some alternate nightmare dream dimension that he rents from Freddy Kreuger

* FridgeHorror: Who created Nocturne? He was found at Twisted Treeline, home to Thresh who is a sadistic jailer and both have similar death animations (struggling to stay alive in a really horrifying way). Nocturne was one of Thresh's finest creations.

*** To lure hapless male mages into her sweet embrace. Too bad unlike Maokai she derives no nourishment from consuming her pray (aka no sustain). Which is a fridge brilliance on why Zyra's plants don't heal her naturally.

*** To lure hapless male mages into her sweet embrace. Too bad unlike Maokai she derives no nourishment from consuming her pray (aka no sustain). Which is a fridge brilliance on why Zyra's plants don't heal her naturally.

** How does Zyra, a sentient, malevolent, killer plant have no sense of morality but does have the instinct to form parts of her body into something resembling ''clothing''?

** It's stated that Nami is searching for a group of people with a "Moonstone". It's fairly obvious, though not stated that she's searching for the Lunari (Diana's people), who are all about the moon. This isn't so impressive to figure out.
However when you consider how closely related the moon and the tide is (and Nami is the Tidecaller), this relationship becomes a lot more symbolic and clever.

*** Runeterran Oranges, if you didn't read Gragas backstory, the oranges are magically infused citrus which have an even more beneficial effect.

** The lore shows champions doing extremely powerful things prior to their League admittance: from Maokai nearly destroying the entire Twisted Treeline along with all champions and spectators, Kayle using her typically one-target ultimate on ''everyone'' to protect them from the previous champions' Slicing Maelstrom, to Renekton easily putting down his brother and getting past three opponents before being stopped. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Just feels like Riot wants the champions to look incredibly awesome]] at first, but then again the Institute of War is probably ''heavily'' toning down their strengths when they enter the Fields of Justice. Now imagine what they could do if they had all the champions under their control at the same time in which they gave them full access to their powers.

*** Scurvy is an illness caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C, a person with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is partially immobilized. As scurvy advances, there can be open, suppurating wounds, loss of teeth, jaundice, fever, neuropathy and death (from wikipedia). It was a common illness among pirates, as fruit goes bad really fast, so it would've been a waste of space carrying rotten food on board. To treat scurvy, someone needs to eat lots of oranges, lemons, etc. Riot did their homework. What I DO wonder, is how Gangplank cures his scurvy with just a couple of oranges...

*** Runeterran Oranges, aka Gangplank while eating it also sprays a stinging citrus that is corrosive enough to ward off enemy champions' negative effects.

** Players shall either forever be confused how oranges remove all crowd-control effects on Gangplank, wonder if they could get oranges to work for them like that too, [[MST3KMantra or just decide to forget about caring]].

** Players shall either forever be confused how oranges remove all crowd-control effects on Gangplank, wonder if they could get oranges to work for them like that to, [[MST3KMantra or just decide to forget about caring]].

** Some of the components and corresponding results for advanced items are frequently fairly strange.

** The lore shows champions doing extremely powerful things prior to their League admittance: from Maokai nearly destroying the entire Twisted Treeline along with all champions and spectators, Kayle using her typically one-target ultimate on ''everyone'' to protect them from the previous champions' Slicing Maelstrom, to Renekton easily putting down his brother and getting past three opponents before being stopped. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Just feels like Riot wants the champions to look incredibly awesome]] at first, but then again the Institute of War is probably '''heavily''' toning down their strenghts when they enter the Fields of Justice. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Now imagine what they could do]] [[KidWithTheLeash if they had all the champions under their control]] [[PowerLimiter at the same time in which they gave them full access to their powers]]. [[OhCrap Maybe their intervention at Kalamanda ''wasn't'' their biggest ace in the hole...]]