History Memes / LeagueOfLegends

** Vi's sister (Possible, judging from [[http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/vi/?ref=en_na_lols_vdp the recent changes to Vi's page]])

** And now Jinx's sister (mentioned with her in-game quote[[note]]"You think I'M crazy? You should see my sister.[[/note]])

** Now [[AscendedMeme Ascended]] with Gangplank's newest champion spotlight (2015):

* SeraQUEEN[[labelnote:Explanation]]A play off both her name and her heavy IdolSinger inspiration (and in turn "stan" slang), it's become a tongue-in-cheek FanNickname of reverence, used with varying degrees of sincerity.[[/labelnote]]

* Alcove gaming[[labelnote:Explanation]]Preseason 2020 added 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 to ''League''. With there being a decent amount of ways to play around and outmaneuver your enemy, "alcove gaming" is used to refer the entire [[{{Metagame}} meta]] surrounding this one terrain addition.[[/labelnote]]

* [[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.]]

* [[Series/BetterCallSaul Better Call Sol]], based on [[http://i.imgur.com/6fjnPXg.png this fanmade poster]] made shortly after Aurelion Sol's announcement. Within a few days, it got the attention of not just Riot, [[https://twitter.com/NetflixDE/status/708281607711559680 but NetflixDE's Twitter itself!]]

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

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

* The Monologue Curse / "It starts with success..."[[labelnote:Explanation]]During Worlds 2020 quarterfinal between Fnatic and Top Esports, Fnatic took a 2-0 lead, prompting the host Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exX-ODFO7p0 deliver a monologue]] about Fnatic and their bot laner Martin "Rekkles" Larsson overcoming their failures and rising to the top. [[TemptingFate Top turned the series around and won after the first reverse sweep in Worlds history]], leading many to declare that Sjokz's monologue cursed the team. This wasn't the first example of "caster's curse", and Sjokz kept joking about it, giving another monologue during LEC's 2021 spring split... only for Fnatic to lose to then-dead last Team Vitality. At that point European community fully embraced the meme, and every monologue since then is seen as a death sentence to teams' hopes. At one point, she even gave [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ub5dwiYfA a monologue about how the then-underperforming G2 Esports]] was going to ''fail horribly'' [[SpringtimeForHitler in an attempt to invert the curse towards their favor]].
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* The Monologue Curse / "It starts with success..."[[labelnote:Explanation]]During Worlds 2020 quarterfinal between Fnatic and Top Esports, Fnatic took a 2-0 lead, prompting the host Eefje "Sjokz" Depoortere to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exX-ODFO7p0 deliver a monologue]] about Fnatic and their bot laner Martin "Rekkles" Larsson overcoming their failures and rising to the top. Top turned the series around and won after the first reverse sweep in Worlds history, leading many to declare that Sjokz's monologue cursed the team. This wasn't the first example of "caster's curse", and Sjokz kept joking about it, giving another monologue during LEC's 2021 spring split... only for Fnatic to lose to then-dead last Team Vitality. At that point European community fully embraced the meme, and every monologue since then is seen as a death sentence to teams' hopes.[[/labelnote]]

* "''He doesn't do anything''" / Reality Denial [[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch3-w0u8lrQ infamous video]] where a toplane Sion loses lane to an enemy Malphite and grows increasingly belligerant with his teammate Vi, leading to quotes such as the above. The video as a whole is cited as an example of how players become toxic in losing games, but the individual quotes are frequently reposted in jest whenever Malphite becomes a discussion topic.[[/labelnote]]

* The 0/10 Powerspike.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Yasuos are either godawful or capable of 1v9ing with ease. Even so, a Yasuo can spend a whole game being stomped on and still manage to get multikills with a good ultimate, leading to the joke that your team's Yasuo simply needs to hit his "powerspike".[[/labelnote]]

* The 1000 Day Club[[labelnote:Explanation]]An ever-changing list of [[OutOfFocus champions who have gone at least 1000 days without receiving a new skin]]. Because Riot has no set-in-stone quota of giving champions definite amounts of skins, fans took it upon themselves, joking about how certain champions are being [[PutOnABus sent to]], [[LongBusTrip stuck in]], or even [[TheBusCameBack rescued out of]] the club.[[/labelnote]]

* Varus is two gays and a demon in a trenchcoat[[labelnote:Explanation]] Varus lore rework had his origin retold has a homosexual couple who fused with a Darkin bow in an attempt to save one of them from mortal wounds. Occasionally compared to [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Garnet]]. Particularly prominent on Tumblr, and Reddit to some extend.[[/labelnote]]

* People being stuck reading Aphelios' abilities[[labelnote:Explanation]]Aphelios has one of the most complex kits on a Champion and the single longest passive in the entire game, to the point where his kit needed a primer document on release, and he had to have a ''new UI'' designed just for him. Because of the sheer amount of new knowledge players needed to take in (particularly), players love exaggerating the difficulty of learning the champion to comical levels.[[/labelnote]]

** Mordekaiser sending his enemies to Brazil[[labelnote:Explanation]]A snowclone variation of this meme and another one based on the now infamous "come to brazil" meme, where they forcibly send the reader to Brazil after many times being rejected to come to Brazil. Instead of sending people to the shadow realm, Mordekaiser send them to Brazil instead.[[/labelnote]]

* 200 YEARS[[labelnote:Explanation]]Aphelios's very high power in pro play upon release and lack of transparency over his abilities left LCS casters baffled at what they were seeing him accomplish. Coupled with the above infamous Riot response to player criticism over game balance and the Wukong rework, the meme became primarily attached to Aphelios when casters simply yelled 200 YEARS whenever Aphelios would do something shocking, like steal Baron Nashor from multiple screens away or multikill an enemy team.[[/labelnote]]

* Teemo is Satan. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Playing against Teemo is ''incredibly'' frustrating because of his passive stealth, poison, blind, and mushroom traps, leading to the meme that Teemo is evil and so is anyone who plays him. Became an AscendedMeme with the release of the Little Devil Teemo skin.[[/labelnote]]

* The Evasion Shitpost[[labelnote:Explanation]]A shitpost 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]]

* Sion the dank engine [[labelnote:Explanation]] Sion's ultimate, ''Unstoppable onslaught'', is often compared to a train, and has spawned every joke that would entail. Became an AscendedMeme with his Transformers inspired Mecha-Zero skin, which turns him into a train esque vehicle when using the spell.[[/labelnote]]

* Love me some Regi[[labelnote:Explanation]]During mid-2016, Andy "Reginald/Regi" Dinh (co-founder of esports organization Team [=SoloMid=]) criticized Riot during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcPP45gj72M an interview]] for drastically changing the game at points so ill-timed that they frequently threw players off their game, scared off investors, and put teams/organizations on unstable bedrock. This ended up prompting [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqfXxdBVMAAiYs2.jpg a response from Riot co-founder Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill]], beginning with the "Love me some Regi" quote before [[NeverMyFault pinning blame on esports organizations for investing in their game to begin with]], justifying the instability as [[SkewedPriorities out of the interest of making things exciting for the audience rather than the well-being of the actual teams]], and transparently admitting their favoritism of certain orgs with regards to their promotion/relegation model. The response was almost universally panned by fans and organizations alike, with the backlash being so one-sided that all LCS teams were to able to negotiate with Riot an overhaul of their leagues within a year that granted them the security they needed, and "Love me some Regi" becoming a catchphrase tied to whenever Riot displays an egregious lack of touch with their associates and audience.[[/labelnote]]

* Love me some Regi[[labelnote:Explanation]]During mid-2016, Andy "Reginald/Regi" Dinh (co-founder of esports organization Team [=SoloMid=]) criticized Riot during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcPP45gj72M an interview]] for drastically changing the game at points so ill-timed that they frequently threw players off their game, scared off investors, and put teams/organizations on unstable bedrock. This ended up prompting [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqfXxdBVMAAiYs2.jpg a response from Riot co-founder Marc "Tryndamere Merrill]], beginning with the "Love me some Regi" quote before [[NeverMyFault pinning blame on esports organizations for investing in their game to begin with]], justifying the instability as [[SkewedPriorities out of the interest of making things exciting for the audience rather than the well-being of the actual teams]]. The response was widely criticized by fans and organizations alike, with the backlash being so one-sided that all LCS teams were to able to negotiate with Riot an overhaul of their leagues within a year that granted them the security they needed, with "Love me some Regi" becoming a catchphrase tied to Riot's supposed lack of touch with their associates and audience.[[/labelnote]]

* Love me some Regi[[labelnote:Explanation]]During mid-2016, Andy "Reginald/Regi" Dinh (co-founder of esports organization Team [=SoloMid=]) criticized Riot during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcPP45gj72M an interview]] for drastically changing the game at points so ill-timed that they frequently threw players off their game, scared off investors, and put teams/organizations on unstable bedrock. This ended up prompting [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqfXxdBVMAAiYs2.jpg a response from Riot co-founder Marc "Tryndamere Merrill]], beginning with the "Love me some Regi" quote before [[NeverMyFault pinning blame on esports organizations for investing in their game to begin with]], justifying the instability as [[SkewedPriorities out of the interest of making things exciting for the audience rather than the well-being of the actual teams]]. The response was widely criticized by fans and organizations alike, with the backlash being so one-sided that all LCS teams were able to able to negotiate with Riot an overhaul of their leagues within a year that granted them the security they needed, with "Love me some Regi" as a phrase emblematic of Riot's lack of touch with their associates and audience.[[/labelnote]]

* Syndra Outplays. [[labelnote:Explanation]]During the first half of the 2017 season on a number of occasions pro players using Syndra, a DifficultButAwesome mage that revolves around difficult manipulation of magic orbs, have simply killed opponents using GlassCannon characters by using her ultimate ability to send all present spheres to collide with the target for a huge burst of damage. This has resulted in casters and fans alike using the meme phrase to sarcastically overhype a boring play with little effort on an otherwise complex and demanding champion.
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