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This page contains all champions beginning with the letter '''L'''.
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[[folder:[=LeBlanc=], the Deceiver]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"The Black Rose shall bloom once more."-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CarrieKeranen (English), Olga Cano (European Spanish), Carola Vazquez (Mexican Spanish), Creator/MieSonozaki (Japanese), Carol Crespo (Brazilian Portuguese), Hye-Won Jeong (Korean), Olga Sirina (Russian)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra''

->''"A rose cannot grow in darkness. It dies, and the darkness grows..."''

Mysterious even to other members of the Black Rose cabal, [=LeBlanc=] is but one of many names for a pale woman who has manipulated people and events since the earliest days of Noxus. Using her magic to mirror herself, the sorceress can appear to anyone, anywhere, and even be in many places at once. Always plotting just out of sight, [=LeBlanc’s=] true motives are as inscrutable as her shifting identity.\\
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[=LeBlanc=] is a Burst Mage champion who excels at deceiving opponents, confusing them on her location while replicating her abilities to unleash powerful single-target burst damage.
* Her passive, ''[[SelfDuplication Mirror Image]]'', briefly turns [=LeBlanc=] invisible when she drops to low health. After reappearing, she summons a harmless, controllable clone of herself for a few seconds that automatically runs away from enemies. This effect has a long cooldown before it can be used again.
* Her first ability, ''[[EnergyBall Sigil of Malice]]'', flings an arcane sigil at a nearby enemy, damaging and marking them for a few seconds. Damaging a marked target with another ability causes the mark to detonate, dealing bonus damage.
* With her second ability, ''[[TeleportSpam Distortion]]'', [=LeBlanc=] dashes to a target location, damaging nearby enemies upon arrival and leaving a mark on the location she dashed from. For a few seconds afterwards, [=LeBlanc=] can reactivate the ability to blink back to the marked location.
* With her third ability, ''[[ChainPain Ethereal Chains]]'', [=LeBlanc=] hurls an illusionary chain in a target direction that damages and shackles onto the first enemy it hits for a short duration. If the target doesn't manage to run away from [=LeBlanc=] quickly enough, they'll take bonus damage and will be briefly immobilized.
* Her ultimate ability, ''Mimic'', allows [=LeBlanc=] to cast an empowered version of the last basic ability she used.
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[=LeBlanc's=] skins include Wicked [=LeBlanc=], [[MagiciansAreWizards Prestigious [=LeBlanc=]]], Mistletoe [=LeBlanc=], [[CreepyCrows Ravenborn [=LeBlanc=]]], [[TheFairFolk Elderwood [=LeBlanc=]]], Program [=LeBlanc=], [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming Invictus Gaming LeBlanc]], Coven [=LeBlanc=], Championship [=Leblanc=], [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Coven LeBlanc]], and [[BadassInANiceSuit Debonair LeBlanc]].\\
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In season 2 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', [=LeBlanc=] uses her Elderwood [=LeBlanc=] skin and is a Tier 2 Woodland Assassin Mage. Her ability is ''Ethereal Chain'', which launches a chain at a random enemy that deals damage and, after a short delay, stuns them. She was removed in season 3. She returns in season 5 using her Coven [=LeBlanc=] skin as a Tier 2 Coven Assassin. Her ability remains unchanged aside from being renamed to ''Ethereal Chains'' and buffed to affect the two nearest enemies instead of one random target. She was removed along with the Coven origin in the ''Dawn of Heroes'' mid-set update.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra,'' [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraNoxus LeBlanc]] is a 3-mana 5/2 Noxus Champion with Quick Attack. When she has seen you deal 15 or more damage to anything she levels up, gaining +1/+1 and creating a Mirror Image, a 2-mana Slow spell that creates an Ephemeral copy of an ally with 5+ power, in your hand every time she sees you deal another 15 damage, or reducing its cost by 1 if you already have one. Her signature spell is [=LeBlanc's=] Sigil of Malice.
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* AdaptationalModesty: Like Sivir, her ''Legends of Runeterra'' card art[[note]]the level 1 version; her level 2 card art isn't because it doesn't show her body[[/note]] is censored in China by adding a layer of translucent black silk over her CleavageWindow.
* AncientConspiracy: She's the matron of the Black Rose, a secret organization within Noxus that long preceded the nation, mostly consisting of various nobles and magic-users to guide the course of history in their favor.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Her exact motives aren't entirely clear, but she's evidently up to no good, directly influencing the Noxian powers that be for centuries.
* AwesomeYetImpractical: [=LeBlanc=]'s kit resolves around a ton of personal power with the goal of instantly punishing and bursting down enemies, but [[CripplingOverspecialization lacks any other conventional utility like efficient waveclear or sustainability]], a fact which becomes more of an issue [[CrutchCharacter as games go on and enemies gain more tools to cope with her]]. While she isn't unheard of in high levels, players must be absolutely sure they can snowball her early game in order for her damage to stay consistently relevant.
* BalanceBuff: [=LeBlanc=] was one of the main subjects of a rework during the 2017 Assassins update, which tweaked much about her flexibility, slowed the tempo of her kit to make it less overbearingly instant, and incorporated more of her MasterOfIllusion gameplay fantasy: Her ''Sigil of Malice'' was tweaked into a passive that applied to all of her abilities, applying marks on enemies that primed [[GatheringSteam after a brief charging period]], which could then be bursted with further abilities to make a bulk of [=LeBlanc=]'s damage (they could also combo with her Q to deal [=AoE=], ensuring she has waveclear beyond just her ''Deception''). Her ''Mimic'' ultimate was also greatly retooled, [[DoppelgangerAttack causing her and a clone of herself to cast a variant of her selected ability simultaneously]], alongside a low-risk side-ult that allowed her to [[ConfusionFu globally send out a harmless clone to spook enemies with]]. Note that none of this applies to [=LeBlanc=] today; due to several reasons -- from its frustration factor when played at its highest potential, unforeseen and overly dominant strategies like with the Hextech Gunblade item, its slower pace making it widely unpopular among [=LeBlanc=] mains, to it simply not capitalizing enough on the theme Riot was going for -- this was one of the rare reworks that Riot almost completely reverted, doing so about a year after introduction.
* TheChessmaster: Ever since she betrayed Mordekaiser during his second conquest, [=LeBlanc=] has been around orchestrating the events of Noxian history in concert with the [[AncientConspiracy Black Rose]].
-->''[[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/leblanc-color-story/ "I am everywhere. I am everyone. You know only what you need to know, and see what I want you to see."]]''
* ConfusionFu: Her W ability is prone to this. Since she can go back to the place she teleported from for a brief duration after using it, she can juke around and confuse opponents on her true location. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmzLeDWk-nA This video]] is an epic demonstration of all the deceits she can pull off if her player is good enough.
* {{Combos}}: With her ultimate allowing her to cast a copy of the last spell she casted she has a great diversity of actions she can take, from Sigil of Malice-Mimic Sigil of Malice-Distortion-Ethereal Chains to deal huge single target damage to Distortion-Mimic Distortion for mobility or Ethereal Chains-Mimic Ethereal Chains for crowd control. And that's not even the tip of the iceberg.
* ConsummateLiar: She is The Deceiver, after all.
--> '''[=LeBlanc=]''': ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/9/9a/LeBlanc.joke2.ogg Lying is, like, ninety five percent of what I do.]]''
* CrutchCharacter: Terrifying for the first two-thirds of the game, then falls off '''hard''' if she isn't fed -- though a good early game for her almost ''invariably'' means some other poor sucker is going to be miles behind on the resource curve, and falling off much harder and sooner.
* CoordinatedClothes: Her Ravenborn [=LeBlanc=] skin appears to theme itself on Swain's look before he received his [[ArtEvolution full VGU]] in 2018 (the skin itself came out in 2014), referencing [[CreepyCrows the raven motif]], with feathers the same green coloring as Tyrant Swain.
* DifficultButAwesome: [=LeBlanc=] has a ''lot'' of juking potential with her TeleportSpam abilities and her ultimate. However, this requires a lot of micro control and experience with her in order to make the most use out of them. Also, because of her scaling falling off, most players will just end up being a liability later on, but the more competent ones are capable of causing maximum destruction during her peak usefulness and still remain a potent assassin later. Do note that many of her deceits rely on [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow predicting what course of action most enemies would take, like attack the clone moving toward an escape route rather than the real her that's illogically standing around]]. [[TooDumbToFool If her opponents aren't bright enough to do this though]]...
* EvilChancellor: Granted, Boram Darkwill wasn't exactly the most well-intentioned or sane would-be ruler from what we knew, but as the Black Rose vouched for him coming into power and [=LeBlanc=] became his hidden advisor, she preyed on his fears and paranoia, steering him and Noxus at large onto a more sinister path of conquest. This is evidently a favorite tactic of hers, having appeared as an advisor to foreign dignitaries for centuries.
* {{Flanderization}}: Her ''Legends of Runeterra'' card doesn't directly capitalize on the aspect of her being [[ManipulativeBastard "the Deceiver"]] (mechanically at least; this aspect is the central focus of her artwork and dialogue), instead compressing her into being a GlassCannon beatstick that reflects her role on the Rift as a high-damage burst assassin, ignoring her DifficultButAwesome and ConfusionFu aspects. Even the Mirror Image spell she can generate in her level 2 form acts as more of a token nod to her MasterOfIllusion powers rather than a main component.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Confirmed to be this with Swain. Except they're constantly trying to outsmart and kill each other.
--> '''Swain:''' I suppose this makes us enemies with benefits...
* GlassCannon: If [=LeBlanc=]'s combo doesn't blow you up on the spot, she has ''one'' chance to get away, or be left helpless against retaliation.
* IronicName: Her name is the French word for "the ''white''", yet she leads a clandestine organization called the ''Black'' Rose.
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:Though not referenced by name, it's all but stated she did this to Garen's great uncle in ''Literature/GarenFirstShield''.]]
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Whatever she really is, she has a distinct air of aristocracy to her (even if she doesn't exactly [[{{Stripperiffic}} dress like it]]), and her black magic ''hurts''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Over the course of [[Really700YearsOld potentially centuries]], she's been manipulating political figures into starting wars with each other, and if she can't, she'll have them killed. She manipulated Swain as a young man into thinking that he had defeated the Black Rose, [[ThanatosGambit even allowing him to seemingly kill her himself]], only to return and poison Darkwill's mind to have him outcast when he couldn't be killed.
* MasterOfIllusion: She's "The ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Deceiver]]''".
* MesACrowd: One of her signature traits is her ability to create duplicates of herself, [[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/leblanc-color-story/ shown to be able to create several in her color story]]. [[ShroudedInMyth Due to the ambiguous nature of her actions throughout Noxian history]] as well as the fact [[OlderThanTheyLook she's supposedly been around for centuries]], one question raised is whether the [=LeBlanc=] we currently know has been [[Really700YearsOld a single entity all this time]], or perhaps she's merely just one of countless hollow reflections the original left behind. In ''Legends of Runeterra'' her level 1 card art shows her chairing a meeting of Black Rose members who are all arguing with each other, only for her level 2 art to reveal in [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf the reflection off the polished table surface]] that they're all actually copies of [=LeBlanc=].
-->'''Level 1 flavour text:''' "Now now, no need to squabble amongst ourselves. For the moment, we will refrain from any rash action. Let us reconvene once we've heard from our emissary. After all..."\\
'''Level 2 flavour text:''' [[TheReveal "...we all want the same thing."]]
* MediumAwareness:
--> '''[=LeBlanc=]''': ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/fa/LeBlanc.joke1.ogg For my next trick, I'll make their life bar disappear.]]''
* NoblewomansLaugh: Borderlines with EvilLaugh.
* OldFlame: Heavily implied with Swain in her League judgement.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She was supposedly present during the time of Mordekaiser's mortal reign and betrayed him. If one believes that "the pale woman" who did this and the current [=LeBlanc=] we know are one and the same, [[Really700YearsOld this would make her EXTREMELY old]].
* TheRedBaron: Many characters refer to her as "The Pale Woman". It may not sound as threatening as other titles, but that doesn't mean she can't hurt you.
* RogueAgent: It's hinted through dialogue in ''Legends of Runeterra'' that [=LeBlanc=] might do this with ''[[MesACrowd herself]]'', suggesting that her clones have the potential to splinter off with their own individual agendas.
-->'''[=LeBlanc=] 1''': Ugh, another clone gone rogue.\\
'''[[MirrorMatch LeBlanc 2]]''': You think ''I'm'' a clone? How precious.
* SexySantaDress: Mistletoe [=LeBlanc=] combines this with a Grade A ZettaiRyouiki.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Take one look at her splash art. You wouldn't expect a magician's stagehand to dress like that, let alone a noblewoman. Called out by Kled; it's apparently high fashion in Noxus prime.
* ShipTease: In the lead-up to Sion's remake, Riot has released a surprising amount of ShipTease between Swain and [=LeBlanc=]; including a new conversation between the two that also confirms [=LeBlanc=] previously aiding Swain in the Kalamanda incident, and a new skin for [=LeBlanc=] called Ravenborn [=LeBlanc=] which is one of the few (if not the only) skins that is themed around another champion. However, in the conversation released, although it seems to suggest [=LeBlanc=] is flirtatious towards Swain, the latter appears to be colder. Swain's VGU in 2018 flat out states the two are FriendsWithBenefits.
* ShroudedInMyth: To a point that what [=LeBlanc=] actually ''is'' is up in the air. She has possibly been around since at least Mordekaiser's reign as the Iron Revenant [[OlderThanTheyLook and as such is at least centuries old]], and what specifically drives the moves in [[TheChessmaster her game of political chess through her deception]] is also unclear. It's not even known if the [=LeBlanc=] we know in the present day is the same Pale Woman during Mordekaiser's era.
* TeleportSpam: She can instantly return to the starting point of her dash ability after she executes the jump. Compounded if she dashes and then uses her ultimate to dash again, as she now has two separate points to instantly return to, ''repeatedly''.
* TooManyBelts: She wears three around her thighs and a few around her arms despite [[{{Stripperiffic}} not wearing any pants]].
* VainSorceress: In her idle animation, she checks her reflection in the gem on her staff. In her dance, she does a romantic slow dance looking into the same gem, pretending she is dancing with herself.
* WouldHurtAChild: She and the Black Rose have a whole series of schools for molding child soldiers; already there's the Black Rose Academy (where Rell escaped from) and Ravenboom Conservatory (which Annie inflitrates). The children there are all subjected to brutal and highly competitive curriculm that left many of them dead. Rell and Annie responded by both destroying their respective academies.
* WorthyOpponent: She sees Swain as one. Many years ago, her original plan was to allow him to think he killed the [[AncientConspiracy Black Rose]], then quietly take advantage of [[TheCaligula the still-in-power but mentally-unhinged Boram Darkwill]] to send Swain on a SuicideMission in Ionia. [[DidntSeeThatComing What LeBlanc did]] ''[[DidntSeeThatComing not]]'' [[DidntSeeThatComing see coming]] was Swain [[CameBackStrong coming back with the powers of a secret-revealing demon that unveiled their charade]], leading him to eventually usurp Darkwill as the new Grand General. Combined with how Swain is driven by actually uniting his empire than selfish personal gain, thus making him especially difficult to directly manipulate, [=LeBlanc=] sees him as a worthy challenge to take on.
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[[folder:Lee Sin, the Blind Monk]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"Your will, my hands."-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Feodor Chin (English/Current), Creator/VicMignogna (English/2011-2019), José Escobosa (European Spanish), Creator/HumbertoVelez (Mexican Spanish), Akio Hirose (Japanese), Wendel Bezerra (Brazilian Portuguese), Han Shin (Korean), Vladimir Gerasimov (Russian)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra''

->''"Enlightenment is knowing the value of one’s ignorance."''

A master of Ionia’s ancient martial arts, Lee Sin is a principled fighter who channels the essence of the dragon spirit to face any challenge. Though he lost his sight many years ago, the warrior-monk has devoted his life to protecting his homeland against any who would dare upset its sacred balance. Enemies who underestimate his meditative demeanor will endure his fabled burning fists and blazing roundhouse kicks.\\
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Lee Sin is a Diver champion whose dual-purpose abilities grant him great utility and tremendous in-combat mobility. He uses a fixed Energy meter as a resource instead of mana. Additionaly, whenever he uses one of his three basic abilities, he can choose to perform a different follow-up ability for a few seconds.
* His passive, ''[[RapidFireFisticuffs Flurry]]'', empowers Lee Sin's next two basic attacks whenever he uses an ability, granting them increased attack speed and making them restore some Energy.
* His first ability, ''[[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic Wave]]'', sends out a powerful sound blast in a target direction that damages and reveals the first enemy it hits for a few seconds. After using ''Sonic Wave'', Lee Sin can choose to activate ''Resonating Strike'', dashing to the revealed target and damaging them based on their missing health.
* With his second ability, ''Safeguard'', Lee Sin dashes to a nearby ally. If the target is a champion, both of them will gain a shield and the ability's cooldown will be halved. After using ''Safeguard'', Lee Sin can choose to activate ''Iron Will'', briefly making his attacks and abilities heal him by a percentage of damage dealt.
* With his third ability, ''[[GroundPunch Tempest]]'', Lee Sin slams the ground with his palm, damaging and revealing nearby foes for a few seconds. After using ''Tempest'', Lee Sin can choose to activate ''Cripple'', slowing revealed enemies.
* His ultimate ability, ''[[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Dragon's Rage]]'', strikes a nearby enemy champion with a powerful roundhouse kick that damages and sends them flying backwards. Enemies hit by the flying target are damaged and knocked up.
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Lee Sin's alternate skins include Acolyte Lee Sin, Traditional Lee Sin, [[BruceLeeClone Dragon Fist Lee Sin]], Muay Thai Lee Sin, [[BeachEpisode Pool Party Lee Sin]], [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming SKT1 Lee Sin]],[[BoxingBattler Knockout Lee Sin]], [[AGodAmI God Fist Lee Sin]], Playmaker Lee Sin, Nightbringer Lee Sin, [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Nightbringer Lee Sin]], [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming FPX Lee Sin]], and [[ShockAndAwe Storm Dragon]] Lee Sin.\\
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In season 4 of Teamfight Tactics, Lee Sin is a Tier 5 Divine Duelist using his God Fist skin. His ''God Fist'' ability knocks his target to the edge of the battlefield while also damaging and stunning them; other enemies his target collides with are also damaged and stunned for a reduced amount. If Lee Sin's target is alive after being knocked back, he will dash to them; if the ability is used on a target already on the edge, he punches them off the battlefield, removing them from combat as if they were killed. In season 5, he uses his Nightbringer Lee Sin skin as a Tier 3 Nightbringer Skirmisher. His ability was changed to ''Cripple'', which deals magic damage and slows the attack speed of all surrounding enemies.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraIonia Lee Sin]] is a 5-mana 3/5 Ionia Champion, who gains Challenger the first time you cast a spell in a round and Barrier the second time. When you have cast 8 or more spells in a game he levels up, gaining +1/+1 and automatically casting a free Dragon's Rage on any enemy unit he attacks with Challenger (kicks that unit into their Nexus to strike both simultaneously, then recalls the unit if it survives). His signature spell is Lee Sin's Sonic Wave.
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* AprilFoolsDay: Announced just before the patch closest to April 1st; between the screenshots of specially-made models and visuals but his champion spotlight throwing all seriousness out the window, fans were on tenterhooks. Thankfully, Riot confirmed his actual release.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Lee Sin's God Fist skin makes him a quintessential one, with specific taunts for some characters, spiced up with some measure of AGodAmI. [[SmugSuper His arrogance is well-earned]] considering how his backstory had him climb back a mountain three times to fight the previous God Fist, the second time after defeating all masters from all martial schools, and the third time doing so while blindfolded; the third time Lee Sin has defeated the God Fist and has become a PhysicalGod.
* BarefistedMonk: No weapons - just fists, kicks, speed and MakeMeWannaShout.
* BilingualBonus: His name in the Chinese serves is written as 李青 (lit. Plum Azure). In Chinese pinyin reading, it's Li Qing (pronounced Lee Ching), while in Japanese on'yomi it's pronounced Ri Sei (Ree Say).
* BruceLeeClone: Made all the more obvious with his Dragon Fist skin, complete with references such as the one-handed push up in his idle animation.
* BraidsOfAction: In his default skin. It's long enough to wrap around his neck several times.
* TheBusCameBack: He was announced/modeled during beta and early movies but did not show up in the game until nearly 3 years after his initial appearance.
* {{Combos}}: Is mainly an attack damage caster, and a very pronounced one at that due to having up to 7 different abilities to activate for all sorts of flexible possibilities. However, his Flurry passive combined with attack speed setups/items also allows him to play as a solid mix of auto-attack DPS as well, showing how versatile he can be.
* CrutchCharacter: He's an odd example of this but is still played straight; Lee Sin is absolutely terrifying early and mid game, but if he doesn't get fed, he doesn't do so well in a teamfight situation (unless, of course, you put that roundhouse kick in the right place). However, building all AD on him is enough to make him do a lot of damage, but his low scaling ratios in comparison to more better-scaling late game champs, and the fact that [[HighlyVisibleNinja he's bright as day when he charges in to assassinate someone]] should he be built squishy makes it more ideal for him to be a bruiser or a pure tank. Even then, pure tank Lee Sin is one of the more weaker tanks in the game, late game-wise, due to the only form of cc being his second E and his ultimate.
* DemotedToExtra: For tournaments before his official release, his character model was used so that another person could spectate in the game.
%%* {{Determinator}}: The man set himself on fire lasting two freaking months. And he ''survived''.
* DifficultButAwesome: One of the game's best examples; while he has to aim skillshots, position himself well and manage Energy with his Flurry passive, a skilled Lee Sin is an absolute terror to play against and a common pick among professionals because of his flexibility in any given situation. An average Lee Sin player won't make full use of his kit and be able to execute a few combos but little else beyond them. A skilled player knows his skills by route and can think on his/her feet to get in and out by any means necessary. However, there's also the fact that he [[CrutchCharacter needs to do very well early game]] in order to snowball puts a lot more at risk for those who simply enjoy [[MagikarpPower getting power spikes with enough items]].
* DisabilityImmunity: His passive in-production and in his April Fools announcement was, logically, the inability to be blinded. Thankfully averted because there's all of ''two'' champions (out of 100+) that can blind you. However, some players have joked saying he should be immune to [[GorgeousGorgon Cassiopeia's]] [[TakenForGranite ultimate]] due to his lack of sight.
* DisabilitySuperpower: To the point where two of his abilities pretty much depend on him being blind (using a sound wave as a projectile like a bat and slamming the ground to detect enemy's vibrations) and can reveal enemies in FogOfWar that even other champions can't see.
* ExtremityExtremist: Two of Lee Sin's skins change his attack animations so that he only uses his fists: Knockout Lee Sin makes him a BoxingBattler while God Fist Lee Sin depicts the blind monk [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence practically becoming a god]].
* EyeScream: When Noxians invaded Ionia, Lee Sin channeled his fiery dragon spirit to combat them, a process of which burned out his eyesight.
* FlashStep: He has two skills that allow him to blink/dash to friendly or enemy targets.
* [[FoeTossingCharge Foe Tossing Kick]]: His ultimate sends some unlucky soul flying a decent distance; even other enemies are affected if the initial target collides with them!
* {{Foil}}: To Udyr, a fellow martial-artist monk. Lee Sin is calm, composed and well-groomed. Udyr is a raging wildman with shaggy hair, dresses in bearskins, and who looks like he hasn't bathed in weeks. In gameplay, Lee Sin is an assassin who dashes around the battlefield while Udyr is a MightyGlacier that overwhelms enemies with a more brute-force strategy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Prior to his release in 2011, a Journal of Justice entry mentioned a monk protesting the Noxian occupation of Ionia by burning himself. When Ionia was freed, he stopped and was rushed off to be treated, with the text specifically mentioning he had been blinded by the flames.
* FullContactMagic: His Tempest can inflict magic damage, which conversely scales with bonus attack damage instead. This overall, gives him a lot of mixed-damage possibilities that can be difficult to itemize defensively against.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: He can still be affected by Teemo's 'Blind' status effect, despite being blind already. He also can't locate invisible objects. One considered passive for him was to make him immune to stealth, but it was rejected because it would make him completely overpowered against the few champions who do have stealth, but against most team comps, he'd basically have no passive.
* GlassCannon: Can technically be this when fed, since his AD ratios are only "decent" enough to late game, but not as good as others'. Not to mention, like most bruiser-assassins, he has no [[HighlyVisibleNinja invisible/invincible/untargetable]] approach option that can safely conceal/protect him outright from any attacks coming his way (and doesn't have enough cc outside of his E and ultimate), so assassinating someone with Lee Sin would take more skill and lots of risk if built like so due to how exposed he would technically be, and how squishy this build path would leave him.
* TheGhost: Before his official introduction, he got a lot of indirect references in the lore, but did not make a direct appearance for months.
* GoodIsNotSoft: In his short story ''[[http://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/leesin-color-story All That Glitters,]]'' he's presented as a simple blind monk meditating in an area containing treasures. When three weaponed bandits come in to plunder the place, he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown completely and utterly]] [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps]] all of them, breaking their necks and spines, then resumes meditating.
--> ''“You had a chance to avoid this, but you did not take it. Now you pay the price.”''
* HandicappedBadass: Being blind doesn't stop him from being a popular and solid jungle pick.
* ImprobableHairstyle: Has a braided topknot that's long enough that he wraps it around his neck two or so times.
* {{Irony}}: The one blind champion is better at detecting unseen enemies (obscured by fog of war or stealth) than the vast majority of champions that ''can'' see. See DisabilitySuperpower.
* JackOfAllStats: His build options are fairly diverse: he's viable as a full AD assassin, full tank, or a blend of both as a fighter. He can also be feasibly be played solo top, solo mid, jungler, and even support Lee Sin isn't unknown. The only thing he technically can't be is a mage carry (despite his E doing magic damage) or attack damage marksman. He also is a mix of both auto-attack DPS and attack damage caster in his kit overall, thanks to his 7 abilities and his passive.
* {{Kiai}}: Most prominent when he uses his ultimate, but all his abilities carry a bit of it.
--> ''"HII-'''KKKUUUU!'''"''
* [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]]: The only Champion to use Energy and not be a Ninja. It's clear that he's using his own natural energy for this.
* LightningBruiser: To the point where he can 1v1 Jax with the proper build, which for most others would be suicide; Lee Sin can also easily dash around allies/wards as well as to his foes, as well as even build into a tank, and is even able to inflict mixed magic damage, which is saying how much he can do. The bruiser build path in general for Lee Sin is often the way to go for most players in general, as well as for a majority of professional players. This is as while building Lee Sin as a GlassCannon is possible, doing so would carry a lot of the aforementioned risk up above.
* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: In [[http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=140463&d=1301011184 his original default splash art]].
* MyGreatestFailure: In his original backstory: Lee Sin was once a very talented summoner, but he felt he was held back by being taught at the same pace as everyone else, and tried his hand at summoning a creature from a foreign jungle. It didn't work, and the spell summoned a human boy... who ''fell apart'', and the boy's entire village was found to have been accidentally killed by feedback from the spell. While the League was willing to overlook the grave error due to Lee Sin's sheer talent, he left the Institute of War and joined the [[FictionalCounterpart Shojin Monastery]], swearing off magic.
* MythologyGag: His Traditional Lee Sin skin looks like his first design while the game was still in production.
* PunnyName: How does he find you? He can't see, so he "Lee Sins" for you.
* {{Retcon}}: Has had a few shares of different backstories.
** While he wasn't actually released until much later, a DummiedOut backstory during alpha claimed that Lee Sin was born in a clan of "Melian" monks and was able to channel a spirit of [[PantheraAwesome the tiger]], including having a tiger companion named Raghar. He also became blind halfway through his life, but the biography doesn't specify why.
** His launch-official and more commonly-known backstory involved him being a former summoner-in-training at the Institute of War, [[MyGreatestFailure one whose reckless ambition accidentally led to him summoning a young boy and destroying him and his village]]. Lee Sin left the institute and swore off magic, joining the Shojin Monastery [[TheAtoner in search of atonement]], and during the Noxian invasion, he [[SelfImmolation self-immolated]] for weeks in political protest, a process of which [[EyeScream burned out his eyes]]. When Ionia prevailed, Lee Sin became hailed as a savior and returned to the League as a champion.
** Due to the Institute of War being retconned out as of 2014, his backstory had to be changed again. In his current backstory, he was born with a mystical and rare dragon spirit and joined the Shojin Monastery at a young age, but his overambition led to him accidentally paralyzing his master, prompting his banishment and quest for atonement. After some journeys with Udyr and fighting against the Noxian invasion (losing his sight in the process), he made peace with the Shojin and now continues to find his role in a post-invasion Ionia.
* RingOut: In Teamfight Tactics season 4, his ability can knock enemy champions out of the arena, which counts as a kill.
* ShockwaveStomp: Tempest sounds out a shockwave that damages nearby enemies and reveals them. He does it by slamming the ground with his palm instead of his foot, but it's the same principle.
* SignificantAnagram: Lee Sin can see nil.
* SuperSenses: His Q operates on echolocation, and many of his abilities involve revealing hidden enemies.
* VocalEvolution: Lee Sin's default and God Fist voiceovers were updated in July 2019, re-recording all pre-existing lines by [[Creator/VicMignogna the original voice actor]] while also adding truckloads more to be brought up to modern standards. As for the voice itself, Feodor Chin's Lee Sin trades in some of his quiet smoothness for [[BadassBaritone extra gruffness]] and a more pronounced accent.
* WarriorMonk: His years of fighting and discipline from the Shojin Monastery have done wonders for his ability to kick ass.
* ZenSurvivor: Well, duh. A pretty big part of his characterization is that, [[TruthInTelevision like any good Zen teacher]], talking to him while expecting a straightforward answer will prove completely infuriating. In his League Judgment, he wound up talking rhetorical circles around the summoner who was supposed to judge ''him''.
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[[folder:Leona, the Radiant Dawn]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"The dawn has arrived."-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WendeeLee (English), Celia de Diego (European Spanish), Carola Vázquez (Mexican Spanish/1st voice), Adriana Olmedo (Mexican Spanish, current), Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Angélica Borges (Brazilian Portuguese), Yeong-Eun Kim (Korean), Olga Iskhakova (Russian)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra''

->''“By the light of the Sun, the world is beheld.”''

Imbued with the fire of the sun, Leona is a holy warrior of the Solari who defends Mount Targon with her Zenith Blade and the Shield of Daybreak. Her skin shimmers with starfire while her eyes burn with the power of the celestial Aspect within her. Armored in gold and bearing a terrible burden of ancient knowledge, Leona brings enlightenment to some, death to others.\\
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Leona is a Vanguard champion who excels at initiating fights, disabling key targets and setting them up for punishment by increasing her allies' damage against them.
* Her passive, ''[[ThePowerOfTheSun Sunlight]]'', briefly marks enemies damaged by her abilities. The next time an allied champion damages a marked target, the mark will be consumed to deal bonus damage.
* Her first ability, ''[[ShieldBash Shield of Daybreak]]'', enhances Leona's next basic attack, transforming it into a shield bash that deals increased damage and briefly stuns the target.
* Her second ability, ''Eclipse'', protects Leona with a sunlight barrier for a few seconds, reducing incoming damage and increasing her armor and magic resistance. The shield then bursts, damaging nearby enemies and refreshing the duration of the defensive bonus if it hits an enemy.
* With her third ability, ''[[AntiEscapeMechanism Zenith Blade]]'', Leona projects a sunlight sword in a target direction, damaging enemies it passes through. The last enemy champion hit will be briefly immobilized as Leona dashes to their location.
* With her ultimate ability, ''[[KillSat Solar Flare]]'', Leona calls down a blast of sunlight at a target location, damaging and briefly slowing enemies inside. Enemies in the center of the blast are stunned instead of slowed.
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Leona's alternate skins include Defender Leona, [[{{Valkyries}} Valkyrie Leona]], Iron Solari Leona, [[BeachEpisode Pool Party Leona]], [[{{Cyberpunk}} PROJECT: Leona]], [[SupremeChef Barbecue Leona]], [[PowerOfTheSun Solar Eclipse Leona]], [[{{Lunacy}} Lunar Eclipse Leona]], [[HumongousMecha Mecha Kingdoms Leona]], [[SuperheroSchool Battle Academia Leona]], [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Battle Academia Leona]], [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming Damwon Leona]], [[BadassInANiceSuit Debonair Leona]], and [[WeirdWest High Noon Leona]].\\
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In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Leona is a Tier 4 Noble Guardian. Her ability, ''Solar Flare'', calls down a ray of sunlight that damages and slows all enemies hit for a long duration, while enemy in the center is stunned instead. She was initially removed in season 2 before being restored again, this time using her Lunar Eclipse Leona skin and as a Tier 1 Lunar Warden. Her ability was changed to ''Lunar Barrier'', which reduces all damage she takes by a considerable amount for 5 seconds. Remains largely unchanged in season 3, the only changes being her reclassification as a Cybernetic Vanguard. She was removed in season 4. She returns in season 5 using her Solar Eclipse Leona skin as a Tier 1 Redeemed Knight; her ability remains unchanged aside from being renamed to ''Solar Barrier''. In season 6, she uses her Battle Academia Leona skin and is a Tier 3 Academy Bodyguard. Her new ''Solar Eclipse'' ability temporarily increases the armor and magic resistance of all allies in a 2-hex radius, while also giving Leona a damage-absorbing shield for the same duration. In the ''Neon Nights'' mid-set update, her origin was changed to Debonair due to the removal of the Academy origin, and her skin was changed to Debonair Leona. Her Debonair VIP bonus passively heals a percentage of her max health each second for every unit targeting her.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraTargon Leona]] is a 4-mana 3/5 Targon Champion with a Daybreak ability that casts Solar Flare, which stuns the strongest enemy. Once you activate Daybreak effects 4 or more times she levels up, gaining +1/+1 and also casting Solar Flare again whenever you activate another Daybreak effect. Her signature spell is Leona's Morning Light.
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* AffirmativeActionGirl: Specifically designed to answer the fanbase's complaints that there were no female tanks.
* AscendedMeme: Iron Solari Leona was created in honor of the player group by the same name, founded by Leona's artist [=IronStylus=], who also had a big hand in designing the skin.
* AttackAttackAttack: She has a very strong initiation combo to get straight into the frontline, though nothing to help her if she wants to make a tactical withdrawal. For this reason she's regarded as a very specialized support for all-in engagements and works best with ranged carries that can both work well with her engagements and don't heavily depend on a babysitter.
* AuthorAppeal: [[http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=18556007#18556007 Her concept artist IronStylus heavily based Leona off of his wife.]]
* BadassDecay: In ''Teamfight Tactics'' she was changed between Seasons 1 and 2 from a Tier 4 unit which used her classic ult as a devastating [=AoE=] CC which would turn the entire battle into a piddly Tier 1 unit that only uses her defensive buff to make her briefly harder to kill. It doesn't even explode to do damage like it does on Summoner's Rift. The only reason to use her is for her Lunar synergy with Karma (there are only 2 Lunar units so you have no choice about using Leona), which is extremely powerful.[[note]]Her other synergy, Warden, is almost meaningless, as Warden is the most over-represented class in the game, with 9 units to choose from for a synergy that only goes up to 6 anyway.[[/note]]
* BattleBallgown: While not an actual dress, the many long strips of metal armor mounted on her waist gives her the impression of one.
* BadassBookworm: She was a top performing student in her youth, being lauded by her peers and instructors.
* BelligerentSexualTension: She and Diana, while constantly at odds due to their warring cultures, still occasionally show moments of mutual love and protectiveness in-between fighting.
--><when on opposing sides in ''[=LoR=]''>\\
'''Leona:''' "The Solari will not suffer heretics or their lies."\\
'''Diana:''' "The Solari cannot tell heretics from true believers!"\\\
<when on the same side in ''[=LoR=]''>\\
'''Diana:''' "Wherever I go, you are never far behind."\\
'''Leona:''' "When night falls, I know that you are with me."
* {{BFS}}: It's got to be at least four feet long, held with one hand! Players voted that Leona's blade (over several other choices) get forged in real life by a swordsmith in the show ''WebVideo/ManAtArms''. The resulting design gave it a concrete number on its size (3'6"), a [[PragmaticAdaptation compromise between awesomeness and feasibility as a weapon]]. It can be seen in action [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwne-IEG9s on YouTube]].
* BlingOfWar: Leona's armor and shield have distinctly yellow-golden coloring, a trait shared by many Solari warriors.
* BoobsOfSteel: Hard to tell underneath her armor, but her Pool Party skin makes it clearer.
* TheChick: Of Ahri's team in ''A New Dawn''. Considering she's, well, the support.
* TheChosenOne: She was about to be executed for refusing to kill when the sun blinded everyone around her, when the sunlight finally faded, Leona was unharmed and her would-be executioners laid unconscious around her - The Solari order of her people took the hint.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Shown in her judgement -- she was unable to stand-by while others were bullied, and is internally unable to forgive herself for the many she couldn't save from the Rite of Kor, causing her to join the League of Legends to go more good to make up for that.
** Also shown in A New Dawn, where Leona did not even ''hesitate'' to jump in front of Ahri and take a brutal ax strike that nearly killed her.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c2/Leona.move1.ogg "I will protect you"]]''
* CombatStilettos: Despite her both being a tank and hailing from a particularly treacherous mountain range - [[MST3KMantra stranger costume choices have been seen, though.]]
* CripplingOverspecialization: Leona is one of few supports with all her abilities focused on zoning and aggression and none on directly saving her carry (shields, heals, etc.). Whether this is a problem or not depends entirely on your lane partner's ability to capitalize on your aggression combos and stay out of trouble so that you don't end up constantly wishing you had a heal. Being behind will bring Leona's effectiveness toward dubious.
* CrutchCharacter: Leona's engagement and lockdown abilities are very powerful in early stages of the game where enemies are fragile and you only have to deal with a few lane opponents at a time. However, she falls off as games go on, enemies build more ways to avoid her, and gameplay shifts to teamfighting, an issue exacerbated by her engagement being very [[AttackAttackAttack all-or-nothing.]] She is still fairly strong as [[StoneWall an unmoving peeling tank]] and initiator through her ultimate, but throwing herself into the fray becomes more dangerous.
* DifficultButAwesome: Leona's supporting power comes not from babysitting her allies, but by creating windows of opportunity through locking down opponents for them to capitalize on. She cannot directly buff allies, and must work carefully on her positioning to zone and peel against the enemy before finding an ample opportunity to strike. If you can do that, Leona's exceptional lockdown will make the rest of the team all the richer.
* FirstKiss: ''[[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/rise-with-me/ Rise With Me]]'' shows her and Diana's relationship forming, culimating with her asking Diana to the Festival of the Nightless Eve where they ultimately share each other's FirstKiss.
-->'''Diana''': "...Leona kissed me."\\
"And I kissed Leona."
* FlamingSword: In the "The Fall" cinematic, Leona's sword is wreathed in sunfire. Uniquely, this doesn't manifest as actual flames rising from the sword, but as ribbons of glowing light wrapping around the blade.
* FlashStep: Although it's limited in how it's done; upon striking an enemy with her ''Zenith Blade'', she'll dash onto the last one hit in a flash of light and snare them briefly.
* {{Foil}}: The sun to Diana's moon. Reflected in their aesthetic and mechanical design; while the bulky and symmetric Leona is completely dedicated towards defensive and disruptive plays, setting up for her teammates to do the actual damage, the sleek and asymmetric Diana is based nearly perfectly around diving and offensive, independent plays. Incidentally, the two make a ridiculously strong pair, as Diana's Area of Effect damage is perfect for popping all of Leona's passive set-ups.
* GlacierWaif: She might be fully-armored with a {{BFS}} and accordingly large shield, but she's got a thin, non-muscular physique.
* GoThroughMe: While Leona lacks a taunt compared to some other tanks, this trope is still in effect; Leaving a Leona alive for last means she'll do her darned best to keep you off her teammates by putting herself directly in the line of fire.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e5/Leona.attack3.ogg "They'll have to get through me."]]''
* HairFlip: One of her idle animations. It's stranger when done on her Defender Leona skin where she has no long hair coming from the back of her head, looking like she fanned herself once instead.
* HolyHandGrenade: See ThePowerOfTheSun but most obvious with her Eclipse shield detonating and [[KillSat Solar Flare]] being an explosion of light.
* IBrokeANail: Parodied with her joke, in which she removes her left gauntlet to say:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/ec/Leona.joke2.ogg "Think I broke a nail. Good thing it wasn't mine."]]''
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Pool Party Leona trades her sword and shield for an umbrella and a surfboard.
* TheJuggernaut: Exemplified briefly but beautifully in ''A New Dawn''. During a chase, Katarina slides under a fallen tree, Ahri nimbly leaps over it, but Leona raises her shield and barrels ''through'' it without even slowing down.
* KillSat: Her ultimate, Solar Flare, has her call down a blast of sunlight that will damage and slow enemies caught, outright stunning them if it's dead center.
* KnightTemplar: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; she's a devout zealot of the Solari who wishes to retain their dominance over Targon, but she much prefers to defend the innocent than slay the guilty. She also doesn't quite share the same animosity her Solari kin have at Diana for discovering the Lunari and becoming the Aspect of the Moon, seeing her as worth saving from her increasingly violent path.
* LadyOfWar: Acts very dignified in combat, with her movements resembling a martial dance, and her armor has elements of a BattleBallgown.
* LightIsGood: [[ZigZaggingTrope It's complicated]]; Leona herself wants to uphold the values of what's "good" for the world based on her Solari values, but the Solari are far from pure, having committed genocide against the Lunari. She still believes that people deserve kindness and ultimately acts in good faith, but [[GoodIsNotSoft she isn't afraid to put her foot down against those she believes are dangerous and unforgivable]].
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe:
** She backs behind her shield while her ''Eclipse's'' effect is active. Her taunt lampshades her use of it, complete with her hitting her shield with her right fist.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f5/Leona.taunt.ogg "Next time, try to leave a dent!"]]''
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''A New Dawn'', where Darius manages to cleave his axe through her shield while at full power, which seriously wounds and incapacitates her, [[NotQuiteDead but leaves her just alive enough]] to [[BigDamnHeroes return and save Ahri]]. This appears to be a bit of GameplayAndStoryIntegration as Darius' strike was highly reminiscent of ''Noxian Guillotine'', an ultimate ability that deals [[ArmorPiercingAttack true damage]].
* MagicKnight: She's already a competent fighter and wields some extremely heavy-looking armament. The magic part comes from her ability to wield ThePowerOfTheSun, something that previously only the founder of her order could do.
* MsFanservice: While not to the degree of characters like Ahri, Miss Fortune, etc., Leona is still quite attractive. [[BoobsOfSteel Large breasts]], a curvy figure, long orange hair, and plenty of outfits that follow a "graceful sexy" vibe. Her Pool Party skin definitely fits the trope, at the very least.
* NotQuiteDead: In ''A New Dawn'', she doesn't get up after [[TakingTheBullet taking a blow meant for Ahri]], but a subtle EyeAwaken reveals that she's still alive. When Ahri distracts Draven and Darius, she is able to recover enough strength to land a well-timed Solar Flare and save Ahri a second time.
* ThePaladin: LawfulGood? Check. Associated with TheOrder? Check. [[KnightInShiningArmor Lady in Shining Armor]]? Check. Driven by a need to protect others? Double check!
* TheParagon: She's the exemplar of her order, the Solari, doing an even better job in portraying their good parts than their elders, namely by making her desire for forgiveness and acceptance also apply to the long-vanished Lunari.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: She's [[DeityOfHumanOrigin the Aspect of the Sun]], so no duh! Her entire kit revolves around using sunlight imbue her shield, empower her blade, and [[KillSat call down crashing solar flares]].
* {{Retcon}}:
** In initial versions of her lore, she and the Solari were much more associated with the Rakkor and Pantheon (though following Diana's release, she too became more involved), with Leona being portrayed as something of a WhiteSheep who refused to share in their zeal for battle. After refusing to participate in the Rakkor's gladitorial rite of passage, she was ordered to be executed, but was suddenly saved by the sun who made her its avatar, revealing her as the ancient sun-warrior of Solari legend.
** Following the game's ContinuityReboot and the integration of Targonian [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Aspects]] and [[ScalingTheSummit ascension]], not only was her relationship with Pantheon (or rather, Atreus) [[DemotedToExtra downplayed and effectively resolved following him becoming the Aspect of War]], the Solari were made into [[DarkerAndEdgier much more destructive zealots]], introducing an element of Leona [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone having to come to terms to their atrocities in conjunction to her values of justice]]. Her relationship with Diana was also largely excised, with the two not having known each other until after Diana became the Aspect of the Moon.
** Her lore rewrite in 2020 did away with her relationship with Atreus/Pantheon entirely, instead reviving and refocusing on the idea that [[WeUsedToBeFriends she was once friends with Diana]] before the two became Aspects.
* ShieldBash: Her ''Shield of Daybreak'' ability does this, stunning the target hit. Her critical strike hit is one as well.
* SigilSpam: Iron Solari Leona has the Iron Solari emblem of an eagle in several places: most obviously her uniquely-shaped shield but also her helmet "wings", her sword hilt, plus a brief outline of the sigil can be seen when she casts Solar Flare. Can be taken even further if she purchases Locket of the Iron Solari (which looks exactly as you'd expect), a very effective defensive support item for her.
* SolarAndLunar: She represents the Aspect of the Sun and the Solari, standing in opposition to Diana, Aspect of the Moon and avatar of the Lunari.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's quite tall and imposing among the female Champions and... well, look at her!
* StarCrossedLovers: with Diana
** [[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_us/story/rise-with-me Rise with Me]] explicitly confirms that the two were once romantically involved until their differing opinions on Solari faith became too great to overcome. Diana being branded a heretic and becoming the Aspect of the Moon didn't do wonders in mending their relationship, either.
** The two are technically a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of this trope, since the final, lost verse of the ''Hymn of the Dawn'' included at the end of "Rise With Me" reveals that, unknown to the Solari, they and the Lunari are ''supposed'' to be united as one, two halves of one whole. The two of them are actually ''meant'' to be together (ironically by the will of the stars themselves), and it's only the ignorance of the Solari that keeps them apart.
* StoneWall: One of the best examples in the game -- unlike the other tanks, who usually either have an ability that deals semi-decent damage or a passive that gives them some offensive perk (like Rammus), all of Leona's abilities are focused around disabling and soaking damage and have incredibly low base damage and awful scaling. Her ''Sunlight'' passive can be quite powerful, but it requires an ally to use it, further emphasizing her intended role as this trope.
* SunnySunflowerDisposition: [[LighterAndSofter Pool Party Leona]] wears sunflowers in her hair, on one wrist, and even on her sandals.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: She's the Aspect of the Sun, and it's broadly suggested that the Sun would bring terrible devastation if she ever gave it free reign.
* TokenWholesome: Before female champion designs in general finally phased out of being [[MsFanservice walking fanservice]], Leona was one of the biggest steps against the status quo. In the pursuit of [[AffirmativeActionGirl fulfilling the demand for a female tank]], Leona was given full, bulky armor whose design hinged on being more practical and badass than sexy. None of her alternate skins significantly let up on the coverage; even the beachwear of her [[BeachEpisode "Pool Party"]] skin is conservative and tasteful.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Diana in their youth. Despite Diana's constant questioning of Solari tradition colliding against Leona's devout faith, [[OddFriendship they built up a longstanding friendship]] [[OppositesAttract from impassioned debate]], but it began turning on them once Diana really discovered the Lunari and they both became Aspects whose faith put them at a violent ends against each other. Neither of them is happy about having to fight one another, with Leona being put in a particularly difficult spot between maintaining her faith in the Solari to her friend who just wants to be seen as an equal.
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[[folder:Lillia, the Bashful Bloom]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"Me? A dream come true."-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Holly Earl (English), Nycolle González (Mexican Spanish), Natsumi Kawaida (Japanese), Flávia Narciso (Brazilian Portuguese), Jeong-Yu Jeong (Korean), Samina 'Selphius' König (German), Julia Dovganishina (Russian)

->''"When the humans bloom, it’s so beautiful… I can help them! Maybe. Possibly? Perhaps..."''

Intensely shy, the fae fawn Lillia skittishly wanders Ionia’s forests. Hiding just out of sight of mortals—whose mysterious natures have long captivated, but intimidated, her—Lillia hopes to discover why their dreams no longer reach the ancient Dreaming Tree. She now travels Ionia with a magical branch in hand, in an effort to find people’s unrealized dreams. Only then can Lillia herself bloom and help others untangle their fears to find the sparkle within. Eep!\\
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Lillia is a Skirmisher champion who skittishly prances in and out of combat, wearing down her enemies before putting them to sleep, ready to be finished off by herself or her allies.
* Her passive, ''[[DamageOverTime Dream-Laden Bough]]'', applies ''Dream Dust'' on enemies affected by her basic abilities, which deals damage-over-time and gradually heals Lillia based on the target's max health for a few seconds.
* Her first ability, ''[[SpinAttack Blooming Blows]]'', passively grants Lilia a stack of ''Prance'' whenever she damages an enemy with her abilities, up to four. Lillia gains bonus movement speed for each stack of ''Prance'', which quickly decay once she stops damaging enemies. When activated, Lillia swings her censer in a circle, damaging nearby enemies and dealing bonus true damage to those hit on the outer edge of the spin.
* With her second ability, ''Watch Out! Eep!'', Lillia rushes a short distance towards a nearby location and slams her censer down, damaging nearby enemies. Enemies hit in the center of the area take increased damage.
* Her third ability, ''[[GreenThumb Swirlseed]]'', tosses a seed to a location that then starts rolling forward indefinitely, which explodes upon hitting an enemy or terrain, damaging, slowing and revealing enemies within a small cone.
* With her ultimate ability, ''[[ForcedSleep Lilting Lullaby]]'', Lillia casts a lullaby that makes all enemy champions on the map afflicted by her ''Dream Dust'' drowsy, briefly slowing them before making them fall asleep for a few seconds. The next ability or attack that hits a sleeping enemy deals bonus damage and immediately wakes them up.
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Lillia's alternate skins include Spirit Blossom Lillia and [[DarkerAndEdgier Nightbringer Lillia]].\\
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In season 4 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Lillia is a Tier 5 Dusk Mage using her Spirit Blossom skin. Her ''Lilting Lullaby'' ability puts the waking enemies with the highest health to sleep for a few seconds. Sleeping enemies wake up early after taking enough damage while asleep, causing them to take additional magic damage if woken up this way. She was removed along with the Dusk origin in the ''Festival of Beasts'' mid-set update.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Lillia merely wants people to sleep so they can dream again, not ''hurt'' them. Unfortunately, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation the only means of getting people to "sleep" in-game]] ''[[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption is]]'' [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption to beat them into submission]], so occasionally she will yelp out "Sorry!" while attacking.
-->''"You can do this, Lillia! You are a strong, capable dream-fawn a --and [[CarryABigStick you have a big stick]] and you hit with people with it but don't really mean it! Sorry."''
* CarryABigStick: Lillia's physical weapon is a large branch from her mother tree, with a fancy censer on it that can be used for additional damage. Its reach is so long (325) that, contrary to appearances, she's actually a ranged champion rather than a melee one.
* CatchPhrase: ''"Eep!"''
* CharacterDevelopment: [[DownplayedTrope She mildly goes through]] [[InvokedTrope this in gameplay]]. She begins games [[ShrinkingViolet very unsure and hesitant]], but as she harvests more dreams while in combat (represented through gaining ''Prance'' stacks and movement speed), her dialogue starts to become more confident and outspoken. When moving ''out'' of combat, she may shrink back out of embarrassment.
-->''<gaining a Prance stack> [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/a/a2/Lillia_Original_PranceStack_4.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20200708150751 "I'm prancing! I'm singing! I'm PRAN-SINGING!"]]''
-->''<losing a Prance stack> [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/b/b9/Lillia_Original_PranceStack_OnBuffDeactivate_6.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20200708150823 "I'm... just going to go hide forever now..."]]''
* CowardlyLion: She's ''way'' out of her comfort zone in adventuring outside of her garden, but that doesn't stop her from clobbering anything dangerous that threatens her. In her words, she'll face anything... [[ShrinkingViolet she just won't look it in the eyes.]]
* CuteBruiser: She was even codenamed as "Cute Jungler". Lillia bears a distinct resemblance to a pre-rework Darius of all people, with her SpinAttack with an edge sweetspot, damage over time passive, and ability to speed herself up by hitting enemies.
-->''<killing an enemy> [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/8/80/Lillia_Original_KillChampion_3.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20200708150623 "D-Don't judge a flower by its bud... you."]]''
* CuteClumsyGirl: As {{Moe}} is ''the'' number one overriding principle behind her entire character design, this is a given. She can't even walk normally without tripping over her own hooves ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation fortunately this doesn't actually handicap her on the Rift]]).
-->''[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/f/fd/Lillia_Original_MoveLong_4.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20200708150650 "Okay! Don't trip, don't trip, oops! Okay! Don't trip again, don't trip again, woah!"]]''
* DamageOverTime: Dream-Laden Bough allows Lillia to gradually chip at her opponents' health while staying out of danger thanks to her movement speed boost. Once she builds enough AP and has a few items to help her out (Some popular picks are Liandry's Anguish and Demonic Embrace which also have a [=DoT=] passive), she can easily burn her opponents down in the late game. ''Eep'' indeed.
* DreamWeaver: Lillia serves the will of the Dreaming Tree, [[FantasticFlora a magical tree]] who [[DreamEater sustains itself with the dreams of mortals]] (an act that's seen as pretty benign). Lillia's goal is to restore peoples' ability to rest peacefully (and in turn, the peace that they have lost since Noxus' invasion), allowing them to dream again restore her mother tree to good health.
* EvilCounterpart: Nightbringer Lillia is a version of Lillia that veers into DarkActionGirl territory. Her bio describes her as a sadistic and chaotic demon, sowing nightmares into the minds of mortals. Her splash art even has her frolicking in a burnt forest with a creepy grin.
-->''Steward of nightmares, demon of dreams, Lillia revels in twisted fantasias that mortify mortal minds. Though she dallies in the war between order and chaos, she rarely joins the fray herself; she has a garden to tend to, after all, sowing seeds of terror and watching them bloom.''
* FantasticFlora: She's a NatureSpirit born from the Dreaming Tree, which collects and spreads the desires of mortal dreams from its buds, and was itself originally grown from the late God-Willow (directly stated to make Lillia and Ivern distant relatives in a way).
* ForcedSleep: Her ultimate does this to enemies she's recently damaged with her abilities, and it behaves exactly like Zoe's -- affected enemies gradually slow down before they fall asleep, and while a single blow will wake them up, it will deal increased damage.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of Lillia's quotes has her recollect on having met "the strangest human in [her] forest." This line didn't have any context when she was released, but then [[DemonSlaying Yone]] was revealed not long after, who in turn has a line about meeting "the strangest spirit; it walked on four legs and spoke of dreams." Several other lines of Yone's dialogue confirms that the two did cross paths and [[OddFriendship became kindred spirits.]]
* FragileSpeedster: ''Blooming Blows'' increases Lillia's movement speed the more abilities she lands, which further scales with her AP, which can potentially let her prance so quickly around a fight that chasing her down is a near hopeless endeavor. That said, her kit offers no direct survivability with her mostly relying on her kiting ability to stay alive in fights. If she gets caught, she's easy pickings for the enemy team.
* LighterAndSofter: She was specifically designed with [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/hmxy5p/ls_champion_reveal_lillia_first_impressions_the/fx8c2fv/?context=3 the intent to be more whimsical and elegant than other junglers as no other champion filled this niche]]. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/hmw7l6/lillia_ability_reveal_the_bashful_bloom/fx8g7h3/?context=3 She was even codenamed "Cute Jungler" during development.]]
* LightningBruiser: She gains exponentially high movement speed while in combat and packs a lot of damage (including [[ArmorPiercingAttack true damage]]) which can be cast without interrupting her mobility. She's not as sturdy as most other bruiser/skirmisher champions, but her ability to bring a quick smackdown should not be underestimated.
* LivingDream: [[LiteralMetaphor That selection quote above isn't an exaggeration]]; Lillia was born from the dream of the Dreaming Tree itself.
* MagikarpPower: Lillia starts games off fragile, with low damage, almost no crowd control, and thus isn't a very secure duelist or ganker early on, instead finding more value in fast farming. Once she gets her items and levels up her abilities (including her ultimate, finally granting her valuable crowd control), her [[LightningBruiser damage and speed]] increases exponentially, allowing her to make bigger dents in the enemy team.
* TheMarvelousDeer: Lillia is a caretaker spirit born out of the Dreaming Tree, manifest as a deer [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur]].
* NatureHero: Born from a bud of the Dreaming Tree, Lillia serves as its protector, and ventures out in the world in its name with whimsical nature magic.
* NatureSpirit: She is not [[HalfHumanHybrid a vastaya]], but rather a spirit being born out of a sapling from the Dreaming Tree[[note]]The vastayashai'rei, ancestors of the modern vastaya, were the result of humans mingling with magic of the spirit realm, so her HalfHumanHybrid appearance isn't completely unprecedented[[/note]], a result from it having a dream of its own. She serves as its caretaker and pursuer of its will in allowing Runeterra to dream peacefully once more.
* NiceGirl: She's nothing but sweet and demure towards others, even after smacking them in the head with her branch. Her cover story features her comforting a young girl who's sister has disappeared.
* NotWearingPantsDream: One of her respawning lines has her freak out from this (despite [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal not even being dressed waist-down]]), but then quickly realizing she just got her wires crossed with a human's nightmare.
* OddFriendship: She has a close kinship with Ionia's resident undead demon-slayer, Yone. Having crossed paths in the past, Yone sees her as a pure, comforting soul, and acts quite protective of her in the face of the evil spirits that could endanger her.
-->'''Lillia''': When trapped in fear, dreams become nightmares. We're fighting the same thing!
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: The first of this archetype since Hecarim, but rather than being an imposing HellishHorse, Lillia is a gentle spirit who manifests as a fawn-like centaur.
* {{Planimal}}: Sort of, although she's sentient rather than an animal (but wouldn't meet the description of PlantPerson); despite it being justified by her being a magical nature spirit, she's a mammallian creature born from a tree, and the flower on her head is part of her body (which, unlike Neeko's flowerlike ''sho'ma''-sensing glands, ''is'' actually a real flower blossom).
* ShrinkingViolet: She's spent most of her life tending after the Dreaming Tree far away from humans, and has only been forced out of it due to outsider circumstance. Naturally, she's very shy and soft-spoken, needing to psyche herself up as she enters combat and [[ApologeticAttacker being prone to apologizing a lot, even to herself]]. This actually [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration translates somewhat hilariously in-game]] -- due to [[MagikarpPower her scaling]], Lillia generally prefers to spend a lot of her time quickly farming in the jungle alone, and when she needs to gank or teamfight, she prefers quick HitAndRunTactics, throwing out a ''Swirlseed'' and using [[ForcedSleep her sleeping ultimate]] to poke/engage from a safe distance, and using her ''Blooming Blows'' to thwomp her enemies before quickly scampering away.
-->''"I want to meet a human, from over here... c-can they see me? Don't let them see me! I'm not ready! Eep!"''
* UnexplainedAccent: While it serves her sweet, fae-like nature well, it's still very odd that a NatureSpirit born from [[{{Wutai}} Ionia]] speaks with a fake 'Scottish'' accent.
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[[folder:Lissandra, the Ice Witch]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"I will bury the world in ice."-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tess Masters (English), Olga Cano (European Spanish), Carola Vázquez (Mexican Spanish), Haruka Shibuya (Japanese), Alessandra Araújo (Brazilian Portuguese), So Yeon (Korean), Ramilya Iskander (Russian)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', ''League of Legends: Ashe'' (Cameo)

->''"So many secrets, buried in ice..."''

As the reclusive leader of the Frostguard, many believe Lissandra is a living saint whose followers bring healing and wisdom to the tribes of the Freljord. The truth is perhaps more sinister, as she uses her elemental magic to twist the power of True Ice into something dark and terrible, entombing or impaling any who would reveal her deepest secrets. Indeed, the legacy of her past may yet be the beginning of the end for Runeterra.\\
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Lissandra is a Burst Mage champion who impairs and whittles down multiple opponents with freezing ice, diving into the enemy team to unleash glacial fury and bend them to her will.
* Her passive, ''[[ActionBomb Iceborn Subjugation]]'', turns any enemy champion that dies around Lissandra into a ''Frozen Thrall'' that chases nearby enemies, prioritizing champions, for a few seconds, slowing nearby foes before shattering to damage them.
* Her first ability, ''[[AnIcePerson Ice Shard]]'', sends out an icicle in a target direction that damages and slows the first enemy it hits and then shatters, damaging foes in a cone behind the target.
* With her second ability, ''Ring of Frost'', Lissandra freezes nearby enemies, damaging and briefly immobilizing them.
* With her third ability, ''Glacial Path'', Lissandra summons an ice claw that travels in a target direction, damaging enemies in its path. Reactivating the ability consumes the ice claw to teleport Lissandra to its current location.
* Her ultimate ability, ''[[KillItWithIce Frozen Tomb]]'', either freezes an enemy champion solid, briefly stunning them, or encases Lissandra in an ice block for a few seconds, making her invulnerable and healing her based on her missing health. In either case, a field of black ice spreads around the target, damaging and slowing enemies within.
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Lissandra's alternate skins include Bloodstone Lissandra, Blade Queen Lissandra, Program Lissandra, [[WitchClassic Coven Lissandra]], [[PowerOfTheVoid Dark]] [[CosmicEntity Cosmic Lissandra]], and Porcelain Lissandra.\\
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In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Lissandra is a Tier 2 Glacial Elementalist. Her ability, ''Frozen Tomb'', freezes her target, stunning them, then emits a wave of ice that damages and slows nearby opponents. If she's below half health, she'll instead freeze herself, briefly making her immune to damage and still damaging foes. She was removed in season 2. In season 4, she returns in her Coven skin as a Tier 1 Moonlight Dazzler using her ''1000 Daggers'' spell, throwing a dagger that damages the first enemy hit before exploding to damage surrounding enemies by half the amount. She was removed along with the Moonlight and Dazzler traits in the ''Festival of Beasts'' mid-set update. She returns in season 5 using the same skin as a Tier 1 Coven Renewer; her ability remains unchanged aside from being buffed to also reduce the attack damage of enemies hit for a moderate duration. She was removed along with the Coven origin in the ''Dawn of Heroes'' mid-set update, returning in season 6 using her Blade Queen Lissandra skin as a Tier 3 Chemtech Scholar. She returns to using her season 1 ability, albeit renamed to ''Iron Maiden'' and buffed to also reduce the attack damage of affected enemies for a few seconds. She was removed in the ''Neon Nights'' mid-set update.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra,'' [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraFreljord Lissandra]] is a 3-mana 2/3 Freljord Champion with Tough who summons a Frozen Thrall (a Landmark that summons an 8/8 Frostguard Thrall with Overwhelm after an 8-round Countdown) when summoned. Once you have summoned 2 or more allies that cost 8+ mana she levels up, gaining +1/+1, creating a Watcher in your hand (an 11/17 follower that initially costs an unplayable 17 mana, but drops to 0 mana after the player summons 5 allies that cost 8+ mana, and Obliterates the opponent's entire deck save for 3 non-Champion cards when it attacks), passively giving Tough to your Nexus, and creating a Fleeting 0-cost Ice Shard (a Fast spell that deals 1 damage to all units and Nexuses) in your hand at the start of each round. Her signature spell is Lissandra's Entomb.
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* ActionBomb: ''Iceborn Subjugation'' makes enemy champions that die near her into these, which move slowly but can slow enemies in a sizeable radius before exploding. The teamfight applications are staggering, allowing her to contribute damage even after she expends her abilities, potentially [[DisasterDominoes snowballing them out of control]] in her favor.
* TheAgeless: A trait that comes with being an Iceborn, she's been around for as long as The Watchers made their first step into the Freljord, and for generations for her people to have mostly forgotten about them.
* AnIcePerson: Lissandra is one of the oldest Iceborn, a race of transhumans granted control over True Ice (as well as its derivative Dark Ice), as well as [[TheAgeless ageless immortality]], properties that also applied to her sisters and their ancient followers, received after making a deal with [[EldritchAbomination The]] [[PowerOfTheVoid Watchers]].
* TheArtifact: Ever since her 2018 lore {{Retcon}}s made her an AntiVillain rather than a direct GenericDoomsdayVillain, much of her evil-sounding voiceover seems a little strange and out of place, especially since her motivation has flipped from helping the Watchers commence their apocalypse to wanting to stall it. One of the biggest sticking points is the tone of her saying "The Watchers will return," which still sounds like a threatening boast rather than a foreboding warning.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: On initial release, Lissandra was pretty much a GenericDoomsdayVillain who unambiguously served The Frozen Watchers with plans [[ApocalypseHow bury the world in ice]]. Following [[{{Retcon}} rewrites]] in 2018, however, there have been significant changes that make her seem slightly more sympathetic and complex: her deal with The Watchers to turn her, her sisters, and their followers into [[TheAgeless ageless Iceborn]] was born out of a desire to potentially save them from [[ApocalypseHow the Watchers' inevitable destruction of the universe]], but even betrayed the Watchers [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone once she realized how badly she screwed up once they made their move]]. She's still framed as being responsible for the deaths of her sisters and their followers, as well as doing her best to cover her tracks to hide her mistakes, but her goal of prolonging the return of The Watchers makes her infinitely more noble than her previous incarnation.
* CloseRangeCombatant: For a Burst Mage, Lissandra has a remarkably short area of effect, with her ''Ice Shard'' requiring to hit something to extend its range, and the bulk of her combos requiring her to be in the thick of the enemy team. This means that she has to stay on the very fringe of a fight in order to be most effective, [[DifficultButAwesome but her power to immobilize and shred through opponents can make it very worthwhile.]]
* CrownOfHorns: Lissandra wears a crowned helmet whose most dramatic feature is its pair of giant, wide spikes, reminiscent of horns. [[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/freljord/?mv=image-gallery All members of the Frostguard]] are seen wearing helmets with this design pattern.
* DarkIsEvil: Contrast to the bright-blue True Ice of other Freljordian champions, Lissandra uses a variant called Dark Ice, resulting from The Watchers' [[PowerOfTheVoid void-related energies]] slowly corrupting and eating away at [[SealedEvilInACan their prison]].
* DealWithTheDevil: In ancient times, Lissandra made a deal with The Watchers -- [[EldritchAbomination ancient masters of The Void and creator of the present-day Voidborn]] -- to turn her, her sisters, and their followers into [[TheAgeless ageless]] Iceborn, seeing it as the only way they can prepare and survive for [[ApocalypseHow the inevitable doomsday when The Watchers arrive to destroy all Runeterra]]. Unfortunately for her, her sisters weren't on board with this, and when Lissandra attempted to stall The Watchers for time, they disregarded her and made their move.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Volibear clawed out her eyes, rendering them useless and Lissandra effectively blind. On top of still being able to sense environment through her connection with True Ice (similarly to how [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Toph]] deals with blindness), her inability to see the physical world led her to start [[DreamWalker exploring non-physical realms]].
* DreamWalker: After she was blinded eons ago, she developed the ability to do this, and her mentally venturing into the abyssal dreams of [[EldritchAbomination The Watchers]] is how she first came to know of them. Nowadays, as detailed in the story ''The Dream Thief'', her traveling into their dreams and allowing them to soothe their sleep (at great cost to herself, given how nightmarish their dreams are) is how she keeps them at bay. She also visits the dreams of others in the Freljord, [[SinisterSurveillance which is how she keeps track of enemies]] as well as imprint her presence into the minds of potential allies, namely surviving Iceborn.
* EasterEgg: For a time, idling at the spawn of the Howling Abyss map as Lissandra will prompt her to recount her version of the bridge's story, the history of the Three Sisters, and their battle against The Watchers (it was removed following [[{{Retcon}} her lore updates]] due to some details of it being incompatible).
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Of a sort. While she's not exactly ''evil'' (certainly not [[GreaterScopeVillain as horrible as]] [[PowerOfTheVoid The Watchers]]), she has by far the least flattering track history of the Freljordian champions, and while most others possess control over True Ice, in-game at least, she appears to be using a Void-corrupted variant called Dark Ice.
* EyeScream: For rejecting the magic of the mortal realm, Lissandra's eyes were clawed out by Volibear, and as such, all of her appearances and skins have her wear a helmet [[EyelessFace that covers them]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Her Bloodstone Lissandra skin. Taking the normally modestly dressed champion, and giving her a big dose of cleavage and two holes in the sides to show off her hips.
* GrimUpNorth: Her Frostguard faction controls the northern-most part of Freljord made up of desolate mountains and she is by far the most grim of the three. Contrast Ashe's [[TheAlliance Avarosan]] controlling the forests and plains of the Freljord and Sejuani's [[TheHorde Winter's Claw]] controlling the barren tundras.
* HarmlessFreezing: Averted if she targets an enemy with Frozen Tomb, as freezing them solid deals a heavy amount of damage continually. Exaggerated if she targets herself, as she recovers health whilst entombed instead.
* IceQueen: Yup, the archetype is definitely there.
* HazyFeelTurn: Her morality's gone through the wringer quite a bit, and whether she's an AntiHero or AntiVillain is up to viewer interpretation. She's not exactly up for ''stopping'' the apocalypse brought on The Watchers (indeed, her once allowing them to reign over the Freljord sped things up), she is trying to prolong it, all while attempting to erase her dark secrets and past mistakes in the process.
* LadyAndKnight: ''Legends of Runeterra'' depicts a [[https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Draklorn_Inquisitor_(Legends_of_Runeterra) Draklorn Inquisitor]], [[BlackKnight a sinister Frostguard knight]] in her servitude. The exact relationship between him and Lissandra is unknown, but just about every line from him is [[UndyingLoyalty swearing his unflinching fealty towards his Lady]], and the two have multiple interactions that hint at some intimate subtext.
-->'''Draklorn Inquisitor''': [[RedBaron The Lady of Ice and Darkness]]...\\
'''Lissandra''': I do so love when my people call me that.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: She has a regal demeanor and uses black ice spells to crush and impale foes.
* NoblewomansLaugh: She has one, which along with her EvilBrit accent highlights her IceQueen archetype.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Originally designed as a sustained damage type mage. More commonly played as a burst mage, popping into the backline, blowing everything to off a squishy target, then getting out.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Her skin, figure and posture all give the impression of her being in her late twenties or so. While no exact number has been given as to her age, [[Really700YearsOld simply saying she's a lot older than that would sound like quite an understatement]].
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: Invoked with her passive, which turns enemy champions that die near her (regardless of whether or not she kills them herself) into [[ActionBomb explosive Frozen Thralls]].
* {{Retcon}}: She was originally introduced in 2013 as an unambiguous villain who awaits for when The Watchers' return to Runeterra, [[TheChessmaster slowly altering the course of Freljordian history, including the Frostguard, to speed things up]]. As of a 2018, post mass-ContinuityReboot rewrite, however, this has been significantly flipped, making her more of a complex AntiVillain who works to ''slow down'' their return.
* SadisticChoice: When The Watchers began their destruction of Runeterra with her sisters and their Iceborn armies ready to fight them, Lissandra was put into a dilemma of either allowing the Watchers to consume the world against their wishes, or give up what she really cared for the most. She ended up choosing the latter, entombing the Watchers in a prison of True Ice, sacrificing Avarosa, Serylda, and their allies in the process.
* SinisterSilhouettes: When Lissandra levels up in ''Legends of Runeterra'', the shadow of the Watcher she creates looms over the board for a moment to give a sense of menace to the game-ending threat now waiting in her controller's hand.
* TeleportSpam: Reactivating Glacial Path lets her teleport to its ending location. With some cooldown reduction and some ranks in the ability, she can end up doing this quite often.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: Lissandra is a morally ambiguous, but ultimately ominous Ice Witch making sinister motions across the Freljord to prepare for armageddon with a legion of brainwashed soldiers at her beck and call. Trundle, the self-proclaimed king of the Frostguard's troll army is... not that.
-->'''Trundle''': ''[[{{Pun}} Ice]]'' to meet you, hah!\\
'''Lissandra''': [[SurroundedByIdiots Ugh]]...
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[HazyFeelTurn While her status as a villain is a little hazy]], Lissandra is very much guilty of the great Iceborn apocalypse following The Watchers' arrival to the Freljord, and while she genuinely seeks to venerate her sisters and rally the Freljord to prolong the Watchers' return, she's been attempting to expunge her mistakes from written history in order to maintain a positive image. Lissandra herself is likely the most worshipped of the Three Sisters, while The Ice Witch is feared and hated as the being who doomed them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Part of what makes [[AntiVillain her villainy so questionable]] is that if she is correct about everything, her less savory actions could be seen as justifiable, but even then, [[KnightTemplar she goes to some very extreme lengths.]] One example is her [[TheCorruption corruption of trolls]] into becoming [[ReforgedIntoAMinion brainwashed thralls]], done to ensure that in light of potential rebellion by Trundle or [[GreaterScopeVillain the Watchers]] finally making their move, she would have an army loyal to her and her alone.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: It's more silvery than strictly white, and she's not strictly-speaking evil, but the connotations are there.
* YouCantFightFate: Her belief that seeing into The Void and contacting the Watchers gave her is that their destruction of the universe is inevitable, it's just a matter of ''when'' and preparing humanity for it. [[ScrewDestiny Her sisters disagreed and instead took up arms against the Watchers]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causing them to strike much earlier and jeopardizing Lissandra's entire plan in the process]].
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[[folder:Lucian, the Purifier]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"Everybody dies. Some just need a little help."-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' TJ Storm (English/Current and High Noon), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English/2013-2019) Salvador Aldeguer (European Spanish), Víctor Hugo Aguilar (Mexican Spanish), Creator/RikiyaKoyama (Japanese), Marco Antônio Abreu (Brazilian Portuguese), Wan-Kyung Seong (Korean), Mikhail Georgiou (Russian)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra''

->''"Wield the light, endure the pain, and cleanse all shadow from this world."''

Lucian, a Sentinel of Light, is a grim hunter of undying spirits, pursuing them relentlessly and annihilating them with his twin relic pistols. After the wraith Thresh slew his wife, Lucian embarked on the path of vengeance—but even with her return to life, his rage is undiminished. Merciless and single-minded, Lucian will stop at nothing to protect the living from the long-dead horrors of the Black Mist.\\
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Lucian is a Marksman champion with an aggressive, highly mobile playstyle, dashing around to carefully aim at his opponents and gun them down in a barrage of light bullets.
* His passive, ''[[DoubleTap Lightslinger]]'', enhances Lucian's next basic attack whenever he uses an ability, causing it to fire twice at his target, dealing reduced damage with the second shot. In addition, when buffed by an ally, his next two basic attacks become ''Overcharged'', dealing additional damage.
* His first ability, ''[[LightEmUp Piercing Light]]'', shoots a beam of light through a nearby enemy, damaging enemies in its path.
* His second ability, ''Ardent Blaze'', fires a light blast in a target direction that explodes in a cross patern upon hitting an enemy or reaching the end of its path, damaging, revealing and marking enemies it hits for a few seconds. If Lucian or an allied champion damage a marked enemy, Lucian gains a short burst of movement speed.
* With his third ability, ''[[VideoGameDashing Relentless Pursuit]]'', Lucian dashes in a target direction. The ability's cooldown is reduced whenever Lucian attacks with his ''Lightslinger'' passive, doubled if he attacks an enemy champion.
* With his ultimate ability, ''[[MoreDakka The Culling]]'', Lucian channels for a few seconds as he fires both of his guns, unleashing a devastating torrent of light bullets in a target direction that damage the first enemy they hit. Lucian can still move and use ''Relentless Pursuit'' during the channel to aim the bullet storm more accurately.
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Lucian's alternate skins include [[ProfessionalKiller Hired Gun Lucian]], [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Striker Lucian]], [[{{Cyberpunk}} PROJECT: Lucian]], Heartseeker Lucian, [[{{Cowboy}} High Noon Lucian]], [[Series/MiamiVice Demacia Vice]] Lucian, [[TimePolice Pulsefire Lucian]], [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Pulsefire Lucian]], Victorious Lucian, and [[TarotMotifs Arcana Lucian]].\\
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In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Lucian is a Tier 2 Noble Gunslinger. His ''Relentless Pursuit'' ability has him dash a short distance, then fire twice - the first hit is a regular attack, while second deals extra magic damage. He was initially removed in season 2, before being restored again, this time as a Tier 4 Light Soulbound (a class unique to him and Senna). His ability was changed to ''The Culling'', which causes him to fire a barrage of shots in a straight line for four seconds that does a percentage of his attack damage, a fixed amount of extra magic damage, and applies on-hit effects. He returns to his season 1 cost and ability in season 3, now using his PROJECT: Lucian skin and bearing the Cybernetic Blaster classes. He was removed in season 4. He returns to using his base skin in season 5's ''Dawn of Heroes'' mid-set update as a Tier 4 Sentinel Cannoneer, and returns to using ''The Culling'' as his ability. He was initially removed in season 6, but returns in the ''Neon Nights'' mid-set update using his Victorious Lucian skin as a Tier 3 Hextech Twinshot. ''Relentless Pursuit'' returns as his ablity, though in this iteration he fires three shots at star level 3, while each shot strictly deals magic damage and can target a different enemy.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraDemacia Lucian]] is a 2-mana 3/2 Demacia Champion with Quick Attack. If he sees either 4+ allies or Senna die he levels up, gaining +1/+1 and Double Attack, and granting you a Rally the first time another ally dies each round. His signature spell is Lucian's Relentless Pusuit.
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* ArchEnemy: Evil in general, the Shadow Isles specifically, and Thresh even more specifically due to him stealing the soul of his wife.
** Ironically, Lucian/Thresh was at one time one of the most popular bottom lane ADC/support combinations in pro level [=LoL=]. The amount of TeethClenchedTeamwork can only be imagined...for Lucian at least. Thresh probably thinks it's completely hilarious.
* AscendedGlitch: When Lucian was released, a bug caused his second Lightslinger shot to occasionally hit something else if the first shot killed the target. People liked this, so in the following patch, it was not only kept in, but coded to work properly.
* BadassBaritone: He has a deep voice that's on par with Nasus'.
* BadassBoast: Several.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d4/Lucian.taunt03.ogg "Death at the door? Hmph, no. I am the one who knocks!"]]''
* BadassCape: Splits just below the shoulders into two cape-tails.
* BadassLongcoat: Features prominently on his in-game model. His High Noon skin gives him a impressive-looking black coat.
* BadassNormal: He might have magic-powered guns, but his aim and reflexes are all his own.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3a/Lucian.move12.ogg "Some call it magic. I call it good aim."]]''
* BattleCouple: Used to be this with his wife, Senna, but they stopped when [[TortureTechnician Thresh]] came along and stole her soul. Now Senna has returned as a playable champion, and Riot made her the game's first dedicated [[CombatMedic support marksman]] specifically so they could be able to lane together. Despite community fears that what Senna had been through might come between them, the two seem to have slipped back into their old relationship fairly easily and banter together in a manner very reminiscent of Xayah and Rakan.
-->'''Lucian''': [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Reckon it's time...]]\\
'''Senna''': [[FinishingEachOthersSentences ...for a reckoning!]]
* BeamSpam: Depending on the rank of his ultimate, he'll fire 20 to 30 blasts of light in one go.
* BulletHell: His ultimate. With a maxed out attack speed, it's capable of firing off 34 shots in three seconds.
* CallBack: As of his 2019 voiceover, Lucian has an interaction with Miss Fortune, apologizing that he can't help her for the next Harrowing, referring to the events of "Shadow and Fortune" 4 years prior.
* CharacterDevelopment: As part of a trend Riot started in 2019 of actively advancing the personal plotlines of their champions, Lucian set out to settle things with Thresh and put Senna to rest once and for all, or die trying. Amazingly, his efforts actually succeeded beyond his wildest expectations [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvDFvzfxsQ as he successfully freed Senna from the lantern and returned her to life]], even if not 100% to normal. To reflect this development, Lucian received a new voiceover, [[TookALevelInCheerfulness with his brooding side being significantly toned down]].
* {{Combos}}: His passive encourages players to use an ability, autoattack, use another, autoattack, etc.
* TheComicallySerious: Lucian's "happy face" is a evilly-grinning smiley face, which looks very much like [[Music/{{Disturbed}} The Guy]], that he makes by shooting at the ground. The guy doesn't have a funny bone left in his body; even his laugh emotes sound forced.
* ContinuityNod: During ''Rise of the Sentinels'', Lucian benefits from his journeys and team-ups in ''Shadow and Fortune'' years prior, where Miss Fortune and Olaf still remember working with him (though for Olaf, [[UnstoppableRage he takes a bit]]).
* CrusadingWidower: He spent six years slaying Shadow Isles monsters in an effort to free his wife's soul from Thresh. [[SubvertedTrope He's since succeeded and now she fights with him, and their goals have since changed significantly]].
* CrutchCharacter: In comparison to other [=ADCs=], Lucian is this. [[DownplayedTrope While he doesn’t scale poorly,]] he is well known for his oppressive laning that enables him to be picked top, mid, and bot viably, but his short auto attack range can leave him outperformed by other [=ADCs=] in teamfights, where dashing in can be suicidal.
* CynicismCatalyst: Before Senna lost her life and soul to Thresh, Lucian was the nicest Purifier and preferred the part where he was protecting the innocent over the thrill of taking down the wicked. Thresh changed all of that though.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/65/Lucian.interaction01.ogg "You took the better half of me, Thresh. What you left is a dangerous enemy!"]]’'
* DealWithTheDevil: In the Ixtal portion of rise of the Sentinels, Lucian’s increasing desperation to save Senna from possibly having to meet her against Viego leads him make a deal with ''Thresh'' - yes, that Thresh - the latter promising him and ancient secret that will help the sentinels defeat Viego in exchange for one of Isolde’s fetters. He immediately regrets this decision when it appears all Thresh has given them is a tall tale about a weapon that can revive the dead and sees he has already left with the fetter when trying to call the deal off.
* DifficultButAwesome: His skill kit allows him to excel in kiting, chasing, and mobility, even more so than Ezreal and has better combo skill potential than Varus and Miss Fortune. As a tradeoff, [[FragileSpeedster he's expectedly fragile and possesses relatively short range for a marksman, making being slippery and unleashing combos an imperative skill for players]].
* DoubleTap: Or at least, the GunsAkimbo version of it, via his Lightslinger passive which causes him to fire an extra shot off on the next auto-attack. This is indeed where Lucian's true burst damage potential when not using "The Culling" ultimate comes from, with the idea being you want to use an Ability, fire off the Lightslinger bonus shot, then use his next ability, and repeat.
--> '''Lucian:''' "Everybody deserves a [[DeadlyEuphemism second shot]]."
* DreadlockWarrior: A ScaryBlackMan who wears his hair in impressive dreadlocks and dedicates himself to killing undead monsters.
* DualWielding: Used to only use one pistol, but he took to using Senna's as well after she was taken by Thresh.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Piercing Light, Ardent Blaze, and The Culling all actually encourage this from time to time. If you see an enemy Lucian lining up one of your minions between him and you, chances are, he's about to fire off a Piercing Light shot. Ardent Blaze's star burst AreaOfEffect can hit fleeing foes in the back, or pierce through the initial target to hit multiple foes. And The Culling gain's a massive damage bonus versus Minions, doubling as a wave clear and initiator attack.
* FailureKnight: Spent years shifting his crusade to specifically targeting the Shadow Isles after he lost Senna to Thresh. [[CharacterDevelopment He has since been redeemed in rescuing her]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: Not with his clothing, but with his weapons. His right-hand weapon is large and blocky, while his left-hand weapon (the one originally belonging to his late wife) is sleek and angular.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Is wholeheartedly against the notion of suffering after death -- it also ties into his MercyKill view, since if he kills someone, at least they won't suffer in the afterlife.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/63/Lucian.move03.ogg "Death should be the end..."]]''
* GoodIsNotSoft: If you're one of Runeterra's many evils, don't expect him to hesitate when pulling the trigger.
* GunFu: Clearly designed with this style of gunplay in mind, what with his rapid-firing dual handguns and an ultimate that involves firing in one direction while strafing and dodging. His style of dress also brings to mind the [[GunKata clerics]] of ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
* GunsAkimbo: Originally, he and Senna each had one relic-weapon gun. But when Senna died, he picked up hers to fulfill their mission of purifying Runeterra.
* TheGunslinger: Of the Woo variety. His passive ability, which causes him to fire both weapons simultaneously after using an ability, is even called Lightslinger. He also doesn't seem to like trick shooters all that much.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/56/Lucian.attack12.ogg "Trick shot? The trick is NOT to get shot."]]''
* {{Handguns}}: Though they don't appear to actually be firearms in the traditional sense, being pieces of white stone attached to handles that fire bolts of light. Whatever they are, they ''are'' [[HandCannon intimidatingly large]].
* HappilyMarried: Used to be this to Senna, until Thresh stole her soul away. Now that she's back, they're still very much in love.
* TheHeart: Used to be the idealist of his order and their most morally conscience member. When his beloved got taken from him, TheHeart [[HeartbrokenBadass broke]]... then [[CynicismCatalyst hardened]].
* HenpeckedHusband: A few of his quotes with Senna suggest that she wears the pants in their relationship.
->''"[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/c/c1/LucianOriginal_FirstEncounterSenna_3.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20200219201249 That you, Senna? Uh... is this about me not making the bed again?]]"''
* KnightInSourArmor: He's a good guy on a righteous mission, he's just bitter about his loss and how screwed up the afterlife can be.
* KnightTemplar: Are you evil? If yes, expect to be looking down the 'barrels' of his guns fairly soon. No exceptions.
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''The Purifier's Resolve'' by The Crystal Method.
* LightEmUp: His weapons fire bolts of light.
* LightIsGood: A man of good intentions (if somewhat harsh demeanor) themed around purity and light.
* MeaningfulName: His name comes from the Latin word for light, "lux", with a modifier to suggest "clarity" (like "lucid" and "lucent").
* MercyKill: A central theme to Lucian. Killing someone and sparing their soul is often one and the same when dealing with the Shadow Isles.
--> ''"Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment."''
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/a/a1/Lucian.attack07.ogg "This IS mercy."]]''
* MirrorCharacter: As the "Steadfast Heart" comic notes, Lucian and Viego are surprisingly similar. Both are men who found the love of their lives, had that love taken away by cruel fate (Viego's by an assassin's blade, Lucian's by Thresh) and both journeyed to the Isles over them. But while Lucian journeyed there to free Senna and put her spirit to rest, Viego journeyed there to cheat death and bring Isolde back. Graves even {{lampshade}}s it in his Sentinel skin.
--> '''Graves:''' [[LampshadeHanging Hey Lucian, you ever look at Viego and think "Man, what a terrifying parallel to me?"]]
* MoreDakka: His passive and specially his ultimate both invoke this.
* NiceHat: High Noon Lucian tops off his western-inspired ensemble with a cowboy hat.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In a roundabout way, Lucian really caused a lot of trouble in rescuing Senna. As her being freed from the Lantern finally led the Ruined King to locate Isolde's soul within her. And as such made him [[OrcusOnHisThrone stop sitting on his duff]] and attack Runeterra.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Around the 2020 season, Lucian started to be played far more as a solo midlaner rather than a duo botlaner as players realized he was quite an oppressive lane bully in the context of the former, where midlane mages tend to have weak early games that could very easily punished with Lucian's combos and mobility. Riot deemed this enough of a problem by the following year that in patch 11.17, they introduced the new "Vigilance" passive of his ''Ardent Blaze'' ability and began balancing him more around working with allies again (though Riot have cited this desire to see a midlane marksman as partial inspiration for Akshan, who is meant more to be played in the solo lane).
* OfficialCouple: With Senna, obviously, as a husband and wife duo.
* ThePaladin: A more secular and shooty version than most, the Purifier order clearly draws on some of the tropes that define stereotypical paladin orders in fantasy. Lucian's working title during development was "The Gun Templar."
* ThePowerOfLove: Senna gives him the power to defeat Thresh at the climax of "Shadow and Fortune".
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted, in that he was actually the kind, gentle half of his BattleCouple until Thresh stole his wife's soul, at which point his [[GoodIsNotNice heart hardened]]. You still needn't fear him if you're not his target though.
* SharpDressedMan: Heartseeker Lucian has him trade out his white badass longcoat for a red/white suit, perfect for looking both threatening and dapper.
* StayInTheKitchen: A big point of conflict between him and Senna during the Ruined King Saga. As not surprisingly, Lucian is very overprotective of her after freeing her from the Lantern and keeps trying to sideline her from danger. Senna, who is fully capable of handling herself, is no fan of it.
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[[folder:Lulu, the Fae Sorceress]]
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"Pleased to meet you!"-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FayeMata (English), Pilar Martín (European Spanish), Creator/CristinaHernandez (Mexican Spanish), Creator/AoiYuuki (Japanese), Pamella Rodrigues (Brazilian Portuguese), Myeong-Hui Lee (Korean), Larisa Nekipelova (Russian)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra''

->''"The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again."''

The yordle mage Lulu is known for conjuring dreamlike illusions and fanciful creatures as she roams Runeterra with her fairy companion Pix. Lulu shapes reality on a whim, warping the fabric of the world, and what she views as the constraints of this mundane, physical realm. While others might consider her magic at best unnatural, and at worst dangerous, she believes everyone could use a touch of enchantment.\\
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Lulu is an Enchanter champion, aided by her faerie friend Pix, who uses her quirky assortment of spells to both aid and empower her allies and disable and annoy her enemies.
* Her passive, ''[[FairyCompanion Pix, Faerie Companion]]'', is Lulu's faerie friend that constantly follows her around. Pix will aid Lulu with her basic attacks, shooting three magical bolts of energy at her attack target that deal damage to the first enemy they hit.
* With her first ability, ''[[BeamSpam Glitterlance]]'', Lulu shoots two magic beams, one from her location and one from Pix's, in a target direction, damaging and slowing enemies they pass through, dealing bonus damage to a target if both beams connect onto them.
* With her second ability, ''[[WildMagic Whimsy]]'', Lulu unleashes erratic fae magic upon a nearby champion, either increasing their movement and attack speed for a few seconds if they're an allied champion or briefly transforming them into a harmless critter that can't attack or use abilities and moves at reduced speed if they're an enemy champion.
* Her third ability, ''Help, Pix!'', causes Pix to teleport to a nearby unit, following them around for the next few seconds. If the target is an enemy, they'll take damage and will be revealed for the duration, while if the target is an ally, Pix will shield them and aid their basic attacks instead of Lulu's with her passive for the duration.
* Her ultimate ability, ''[[MakeMyMonsterGrow Wild Growth]]'', greatly enlarges a nearby allied champion, knocking up enemies around them, increasing their health and making them emit an aura for a few seconds that slows nearby enemies.
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Lulu's alternate skins include Bittersweet Lulu, [[BlackMagicianGirl Wicked Lulu]], [[FluffyTamer Dragon Trainer Lulu]], [[AnIcePerson Winter Wonder Lulu]], [[BeachEpisode Pool Party Lulu]], [[MagicalGirl Star Guardian Lulu]], [[CosmicEntity Cosmic Enchantress Lulu]], Pajama Guardian Lulu, [[{{Zeerust}} Space]] [[{{Disco}} Groove Lulu]], and [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Space Groove Lulu]]. ''Wild Rift'' exclusively includes Glorious Lulu.\\
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In season 1 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', Lulu is a Tier 2 Yordle Sorcerer. Her ''Wild Growth'' ability temporarily grants extra health and size to the ally with the lowest health percentage (or multiple allies on higher star levels) and knocks up all enemies next to them. She was removed in season 2. She returns in season 3 as a 5 cost Celestial Mystic. With her ''Polymorph'' ability, she renders the nearest enemies unable to attack and increases their damage taken for several seconds. Season 4 sees her return to her original cost and ability as an Elderwood Mage, though altered to only affect one ally at all star levels in exchange for the buff lasting the entire round and healing allies that are already enlarged instead. In season 5, she uses her Wicked Lulu skin as a Tier 3 Hellion Mystic. Her ability was changed to ''Whimsy'', which enchants several of the nearest units based on her star level. Enchanted allies gain bonus attack speed for a seconds, while enchanted enemies are polymorphed, stunning them and increasing their incoming damage taken for the duration. In season 6, she again returns to using her base skin as a Tier 2 Yordle Enchanter with ''Wild Growth'' returning as her ability from season 4, albeit buffed to be able to target multiple allies at higher star levels again.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraBandleCity Lulu]] is a 3-mana 3/3 dual Ionia and Bandle City (formerly mono-Ionia) Yordle Champion, with a Support ability that sets her supported ally's stats to 4/4 until end of round. After you've supported 3 or more allies in a game she levels up, gaining +1/+1, making her Support ability boost allies to 5/5 instead, and she passively generates a "Help, Pix!" card at the start of every round, a 1-mana Fleeting Burst speed spell which can either grant an ally Barrier or an enemy Vulnerable for the round and cannot be cast as a reaction or in combat. Her signature spell is Lulu's Whimsy. Pix! also appears in the game as a separate 1-mana 0/2 Ionia Follower with a Support ability that gives his supported ally +2/+1 for that round.
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* BadassAdorable: Highly cute, even by Yordle standards. The badass part came with season 4 changes to her ratios and support gold changes: with enough AP she'll become a force to be reckoned with on top of her innate utility which ''scales''. It's possible to build her as an all-out damage champion with AP and some Attack Speed that's nearly impossible to run from or chase.
* BalefulPolymorph:
** Her ''Whimsy'' spell transforms an enemy champion into a cute little squirrel (or a cupcake, a kitten, a half-hatched dragon, a little snowman, a manatee, or more depending on her skin), silencing them for the duration.
** In the ''Don't Mess with Yordles'' cinematic for ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra,'' Lulu polymorphs Graves into a toad-like creature to save Corki and Tristana.
* BarrierWarrior: When cast on herself or an ally, ''Help, Pix!'' grants a magical shield that absorbs a certain amount of damage before breaking. In addition, allied champions get buffed autoattacks courtesy of Pix for the ability's full duration.
* BeamSpam:
** Lulu's ''Glitterlance'' fires two slowing beams at her enemies. What makes it irritating is that she can do it every few seconds and use of ''Help, Pix!'' means she can hit opponents that are normally outside her range.
** Casting ''Help, Pix!'' on an ally temporarily gives them her passive (firing 3 bolts of light with each autoattack). Use it on someone with high attack speed and watch the beams fly.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lulu's sweet and friendly, but when she's angered, she's still the sorceress with the ability to turn herself into a giant, swat you aside with her now-giant staff, and turn you into a toad.
* TheChick: Of the Star Guardians; young, excitable and all-loving.
* ColdIron: Like all Yordles, her magic loses effect if she touches Runic Iron.
* CloudCuckoolander: Lulu is fairly kooky, and pretty much lives in a world of her own. Her voicelines are full of nonsequiters that make sense only to her.
-->'''Lulu:''' Never look a tulip in the eye.
-->'''Lulu:''' That squirrel...looks familiar.
-->'''Lulu:''' Yup, that tasted purple.
* ColorCodedCharacters: As a member of the [[MagicalGirl Star Guardians]], she's the green one.
* CuteWitch: She's small, adorable, upbeat and curious, and she commands powerful fae magics. When she casts ''Whimsy'' on herself, the speed buff animation is her riding her staff like a broomstick. [[MagicalGirl Star Guardian Lulu]] almost [[BrokeTheRatingScale sends the cute out of control]].
* DamageDiscrimination: Two of her spells, ''Help, Pix!'' and ''Whimsy,'' have different effects when cast on allies or enemies, respectively. ''Help, Pix!'' shields and empowers an ally, while dealing damage to an enemy. ''Whimsy'' buffs an ally's movement speed, or polymorphs and silences an enemy.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Lulu's principal purpose in lane (besides her crowd control and buffs) is to poke the enemy with her passive-buffed autoattacks and ''Glitterlance'' over and over again. It doesn't do much per hit, but over time it'll add up, and suddenly the enemy finds himself at a large health disparity and has to play safe.
* DifficultButAwesome: While she isn't too hard to play, most of her difficulty lies on how to prioritize ''Whimsy'' and ''Help, Pix!'', be it on allies or enemies. For instance, polymorphing an incoming assassin could end up being more useful than boosting an ally's movement speed. Also, timing her ult for the knockup and slow instead of just the bonus health can pay off big time.
* TheDitz: Sometimes Lulu can just be plain ''silly,'' such as when her hat gets pushed down over her eyes when she emerges from a Yordle portal in [[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/the-whispering-doodad/ The Whispering Doodad]] and she's convinced she's gone blind, using her staff to tap around like it's a cane.
-->Tristana sighs, and pulls the brim of Lulu’s hat up.\\
Lulu blinks, and hugs Tristana.\\
“It’s a miracle!”
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: ''Glitterlance'', as the name would suggest, happens to be a very glittery projectile. In fact, nearly all of her effects have whimsical sparkles to them.
* FairyCompanion: Lulu's constantly accompanied by the fairy Pix, who initially led Lulu to The Glade and shares some of its power with her.
* MagicStaff: Her WeaponOfChoice, which she uses to fire sparkly bolts of magic. Like Veigar, it's normal by human standards but positively huge for a Yordle.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Her ult [[PerfectlyCromulentWord hugeifies]] an ally, making them several times larger than normal. When combined with how it knocks up enemies if they happen to be immediate area when it's cast, they'll be in for a rude awakening should they try to pounce on a friend.
* MushroomSamba: Lillia implies she's been on one for a while through a special line of dialogue with an enemy Lulu:
-->'''Lillia:''' Oh, you've had too much Purple...
* NiceGirl: Lulu is a friendly and kind-hearted yordle at heart and is willing to make friends who are kind, playful, and friendly, and even her [[ThePrankster prankster]] traits are done without malice.
* NiceHat: She wears an enormous but whimsical-looking wizard hat.
* NotTheIntendedUse:
** While Lulu was originally meant to be played as a support, season 4 added AP ratios to her passive, the slow on ''Glitterlance'', the speed buff on ''Whimsy'', and increased AP ratios with her shield on ''Help, Pix!'' and the bonus health from ''Wild Growth.'' This led to mid lane Lulu in season 4 LCS where she became a powerful AP carry and powerful pusher and kiter, which caused most mid lane assassins (with the exception of [=LeBlanc=]) to fall out of favor in the North American and European competitive scene. She's sometimes even played in the ''top lane'' (which is a lane meant for melee tanks and bruisers), since her poke-centric kit gives most melee bruisers and tanks a hard time.
** Prior to season 4 changes, she was sometimes played as "machine gun Lulu," taking advantage of her Pix passive damage to build attack speed and on-hit items for massive autoattack-based DPS.
* NoSell: A good Lulu is this to bursting assassins such as Diana, Katarina, or Akali, they all rely on jumping in dealing all that damage and getting out again- try that on Lulu and bam, you're a squirrel. Oh and hope for your life she isn't building damage and CDR or you're also a ''dead body!''
* OddFriendship:
** The official website lists Lulu's friend as '''Veigar''', the Tiny Master of Evil. There has not been any credible information on this development as of yet.
** With Tristana, as shown in [[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/story/the-whispering-doodad/ The Whispering Doodad]], whose serious and headstrong nature contrasts heavily with the more laid back and whimsical Lulu, much to Tristana's frustration.
** ''Legends of Runeterra'' gives her one with Taric, who regards her fondly.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Pix is more of the "benign tiny winged creature" sort than TheFairFolk.
* ThePrankster: She has a childishly lighthearted sense of humor which mixes pretty chaotically with her whimsical magic. Some instances of her antics included turning the weapons of two rival Freljordian tribes into flowers the moment they were about to clash, causing mass chaos and confusion, as well as ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu pranking various acolytes of the Order of Shadow]]'' because she felt they were too serious for their own good.
* {{Retcon}}: On initial release, Lulu's lore had a darker, slightly more tragic bend to it in that when she returned from her short trip to The Glade, [[YearOutsideHourInside she had ended up passing centuries in Bandle City]], and her attempts at reconnecting with her kin resulted in her becoming outcasted and left WalkingTheEarth, an early version saying she went to the Institute of War before it too was retconned out of existence. Presently, due to [[LandOfFaerie Bandle City itself becoming its own mystical and timeless realm]], this dynamic was removed, with her deeper conflict being about wanting to revisit The Glade once again.
* SquishyWizard: Her spells are useful for prying an enemy off of herself or an ally. If she uses them up and is still being chased, she's probably dead in a moment.
* StatusBuff: One of her specialties; three of her four spells buff allies when cast on them. ''Whimsy'' increases an ally's movement speed, ''Help, Pix!'' grants them a shield and buffs their autoattacks, and ''Wild Growth'' grants them bonus health and an aura that slows enemies.
* SuperDeformed: Like all Yordles, Lulu's head is much larger than the rest of her body.
* TastesLikePurple: She quotes the trope verbatim. Several of her lines follow similarly random logic.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/59/Lulu.move8.ogg "Never look a tulip in the eye!"]]''
* UnwantedAssistance: In-universe version. When casting ''Help, Pix!'' on an enemy, the debuff is aptly named "X's Assistance" in quotations, rather than the regular X's Assistance when cast on an ally. It also delivers the flavor text "It is also adorable" and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime "Hey Listen!"]]
* YearOutsideHourInside: While she visited the world of the fae, centuries passed by in the outside world.
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[[folder:Lux, the Lady of Luminosity]]
->[[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux See her page for more info]]
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Individual Champions: [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAatrox Aatrox]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsMordekaiser Mordekaiser]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSwain Swain]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

* Her passive, ''Mirror Image'', briefly turns [=LeBlanc=] invisible when she drops to low health. After reappearing, she summons a harmless, controllable clone of herself for a few seconds that automatically runs away from enemies. This effect has a long cooldown before it can be used again.
* Her first ability, ''Sigil of Malice'', flings an arcane sigil at a nearby enemy, damaging and marking them for a few seconds. Damaging a marked target with another ability causes the mark to detonate, dealing bonus damage.
* With her second ability, ''Distortion'', [=LeBlanc=] dashes to a target location, damaging nearby enemies upon arrival and leaving a mark on the location she dashed from. For a few seconds afterwards, [=LeBlanc=] can reactivate the ability to blink back to the marked location.
* With her third ability, ''Ethereal Chains'', [=LeBlanc=] hurls an illusionary chain in a target direction that damages and shackles onto the first enemy it hits for a short duration. If the target doesn't manage to run away from [=LeBlanc=] quickly enough, they'll take bonus damage and will be briefly immobilized.

* His passive, ''Flurry'', empowers Lee Sin's next two basic attacks whenever he uses an ability, granting them increased attack speed and making them restore some Energy.
* His first ability, ''Sonic Wave'', sends out a powerful sound blast in a target direction that damages and reveals the first enemy it hits for a few seconds. After using ''Sonic Wave'', Lee Sin can choose to activate ''Resonating Strike'', dashing to the revealed target and damaging them based on their missing health.

* With his third ability, ''Tempest'', Lee Sin slams the ground with his palm, damaging and revealing nearby foes for a few seconds. After using ''Tempest'', Lee Sin can choose to activate ''Cripple'', slowing revealed enemies.
* His ultimate ability, ''Dragon's Rage'', strikes a nearby enemy champion with a powerful roundhouse kick that damages and sends them flying backwards. Enemies hit by the flying target are damaged and knocked up.

* Her passive, ''Sunlight'', briefly marks enemies damaged by her abilities. The next time an allied champion damages a marked target, the mark will be consumed to deal bonus damage.
* Her first ability, ''Shield of Daybreak'', enhances Leona's next basic attack, transforming it into a shield bash that deals increased damage and briefly stuns the target.

* With her third ability, ''Zenith Blade'', Leona projects a sunlight sword in a target direction, damaging enemies it passes through. The last enemy champion hit will be briefly immobilized as Leona dashes to their location.
* With her ultimate ability, ''Solar Flare'', Leona calls down a blast of sunlight at a target location, damaging and briefly slowing enemies inside. Enemies in the center of the blast are stunned instead of slowed.

* Her passive, ''Dream-Laden Bough'', applies ''Dream Dust'' on enemies affected by her basic abilities, which deals damage-over-time and gradually heals Lillia based on the target's max health for a few seconds.
* Her first ability, ''Blooming Blows'', passively grants Lilia a stack of ''Prance'' whenever she damages an enemy with her abilities, up to four. Lillia gains bonus movement speed for each stack of ''Prance'', which quickly decay once she stops damaging enemies. When activated, Lillia swings her censer in a circle, damaging nearby enemies and dealing bonus true damage to those hit on the outer edge of the spin.

* Her third ability, ''Swirlseed'', tosses a seed to a location that then starts rolling forward indefinitely, which explodes upon hitting an enemy or terrain, damaging, slowing and revealing enemies within a small cone.
* With her ultimate ability, ''Lilting Lullaby'', Lillia casts a lullaby that makes all enemy champions on the map afflicted by her ''Dream Dust'' drowsy, briefly slowing them before making them fall asleep for a few seconds. The next ability or attack that hits a sleeping enemy deals bonus damage and immediately wakes them up.

* Her passive, ''Iceborn Subjugation'', turns any enemy champion that dies around Lissandra into a ''Frozen Thrall'' that chases nearby enemies, prioritizing champions, for a few seconds, slowing nearby foes before shattering to damage them.
* Her first ability, ''Ice Shard'', sends out an icicle in a target direction that damages and slows the first enemy it hits and then shatters, damaging foes in a cone behind the target.

* Her ultimate ability, ''Frozen Tomb'', either freezes an enemy champion solid, briefly stunning them, or encases Lissandra in an ice block for a few seconds, making her invulnerable and healing her based on her missing health. In either case, a field of black ice spreads around the target, damaging and slowing enemies within.

* His passive, ''Lightslinger'', enhances Lucian's next basic attack whenever he uses an ability, causing it to fire twice at his target, dealing reduced damage with the second shot. In addition, when buffed by an ally, his next two basic attacks become ''Overcharged'', dealing additional damage.
* His first ability, ''Piercing Light'', shoots a beam of light through a nearby enemy, damaging enemies in its path.

* With his third ability, ''Relentless Pursuit'', Lucian dashes in a target direction. The ability's cooldown is reduced whenever Lucian attacks with his ''Lightslinger'' passive, doubled if he attacks an enemy champion.
* With his ultimate ability, ''The Culling'', Lucian channels for a few seconds as he fires both of his guns, unleashing a devastating torrent of light bullets in a target direction that damage the first enemy they hit. Lucian can still move and use ''Relentless Pursuit'' during the channel to aim the bullet storm more accurately.

* Her passive, ''Pix, Faerie Companion'', is Lulu's faerie friend that constantly follows her around. Pix will aid Lulu with her basic attacks, shooting three magical bolts of energy at her attack target that deal damage to the first enemy they hit.
* With her first ability, ''Glitterlance'', Lulu shoots two magic beams, one from her location and one from Pix's, in a target direction, damaging and slowing enemies they pass through, dealing bonus damage to a target if both beams connect onto them.
* With her second ability, ''Whimsy'', Lulu unleashes erratic fae magic upon a nearby champion, either increasing their movement and attack speed for a few seconds if they're an allied champion or briefly transforming them into a harmless critter that can't attack or use abilities and moves at reduced speed if they're an enemy champion.

* Her ultimate ability, ''Wild Growth'', greatly enlarges a nearby allied champion, knocking up enemies around them, increasing their health and making them emit an aura for a few seconds that slows nearby enemies.

* BraidsOfAction: In his default skin. [[RapunzelHair It's long enough to wrap around his neck several times]].

* RapunzelHair: Lee Sin is bald aside from a braid using hair from the center of the top of his head, which is so long he wraps it around his neck.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair is ''easily'' longer than she is tall.

Individual Champions: [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAatrox Aatrox]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsSwain Swain]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

* {{Expy}}: Lee Sin is visually very similar to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Yang Fang Leiden]]. He can also be seen as a hybrid of [[Franchise/MortalKombat Liu Kang and Kenshi]].

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: She's the Aspect of the Sun, and it's broadly suggested that the Sun would bring terrible devastation if she ever gave it free reign. She's almost an {{Expy}} of Phoenix.

Individual Champions: [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsAatrox Aatrox]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

'''Individual Champions:''' [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

'''Individual Champions:''' [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsThresh Thresh]] [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

'''Individual Champions:''' [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsGaren Garen]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJhin Jhin]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsJinx Jinx]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsLux Lux]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsViego Viego]] | [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsYasuo Yasuo]]\\

!!Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard
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[[caption-width-right:308:[-"Let's light it up!"-]]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CarrieKeranen (English), Mar Bordallo (European Spanish), Marta Fernanda (Mexican Spanish), Creator/ShizukaIto (Japanese), Christiane Monteiro (Brazilian Portuguese), Sae-Hae Kim (Korean), Olga Golovanova (Russian/1st Voice), Alexandra Kuragina (Russian/Current)\\
'''Appears In:''' ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', ''League of Legends: Lux''

->''"The light inside is what makes me different, and I’m always careful where I shine it."''

Luxanna Crownguard hails from Demacia, an insular realm where magical abilities are viewed with fear and suspicion. Able to bend light to her will, she grew up dreading discovery and exile, and was forced to keep her power secret, in order to preserve her family’s noble status. Nonetheless, Lux’s optimism and resilience have led her to embrace her unique talents, and she now covertly wields them in service of her homeland.\\
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Lux is a Burst Mage/Artillery Mage hybrid champion who excels at fighting from afar, flinging spells from the backlines to both burst down her enemies and assist her allies.
* Her passive, ''Illumination'', marks enemies damaged by Lux's abilities with light for a few seconds, with her next basic attack against them consuming the mark to deal bonus damage.
* Her first ability, ''Light Binding'', fires a ball of light in a target direction, damaging and briefly immobilizing the first enemy it hits. The sphere then continues travelling to the end of its range, applying the same effects to the second enemy it hits.
* With her second ability, ''Prismatic Barrier'', Lux throws out her wand like a boomerang in a target direction, shielding both herself and any allied champion the wand touches both in the way out and back.
* Her third ability, ''Lucent Singularity'', sends out a light sphere at a target location, slowing and revealing nearby enemies. After a few seconds, or when the ability is reactivated, the sphere bursts, damaging nearby foes.
* With her ultimate ability, ''Final Spark'', Lux gathers light before firing a giant, long-range laser beam in a target direction, heavily damaging enemies in its path and triggering and refreshing her ''Illumination'' marks on them.
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Lux's alternate skins include Spellthief Lux, [[CuteWitch Sorceress Lux]], [[TheSquad Commando Lux]], Imperial Lux, Steel Legion Lux, [[MagicalGirl Star Guardian Lux]], [[ElementalPowers Elementalist Lux]], Lunar Empress Lux, [[SlumberParty Pajama Guardian Lux]], [[SuperheroSchool Battle Academia Lux]], [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Battle Academia Lux]], [[CosmicEntity Cosmic Lux]], [[PowerOfTheVoid Dark Cosmic Lux]], [[{{Zeerust}} Space]] [[{{Disco}} Groove Lux]], [[EasternZodiac Porcelain Lux]], and [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Porcelain Lux]]. ''Wild Rift'' exclusively includes Crystal Rose Lux.\\
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In season 2 of ''Teamfight Tactics'', the season called ''Rise of the Elements'', Lux uses her Elementalist Lux skin and is consequently a unique centrepiece unit, a Tier ''7'' Variable Avatar. Her ability is ''Final Spark'', which fires an elemental blast that does massive damage to all enemies it hits and restores a large portion of her mana if it kills at least one unit. In season 3, she was changed to use her Dark Cosmic Lux skin and became a 3 cost Dark Star Sorcerer. Her ability was changed to ''Lurid Binding'', which fires a sphere of darkness that deals magic damage and stuns all enemies hit. She was removed in the ''Return to the Stars'' mid-set update. Season 4 sees her return in her Lunar Empress skin as a Tier 3 Divine Dazzler, using the ''Light Binding'' ability, which works roughly the same as ''Lurid Binding''. She was removed along with the Dazzler class in the ''Festival of Beasts'' mid-set update. She returns in season 5 using the same skin as a Tier 3 Redeemed Mystic. Her ability was changed to ''Prismatic Illumination'', which throws Lux's wand towards the farthest ally before returning to her, shielding herself and all allies hit by the wand, while also empowering her next basic attack to deal bonus magic damage. In season 6, she uses her Battle Academia Lux skin and is a Tier 4 Academy Arcanist, with ''Final Spark'' returning as her ability. She was removed along with the Academy origin in the ''Neon Nights'' mid-set update.\\
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In ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'', [[Characters/LegendsOfRuneterraDemacia Lux]] is a 5-mana 3/5 Demacia Champion with Barrier. When she sees you cast a combined 6+ mana worth of spells she levels up, gaining +1/+1, creating a Final Spark (a 0-mana Fleeting Slow spell which does 4 damage to an enemy unit which uniquely has Overwhelm, causing overkill damage to strike the enemy Nexus, or just does 4 damage to the enemy Nexus if they have no units) in your hand, and passively generating another Final Spark every time you spend another 6 mana on spells. Her signature spell is Lux's Prismatic Barrier.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Her ultimate was once called "Finales Funkeln". There's her name and title too: '''L'''ux the '''L'''ady of '''L'''uminosity.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not entirely clear at the start of the "Lux" comic whether the Crownguard family was actually aware that Lux was born a mage, or whether they were only concerned about her getting in trouble for her sympathetic views towards mages. Regardless, Garen at least certainly knows that his sister is a mage by the end, as Lux not only openly demonstrates her full power in front of him but forces him to say aloud what she is so he can't live in denial ("A mage... [[Heartwarming/LeagueOfLegends and my sister.]]") and judging from her card flavour text in ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'' their Aunt Tianna certainly becomes aware at some point.
* ArmorIsUseless: She's wearing light armor on her torso (as befitting a battle mage) but she's still one of the squishiest mages in the game. Compare her to Morgana, who starts off slightly more resilient than Lux then gradually becomes even more so fighting in a ''gown''.
* ArrangedMarriage: In the comic, the Crownguard family arranged for Lux to marry Prince Jarvan IV in order to protect her from any prosecution for speaking out against Demacia's anti-magic doctrine. [[SubvertedTrope This was dropped by the end]] thanks to [[TheRunaway her choosing to disappear from the capitol]] and thus never showing up to the betrothal ceremony.
* TheArtifact: Light Binding was originally a spell Lux adapted from Morgana's Dark Binding, back when Morgana was an ally of Noxus and Lux was spying on them for Demacia. Later, Morgana was retconned into being a fallen protector of Demacia only known through vague legend (while living nearby in the guise of a local woods witch), while Lux was forced to hide her magical gifts in the service of Demacia. While the idea that she could have copied one of Morgana's powers is not ''impossible,'' her new lore doesn't actually address it, making it a bit of an anomaly.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Elementalist Lux wildly changes her outfit and hairstyle depending on what elemental form she's using.
* BadassAdorable: She's a prodigiously powerful magician who acts and sounds like an innocent teenager.
* BadassBookworm: Is well-educated in her background and proves it in-game with a joke line in which she ([[MotorMouth quickly]]) explains a double rainbow, as well as being a very talented student in magic to the point of being considered a prodigy.
* BareYourMidriff: Her Sorceress skin. This was also part of her original character design, but after it received considerable derision from the fanbase she was redesigned.
* BattleCry: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYdKTv1a8E DEMACIAAA!]]. Something of a CatchPhrase for all the Demacian characters.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She might be one of the cheeriest champions in the game who uses light magic for the name of justice, but that doesn't mean she can't melt your face off with a giant laser flash.
-->'''Elementalist Lux''': Did someone mistake my sunny disposition for weakness?
* BreastPlate: It's not the most noticeable part of her design, but still there. It's been mostly averted in newer designs with exceptions like the ''Lux'' comic
* BroughtDownToNormal: Briefly in the ''Lux'' comic. During Sylas' attack, she takes an elixir which temporarily shuts down her magic (normally used for Demacian prisoners) so Sylas can't [[PowerCopying copy it again]] or detect her as she approaches him with a normal crossbow.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Very slightly; Lux has always been characterized as [[PluckyGirl an outwardly chipper and positive lady]], but her original backstories framed her with [[StepfordSmiler a much darker undercurrent]], suggesting that [[EmptyShell on the inside, she was a victim traumatized by her conscription into the Demacian military]]. Post-ContinuityReboot (primarily in her comic series), Lux's struggles come from her own personal turmoil of being a mage among a staunchly AntiMagicalFaction and accidentally igniting Sylas' revolution, but being more in command of her own actions, she's played as [[SpiritedYoungLady a more willingly rebellious yet thoughtful hero]], one that Demacia may need more than they realize.
* ChildSoldiers: Her old lore put her as this as an example of [[LightIsNotGood the dark side of Demacia]]. She was famous for being the youngest soldier in the Demacian army, but she didn't volunteer -- her parents decided to give her to the Demacian military, requiring her to be dragged out of her home in tears.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Of the [[MagicalGirl Star Guardians]], she's the pink-colored leader. For Elementalist Lux, each form has a distinct color scheme:
** Light: White and light yellow.
** Air: Light slate blue and grey.
** Water: Aqua blue and light grey.
** Fire: Orange and red.
** Nature: Bright green and grey.
** Ice: Light and dark blue.
** Storm: Yellow, white, and light blue.
** Mystic: Lavender and purple.
** Magma: Red and black.
** Dark: Purple and black.
* CombatStilettos: Surprisingly, her default skin only has a modest heel for a female champion from so early on in the game's life, but almost all of her skins give her some fashionable high heels.
* {{Combos}}: A fairly straightfoward one by mage standards but a highly effective one. Cast Light Binding to snare an enemy or two, throw a Lucent Singularity to soften them up a bit, then finish with [[WaveMotionGun Final Spark]].
* ComboPlatterPowers: Elementalist Lux blends her standard LightEmUp abilities with mixtures of different elemental aesthetics, [[YinYangBomb including darkness itself.]]
* CoolShades: Commando Lux
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Exaggerated with Elementalist Lux; in all 10 forms, her eye color changes to fit her hair color.
* CuteWitch: Her character by default, Sorceress Lux doubly so. Taken UpToEleven with [[MagicalGirl Star Guardian Lux]].
** Some of the Elementalist Lux forms have shades of this, but her Mystic form is probably the most notable, where she acts like something out of a fairy tale. Think Lulu, except [[TastesLikeDiabetes somehow more adorably sweet.]]
* DependingOnTheArtist: A lot of champions have some small design quirks depending on who's drawing/designing them for their pieces of media, but Lux gets a lot. In a lot of art, she'll have shorter hair, a more segmented look in her body suit, or her armor will have completely different decorations.
* DisappearsIntoLight: Lux's standard death involves her body falling to the ground before her corpse vanishes into light a few moments later. Averted if she's killed by Urgot's ultimate, where her body is violently ground up in a bloody mess before being reduced to nothing.
* ElementalPowers: The gist of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Elementalist Lux.]] While she still [[LightEmUp uses light abilities in general,]] as the game progresses she can choose between the (mostly) standard 4 elements twice, fusing them into a new form. In total, she has 10 forms: Her base [[LightEmUp light]] form, followed by [[PlayingWithFire fire,]] [[BlowYouAway air,]] [[MakingASplash water,]] and [[GreenThumb nature,]] which can be combined to form [[AnIcePerson ice,]] [[MagmaMan magma]], [[TheFairFolk mystic]], [[ShockAndAwe storm]], and [[CastingAShadow dark]].
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Averted gameplay-wise, but if Elementalist Lux kills a champion, she might leave a different BondOneLiner against enemies with appropriate elemental thematics (this even corresponds to individual skins). For example, if in Fire Mode she kills a "Water-type" champion such as [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Nami]], [[FishPeople Fizz]], or even anyone using a Pool Party or pirate skin, she'll say something like [[{{Pun}} "Sorry, but you got me steamed!"]]
* EverybodyKnewAlready: While Lux had been led to believe that she was able to keep her status as a mage under wraps, Garen and the rest of her family are implied to already know (or at the very least suspect it), and were quietly making arrangements to protect her in case it was true. In the "Warriors 2020" cinematic, [[AmbiguousSituation depending on how]] [[GameplayAndStorySegregation canon you interpret it]], her being a mage may have been elevated to an OpenSecret as none of the Demacian soldiers seem surprised by her when she busts out her light magic and [[TheCavalry summons Galio]].
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Most [[LightEmUp light-based effects]] in the game are a pure bright white/yellow/blue etc., but Lux's light magic is notably accented with rainbow-colored shimmers and refractions.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Her ultimate has an outrageous maximum range, travels through walls and, barring her initial channel, hits instantly. So before you yell at her for missing the enemy right in the middle of a team fight, make sure she didn't just nail the support who just flashed to (apparent) safety.
* {{Expy}}: She has quite a lot in common with [[Franchise/TouhouProject Marisa Kirisame]], such as Lux's Final Spark baring a strong resemblance to Marisa's Master Spark, calling herself an ordinary magician, one of her skins having a spell copycatting theme, and her Sorceress Lux looking a lot like PC-98 Marisa.
** Final Spark is named Malice Cannon in the game's code, referring to the Malice Cannon exploit from [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight Touhou 8: Imperishable Night]], where by rapidly switching between '''Ma'''risa and A'''lice''', you can do an obscene amount of damage in a line in front of you.
** Her staff-wielding light powers also bring Stargirl to mind.
* {{Fanservice}}: Her skins, while still tame compared to the other female champions in the game, still show off more skin than her base model, with a common theme among most of them being a skirt. Sorceress Lux puts her in a leather costume that [[BareYourMidriff exposes her naval]], Star Guardian Lux sees her don Grade-A ZettaiRyouiki, Elementalist Lux gives her a [[FanservicePack more developed figure]] with AbsoluteCleavage to show it off, and Lunar Empress Lux puts her in a [[FormFittingWardrobe skintight dress]], with the Rose Quartz chroma for it adding a CleavageWindow to the package..
* FieryRedhead: Literally with her Elemental Lux skin's [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[MagmaMan magma]] forms, where she looks and acts much more aggressively than her other forms.
* {{Foil}}: Gameplay-wise, she's this to her brother, Garen. While Garen is a frontline fighter who wants to be in the fray for long periods of time thanks to ''Judgment'', Lux stays in the rear to fling spells from a safe distance. None of Garen's abilities have any utility for his team, as they're focused on dealing damage and making sure he gets out of the fight alive. Meanwhile, Lux has multiple forms of CC to lock down enemies and a shield to protect allies. While most of Garen's damage is done over time before executing a troublesome target with ''Demacian Justice'', Lux specializes in long-range burst to obliterate enemy health bars in an instant. He's also a manaless champion while Lux is heavily reliant on mana to be effective.
* FormfittingWardrobe: Most noticeable in her default skin. Besides the BreastPlate she also wears a skintight bodysuit.
* FriendlyEnemy: Her relationship with Sylas while he was still imprisoned; she first knew him as a murderer, but both found sympathy in each other through [[FantasticRacism their common oppression as mages]], with the two sharing information with each other in how to cope with their respective situations (though while [[PetTheDog he seems to value this friendship]], [[ManipulativeBastard Sylas had far more drastic and exploitative intentions]]). Their friendship fell apart after Sylas stole Lux's power to escape his execution and lead a rebellion against the Crown, critically injuring Garen- Lux refused to join Sylas' uprising and fought against him, enraging Sylas with her "ingratitude".
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In the lore, part of her job is infiltration and stealing of secrets. This is where she got hold of the idea behind Morgana's Dark Binding and reverse-engineered it into her own ability Light Binding Ability.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: According to her background, she can manipulate light to make herself invisible. She can do nothing of the sort in the game. Her original design included a spell that could stealth allied units, but it turned out to be so difficult to balance that it was replaced with a simpler shield spell.
* GlassCannon: One of the quintessential burst mages in the game, Lux is quite vulnerable on her own, possessing no personal mobility and some of the lowest base health of all champions, but once her spells are loaded, she can just as quickly annihilate enemies. Her [[WaveMotionGun ultimate]] has a significantly lower cooldown than most mages, so while she'll have many moments where she has to wait for her cooldowns, she'll be firing lasers more often than expected.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: In the "Warriors 2020" cinematic, her irises start glowing a bright white as she builds up her light magic.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: In her Star Guardian skin and the Mystic form of her Elementalist skin. Star Guardian Lux has a star on the back of her panties (as most of the Star Guardians do), while the Mystic form has a butterfly on the back. While her Porcelain skin has just regular white underwear, the Prestige variant puts a little bunny on the front of her panties.
* HartmanHips: Has rather wide hips, made more evident by skins like Elementalist.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ends up forming this with her brother Garen. While Lux is a decently tall lady, standing at 5'10", she becomes small when put next to her colossal brother.
* HurricaneOfPuns: About half of Elementalist Lux's voice quotes vary by her form. Almost all of these are a relentless cavalcade of element-appropriate wordplay.
** Lux's ban quote lampshades this trope.
-->'''[=Lux=]''': ''[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/2/27/Lux_Ban.ogg/revision/latest?cb=20170416222511 But all my light puns would have brightened your day.]]''
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Not Lux herself, but she's on the recieving end if she encounters Fiddlesticks. Lux's greatest fear? Sylas.
** "Little Light... Liiitle light!!"
* ImprobableWeaponUser: While she fights with magic and light, what most people assume to be a staff or wand is, at least in her default skin, a baton.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Prior to her voiceover update and lore retcon, Lux had this as one of her taunts.
* InnocentBlueEyes: And she definitely sounds pretty damn innocent.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She forged a brief, but evidently lasting one between [[OurGargoylesRock Galio]] when she was younger, sharing a bond over how their magical natures conflict with their [[AntiMagicalFaction Demacian]] identities.
* {{Irony}}: A piece of Demacia propaganda derides Noxian soldiers as "Serving under a banner as an empty husk". Now read the ChildSoldiers and StepfordSmiler entries.
* KamehameHadouken: Her ultimate certainly tips its hat to this trope with her animation of casting it pointing her palms in the direction she's firing (but while holding her staff in both hands). If you watch the animation closely, for a short time she floats and her ''legs'' point in the direction she's firing as well! [[ShoutOut Pretty much]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wznfELxkEds&t=16s like her parent character]].
* LaserSight: A red line appears down the center of the path of her ultimate just before she fires it. The actual laser is much, much bigger.
* LeadTheTarget: Lux players with a good sense of movement prediction can use this to snipe targets with Final Spark even after they disappear into the FogOfWar. The fact that the ability gives vision of the blasting zone ''just'' before it goes off lets players know if they succeeded, if they just barely overshot/undershot the target, or if they aimed at the wrong place entirely.
* TheLeader: Of the Burning Bright team of Star Guardians. She is also the leader of the Porcelain Protectors.
* LightEmUp: Quotes the trope name verbatim, and all her abilities use light in some form or another. As Elementalist Lux, even when she changes her element, she still incorporates light magic in her abilities.
* LightIsGood: Wears bright clothing and has light-based magic. While she's also [[StepfordSmiler a victim]] of some of Demacia's questionable parts, Lux is still a good-hearted lady at heart.
* LightTheWay: She even says it almost verbatim.
* LittleSisterHeroine: She's Garen's BadassAdorable little sister.
* MagicalGirl: She was created by Japanese designer Shurelia to specifically reflect this archetype. Her Star Guardian Lux skin drops all pretense and turns her into a sailor-suited cutie.
* MagikarpPower: Lux entirely hinges on her abilities to apply any sort of pressure, which is hard to do in early game as her mana pool is low and her cooldowns pretty high, and [[SquishyWizard without mobility or high defense]], she could have a very rough time against enemy teams if they decide to focus her down. Once she gets the ball rolling on her items and the game shifts towards teamfighting, her damage, crowd control, and shielding potential coalesces together in a more useful way.
* MeaningfulName: 'Lux' is 'light' in Latin. It is also a unit used in measuring the brightness and intensity of light.
* MegaManning: Explicitly copied Morgana's Dark Binding and made her own spell out of it.
* MotorMouth: A mild but noticeable example in her in-game lines, especially in one of her joke lines when she explains a double rainbow.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Issue #3 of [[https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_AU/comic/lux/issue-3/0/?utm_source=LeagueClient&utm_medium=OverviewTier1 Lux's comic]] was not kind to her, as she blamed herself for not only getting Sylas condemned to death, but also causing the massacre he enacts- first by teaching him how to use Petricite as a weapon, then by providing him with the magic he needs to escape, leading to him seriously wounding her brother Garen.
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: Elementalist's light form quote: "Fight the good fight, odds be [[PrecisionFStrike damned.]]"
* NiceGirl: In addition to her overall sunny and kind demeanor, even her taunts towards enemy champions lack any form of genuine malice.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Lux's compassion towards Sylas is what allowed him to copy Lux's magic, break out of prison, and kill a bunch of people in the process and later a brutal crackdown led by Jarvan IV who orders ANYONE associated with a mage persecuted. This causes her to finally abandon Demacia to save the few mages not yet caught.
** On the other side of the coin, it was when her family learned about her associating with the hated criminal that they [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections pulled some strings]] to have his sentence of life imprisonment immediately changed to execution, setting the events of his escape in motion.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Lux kinda does this when she taunts an enemy Lucian. She realizes it near the end too.
--> '''Lux''': I'm sure your wife forgives you for getting her soul taken by a remorseless creature of darkness...
** Lux also does this when taunting Leona.
--> '''Lux''': [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight You brought the sun to a light fight?]] That... was... probably a good choice, actually...
* ParentalAbandonment: Before the retcon, Lux's parents casually gave her over to the Demacian military to serve the state at the age of 13, without showing the slightest signs of regret or reluctance.
* PersonalityPowers: Lux has a considerably bright and cheerful attitude, and uses light magic. Elementalist Lux actually has her fluctuate between personality types depending on her elemental form, going from gentle and light with Air and Water, to more loud and aggressive with Fire and Magma, etc.
* PowerCrutch: While Lux doesn't need a staff in order to use her magic, as seen in the comic and her level 2 card in Legends of Runeterra, it's implied that she has more control when using one, as seen at the end of the comic. It doesn't necessarily need to be hers, as she picked up a staff from a fallen Freljordian shaman in the Warriors 2020 cinematic, since she didn't have hers with her.
* PowerIncontinence: When Lux first discovers her magic, she has a difficult time controlling it, and has to hide it from her family, and Demacian society at large. Her comic series depicts it as a soft glow from her hand she physically has to cover up even while gloved, though Sylas manages to teach her a technique to properly control and conceal it.
* PrecisionFStrike: Not quite a harsh curse, but it's still surprising to hear Elementalist Lux exclaim "Damnit!" in her joke.
* PrettyButterflies: Elementalist Lux's Mystic form has a lot of these as a motif.
* PungeonMaster: Elementalist Lux ''LOVES'' making puns based on whatever elemental mode she's currently in. A few choice examples:
--> '''Attacking in Air Form''': No gust, no glory!\\
'''Firing Final Spark in Nature Form''': KA-''BLOOM!''\\
'''After a killing spree in Air Form''': They should have ''erred'' on the side of caution.\\
'''While transforming into Fire Form''': I'm the new hotness!\\
'''Killing [[PlantPerson Zyra,]] [[WhenTreesAttack Maokai, or Ivern]] while in Nature Form''': What a sap.\\
'''Killing a "Fire" enemy in Water Form''': You're just no ''match'' for me.\\
'''After a killing spree in Storm Form''': Lightning strikes!
* RageWithinTheMachine: She commits the act of treason by helping mages escape Jarvan's crackdown after Sylas's failed revolt.
* {{Retcon}}:
** In her original backstories, Lux was a more openly-known prodigy in light magic, one who was recruited (read: borderline abducted) by the Demacian military from a young age. With Demacia becoming more defined as an AntiMagicalFaction, Lux's magic practice and her involvement in the Demacian military became much more clandestine.
** A brief iteration of post-ContinuityReboot lore stated that when Lux became part of the Illuminators, she discovered that it was actually a front for [[MutantDraftBoard a covert program to recruit mages in service of protecting Demacia's borders]], and that she became involved in operations to infiltrate contested lands between Demacia and Noxus for them. This covert aspect was eventually removed; the Illuminators are now merely a charitable religious group, and no official institution is aware that she's a mage.
* RighteousRabbit: Lux wields the [[EasternZodiac Rabbit Zodiac Relic]] as the leader of the Porcelain Protectors.
* RoseHairedSweetie: In her Star Guardian skin, Lux has hot pink hair and the Star Guardian page shows that she's one of the two downright nicest of the five (the other being Lulu).
* TheRunaway: At the end of the comic, Lux fled the Great City of Demacia with a group of mages, seeking safety from the Mageseeker Order, but also not wanting anything to do with Sylas's revolution. Garen, after witnessing Lux's nature as a mage, had to let them go, and lied to Jarvan IV to cover for her. Lux is still considered missing as of ''Garen: First Shield,'' but she turns up in the Warriors 2020 cinematic to save Demacia from Sylas's army of Freljordian warriors.
* RunawayFiance: In the ''Lux'' comic Lux hides with Sylas in his prison cell when she's supposed to meet Jarvan IV to formalize their engagement. She later flees Demacia entirely when the anti-mage crackdown begins.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After Sylas' failed uprising and Jarvan IV's brutal crackdown on mages, Lux abandons Demacia with a ragtag crew of mages, seeking life elsewhere. Depending on the canonicity of the Warriors cinematic, she might have returned just in time to prevent a second invasion by Sylas.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Her Elementalist skin, with her voice sounding much older as well as appearing older than she normally does, is apparently what Lux will look like as an adult.
* ShipperOnDeck: Lux appears to be amused [[LittleSisterInstinct (to a certain extent, at least)]] by Garen's interactions with Katarina.
--> '''Lux''': [[KissingInATree Kat and Garen sittin’ in a tree!]] And you better just be holding hands or I’m telling!
* ShipTease:
** She blushes after Sylas briefly holds her hand at the end of the second issue of her comic. In fact, most of the entire issue is constant Lux/Sylas ShipTease. Of course, [[ForegoneConclusion we all know it won't end well]].
** Despite the main lore implying that they won’t become a thing, Riot seems to be pushing for this with [[ImpliedLoveInterest Ezreal]] and Lux again with AlternateUniverse skins. The Battle Academia skins even have them going on dates.
* SkillGateCharacter: Lux is a consistently very popular champion among most of the playerbase, and for solid reasons in terms of gameplay: her kit is easy to pick up, [[JackOfAllTrades eclectic with its burst damage and utility]], and encourages a very safe playstyle catering to those who like [[SimpleYetAwesome low-investment, but big-reward champions]]. However, her popularity declines significantly in higher skill levels as she has very obvious windows of weakness to an astute enemy (namely her lack of mobility, [[MagikarpPower slow-paced early game]], and general slowness of her kit), and the fact [[MasterOfNone she can do many things decently is offset by how other mages can do less, but better.]]
* SquishyWizard: She has a shield and a snare, but that's not gonna save her if her team isn't there to help.
* StatuesqueStunner: Lux stands at a pretty tall 5'10" and nearly all of her skins have some element of fanservice to them.
* StepfordSmiler:
** She's upbeat and loyal to her city-state, but is conflicted by their backwards treatment of magical ability.
** Her previous lore before the mass ContinuityReboot was even worse -- she was revealed to have been forcibly given to the Demacian military at her parents' wishes while she was 13, ad during her judgement, she claimed herself that she wanted to join the League (and thereby serve Demacia) [[EmptyShell because she has nothing else.]]
* ToastOfTardiness: Her homeguard animation for her Battle Academia skins have her running while holding her books, and having a piece of toast in her mouth, as though she was running late for her classes.
* TokenWholesome: Noted by many for being the one of the most sensibly dressed females.
* TookALevelInBadass: In Issue 5 of the comic, Lux receives her iconic staff as thanks for leading a group of mages to safety. After Garen confronts the group, and Lux helps him come to terms with the fact that his sister is a mage, she uses her staff to blow open the tunnel that Sylas had since collapsed to cover his escape.
* TheUnReveal: Dark Cosmic Lux: "Born with darkness in my heart. Forced to wear a mask of light. [[BeneathTheMask Hungry hands peel away a false face to reveal...]] ''[[NothingIsScarier nothing.]]''"
* UnwittingPawn: She inadvertently helped [[BombThrowingAnarchists Sylas]] escape imprisonment, all because she sensed a kindred spirit in a similarly oppressed mage, even if it was one in chains. [[PetTheDog While Sylas does genuinely seem to value their friendship]], that still didn't stop him from also using her magic ability as his explosive way out from the execution chamber.
* VocalEvolution: Despite not having any visual updates, she got an updated voiceover in 2017 (by [[Creator/CarrieKeranen the same voice actor,]] [[RoleReprise 7 years later no less!]]), bringing her up to the game's current standards with champion-specific taunts, reacting to other players' emotes, and keeping some elements more in line with the post-mass-{{Retcon}}'d lore. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/5y3958/newexpanded_vo_lux/demuqcs/ This was an experiment by Riot]] who intended to update the VO's of old champs that didn't necessarily need a full visual update, and with the popularity of this update, they've since applied the same principle to later champions like Ashe, Lee Sin, Lucian, Sona, etc.
* WaveMotionGun: Her ultimate fires a massive flash of light, with a pretty massive range and dealing great damage.
* WeaponTwirling: The casting animations for Prismatic Barrier, Lucent Singularity and Final Spark all involve Lux's wand spinning around. She also twirls her wand around in one hand like a baton sometimes during her movement and idle animations.
* YinYangBomb: With her Elementalist skin, her Dark form allows her to use a fusion of light/darkness abilities.
* YoureNotMyMother: Lux pulls this on her aunt Tianna when she tries to scold her for her use of magic.
-->'''Tianna''': If I were your mother...\\
'''Lux''': What a shame you aren't, aunt Tianna.

* BaldOfAwesome: In his Muay Thai Lee Sin. Not a hair on this powerful monk's head.

Leona's alternate skins include Defender Leona, [[{{Valkyries}} Valkyrie Leona]], Iron Solari Leona, [[BeachEpisode Pool Party Leona]], [[{{Cyberpunk}} PROJECT: Leona]], [[SupremeChef Barbecue Leona]], [[PowerOfTheSun Solar Eclipse Leona]], [[{{Lunacy}} Lunar Eclipse Leona]], [[HumongousMecha Mecha Kingdoms Leona]], [[SuperheroSchool Battle Academia Leona]], [[GoldenSuperMode Prestige Battle Academia Leona]], [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming Damwon Leona]], and [[BadassInANiceSuit Debonair Leona]].\\

* {{Fanservice}}: Her skins, while still tame compared to the other female champions in the game, still show off more skin than her base model, with a common theme among most of them being a DangerouslyShortSkirt. Sorceress Lux puts her in a leather costume that [[BareYourMidriff exposes her naval]], Star Guardian Lux sees her don Grade-A ZettaiRyouiki, Elementalist Lux gives her a [[FanservicePack more developed figure]] with AbsoluteCleavage to show it off, and Lunar Empress Lux puts her in a [[FormFittingWardrobe skintight dress]], with the Rose Quartz chroma for it adding a CleavageWindow to the package..

* DamageOverTime: Dream-Laden Bough allows Lillia to gradually chip at her opponents' health while staying out of danger thanks to her movement speed boost. Once she builds enough AP and has a few items to help her out (Some popular picks are Liandry's Anguish and Demonic Embrace which also have a DoT passive), she can easily burn her opponents down in the late game. ''Eep'' indeed.

* NotTheIntendedUse: Originally designed as a sustained damage GradualGrinder type mage. More commonly played as a burst mage, popping into the backline, blowing everything to off a squishy target, then getting out.

** Lulu's ''Glitterlance'' fires two slowing beams at her enemies. What makes it irritating is that she can do it every few seconds and use of Help, Pix! means she can hit opponents that are normally outside her range.

* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Her ult does this with your ''allies''. When combined with how it knocks up enemies if they happen to be immediate area when it's cast, they'll be in for a rude awakening should they try to pounce on a friend.

* UnwantedAssistance: In-universe version. When casting ''Help, Pix!'' on an enemy, the debuff is aptly named "X's Assistance" in quotations, rather than regular X's Assistance when on an ally. It also delivers the flavor text "It is also adorable" and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime "Hey Listen!"]]

** Casting Help, Pix! on an ally temporarily gives them her passive (firing 3 bolts of light with each autoattack). Use it on someone with high attack speed and watch the beams fly.

** While Lulu was originally meant to be played as a support, season 4 added AP ratios to her passive, the slow on ''Glitterlance'', the speed buff on ''Whimsy''', and increased AP ratios with her shield on ''Help, Pix!'' and the bonus health from ''Wild Growth.'' This led to mid lane Lulu in season 4 LCS where she became a powerful AP carry and powerful pusher and kiter, which caused most mid lane assassins (with the exception of [=LeBlanc=]) to fall out of favor in the North American and European competitive scene. She's sometimes even played in the '''top lane''' (which is a lane meant for melee tanks and bruisers), since her poke-centric kit gives most melee bruisers and tanks a hard time.

* SuperDeformed: A result of an OffModel design rather than a deliberate stylistic choice, but when the Pool Party Lulu skin finally removed her usual body-covering robes, it made it painfully obvious that her head is roughly the same size as the entire rest of her body.

** While Lulu was originally meant to be played as a support, season 4 added AP ratios to her passive, her ''Glitterlance'''s slow, her ''Whimsy'''s speed buff, and increased AP ratios in her shield and ''Wild Growth.'' This led to mid lane Lulu in season 4 LCS where she became a powerful AP carry and powerful pusher and kiter, which caused most mid lane assassins (with the exception of [=LeBlanc=]) to fall out of favor in the North American and European competitive scene. She's sometimes even played in the '''top lane''' (which is a lane meant for melee tanks and bruisers), since her poke-centric kit gives most melee bruisers and tanks a hard time.

* BadassAdorable: Highly cute, even by Yordle standards. The badass part came with season 4 changes to her ratios and support gold changes: with enough AP she'll become a force to be reckoned with on top of her innate utility which ''scales''. It's possible to build her as an all-out damage champion with AP and some Attack Speed that's nearly impossible to run from or chase!

-->''Lulu:'' Never look a tulip in the eye.
-->''Lulu:'' That squirrel...looks familiar.
-->''Lulu:'' Yup, that tasted purple.

--->'''Lillia:''' Oh, you've had too much Purple...

** While Lulu was originally meant to play as a support, season 4 added AP ratios to her passive, her Glitterlance's slow, her Whimsy's speed buff, and increased AP ratios in her shield and Wild Growth. This led to mid lane Lulu in season 4 LCS where she became a powerful AP carry and powerful pusher and kiter which caused most mid lane assassins (with the exception of [=LeBlanc=]) to fall out of favor in the North American and European competitive scene. She's sometimes even played in the '''top lane''' (which is a lane meant for melee tanks and bruisers) since her poking kit gives most melee bruisers and tanks a hard time.