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In development of Maokai, the model for his Sapling Toss was not completed before testing him out and was instead represented by miniature versions of the current champions' models walking around and blowing up on enemies.
Champion-created terrain is coded as placing untargetable minions reskinned for the purpose of the relevant ability.
The voice-work for the skin Brolaf was done by Riot Games' lawyer, whose screen name is Lomar. Now that was A Rare Sentence.
Elise's VFX artist is scared of spiders. The animation director over the project of Elise was enough of an arachnophobe that he avoided looking over spider model altogether and just said it was fine.
A canceled item that served as an anti-durability damage item was called... Tankbusta.
The champion Veigar was named after the first name of a QA analyst for Riot Games. Inverse to the champion, he is very tall, to the point their official website jokes about it
- Maokai was named after one of their artists.
- Ryze, the champion, was named after Ryze, the screen-name of Riot Games' CEO Brandon Beck.
- Tryndamere's name started out as the screen-name of Marc Merrill, Riot Games' president and chief marketing officer.
- Ezreal was named after the screen-name of one of Riot's game designers, Colt Hallam.
- Volibear was named after the Rioter Volibar, who lead a faction on the forums fighting for the inclusion of an armored bear.
- Zilean, who dislikes Volibear in game, was named after designer Zileas, who lead the anti armored bear faction.
- Udyr also shares his name with a Riot employee.

Hey, It's That Voice!!: A list of voice actors is being compiled. Of note:
- The same actress (Cristina Ulloa) voices Amumu, Annie and Nunu. Karthus, Kassadin, Mordekaiser, Ryze and Shaco also share an actor (Adam Harrington).
  - A bit less likely to be noticed is that Gangplank, Heimerdinger and Taric share an actor (Dennis Collins Johnson). Wrap your head around that one.
  - Well, let's just say they all like shiny things: gold, gadgets and gems.
- Sweet Tooth of Twisted Metal Black is J.S. Gilbert, who also did: Battlecast Cho'Gath, Dr. Mundo and Corporate Mundo, Gragas, Sion and Udyr.
- Tryndamere and Warwick share the same voice actor (Brian Sommers), which mean it is only a slaughter if they run.
- Wukong is voiced by Spike Spencer.
- INFERNO DIVIDER!... Patrick Seitz, the voice of Ragna the Bloodedge and many other characters, also has Kog'Maw and Renekton under his belt.
- Vic Mignogna no longer uses alchemy, instead serving the power of the Void as Malzahar after having Gone Mad From The Revelation.
- Before Lee Sin swore to never use magic again, he was not a summoner, but actually Faramir.
- What does Fiora, Zyra, Shyvana, Elise and Cassiopeia have in common? Kallen. I mean, Karen Strassman voiced them. Strassman is the go to girl for a Half-Human Hybrid.
- Sona and Janna is Erin Fitzgerald.
- Vert believes violence solves everything as Katarina.
- Laura Bailey voices Akali. Her husband, Travis Willingham, voices Talon.
- Kyle Hebert voices Ezreal, Graves and Jarvan.
- DEMACIAAAAAA! I mean, Jamieson Price voices Garen.
- Riven is voiced by Cristina Valenzuela, arguably Playing Against Type from her "sweet girl" since Riven is a Shell-Shocked Veteran that firmly and unapologetically believes in being The Social Darwinist, though this is somewhat reduced by Riven being a less-extreme example of the trope, a sympathetic Iron Woobie, and her voice-work largely considered to be quite Moe in spite of the character. Unless you count Noel Vermillion who is almost like her...with Talon voicing Relius Clover for added irony.
- Erik Braa voices Jax and Draven, two very self centered Champions with a notoriety for being the best in the arena
- Johan Liebert is The Stoic ninja Shen. no surprise here.
- Laura Post voices Ahri.
- The original voice actress for Karma was Danielle McRae, who happened to be the voice actress of Painwheel. Unfortunately, when Riot decided to rework Karma in terms of gameplay and graphics, they replaced her with a different voice actress, but they kept Danielle's voice work of Karma for the "traditional" skin.
- Ziggs and Rumble are voiced by no other than Invader Zim
- Jayce was once a washed out Piltover Detective. Before finding his calling as an inventor with gadgets
- Owen Thomas voices Twisted Fate and Viktor, surprisingly they have a skill/ability that lets them choose between three different skills and even has a similar color motif.
The upcoming Mexican Spanish version has a top-notch voice cast:
- Katarina is Reiko Mikami and Anko Mitarashi.
- Xin Shao and Shen are adult Goku
- Garen is Hyunkel.
- Ahri is Kagome's mother, Celcia Marieclaire and Beehoney.
- Ashe, Lulu and Quinn are Sakura Kinomoto and Chibiusa.
- Teemo and Nami are Ami and Bijou.
- Ezreal and Kassadin are Vegeta, Stewie Griffin and Hanamichi Sakuragi.
- Jax and Blitzcrank are Frieza and Sgt. Johnson.
- Zilean is Moses and the Narrator.
- Elize and Caitlyn are Tsunade and Princess Fiona.
- Graves and Mordekaiser are Gendo Ikari, Leonidas and Lex Luthor
- Gangplank is Piccolo and Woody.
- Kha'zix is Yoruichi Shihoin as a cat and Ray Stantz.
Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: When Riot gave people a boost to get a Corki skin and reduced it in price...the people who missed it screamed so loudly they've since been very careful about that.
- The developers don't often post in the forums because the average post is usually about as negative as the temperature in Antarctica.
- Recently, a code to get a free skin for Caitlyn as well as the champion if you didn't already have her was put in the November issue of PC Gamer. A lot of people are reporting that people are going into stores and copying down codes printed in the magazine so they don't have to pay for them. Several people have predicted that they won't be doing this anymore, even though PC Gamer is combating this by having people email or call in with a proof of purchase to get another code.
- More recently, when Annie's visual update was ready to be patched in, Riot announced that they'd release the Goth Annie skin for a limited time for players to buy who didn't purchase the Champion bundle it's normally exclusive to. This resulted in a massive outcry from players who valued the exclusivity of the skin, causing Riot to promptly retract the offer. Riot is now considering alternatives to such offers, but those who were looking forward to buying Goth Annie are going to have to keep waiting to complete their collections.
Unions In Hollywood: A lot of conflicting reports on this. According to Danielle McRae, the voice work in League of Legends non-union. However, Riot has been known to hire union voice actors for their champions such as Jamieson Price ^note, Adam Harrington, J.S. Gilbert, and Richard Steven Horvitz.
What Could Have Been:
- Riven was originally pitched as "Gooder than good" according to her designer Xypherous.
- Xypherous originally intended Nautilus to have an ultimate that involved picking up an enemy champion and spinning them around him. It, regrettably, simply did not pan out. He also wanted Nautilus to have a base movement speed even lower than the bottom-of-the-barrel 300 Nautilus has right now, but said they wouldn't let him make it any lower.
- Wukong's kit was originally completely different, and stated to be very complex.
- Omen was a ranged champion concept that was shelved. Rioters elaborated on why he didn't make the cut, reasons including he was felt to be lacking personality and his visual design clashed with his gameplay.
- Komachi was a tank champion concept by Xypherous that died once the artwork concepts happened... apparently they couldn't make the champion not cliche.
- Early in the game, Riot attempted to make a character who was essentially a Water Elemental named Well. He was called off after someone asked if Riot had the graphical technology to make him look good, which they didn't. Oh Well.
- Priscilla was a cancelled champ who was a princess with an arachne-like appearance. She was left in the dust but her models and voice can still be found in the game files. Over 20,000 people voted to have her included. She was released in 2012 as Elise, but as a fairly different champion aside from mutual spider traits.