''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a veritable FountainOfMemes, since the game has lasted since 2009. Granted, few of them have spread outside the community, but they tend to spread rapidly within it. It's quite telling of Riot Games how in-tune they are with their fanbase seeing how many of these memes have been [[AscendedMeme ascended]] into the game itself or related media.

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%%PLEASE, REMEMBER: Memes that don't explain where they came from will be deleted. Even if you think it's self explanatory, there are people who will not get it. There is no such thing as a universal meme.
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!!Please add entries in the following format:
* The meme. [=[[=]labelnote:Explanation[=]]=]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[=[[/=]labelnote[=]]=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Like this.[[/labelnote]]
** Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
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!!Memes originating in the game:
* Everything about Mundo. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Mundo's [[HulkSpeak manner of speech]] is, in a similar vein as the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Heavy]], very popular with the fan base.[[/labelnote]]
** [[AscendedMeme Ascended somewhat.]] Corporate Mundo frequently runs the champion/skin sales.
** Mundo goes where he pleases.
*** Can be Snowcloned. Ex: Mundo kills who he pleases, Mundo dies when he pleases, etc etc
** Mundo say his own name a lot, else he forget. Has happened before!
* [[MostAnnoyingSound Have you seen my bear Tibbers?]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A very common phrase said by [[LittleMissBadass Annie]]. And by common, I mean every two or three times you tell her to go somewhere. This, combined her [[TastesLikeDiabetes very, very cutsie voice]] lead to many players finding her almost intolerable to play.[[/labelnote]]
** [[http://meta.filesmelt.com/downloader.php?file=tibbers.png I'M PRETTY SURE HE'S RIGHT IN YOUR FUCKING HANDS]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A silly comic based off said tendency.[[/labelnote]]
** And both have been address by Riot in her graphical rework. She keeps the iconic line, though a wider quote pool makes it more tolerable. And upon summoning Tibbers, her quotes include "Found him!" and "There he is!"
* [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Tiamat Tuesday, Warmog's Wednesday, Malady Mondays]], etc. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Some items are examples of TierInducedScrappy to such an extent that using them in serious games is considered the mark of an absolutely terrible player or a {{Troll}}. Thus, players joked that the only justification to using them was that the day of the week they were bought alliteratively cooperated with the item. It has largely died out, likely related to the subjected items receiving changes, but it was an AscendedMeme for [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2795397 the title of an item preview for Tiamat's future by Xypherous]].[[/labelnote]]
* Oh God it's Yi!!![[labelnote:Explanation]]RIOT community coordinator and web content specialist Phreak was livestreaming a game. He was in the process of boasting about how much more skilled he was than the Tristana he was about to gank when a Master Yi blitzed him from out of nowhere. Phreak smoothly segued from bragging to yelping out this line in the same breath. It ''really'' became epic when it happened again just a few minutes later.[[/labelnote]]
* Soraka's deadly bananas.[[labelnote:Explanation]]In her auto attack animation, Soraka throws golden crescents that are supposed to resemble moons, but ended up reminding people more of bananas. Combine this with her low auto attack damage and decent attack range, and you'll have people raging about just [[HopeSpot barely escaping a fight]] only to have a banana come spinning out of the blue. Ascended with a changed joke emote[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Soraka''': Why yes, that was a banana. Nobody ever expects the banana.
* [[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]]
** Think logically for ONE SECO-- CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW! [[labelnote:Explanation]]An EasterEgg for when you ask Swain in Crow form for a joke three times in a row, clearly a AscendedMeme from Fiddlesticks.[[/labelnote]]
* ok [[labelnote:Explanation]]This came from Rammus' [[TheQuietOne extreme concision in speaking.]] "Ok." is one out of his four one-word lines.[[/labelnote]]
** When he was considered overpowered, you might have also heard "Op".
* DEEEEMMMAACIA! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Line brought to you by Garen, the Might of Demacia. Really, Garen and his [=Spin2Win=] is the most memetic thing in the game.[[/labelnote]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ZensTnIXw Yup.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAQfVvfDjQ and again.]]
** In a bit of BeamMeUpScotty, he screams that when he uses Courage, the defensive self-buff, not the spinning thingy everyone attributes it to. The association comes from the fact that the two skills are often activated at the same time, since his spin requires him to stay in melee range of the enemy for three seconds to achieve maximum effectiveness, and as such, he tends to draw fire.
** Became a bit of AscendedMeme, as Lux screams "DEMACIA!" as well.
** As does Jarvan IV.
** The Brolaf skin for Olaf puts a humorous spin on this when he activates his ultimate skill.
--> '''Brolaf''':BROMACIA!
** The "Patch notes" for April Fool's Day 2011 included [[TheStoic Galio]] shouting "DEMACIA!" while he channels Idol of Durand.
** And now we have Darius, the Hand of Noxus who is a stylistically similar counterpart to Garen. His joke? He looks around for a sec to see if anyone is watching before he tries to spin around in a circle with his huge axe, screaming NOXUUUUUUS! Unfortunately, he gets really dizzy and...
--> '''Darius''':"How does he do it?!"
** Yet again, Quinn's /joke has Valor say something to her about one of three Demacians. Quinn's responses make it clear one of them is about Garen saying something a lot... you'll know what Valor must have been referring if you've read the rest of this section.
** Upon being reworked "Troll King" Trundle continues the gags.
--> '''Trundle''':TROLLMACIA!
* Seriously, the whole April Fool's Day Patch Notes in general. eg. The Armored Bear thing below? One of the joke notes was Tibbers getting armor.
* ''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.
** Became even worse after Eternum Nocturne came out, who´s ultimate has been likened to sound like [[MassEffect Harbinger]] molesting a blender.
* From Phreak's Champion Spotlight: Whenever he gets First Blood but ends up dying, he will say, "It was worth it." Eventually, the Summoner Showcase did a parody of it, complete with a grayed out wash (to signify a death).
--> '''Nikasaur:''' WORTH IT!!
--> '''Phreak:''' LOL Noob!
** Other phrases known from Phreak's spotlights...
*** I play X as a jungler. Got better in the Lulu spotlight; near the end, Phreak said that even though she's a support, he plays her as a jungler as a joke. HilariousInHindsight when people starting considering ''seriously'' playing Lulu as a jungler.
*** Trinity Force. - That is, Phreak building the item is a meme. Mainly because he was building it on practically anyone, for spotlights one after another for a while.
*** Tons of damage. Pretty much an AscendedMeme in the Corki spotlight where Phreak tries to keep an allied Sona alive "by doing the only thing I know how to: Dealing tons of damage."
**** Tons of damage also showed up in the 69th Summoner Showcase, said by the man himself.
***** The two memes above have been combined into on AscendedMeme; Trinity Force's description in the 'Recommended Items' tab of the item shop simply reads 'Tons of Damage'.
* The mention of ''very'' unpopular champion Karma (she is used in ''less'' than 1% of ranked matches) tends to get the smart-aleck response "who?".
** Not as much anymore now that she got re-worked, now everyone is aware of what a "Karma" is. Opinions are very much divided on whether she's going to fall back into obscurity though.
* From [=LoL=] Philippines:
** [[AscendedMeme Bida]][[http://i.imgur.com/PRl2f.jpg mere]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]"Bida" in Filipino (in this context) refers to a hero, protagonist or main character. The impression of typical Filipino MOBA players is that they tend to pick Badass Action Heroes and try to get killing sprees. Tryndamere is the poster boy for this, though this also extends to assassins like Katarina and Akali, gunslingers like Miss Fortune and Caitlyn, and other highly damaging melee fighters like Master Yi and Darius. Players using these characters tend to be pigeonholed as having a LeeroyJenkins mentality and tend to build damaging items exclusively without any defensive items.[[/labelnote]]
** Twisted Fate goes for a gank... [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/146/picture2fk.png/ Blue Card]]?!?!?!? [[labelnote:Explanation]]Getting a Gold Card is essential for a TF gank, the meme is pretty much mocking someone making an Epic Fail.[[/labelnote]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMec5aE5Gm0 ACEUU ACEUU. PENTAKEEEEELL PENTAKEEEELLL]]
* Truly, truly, truly, outrageous [[labelnote:Explanation]]Part of Taric's /joke referencing JemAndTheHolograms' opening, likely to follow wherever he is mentioned.[[/labelnote]]
** "Gems" is another common shorthand for Taric.
* "Muahahaha! Hahaha! Muhuhuhahahaha!" - Singed
** Singed's /laugh is probably the most memetic of any champ. People playing Singed often have it bound to a key and spam it constantly as they run circles around people spreading poison gas. It's also an AscendedMeme because that's exactly what Phreak tells everyone to do during the Champion Spotlight.
** "DON'T CHASE SINGED!" Self-explanatory really, as not only is chasing Singed generally pretty futile, [[SchmuckBait you'll usually die if you persist anyway.]]
* Lux's laugh. Her laugh is actually memetic for... [[AnnoyingLaugh different reasons]].
* [[http://imgur.com/a/8JXrV Welcome to the]] [[http://imgur.com/a/n8vc6 League of Draven!]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Draven is basically Mundo 2.0 memetically, just somewhat more sane and significantly more narcissistic.[[/labelnote]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA85IsVR6Zo When I'm Draven]]...
*** Not Draven, Draaaaven.
*** This became an AscendedMeme for AprilFoolsDay 2013, as on the front page on the wiki, every Champion's face was replaced with Draven's.
* CLICK THE [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] 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]]
* Press R To Win. [[labelnote:Explanation]] A descriptor for several champions that (by popular opinion) require no skill to play whatsoever and can just ult their way to victory. Most often Karthus and his infamous Requiem but more recently got tagged onto Darius for his chain execution ults. [[/labelnote]]
** AscendedMeme: In the [=LoL=] Mac trailer, there actually is a BigRedButton with an R on it with this meme as the instructions. The trailer in general is chock-full of references and {{Ascended Meme}}s, some more cleverly hidden than others.
* Annie Bot is a little bitch. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Despite the bots' reputation for ArtificialStupidity, if there's one thing that bots are invariably better at than humans, it's superhuman combo . Champions like Annie whose combos involve stunning an enemy then unloading all of their burst within the duration of the stun are deadly when computer-controlled, since they can and will do it perfectly every time. Every new player who's run into Annie Bot has experienced being stunned by a gigantic flaming bear then running for their lives at 20% health once it's over. [[/labelnote]]
** AscendedMeme (anyone starting to notice a trend here?) by form of a shirt reading [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-faM6IblJ9l8/Tuub8eY3SEI/AAAAAAAAAAk/MrZE-ZJHigo/s1600/Annie+Bot+T-shirt.png I SURVIVED ANNIE BOT]] that was (but now is unfortunately removed) in the official merchandise store.

!!Memes originating from the tournament scene:
* Cheering for ward kills. [[labelnote:Explanation]]During the season 2 championship series, a game between 2 high level teams came down to an agonising stalemate due to one team's dedicated GradualGrinder strategy. By about the 45-minute mark, practically ''nothing was happening'' apart from the two teams placing wards in their jungles, only for them to be swept out by the opposing junglers with the Oracle's Elixirs. The game was so boring that the commentators started sarcastically getting worked up whenever a ward was killed and the audience joined them, cheering loudly for each ward kill as though it were an exciting play. Even after the match, in more fast-paced exciting games, the audience has persisted in cheering loudly whenever a ward dies.[[/labelnote]]
* Kassadin should be banned every game [[labelnote:Explanation]]Comes from a match in the January 2013 IEM Katowice tournament where a Kassadin player made an amazing play to destroy the enemy nexus singlehandedly with two enemy champions attacking him.[[/labelnote]]
* [[IncrediblyLamePun Thresh]] [[FreshPrinceOfBelAir Prince of Bel-Air]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Originates from commentators at the EU League Championship Series, who bust out the pun whenever Thresh is picked or banned, which in that tournament, was quite often.[[/labelnote]]
** As an extension, commentators began ranking people based on their alleged skill with Thresh. So the reportedly best Thresh player in the EU would be called the Thresh King, and the second best will be the Thresh Prince.
* (Nidalee's spear hits someone) Ooh! [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Nidalee is picked in tournaments, she is almost always given a GlassCannon build. Combined with the ImprobableAimingSkills of pro players, every so often, an enemy champion is seen losing up to half their life in one hit.[[/labelnote]]
* *picks Teemo* YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! *picks someone else* BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! [[labelnote:Explanation]]During LCS or other tournament matches with large crowds, teams have taken to {{troll}}ing the crowds by highlighting champions that are considered poor competitively (most commonly Teemo,) prompting the crowd to cheer loudly to encourage them to lock them in, before switching to the champ they're actually going to play, prompting disappointed boos. Even though the crowd knows that they're NEVER going to pick Teemo (or Karma, Mordekaiser, Heimerdinger or any of the other unused champions) they still go along with it every time.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:*]]In one game between Gambit Gaming and Dragonborns, famously trollish support player Ed Ward did this THREE TIMES, picking Teemo, then switching to Evelynn, then back to Teemo, then back to Evelynn, then back to Teemo ''again'' before finally locking in Evelynn. The crowd cheered it ''every time!''[[/labelnote]]
* Chunk (down), Chunking - v. to deal damage, sometimes accompanied by a description of the victim's remaining health (e.g. Taric face-tanks Nidalee's spear, [it] chunks him down to 30%.) [[labelnote:Explanation]]Likely originated from commentators in the EU LCS. Chunk is obviously not normally used like this in normal English.[[/labelnote]]
* [=WildTurtle=]'s smile. [[labelnote:Explanation]][[http://i.imgur.com/dVmCFmY.png WildTurtle's head shot]] is very noticeably beaming and MemeticMutation just followed from there.[[/labelnote]]

!!Memes originating on the forums:
* When Riot releases a champion, people will inevitably be disappointed because it's not:
** Lee Sin, the blind monk (Done)
** Plant King (Done, sort of - Maokai)
*** Done properly - Zyra.
** Nasus's brother (Done - Renekton)
** Female tank (Done - Leona)
** Armored bear (Done - Volibear)
** Spider Queen (Done - Elise)
** Water mage (Done - Nami)
** Kog'Maw's "daddy"
** Kassadin's daughter
* Riot seems to have a few tropers....
* [[LadyGaga Lady]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GyxaeeoXJk Gragas]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaVtinsbd70 It's gaining momentum]].
* Writing a line, then having several blank-lines ending with "Bro" on the forums. A DiscreditedMeme for a long time.
* Teemo needs more skins! [[labelnote:Explanation]]A sarcastic joke made because Teemo had the most variable skins for the longest time.[[/labelnote]]
** It turns out Annie and Ryze are now tied in potential skins with Teemo, leading people to justify the meme.
*** With Teemo's cuteness, large amount of skins which other players of other champions wished their champion had such a pick, and being rather aggravating to play again (playing against him consists of running onto mushroom traps, getting blinded and afflicted with poison), Teemo is memetically considered to be an excellent tank because all that gives him a "global taunt" to draw the enemy to team away from his allies. Or into a trap.
** [[NotHelpingYourCase So of course, Riot released a Panda Teemo skin.]]
** It was explained by a Rioter that Teemo skins are common because his model is just easy to work on.
* Teemo's {{Scrappy}} status has culminated into the phrase "delete Teemo".
* A rewrite to Katarina's background rather overused the word "passion", among other things. It was fortunately rewritten again, but an unserious answer to any discussion involving Katarina remains liable to involve this word.
* When is the new map/champion/feature/etc coming out? [[{{Tradesnark}} Soon™]].
* "The answer is always Karthus." [[labelnote:Explanation]]The answer to many questions about champions on the forums... and sometime something else entirely, because, well, it's a meme.[[/labelnote]]
* Olaf is commonly referred to as Brolaf, likely just because it's such an easy pun. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVLWKsO6CQ Brolaf skin came out]].
** When the skin was released, some of the Riot employees temporarily changed their names slightly to add "Bro" to it.
* riot, pls. riot pls. riot pls. riot pls.
** we r fixin tha bugs.
* "Trundling" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A term for Trolling since the champion's release.[[/labelnote]]
** Any attempts to discuss Trundle earnestly or considering him a competent champion resulted in the thread being downvoted to hell. Those downvoters are Trundle players and are basically doing the first rule of Fight Club with Trundle in place of it. Now largely a DiscreditedMeme.
* "/singed" and "/Mad Chemist" are fairly common responses to petitions on the forums (a joke on possibly misspelling /signed).
** In a similar fashion, forum-goers will also use "Shen'd" in the same manner than members of another forum would use "ninja'd".
* "Purple Caster Minion is OP." [[labelnote:Explanation]]That's a basic {{Mook}} that spawns. [[http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=6555661#post6555661 The thread for an announcement for changes to make matches end faster, mostly by improving the minions, had a field day with that.]][[/labelnote]]
* Patch preview comic. Riot is making videos where their employees discuss the upcoming patch. Some of the frames are kind of funny. [[http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9793/lol1ec.jpg Long]] [[http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=122129&d=1298254535 story]] [[http://pifro.com/tempmove/ppc/lol3fin.jpg short]]...
* [[http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=548180 Jarvan IV]]
* 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]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-VBwa2FY5M&feature=related Now in song form!]]
* Ezreal's release and {{Bishonen}} appearance was quickly accompanied with humorously considering him TheTwink and being paired with the AmbiguouslyGay Taric. It is rare everyone in the match will let this meme slide by when Ezreal and Taric are chosen by a team to lane together.
* (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ [[labelnote:Explanation]]Flipping tables, started from a delay in the release of Leona, whose AffirmativeActionGirl tank character was widely hyped. This emoticon is likely to follow in the wake of other delays by Riot.[[/labelnote]]
** Now an AscendedMeme from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBphxrYgJOg&feature=player_embedded Vi's login music]], including the lyric "Have you ever really wanted to be a total rebel flipping tables on the enemy" while her gameplay does not involves flipping or tables, or any of the usual connotations from the FlippingTheTable trope whatsoever.
* Morde es # 1 in Brasil. Shield es always win. Never die Huehuehuehue! [[labelnote:Explanation]]The joke being that Brasilians on NA are abundant, generally bad and speaking in mangled English.[[/labelnote]]
** Originating [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=316408 here]]. Version 2.0 [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=966173 here]].
* The current popularity of the Atmogs-Triforce (Warmog's Armor, Atma's Impaler, Trinity Force) on tanky DPS characters has become a meme. Particularly on /v/, building Atmogs or Trinity Force or running Flash on all of your champions will cause people to shout METAGAME. Originates from [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp36vgmK9P1qiuk8ko1_500.jpg this comic.]] By extension, the "angry Nasus" meme, involving a picture of a dog's head with Nasus's characteristic headdress badly drawn around it, accompanied by vigorous ranting about the Flash summoner spell.
** Similarly, putting together those items with Mercury Treads (which pretty much every melee champion in the game, and thus as well tanky DPS champions) and Frozen Mallet (an alternative to Warmog's Armor) for the picture [[http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6676/metagolem.png METAGOLEM]].
* Riot, hire this man [[labelnote:Explanation]]A simplistic statement to show approval of someone's idea. Usually used for silly ones or skin suggestions.[[/labelnote]]
* Any phrase about saying Griftrix is not a designer. This meme started after the Rioter Griftrix tried to discuss the thoughts behind some of the game's design over the forums, with a disclaimer that his thoughts were solely his own as he wasn't a game designer.
* The "Look of Disapproval" (ಠ_ಠ) is well-known meme in other parts of the Internet, but is linked within the League of Legends community especially to the senior concept artist [=IronStylus=], having used this as a response to claims of PerverseSexualLust over the character he visually-designed, Leona... [[CrazyJealousGuy because he got there first]]. You may look, but not touch. An AscendedMeme [[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/1/13/Leona_IronSolariSkin.jpg for the Iron Solari Leona skin splash art]], where ಠ_ಠ can be seen imprinted on the structures at the lower-left corner.
** Mentioning Leona or parrots is considered bait for a response by [=IronStylus=] (he indeed owns a parrot, and a red parrot from the Bilgewater Swain skin splash art serves as his forum avatar). Pictures of either work too. A parrot is also frequently used to represent him amongst fan discussions.
* "Morello did X, so he nerfed Irelia." [[labelnote:Explanation]]There was a lot of talk about the apparent nerfing of Irelia, so people have been jokingly stated some reasons they nerfed her (IE: "Mordekaiser was overpowered, so we fixed this by nerfing Irelia.")[[/labelnote]]
** X Y-ed. Better nerf Irelia. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Rumors that Irelia was going to be in the Riven patch was met with disbelief that it was going to happen yet again while others felt there were much clearly problems instead. She was later changed due to problems Lead Champion Designer Morello listed with her kit here: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=14539155[[/labelnote]]
* Xin. Shhh. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Originated from a PDF file linked on the forums showing a transcript from a match where a Xin Zhao player was doing terribly and everytime he ranted the Sona trying to support him would say "Xin. Shh." This had the effect of angering the Xin Zhao player to further rage, but the Sona persisted in their responses...[[/labelnote]]
* [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1008310 I'm Jarvan. I'm helping.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]An image of an allied Jarvan IV using his ult, thinking it's helping his team, but in actuality, is trapping them inside while an Anivia uses her AOE spell to slowly kill them while they can't escape.[[/labelnote]]
* Xerath is aiming his Q at me as I'm editing this page.
** Edit: dodged it. [[labelnote:Explanation]][[DontExplainTheJoke An explanation]]: Xerath's Q has a unique form of CallingYourAttacks by having said spell carpet the ground before the delayed cast goes off. It takes quite a fair bit of fast clicking and good reaction to dodge said spell, but the above is the general reaction when the spell was first showcased to the players.[[/labelnote]]
* The forum war between Riot staff members Morello (lead champion designer) and [=IronStylus=] (senior concept artist) regarding a remark Morello made about Leona, a League of Legends character. Has merged with the armored bear dispute, with Rioters and forumgoers everywhere taking sides, complete with its own [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1410841 Risk map]].
* Hello Troper, thanks for reaching out to us! Have you taken a look around General Discussion lately? There are TONS of threads about this particular subject. As a courtesy to the rest of our community we try not to split conversations up into multiple threads, so I won't be able to give in-depth answers to these questions here. Take a look in General Discussion and contribute your voice to the existing threads! -The Beard [[labelnote:Explanation]]A short-lived outreach program called the Riot Ambassadors had some largely anonymous but clearly-labeled accounts occasionally reply to questions and threads on the forums. The meme was taken one of the Ambassadors' response to a thread over long-delayed features players were curious about, in retaliation from the lack of a meaningful response straight from Riot. Due to this, the program was officially canceled with words and a question thread headed by Riot Games' President, Brandon Beck.[[/labelnote]]
* [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1792506 PULSEFIRe EZREAL WHERE]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]The Pulsefire Ezreal skin was first introduced to the player-base late in 2011; April 2012, and it still hadn't released yet. Ezreal being a popular older champ with few skins, and none that the community considers good, his fanbase was elated at the news for a while, but have since gotten tired of waiting. The good news is, it's been upgraded since its conception from a regular skin to over a Legendary one, with new voice work, animations and effects, but it's taking so long that a lot of people have stopped caring. The thread in question is over 400 pages long, and was almost a tradition to pull it up to the front page of the GD forum occasionally. One letter is left uncapitalized because the forum software will convert an ALL CAPS message or post title to all-lowercase.[[/labelnote]]
** PULSEFIRE eZREAL HERE! Because, ya know. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's here now]].
* EVE 2012. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Similar to the Pulsefire Ezreal issue, Evelynn (the game's resident JokeCharacter due to Riot deliberately overnerfing her) has been waiting for her remake with the stealth update for an incredibly long time now. Her supporters have taken to posting "EVE 2012" in threads in the manner of a political plug, ostensibly in the hope that Riot will actually manage to get the rework out before the end of the year (Eve has been broken since mid ''2011''). The meme is a DiscreditedMeme now that a Mid-July patch in 2012 finally released the rework of her and Twitch.[[/labelnote]]
* DAT ASHE! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Wordplay on another popular meme "DAT ASS". The champion Ashe not only has her bottom's curves clearly outlined in her splash artwork, but makes for an easy pun![[/labelnote]]
** [[AscendedMeme Ascended]] in a way. Riot now has merchandise in their store that [[http://www.jinx.com/p/league_of_legends_dat_ashe_premium_tee.html?catid=&s=leagueoflegends that clearly displays the meme.]]
** To a lesser extent, Fiora has often attracted the normal form of the existing meme "DAT ASS!" due to... [[http://www.lolreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Untitled.jpg well]]... [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yUG_gKH4qpM/T0vJMMQaorI/AAAAAAAAB7Q/wfMZiBD_jck/s1600/fiora-base-painting.jpg you know...]]
* Pendragowned. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A depressingly common occurence on the forums is someone coming in ranting about how they were unfairly banned from the game and they ''demand'' a Riot staffer [[TemptingFate tell them what they did that was so wrong]]. Quite often, Pendragon himself (Riot's Director of Community Relations) personally sticks his head into the forum to tell them (and everyone reading the thread) EXACTLY what they did that was so wrong. These are commonly regarded as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome on the forums and have attracted the above meme as a response.[[/labelnote]]
** Alternatively, "PENDRAKILL". [[labelnote:Explanation]]In-game, scoring 5 kills in rapid succession -- something very hard to pull off -- is announced as a PENTAKILL.[[/labelnote]]
** Such threads are also usually accompanied with players asking Pendragon to come into it and "smite" the thread poster.
* Bad [=LoL=] Player/Twitch Noob [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-lol-player-noobs-in-league-of-legends/photos gallery]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The champion in the images is Twitch who was, until recently, a very weak assassin champion and was easily countered. Newcomers to the game were often curbstomped by Twitch players due to not knowing about using Oracle's Elixir or Truesight Wards to counter his long duration stealth, and the champion was largely only popular to newer and less competent players. The joke is that everything said in the images are incredibly stupid in-game and will get the player killed and likely lose the game for the whole team.[[/labelnote]]
* Anivia is naked.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A common method of {{troll}}ing threads discussing the large number of female champions with {{Stripperiffic}} outfits. If you don't know what this exactly means, go look her up. You'll get it pretty much immediately[[/labelnote]]
** Nocturne is black.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Similar to the above, an annoyingly common recurring thread on the forums is someone complaining that the game lacks a "black" champion. This is the potted response; again, if you don't know what it means exactly look him up. You'll get it immediately.[[/labelnote]]
* [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=3144872 Crying Ashe.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Ashe is considered an underpowered champion due to being OvershadowedByAwesome thanks to copious [[PowerCreepPowerSeep power creep]]. A series of comics resulted based on everyone mocking, insulting, hating on and abusing poor Ashe, always ending with her being left in tears.[[/labelnote]]
** Probably in response, Riot just massively buffed her attack speed (along with Tristana's attack speed).

!!Memes originating in the fan works
* Gentleman Cho'Gath. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Became an AscendedMeme as seen [[http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=77948 here]].[[/labelnote]]
** Similarly, Human Anivia, Catgirl Ezreal and other common reinterpretations via fanart.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JW2xM80qGI EPIC YORDLE DANCE PARTY!]]
* From TheNunuBotShow:
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[[folder: Push push push push push push push ]]

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[[folder: I'll do X and surprise them with my decision. ]]

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[[folder: You guys fight them at top while I secretly push bottom. ]]

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[[folder: Great! Even stupid bird is here. ]]

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[[folder: I'll do X. [Beat] Or not. ]]

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[[folder: [[Heroes Of Newerth BOTTOM LANE IS FAILING HARD!! 11 ]]
[[FanDumb AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]]]
* From [[http://www.youtube.com/user/Grasshyren Grasshyren's channel]]:
** Yes™
** Ghosting to battle!
* MemeticBadass: [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=14761 Jesse Perring]].
* Ryze Bot makes you ragequit your own IP farm games. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The champion, before being reworking, used to have very effective burst damage and was simple to play even for the otherwise [[ArtificialStupidity fairly stupid AI]]. While it was the only trait the champion which other mages shared with other advantages over Ryze making him be considered overshadowed, as the meme says, Ryze bot could still easily kill you while you're complacent about how you expect the AI to be utterly incompetent.[[/labelnote]]
** Annie and Soraka bots had even more of this, one of the first things this Troper was told upon playing league was to run if they saw Annie bot. And it was true, due to Annie's simple playstyle, like Ryze she was very easy for the AI to play and because she also deals more damage, Annie bot can even give lvl 30 players a hard time if left to farm. Soraka was almost as bad
* From [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ "pro as heck guide to master yi"]]
** "Get dunked!"
*** This one recently [[AscendedMeme ascended]]: it's one of Vi's quotes when using her ultimate.
** "Watch out! It's the [[RummageSaleReject Swordboots]]."
** "Nooblord!", repeated ad nauseum [[RantInducingSlight in response to a teammate dying]].
* "F**k off, clown." [[labelnote:Explanation]]From [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caWg4Vx_SvQ this video]] where the [=LoL=] characters have a cypher. Jax has no idea what a cypher is and kindly tells Shaco to "f**k off".[[/labelnote]]
* "There is no team in Teemo", now in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUXJe8lam4 form of a song]].
* "Now Im putting a wall behind Olaf" "We are doing a good job" [[labelnote:Explanation]]From this Guide, as other anivia-themed Memes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAN1oDRJpk [[/labelnote]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-6vYobie4 Xin Zhao]] [[{{Mulan}} will make a man out of you]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Xin Zhao often reminds people of Shang from Mulan due to both of them being quintessential medieval Chinese manly men (or at least inspired by them in Xin's case). This leads to a lot of people using Xin Zhao in Shang's place to quote the famous "Let's get down to business!" training montage, especially to try to whip their teams into shape and teach them to be men. The linked video is one of the more famous propagators of the meme. [[/labelnote]]
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