History Trivia / LeagueOfLegends

** Season 13 Skarner

* 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 as 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.

** Skarner was voted for a full visual-gameplay update in early 2022, but ended up experiencing an extended production cycle as -- by their own admission -- Riot had tons of problems figuring out what to do with him. In [[https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-searching-for-skarner-s-sting/ a March 2023 blog post]] -- over a year after development began -- the team behind his VGU confessed they were still in a relatively early design stage, noting that Skarner's astonishingly low popularity has made it difficult to identify what exactly people ''like'' about Skarner to develop and expand on, finding his "lonely crystal scorpion" identity too limited and unexciting, while the risk of [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks alienating what few fans he has by drastically modifying said concept]] being too large to ignore.

** Season 13 Skarner

** ''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 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.

* Releasing in 2024

** Creator/ErikBraa voices Jax, Draven, and Vel'Koz.

* Upcoming

** Skarner VGU

** Unnamed Dragon Champion

* IKnewIt: In 2020, Riot teased one of their new champions as a masked assassin who refused to die, and was already present in the lore. Thanks to the subtle clues, several fans suspected it was Yone long before the above-mentioned leaks confirmed it.

** Hwei

** Champion designer Riot August [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/17yhuru/riot_august_apologizes_for_zeris_design_and_calls/ confessed in a personal stream]] that he regrets how two of the champions he was lead designer on -- Zeri and Gnar -- turned out the way they did, lamenting how they took a risk with their designs, only for them to become highly toxic as staples in pro play.

** Unnamed "Artistic" Midlaner

* Briar's splash art and a clip of her gameplay testing leaked a full week ahead of her official reveal.

* Briar's splash art and a clip of her gameplay testing leaked ahead of her official reveal.

** Unnamed "Hangry" Jungler

** According to Creator/SarahWilliams [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Toonami/comments/83ie6n/sarah_williams_ama_voice_actress_for_jinx_the/dvi0ywd/ during an AMA]], one of her lines as Star Guardian Jinx -- "[[TropeName Slogan! Catchphrase! Tagline!]]" -- was voiced [[ComicallyMissingThePoint before she realized it was just a stage direction in the script]], but was so in-character for Jinx [[ThrowItIn that it was added to the game]].

*** This doesn't seem to be as much of a problem for Legendary skins, with many sharing the same voice actors as the original, regardless of the developmental time gap. Some came back within a couple of years like Chuck Kourouklis for Dunkmaster Darius, Creator/SarahWilliams for Star Guardian Jinx, Creator/LiamOBrien for Nightbringer Yasuo, and some returned after significantly longer gaps, including Creator/LauraPost for Star Guardian Ahri, Kirsten Potter for Pulsefire Caitlyn and Battle Academia Caitlyn, Creator/CarrieKeranen for Elementalist Lux, Creator/CristinaVee for Dawnbringer Riven, Creator/MelissaHutchison for both PROJECT: and High Noon Ashe (and later came back for the vanilla version's general update), Creator/VicMignogna for God Fist Lee Sin ([[TheOtherDarrin both have been replaced]] come 2019), Creator/TaraPlatt for Battle Queen Katarina and Creator/KyleHebert for Pulsefire Ezreal (both his 2012 and 2017 recordings, though [[TheOtherDarrin he was replaced]] for Ezreal's global 2018 VGU).
** ''Odyssey: Extraction'' had Creator/SarahWilliams [[https://twitter.com/SarahAnneWillia/status/1039943846791135234 return once again as Jinx]], and Odyssey Kayn and Rhaast are once again voiced by Creator/RobbieDaymond and Sam A. Mowry. On the other hand, [[TheOtherDarrin Ziggs appears to have a new voice actor]], while Yasuo and Malphite only speak using recycled voice clips.

* UncreditedRole: Due to the game's non-union development and constantly-updating nature, Riot Games had a longstanding policy of not disclosing their voice actors unless the actors themselves publicly reveal themselves first (the way the public learned that James Faulkner voiced Swain's 2018 VGU was because of him tweeting his confusion over why he wasn't credited). While the rule was rescinded in early 2019 and Riot has since become more open in crediting newer actors, the identities of those behind many older champions remain unknown.

* UncreditedRole: Due to the game's non-union development and constantly-updating nature, Riot Games had a longstanding policy of not disclosing their voice actors unless the actors themselves publicly reveal themselves first. While the rule was rescinded in early 2019 and Riot has since become more open in crediting newer actors, the identities of those behind many older champions remain unknown.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: Due to the game's non-union development and constantly-updating nature, Riot Games had a longstanding policy of not disclosing their voice actors unless the actors themselves publicly reveal themselves first. While the rule was rescinded in early 2019 and Riot has since become more open in crediting newer actors, the identities of those behind many older champions remain unknown.