History Trivia / LeagueOFlegends

* TheWikiRule: [[http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/League_of_Legends_Wiki The League of Legends Wiki]] and [[http://liquipedia.net/leagueoflegends/Main_Page liquipedia League of Legends Wiki]].

* Creator/AlexaKahn voices Sivir and, starting with the PROJECT legendary skin, Vayne.

** Naafiri

* OldShame:
** It's pretty much a given that if Riot reworks a champion and their lore to [[InNameOnly an especially drastic degree]] (among the biggest examples being Sion, Poppy, and Urgot), they probably regret their prior incarnation by quite a bit. When asked about old Mordekaiser's lore in light of his upcoming 2019 relaunch:
--->'''[[https://twitter.com/Xenogenic/status/1114299309640437760 Riot Xenogenic]]''': Imagine a movie where people find a lost tomb, and that tomb is cursed, and everyone who comes out of it and talks about it dies. Let's just say: it's better if we don't talk about Morde's old scripts.
** The "Dark Horses", strategies advertised by Riot to use champions in unusual ways, appears to be this for Riot, as they gave up on the concept after making only 6 and now no longer talk about it anymore aside from as a source of SelfDeprecatingHumor during April Fool's of 2016. The first one, Support Brand, was the only success, as Brand's high internal damage and single-target stun allows him to function as a poke support in a similar style to Lux and Zyra. Their next go, Jungle Irelia, was a complete flop that drew mockery from the fanbase, as Irelia clears the jungle ''very'' slowly and requires too much gold to function from it unless she happens to get off a few successful ganks early on. They tried to play it safe with their next 4 examples, but solo-lane Jarvan, top-lane Urgot, support Nautilus, and jungle Gragas were ''already things that were being done with regularity'', earning Riot further mockery.
** Sewn Chaos Amumu and Blitzcrank made it onto the PBE and were almost ready to go, but after negative fan feedback that Riot agreed with, the skins were cancelled before they could be properly sold live. Riot seems to view them as this, as their DummiedOut skin description reads "Due to their low quality and uglyness, these toys are destined to remain in the toy trash bin of unwantedness."
** Dynamic Queue was rolled out during Season 6 as a replacement to the Solo/Duo Queue, with the intent that players could team up and would be matched against pre-made groups for games, including ranked games. However, this turned out to bea colossal change for the worse [[ScrappyMechanic due to it greatly breaking the balance and quality of matchmaking]], with Riot completely undoing it by the following year. In Riot's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybhkk7KRXz8 10-year anniversary video]], during a section containing the game's historical low points, Dynamic Queue was put among their greatest mistakes.

* StarMakingRole: Creator/FayeMata when she voiced Lulu was practically kind of a newbie in voice acting business that she's mostly going to be known as just Lulu. However, she performed the role so well that it contributed to Lulu's ginormous popularity and from there, she starts racking up roles to become a prominent voice actress herself, racking up well known roles like [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Astolfo]], [[LightNovel/KonoSuba Aqua]] or [[LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero Malty]], to name a few.

** The champion who came Azir was born out of an extended development cycle for what was originally a [[SandBlaster sand mage]] named Seth, conceived very early in the game's life. Issues sprouted due to his initial gameplay fantasy -- that he could spread sand across the map to cast his abilities -- proving to be too technically-demanding for the game, causing him to undergo many alternate playstyles and designs for several years before he was eventually codified as an "emperor soldier-summoner" that became Azir.
** A [[OurDragonsAreDifferent storm dragon]] champion named Ao Shin was unveiled for release around 2013 -- given an [[EarlyBirdCameo early tease]] as part of Spirit Guard Udyr's reveal comic -- but ended up being delayed several times before being entirely scrapped and rebooted as Aurelion Sol. Much of the issues came from Ao Shin's design as a lengthy, serpentine dragon who was so long that he could wrap around enemy champions, which quickly became a burden for animators and game designers who struggled to figure out how to feasibly implement him in the game. When Aurelion Sol was created in Ao Shin's demise, his body was greatly reduced in length and made partially translucent just to ensure his hitbox was clear.

* DuelingGames: With others in the {{MOBA}} genre: ''VideoGame/{{Demigod}}'', ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'', and, of course, ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients''. ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' at one point was by far the biggest rival; ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'' has since become the main competitor with ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''.

** Milio

* ActorInspiredElement: A few of Neeko's voice lines indicates that [[TrademarkFavoriteFood her favorite food is "cheese breads"]], [[https://twitter.com/Spideraxe30/status/1335354982166564864 an element Rioters confirmed was directly inspired by]] [[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor her English/Portuguese voice actress]], Flora Paulita.

* NewbieBoom: The release and smash success of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'' in 2021 created a notable surge in outside interest for the ''League'' franchise as a whole and the MOBA in specific. Of special mention is how it affected individual champions, where many of those who were major characters in the series gained a huge spike in playrate, especially Vi, who is arguably ''the'' series protagonist. It's especially funny for her as due to her SkillGateCharacter design, she was rarely as popular than the likes of Jinx, Caitlyn, Jayce, etc., but in the seasons following this newfound attention, she's remained as more of a consistently strong and relevant competitive pick.

** ''VideoGame/HonorOfKings'' -- and later its international adaptation, ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor'' -- was Creator/{{Tencent|Games}}'s stab at replicating the ''League of Legends'' formula, but for mobile platforms. ''Honor of Kings'' was developed and released shortly ''after'' Tencent had acquired Riot Games, the story being that they wanted Riot to make a mobile version of ''League'', and when Riot declined (at the time believing [[ItWillNeverCatchOn that MOBAs were too sophisticated to be played on smartphones]]), [[StartMyOwn they produced their own]]. ''Honor of Kings''' massive success in their native China is what inspired Riot to eventually produce ''Wild Rift'', and aside from a brief legal scuffle surrounding the title (the game was renamed from ''League of Kings'', as Riot called them out as [[SerialNumbersFiledOff "blatantly ripping off their intellectual property"]]), the two have since coexisted more or less peacefully, with Tencent even delaying their western advertising push of ''Arena of Valor'' to allow ''Wild Rift'' to get its initial announcements out.

* BadExportForYou: Between 2010-2022, the game's release and ongoing publishing in Southeast Asia was handled not by Riot themselves, but outsourced to Singaporean company Garena, who ran the game off their own servers and launcher client. Garena servers have been notoriously fraught with problems when compared to official Riot releases, including having delayed patch releases compared to the rest of the world, arbitrarily-raised prices for cosmetics, introducing several gambling-based mechanics (including their own [[LootBoxes "Lucky Crates" loot]]), and even [[https://bitcoinist.com/league-of-legends-garena-client-infected-with-a-cryptocurrency-miner/ being used as an unauthorized front for cryptomining]]. Riot terminated their partnership with Garena in 2022, migrating existing player accounts being to their own official servers for the SEA region ([[https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/new-riot-games-sea-servers-for-lol-tft-go-live-in-january Riot attached a "server-warming" event for SEA players]] by giving them all preexisting champions for free alongside other goodies).

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In patch 11.21, an undocumented update saw Vi's abilities renamed to their current titles "Relentless Force" and "Cease and Desist" from the original "Excessive Force" and "Assault and Battery". No official reason why, but it's widely accepted it was done to distance Vi (a CowboyCop character) from the increasingly controversial profile of PoliceBrutality in TheNewTwenties, especially since it was during the highly-publicized release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'', where Vi is a protagonist.

* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: Ezreal's uncle was originally named Professor Lyte, [[{{Tuckerization}} a reference to former Lead Designer of Social Systems Jeffrey "Lyte" Lin]], with the character appearing on the Howling Abyss as the shopkeeper on the northeaster side. Following the Piltover lore update in December 2016, the character was instead renamed to Professor Lymere, likely due to Lyte leaving Riot in May of that year. Riot would end up further distancing themselves from the handle following several reports of disgraceful behavior, including allegations of cheating on and psychologically abusing his ex-fiance -- as of 2020, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200627205138/https://twitter.com/riotzimberfly/status/1276980919761375232 Riot's official stance on the shopkeeper NPC]] is that he's nameless ([[TheArtifact though several in-game interactions still mention him being Ezreal's uncle, with Ezreal's biography as of his 2018 VGU still confirming that Lymere exists in canon]]).

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: System and champion designer Daniel "[=ZenonTheStoic=]" Klein (lead dev of champions including Lucian, Azir, Tahm Kench, Taliyah, and Kayn) was fired from Riot following comments made in the periphery of the company's controversies in PAX West 2018. Riot held several panels that were largely exclusive to only female and non-binary attendants, a move that sparked much controversy online. While Klein was ''defending'' Riot's decision, he was let as he "violated their social media policy", presumably because he got in a heated Twitter argument following his statements, or because he wasn't supposed to be engaging within the controversy, period.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: From the Brazilian Portuguese version of the game, Marli Bortoletto and Creator/BiancaAlencar are both voice actors in ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' as Monica and Denise, respectively.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In patch 11.21, an undocumented update saw Vi's abilities renamed to their current titles "Relentless Force" and "Cease and Desist" from the original "Excessive Force" and "Assault and Battery". No official reason why, but it's widely accepted it was done to distance Vi (a CowboyCop character) from the increasingly controversial topic of PoliceBrutality in TheNewTwenties, especially since it was during the highly-publicized release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'', where Vi is a protagonist.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: In patch 11.21, an undocumented update saw Vi's abilities renamed to their current titles "Relentless Force" and "Cease and Desist" from the original "Excessive Force" and "Assault and Battery". No official reason why, but it's widely accepted it was done to distance Vi (a CowboyCop character) from the increasingly controversial topic of PoliceBrutality in TheNewTwenties, especially since it was during the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'', where Vi is a protagonist.

** Creator/KyleHebert has old Ezreal, old Graves, and Jarvan IV (even though he was [[TheOtherDarrin Darrin'd]] for Ezreal and Graves, he still voices Jarvan in ''Legends of Runeterra'').

** Dennis Collins Johnson voices the current Heimerdinger, as well as the pre-VGU Gangplank and pre-VGU Taric.

** Lisa Lindsley voices Soraka and old Kayle (classic and Aether Wing Kayle).
** {{Creator/David Lodge|AmericanActor}} voices old Galio (both his classic and Gatekeeper voiceovers, [[TheOtherDarrin now currently voiced by]] Josh Petersdorf), Skarner, and Ivern.
** Creator/ScottMcNeil voices Hecarim, Sion, Veigar, and old Maokai.

** Creator/CristinaMilizia voices Amumu, Annie, and old Nunu.

** Creator/PhileceSampler voiced both Fizz and Kennen.
** Rebecca Schweitzer voiced old Morgana and old Sivir.
** Creator/PatrickSeitz voices Renekton, Kog'Maw, and [[TheOtherDarrin the old Lucian]].
** Brian Sommer voices Tryndamere, old Willump, and old Warwick.

** Owen Thomas voices Twisted Fate (before being Darrin'd) and Viktor.
** Joshua Tomar voices the current version of Trundle as well as Greyor (the southern shopkeeper of the Howling Abyss).

** Creator/TravisWillingham voices both Azir (before being Darrin'd) and Talon.

** Unnamed Darkin Assassin
** Unnamed Ixtali Enchanter

** {{Creator/David Lodge|Actor}} voices old Galio (both his classic and Gatekeeper voiceovers, [[TheOtherDarrin now currently voiced by]] Josh Petersdorf), Skarner, and Ivern.