History Memes / LeagueOfLegends

** This was [[AscendedMeme ascended]] when Riot added gave Thresh an Eternal aptly called "CLICK".

* Yuumi is not a champion.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Yuumi's entire gimmick is that she can attach herself to teammates, granting them bonus stats as well as other assistance while being immune to harm unless she's somehow forced off or her partner is killed. Naturally, this leads to a much less active playstyle where the player doesn't even have to move, autoattack, or generally play the game (for the most part). This has led to many complaints and jokes about how Yuumi shouldn't be considered an actual champion as opposed to something like a buff or item.[[/labelnote]]

* Some people created a meme involving Gangplank. but I ate some oranges and it was k ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) [[labelnote:Explanation]]Some takedowns against champions work by stunning (or otherwise immobilizing) your enemy and then killing him while they're defenseless. However, Gangplank has an ability ("Remove Scurvy") in which he removes all immobilizing effects by simply eating an orange. Therefore "Someone was about to kill me, but then I ate some oranges and it was k".[[/labelnote]]

* r/RyzeMains[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Ryze Mains [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] is... quite something to behold. The members and contents of the subreddit can be summed up as an exaggeration of the playerbase's frustration of how Ryze constant nerf/reworks and how uncomfortable to play Ryze while still playing him like an addict because of his constant underperforming and low numbers, posting almost incomprehensible madness or just visualized frustration akin to a boiling hot wojak in a bitcoin market crash. It got so bad that the subreddit actually pin up a post that gave them access to free-for-charge mental health support lines and it hasn't been unpinned by the moderators ever since.[[/labelnote]]

* THROW ANOTHER ROCK [[labelnote:Explanation]]A ''very'' common line given when using ''Threaded Volley'' Taliyah players are gonna hear a lot. As a result, it shows up in nearly every thread talking about her.[[/labelnote]]

* "DON'T CHASE SINGED!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Self-explanatory really, as not only is chasing Singed generally pretty futile, [[SchmuckBait you'll usually die if you persist anyway.]][[/labelnote]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpe-JoGyPsY Can't Killean The Zilean]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Zilean's ultimate inflicts a buff to self/any ally whereas if the inflicted one gets killed when the buff is still active, he will get resurrected instantly. This phrase refers to any chances where an opponent attempts to kill a Zilean-ult'd enemy (''especially'' Zilean) and then saw the enemy rise back from the dead, and possibly ruin the killer's day. Silly dancing with "Oh My Little Baby Boy" optional. This has gone memetic enough that some people made fan-stuffs about "Can't Killean The Zilean" (like big emoticons) and demanding that should Zilean get a VU, he gets this dance, but thus far, Riot hasn't budged to ascend this meme.[[/labelnote]]
** Foda-se. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A random Brazilian guy, just fired from its job, recorded an audio of himself saying "foda-se" (basically, "fuck it/screw it" in Portuguese). Someone took the recording and replaced the audio from the Can't Killean the Zilean video with it. Cue instant viral [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFNBxG0yaKI and a full song based on the meme]]. [[/labelnote]]

* CLICK THE LANTERN! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Thresh has an extremely useful ability where he can throw his lantern out and any ally who clicks on it will be dragged back to his location, very useful for saving allies caught out of position. Unfortunately, a lot of less experienced players will not actually know this, resulting in them regularly ignoring the lantern and being killed with salvation just a single click away. As you can imagine, this causes no end of frustration to Thresh players.[[/labelnote]]
** This actually prompted Riot in patch 4.1 to add an indicator that directs allied champs' eyes to the lantern with a line of arrows... and some people still don't click it.

* Yuumi not being a champion[[labelnote:Explanation]]Yuumi's entire gimmick is that she can attach onto teammates, granting them bonus stats as well as other assistance while being immune to harm unless she is somehow forced off or her partner is killed. Naturally, this leads to a much less active playstyle where the player doesn't even have to move, autoattack, or generally play the game for the most part. This has led to many complaints (and jokes) about how Yuumi shouldn't be considered an actual champion as opposed to something like a buff or item.[[/labelnote]]
* I hope Yuumi wins. I am a Yuumi main. I love cats, and my parents tell me I'm a parasite, so we have a lot in common. Yuumi might not be able to flash, but it lights up my life and heart. Go Yuumi!!!!!![[labelnote:Explanation]]Another memetic copypasta taken from Twitch and often used whenever Yuumi is involved.[[/labelnote]]
* Sadcat Yuumi[[labelnote:Explanation]]Yuumi often receives criticisms that she's a lazy AFK champion who wins by doing nothing, and all that negative jazz. Expect to see someone photoshopping the Sad Cat meme onto Yuumi in response.[[/labelnote]]

* The Counterstrike Shitpost[[labelnote:Explanation]]A shitpost writing out Jax's Counterstrike ability word for word that originated on [=r/Draven=] and appears in nearly every conversation when Jax is brought up, often with spelling errors and calling Jax "Jacks".[[/labelnote]]

* Have you seen my bear Tibbers? [[labelnote:Explanation]]A very common phrase said by [[LittleMissBadass Annie]], playing roughly every two or three times you tell her to go somewhere. This, combined with her cutesy, high-pitched voice, led to many players finding her almost intolerable to play. This was addressed by Riot in her graphical rework; she kept the iconic line, though a wider quote pool made it more tolerable.[[/labelnote]]

* Ryze rework.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Ryze has been reworked more times than any other League of Legends champion, leading to jokes about when he will next get reworked while other champions are still in their season 1 state.[[/labelnote]]
* Ryze Mains[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Ryze Mains [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] is... quite something to behold. The members and contents of the subreddit can be summed up as an exaggeration of the playerbase's frustration of how Ryze constant nerf/reworks and how uncomfortable to play Ryze while still playing him like an addict because of his constant underperforming and low numbers, posting almost incomprehensible madness or just visualized frustration akin to a boiling hot wojak in a bitcoin market crash. It got so bad that the subreddit actually pin up a post that gave them access to free-for-charge mental health support lines and it hasn't been unpinned by the moderators ever since.[[/labelnote]]

* Seraphine is a white savior. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Another meme based off of the perceived UnfortunateImplications of her lore, as her lore implies that she has the ability to unite two war torn places dealing with systematic oppression through the sound of her music alone, which many league players find hard to believe, or borderline Mary Sue-ish.[[/labelnote]]

* Depicting Seraphine butching Skarners kind for various purposes such as needing new batteries for her headphones, platform, etcetera has also become a trend which persists even after her lore update.

* Smolder's Mom was part of the Riot layoffs.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A rare taunt from Smolder has him mention that his mom works at Riot, unfortunately at around the time of his release, Riot had announced changes and closure of Riot Forge. Jokes were made that Smolder's mom was part of the layoffs that ensued during the closure.[[/labelnote]]

* Not ''exactly'' a meme, but it was common for fan artists to draw Teemo [[SelfFanservice as a massively buff and hunky yordle]]. For the game's 10th anniversary, [[https://www.riftherald.com/lol-skins/2019/10/16/20917112/anniversary-annie-skin-tibbers-teemo-league-of-legends Riot released the "Annie-versary" skin for Annie which replaces Tibbers with a giant buff Teemo]].

* [[http://i.imgur.com/uRATMzE.jpg "i will change ur experience of yasuo"]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A player who thinks he's hot shit at Yasuo claims [[BlatantLies that he will totally change the opinion of the person doubting him towards the champion.]] [[LeeroyJenkins He doesn't.]][[/labelnote]]

* ''DARKKKKKKKKNEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS'', mimicking a line Nocturne might say after using his ultimate, is a popular way to distill and describe Nocturne. Similar to Fiddlesticks, many agree HellIsThatNoise.

* Viego, the [[GameBreakingBug Buggy King]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Upon is release on the PBE, many players start to realize how buggy he was, ranging from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Yhw8f5JwY being permanently stuck as Elise if you've gone to the ceiling right before he transforms back]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvyh0hXOf8 temporarily converting Caitlyn's Q to behave like Nunu's W if you possess the latter then kill the former after casting his W]], to bugs that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvGH2SPahJc literally crashes the game]] or multiple instances of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpd6u-P1HU the game immediately deletes itself]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBeyWyfhi8I and booting out the players]]. Needless to say, the playerbase caught up with it and start making jokes that Viego has dethroned Mordekaiser as the new king of bugs, or Mordekaiser being proud of Viego for surpassing him in his GameBreakingBug capabilities.[[/labelnote]]

* The unseen X is the deadliest.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Zed's selection quote "The unseen blade is the deadliest." has been endlessly snowcloned.[[/labelnote]]

* [[IncomingHam HI EVERYBODY!]] [[labelnote:Explanation]] Like Sion before him, Galio's ultimate, ''Hero's Entrance'' Is such an over the top example of DynamicEntry that it has become a meme in and of itself. Common examples include comparing it to a wrestler body slamming someone from the top rope/a ladder , or putting it's [[CrossHairAware symbol]] in a scene where someone falls from offscreen (usually on to there face and with some rubble from the ceiling coming with them).[[/labelnote]]

* Some people created a meme involving Gangplank. but I ate some oranges and it was k ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) [[labelnote:Explanation]]Most killings on [=LoL=] work by stunning (or otherwise stopping) your enemy and then killing him while he is defenseless. Gangplank has one ability ("Remove Scurvy") in which he removes all of those status by simply eating an orange. Therefore "Someone was about to kill me, but then I ate some oranges and it was k".[[/labelnote]]

* X has Y, but Graves can't have his cigar? [[labelnote:Explanation]]The champion Graves originally had a cigar in his splash, but it was later removed. As a result, anything that could be remotely adult or offensive in the game or supplementary material prompts the above response.[[/labelnote]] This has been [[AscendedMeme ascended multiple times by Riot a few times.]]

* Morgana Q lasting for [insert exorbitantly long amount of time][[labelnote:Explanation]]The root from Morgana's Q ''Dark Binding'' is one of the longest single instances of crowd-control in the game, and it somehow feels ''even longer'' if you get tagged with it in a crucial moment, so players are keen to make jokes exaggerating the length of the root. Became an AscendedMeme when Riot made the debuff tooltip for the root say that it lasts for 3 years.[[/labelnote]]

*** Just QSS, Zhonya, pink ward and use a Thornmail against the spears. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The above phrase taken to its logical conclusion with the most common counterplay items the game has to offer. The Quicksilver Sash removes all forms of paralysis and crowd control except knockups, Zhonya's Hourglass briefly locks you in stasis and lets you escape from life-threatening damage bursts, and the Thornmail returns 30% of any damage you receive from basic attacks.[[/labelnote]]
* This game is Rated T. [[labelnote:Explanation]]This is an in-joke among players who are familiar with the game's extensive lore. There are many situations described in character backgrounds such as Tahm Kench eating someone alive when he "snapped her bones and crushed her limbs", or Vladimir killing two children because he liked the look of their blood, that one would think would push the rating into M territory. It got quite revitalized after Evelynn's rework, as many of her new lines are so blatantly sexual she made [[MsFanservice Ahri]] seem chaste, making some players wonder how the hell that got through.[[/labelnote]]
* Alcove gaming[[labelnote:Explanation]]Preseason 2020 slightly expanded the top and bottom lanes with alcoves for opponents to play around, usually [[MemeticBadass disproportionately hailed]] as one of the biggest map changes ever in ''League''. With there being a decent amount of ways to play around and outmaneuver your enemy with them, "alcove gaming" is used to refer the entire [[{{Metagame}} meta]] surrounding this one terrain addition.[[/labelnote]]

* Giga-K'sante[[labelnote:Explanation]]When first revealed, K'sante rugged look and [[LanternJawOfJustice extreme jawline]] causes the fandom to notice the similarity between him and Ernest Khalimov, otherwise known in the interwebs as [[MemeticBadass Gigachad]]. Riot took notice of the comparison and didn't waste any time to [[https://blix.gg/skins/league-of-legends/items/Giga_K'Sante create an emote based on it]].[[/labelnote]]

!! Teemo

* [[http://i.imgur.com/uRATMzE.jpg "i will change ur experience of yasuo."]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A player who thinks he's hot shit at Yasuo claims [[BlatantLies that he will totally change the opinion of the person doubting him towards the champion.]] [[LeeroyJenkins He doesn't.]][[/labelnote]]

* Being Yasuo's brother, the same memes apply to him about needing to reach his 0/10 powerspike or being named "Windshitter 2".

* Brb need stacks [[labelnote:Explanation]]Nasus' main gimmick is that the more stacks of his Q he gains by using it to kill enemies, the more damage it does. By endgame, this can be a terrifying amount - hence, spending most of the game gaining stacks off minions. However, this also leads to many jokes about Nasus players who will be still gathering stacks up top as a 4v5 teamfight erupts at Dragon or the enemy team starts tearing down the inhibitor or base turrets. Even worse, the ones who leave a crucial defensive position because they feel they're behind. Sadly, such jokes are based on truth occasionally.[[/labelnote]]

* SHOTGUN KNEES [[labelnote:Explanation]]Urgot has chemtech shotguns in his knees, it's as awesome as it sounds, and players adore him for it. [[/labelnote]]

* Lux Skins/Lux skins in every skin line[[labelnote:Explanation]]Up until Miss Fortune top her off for being champions with the most skins released, Lux was the subject of many and many cosmetic releases, varying in quality. Because of her popularity as a character and in gameplay, Lux skins tends to be the one selling like hotcakes, which prompted Riot to release more Lux skins at least once a year. Players love to joke that there are a lot of Lux skins released ever since that it's possible that every skin line will have at least one Lux skin included[[/labelnote]]

* [[OhCrap CAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAWCAW]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]That is the [[HellIsThatNoise often dreaded sound]] of Fiddlestick's ultimate, that [[ThatOneAttack can easily ruin your day when he jumps out of the brush with it.]][[/labelnote]]
* '''''S U C C''''' [[labelnote:Explanation]] Fiddlesticks W, drain, siphons health from a target with a tube of energy, almost as if he was using a huge straw. It's not uncommon for people to make slurping noises or crack a few [[BlackComedy blowjob jokes]] while using the spell. [[/labelnote]]

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/14f9ewr/showmaker_explains_ksante/joyvlwm/ K'Sante copypasta]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Prior to a sweeping rework to his numbers in patch 13.20, K'Sante was proving to be a terror due to his absurd scaling and damage output despite being a tank champion. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW69GYmiHBM On one early 2023 stream]] by LCK player Heo "[=ShowMaker=]" Su, "[=ShowMaker=]" would launch into a comedic rant deriding K'Sante's design and numbers after watching the champion in question run over his teammate. His rant quickly became a meme that was utilized as a copypasta whenever K'Sante demolished someone in streams and pro play, at least until his rework -- and then he was buffed back into relevancy in patch 13.21, leading to a resurgence in the copypasta.[[/labelnote]]

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/14f9ewr/showmaker_explains_ksante/joyvlwm/ K'Sante copypasta]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Prior to a sweeping rework to his numbers in patch 13.20, K'Sante was proving to be a terror due to his absurd scaling and damage output despite being a tank champion. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2YVLbQSdRA On one early 2023 stream]] by LCK player Heo "[=ShowMaker=]" Su, "[=ShowMaker=]" would launch into a comedic rant deriding K'Sante's design and numbers after watching the champion in question run over his teammate. His rant quickly became a meme that was utilized as a copypasta whenever K'Sante demolished someone in streams and pro play, at least until his rework -- and then he was buffed back into relevancy in patch 13.21, leading to a resurgence in the copypasta.[[/labelnote]]

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/14f9ewr/showmaker_explains_ksante/joyvlwm/ K'Sante copypasta]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Prior to a sweeping rework to his numbers in patch 13.20, K'Sante was proving to be a terror due to his absurd scaling and damage output despite being a tank champion. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2YVLbQSdRA On one early 2023 stream]] by LCK player Heo "[=ShowMaker=]" Su, "[=ShowMaker=]" would launch into a comedic rant deriding K'Sante's design and numbers after watching the champion in question run over his teammate. His rant quickly became a meme that was utilized as a copypasta whenever K'Sante demolished someone in streams and pro play, at least until his rework.[[/labelnote]]

* K'Sante copypasta [[labelnote:Explanation]]Prior to a sweeping rework to his numbers in patch 13.20, K'Sante was proving to be a terror due to his absurd scaling and damage output despite being a tank champion. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2YVLbQSdRA On one early 2023 stream]] by LCK player Heo "[=ShowMaker=]" Su, "[=ShowMaker=]" would launch into a comedic rant deriding K'Sante's design and numbers after watching the champion in question run over his teammate. His rant quickly became a meme that was utilized as a copypasta whenever K'Sante was picked or demolished someone in streams and pro play, at least until his rework.[[/labelnote]]

* Olaf'd. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Poor Olaf received nerfs so many times he went from an utter GameBreaker into completely unviable in any competitive scenes (unlike Irelia, who managed to find a slightly better balance in spite of many necessary nerf and another meme to go along with that, 'Better nerf Irelia'). At this point, if a character received so many nerfs that players fear the character may be unviable, they call it 'getting Olaf'd', as in sharing the same fate as Olaf.[[/labelnote]]

!!Briar
* Briar's feet[[labelnote:Explanation]]From as early as her splash art [[ContentLeak being leaked prematurely]], the biggest thing the entire fanbase focused on beyond anything else in her design was her conspicuously [[BarefootCaptives bare feet]], not helped by the splash art's lighting almost putting a literal spotlight pointing towards her toes. As you would imagine, this provoked jokes about how Riot was at long last making a champion for foot fetishists.[[/labelnote]]

* X has Y, but Graves can't have his cigar? [[labelnote:Explanation]]The champion Graves originally had a cigar in his splash, but was later removed. As a result, anything that could be remotely adult or offensive in the game or supplementary material prompts the above response.[[/labelnote]] This has been [[AscendedMeme ascended multiple times by Riot a few times.]]

* ARH-WOOOOO [[labelnote:Explanation]]Based on [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/5bd458/i_love_warwick/ this random gush "shitpost"]] about [[SavageWolves Warwick]] that made it to the front page of [[Website/{{Reddit}} r/leagueoflegends]] for some reason, baffling even moderators. "ARH-WOO" has caught on the sub as shorthand for Warwick like wildfire.[[/labelnote]]
* 5 AD. [[labelnote:Explanation]] One infamous patch note during the Sated Devourer meta had Riot nerfing Kayle's base Attack Damage due to her being too good at jungle, while completely ignoring the fact that [[ElephantInTheLivingRoom Sated Devourer was the problem, not Kayle.]] 5 AD is now euphemism for quite a lot of situations on patch notes, such as Riot nerfing a champion instead of a broken item/mastery/mechanic or nerfing a champion's base stats when the problem is in their kit.[[/labelnote]]

* X has Y, but Graves can't have his cigar? [[labelnote:Explanation]]The champion Graves originally had a cigar in his splash, but was later removed. As a result, anything that could be remotely adult or offensive in the game or supplementary material prompts the above response.[[/labelnote]] This has been [[AscendedMeme ascended multiple times by Riot a few times.]]
** One of post-VU Gangplank's taunts to Graves is "Can't light cigars at the bottom of the sea."
** A more blatant reference was in [[https://youtu.be/RUVveKdiU_U?t=120 Yorick's Champion Spotlight,]] where while describing Yorick's Grave mechanic, Phreak notes "Also, none of the graves can have a cigar."
** In his Snow Day Graves skin, while tampering with his snowblower shotgun, he accidentally shoots a snowman head into his face, with a carrot as a cigar.

* Inting Sion/Thebausffs Special [[labelnote:Explanation]]Sion has a surprisingly high AD scaling in his kit (specifically his Q and R) and his potential DPS skyrocket when he triggers his passive, which requires the player to die to activate. Players realizes that a dying Sion is much more dangerous to fight against than a living, healthy Sion. Many players start building AD Lethality items to maximize his DPS potential [[SuicidalOverconfidence by deliberately dying up close to the enemy]] or structures because the DPS can instantly disintegrate towers within seconds. The build was dubbed "Inting Sion", popularized by a streamer and a Sion main Thebausffs. The build was so popular yet divisive because the success being reliant on a coin flip plus the ability to disintegrate structures that makes Yorick shed tears of joy, causes detractors to dub the strat boring and predictable, cursing anyone who uses this strat as braindead and partially blaming Thebausffs for popularizing it. Riot, predictably fed with the nonsense, decided to nerf the strat permanently by lowering his AD scaling a bit and makes it so Sion can no longer chew on structures with his passive, ensuring that the strat will be nothing more but a troll pick.[[/labelnote]]

* 1000 DEGREE CLAWS [[labelnote:Explanation]]Immediately after the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsnDbealN9E cinematic teaser]] for Warwick's rework was uploaded on the official League of Legends Website/YouTube channel, comments comparing Warwick's new augmented claw to the "1000 Degree Knife" meme started pouring in.[[/labelnote]]