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** However when they're on a team together they become absolute terrors. A fed Nasus (jungling) and Renekton (top lane) can very easily, utterly steamroll an enemy team into submission at level 18.
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* OddFriendship: The website lists ''Sivir'' as his friend of all people.
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* OddFriendship: The website lists ''Sivir'' as his friend of all people. Though, now it's apparent why: Sivir is Azir's descendent.
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* PhysicalGod: Nasus along with his brother Renekton, in his most recent lore rework, is now one of the two legendary Ascended heroes of Shurima, putting him in the same tier as Azir and Xerath.
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* {{Retcon}}: He's been retconned to being a native of Shurima. However, unlike the other champions who were involved in this retcon, not much was changed in his backstory.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Renekton losing his mind and Xerath breaking free seem to be this to him, if the Shurima: Descent into the Tomb video is anything to go by.
-->''My failure is complete...''
-->''My failure is complete...''
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* DifficultButAwesome: Of a sort. Except for her Aqua Prison, all of her skills are simple enough that jumping into Nami can be done without much trouble. Using her to her ''full extent'', however, requires careful knowledge of how to use her abilities together.
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Adding new info due to Azir\'s lore being completed and the brothers and Xerath are mentioned in it
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As of Azir's reveal, however, his, Renekton's and Xerath's lore were retconned (which can currently be found in the PBE). Nasus is now a native of Shurima who was believed to be a demigod of death and time and a patron of curators and guardians. Now he seeks to put Renekton out of his misery.
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misery. Both of the brothers defeated Xerath when he betrayed Azir and imprisoned him in a sarcophagus. However, Xerath broke free and Renekton made Nasus seal both him and the mage inside the Tomb of the Emperors in an attempt to make sure Xerath stayed trapped for good. Disheartened, Nasus complied and sealed the both of them away. Long story short, the seal didn't last as long as many would have hoped...
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* FaceOfAThug: He looks pretty horrifying, but he's actually a benevolent forest spirit that only wanted to protect his land, until human mages ruined that. Case in point, he's enemies with Zyra.
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* ThisIsADrill: Transforms into a DrillTank resembling the [[{{Godzilla}} Land Moguera tank]] in his Mecha skin's recall animation.
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* ThisIsADrill: Transforms into a DrillTank resembling the [[{{Godzilla}} [[Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla Land Moguera tank]] in his Mecha skin's recall animation.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: He and Yorick are the more sympathetic among the Shadow Isles champions.
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* CrazySane: In his eyes, surrendering his mind to the Void was the only lucid option. After all, it ''will'' come and destroy everything.
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Kog'maw is supposedly drawn to Malzahar and aids him in battle, but in-game he's a separate hero. Can be averted if a Kog'maw and Malzahar player are on the same team, but apart from that, Kog'maw has little to do with Malzahar in-game.
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* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Kog'maw Kog'Maw is supposedly drawn to Malzahar and aids him in battle, but in-game he's a separate hero. Can be averted if a Kog'maw Kog'Maw and Malzahar player are on the same team, but apart from that, Kog'maw Kog'Maw has little to do with Malzahar in-game.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Seeing the void is not exactly healthy for your sanity.
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* GradualGrinder: He has ''one'' ability that does instant[[note]]the cast is instant, but the effect is delayed[[/note]] damage, the rest deal damage over time. Don't let this fool you though; he's capable of dealing out some serious hurt by combining the three others in a combo.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Seeing More like "pursued, stalked, and harassed by the void revelation until he too was worn down to keep his sanity," but the effect is not exactly healthy for your sanity.
the same.
* GradualGrinder: He has ''one'' ability that doesinstant[[note]]the instantaneous [[note]]the cast is instant, but the effect is delayed[[/note]] damage, the rest deal damage over time. Don't let this fool you though; he's capable of dealing out some serious hurt by combining the three others in a combo.
* GradualGrinder: He has ''one'' ability that does
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* OhCrap: A very typical reaction to 300+ stacks on his Q. ''Abandon all hope ye who let him free farm''.
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* OhCrap: A very typical reaction for enemy players to 300+ stacks on his Q. ''Abandon all hope ye who let him free farm''.
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* OhCrap: A very typical reaction to 300+ stacks on his Q. ''Abandon all hope ye who let him free farm''.
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* RageQuit: PlayedForLaughs in the Arcade Miss Fortune skin's Recall animation. After failing to shoot the birds like VideoGame/DuckHunt and Gangplank taunting her on TV, Miss Fortune became so angry she shot the TV down just in time as she went back to base.
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Miss Fortune's alternate skins include Cowgirl Miss Fortune, Waterloo Miss Fortune, Secret Agent Miss Fortune, Candy Cane Miss Fortune, Road Warrior Miss Fortune, and Mafia Miss Fortune.
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* GamerGirl: Arcade Miss Fortune turns her into this, as her recall animation had her use her guns as a NES Zapper, playing a VideoGame/DuckHunt style game.
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* DrillTank: Mecha Malphite
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* ThisIsADrill: Transforms into a drill tank resembling the [[{{Godzilla}} Moguera tank]] in his Mecha skin's recall animation.
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* ThisISADrill: Transforms into a drill tank resembling the [[Godzilla Moguera tank]] in his Mecha skin's recall animation.
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* HumongousMecha: His Mecha Malphite Skin. That's Heimerdinger in the foreground in case you can't tell.
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* HumongousMecha: His Mecha Malphite Skin. That's Heimerdinger and Ziggs in the foreground in case you can't tell.
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Malphite's alternate skins include Shamrock Malphite, Coral Reef Malphite, Marble Malphite, Obsidian Malphite, and Glacial Malphite. An upcoming skin is Mecha Malphite.
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** And with his [[AnIcePerson Glacial Malphite]] skin, he is literally this.
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* HeroKiller: In the "A New Dawn" cinematic he gets both of the kills on the "bad" team, crushing Jax under his anchor and forcing Graves to [[HeroicSacrifice blow himself up]] to [[TakingYouWithMe take Nautilus with him]].
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** Extremely well portrayed in the "A New Dawn" video where ''nothing'' Graves does to him even seems to slow him down until he gets ''a giant stone pillar'' dropped on him.
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* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: '''Yes.''' He has arguably the deepest voice in the entire game and ''that's'' saying something.
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* TheBrute: On Darius' team in ''A New Dawn''.
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* CutscenePowerToTheMax: Big time in ''A New Dawn'', although it's arguably more realistic for a living submarine man. He doesn't hit that hard in game, being instead the king of crowd control, but in ''A New Dawn'' his Riptide ability was shown as a massive earthquake, and his anchor was able to kill Jax and knock Grave's back a very large distance.
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Maokai has gotten new lore.
** Averted with [[http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Maokai/Background his new lore]]. He was originally a forest spirit in the Shadow Isles but when it was destroyed and plagued with the souls of the undead, he left in search of a way to bring it back to its former glory.
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* EnergyAbsorbtion: How Vengeful Maelstrom works, absorbing damage that would have been dealt to his teammates then releasing back as payback damage.
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Maokai's alternate skins include Charred Maokai, Totemic Maokai, Festive Maokai, and Haunted Maokai.
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Maokai is a tank-mage champion who unleashes the wrath of nature upon the battlefield, disabling foes and protecting allies from harm while dealing respectable damage himself. His passive, ''Sap Magic'', grants him a charge whenever an ability is used near Maokai, making his next basic attack heal him for a percentage of his maximum health when he gains enough charges. With his first ability, ''Arcane Smash'', Maokai punches the ground, sending out a shockwave that damages and slows enemies in a line in front of him. Enemies directly in front of Maokai are also slightly knocked back. His second ability, ''Twisted Advance'', transforms Maokai into a cloud of energy, bark and leaves as he dashes to a nearby enemy, damaging and briefly immobilizing them upon arrival. With his third ability, ''Sapling Toss'', Maokai hurls a ''Sapling'' at a nearby area, damaging all nearby foes. The ''Sapling'' then remains burrowed in the ground, revealing the surrounding area, until an enemy comes close to it, at which point it will uproot itself and chase them, exploding and damaging all nearby enemies after a brief delay. His ultimate ability, ''Vengeful Maelstrom'', summons a huge vortex of natural energy at a nearby area that can be mantained for as long as he has mana, reducing all damage allies take while inside it. When the ability is re-activated, the vortex will explode, damaging all foes inside depending on how much damage it absorbed.
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Maokai is a tank-mage champion who unleashes the wrath of nature upon the battlefield, disabling foes and protecting allies from harm while dealing respectable damage himself. His passive, ''Sap Magic'', grants him a charge whenever an ability is used near Maokai, making his next basic attack heal him for a percentage of his maximum health when he gains enough charges. With his first ability, ''Arcane Smash'', Maokai punches the ground, sending out a shockwave that damages and slows enemies in a line in front of him. Enemies directly in front of Maokai are also slightly knocked back. His second ability, ''Twisted Advance'', transforms Maokai into a cloud of arcane energy, bark and leaves as he dashes to a nearby enemy, damaging and briefly immobilizing them upon arrival. With his third ability, ''Sapling Toss'', Maokai hurls a ''Sapling'' at a nearby area, damaging all nearby foes. The ''Sapling'' then remains burrowed in the ground, revealing the surrounding area, until an enemy comes close to it, at which point it will uproot itself and chase them, exploding exploding, slowing, and damaging all nearby enemies after a brief delay. His ultimate ability, ''Vengeful Maelstrom'', summons a huge vortex of natural energy at a nearby area around himself that can be mantained maintained for as long as he has mana, reducing all damage allies take while inside it. When the ability is re-activated, the vortex will explode, damaging all foes inside depending on how much damage it absorbed.
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* {{Archnemesis}}: To Renekton.
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* {{Archnemesis}}: ArchEnemy: To Renekton.
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* ComicallySerious: With one of his visual upgrade jokes. Justified in that if ''you'' had the head of a dog and were treated by people as such, you'd be pretty annoyed too.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: In the season one trailer, he appears as a largely inarticulate monster, working with the likes of [[EldritchAbomination Cho'gath]] and Warwick. He is huge, menacing, and constantly rambles on about death in a deep, booming voice. He is also a truly noble creature, a gentleman and a scholar.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: In the season one trailer, he appears as a largely inarticulate monster, working with the likes of [[EldritchAbomination Cho'gath]] and Warwick. He is He's huge, menacing, and constantly rambles on about death in a deep, booming voice. He is He's also a truly noble creature, a gentleman and a scholar.creature.
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* CaptainErsatz:
** An omnicidal assassin who kills people in their dreams and hates a specific group, whom he harassed in the past. Are we talking about Nocturne or Freddy Krueger?
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* CaptainErsatz:
**CaptainErsatz: An omnicidal assassin who kills people in their dreams and hates a specific group, whom he harassed in the past. Are we talking about Nocturne or past, much like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger?Krueger]].
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* EnemyToAllLivingThings: He REALLY hates Summoners, but life in general is an abomination in his eyes.
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* LightningBruiser: He was designed to be a GlassCannon, but anyone halfway decent with him will build him tanky thanks to Duskbringer's attack boost, which allows you to build a fair amount of defense and still do enormous damage. When built this way, he's nearly impossible to peel off a target or escape from but can also take a good beating and fight off multiple opponents with ease.
* [[LivingDream Living Nightmare]]: The possibility was mentioned that he is someone's nightmares given physical form.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: If the new cinematic from Riot is any indication, his ultimate gives you damn a good reason to be paranoid of your surroundings. The amount of lovecraftian horror that Ryze experiences while under the influence would make Cthulhu proud.
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Nidalee is an assassin-support champion who can shapeshift between a long and a short range form that work together to hunt and take down her foes. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', gets a free rank at the start of the game and allows Nidalee to switch between ''Human Form'', which is ranged and excels at initiating the hunt, and ''Cougar Form'', which is melee and excels at taking down targets. Her passive, ''Prowl'', grants her a brief movement speed bonus when she travels through brush that increases if she's moving towards a visible enemy champion. It also makes her ''Javelin Toss'' and ''Bushwhack'' abilities mark targets they damage as ''Hunted'', granting Nidalee the same movement speed bonus when moving towards them and granting bonus effects to her ''Cougar Form'' abilities. Her first ability in ''Human Form'', ''Javelin Toss'', throws her spear forward to damage the first enemy unit in a line, the damage increasing the further the spear flies, and marking the target as ''Hunted''. With her second ability in ''Human Form'', ''Bushwhack'', Nidalee lays down a trap at a nearby location that is triggered if an enemy unit walks over it, damaging them over time for a percentage of their current health, revealing them and marking them as ''Hunted. Her third ability in ''Human Form'', ''Primal Surge'', heals a nearby allied champion or herself while also granting the target a brief attack speed boost. Her first ability in ''Cougar Form'', ''Takedown'', makes her next basic attack deal bonus damage depending on the target's missing health. If the target is ''Hunted'', they'll take bonus damage. With her second ability in ''Cougar Form'', ''Pounce'', Nidalee lunges a small distance forward, damaging all enemies around her landing point. If she targets a nearby ''Hunted'' enemy when using ''Pounce'', she will instead jump to their location from twice the normal distance. Her third ability in ''Cougar Form'', ''Swipe'', will slash all enemies in a cone in front of Nidalee with her claws, damaging them. If she hits a ''Hunted'' target, the cooldown of ''Pounce'' will be refreshed.
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Nidalee is an assassin-support champion who can shapeshift between a long and a short range form that work together to hunt and take down her foes. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', gets a free rank at the start of the game and allows Nidalee to switch between ''Human Form'', which is ranged and excels at initiating the hunt, and ''Cougar Form'', which is melee and excels at taking down targets. Her passive, ''Prowl'', grants her a brief movement speed bonus when she travels through brush that increases if she's moving towards a visible enemy champion. It also makes her ''Javelin Toss'' and ''Bushwhack'' abilities mark targets they damage as ''Hunted'', granting Nidalee the same movement speed bonus when moving towards them and granting bonus effects to her ''Cougar Form'' abilities. Her first ability in ''Human Form'', ''Javelin Toss'', throws her spear forward to damage the first enemy unit in a line, the damage increasing the further the spear flies, and marking the target as ''Hunted''. With her second ability in ''Human Form'', ''Bushwhack'', Nidalee lays down a trap at a nearby location that is triggered if an enemy unit walks over it, damaging them over time for a percentage of their current health, revealing them and marking them as ''Hunted.''Hunted''. Her third ability in ''Human Form'', ''Primal Surge'', heals a nearby allied champion or herself while also granting the target a brief attack speed boost. Her first ability in ''Cougar Form'', ''Takedown'', makes her next basic attack deal bonus damage depending on the target's missing health. If the target is ''Hunted'', they'll take bonus damage. With her second ability in ''Cougar Form'', ''Pounce'', Nidalee lunges a small distance forward, damaging all enemies around her landing point. If she targets a nearby ''Hunted'' enemy when using ''Pounce'', she will instead jump to their location from twice the normal distance. Her third ability in ''Cougar Form'', ''Swipe'', will slash all enemies in a cone in front of Nidalee with her claws, damaging them. If she hits a ''Hunted'' target, the cooldown of ''Pounce'' will be refreshed.
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Nidalee is an assassin-support champion with great versatility thanks to her ability to switch between a long range form meant for burst damage and support and a short range one for mobility and sustained damage. Her passive, ''Prowl'', grants her a brief movement speed boost when she travels through brush, and access to a unique ''Hunt'' mechanic. When she strikes an enemy with her ''Buskwack'' or ''Javelin Toss'', they are considered hunted, and Nidalee gains bonus movement speed when moving towards them, and her cougar abilities have bonus effects. Her first ability, ''Javelin Toss'', throws her spear forward to damage the first enemy unit in a line, the damage increasing the further the spear flies, and making the target hunted. With her second ability, ''Bushwack'', Nidalee lays down a trap that damages, reveals and causes her to hunt the target for a brief duration. Her third ability, ''Primal Surge'', heals a nearby allied champion or herself while also granting the target a brief attack speed boost. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', which she has at level 1, transforms Nidalee into a ferocious cougar with a melee attack range and an entirely new set of basic abilities. Her first ability becomes ''Takedown'', making her next basic attack deal bonus damage depending on the target's missing health. ''Takedown'' deals bonus damage on a hunted target. Her second ability becomes ''Pounce'', making Nidalee lunge a small distance forward, damaging all enemies around her landing point. She can cast ''Pounce'' on a hunted enemy to jump to their location from twice the normal distance. Her third ability becomes ''Swipe'', slashing all enemies in a small cone in front of her to damage them. Using ''Swipe'' on a hunted target refreshes the cooldown on ''Pounce''.
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Nidalee is an assassin-support champion with great versatility thanks who can shapeshift between a long and a short range form that work together to hunt and take down her ability foes. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', gets a free rank at the start of the game and allows Nidalee to switch between a long range form meant for burst damage ''Human Form'', which is ranged and support excels at initiating the hunt, and a short range one for mobility ''Cougar Form'', which is melee and sustained damage. excels at taking down targets. Her passive, ''Prowl'', grants her a brief movement speed boost bonus when she travels through brush, and access to brush that increases if she's moving towards a unique ''Hunt'' mechanic. When she strikes an visible enemy with champion. It also makes her ''Buskwack'' or ''Javelin Toss'', Toss'' and ''Bushwhack'' abilities mark targets they are considered hunted, and damage as ''Hunted'', granting Nidalee gains bonus the same movement speed bonus when moving towards them, them and her cougar abilities have granting bonus effects. effects to her ''Cougar Form'' abilities. Her first ability, ability in ''Human Form'', ''Javelin Toss'', throws her spear forward to damage the first enemy unit in a line, the damage increasing the further the spear flies, and making marking the target hunted. as ''Hunted''. With her second ability, ''Bushwack'', ability in ''Human Form'', ''Bushwhack'', Nidalee lays down a trap at a nearby location that damages, reveals and causes her to hunt the target is triggered if an enemy unit walks over it, damaging them over time for a brief duration. percentage of their current health, revealing them and marking them as ''Hunted. Her third ability, ability in ''Human Form'', ''Primal Surge'', heals a nearby allied champion or herself while also granting the target a brief attack speed boost. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', which she has at level 1, transforms Nidalee into a ferocious cougar with a melee attack range and an entirely new set of basic abilities. Her first ability becomes in ''Cougar Form'', ''Takedown'', making makes her next basic attack deal bonus damage depending on the target's missing health. ''Takedown'' deals If the target is ''Hunted'', they'll take bonus damage on a hunted target. Her damage. With her second ability becomes in ''Cougar Form'', ''Pounce'', making Nidalee lunge lunges a small distance forward, damaging all enemies around her landing point. She can cast ''Pounce'' on If she targets a hunted nearby ''Hunted'' enemy to when using ''Pounce'', she will instead jump to their location from twice the normal distance. Her third ability becomes in ''Cougar Form'', ''Swipe'', slashing will slash all enemies in a small cone in front of Nidalee with her to damage claws, damaging them. Using ''Swipe'' on If she hits a hunted target refreshes ''Hunted'' target, the cooldown on ''Pounce''.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Nasus dominates late game if he can get enough farm. If the enemy is aware of this, they will never let you farm up that much and you will be a liability to your team. This is easily remedied, however, by simply farming under your turret, and eventually, you can keep farming by simply one shotting minions without even worrying about how low on health they are, making it AwesomeYetPractical.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Nasus dominates late game if he can get enough farm. If the enemy is aware of this, they will never let you farm up that much and you will be a liability to your team. This is easily remedied, however, by simply farming under your turret, and eventually, you can keep farming by simply one shotting minions without even worrying about how low on health they are, making it AwesomeYetPractical.are.
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[[folder:Malphite, Shard of the Monolith]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f9/Malphite_Select.ogg Rock solid.]]-] ]]
->''"Beware, minions of chaos! The Shard of the Monolith has come."''
Malphite is a sentient rock being from another dimension. In his homeworld, all beings are living silicone creatures who live in a utopian society linked by a benevolent hive mind called the Monolith. Malphite was summoned from his home dimension to help bring order to Runeterra, and though he missed his homeworld and couldn't understand Runeterra's beings obsession with individuality, he saw it as a respectable goal and accepted to help, thus joining the League of Legends against all those who bring chaos into the world.
Malphite is a tank-fighter champion who uses his innate tankyness to initiate fights, disabling enemies and weakening their offense. His passive, ''Granite Shield'', grants him a damage absorbing stone shield equal to a percentage of his maximum health whenever he stays out of combat for a few seconds. His first ability, ''Seismic Shard'', fires a rock projectile at a nearby enemy, damaging them and stealing some of their movement speed, slowing them and speeding up Malphite for a brief duration. His second ability, ''Brutal Strikes'', passively makes Malphite's basic attacks also deal damage to enemies around his attack target, and can be activated to grant him an armor and attack damage bonus for a brief duration. With his third ability, ''Ground Slam'', Malphite punches the ground, sending out a shockwave that damages and slows the attack speed of all nearby foes. His ultimate ability, ''Unstoppable Force'', makes Malphite charge to a nearby area, damaging and knocking all nearby enemies up into the air upon arrival.
Malphite's alternate skins include Shamrock Malphite, Coral Reef Malphite, Marble Malphite, Obsidian Malphite, and Glacial Malphite.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* BadassBaritone: Click his select quote again if you're not 100% sure. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that characters made of rocks/associated with rocks ''usually'' have ''very'' deep voices.
* BoringButPractical: A Malphite is usually picked solely because of his ultimate and has a fairly mundane skillset and laning phase otherwise. And yet, a single well-timed Unstoppable Force can win the game for his team or garner the advantage for them, it's ''that'' powerful.
* TheBigGuy: Fairly large and likely to be the toughest member of his team.
* DishingOutDirt: He's a living rock, what kind of attacks do you think he uses?
* DumbMuscle: His speech patterns are far from sophisticated. In his defense, he lived under a HiveMind and probably didn't have to think much about speaking.
* DynamicEntry: His Unstoppable Force sends foes flying!
* FoeTossingCharge: Click ultimate, click target area, watch them get knocked up, then helplessly being picked apart by your teammates.
* GreenEyes: Being a sentient rock goes along with the natural magic connotations of the trope.
* HiveMind: What he left behind in his home world.
* ImplacableMan: If Malphite wants to use Unstoppable Force on enemies, nothing short of killing him will stop him from reaching them.
* MightyGlacier: Big time. A good Malphite player is essentially immune to hit and run attacks thanks to his passive, and his ground slam attack gets more powerful the more armor you have. The debuff from his slam also reduces auto attack speed by up to half, which allows him to cripple physical damage champions. The "glacier" part is helped by Seismic Shard's short movement speed boost and of course his famous ultimate.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Due to his good scalings, building an AP "Mage-phite" is not at all impossible.
* OddFriendship: He´s found a friend in a similar situation as himself through Maokai, and apparently their talks together have at least calmed [[UnstoppableRage Maokai]] down a bit.
** BlueOniRedOni: Malaphite is the former, Maokai is the latter.
* OrderVersusChaos: Fights on the side of Order since his homeworld (the Monolith) was basically a perfect HiveMind of beings.
* ShockwaveStomp: Achieved by smashing the floor with his hand, leaving the Riot Games logo in the ground for a few seconds afterward.
* SiliconBasedLife: His entire species.
* TerseTalker: His movement quotes are all brief agreements (like Rammus) and his attack quotes are him just saying variants of "Smash!" or "Kill!". The single longest thing he says (apart from his joke) is "I'm moving as fast as I can!" and his taunt is a relatively brief "You will lose."
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[[folder:Malzahar, the Prophet of the Void]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d6/Malzahar_Select.ogg Oblivion awaits!]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' VicMignogna
->''"The land may melt, the sea may swell, the sky may fall... but they will come!"''
Once a Seer with a powerful gift of foresight, Malzahar's talent worked against him and the calls of the Void led him to the lost city of Icathia. There his visions were replaced with images of the creatures of the Void invading Valoran and overtaking it, images he now works to make reality.
Malzahar is a mage-assassin champion who locks down a single target while he throws powerful damage-over-time effects and crowd control into the mix. His passive, ''Summon Voidling'', summons a temporary ''Voidling'' with every fourth spell Malzahar casts, which is a small uncontrollable monster that attacks Malzahar's targets and grows stronger the longer it remains on the battlefield. His first ability, ''Call of the Void'', opens two parallel portals to the Void at a nearby area. After a brief delay power erupts from the portals, damaging and silencing all foes between them. His second ability, ''Null Zone'', creates a field of negative energy at a nearby area that damages all enemies inside for a percentage of their maximum health every second. His third ability, ''Malefic Visions'', infects a nearby target's mind with horrific visions, dealing damage over time. If the target is killed by this effect, Malzahar will regain mana and the effect will jump to a nearby foe, refreshing the duration. His ultimate ability, ''Nether Grasp'', immobilizes Malzahar as he channels, unleashing a beam of void energy upon a nearby enemy that damages and completely paralyzes them for the duration of the channel.
Malzahar's alternate skins include Shadow Prince Malzahar, Vizier Malzahar, Djinn Malzahar, and Overlord Malzahar.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ArchEnemy: Kassadin. Both were humans that gazed into the Void and gained immense power, though Malzahar went completely insane and is gleefully working toward Runeterra's doom while Kassadin retained his sanity and is trying to stop it. Interestingly, though, a good [[MageKiller Kassadin]] should wreck a [[SquishyWizard Malzahar]] most of the time if the two face off on the Fields of Justice.
* ArtificialStupidity: The AI on his (uncontrollable) Voidlings used to be notoriously bad until Riot took note and made some huge changes. They now hide in the brush with him, attack whoever he's using his ultimate on, and [[RuleOfFunny dance with him too]].
* DemonicInvaders: His voidlings seem to be this. And that's not even mentioning his ''masters''.
* EyeBeams: His ultimate.
* FanNickname: You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who knows his damage-over-time spell that infects another target when the first one dies as "Malefic Visions" instead of "Space AIDS" or "Void AIDS".
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Kog'maw is supposedly drawn to Malzahar and aids him in battle, but in-game he's a separate hero. Can be averted if a Kog'maw and Malzahar player are on the same team, but apart from that, Kog'maw has little to do with Malzahar in-game.
* GlassCannon: An in-your-face confrontation with any enemy means Malzahar is forced to quickly lock said target down or be crushed.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: If he locks eyes with you, he's going to fill you with mind-blasting visions. Stay away.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d8/Malzahar.taunt1.ogg "Come mortal.. Witness your demise!"]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Seeing the void is not exactly healthy for your sanity.
* GradualGrinder: He has ''one'' ability that does instant[[note]]the cast is instant, but the effect is delayed[[/note]] damage, the rest deal damage over time. Don't let this fool you though; he's capable of dealing out some serious hurt by combining the three others in a combo.
* GuardianEntity: It's unclear what Kog'Maw was going to do upon arrival, but he was the first to rush to the scene when Malzahar was fighting Kassadin outside the league.
* HumanoidAbomination: Has more or less become one.
* MadProphet: He's gone off the deep end. Looking at the void will do that to you.
* MindRape: His Malific Visions and most likely his ult as well.
* TheMinionMaster: Every four spellcasts of his winds up giving birth to a "Voidling", a small, only sort-of controllable pet with a limited lifespan. It starts out pretty ineffectual, but as its lifespan runs down, it gradually becomes much more dangerous, [[TurnsRed doubling in size, gaining half again their attack and armor values, and then gaining twice the attack speed]], in that order. Under ideal circumstances, he can have two at the same time.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Though not a common pick, playing Malzahar in the jungle is actually somewhat viable because of his fast clear-time, expendable Voidlings to meatshield for him, and his deadly combo when he ganks. There also exists AD Malzahar which crosses over into LethalJokeCharacter considering he has all AP ratios ''but'' his Voidlings gain 100% of his AD, which is quite worrying if 2 of them are attacking you while he has you pinned down with Nether Grasp.
* OccultBlueEyes: While he may not be demonicly possessed, he fits the rest of the trope to a T
* PathOfInspiration[=/=]ReligionOfEvil: He's the Prophet of the growing Cult of the Void whose cultists are known to have clashed with Kassadin's 'Preservers of Valoran'. Whether Malzahar's followers are just as mad as their prophet is uncertain.
* PowerEchoes: If ever so slightly.
* PowerFloats: This guy doesn't walk, he floats.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: His E ability, malefic visions, seems to work on this trope.
* PunctuationShaker: He was originally "Al'Zahar", presumably to keep with the other Void dwellers, but his name changed before release.
* TakingTheBullet: His passive is great for this: When fleeing, the minion will follow behind him like a loyal dog. This also means that skillshots will hit the expendable minion instead of himself - this has saved many a Malzahar from certain skillshot-induced death.
* TheRival: To Kassadin.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Whatever it was that Malzahar saw in his visions, we should be glad he isn't sharing in detail.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3b/Malzahar.attack4.ogg "Inevitable..."]]''
* StoneWall: His main claim to fame: with a Hextech Revolver/Will of the Ancients and careful management of Malefic Visions, he can very easily stay in lane indefinitely and respond to any attempts to throw him out with an exceptionally powerful combo that can very easily bring someone from full to dead in seconds.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Malzahar's combo depends heavily on his ultimate to suppress a target while his 3 damage-over-time spells (plus Ignite) melt it. The trouble is, if his opponents purchase Quick Silver Sash, they can escape from being locked down ''and'' cleanse all of his damaging spells instantly. The fact that it also gives a fair chunk of magic resist means that it's practically ''designed'' to render Malzahar useless. Granted, even if an entire team rushes the item (unlikely), it's not exactly in most champions' core build, meaning that they are now many thousands of gold behind.
** Taken to [[MemeticMutation Memetic Levels]] when you realize that one champion, Gangplank, has a built-in cleanse ability. All of the magic in the void can be washed away with a handful of ''oranges''.
* YouCannotFightFate: As his quote at the top of this character overview says: The sky may fall and the earth may turn into lava? Probably possible, however unlikely. The {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of the void arriving on Runeterra however? That '''will''' happen.
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[[folder:Maokai, the Twisted Treant]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d7/Maokai_Select.ogg I do your bidding... for now...]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ScottMcNeil
->''"I will use this power until I am free of it."''
Once an oak on the Twisted Treeline battlefield, Maokai was animated by the chaotic magic in the land. He allowed himself to be summoned by the League in return for their researching a way to remove his sentience. In the meantime however, Maokai is more than happy for the opportunity to punish magekind for their insolence to nature.
Maokai is a tank-mage champion who unleashes the wrath of nature upon the battlefield, disabling foes and protecting allies from harm while dealing respectable damage himself. His passive, ''Sap Magic'', grants him a charge whenever an ability is used near Maokai, making his next basic attack heal him for a percentage of his maximum health when he gains enough charges. With his first ability, ''Arcane Smash'', Maokai punches the ground, sending out a shockwave that damages and slows enemies in a line in front of him. Enemies directly in front of Maokai are also slightly knocked back. His second ability, ''Twisted Advance'', transforms Maokai into a cloud of energy, bark and leaves as he dashes to a nearby enemy, damaging and briefly immobilizing them upon arrival. With his third ability, ''Sapling Toss'', Maokai hurls a ''Sapling'' at a nearby area, damaging all nearby foes. The ''Sapling'' then remains burrowed in the ground, revealing the surrounding area, until an enemy comes close to it, at which point it will uproot itself and chase them, exploding and damaging all nearby enemies after a brief delay. His ultimate ability, ''Vengeful Maelstrom'', summons a huge vortex of natural energy at a nearby area that can be mantained for as long as he has mana, reducing all damage allies take while inside it. When the ability is re-activated, the vortex will explode, damaging all foes inside depending on how much damage it absorbed.
Maokai's alternate skins include Charred Maokai, Totemic Maokai, Festive Maokai, and Haunted Maokai.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ActionBomb: Saplings will run to the nearest enemy and promptly blow up.
* TheBeastmaster: Summons saplings which explode toward nearby enemies, or can be used to just temporarily keep watch over an area for Maokai and his team.
* BerserkButton: Magic in general. Considering how most champions use it in some form and another and that a battle on the Fields of Justice is absolutely flooded with summoner magic, he spends the entirety of matches in a state of suppressed UnstoppableRage.
* BloodMagic: Implied in his Judgement that his saplings are birthed from those killed in his forests.
* BoringButPractical: Vengeful Maelstrom doesn't have very high burst without a significant amount of AP but the damage reduction a well-placed one provides can make or break teamfights. Its low cooldown means that a Maokai can have one up at almost every teamfight as well.
* ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation: "Maokai" is loosely translated to "victory of vegetation" in Chinese.
* CounterAttack: His Vengeful Maelstrom ability reduces non-turret damage taken for him and his allies when they stay within its circle. When the effect ends, the ability damages enemies within the circle. It does extra damage for every point of damage absorbed, up to a limit.
* CursedWithAwesome: He hates mages and everything they've done, including and especially bringing him to life.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: This is actually a poor way to try to kill a Maokai, if the "cuts" are continually-spammed low-power spells, since his passive will keep him alive if enough spells are cast near him. It's better to either burst him down with a few powerful spells or just auto-attack him to death.
* DeathSeeker: Though more looking for a way to [[IncrediblyLamePun return to his roots]], so to speak.
* DifficultButAwesome: His saplings add a lot of damage potential (100% scaling with his Ability Power) though poorly thrown ones will just blow up to minions during ganks. Part of mastering Maokai is ensuring that his saplings always hit their mark, even if it hides in a crowd of minions.
* EnergyAbsorbtion: How Vengeful Maelstrom works, absorbing damage that would have been dealt to his teammates then releasing back as payback damage.
* EnergyBeing: It's possible that being infused with so much magic permanently changed his physical composition, as Twisted Advance has him momentarily turning from a physical tree to a swirling vortex of energy. Most of the time, though, he's a sturdy tree.
* GaiasVengeance: His theme made concise. Summoners overusing magic and accidentally giving an inanimate tree sentience? Said tree leaves the forest to kill all of the champions for messing with nature.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Probably a symptom of all the magic contained within him. The "doom" part very much applies if you're in his way.
* GreenThumb: Can summon saplings, temporarily literally root an enemy in place, and his ultimate is stated to be "a great vortex of natural energy."
* ICannotSelfTerminate: It's implied that he's tried, considering his goal. That he's a living conduit of magic and spells keep him alive (see his passive) would be an awesome thing except it's precisely what angers him, he doesn't ''want'' to be kept alive.
--> ''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3a/Maokai.move9.ogg I would be rid of this burden, but it always returns!]]"''
* MadeOfExplodium: His saplings will follow nearby enemy units then explode when they reach them (or otherwise just blow up after a while).
* MundaneUtility: His saplings are quite useful for scouting ahead so that he doesn't have to face-check brush and can serve as sentries to make sure no one creeps up on him as he does his business. An old trick is to throw a sapling at a jungle camp, providing vision of it, then use Twisted Advance on a monster to move through the wall to escape/pursue in the jungle.
* OddFriendship: Being friends with Malphite seems to have calmed him down a bit. Both of them are the first of their kind to end up in Valoran.
* PlantPerson: Averted. Some players were disappointed that Maokai didn't turn out to be much like the cancelled Plant King champion when he was announced. That void got filled in by Zyra eventually.
* PleaseWakeUp: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9M5JQAPfPs Maokai's death animation seems to involve something like this]], where his sapling gets up and darts around checking on him seemingly confused until the sapling spins around and then dies too from the magic animating it expiring.
* {{Pun}}: His passive is named "Sap Magic", since it both draws in energy from nearby spells and, well, he's a tree.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His first victims in his new life: the champions fighting on the Treeline at the time. He nearly took his fury out on the summoners and spectators as well, but fortunately Kayle was on the scene to cast her ultimate... [[GameplayAndStorySegregation on an entire crowd at once]]!
* SignificantAnagram: What Maokai himself might state -- I am Oak. This is, however, a coincidence, as Maokai is named after a Riot Games employee.
* SpamAttack: He works well either with or against champions that have these, as Sap Magic heals him for a percentage of his health for every 5 spells cast near him.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To the Plant King champion, who didn't make the final cut.
* StoneWall: He doesn't have the greatest damage output (unless he builds AP) but is incredibly bulky with his natural tankiness, damage-reducing AOE ult, and passive.
** MightyGlacier: It's possible to end up as this when using a tanky AP build, given his decent scaling on all his abilities.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: His saplings qualify for target-homing bombs.
* UnstoppableRage: He killed 6 champions ''by himself'' when he woke up and was going to attack the audience too. It's more subdued in his lines when he's played but it's clear he's still resentful.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Like Amumu, he's heavily dependent on the blue buff and not that great at fighting 1v1 duels in the jungle. Smart opponents will often take advantage of this and steal his buffs and/or try to kill him to disrupt his jungling heavily.
* WhenTreesAttack: He also takes hits like a tree, [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail while you're using a herring]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Especially when he never wanted to be "alive" in the first place.
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[[folder:Master Yi, the Wuju Bladesman]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/ef/MasterYi_Select.ogg My blade is yours.]]-] ]]
->''"The edge of the sharpest blade is no match for the calm of the peaceful mind."''
A mystic warrior and keeper of the ancient art of Wuju hailing from Ionia, his village helping exalt its traditions as well. When Noxus invaded the isle of Ionia, Yi went to met them on the fields of battle, but in his absence Noxus took the opportunity to test the latest invention of Singed on his village. Yi returned to a horrific ruin, and consumed in thoughts of vengeance, the swordsman trained to the point of obsession, but could not attain the mastery of Wuju he sought. A chance skirmish against the curious Wukong awoke Yi to his mistakes, and he took the monkey as his pupil, honouring his lost people by passing on their arts to a new generation. Master Yi will not speak of what was done to his village, but he joined the League to avenge his kin and eventually end the evils of Noxus.
Master Yi is an assassin-fighter champion who uses his tremendous movement and attack speed to dash through the battlefield slicing opponents up. His passive, ''Double Strike'', makes his every fourth consecutive attack strike twice, with reduced damage in the second hit. His first ability, ''Alpha Strike'', makes Master Yi leap at a nearby enemy target at blinding speed, slicing them as well as up to three nearby enemies and then reappearing next to his original target. Attacking an enemy reduces the cooldown of the ability. With his second ability, ''Meditate'', Master Yi channels for a brief duration, healing himself based on his missing health and greatly reducing any damage he takes while he meditates. His third ability, ''Wuju Style'', passively increases Masyer Yi's attack power, and can be activated to make all his basic attacks deal bonus true unblockable damage for a brief duration. His ultimate ability, ''Highlander'', passively reduces the cooldown of Master Yi's basic abilities whenever he kills or helps kill an enemy champion, and can be activated to grant him a large bonus to his movement and attack speed and make him immune to slowing effects for a duration that can be extended if he kills or helps kill an enemy champion.
Master Yi's alternate skins include Assassin Master Yi, Ionia Master Yi, Chosen Master Yi, Samurai Yi, and Headhunter Master Yi.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AlphaStrike: He has an ability named this, but it only fit this trope when his AP build still existed. It was his only reliable damage output (and it ''hurt'') though ending up among several enemies that didn't die from it was certain to lead to retaliation.
* ArtEvolution: He got an updated splash art but more impressively a ''long'' overdue in-game model update during his re-work. He now has some impressive casting, attacking, and running animations ([[FragileSpeedster the latter two of which one will see quite often]]).
* AscendedMeme: Yasuo makes a reference to his "[[RummageSaleReject sword-boots]]" when he taunts a nearby Yi.
* BadassNormal: Who needs silly things like magic when you've trained to run and strike ultra fast by force of will alone?
* BoringButPractical: Most Yi players will just run up and stab you to death. It works.
* CasualDangerDialogue[=/=]DissonantSerenity: He has several calm lines for his Meditate ability that he'll say as he's getting wailed on by multiple opponents. He may be regenerating health rapidly and has increased resilience for the duration, but still, he's meditating in the middle of a battlefield.
-->''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/0/0e/MasterYi.W02.ogg Shh, I'm meditating.]]"''
* CoolSword: Almost reaches BFS level.
* DespairEventHorizon: Had one when he returned to find 'the grotesque remains of his village'. He became singleminded, using ThePowerOfHate to become even deadlier on the field of battle. - It is ultimately a SubvertedTrope, however, seeing how Wukong was able to snap him out of it.
* {{Determinator}}: A big part of Wuju style (and his character) is balancing force of will with a disciplined mastery of self.
-->''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/55/MasterYi.move10.ogg A focused mind can pierce through stone!]]"''
* DoomedHometown: What happens when a village full of Wuju practitioners is humiliating the Noxian forces with their prowess of the blade? The Noxian High Command [[FlippingTheTable table flips]] and orders chemical attacks on it.
* DifficultButAwesome: Yi had an Ability Power-based build that reduces his DPS in exchange for a few gimmicky but effective ([[RuleOfFun and entertaining]]) tricks. His remake has effectively eliminated the AP build by consolidating the two styles with a more Attack Damage-focused kit.
* TheFaceless: He's never been seen in official artwork without his nifty helmet/visor, which completely covers everything from his eyes up.
* FanNickname: His sword (in the Chosen Yi skin) is referred to as "popsicle". He is also called "[[ItsEasySoItSucks Master Right Click]]," "[[SplinterCell Samurai Fisher]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ Dunkmaster Yi.]]"
* FlashStep: Alpha Strike is essentially this, consisting of Yi teleporting between up to four enemies.
* FragileSpeedster: Have fun catching him, especially when his ultimate is activated. Yi is (in)famous for his ability to annihilate unguarded towers with his sky-high attack speed and movement speed then get out of there before the enemy team can react.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c0/MasterYi.ultimate03.ogg "So fast."]]''
* GlassCannon: Par for course for assassins.
* GogglesDoNothing: "The Seven Lenses of Insight" actually allow him to see beyond the range of normal human vision, [[GameplayAndSTorySegregation not that it affects gameplay in any way]]. He [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it in a joke from his rework.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/7d/MasterYi.joke01.ogg "The goggles? Just for reading."]]''
* HealingFactor: Meditate allows Yi to rapidly regenerate health. Barring mana costs, he can feasibly regenerate 400-500 HP every 30 seconds toward the end, and that's ''without'' AP boosts. Especially ridiculous is ''with'' AP boosts. His meditate had an ability power ratio of 1.2 (in a game where 1 is reasonably high for a move) which makes him the only champion capable of healing himself reliably, often, and faster than many enemies can damage him.
** A rework makes this more effective depending on how much health he's missing, so that it's not very good as a top-off, (which made it too easily abused - Yi could be at half-health after every fight, but full for the next one 10 seconds later - over and over) but is still awesome when he's almost dead.
* HitAndRunTactics: Of all the champions that can very quickly destroy an unguarded tower then run when enemies come, Master Yi is quite possibly the best at it. Emphasis on run.
* IceCreamKoan[=/=]CaptainObvious: One of his jokes are this.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/41/MasterYi.joke03.ogg "The key to immortality? Not dying."]]''
* ICanStillFight: His reworked Meditate is best at keeping him alive at dire amounts of HP, letting him recharge mid-fight after taking a good beating. Woe betide the enemy that sees a low-health Yi under his tower and [[SchmuckBait dives him, expecting an easy kill]].
* ImplacableMan: Becomes this upon using his ultimate. With dramatic boosts to attack speed, movement speed, AND provides immunity to slows, literally nothing short of a full stun or death is going to stop him from hunting you down, and even then he'll quickly catch up again.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His sword is about as close to a katana as you can get without actually being one. Made more apparent in his [[http://clgaming.net/images/news/jarvan/MasterYi_Splash_4.jpg Samurai Yi skin.]]
* LaserBlade: His Chosen skin gives him a color-changing version, for [[StarWars obvious reasons]].
* LastOfHisKind: As the last master of the Wuju Style, he has sworn to keep it alive. To accomplish this, he took Wukong, the Monkey King as his pupil and made him promise that he would someday take on a student of his own to pass on their craft.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/8c/MasterYi.move05.ogg "In me, Wuju lives on."]]''
* LethalJokeCharacter: AP Yi used to be this. Building AP on an (ostensibly) AD Assassin sounded crazy, but his insane AP ratios let him Alpha Strike every few moments to deal 1000+ damage per enemy ''and'' his Meditate let him soak up enemy attention by healing thousands of HP back.
* MagikarpPower: Yi is quite fragile and has a rough start, but is one of the most dangerous champs in the game when fed. His ultimate coupled with his passive can quite literally allow him to one-shot almost anything, and he can and will keep refreshing his abilities as long as he keeps scoring kills. Towers don't fare much better.
* MindRape: In his backstory, this was the effect of a Noxian Chemical attack against his hometown - those who survived had their minds twisted beyond repair. When Yi returned from fighting, he, himself, had a DespairEventHorizon.
* NinjaRun: Once he exceeds a certain movement speed, usually through Ghost, Highlander, speedshrine, or some other method of drastically increasing one's speed, he'll start to run like this. Bonus points for holding two fingers in front of him, ninja style.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Designed to be a DPS melee carry, players sometimes chose to exploit his formerly high Ability Power scaling instead. Behold AP Yi, whose Alpha Strike could hit like a train and Meditate allowed him to tank damage in the thousands. This play style has largely been eliminated by his remake, which altered his scaling to better emphasize his intended role as an AD assassin/melee carry.
* TheObiWan: To Wukong. He hopes to keep the Wuju style alive by passing it on to a new generation, so he'll likely become this to several other students as well. Emphasized by his Chosen skin, which turns him into a Jedi.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/57/MasterYi.move15.ogg "A true master is an eternal student."]]''
* OldMaster: Very much so.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/7e/MasterYi.move12.ogg "I will show you the path"]]''
* ThePowerOfHate: Subverted; While his hate for the Noxians - who used chemical attacks against his village - made him deadlier than ever, it also prevented him from truly mastering the Wuju style. It took Wukong's playful attitude and mimicing of his moves to snap him out of it.. and when Yi finally did, Wukong didn't stand a chance - Yi caught him by the tail despite Wukong's monkeylike agility and with such speed that he himself didn't realise it at first.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e1/MasterYi.move03.ogg "Anger gives motivation without purpose"]]''
* PowerGlows: Wuju Style causes Yi's katana to glow yellow while the passive is in effect, and activating the ability causes said katana to glow blue during the four seconds it is active.
* {{Pun}}:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/9/9d/MasterYi.joke_old.ogg "Wuju pass me that potion?"]]''
* PunnyName: Master Yi = "mastery"
* {{Samurai}}: Samurai Yi
* SkillGateCharacter: He teaches other teams to avoid backdooring, as Master Yi is one of the best champions to do this with.
* TheSouthpaw: His post-rework animations feature mostly left-handed swings of his {{BFS}}, emphasizing his unique style of swordsmanship.
* TookALevelInBadass: Prior to his rework, AD Yi was regarded as a JokeCharacter for a number of reasons (especially in comparison to his unorthodox but effective AP build). Post-rework, his abilities were given enough love from Riot for him to be considered a potentially viable high mobility AD carry-assassin once more.
* {{Troll}}: The habit of Master Yi players to run around splitpushing, then kiting the opposing team with Highlander once they show up to kill him is possibly the reason Riot added an almost cheerful line to his ultimate, cheerfulness not being his best forte. Hearing this once you're chasing him around is rage inducing.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/1/19/MasterYi.ultimate02.ogg "Keep up!"]]''
* WeNeedADistraction: Very good at drawing the attention of the enemy team then leading them on a merry chase as his team focuses an objective uncontested.
* {{Yubitsume}}: In the artwork for Ionia Master Yi, the swordsman in question is [[http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/jwfom/why_does_ionia_master_yi_have_3_fingers/ clearly missing a finger]] on his left hand.
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[[folder:Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MissFortune_Square_0_7179.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c0/MissFortune_Select.ogg Fortune doesn't favor fools!]]-] ]]
->''"More men have voluntarily surrendered to the care of Miss Fortune than any other bounty hunter."''
-->-- '''Grinnick Torip''', Bilgewater Bonds
A female bounty hunter and captain of her own ship from the town of Bilgewater. However, her success was spurred by her mother's untimely death at the hands of a red-eyed pirate. She joined the League to help her toward uniting Bilgewater and finding her mother's killer.
Miss Fortune is a marksman champion who uses her twin guns to deal a lot of multi-target damage and bully enemies with harassment. Her passive, ''Strut'', gives her an increasing movement speed boost as long as she doesn't take any damage, giving her great mobility when out of combat. Her first ability, ''Double Up'', fires a shot at a nearby target, damaging them, which then bounces to a second target in a cone behind the first, dealing increased damage. Her second ability, ''Impure Shots'', passively makes her attacks place stacks on their target that increase the damage her basic attacks deal against them, and can be activated to give her an attack speed bonus and make her basic attacks halve any healing effects on the target for a brief duration. With her third ability, ''Make it Rain'', Miss Fortune fires her guns into the air, peppering a nearby area with a rain of bullets that damage and slow all enemies inside. With her ultimate ability, ''Bullet Time'', Miss Fortune channels for brief duration as she furiously fires her guns, sending out a storm of bullets that heavily damages all opponents in a large cone-shaped area in front of her, each wave of bullets applying her ''Impure Shots'' passive. It also passively increases the number of ''Impure Shots'' stacks a target can have.
Miss Fortune's alternate skins include Cowgirl Miss Fortune, Waterloo Miss Fortune, Secret Agent Miss Fortune, Candy Cane Miss Fortune, Road Warrior Miss Fortune, and Mafia Miss Fortune.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ActionGirl: Captain of her own bounty hunter ship at an impressive age and has an impressive record for hunting pirates down.
* BountyHunter: Not just a pirate, a pirate ''hunter''.
* BulletHell: Her ultimate invokes this for several seconds: staying within the ultimate zone and and avoiding getting hit is pretty much impossible.
* CombatStilettos: Her passive is a movement-boosting ability called 'Strut'. It only kicks in if she hasn't been hit for a while. [[FridgeBrilliance It must be easier to move quickly in heels when you're not in pain.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: In a sense similar to Nasus (see below), Miss Fortune is more often associated with the image of a PirateGirl with FemmeFatale vibes (mostly a villain), and also have some 'dark job skins' (like Gangster Miss Fortune). The Crystal Scar promotional video even depict her to be on the side of Noxus (the villains). While far from being a 'goody-two-shoes', Miss Fortune is not that bad of a person, she's the closest Bilgewater had for 'police' (and seeing that pirates here are more commonly Type I like Gangplank...) and her vision for a united Bilgewater looked like to be more benevolent than her rival's vision.
* DifficultButAwesome: Double Up skill is one of the reasons why Miss Fortune is considered one of the best laners in the game with strong harass (bounces a magic bullet with extra damage off the bounce) but to maximize its use, one needs to match up Miss Fortune's positioning with the intended target, or else it'll bounce to something else. Positioning without attracting harass can be a task because Miss Fortune, as an ADC, is incredibly squishy without a quick escape method. Its easier use is for quick burst damage, as it restarts Miss Fortune's auto-attack delay, so the common strategy is to Auto Attack-Double Up-Auto Attack (although such cancel isn't exclusive to Miss Fortune).
* DoubleEntendre: Her /joke... "How do you like my guns... [[{{BFG}} Shock]] and [[GunsAkimbo Awe]]?"... and mostly everything else that comes from her mouth.
** The conversation between her and the unknown boy in her judgement is like, half this trope. You can't tell if they're talking about her guns or her gazangas.
* FemmeFatale: Emphasis on the Femme, with the tits /joke and the inexplicable hearts flowing out of her with her passive active in-game.
* FieryRedhead: Double-subverted. She's redheaded and passionate, but mostly uses the cool, seductive persona. Tell her to do her Ultimate, and she'll show complete fiery personality as she gives out a big laugh while shooting you.
* FragileSpeedster: To an extent, her passive increases her movement speed as long as she hasn't taken damage. With some careful positioning, [[DifficultButAwesome experienced players can make good use of it to dodge incoming spells and keep the speed boost up as long as possible]].
* GagBoobs: Let's be honest, her breasts are ''colossal.'' They were already prominent enough on release, but her [[http://media-copper.cursecdn.com/attachments/28/255/miss_fortune_originalskin.jpg reworked art]] made it almost ''embarassingly'' obvious.
* GlassCannon: She's about as fragile as any other marksman not named "Graves" but the "cannon" part fits her in that she's mostly an AD Caster, that is, a marksman that by late game relies somewhat less on her autoattacks and more on [[BulletHell her Bullet Time ultimate to melt everything in her path]].
* GunsAkimbo: 'Shock' and 'Awe' are two massive pistols with barrels thicker than her arms.
* TheGunslinger: References an element of The Woo with the ultimate named Bullet Time and has a Trick Shot example in Double Up, but otherwise, Miss Fortune is of the Vaporizer class of TheGunslinger and her abilities mostly involves firing ''a lot''.
* HandCannon: Of epic proportions.[[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100902195628/leagueoflegends/images/9/91/Miss_Fortune_OriginalSkin.jpg Seriously, they look more like blunderbusses.]] Get a new flavor with every costume! And they still shot out cannon shells!
* HunterOfHerOwnKind: She has a (cosmetic) passive with the description "Yarrrr, I'm a pirate... hunter!"
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Her 'Double Up' skill banks a bullet off one enemy to hit another one behind it.
* TheMafia: Mafia Miss Fortune, complete with Thompson machine guns replacing her blunderbusses.
* MoreDakka: Hit Double Up to damage your enemy again quickly after autoattacking for more dakka, Impure Shots to autoattack faster for even more dakka, shoot Make It Rain to rain hundreds of bullets from the sky onto a location for ''even more'' dakka, and if that's ''still'' not nuff' dakka[[note]]''Of course'' it isn't![[/note]], start up Bullet Time to shoot waves of bullets.
* MsFanservice: Could almost be her name. Absolutely everything about the character and the way she's been promoted by Riot screams "SEX APPEAL!"
* NamesTheSame: [[VideoGame/SkullGirls I thought Ms Fortune was a catgirl in a newer fighting game.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Her biography states that she managed to flirt and shoot her way through Bilgewater, only obtaining her ship at the age of sixteen. Presumedly, she didn't have much less potential for {{Fanservice}} at that age. While the time after she got her ship and joined the League is unknown, some of the fanbase assumes she's still not 'legal'.
* PirateGirl: [[InNameOnly Only in clothing style, however]]. According to the lore, she has a strong distrust of other pirates (mainly because a pirate killed her mother) and a passive buff states that she's a pirate hunter, which leads to.
* PunnyName: "Misfortune".
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Lets out a truly epic gale of laughter while firing her ultimate.
* SexySantaDress: Candy Cane Miss Fortune
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Walks around with a pirate-styled topless bra that reveals curvacious body, massive boobs, and her midriff.
* WildWest: Cowgirl Miss Fortune, sporting giant revolvers.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Mafia Miss Fortune.
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[[folder:Mordekaiser, the Master of Metal]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MordekaiserSquare_1339.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c9/Mordekaiser_Select.ogg I shall bring great suffering!]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' AdamHarrington
->''"Fear is confusion, pain is clarity."''
An unspeakably ancient member of the undead predating even the knowledge of the Shadow Isles, Mordekaiser is a being of pure agony and suffering with a supreme mastery of using pain as a weapon. He prowls the land on an unspeakable quest, leaving nothing but death and destruction in his wake. When met with any resistance, Mordekaiser even goes so far as to rip the souls of his victim from their bodies to fulfill his purpose. Not even death itself is protection from the iron reach of pain's paladin. Now he finds himself joining the rest of the Shadow Isles' champions in the League to collect the souls of the most worthy to serve them and ultimately dominate the Shadow Isles.
Mordekaiser is a fighter-mage champion who offsets his lack of mobility and crowd control with powerful damage and great defensive capabilites that increase with his offensive power. All his abilities cost health instead of mana to cast. His passive, ''Iron Man'', converts a percentage of the damage dealt by his abilities into a shield that absorbs damage but depletes itself over time. His first ability, ''Mace of Spades'', transforms his next attack into a powerful mace swing that deals bonus magic damage and resonates to foes near his attack target, damaging them. If the attack hits an isolated foe, it will deal bonus damage. His second ability, ''Creeping Death'', surrounds himself or a nearby ally with a temporary cloud of shrapnel that increases their defensive stats and constantly damages nearby enemies. His third ability, ''Siphon of Destruction'', damages all opponents in a cone in front of Mordekaiser. His ultimate ability, ''Children of the Grave'', curses a nearby enemy champion for a long duration, dealing damage over time for a percentage of their maximum health and healing Mordekaiser for the same amount. If the target dies by its effect their ghost is enslaved by Mordekaiser, allowing him to control it to attack its former allies for a brief duration.
Mordekaiser's alternate skins include Dragon Knight Mordekaiser, Infernal Mordekaiser, Pentakill Mordekaiser, and Lord Mordekaiser.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AchillesHeel: Morde is one of the few champions in the game with no forms of crowd control or mobility mechanics whatsoever. This means that he is relatively easy to catch and escape from when things are going poorly for him.
* AttackAttackAttack: No ability to disengage, no slows or roots, one defense-buff that still deals damage, and a passive that encourages near constant use of his abilities in combat.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Literally "Death/Murder Emperor" in German.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/6e/Mordekaiser.move7.ogg "You only need to click once, fool."]]''
* CaptainErsatz: Of Sauron from the beginning of the ''Film/LordOfTheRings''. Apparent from the huge mace and spiky armor his Q move involves striking multiple people with a single blow, and his death animation is similar: his armor starts to collapse and then he explodes.
** Thanks to his voice, he also resembles [[TransformersPrime Megatron]].
* CarryABigStick: That mace is the size of Akali.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/42/Mordekaiser.joke.ogg "I like my weapons how I like my music. Heavy, and Metal!"]]''
* CastFromHP: As noted in his description, all of his spells except his ultimate use HP as a resource. Can be partially cancelled out by investing in a [[LifeDrain Spell Vamp]] item or two.
* DarkMessiah: Somewhat for the Shadow Isles, but Hecarim might fit this trope better.
* DeflectorShields
* EmotionEater: It's said he lives off of pain and suffering.
* EvilSorcerer
* ExactWords: A sorcerer defiantly told Mordekaiser that he'd die before giving up his secrets. Thanks to Morde's ability to tear out the souls of the people he kills and enslave them to his will, this turned out to be quite literally true.
* ExtraOreDinary: Everything this guy has revolves around metal.. or souls. But mostly metal.
* TheFaceless: He even keeps his helmet on despite leaving his chest bare for rocking out.
* FilkSong:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YreQiDWySQ This parody of Britney Spears' Womanizer]].
** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0deA1JUUZFQ 6v4]]
* FlechetteStorm: One of his abilities consist on giving an allied target a shield. Said shield is a swirling vortex of metallic fragments that hurt enemies standing too close.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* Music/HeavyMetal - Themed around this, as evident from the names of his spells. His Pentakill skin reflects him as the lead guitarist of Pentakill, a band with Olaf, Karthus, Sona, and Yorick. The skin even replaces his mace with a guitar!
* HumanoidAbomination: Impossibly old, feeds off of pain and suffering, and is heavily implied to have lost his actual flesh-and-blood form a long time ago... he's pretty much just human in appearance only.
* TheJuggernaut: A fed Mordekaiser is still pretty slow and has to get close to deal damage, but good luck stopping him once he's on his way.
* MightyGlacier: Slow, lumbering, and only has regular movement to get in and out of the fray - but the havoc he wreaks once there is astounding.
* OddFriendship: He's in a band with Sona, Yorick, Karthus, and Olaf.
* PetTheDog: According to WordOfGod he's very protective of Sona as the most delicate member of Pentakill (three of them aren't technically alive and the fourth is a ruthless barbarian warrior).
* PlagueMaster: Although none of his actual abilities reflect it (except maybe his ultimate), Mordekaiser is repeatedly mentioned in the backstory to be drawn to sources of plague and death. In fact, in case you're wondering how he got into music in the first place...
-->'''JP:''' Mordekaiser, you're an enigma both in and out of the arena. What draws you away from the Field of Justice to pursue this surprising side-project?\\
'''M:''' My fans. I am drawn to their disease.\\
'''JP:''' You mean their feverish love of this Techma-Tune music?\\
'''M:''' [[ThePigPen No.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: Every. Single. One. Of his abilities is named the same as a heavy-metal song.
** His joke.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/42/Mordekaiser.joke.ogg "I like my weapons how I like my music. Heavy, and METAL."]]''
* RedEyesTakeWarning: And heed that warning.
* RockMeAsmodeus: See above. He started a band with four other champions. [[{{Pun}} He plays the Axe]].
* ShirtlessScene: His Pentakill lacks a shirt and shows an actual torso. [[TheFaceless He still has the helmet on]].
* SpikesOfVillainy: As quoted from his preview:
-->''If you have ever felt that your champion's aesthetic could be vastly improved by the addition of plate armor covered in metal spikes, [Mordekaiser] should definitely scratch that itch.''
* TinTyrant: Fully covered in armor, complete with the aforementioned SpikesOfVillainy.
%%* WickedCultured
* YourSoulIsMine: If you die during his ultimate, your ghost will happily obey Mordekaiser's every command. Examples have arisen where the ghost of an AD carry was put under mordekaisers control, and promptly turned to fire on his/her former teammates, killing them all.
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[[folder:Morgana, Fallen Angel]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Morgana_Square_0_3031.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/5d/Morgana_Select.ogg We'll bring them pain.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' RebeccaSchweitzer
->''"There is no rest while Kayle's brand of tyranny still exists."''
There is a world far away where an ancient conflict still rages, and a war split families. Morgana was Kayle's younger sister, though they severed any filial connection between them long ago. Kayle and her "angels" fought for order, not seeing the "bigger picture." Morgana fought against what she saw as their tyranny, and so was branded fallen. One day as they were locked in what might have been their final conflict, they were summoned to Valoran. Morgana now fights with the final goal of ending her sister, once and for all.
Morgana is a mage-support champion who exchanges lower burst damage potential for high utility and self-healing capabilites. Her passive, ''Soul Siphon'', makes all of her abilities heal her for a percentage of the damage dealt. Her first ability, ''Dark Binding'', sends out a projectile of black magic that damages and briefly immobilizes the first enemy hit in a line. Her second ability, ''Tormented Soil'', curses the ground at a nearby area, continuously damaging all enemies inside it, the damage increasing the lower their health is. Her third ability, ''Black Shield'', surrounds a nearby allied champion with a shield that blocks magic damage and makes them immune to crowd control effects while it lasts. Her ultimate ability, ''Soul Shackles'', sends out bonds of energy to all nearby enemies, damaging, slowing and linking them to Morgana for a duration. If the link hasn't been broken when the duration ends, they will be dealt damage again and be stunned for a brief duration.
Morgana's alternate skins include Exiled Morgana, Sinful Succulence Morgana, Blade Mistress Morgana, Blackthorn Morgana, and Ghost Bride Morgana.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Chinese Morgana Is Scarier. Compare her [[http://gamersyndrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/morgana-splash.png old art]] to [[http://a.imageshack.us/img180/3821/fallenangelsplash0.jpg THIS.]]
%%* BlackMagicianGirl
* CainAndAbel: With Kayle.
%%* DarkChick
* DarkIsNotEvil: Possibly. She certainly thinks so, at the least.
* DifficultButAwesome: Dark Binding is notorious for being ''the'' single slowest single-target skillshot in the game. Since her kit depends on landing it to keep her target still for an entire 3 seconds (no competent enemy will stay in range of your Tormented Soil or Soul Shackles unless you force them to), this single skill is often the distinction between good and bad Morgana players.
* TheFairFolk: Her Blackthorn skin.
* FallenAngel: [[CaptainObvious No shit.]]
* GlacierWaif: Looks tiny and frail, can take a massive beating and still fare quite well. Between her ability to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent drain life]] with any of her spells, a long ranged area effect spell that kills lane minions from a distance, her immunity to disables when Black Shield is up and her two separate disables, she is almost impossible to gank or force out of her lane. To compensate, she is one of the slowest characters and has very limited offensive reach.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The purple kind - probably as a result of her type of magic - seeing how Kayle lacks any sort of glow in hers.
* GradualGrinder: Her only spell that's purely instant damage is her Dark Binding. If she can land it, though, her Tormented Soil and Soul Shackles are free to lay on the damage for several seconds.
* HypercompetentSidekick: A possibility in the gameplay sense. Though rarely seen, Morgana can perform very well supporting the ADC in bottom lane. Black Shield goes a long way to gankproofing her partner, she's infinitely less squishy than most supports, Dark Binding can pin an out-of-position enemy for a couple of seconds at a time (an eternity during the bottom laning phase) without even needing your jungler, and the carry can go back to heal and buy as much as they want when she can comfortably hold 2v1 while they're gone.
* [[ImplacableMan Implaceable Woman]]: Morg is [=LoL=]'s most infamous immoveable object; unless you counterpick her (which is not easy considering how she's strictly a counterpick in the first place), you will '''not''' be able to dislodge her from the lane no matter how hard you try. Go ahead, do whatever you think will work - it's just not gonna happen.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: There's implications that she's done this in her background -- she started off helping the Chaos side of OrderVersusChaos with the reasonable justification that their enemies wanted to such order and safety at the cost of freedom and the individual...but by the time she was deemed as "fallen", she was said to be "not innocent", having used forgotten and forbidden ways to obsessively become more powerful to defeat her sister. However, it's not stated what horribleness she's done for her magic if any, and her goal of defeating Kayle to win the war for the chaotic side still remains.
* LethalChef: Probably, if her Sinful Succulence skin is anything to go by.
* LifeDrain: Notable for having innate Spell Vamp, which goes a long way in surviving in lane.
* MightyGlacier: Compared to other mages, Morgana lacks mobility (low movement speed and no positioning abilities) but is much more resilient. It's also worth noting that she's distinct from GlassCannon nuker mages that have near-instant burst then remain vulnerable until the cannon reloads, she deals more consistent damage over a short period of time, but it 'really' hurts if she can get her hands on you for that long.
* NonIndicativeName: Her Black Shield ability is... blue on the target. Presumedly, it's named as in "Black Magic Shield" and trying to avoid being long-winded.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: As well as the general background differences noted in Kayle's entry, Morgana shows that when they [[FallenAngel "fall"]], they fall ''hard'' -- apart from what her dark magic has done to [[PointyEars her ears]], her skin has turned a pasty grayish colour and her wings have either been severely burned or have rotted while still attached to her, preventing her from flying. Despite this, she's still hot somehow.
* PointyEars: A result from her strong use of magic.
* PurpleEyes: Is pretty mysterious and powerful with her FallenAngel vibe and dark magics.
* PurpleIsPowerful: It's all over her and her spells.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: See Kayle's entry; although Morgana is explicitly younger than her, she's still undoubtably many thousands of years old.
%%* RivalTurnedEvil
* SquishyWizard: Averted. Morgana is actually one of the bulkiest mages in the game and can substitute quite well for a tank.
* StoneWall: Morgana used to be banned left and right not because of her offensive ability (she '''can''' lay down a ton of pain, but it's very situational and will not happen very often at all), but because unless counterpicked, she is absolutely impossible to force out of lane, as she can heal herself with her passive and farm easily with her Cursed Ground, without the need to endanger herself. You can try and budge her, but she'll just shrug it off and go back to farming like nothing happened. Even ganking her usually fails because she'll just shield herself against crowd control effect, toss down her ult and blast you with her combo, which really, really hurts to the point where you might actually die.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit is more or less a long skirt and a bra. The way she takes hits, you'd think that's a Kevlar Wonderbra she's got on. After her latest art update, her bra is clearly metal, for what it worth. And if her skirt was riding an inch lower, the game's ESRB rating would have to go up.
* SupremeChef: Unlike what her appropriate skin [[LethalChef suggests]], the Journal of Justice claims her baking is excellent and she vaguely alludes to enjoying it (while swearing about her sister in the same breath, natch).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Compared to Kayle, she's a more girly girl -- Morgana exclusively uses spells and wears, y'know, [[{{Stripperiffic}} that outfit]].
* VillainsOutShopping: When she's not inflicting pain on her opponents in the Fields of Justice, Morgana runs a chain of bakeries called 'Sinful Succulence'.
* WomanInWhite: Ghost Bride Morgana, which is explicitly based on the various La Llorona legends.
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[[folder:Nami, the Tidecaller]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/NamiSquare_5012.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/77/Nami_Select.ogg I decide what the tide will bring.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/CassandraLee
->''"I am the tide, and I cannot be turned."''
A member of a race of mermaid people called the Marai, Nami refused to sit and wait for their prophesied savior, the Tidecaller, and instead set out to become the Tidecaller herself. Retrieving an Abyssal Pearl from the Great Deep after six days of intense battles, she ventured forth to the surface to fulfill the covenant with the landwalker who bears the sacred Moonstone her people needed to survive. When the bearer of the Moonstone did not show up, Nami journeyed onto the land to seek them out instead. Her search eventually brought her to the Institute of War.
Nami is a support-mage champion adept at boosting her teammates and disabling her enemies with flowing waters. Her passive, ''Surging Tides'', gives a brief movement speed bonus to any allies hit by one of her abilities (even if that ability can only affect enemies). Her first ability, ''Aqua Prison'', fires a bubble into the air at a nearby area, damaging and stunning all nearby enemies when it lands. Her second ability, ''Ebb and Flow'', unleashes a stream of water that bounces between allies and enemies, healing and damaging them respectively. Her third ability, ''Tidecaller's Blessing'', enhances a nearby allied champion's next three basic attacks with water, making them deal bonus damage and slow their target. Her ultimate ability, ''Tidal Wave'', summons a powerful wave of water that surges forward in a line with extreme range, damaging, knocking up and slowing any enemies it contacts with, the slow growing in strenght based on how far the wave has traveled.
Nami's alternate skins include Koi Nami and River Spirit Nami.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AbsoluteCleavage: With her ''scales''.
* BilingualBonus: 'Nami' means 'Wave' in Japanese.
* [[ChainLightning Chain Water]]: Ebb and Flow bounces between an enemy, ally, then enemy or ally, enemy, then ally depending on who she targets.
* CombatMedic[=/=]TheMedic: Ebb and Flow simultaneously damages and heals. With a bit of extra AP her supporting and damaging powers are even more powerful.
** ShootTheMedicFirst: Occupational hazard for sustain supports, unfortunately.
* CoolCrown: You know it is.
* DamageDiscrimination: One of her abilities is essentially a [[ChainLightning Chain Water]], but it discriminates between allies and enemies, healing and harming them respectively.
** Also comes into effect with her passive: Hit an enemy with an ability, and they take damage. Hit an ally with that same ability, and they get a speed-boost and none of the negative effects.
* [[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin Friendly, Playful Mermaid]]: For all her regality and quotes about her people depending on her and her quest, she's not above joking around, moonlighting, and having pool parties.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Her ultimate, It has a long range, and the further away you are from it's starting point, the more you get slowed after the wave has knocked you up for a little while.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Downplayed, but she still thinks of how strange things like feet and the need to breathe air are. A particularly funny one is her comment "Urgh... Whale breath..." possibly a complaint of her terrestrial lady teammates. ([[labelnote:Don't get it?]]Perfume. Ambergris, historically a component in many expensive perfumes, is produced in the digestive tract of sperm whiles. Anyone wearing a scent smells like whale puke to her.[[/labelnote]])
* JackOfAllStats: She can heal, but it is difficult to make use of compared to Sona or Soraka. She can crowd control, but not as well Alistar, Blitzcrank, and it's harder to land. She can slow, but not as well as Janna. This trait makes her highly valued in competitive play because top-tier players know how to use each of her JackofAllStats traits to their fullest.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Subverted, she didn't actually ''receive'' a call, but jumped anyway for the good of her people. It's kinda a case where [[TheUnchosenOne she took the call 'cause no one else was picking it up.]]
* MakingASplash: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course she uses water-based powers!]]
* MagicStaff: Looks like a cross between a traditional wizard's staff and a halberd made out of blue crystals.
* NonMammalMammaries: There was some rather heated discussion in the lead-up to Nami's release about her prominent boobs, despite her overall design being more fish-like than the average mermaid. Her green scales actually [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdmoq8HDGa1rbb6jao1_1280.jpg cover her entire body, but split above her waist to show off her breasts]] [[AbsoluteCleavage like an open coat.]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Mostly toward the non-human edge of the scale.
* SirensAreMermaids: River Spirit Nami, modeled on the Brazilian ''Iara'', lures men under the water in her lore and will sing while doing her recall animation.
* SquishyWizard: Like Janna or Zyra she has strong peeling abilities but if she's still being chased after those are used, she's dead.
* TheUnchosenOne: Nami's doing it because the actual Chosen One never appeared.
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[[folder:Nasus, the Curator of the Sands]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f5/Nasus_Select.ogg The cycle of life and death continues. We will live, they will die.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Eugene [=McDaniels=] (2009-2013), Jonathan Adams (2013-onward)
->''"The Keeper of the Sands, though contemplative, is not to be trifled with."''
Nasus is a librarian from another dimension where mankind is protected by a race of animal-headed men in the vein of the Egyptian pantheon. Nasus was also a soldier bent on fighting his totalitarian, crocodile-headed brother Renekton, but was summoned to Runeterra before he could finish him off. He agreed to help protect Runeterra from the forces that were poised to tear it apart, seeing them as no less threatening to innocent lives as the war he left behind.
Nasus is a fighter-tank champion with the potential to deal truly devastating single-target damage while also being able to take a lot of punishment if allowed to farm enough. His passive, ''Soul Eater'', makes his basic attacks restore health for a percentage of the damage done. His first ability, ''Siphoning Strike'', makes Nasus next basic attack deal bonus damage. If the attack kills its target, said bonus damage will permanently grow stronger, without any sort of cap. This allows Nasus to deal enormous damage without the need to build damage items if he farms enough. His second ability, ''Wither'', ages a nearby opponent, slowing their movement and attack speed for a brief duration. These slowing effects grow stronger over the duration, reaching massive numbers close to the end of the effect. His third ability, ''Spirit Fire'', unleashes a circle of blue flames at a nearby area that continously damage and reduce the armor of enemies within. His ultimate ability, ''Fury of the Sands'', transforms Nasus into a towering avatar of death, granting him bonus health and summoning a raging sandstorm that continuously damages all surrounding foes and transforms a percentage of the damage dealt into bonus attack power for Nasus.
Nasus's alternate skins include Galactic Nasus, Pharaoh Nasus, Dreadknight Nasus, Riot K-9 Nasus, and Infernal Nasus.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* TheAgeless: Several of his lines hint towards his immortality.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e7/Nasus.move08.ogg "Eons... Pass like days..."]]''
* {{Archnemesis}}: To Renekton.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Nasus dominates late game if he can get enough farm. If the enemy is aware of this, they will never let you farm up that much and you will be a liability to your team. This is easily remedied, however, by simply farming under your turret, and eventually, you can keep farming by simply one shotting minions without even worrying about how low on health they are, making it AwesomeYetPractical.
** DifficultButAwesome: The downside to this strategy is that, while Nasus' lane will be safe from ganks since he'll be happily farming under his turret, that Nasus won't be able to roam as soon or as well, his gaking jungler is more likely to get a kill than him which will stifle his golds incom, and any early teamfight scenarios, like invading the enemy jungle, will be impossible. This is DifficultButAwesome for your team, not so much for the Nasus player himself, and Nasus is still considered one of the best top laners.
* ArtEvolution: Yet another example of an original champion who very much needed a visual upgrade then got one in Season 3.
* BadassBaritone: Has the deepest voice of all League of Legends champions, even after his visual rework.
* BadassBookworm: Well, he is a librarian. Doesn´t mean he won´t beat your ass 5 ways to Sunday with that staff of his.
* BadassBoast: Like 90% of his lines.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/31/Nasus.attack04.ogg "Life is part of a cycle; yours is over."]]''\\
''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/8a/Nasus.attack01.ogg "Anthropomancy. Divination by entrails."]]''\\
''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3e/Nasus.taunt02.ogg "There is such potential in one mortal life. You have wasted yours."]]''
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Come on, Nasus can not only drain life, he can cause his target to age much faster! His passive is called "Soul Eater", his Spirit Fire is described to "desecrate the earth" and his ultimate, "Fury of the Sands" used to be called "Avatar of Death". Despite all this, he comes off as somewhat of a GentleGiant.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As mentioned before, he's one of the nicer champions. [[OhCrap But let him feed and free farm...]]
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Brother Instinct]]: (Keep in mind, it's never specified who's the older brother) It's heavily implied in Renekton's lore that Nasus did care for him as he tried to reason with him when he went nuts. Averted in that Renekton is now considered beyond redemption and Nasus is determined to strike him down.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f4/Nasus.Renektontaunt02.ogg "Renekton was lost long ago. You are but his pale shadow."]]''
** Averted with his Infernal Nasus skin, which has it's own unique taunts for Renekton, but instead of it being about striking him down for it's own good, it's more about a show of strength.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/48/InfernalNasus.Renektonkill01.ogg "The 'butcher.' Carved to pieces."]]''
* BoringButPractical: Jungle Nasus is not fast nor a particularly good duelist, but clears the jungle safely, has good ganks and is good at keeping enemy junglers at bay. He is also flexible and can adapt his item build depending on team composition and gold income.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Renekton's Cain.
** However when they're on a team together they become absolute terrors. A fed Nasus (jungling) and Renekton (top lane) can very easily, utterly steamroll an enemy team into submission at level 18.
* CastingAShadow
* ComicallySerious: With one of his visual upgrade jokes. Justified in that if ''you'' had the head of a dog and were treated by people as such, you'd be pretty annoyed too.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d5/Nasus.joke02.ogg "No. I will not fetch the ball."]]''
** It's also a CallBack to the Season One Trailer Blooper, whereas the trailer ended with Ryze throwing his ball and Nasus suddenly acts like a dog and tried to fetch the ball, ruining the whole trailer.
* CulturedBadass: Was the lorekeeper of his previous world, who would teach mortals that were pure of heart. He now cares for the League's archives.
* DarkerAndEdgier: His visual rework can be described as this, as he started off looking less intimidating and his voice was more serene (but stern) compared to the guttural voice he has now. Infernal Nasus is darker still, with him replacing his enlightened lines about life and death with those foretelling the doom of the world.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In the season one trailer, he appears as a largely inarticulate monster, working with the likes of [[EldritchAbomination Cho'gath]] and Warwick. He is huge, menacing, and constantly rambles on about death in a deep, booming voice. He is also a truly noble creature, a gentleman and a scholar.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/55/Nasus.move12.ogg "No dawn comes without darkness."]]''
* DishingOutDirt: Well, sand.
* DissonantSerenity: Nasus' old voice was deep but calm-sounding in spite of the lines he spoke about death.
* EgyptianMythology: His appearance invokes the god Anubis.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Infernal Nasus. This depicts an 'ascended' Nasus who is bringing about the apocalypse. To put it plainly...
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f5/InfernalNasus.attack04.ogg "This is the way your world ends."]]''
* EvolvingAttack: His "Siphoning Strike" ability, which gains bonus damage every time Nasus kills something with it. If he's given enough time to concentrate on the skill, he can forgo buying damage-increase items entirely and build entirely defensive items and ''still'' hit like a truck.
* FanNickname: There's a massive amount of names for his Siphoning Strike, usually more threatening as he gains stacks on it. Due to his staff´s eerie color, a common name for it is the Plutonium Stick. [[OneHitKill Which is a pretty good analogy as to how hard it's gonna nuke you lategame]]. Another popular one is ''The [[ArmorPiercingAttack Pimp Cane]]''.
** Another nickname he has is "Susan" which is "Nasus" spelled backwards.
* {{Foil}}: To his brother, Renekton. Both are fighter champions based on Egyptian mythology and both have ultimates similar in appearance that increase their size and empower them (including AOE damage). However, Nasus is a quintessential late-game champion who starts weak and is forced to farm a ''lot'' but becomes unstoppable once his Q accumulates last-hits while Renekton is a quintessential early-game champion who has an aggressive kit very useful for getting kills in lane but falls off later due to poor scaling.
** Lore-wise, Nasus is far more calm and collected while Renekton is destructive and bat-shit crazy (although he wasn't always like that). Plus, Nasus was the curator of his homeworld's archives (just like he is to the Institute of War now) while Renekton was the gatekeeper and turned away anyone with dark intentions.
* GentleGiant: One of the nicer guys in the league who quickly accepted the new world around him, despite being huge, imposing and commanding a slew of evil-looking powers.
* GlassCannon: Normally, people build Nasus with all tank items and stack his Siphoning Strike up massively to maximize it's damage, so he can both never die and shred teams. However, if you like, you can build all Ability Power items and take an entire enemy team down to 2/3 HP with one Spirit Fire cast, and proceed to use Fury of the Sands combined with Rylai's Crystal Scepter to slow the enemy team so everyone else can finish them off. It's not as tanky, but still very viable.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: But he's actually a good guy.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Nasus looks like Anubis (jackal), and Renekton looks like Sobek (crocodile). One can only wonder what their parents looked like.
* JackOfAllStats: Does a bit of everything.
* MagikarpPower: In the early game, Nasus is quite an easy target, but "Siphoning Strike" can hit like a train in the late game. The number one rule of fighting against Nasus is "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Do. Not. Let. Him. Free. Farm]]''" or he will turn those 200 creep kills into a staff-whack that removes half of your health.
* MightyGlacier: Taken to extreme levels. Has very high natural damage that scales off how many creeps he's killed with Q, made stronger by sheen procs, allowing him to build full tank with triforce/IBG, but has no mobility to back it up.
* NotSoDifferent: Both Renekton and Nasus are considered by players to be among the best top laners, although for completely different reasons.
* OddFriendship: The website lists ''Sivir'' as his friend of all people.
* OneHitKill: Siphoning Strike has this potential. It's one of the very few skills in the game that has ''no {{cap}} on its damage''. This leads some people to describe him as a "hyper-carry," a true OneManArmy, though others dispute this claim, and a third camp claims that ''[=LoL=]'' doesn't ''have'' any hyper-carries. (This is especially true because nobody can agree on what the term ''means''.)
* PlayingWithFire: Infernal Nasus
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e9/InfernalNasus.move01.ogg "Each fork in your path leads to fire."]]''
* RedEyesTakeWarning: On his old model and splash art.[[AvertedTrope But he's a good guy.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Renekton's red.
* ShoutOut: His Infernal Nasus skin makes a WorldOfWarcraft reference when you activate his ultimate.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/32/InfernalNasus.R2.ogg "By fire be purged!"]]''
* [[TheOnlyOneAllowedTODefeatYou The Only One Who Can Defeat You]]: Towards Renekton, of course.
* SkillGateCharacter: He's a fighter that's relatively cheap in IP, making him a prime candidate for a beginner's first fighter (along with Garen). He teaches new players the importance of farming and last-hitting (instead of constant pushing like most first-timers do) by giving them a concrete reward for doing so through Siphoning Strike stacks. Likewise, enemies ''facing'' a Nasus usually learn the hard way why it's a bad idea to let enemies farm unharassed when his Siphoning Strike blows them up 25 minutes later. Like other examples in League of Legends, he's not necessarily bad after the beginner stage and remains viable even at high-tiers.
* TranquilFury: He never raises his (famously deep) voice.
** Although he gets a bit louder, his Infernal Nasus skin still retains the tranquil bit. Only instead of going on about life and death, he's going on about the destruction of the world.
* UnfortunateNames: Although it would take a bit tinkering. 'Nasus' itself IS a fine name, but when you realize that it's [[SdrawkcabName "Susan" spelled backwards]]...
* WarriorPoet
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/fb/Nasus.taunt01.ogg "Your legacy shall drift away, blown into eternity like the sands of the desert."]]''
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[[folder:Nautilus, the Titan of the Depths]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/0/02/Nautilus_Select.ogg Bewaaare the depths.]]-] ]]
->''"When lost in utter darkness, there is nothing left but forward."''
Once a sailor commissioned by the Institute of War to explore the oceans of Runeterra, Nautilus was abandoned at sea while he was dragged down into the depths by an unseen force, grabbing the ship's anchor as he sank. When he awoke again, he found that his diver's suit had merged with his body, and his memories were fuzzy at best. With nothing to go on but the anchor, he trudged through the depths of the ocean until he reached Bilgewater, whereupon he was directed to the Institute of War. He joined the League so that he could discover and punish those responsible for a lifetime lost.
Nautilus is a tank-fighter champion who, despite his cumbersomeness and slowness, can deal some pretty devastating crowd control and area of effect damage. His passive, ''Staggering Blow'', makes his basic attacks deal bonus damage and briefly immobilize the target, but this effect only works on the same target every few seconds. His first ability, ''Dredge Line'', makes Nautilus hurl his chained anchor forward like a grappling hook. If it hits an enemy unit it will damage them and pull Nautilus and the enemy towards each other. If it hits terrain it will pull Nautilus to it and the ability's cooldown will be halved. His second ability, ''Titan's Wrath'', protects Nautilus with a temporary damage-absorbing shield and, while the shield lasts, makes his basic attacks apply a damage over time effect to the target and all nearby enemies. His third ability, ''Riptide'', releases three consecutive rings of explosions that expand outward, damaging and slowing all enemies hit. His ultimate ability, ''Depth Charge'', fires a water shockwave that travels underground towards a target enemy champion, knocking up and damaging all enemies it passes undearneath. When it reaches its target it explodes, damaging, knocking up and stunning them.
Nautilus' alternate skins include Abyssal Nautilus, Subterranean Nautilus, and [=AstroNautilus=].
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AnchorsAway: Nautilus is armed with the anchor of the ship aboard which he served. He grabbed it as he was being dragged to the sea floor.
* CaptainErsatz: The resemblance to the [[Franchise/{{Bioshock}} Big Daddy]] has not gone unnoticed. For bonus points, have him team up with Annie.
* CrosshairAware: Depth Charge lets everyone know who it's heading towards. The target's teammates have a tough choice to make: get out of the way to prevent being knocked up or stay where they are (in the path of the shockwave) so that Nautilus can't get an easy Dredge Line on the target.
* DarkIsEvil: Whatever grabbed Nautilus came from a black ooze in the section of the ocean.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may look quite frightening and have a pretty nasty set of powers, but he just wants to find out who left him for dead and what made him the way he is.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite having incredibly hazy memories, and being weighed down by an impossibly heavy diver's suit-anchor combo, Nautilus woke up after death and walked across the sea floor for who knows how long, in utter blackness and loneliness, in order to find the people who decided he was better off dead.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Nautilus in his suit is so lumbering, he couldn't swim back to shore. As a result, his movement speed is tied for the slowest in the game and every melee champion moves faster than him, leaving him reliant on using his anchor through his Dredge Line ability for mobility. The tradeoff is that the extremely heavy diving suit benefits his durability as much as you'd expect it to.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: This can be justified as being the lights of his diver's suit. Taken to a logical conclusion with his Titan's Wrath ability, causing his eyes to glow ''even brighter'' while it lasts.
* [[GrapplingHookPistol Grappling Hook Anchor]]: His Dredge Line ability uses his anchor for this, capable even of dragging Nautilus to terrain, turrets, and walls.
* HooksAndCrooks: He uses his anchor as a very effective grappling hook to overcome his lumbering speed.
* TheJuggernaut: Slow and cumbersome even when he is using his hook to get him places, but do '''not''' let him get close. He's ridiculously durable, deals extremely high sustained damage, and has enough crowd control to ensure that you'll never get away from him alive.
* LeftForDead: His backstory made concise.
* MagikarpPower: When jungling, Nautilus is slow, weak and ironically enough very fragile during his first clear, making him susceptible to invading enemies. Given just a couple of levels and ranks in Titan's Wrath he quickly becomes a powerhouse who survives lots of abuse and deals tons of damage while his shield holds. He is not a very extreme example of this trope as he gets over his weakness rather quickly, but it's still there.
* MakingASplash: Multiple splashes actually: His 'Depth Charge' ultimate causes multiple watery explosions towards a target, each one increasing the speed of which the explosion homes in on its target: Supposedly, you can avoid it by outrunning it for 5 seconds - but you'll need movement speeds well over one and a half thousand for that to happen.
* MightyGlacier: Once he activates Titan's Wrath, he upgrades from a StoneWall to this, giving him a decent-sized shield to improve his durability and adding AOE damage to his autoattacks while the shield still holds. He's encouraged to build tanky due to the shield size (and by extension the buff duration) scales as a percentage of bonus HP.
* OceanMadness: Sort of. By the time Nautilus got back to land, he no longer remembered much of the details of his life.
* PowerGlows: His Titan's Wrath ability, causing his anchor to glow red, and his eyes glow even brighter.
* ThePowerOfHate: Long after he'd given up hope of ever reaching home, he was still motivated to keep trudging on in the dark depths in order to find his former crewmates that left him for dead. He ended up reaching land eventually.
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* {{Revenge}}: His reason for being in the League is basically to take revenge on those responsible for his lost life and time. Hell, this may even be [[ThePowerOfHate the reason he's alive in the first place!]]
* SadisticChoice: His crewmates chose cutting him loose rather than try to pull him up but risk everyone's lives. He is not very happy about that.
* ShockwaveStomp: His Riptide ability. The waves that fan out can hit his enemies twice, meaning it may be better to hold your ground against Nautilus. Or... you're in a MortonsFork situation.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: His joke has him plant his anchor and start ''swimming mid-air''.
* StoneWall: A very dedicated tanking character with large amounts of disruption and a respectable damage output, but has the lowest possible base movement speed, a trait usually reserved for ranged characters.
* StuffBlowingUp: His ultimate is Depth Charge, blowing up upon impact with its main target and causing them to fly up into the air.
* TunnelKing: Subterranean Nautilus substitutes the anchor for a massive drill.
* WalkDontSwim: His diver's suit was so heavy that he had to trudge along the ocean floor all the way to land.
* WasOnceAMan: Well, technically he still is one, but he's somehow become one with the diving suit and infused with some terrible dark energies, so he's not quite the way he used to be either.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He was forced to slog on the ocean floor for so long, by the time he surfaced nothing that remained of his former life was left.
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[[folder:Nidalee, the Bestial Huntress]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/76/Nidalee_Select.ogg They will fear the wild.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' KellyBurge
->''"Nidalee was taught to fight by her feline family, battling viciously with tooth and nail. Something in her feline ways may draw you to her, but remember that she is no pussycat."''
A child abandoned in a magical jungle when her treasure hunting parents were struck down, Nidalee was raised by a family of jungle cats. Infused with magic, she can morph into a cougar at will. She joined the League to protect the environment from civilization.
Nidalee is an assassin-support champion with great versatility thanks to her ability to switch between a long range form meant for burst damage and support and a short range one for mobility and sustained damage. Her passive, ''Prowl'', grants her a brief movement speed boost when she travels through brush, and access to a unique ''Hunt'' mechanic. When she strikes an enemy with her ''Buskwack'' or ''Javelin Toss'', they are considered hunted, and Nidalee gains bonus movement speed when moving towards them, and her cougar abilities have bonus effects. Her first ability, ''Javelin Toss'', throws her spear forward to damage the first enemy unit in a line, the damage increasing the further the spear flies, and making the target hunted. With her second ability, ''Bushwack'', Nidalee lays down a trap that damages, reveals and causes her to hunt the target for a brief duration. Her third ability, ''Primal Surge'', heals a nearby allied champion or herself while also granting the target a brief attack speed boost. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', which she has at level 1, transforms Nidalee into a ferocious cougar with a melee attack range and an entirely new set of basic abilities. Her first ability becomes ''Takedown'', making her next basic attack deal bonus damage depending on the target's missing health. ''Takedown'' deals bonus damage on a hunted target. Her second ability becomes ''Pounce'', making Nidalee lunge a small distance forward, damaging all enemies around her landing point. She can cast ''Pounce'' on a hunted enemy to jump to their location from twice the normal distance. Her third ability becomes ''Swipe'', slashing all enemies in a small cone in front of her to damage them. Using ''Swipe'' on a hunted target refreshes the cooldown on ''Pounce''.
Nidalee's alternate skins include Leopard Nidalee, Snow Bunny Nidalee, French Maid Nidalee, Pharaoh Nidalee, Bewitching Nidalee, and Headhunter Nidalee.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Her Bewitching skin changes her cougar form into a black cat.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Definitely one of the more dark-skinned champions.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: ''*CHUNK*'' That's the sound of you getting hit by a Nidalee spear from the fog of war and subsequently breaking your keyboard. With little no no counterplay to this, Riot, for Nidalee's gameplay rework, reduced the range and damage potential of her spears and introduced the ''Hunt'' mechanic, so that Nidalee has to get close to a target to do real damage.
* ArtEvolution: Got a sweet upgrade to her model and Classic artwork.
* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: An ability of her's involves throwing a spear, which does more damage based off how far away it is from Nidalee upon impact, seemingly like a gyrojet.
* BladeOnAStick: One that's thrown, to be exact
* CatGirl: Well, she doesn't actually have cat ears, but she can turn into a cougar and was raised by cats. It certainly seems this was what the creator(s?) was/were going for.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Implied when her boyfriend Bob Nashahago the summoner promptly fled when the gossip column ran with Blitzcrank's dating service finds him a match with Janna instead.
* CombatMedic[=/=]TheMedic: Primal Surge heals for a decent amount and grants an attack speed boost- with some AP items it can heal quite a bit whilst still increasing the potency of Javelin Toss (the combat part). Anyone [[ShootTheMedicFirst targeting her first]] will find she doesn't die quite as easily as other medics as she escapes in cougar form.
* CrackShip: In-Universe example in that the Journal of Justice reporter certainly think so.
* CrutchCharacter: Is less powerful endgame than a dedicated support, ranged-DPS, or fighter champion.
* DifficultButAwesome: The above and below claims are somewhat subverted in that during a highly memorable tournament game between TSM and CLG (ie: two of the best teams playing [=LoL=]), Nidalee was still automatically banned by TSM solely due to CLG's Hotshotgg's fearsome reputation when playing her. While nerfs have taken her viability down a notch, she can still pull off some jaw-dropping moves, examples including Javelin Toss snipes and her Pounce's endless juking potential.
** AP Nidalee's spears used to be a strong contender for ''the'' highest damage output in the game relative to its cooldown and range... if they can be landed consistently. At late game, a good Nidalee can snipe a squishy enemy for half their health ''or more'', effectively turning the situation into 4v5 as her victim is forced to retreat. [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Her rework changed this.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: A sexy [[StealthPun cougar]] in a FurBikini whose /dance emote causes her to pole dance on her spear and whose /joke is "Did I mention it's mating season?"
* Foil: To the other feline champion, Rengar. While Nidalee is one with nature, Rengar hunts nature as worthy prey. One shifts from human to cat form and vice versa, and the other is an anthropomorphic lion. Even with their kits, Nidalee is played in the middle or bottom lane as a long range support caster, who heals her allies and sets traps to find enemies in bushes, while Rengar is played in the top lane or jungle, hides in the bushes himself to leap at prey, and gets up close and personal to rip his target to shreds, without much potential for supporting allies directly. It's not surprising much of the fanbase ships these two.
* FrenchMaid: A skin for her.
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Almost paraphrased in her joke but replace 'sexually active' with 'mating seasons'.
* HelloNurse: Nidalee is apparently very popular with men in-universe, ([[StealthPun especially the younger crowd]]).
* HotWitch: Bewitching Nidalee
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Did we mention the {{Fanservice}} already?
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: "Nidalee" sounds like a rather rude term for "big-breasted" in Chinese. [[{{Fanservice}} Oddly fitting.]]
* JackOfAllStats: Can be played reasonably well as a support, fighter, or mage but generally not as well as specialists in those types.
%%* JunglePrincess
* LightningBruiser: Nidalee is both fast and really hard hitting, and due to her ''Hunt'' mechanic, she can zip around the battlefield at respectable speed. Catching an eneemy in a trap or with a spear usually means death, because soon after, a frothing cougar will pounce from the bushes and delete their health bar. And because of ''Primal Surge'' and ''Pounce'', she is also frustratingly hard to catch and kill.
* NatureHero
* PlayerTic: Running away from her last Javelin Toss or quickly switching to cougar form and Pouncing away. This is a habit that started when her spear damage was calculated based on the distance between ''her'' and impact, so moving away would increase the damage. It was changed to calculate distance based on the start position of the the throw, so this reflex is mostly pointless now, but it's still around.
* RaisedByWolves: Cougars, after her parents were killed by an unidentified disease.
* ShipSinking: Many players ship her with Rengar, what with them both being feline hunters. Alas, they're listed as rivals on the website, for reasons unknown.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Allegedly with Bob, believe it or not.
* StealthPun: She has a hidden passive when [[VoluntaryShapeshifting in cougar form]] that gives a very small amount of exp to any nearby friendly champions lower level than her. [[DontExplainTheJoke Because she's a "cougar".]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Wears a FurBikini and not too much else.
* UnflinchingWalk: Because of the old mechanics behind her spear toss, the game used to encourage you to do this each time you toss it. Badass indeed.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She can go from human to cougar form and back again for free and with a cooldown of only a few seconds.
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[[folder:Nocturne, the Eternal Nightmare]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nocturnesquare_3267.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/7e/Nocturne_Select.ogg Embrace the darkness.]]''-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' JasonWishnov
->''"The darkness is closing in... it’s pitch black now... but I can still see him..."''
-->-- '''Kelvin Ma''', patient #4236
Prior to Nocturne's appearance in Valoran, the League was bewildered by a growing number of summmoners being driven mad or not waking from feverish nightmares. Eventually a faulty nexus gave Nocturne physical form, and he slaughtered all in his sight before the League captured him. They feared that if destroyed, Nocturne would simply return to continue his torture of those helpless in sleep. To that end, Nocturne is now bound to the will of the summoners he would gladly haunt.
Nocturne is an assassin-fighter champion who spreads darkness and fear throughout his foes, isolating them from their allies and pouncing on them from the shadows. His passive, ''Umbra Blades'', transforms his next basic attack every few seconds into a whirling slash that damages all enemies around him and heals him for each unit hit. His first ability, ''Duskbringer'', sends out a giant shadowy hand, damaging all enemies in a line forward and leaving behind a trail of darkness that boosts Nocturne's movement speed and attack damage while he's inside it. Enemy champions hit by the attack leave behind the same trail as they move for a few seconds. His second ability, ''Shroud of Darkness'', passively increases Nocturne's attack speed, and can be activated to protect him with a dark barrier that blocks the next ability that hits him and briefly doubles the attack speed bonus if it does. His third ability, ''Unspeakable Horror'', creates a tether between a nearby enemy and Nocturne, planting terrifying nightmares on their mind that damage them over a duration. If the target doesn't manage to get away and break the tether they will be feared, running away from Nocturne at reduced movement speed. His ultimate ability, ''Paranoia'', covers the whole battlefield in pitch-black darkness for a brief duration, greatly reducing the sight radius of all enemy champions and preventing them from seeing what their teammates are seeing. While ''Paranoia'' is active Nocturne can reactivate the ability to pounce upon an enemy champion from a humongous distance, dealing damage upon arrival.
Nocturne's alternate skins include Frozen Nocturne, Void Nocturne, Ravager Nocturne, Haunting Nocturne, and Eternum Nocturne.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Absurdly Sharp]] [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Blades Below The Shoulder]]: To give you a hint; They were able to slice right through Ryze's supposedly indestructible scroll.
* AndIMustScream: An odd variation of it; he is chained to the League's will. Literally.
* BedsheetGhost: Haunting Nocturne looks like one.
* BerserkButton: Summoners seem to ''really'' piss him off.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Victims of his ultimate gain the 'possessed by horror' variation to onlookers.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He has two ''gigantic'' curved blades attached to (growing from?) his forearms.
* CaptainErsatz:
** An omnicidal assassin who kills people in their dreams and hates a specific group, whom he harassed in the past. Are we talking about Nocturne or Freddy Krueger?
* CastingAShadow: More literally than normal, Duskbringer throws a shadowy claw that leaves a shadowy trail behind it. While on the trail Nocturne hits harder, moves faster and can pass through other units like a ghost, and if the claw hits an enemy champion, they'll start leaving said trail behind them for a while - granting Nocturne a shadowy highway straight to his target.
* CreepyLongFingers: Even with his [[BladesBelowTheShoulder Blades Below The Shoulder]] being the attention grabbers that they are, his long claw-like fingers are definitely noticeable.
* CrutchCharacter: Considered to be a strong early-game champion due to his fast clearing times, strong dueling, and solid ganks (especially once he has Paranoia). However, a Nocturne doesn't typically fair too well late-game if his team is counting on him to initiate, since he can quickly get to the enemy backline with Paranoia and try to assassinate someone, but he'll likely die soon after (even with a tanky build). However, a well-timed Paranoia in conjunction with a strong initiation ability is an extremely potent combo for throwing the enemy team into disarray, so keep that in mind.
* DarkIsEvil: Omnicidally so.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The first part of his ultimate, Paranoia, actually affects summoners, not the champions themselves, making them distrustful of their fellow summoners around them for a few seconds and literally blinding them with fear. As such, this effect also barely crosses over into ''allied'' summoners, darkening the corners of their screens and providing a very faint laughing sound.
* DynamicEntry: And you won't even know who it's being done to, because your screen just went dark.
* EasterEgg: If Graves uses his Smokescreen ability on Nocturne, Graves says one of two special lines of dialogue.
* EldritchAbomination: He's a dream-born monster who utterly despises all life, ''especially'' Summoners, and wants nothing more than to slaughter everything because it offends him.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/60/Nocturne.move4.ogg "This place disgusts me..."]]''
** Eternum Nocturne switches out the darkness and nightmare related theme for an equally terrifying extra-dimensional terror theme.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/36/EternumNocturne.attack10.ogg "Their existance is a mistake.."]]''
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: He REALLY hates Summoners, but life in general is an abomination in his eyes.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/5b/Nocturne.move5.ogg "People are flames to be blotted out!"]]''
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Frozen Nocturne
* EvilIsVisceral: Eternum Nocturne is made of twisted, skinless flesh covered with armour. Void Nocturne also replaces his usual metal arm blades with a pair of meaty, organic "blades."
* EvilLaughter: Type /Laugh during play and you'll understand why this guy is titled 'The Eternal Nightmare'. He also laughs when his spell shield blocks a spell and as an alternate line during his ultimate.
* {{Expy}}:
** Spectre from [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]], in both looks and abilities (The trails of darkness).
** You're forgiven if Eternum Nocturne's voice and method of speech reminds you of [[Videogame/MassEffect2 Harbinger]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His body is pitch black, so in a dark nightmare, all his victims saw were those glowing eyes. No surprise that the ones that did ''wake up'' were frightened by the thought of going back to sleep.
* HeroicSacrifice: The summoners who died to Nocturne so the League could capture him, although its been strongly implied the "Summoners" were an illusion used to trap him.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Nocturne makes it clear that he's an OmnicidalManiac because life as we know it offends and disgusts him.
* InterfaceScrew: Your screen just went dark and you can't see your team's vision. No, it's not a bug - it's his ultimate.
--> '''''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/82/Nocturne.ult2.ogg Darkness...]]"'''''
* LaserGuidedKarma: After delivering eternal nightmares to the summoners for so long, they decided to respond in kind by chaining him to the League to serve the very same summoners for extra poetic justice.
* LightningBruiser: He was designed to be a GlassCannon, but anyone halfway decent with him will build him tanky thanks to Duskbringer's attack boost, which allows you to build a fair amount of defense and still do enormous damage. When built this way, he's nearly impossible to peel off a target or escape from but can also take a good beating and fight off multiple opponents with ease.
* [[LivingDream Living Nightmare]]: The possibility was mentioned that he is someone's nightmares given physical form.
* NothingIsScarier: When you hear the creeping ''"Darkness"'' sound of his ultimate being used, this is in full effect for the duration. One of your allies is probably getting sliced up and there's little you can do about it... unless you're the one Nocturne is aiming for, in which case you're probably more worried about the living nightmare doing its best to murder you.
* NeverSplitTheParty: Being off on your own almost always puts you at risk of being picked off by a jungler or assassin, but Nocturne takes it new levels. At least in most cases you can call for help and signal where you're under attack; with Nocturne's Paranoia, no one can see where you are even if you do signal you're the target. Staying relatively close to one's team makes it easier to figure out who's being attacked and possibly help since players under the darkness effect can still see a very limited distance around them.
* OmnicidalManiac: Now that he's been ripped out of the dream world and into the real world, his only desire is to massacre anything and everything he can get to.
* [[{{Pun}} Paranoia]] [[ParanoiaFuel Fuel]]: Even before the screen goes dark from his ultimate being used, playing against an enemy Nocturne can be this to the enemy team: If Nocturne isn't visible on the map, and his ultimate hasn't been used in a while, enemies tend to group up or stay near their tower for protection.
* PsychoForHire: Probably the only relief of his slavery; at least he still gets to torture people during matches.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c1/Nocturne.taunt.ogg "Bring me more fleshbags to slice up!"]]''
* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In a Nexus Shard]]: That is, until someone needs him on the Fields of Justice. Once a match is over, back in he goes. Not that being sealed up has stopped him from constantly, unrelentingly slicing away at the barriers. Even approaching his prison has his trademark effect of everything getting darker, implying that while the shard may keep his body contained and jailed, his powers still have a limited reach outside it.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: If the new cinematic from Riot is any indication, his ultimate gives you damn good reason to be paranoid of your surroundings. The amount of lovecraftian horror that Ryze experiences while under the influence would make Cthulhu proud.
* TimeAbyss: Eternum Nocturne, seeing how he's 'The manifestation of all future nightmares'.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c3/EternumNocturne.move7.ogg We transcend time!]]''
* TronLines: Void Nocturne generates them on the ground beneath him in the same manner as Kassadin.
* UnstoppableRage: Considering that he's being held prisoner by the people whom he despises above all others, this is pretty much his only setting.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: All his voicelines carries a faint echoing to them. And he likes to stretch the words out as well. Eternum Nocturne pulls out all the stops, however, referring to himself as 'we' and having robotic background noises with each spoken word.
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[[folder:Nunu, the Yeti Rider (and Willump the Yeti)]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nunu_Square_0_329.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/44/Nunu_Select.ogg Here we go!]]-] ]]
->'''Voiced by:''' CristinaUlloa(Nunu), BrianSommer(Willump)
->''"Willump and I have a whole world to explore. Don't get in our way!"''
Nunu could only barely remember his parents or a time when he wasn't walled inside the citadel of the reclusive Frostguard tribe. His desire to explore and natural compassion put him at odds with his cryptic elders, so he was sent to apprentice with the Frostguard beast master. Unique among the creatures under his supervision was Willump the yeti, a creature of incredible physical strength and unusual mystical qualities. Nunu was told to keep the wild beast poorly fed and to whip it frequently, but as Nunu tended to the creature he began to see it as more than just a brute. Feeling sorry for the sick yeti, Nunu snuck him bits of meat until he became stronger. When treated with kindness, he found, Willump was completely benign and not at all the savage monster he was lead to believe. Nunu hoped to convince the beast master to treat his new friend better, but before he could Willump escaped from his cage and fled to the wilderness. Nunu, upon discovering a crude drawing Willump had left for him, pursued him out of the citadel and found him being beaten by the beast master and the warriors of the Frostguard. Nunu threw himself in front of his friend, but the beast master had no qualms about turning his whip on the boy. Enraged at the sight of his friend in danger, Willump summoned unseen fury, scattering the soldiers and leaving his former abuser bloodied in the snow. Now both outcasts, they turned their backs on the Frostguard and set out to explore the wide world that had for so long been denied to them. With no other place in Freljord to go, they went to the League for protection.
Nunu and Willump are a support-fighter champion duo with a strong emphasis on buffing allies and debuffing foes, their wide variety of skills making them very versatile. Their passive, ''Visionary'', makes their next spell free to cast after a certain number of basic attacks. Their first ability, ''Consume'', makes Willump bite a nearby enemy minion, dealing large unblockable true damage and healing them. If he bites a jungle minion they will gain a buff for a long duration that varies with the minion: golems grant them ''Rough Rock Candy'' (bonus maximum health and size), reptiles grant them ''Ornery Monster Tails'' (their attacks and spell gain bonus damage equal to their maximum health), while wraiths and wolves gran them ''Spooky Mystery Meat'' (killing a unit grants them a small movement speed boost). Their second ability, ''Blood Boil'', heats both their and a nearby ally's blood, granting both of them increased movement and attack speed for a duration. With their third ability, ''Ice Blast'', Nunu throws a ball of ice at a nearby enemy, damaging them and slowing their movement and attack speed. Their ultimate ability, ''Absolute Zero'', makes them channel, sapping a large area around them of heat, which slows the movement and attack speed of all nearby foes. When the channel ends or the ability is reactivated, an icey explosion is created, dealing massive damage to all surrounding foes depending on how long they channeled.
Nunu's alternate skins include Sasquatch Nunu, Workshop Nunu, Grungy Nunu, Nunu Bot, Demolisher Nunu, and TPA Nunu.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AscendedMeme: Nunu Bot, named and based on a series of [=YouTube=] videos about how horrible the AI version of the champion can be.
* BigEater: That Yeti can eat minions riding self-propelled cannons, aswell as Dragons, Lizards, Golems and more.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Rides a Yeti by default and a Sasquatch in his Sasquatch Nunu skin.
* BlackMagicianGirl: Arguably, when Nunu was a girl. The yeti takes care of the physical work while she casted spells.
* BoringYetPractical: Playing Nunu as a support involves constantly casting Blood Boil on your carry and throwing a snowball at the enemy once in a while. Not very flashy, but the attack speed buff from the former and attack speed debuff from the latter will almost guarantee that any duels between the two carries will end in your side's favor.
* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his yeti.
* BrownEyes: But Nunu's not the most typical person ever, really, so, AvertedTrope.
* ChargedAttack: His ultimate is a three second channel, during which nearby enemies are slowed. If you manage to complete the entire channel without getting interrupted, you pretty much win the teamfight by default.
* CrutchCharacter: When played as a solo laner he can shut down most rivals with his ice blasts and heal back any damage taken with Consume, making it tough to beat him in lane. When played as a jungler he excels at counter-jungling by stealing important buffs and jungle creeps, shutting down many junglers. However, he doesn't have too much going for him late game due largely in part to his unreliable ultimate- it's easier to count the champions that ''cannot'' interrupt it.
* DifficultButAwesome: His ultimate is an absolute bitch to land, as almost all champions can interrupt casting, and some of those who cannot can escape it in time. When fully channeled, through clever use of brush, proper teamwork and timing it is the absolute most powerful thing in the game. Nunu's ult has one of the highest base damages of any ability ''ever,'' and the AP scaling (2.5 damage for one point of AP) is more than some champions have across their entire skill set.
* FanVid: Amazingly, a whole series starring the game's [[ArtificialStupidity Nunu Bot]] and player Angry Goran. Check the first one out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpQZ1zbigk&list=PLC6F712DC45CA9157&index=1 here]]. Also an AscendedMeme: Riot honoured the series with an actual Nunu Bot skin, featuring a robotic yeti that mimics the voice from the series.
* FlipFlopOfGod: For a good while, Riot couldn't seem to decide whether Nunu was the kid or the yeti, or whether he was a boy or a girl.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Devour instantly restores hit points, not unlike Cho'gath.
* JackOfAllStats: In terms of gameplay.
* NotTheIntendedUse: One of the most common uses for Nunu at the moment is as a 0 CS botlane support, leaning on his ability to buff the AD carry with Blood Boil and slowing the enemy carry with Ice Blast.
* {{Retcon}}: Nunu's lore has changed multiple times throughout the game's history, including flipping him from a boy to a girl and then ''back'' to a boy.
* SkillGateCharacter: Teaches you some basics of jungling like sustain (Consume) and counter ganking (Ice Blast). More experienced players will choose a jungler who excels better in ganking and sustaining power (for example, Xin Zhao) or know how to interrupt his ultimate in teamfights.
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[[folder:Olaf, the Berserker]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olaf_571.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/8b/Olaf_Select.ogg Leave nothing behind!]]]]
->''"When you meet your ancestors, tell them Olaf sent you."''
A warrior from the extreme Lokfar peninsula in Freljord, Olaf was always eager to seek glory in battle and share the tales of his exploits. One night, while he and his clansmen told tales around the fire, one of his elders grew weary of Olaf gloating and told him to read the omens to see if his future matched his boasts. Olaf, mocking the envious barbarian, threw a set of bones on the ground to tell his future. All joy left the scene as the bones foretold a long life and a quiet passing, the worst possible death for a warrior of Lokfar. Enraged, Olaf set off into the night to challenge the feared frost serpent, a giant beast that had consumed thousands over its ancient lifetime. Olaf hoped to die a glorious death in combat with the beast, but as he came closer and closer to death his ferocity only increased. When he came to his senses, he discovered the beast's carcass floating next to him. Olaf set out again to hunt every creature and warrior that stood a chance against him, but every time his frenzy in the jaws of death earned him the victory. He decided that his only choice was to challenge the most fearsome tribe in Freljord: the Winter's Claw, lead by Sejuani. He struck down scores of her troops before clashing with Sejuani herself in a battle that ultimately lead to a standstill. Sejuani's fearsome gaze cut through Olaf's rage just enough so she could make him a deal: fight for her in her campaign to control Freljord and she would give him a warrior's death. Olaf agreed and vowed that he would carve his legacy into Freljord itself.
Olaf is a fighter-tank champion who is built to recklessly charge into the fray without any sense of self-preservation, getting stronger the closer to death he is. His passive, ''Berserker Rage'', increases his attack speed for every percent of health he is missing. His first ability, ''Undertow'', throws one of his axes, damaging and slowing all enemies in a line. The axe then sticks at its landing location for a few seconds, during which Olaf can pick it up to greatly reduce the cooldown of the ability. His second ability, ''Vicious Strikes'', grants Olaf a temporary buff that increases his attack speed, makes all his basic attacks heal him for a percentage of the damage dealt and increases healing from all sources depending on his missing health. His third ability, ''Reckless Swing'', strikes a nearby opponent with a double-edged blow that deals true unblockable damage to the target and a percentage of that damage to Olaf. Attacking an opponent reduces the cooldown of the ability. His ultimate ability, ''Ragnarok'', passively increases Olaf's defenses, and can be activated to remove all disabling effects on Olaf, become immune to them and grant him a massive attack damage bonus for a brief duration, at the cost of losing the defensive bonus.
Olaf's alternate skins include Forsaken Olaf, Glacial Olaf, Brolaf, and Pentakill Olaf.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Everyone has options for it, but he's pretty much the biggest utilizer of it in the game. His Reckless Swing ability does true damage, which is so armor-piercing it deals full damage regardless of enemy defenses, unless they have something that makes them invincible.
* AscendedMeme: Brolaf, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVLWKsO6CQ now a skin!]] Includes a ShoutOut to Garen's favorite battle cry. '''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d5/Brolaf.ult1.ogg Bromacia]]'''!
* AttackAttackAttack: Due to his passive and buffing ability, the best tactic for surviving a fight with Olaf is to make sure he dies first or ignore him entirely. Going somewhere in between will probably allow him to slaughter you all at some point in the fight.
* AxeBeforeEntering: His axe-throw usually hits you way before he appears on-screen.
* AnAxeToGrind: [[DualWielding Two of them!]]
* BadassBeard: You're damn right it is.
* BarbarianLonghair: His hair is even longer than his impressive beard.
* TheBerserker: [[CaptainObvious It's his title, if you haven't noticed yet.]]
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: His axe when thrown, which being an axe probably makes more sense.
* BlessedWithSuck: He's damn good at fighting, but it frustrates him that he keeps slaying whatever he throws himself at so he has to wait for his glorious death in combat.
* BloodKnight: He's only truly alive when he's in the primal state of sheer, unadulterated violence.
* CastFromHitPoints: His Reckless Swing ability deals true damage to the target, and a portion of it back to Olaf. Considering his passive ability, this can be a ''good'' thing.
* CloseRangeCombatant: His Undertow throws an axe with some range, but make no mistake, that ability is there to slow enemies and keep them within maiming distance of Olaf as long as possible.
* DeathSeeker: Olaf's only desire is to die in battle, but he's so good at fighting that he just can't seem to find anything capable of killing him.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: In the middle of fighting Sejuani to an epic stalemate, she offered to let him join the Winter's Claw for his unmatched strength and he accepted.
* DifficultButAwesome: While otherwise fairly straightforward to play, Olaf's passive encourages you to flirt with death as long as possible in fights- turning and running when it would be sane to do so for most champions wastes a lot of its potential. Activating his ultimate as late as possible while combined with Vicious Strikes will make Olaf hit like a train [[{{Metaphorgotten}} that can't be encumbered from hitting more and gets healed from all of its hitting]]. Naturally, activating it too early or too late will be much less glorious.
* DropTheHammer: His Pentakill skin replaces his axes with maces that he uses as drumsticks.
* DualWielding: He holds two axes.
* EvilCounterpart: To Tryndamere, although the 'evilness' is based on the one Olaf supported (he supports the ruthless Sejuani, while Tryndamere supports the benevolent Ashe) rather than his own personality. They're both the right-hand men of their respective leaders in Freljord, and also BloodKnight manly close-combat warriors sporting CoolHelmet most dangerous when they're near death. Hilariously, while Tryndamere goes DarkerAndEdgier with his Demonblade Tryndamere skin, Olaf instead goes LighterAndSofter with his Brolaf skin.
* [[FoeTossingCharge Foe Carving Charge]]: He spotted Sejuani and her warband and decided he would fight her to finally get his warrior's death. Sejuani was amused, so she sent her warband after him to dispose of him - what happened next was Olaf ''effortlessly'' carving a path through anyone between him and Sejuani.
* {{Fratbro}}: The Brolaf skin turns him into an immature dude who likes hot babes and chugging beer.
* Music/HeavyMetal: His Pentakill skin reflects him as the drummer in the Pentakill band.
* HornyVikings: With the obligatory horned helmet.
* ICanStillFight: Normally, players are below half their maximum health would retreat to heal up. When Olaf's below half health, he's [[LetsGetDangerous just getting started]].
* ImplacableMan: His ultimate works well to making him this, making him immune to crowd-control effects. Even when it's not triggered, he gains a bonus to armor and resistance.
* TheJuggernaut: Slow as hell, but designed to plow right through your defenses and massacre everyone he comes across. His ultimate brings it up a few notches. Funnily enough, Olaf has one of the highest base movement speeds in the game, so he's not that slow. His lack of a true gap-closer, however, makes him more easily kited than those who have them, since he has to land his axes properly to keep chasing.
* MagikarpPower: At lower levels, the vast majority of ranged champions easily handle him on a one-vs-one basis, and his jungling is fairly risky since utilizing his potential to the fullest requires him to be constantly low on health and easily killed by an enemy champion plundering in on him. In a teamfight late-game with Olaf's build complete and his allies with him to stop the enemy from simply backing away, Olaf is a MightyGlacier with very few drawbacks of the "glacier" aspect being apparent.
* MightyGlacier: A melee-fighter whose damage tends to devastate whoever he hits, will do even ''more'' damage as he loses health and has an ability for life steal and spell vamp to keep him alive longer, especially deadly when combined with his potential to make himself temporarily immune to crowd-control effects and gain a massive attack damage boost for a short duration... he also has absolutely no innate mobility tools in his kit and completely relies on Undertow's slow to get to and from enemies.
* NotAfraidToDie: He believes that fear of death is for cowards and lesser men. Gameplay-wise it can be advantageous to adopt this attitude (up to a limit) to unexpectedly keep fighting and kill people who were expecting him to run away like would be sane for most champions.
* NoSell: If an enemy Olaf is chasing you down with Ragnarok active, don't bother trying to snare him or slow him down, just ''run''.
* OddFriendship: Is the drummer of the Pentakill band, with Mordekaiser, Sona, Karthus, and Yorick.
* OneManArmy: He could probably take on Sejuani's whole tribe if he didn't have to fight [[StoneWall her]].
* {{Plunder}}: His original motivation in his older lore (when he was an outsider to Valoran instead of a native).
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: A viking warrior of Lokfar.
* RatedMForManly: He is an enormous viking that dual-wields axes who just gets pissed off by your feeble attempts to kill him, [[ScreamingWarrior as you will hear]].
* SchmuckBait: A competent Olaf knows that players have a tendency to pursue anything with low health, letting him bait them into a fight before gutting them with his passive. Also, go ahead and try to steal jungle farm from the enemy Olaf, [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong he's at low health, what's the worst that could happen]]?
* ScreamingWarrior: When he activates his buffing abilities. This is a good sign to his enemies to watch out.
* SelfHarm: Reckless Swing is so reckless he hurts himself in the process. Given how Olaf works, in general, [[ViolationOfCommonSense this is not necessarily a bad thing.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Mildly; his Reckless Swing ability hits the target with a lightning bolt. His axes also gain a lightning aura-y effect when Vicious Strikes is up.
* SillinessSwitch: If one equips the Brolaf skin on him, he goes from vicious, rage-filled DeathSeeker viking to a loutish, immature boor that's basically a stereotypical fratboy wearing sandals, a beer-drinking helmet, and equips ''cardboard cutout'' axes from beer boxes.
* SpringtimeForHitler: The most desirable death for a Lokfar viking is to fall in glorious combat. The trouble is, Olaf can't seem to find his glorious death because he just keeps slaying whatever he throws himself at (man and beast alike), so he's frustrated how he's continually failing ''at failing''.
* TakingYouWithMe: Likely his best option is to turn around and try this if he's at low health and cornered without an escape. Because he gets stronger at lower health, he might even ''survive'' if it's only one opponent.
* TurnsRed: Right about at half HP he gets significantly more dangerous. As of 2013, even players that are unaware of this mechanic will know to run when he [[VisualPun ''literally'']] turns red in-game.
* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: The Unstoppable Force to Sejuani's Immovable Object - in case you're wondering what happens when the two clash, it's forceful enough to rock the entire glacier region they're in.
* UnstoppableRage: Get him to half health and watch him pop his ultimate. If he's not on your side, you best start running.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: The eastern character on the icon for Ragnarok means "power" in Chinese ("li") and Japanese ("chikara").
* ViolationOfCommonSense: If you see someone with less than half health running toward a full-health enemy looking for a fight, there are three possible explanations. 1) They are performing a HeroicSacrifice or acting as bait 2) They are not very good at this game 3) They are playing Olaf correctly.
* [[KungFuSonicBoom Weapon-clash Sonic Boom]]: His battle with Sejuani rocked the glaciers with its force.
* WhosLaughingNow: Most Olaf players will let you get them to at least half health before they chop you to pieces.
* YourMom: Twice from the Brolaf skin, the first as a joke and second as (lame) last words:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/60/Brolaf.joke1.ogg "I'm OP? Your ''mom'' is OP!"]]''
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d8/Brolaf.dying1.ogg (dying) "Your mom!"]]''
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[[folder:Orianna, the Lady of Clockwork]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[[AC:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f9/Orianna_Select.ogg We will kill your enemies. That will be fun.]]-] ]] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' HeatherPennington
->''"Dance with me, my pet. Dance with me into oblivion."''
Orianna Reveck was a young girl who loved dancing and the League of Legends. She trained to achieve her goal of one day becoming a champion in the League but died in a tragic accident. Her father, a brilliant scientist from Piltover, built a new Orianna -- a powerful android that could fulfill her dream of being a champion, along with a mechanical sphere to protect her from dying again. Orianna is not quite human but is desperate to fulfill the wishes of her father and predecessor.
Orianna is a mage-support champion based around commanding her floating companion, ''The Ball'', as a focus of her abilities which allows her to control key areas, support allies or harrass opponents. ''The Ball'' will authomatically blink back to Orianna if she strays too far away from it. Her passive, ''Clockwork Windup'', makes her basic attacks deal bonus magic damage that increases with each consecutive strike on the same enemy. Her first ability, ''Command: Attack'', makes ''The Ball'' fly to a target location, damaging all enemies in its path. Her second ability, ''Command: Dissonance'', emits an electric blast from ''The Ball'', damaging all nearby foes and leaving behind for a few seconds an energy field that slows enemies and boosts the movement speed of allies that enter it. Her third ability, ''Command: Protect'', passively increases the defensive stats of the allied champion ''The Ball'' is attached to, and can be activated to make ''The Ball'' dash towards an allied champion or herself, damaging all enemies in its path, and attach itself to them, granting them a damage-absorbing shield. Her ultimate ability, ''Command: Shockwave'', makes ''The Ball'' release a powerful shockwave that damages all nearby enemies and flings them into the air towards ''The Ball''.
Orianna's alternate skins include Gothic Orianna, Sewn Chaos Orianna, Bladecraft Orianna, and TPA Orianna.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: All of Orianna's joints swivel freely, allowing her to do such things as easily wind her own key while still keeping her eyes directly on someone. She thinks nothing of it, but others find it [[UncannyValley disturbing]].
* AttackDrone: The Ball is regularly launched at enemies.
* BondCreatures: The Ball protects Orianna and obeys her commands.
* CaptainErsatz:
** The mechanical distortion in her voice makes her sound like a character from ''Videogame/{{Portal}}''; either [=GLaDOS=] or the Turrets.
** The characteristic of her skills emanating from the Ball was supposedly inspired by [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Youmu Konpaku]].
** Her Bladecraft skin resembles R. Dorothy Wayneright from ''Anime/BigO''.
* ClockworkCreature: A dancing/fighting replacement-daughter.
* CompanionCube: Her ball, and to a lesser extent herself.
* CreepyDoll: Sewn Chaos Orianna.
* DamageDiscrimination: Command: Dissonance either speeds up allies that walk over the area of effect or slows down and damages enemies that do the same.
* DanceBattler: Not in a typical sense though. Orianna does the dancing while the Ball does the fighting.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Getting hit by the Ball once or twice isn't highly worrying early on but a competent Orianna will make sure that it happens over and over again, slowly but surely wearing down an opponent's health as she farms comfortably from a distance. If she gets seriously fed, though, [[MagikarpPower one or two slices suddenly becomes a problem for her squishier opponents]].
* DifficultButAwesome: In general considered one of the most difficult champions to play in that, while grasping her basics is easy enough, her ability to use skills from basically any point around her gives her a truly humongous amount of options. She's thus said to have an average skill floor (minimum skill needed to wield her effectively), but a sky-high skill ceiling (skill level needed to use her to her maximum potential).
** All of her abilities are centered on the ball, not Orianna herself. In order to be successful with her you need to micro around your ball to a good position for her skills while [[GlassCannon staying out of enemy range]]. Her Ball teleports back to her if she gets too far away. If you were just about to activate your ultimate, you now look like a [[{{Noob}} complete idiot]]. Similarly, using a teammate as a ball-carrier (ideally an initiator) to get a Command: Shockwave in the middle of the enemy team requires some coordination and good timing.
** Mastering when to use her abilities is crucial to success at her. Used in the right place, the slow/speedup can save yourself and teammates from a gank, and a combo of the slow and the character-moving ultimate can actually do enough damage to kill them. However, both have a smaller area of effect than you might think; miss one or put it in the wrong place, and you'll end up dead. Using the shield (which puts the Ball on an allied champion) can also change fights: you can shield a hurting ally, or you can put in on an initiator who can hop on the enemy, just to list two examples.
** Her basic attacks deal more damage the more she attacks the same opponent. So ideally you must focus fire on a single enemy to make the most of her auto attacks. This is easier said than done while keeping track of the ball and making the most of it to add to her damage output without her dying in the process. Challenging enough in solo lane duels, it becomes a whole lot worse in chaotic teamfights.
* EyelessFace: Her Sewn Chaos Orianna skin has X's sewn over the eyes.
* GradualGrinder: Orianna doesn't obliterate most of her target's health bar in a few seconds like many mages do later in the game, she deals takes chunks out of it over several ball movements (though her ultimate provides some fast burst).
* ImprobableWeaponUser: She wields a hovering ball of magic and technology.
* ImpliedDeathThreat:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3f/Oriana.taunt.ogg "I know what makes them tick. I know how to make the ticking STOP."]]''
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: The original Orianna, whom the champion was built to replace. Or rather, the Mad Scientist's Beautiful ReplacementGoldfish.
* MagikarpPower: Her autoattack passive is mostly ineffectual early game, but its bonus damage increases sixfold from levelling up (on top of the actual autoattack damage itself), and it ''also'' scales with the help Ability Power items. Her Command: Attack ability also evolves in potency over the course of the game from "Well that's annoying" damage to "Ow, my FACE!" damage.
* ObliviouslyEvil: She isn't particularly evil by champion standards but she seems to regard mutilating and killing others to be a fun game, failing to understand that death is a serious and permanent thing. Judging by her inability to understand why people scream in pain or run from her, she likely can't comprehend that living beings are different from machines in so many ways.
-->''Why do they keep breaking?''
* PickYourHumanHalf: She has the form of a girl but her thoughts are clearly inhuman; compare that to Blitzcrank, who is crudely shaped but has a far more relatable personality.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She, rather off-puttingly, insists that she ''is'' the original Orianna, and gives no indication that she realizes she isn't normal in the first place.
* RobotBuddy: The Ball.
* RobotGirl: Made of magic and clockwork, and the Uncanny Valley.
* SwissArmyWeapon: That is one useful ball.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, people find her empty imitation of life to be very unnerving. During her League Judgment, she casually performs blatantly inhuman actions, such as keeping her head locked on to the summoner speaking to her while her body contorts in physically impossible positions to wind her key. The observation noted that, while she is far more human looking than Blitzcrank (who's basically a big lumpy man-shaped robot), she looks far less ''alive.'' Her delighted squeal of glee on being accepted as a champion is described as "horrifying".
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This is part of the [[Characters/LeagueOfLegends character sheet]] for the game ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''. Check back often, as new champions are added regularly. This page contains all champions beginning with the letters '''M''' through '''O'''.
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[[folder:Malphite, Shard of the Monolith]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f9/Malphite_Select.ogg Rock solid.]]-] ]]
->''"Beware, minions of chaos! The Shard of the Monolith has come."''
Malphite is a sentient rock being from another dimension. In his homeworld, all beings are living silicone creatures who live in a utopian society linked by a benevolent hive mind called the Monolith. Malphite was summoned from his home dimension to help bring order to Runeterra, and though he missed his homeworld and couldn't understand Runeterra's beings obsession with individuality, he saw it as a respectable goal and accepted to help, thus joining the League of Legends against all those who bring chaos into the world.
Malphite is a tank-fighter champion who uses his innate tankyness to initiate fights, disabling enemies and weakening their offense. His passive, ''Granite Shield'', grants him a damage absorbing stone shield equal to a percentage of his maximum health whenever he stays out of combat for a few seconds. His first ability, ''Seismic Shard'', fires a rock projectile at a nearby enemy, damaging them and stealing some of their movement speed, slowing them and speeding up Malphite for a brief duration. His second ability, ''Brutal Strikes'', passively makes Malphite's basic attacks also deal damage to enemies around his attack target, and can be activated to grant him an armor and attack damage bonus for a brief duration. With his third ability, ''Ground Slam'', Malphite punches the ground, sending out a shockwave that damages and slows the attack speed of all nearby foes. His ultimate ability, ''Unstoppable Force'', makes Malphite charge to a nearby area, damaging and knocking all nearby enemies up into the air upon arrival.
Malphite's alternate skins include Shamrock Malphite, Coral Reef Malphite, Marble Malphite, Obsidian Malphite, and Glacial Malphite.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* BadassBaritone: Click his select quote again if you're not 100% sure. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that characters made of rocks/associated with rocks ''usually'' have ''very'' deep voices.
* BoringButPractical: A Malphite is usually picked solely because of his ultimate and has a fairly mundane skillset and laning phase otherwise. And yet, a single well-timed Unstoppable Force can win the game for his team or garner the advantage for them, it's ''that'' powerful.
* TheBigGuy: Fairly large and likely to be the toughest member of his team.
* DishingOutDirt: He's a living rock, what kind of attacks do you think he uses?
* DumbMuscle: His speech patterns are far from sophisticated. In his defense, he lived under a HiveMind and probably didn't have to think much about speaking.
* DynamicEntry: His Unstoppable Force sends foes flying!
* FoeTossingCharge: Click ultimate, click target area, watch them get knocked up, then helplessly being picked apart by your teammates.
* GreenEyes: Being a sentient rock goes along with the natural magic connotations of the trope.
* HiveMind: What he left behind in his home world.
* ImplacableMan: If Malphite wants to use Unstoppable Force on enemies, nothing short of killing him will stop him from reaching them.
* MightyGlacier: Big time. A good Malphite player is essentially immune to hit and run attacks thanks to his passive, and his ground slam attack gets more powerful the more armor you have. The debuff from his slam also reduces auto attack speed by up to half, which allows him to cripple physical damage champions. The "glacier" part is helped by Seismic Shard's short movement speed boost and of course his famous ultimate.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Due to his good scalings, building an AP "Mage-phite" is not at all impossible.
* OddFriendship: He´s found a friend in a similar situation as himself through Maokai, and apparently their talks together have at least calmed [[UnstoppableRage Maokai]] down a bit.
** BlueOniRedOni: Malaphite is the former, Maokai is the latter.
* OrderVersusChaos: Fights on the side of Order since his homeworld (the Monolith) was basically a perfect HiveMind of beings.
* ShockwaveStomp: Achieved by smashing the floor with his hand, leaving the Riot Games logo in the ground for a few seconds afterward.
* SiliconBasedLife: His entire species.
* TerseTalker: His movement quotes are all brief agreements (like Rammus) and his attack quotes are him just saying variants of "Smash!" or "Kill!". The single longest thing he says (apart from his joke) is "I'm moving as fast as I can!" and his taunt is a relatively brief "You will lose."
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[[folder:Malzahar, the Prophet of the Void]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d6/Malzahar_Select.ogg Oblivion awaits!]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' VicMignogna
->''"The land may melt, the sea may swell, the sky may fall... but they will come!"''
Once a Seer with a powerful gift of foresight, Malzahar's talent worked against him and the calls of the Void led him to the lost city of Icathia. There his visions were replaced with images of the creatures of the Void invading Valoran and overtaking it, images he now works to make reality.
Malzahar is a mage-assassin champion who locks down a single target while he throws powerful damage-over-time effects and crowd control into the mix. His passive, ''Summon Voidling'', summons a temporary ''Voidling'' with every fourth spell Malzahar casts, which is a small uncontrollable monster that attacks Malzahar's targets and grows stronger the longer it remains on the battlefield. His first ability, ''Call of the Void'', opens two parallel portals to the Void at a nearby area. After a brief delay power erupts from the portals, damaging and silencing all foes between them. His second ability, ''Null Zone'', creates a field of negative energy at a nearby area that damages all enemies inside for a percentage of their maximum health every second. His third ability, ''Malefic Visions'', infects a nearby target's mind with horrific visions, dealing damage over time. If the target is killed by this effect, Malzahar will regain mana and the effect will jump to a nearby foe, refreshing the duration. His ultimate ability, ''Nether Grasp'', immobilizes Malzahar as he channels, unleashing a beam of void energy upon a nearby enemy that damages and completely paralyzes them for the duration of the channel.
Malzahar's alternate skins include Shadow Prince Malzahar, Vizier Malzahar, Djinn Malzahar, and Overlord Malzahar.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ArchEnemy: Kassadin. Both were humans that gazed into the Void and gained immense power, though Malzahar went completely insane and is gleefully working toward Runeterra's doom while Kassadin retained his sanity and is trying to stop it. Interestingly, though, a good [[MageKiller Kassadin]] should wreck a [[SquishyWizard Malzahar]] most of the time if the two face off on the Fields of Justice.
* ArtificialStupidity: The AI on his (uncontrollable) Voidlings used to be notoriously bad until Riot took note and made some huge changes. They now hide in the brush with him, attack whoever he's using his ultimate on, and [[RuleOfFunny dance with him too]].
* DemonicInvaders: His voidlings seem to be this. And that's not even mentioning his ''masters''.
* EyeBeams: His ultimate.
* FanNickname: You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who knows his damage-over-time spell that infects another target when the first one dies as "Malefic Visions" instead of "Space AIDS" or "Void AIDS".
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Kog'maw is supposedly drawn to Malzahar and aids him in battle, but in-game he's a separate hero. Can be averted if a Kog'maw and Malzahar player are on the same team, but apart from that, Kog'maw has little to do with Malzahar in-game.
* GlassCannon: An in-your-face confrontation with any enemy means Malzahar is forced to quickly lock said target down or be crushed.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: If he locks eyes with you, he's going to fill you with mind-blasting visions. Stay away.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d8/Malzahar.taunt1.ogg "Come mortal.. Witness your demise!"]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Seeing the void is not exactly healthy for your sanity.
* GradualGrinder: He has ''one'' ability that does instant[[note]]the cast is instant, but the effect is delayed[[/note]] damage, the rest deal damage over time. Don't let this fool you though; he's capable of dealing out some serious hurt by combining the three others in a combo.
* GuardianEntity: It's unclear what Kog'Maw was going to do upon arrival, but he was the first to rush to the scene when Malzahar was fighting Kassadin outside the league.
* HumanoidAbomination: Has more or less become one.
* MadProphet: He's gone off the deep end. Looking at the void will do that to you.
* MindRape: His Malific Visions and most likely his ult as well.
* TheMinionMaster: Every four spellcasts of his winds up giving birth to a "Voidling", a small, only sort-of controllable pet with a limited lifespan. It starts out pretty ineffectual, but as its lifespan runs down, it gradually becomes much more dangerous, [[TurnsRed doubling in size, gaining half again their attack and armor values, and then gaining twice the attack speed]], in that order. Under ideal circumstances, he can have two at the same time.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Though not a common pick, playing Malzahar in the jungle is actually somewhat viable because of his fast clear-time, expendable Voidlings to meatshield for him, and his deadly combo when he ganks. There also exists AD Malzahar which crosses over into LethalJokeCharacter considering he has all AP ratios ''but'' his Voidlings gain 100% of his AD, which is quite worrying if 2 of them are attacking you while he has you pinned down with Nether Grasp.
* OccultBlueEyes: While he may not be demonicly possessed, he fits the rest of the trope to a T
* PathOfInspiration[=/=]ReligionOfEvil: He's the Prophet of the growing Cult of the Void whose cultists are known to have clashed with Kassadin's 'Preservers of Valoran'. Whether Malzahar's followers are just as mad as their prophet is uncertain.
* PowerEchoes: If ever so slightly.
* PowerFloats: This guy doesn't walk, he floats.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: His E ability, malefic visions, seems to work on this trope.
* PunctuationShaker: He was originally "Al'Zahar", presumably to keep with the other Void dwellers, but his name changed before release.
* TakingTheBullet: His passive is great for this: When fleeing, the minion will follow behind him like a loyal dog. This also means that skillshots will hit the expendable minion instead of himself - this has saved many a Malzahar from certain skillshot-induced death.
* TheRival: To Kassadin.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Whatever it was that Malzahar saw in his visions, we should be glad he isn't sharing in detail.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3b/Malzahar.attack4.ogg "Inevitable..."]]''
* StoneWall: His main claim to fame: with a Hextech Revolver/Will of the Ancients and careful management of Malefic Visions, he can very easily stay in lane indefinitely and respond to any attempts to throw him out with an exceptionally powerful combo that can very easily bring someone from full to dead in seconds.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Malzahar's combo depends heavily on his ultimate to suppress a target while his 3 damage-over-time spells (plus Ignite) melt it. The trouble is, if his opponents purchase Quick Silver Sash, they can escape from being locked down ''and'' cleanse all of his damaging spells instantly. The fact that it also gives a fair chunk of magic resist means that it's practically ''designed'' to render Malzahar useless. Granted, even if an entire team rushes the item (unlikely), it's not exactly in most champions' core build, meaning that they are now many thousands of gold behind.
** Taken to [[MemeticMutation Memetic Levels]] when you realize that one champion, Gangplank, has a built-in cleanse ability. All of the magic in the void can be washed away with a handful of ''oranges''.
* YouCannotFightFate: As his quote at the top of this character overview says: The sky may fall and the earth may turn into lava? Probably possible, however unlikely. The {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of the void arriving on Runeterra however? That '''will''' happen.
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[[folder:Maokai, the Twisted Treant]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d7/Maokai_Select.ogg I do your bidding... for now...]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/ScottMcNeil
->''"I will use this power until I am free of it."''
Once an oak on the Twisted Treeline battlefield, Maokai was animated by the chaotic magic in the land. He allowed himself to be summoned by the League in return for their researching a way to remove his sentience. In the meantime however, Maokai is more than happy for the opportunity to punish magekind for their insolence to nature.
Maokai is a tank-mage champion who unleashes the wrath of nature upon the battlefield, disabling foes and protecting allies from harm while dealing respectable damage himself. His passive, ''Sap Magic'', grants him a charge whenever an ability is used near Maokai, making his next basic attack heal him for a percentage of his maximum health when he gains enough charges. With his first ability, ''Arcane Smash'', Maokai punches the ground, sending out a shockwave that damages and slows enemies in a line in front of him. Enemies directly in front of Maokai are also slightly knocked back. His second ability, ''Twisted Advance'', transforms Maokai into a cloud of energy, bark and leaves as he dashes to a nearby enemy, damaging and briefly immobilizing them upon arrival. With his third ability, ''Sapling Toss'', Maokai hurls a ''Sapling'' at a nearby area, damaging all nearby foes. The ''Sapling'' then remains burrowed in the ground, revealing the surrounding area, until an enemy comes close to it, at which point it will uproot itself and chase them, exploding and damaging all nearby enemies after a brief delay. His ultimate ability, ''Vengeful Maelstrom'', summons a huge vortex of natural energy at a nearby area that can be mantained for as long as he has mana, reducing all damage allies take while inside it. When the ability is re-activated, the vortex will explode, damaging all foes inside depending on how much damage it absorbed.
Maokai's alternate skins include Charred Maokai, Totemic Maokai, Festive Maokai, and Haunted Maokai.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ActionBomb: Saplings will run to the nearest enemy and promptly blow up.
* TheBeastmaster: Summons saplings which explode toward nearby enemies, or can be used to just temporarily keep watch over an area for Maokai and his team.
* BerserkButton: Magic in general. Considering how most champions use it in some form and another and that a battle on the Fields of Justice is absolutely flooded with summoner magic, he spends the entirety of matches in a state of suppressed UnstoppableRage.
* BloodMagic: Implied in his Judgement that his saplings are birthed from those killed in his forests.
* BoringButPractical: Vengeful Maelstrom doesn't have very high burst without a significant amount of AP but the damage reduction a well-placed one provides can make or break teamfights. Its low cooldown means that a Maokai can have one up at almost every teamfight as well.
* ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation: "Maokai" is loosely translated to "victory of vegetation" in Chinese.
* CounterAttack: His Vengeful Maelstrom ability reduces non-turret damage taken for him and his allies when they stay within its circle. When the effect ends, the ability damages enemies within the circle. It does extra damage for every point of damage absorbed, up to a limit.
* CursedWithAwesome: He hates mages and everything they've done, including and especially bringing him to life.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: This is actually a poor way to try to kill a Maokai, if the "cuts" are continually-spammed low-power spells, since his passive will keep him alive if enough spells are cast near him. It's better to either burst him down with a few powerful spells or just auto-attack him to death.
* DeathSeeker: Though more looking for a way to [[IncrediblyLamePun return to his roots]], so to speak.
* DifficultButAwesome: His saplings add a lot of damage potential (100% scaling with his Ability Power) though poorly thrown ones will just blow up to minions during ganks. Part of mastering Maokai is ensuring that his saplings always hit their mark, even if it hides in a crowd of minions.
* EnergyAbsorbtion: How Vengeful Maelstrom works, absorbing damage that would have been dealt to his teammates then releasing back as payback damage.
* EnergyBeing: It's possible that being infused with so much magic permanently changed his physical composition, as Twisted Advance has him momentarily turning from a physical tree to a swirling vortex of energy. Most of the time, though, he's a sturdy tree.
* GaiasVengeance: His theme made concise. Summoners overusing magic and accidentally giving an inanimate tree sentience? Said tree leaves the forest to kill all of the champions for messing with nature.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Probably a symptom of all the magic contained within him. The "doom" part very much applies if you're in his way.
* GreenThumb: Can summon saplings, temporarily literally root an enemy in place, and his ultimate is stated to be "a great vortex of natural energy."
* ICannotSelfTerminate: It's implied that he's tried, considering his goal. That he's a living conduit of magic and spells keep him alive (see his passive) would be an awesome thing except it's precisely what angers him, he doesn't ''want'' to be kept alive.
--> ''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3a/Maokai.move9.ogg I would be rid of this burden, but it always returns!]]"''
* MadeOfExplodium: His saplings will follow nearby enemy units then explode when they reach them (or otherwise just blow up after a while).
* MundaneUtility: His saplings are quite useful for scouting ahead so that he doesn't have to face-check brush and can serve as sentries to make sure no one creeps up on him as he does his business. An old trick is to throw a sapling at a jungle camp, providing vision of it, then use Twisted Advance on a monster to move through the wall to escape/pursue in the jungle.
* OddFriendship: Being friends with Malphite seems to have calmed him down a bit. Both of them are the first of their kind to end up in Valoran.
* PlantPerson: Averted. Some players were disappointed that Maokai didn't turn out to be much like the cancelled Plant King champion when he was announced. That void got filled in by Zyra eventually.
* PleaseWakeUp: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9M5JQAPfPs Maokai's death animation seems to involve something like this]], where his sapling gets up and darts around checking on him seemingly confused until the sapling spins around and then dies too from the magic animating it expiring.
* {{Pun}}: His passive is named "Sap Magic", since it both draws in energy from nearby spells and, well, he's a tree.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: His first victims in his new life: the champions fighting on the Treeline at the time. He nearly took his fury out on the summoners and spectators as well, but fortunately Kayle was on the scene to cast her ultimate... [[GameplayAndStorySegregation on an entire crowd at once]]!
* SignificantAnagram: What Maokai himself might state -- I am Oak. This is, however, a coincidence, as Maokai is named after a Riot Games employee.
* SpamAttack: He works well either with or against champions that have these, as Sap Magic heals him for a percentage of his health for every 5 spells cast near him.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To the Plant King champion, who didn't make the final cut.
* StoneWall: He doesn't have the greatest damage output (unless he builds AP) but is incredibly bulky with his natural tankiness, damage-reducing AOE ult, and passive.
** MightyGlacier: It's possible to end up as this when using a tanky AP build, given his decent scaling on all his abilities.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: His saplings qualify for target-homing bombs.
* UnstoppableRage: He killed 6 champions ''by himself'' when he woke up and was going to attack the audience too. It's more subdued in his lines when he's played but it's clear he's still resentful.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Like Amumu, he's heavily dependent on the blue buff and not that great at fighting 1v1 duels in the jungle. Smart opponents will often take advantage of this and steal his buffs and/or try to kill him to disrupt his jungling heavily.
* WhenTreesAttack: He also takes hits like a tree, [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail while you're using a herring]].
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Especially when he never wanted to be "alive" in the first place.
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[[folder:Master Yi, the Wuju Bladesman]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/ef/MasterYi_Select.ogg My blade is yours.]]-] ]]
->''"The edge of the sharpest blade is no match for the calm of the peaceful mind."''
A mystic warrior and keeper of the ancient art of Wuju hailing from Ionia, his village helping exalt its traditions as well. When Noxus invaded the isle of Ionia, Yi went to met them on the fields of battle, but in his absence Noxus took the opportunity to test the latest invention of Singed on his village. Yi returned to a horrific ruin, and consumed in thoughts of vengeance, the swordsman trained to the point of obsession, but could not attain the mastery of Wuju he sought. A chance skirmish against the curious Wukong awoke Yi to his mistakes, and he took the monkey as his pupil, honouring his lost people by passing on their arts to a new generation. Master Yi will not speak of what was done to his village, but he joined the League to avenge his kin and eventually end the evils of Noxus.
Master Yi is an assassin-fighter champion who uses his tremendous movement and attack speed to dash through the battlefield slicing opponents up. His passive, ''Double Strike'', makes his every fourth consecutive attack strike twice, with reduced damage in the second hit. His first ability, ''Alpha Strike'', makes Master Yi leap at a nearby enemy target at blinding speed, slicing them as well as up to three nearby enemies and then reappearing next to his original target. Attacking an enemy reduces the cooldown of the ability. With his second ability, ''Meditate'', Master Yi channels for a brief duration, healing himself based on his missing health and greatly reducing any damage he takes while he meditates. His third ability, ''Wuju Style'', passively increases Masyer Yi's attack power, and can be activated to make all his basic attacks deal bonus true unblockable damage for a brief duration. His ultimate ability, ''Highlander'', passively reduces the cooldown of Master Yi's basic abilities whenever he kills or helps kill an enemy champion, and can be activated to grant him a large bonus to his movement and attack speed and make him immune to slowing effects for a duration that can be extended if he kills or helps kill an enemy champion.
Master Yi's alternate skins include Assassin Master Yi, Ionia Master Yi, Chosen Master Yi, Samurai Yi, and Headhunter Master Yi.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AlphaStrike: He has an ability named this, but it only fit this trope when his AP build still existed. It was his only reliable damage output (and it ''hurt'') though ending up among several enemies that didn't die from it was certain to lead to retaliation.
* ArtEvolution: He got an updated splash art but more impressively a ''long'' overdue in-game model update during his re-work. He now has some impressive casting, attacking, and running animations ([[FragileSpeedster the latter two of which one will see quite often]]).
* AscendedMeme: Yasuo makes a reference to his "[[RummageSaleReject sword-boots]]" when he taunts a nearby Yi.
* BadassNormal: Who needs silly things like magic when you've trained to run and strike ultra fast by force of will alone?
* BoringButPractical: Most Yi players will just run up and stab you to death. It works.
* CasualDangerDialogue[=/=]DissonantSerenity: He has several calm lines for his Meditate ability that he'll say as he's getting wailed on by multiple opponents. He may be regenerating health rapidly and has increased resilience for the duration, but still, he's meditating in the middle of a battlefield.
-->''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/0/0e/MasterYi.W02.ogg Shh, I'm meditating.]]"''
* CoolSword: Almost reaches BFS level.
* DespairEventHorizon: Had one when he returned to find 'the grotesque remains of his village'. He became singleminded, using ThePowerOfHate to become even deadlier on the field of battle. - It is ultimately a SubvertedTrope, however, seeing how Wukong was able to snap him out of it.
* {{Determinator}}: A big part of Wuju style (and his character) is balancing force of will with a disciplined mastery of self.
-->''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/55/MasterYi.move10.ogg A focused mind can pierce through stone!]]"''
* DoomedHometown: What happens when a village full of Wuju practitioners is humiliating the Noxian forces with their prowess of the blade? The Noxian High Command [[FlippingTheTable table flips]] and orders chemical attacks on it.
* DifficultButAwesome: Yi had an Ability Power-based build that reduces his DPS in exchange for a few gimmicky but effective ([[RuleOfFun and entertaining]]) tricks. His remake has effectively eliminated the AP build by consolidating the two styles with a more Attack Damage-focused kit.
* TheFaceless: He's never been seen in official artwork without his nifty helmet/visor, which completely covers everything from his eyes up.
* FanNickname: His sword (in the Chosen Yi skin) is referred to as "popsicle". He is also called "[[ItsEasySoItSucks Master Right Click]]," "[[SplinterCell Samurai Fisher]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ Dunkmaster Yi.]]"
* FlashStep: Alpha Strike is essentially this, consisting of Yi teleporting between up to four enemies.
* FragileSpeedster: Have fun catching him, especially when his ultimate is activated. Yi is (in)famous for his ability to annihilate unguarded towers with his sky-high attack speed and movement speed then get out of there before the enemy team can react.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c0/MasterYi.ultimate03.ogg "So fast."]]''
* GlassCannon: Par for course for assassins.
* GogglesDoNothing: "The Seven Lenses of Insight" actually allow him to see beyond the range of normal human vision, [[GameplayAndSTorySegregation not that it affects gameplay in any way]]. He [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it in a joke from his rework.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/7d/MasterYi.joke01.ogg "The goggles? Just for reading."]]''
* HealingFactor: Meditate allows Yi to rapidly regenerate health. Barring mana costs, he can feasibly regenerate 400-500 HP every 30 seconds toward the end, and that's ''without'' AP boosts. Especially ridiculous is ''with'' AP boosts. His meditate had an ability power ratio of 1.2 (in a game where 1 is reasonably high for a move) which makes him the only champion capable of healing himself reliably, often, and faster than many enemies can damage him.
** A rework makes this more effective depending on how much health he's missing, so that it's not very good as a top-off, (which made it too easily abused - Yi could be at half-health after every fight, but full for the next one 10 seconds later - over and over) but is still awesome when he's almost dead.
* HitAndRunTactics: Of all the champions that can very quickly destroy an unguarded tower then run when enemies come, Master Yi is quite possibly the best at it. Emphasis on run.
* IceCreamKoan[=/=]CaptainObvious: One of his jokes are this.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/41/MasterYi.joke03.ogg "The key to immortality? Not dying."]]''
* ICanStillFight: His reworked Meditate is best at keeping him alive at dire amounts of HP, letting him recharge mid-fight after taking a good beating. Woe betide the enemy that sees a low-health Yi under his tower and [[SchmuckBait dives him, expecting an easy kill]].
* ImplacableMan: Becomes this upon using his ultimate. With dramatic boosts to attack speed, movement speed, AND provides immunity to slows, literally nothing short of a full stun or death is going to stop him from hunting you down, and even then he'll quickly catch up again.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His sword is about as close to a katana as you can get without actually being one. Made more apparent in his [[http://clgaming.net/images/news/jarvan/MasterYi_Splash_4.jpg Samurai Yi skin.]]
* LaserBlade: His Chosen skin gives him a color-changing version, for [[StarWars obvious reasons]].
* LastOfHisKind: As the last master of the Wuju Style, he has sworn to keep it alive. To accomplish this, he took Wukong, the Monkey King as his pupil and made him promise that he would someday take on a student of his own to pass on their craft.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/8c/MasterYi.move05.ogg "In me, Wuju lives on."]]''
* LethalJokeCharacter: AP Yi used to be this. Building AP on an (ostensibly) AD Assassin sounded crazy, but his insane AP ratios let him Alpha Strike every few moments to deal 1000+ damage per enemy ''and'' his Meditate let him soak up enemy attention by healing thousands of HP back.
* MagikarpPower: Yi is quite fragile and has a rough start, but is one of the most dangerous champs in the game when fed. His ultimate coupled with his passive can quite literally allow him to one-shot almost anything, and he can and will keep refreshing his abilities as long as he keeps scoring kills. Towers don't fare much better.
* MindRape: In his backstory, this was the effect of a Noxian Chemical attack against his hometown - those who survived had their minds twisted beyond repair. When Yi returned from fighting, he, himself, had a DespairEventHorizon.
* NinjaRun: Once he exceeds a certain movement speed, usually through Ghost, Highlander, speedshrine, or some other method of drastically increasing one's speed, he'll start to run like this. Bonus points for holding two fingers in front of him, ninja style.
* NotTheIntendedUse: Designed to be a DPS melee carry, players sometimes chose to exploit his formerly high Ability Power scaling instead. Behold AP Yi, whose Alpha Strike could hit like a train and Meditate allowed him to tank damage in the thousands. This play style has largely been eliminated by his remake, which altered his scaling to better emphasize his intended role as an AD assassin/melee carry.
* TheObiWan: To Wukong. He hopes to keep the Wuju style alive by passing it on to a new generation, so he'll likely become this to several other students as well. Emphasized by his Chosen skin, which turns him into a Jedi.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/57/MasterYi.move15.ogg "A true master is an eternal student."]]''
* OldMaster: Very much so.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/7e/MasterYi.move12.ogg "I will show you the path"]]''
* ThePowerOfHate: Subverted; While his hate for the Noxians - who used chemical attacks against his village - made him deadlier than ever, it also prevented him from truly mastering the Wuju style. It took Wukong's playful attitude and mimicing of his moves to snap him out of it.. and when Yi finally did, Wukong didn't stand a chance - Yi caught him by the tail despite Wukong's monkeylike agility and with such speed that he himself didn't realise it at first.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e1/MasterYi.move03.ogg "Anger gives motivation without purpose"]]''
* PowerGlows: Wuju Style causes Yi's katana to glow yellow while the passive is in effect, and activating the ability causes said katana to glow blue during the four seconds it is active.
* {{Pun}}:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/9/9d/MasterYi.joke_old.ogg "Wuju pass me that potion?"]]''
* PunnyName: Master Yi = "mastery"
* {{Samurai}}: Samurai Yi
* SkillGateCharacter: He teaches other teams to avoid backdooring, as Master Yi is one of the best champions to do this with.
* TheSouthpaw: His post-rework animations feature mostly left-handed swings of his {{BFS}}, emphasizing his unique style of swordsmanship.
* TookALevelInBadass: Prior to his rework, AD Yi was regarded as a JokeCharacter for a number of reasons (especially in comparison to his unorthodox but effective AP build). Post-rework, his abilities were given enough love from Riot for him to be considered a potentially viable high mobility AD carry-assassin once more.
* {{Troll}}: The habit of Master Yi players to run around splitpushing, then kiting the opposing team with Highlander once they show up to kill him is possibly the reason Riot added an almost cheerful line to his ultimate, cheerfulness not being his best forte. Hearing this once you're chasing him around is rage inducing.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/1/19/MasterYi.ultimate02.ogg "Keep up!"]]''
* WeNeedADistraction: Very good at drawing the attention of the enemy team then leading them on a merry chase as his team focuses an objective uncontested.
* {{Yubitsume}}: In the artwork for Ionia Master Yi, the swordsman in question is [[http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/jwfom/why_does_ionia_master_yi_have_3_fingers/ clearly missing a finger]] on his left hand.
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[[folder:Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c0/MissFortune_Select.ogg Fortune doesn't favor fools!]]-] ]]
->''"More men have voluntarily surrendered to the care of Miss Fortune than any other bounty hunter."''
-->-- '''Grinnick Torip''', Bilgewater Bonds
A female bounty hunter and captain of her own ship from the town of Bilgewater. However, her success was spurred by her mother's untimely death at the hands of a red-eyed pirate. She joined the League to help her toward uniting Bilgewater and finding her mother's killer.
Miss Fortune is a marksman champion who uses her twin guns to deal a lot of multi-target damage and bully enemies with harassment. Her passive, ''Strut'', gives her an increasing movement speed boost as long as she doesn't take any damage, giving her great mobility when out of combat. Her first ability, ''Double Up'', fires a shot at a nearby target, damaging them, which then bounces to a second target in a cone behind the first, dealing increased damage. Her second ability, ''Impure Shots'', passively makes her attacks place stacks on their target that increase the damage her basic attacks deal against them, and can be activated to give her an attack speed bonus and make her basic attacks halve any healing effects on the target for a brief duration. With her third ability, ''Make it Rain'', Miss Fortune fires her guns into the air, peppering a nearby area with a rain of bullets that damage and slow all enemies inside. With her ultimate ability, ''Bullet Time'', Miss Fortune channels for brief duration as she furiously fires her guns, sending out a storm of bullets that heavily damages all opponents in a large cone-shaped area in front of her, each wave of bullets applying her ''Impure Shots'' passive. It also passively increases the number of ''Impure Shots'' stacks a target can have.
Miss Fortune's alternate skins include Cowgirl Miss Fortune, Waterloo Miss Fortune, Secret Agent Miss Fortune, Candy Cane Miss Fortune, Road Warrior Miss Fortune, and Mafia Miss Fortune.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ActionGirl: Captain of her own bounty hunter ship at an impressive age and has an impressive record for hunting pirates down.
* BountyHunter: Not just a pirate, a pirate ''hunter''.
* BulletHell: Her ultimate invokes this for several seconds: staying within the ultimate zone and and avoiding getting hit is pretty much impossible.
* CombatStilettos: Her passive is a movement-boosting ability called 'Strut'. It only kicks in if she hasn't been hit for a while. [[FridgeBrilliance It must be easier to move quickly in heels when you're not in pain.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: In a sense similar to Nasus (see below), Miss Fortune is more often associated with the image of a PirateGirl with FemmeFatale vibes (mostly a villain), and also have some 'dark job skins' (like Gangster Miss Fortune). The Crystal Scar promotional video even depict her to be on the side of Noxus (the villains). While far from being a 'goody-two-shoes', Miss Fortune is not that bad of a person, she's the closest Bilgewater had for 'police' (and seeing that pirates here are more commonly Type I like Gangplank...) and her vision for a united Bilgewater looked like to be more benevolent than her rival's vision.
* DifficultButAwesome: Double Up skill is one of the reasons why Miss Fortune is considered one of the best laners in the game with strong harass (bounces a magic bullet with extra damage off the bounce) but to maximize its use, one needs to match up Miss Fortune's positioning with the intended target, or else it'll bounce to something else. Positioning without attracting harass can be a task because Miss Fortune, as an ADC, is incredibly squishy without a quick escape method. Its easier use is for quick burst damage, as it restarts Miss Fortune's auto-attack delay, so the common strategy is to Auto Attack-Double Up-Auto Attack (although such cancel isn't exclusive to Miss Fortune).
* DoubleEntendre: Her /joke... "How do you like my guns... [[{{BFG}} Shock]] and [[GunsAkimbo Awe]]?"... and mostly everything else that comes from her mouth.
** The conversation between her and the unknown boy in her judgement is like, half this trope. You can't tell if they're talking about her guns or her gazangas.
* FemmeFatale: Emphasis on the Femme, with the tits /joke and the inexplicable hearts flowing out of her with her passive active in-game.
* FieryRedhead: Double-subverted. She's redheaded and passionate, but mostly uses the cool, seductive persona. Tell her to do her Ultimate, and she'll show complete fiery personality as she gives out a big laugh while shooting you.
* FragileSpeedster: To an extent, her passive increases her movement speed as long as she hasn't taken damage. With some careful positioning, [[DifficultButAwesome experienced players can make good use of it to dodge incoming spells and keep the speed boost up as long as possible]].
* GagBoobs: Let's be honest, her breasts are ''colossal.'' They were already prominent enough on release, but her [[http://media-copper.cursecdn.com/attachments/28/255/miss_fortune_originalskin.jpg reworked art]] made it almost ''embarassingly'' obvious.
* GlassCannon: She's about as fragile as any other marksman not named "Graves" but the "cannon" part fits her in that she's mostly an AD Caster, that is, a marksman that by late game relies somewhat less on her autoattacks and more on [[BulletHell her Bullet Time ultimate to melt everything in her path]].
* GunsAkimbo: 'Shock' and 'Awe' are two massive pistols with barrels thicker than her arms.
* TheGunslinger: References an element of The Woo with the ultimate named Bullet Time and has a Trick Shot example in Double Up, but otherwise, Miss Fortune is of the Vaporizer class of TheGunslinger and her abilities mostly involves firing ''a lot''.
* HandCannon: Of epic proportions.[[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100902195628/leagueoflegends/images/9/91/Miss_Fortune_OriginalSkin.jpg Seriously, they look more like blunderbusses.]] Get a new flavor with every costume! And they still shot out cannon shells!
* HunterOfHerOwnKind: She has a (cosmetic) passive with the description "Yarrrr, I'm a pirate... hunter!"
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Her 'Double Up' skill banks a bullet off one enemy to hit another one behind it.
* TheMafia: Mafia Miss Fortune, complete with Thompson machine guns replacing her blunderbusses.
* MoreDakka: Hit Double Up to damage your enemy again quickly after autoattacking for more dakka, Impure Shots to autoattack faster for even more dakka, shoot Make It Rain to rain hundreds of bullets from the sky onto a location for ''even more'' dakka, and if that's ''still'' not nuff' dakka[[note]]''Of course'' it isn't![[/note]], start up Bullet Time to shoot waves of bullets.
* MsFanservice: Could almost be her name. Absolutely everything about the character and the way she's been promoted by Riot screams "SEX APPEAL!"
* NamesTheSame: [[VideoGame/SkullGirls I thought Ms Fortune was a catgirl in a newer fighting game.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Her biography states that she managed to flirt and shoot her way through Bilgewater, only obtaining her ship at the age of sixteen. Presumedly, she didn't have much less potential for {{Fanservice}} at that age. While the time after she got her ship and joined the League is unknown, some of the fanbase assumes she's still not 'legal'.
* PirateGirl: [[InNameOnly Only in clothing style, however]]. According to the lore, she has a strong distrust of other pirates (mainly because a pirate killed her mother) and a passive buff states that she's a pirate hunter, which leads to.
* PunnyName: "Misfortune".
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Lets out a truly epic gale of laughter while firing her ultimate.
* SexySantaDress: Candy Cane Miss Fortune
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Walks around with a pirate-styled topless bra that reveals curvacious body, massive boobs, and her midriff.
* WildWest: Cowgirl Miss Fortune, sporting giant revolvers.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Mafia Miss Fortune.
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[[folder:Mordekaiser, the Master of Metal]]
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[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c9/Mordekaiser_Select.ogg I shall bring great suffering!]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' AdamHarrington
->''"Fear is confusion, pain is clarity."''
An unspeakably ancient member of the undead predating even the knowledge of the Shadow Isles, Mordekaiser is a being of pure agony and suffering with a supreme mastery of using pain as a weapon. He prowls the land on an unspeakable quest, leaving nothing but death and destruction in his wake. When met with any resistance, Mordekaiser even goes so far as to rip the souls of his victim from their bodies to fulfill his purpose. Not even death itself is protection from the iron reach of pain's paladin. Now he finds himself joining the rest of the Shadow Isles' champions in the League to collect the souls of the most worthy to serve them and ultimately dominate the Shadow Isles.
Mordekaiser is a fighter-mage champion who offsets his lack of mobility and crowd control with powerful damage and great defensive capabilites that increase with his offensive power. All his abilities cost health instead of mana to cast. His passive, ''Iron Man'', converts a percentage of the damage dealt by his abilities into a shield that absorbs damage but depletes itself over time. His first ability, ''Mace of Spades'', transforms his next attack into a powerful mace swing that deals bonus magic damage and resonates to foes near his attack target, damaging them. If the attack hits an isolated foe, it will deal bonus damage. His second ability, ''Creeping Death'', surrounds himself or a nearby ally with a temporary cloud of shrapnel that increases their defensive stats and constantly damages nearby enemies. His third ability, ''Siphon of Destruction'', damages all opponents in a cone in front of Mordekaiser. His ultimate ability, ''Children of the Grave'', curses a nearby enemy champion for a long duration, dealing damage over time for a percentage of their maximum health and healing Mordekaiser for the same amount. If the target dies by its effect their ghost is enslaved by Mordekaiser, allowing him to control it to attack its former allies for a brief duration.
Mordekaiser's alternate skins include Dragon Knight Mordekaiser, Infernal Mordekaiser, Pentakill Mordekaiser, and Lord Mordekaiser.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AchillesHeel: Morde is one of the few champions in the game with no forms of crowd control or mobility mechanics whatsoever. This means that he is relatively easy to catch and escape from when things are going poorly for him.
* AttackAttackAttack: No ability to disengage, no slows or roots, one defense-buff that still deals damage, and a passive that encourages near constant use of his abilities in combat.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Literally "Death/Murder Emperor" in German.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/6e/Mordekaiser.move7.ogg "You only need to click once, fool."]]''
* CaptainErsatz: Of Sauron from the beginning of the ''Film/LordOfTheRings''. Apparent from the huge mace and spiky armor his Q move involves striking multiple people with a single blow, and his death animation is similar: his armor starts to collapse and then he explodes.
** Thanks to his voice, he also resembles [[TransformersPrime Megatron]].
* CarryABigStick: That mace is the size of Akali.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/42/Mordekaiser.joke.ogg "I like my weapons how I like my music. Heavy, and Metal!"]]''
* CastFromHP: As noted in his description, all of his spells except his ultimate use HP as a resource. Can be partially cancelled out by investing in a [[LifeDrain Spell Vamp]] item or two.
* DarkMessiah: Somewhat for the Shadow Isles, but Hecarim might fit this trope better.
* DeflectorShields
* EmotionEater: It's said he lives off of pain and suffering.
* EvilSorcerer
* ExactWords: A sorcerer defiantly told Mordekaiser that he'd die before giving up his secrets. Thanks to Morde's ability to tear out the souls of the people he kills and enslave them to his will, this turned out to be quite literally true.
* ExtraOreDinary: Everything this guy has revolves around metal.. or souls. But mostly metal.
* TheFaceless: He even keeps his helmet on despite leaving his chest bare for rocking out.
* FilkSong:
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YreQiDWySQ This parody of Britney Spears' Womanizer]].
** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0deA1JUUZFQ 6v4]]
* FlechetteStorm: One of his abilities consist on giving an allied target a shield. Said shield is a swirling vortex of metallic fragments that hurt enemies standing too close.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* Music/HeavyMetal - Themed around this, as evident from the names of his spells. His Pentakill skin reflects him as the lead guitarist of Pentakill, a band with Olaf, Karthus, Sona, and Yorick. The skin even replaces his mace with a guitar!
* HumanoidAbomination: Impossibly old, feeds off of pain and suffering, and is heavily implied to have lost his actual flesh-and-blood form a long time ago... he's pretty much just human in appearance only.
* TheJuggernaut: A fed Mordekaiser is still pretty slow and has to get close to deal damage, but good luck stopping him once he's on his way.
* MightyGlacier: Slow, lumbering, and only has regular movement to get in and out of the fray - but the havoc he wreaks once there is astounding.
* OddFriendship: He's in a band with Sona, Yorick, Karthus, and Olaf.
* PetTheDog: According to WordOfGod he's very protective of Sona as the most delicate member of Pentakill (three of them aren't technically alive and the fourth is a ruthless barbarian warrior).
* PlagueMaster: Although none of his actual abilities reflect it (except maybe his ultimate), Mordekaiser is repeatedly mentioned in the backstory to be drawn to sources of plague and death. In fact, in case you're wondering how he got into music in the first place...
-->'''JP:''' Mordekaiser, you're an enigma both in and out of the arena. What draws you away from the Field of Justice to pursue this surprising side-project?\\
'''M:''' My fans. I am drawn to their disease.\\
'''JP:''' You mean their feverish love of this Techma-Tune music?\\
'''M:''' [[ThePigPen No.]]
* ThePowerOfRock: Every. Single. One. Of his abilities is named the same as a heavy-metal song.
** His joke.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/42/Mordekaiser.joke.ogg "I like my weapons how I like my music. Heavy, and METAL."]]''
* RedEyesTakeWarning: And heed that warning.
* RockMeAsmodeus: See above. He started a band with four other champions. [[{{Pun}} He plays the Axe]].
* ShirtlessScene: His Pentakill lacks a shirt and shows an actual torso. [[TheFaceless He still has the helmet on]].
* SpikesOfVillainy: As quoted from his preview:
-->''If you have ever felt that your champion's aesthetic could be vastly improved by the addition of plate armor covered in metal spikes, [Mordekaiser] should definitely scratch that itch.''
* TinTyrant: Fully covered in armor, complete with the aforementioned SpikesOfVillainy.
%%* WickedCultured
* YourSoulIsMine: If you die during his ultimate, your ghost will happily obey Mordekaiser's every command. Examples have arisen where the ghost of an AD carry was put under mordekaisers control, and promptly turned to fire on his/her former teammates, killing them all.
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[[folder:Morgana, Fallen Angel]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Morgana_Square_0_3031.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/5d/Morgana_Select.ogg We'll bring them pain.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' RebeccaSchweitzer
->''"There is no rest while Kayle's brand of tyranny still exists."''
There is a world far away where an ancient conflict still rages, and a war split families. Morgana was Kayle's younger sister, though they severed any filial connection between them long ago. Kayle and her "angels" fought for order, not seeing the "bigger picture." Morgana fought against what she saw as their tyranny, and so was branded fallen. One day as they were locked in what might have been their final conflict, they were summoned to Valoran. Morgana now fights with the final goal of ending her sister, once and for all.
Morgana is a mage-support champion who exchanges lower burst damage potential for high utility and self-healing capabilites. Her passive, ''Soul Siphon'', makes all of her abilities heal her for a percentage of the damage dealt. Her first ability, ''Dark Binding'', sends out a projectile of black magic that damages and briefly immobilizes the first enemy hit in a line. Her second ability, ''Tormented Soil'', curses the ground at a nearby area, continuously damaging all enemies inside it, the damage increasing the lower their health is. Her third ability, ''Black Shield'', surrounds a nearby allied champion with a shield that blocks magic damage and makes them immune to crowd control effects while it lasts. Her ultimate ability, ''Soul Shackles'', sends out bonds of energy to all nearby enemies, damaging, slowing and linking them to Morgana for a duration. If the link hasn't been broken when the duration ends, they will be dealt damage again and be stunned for a brief duration.
Morgana's alternate skins include Exiled Morgana, Sinful Succulence Morgana, Blade Mistress Morgana, Blackthorn Morgana, and Ghost Bride Morgana.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Chinese Morgana Is Scarier. Compare her [[http://gamersyndrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/morgana-splash.png old art]] to [[http://a.imageshack.us/img180/3821/fallenangelsplash0.jpg THIS.]]
%%* BlackMagicianGirl
* CainAndAbel: With Kayle.
%%* DarkChick
* DarkIsNotEvil: Possibly. She certainly thinks so, at the least.
* DifficultButAwesome: Dark Binding is notorious for being ''the'' single slowest single-target skillshot in the game. Since her kit depends on landing it to keep her target still for an entire 3 seconds (no competent enemy will stay in range of your Tormented Soil or Soul Shackles unless you force them to), this single skill is often the distinction between good and bad Morgana players.
* TheFairFolk: Her Blackthorn skin.
* FallenAngel: [[CaptainObvious No shit.]]
* GlacierWaif: Looks tiny and frail, can take a massive beating and still fare quite well. Between her ability to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent drain life]] with any of her spells, a long ranged area effect spell that kills lane minions from a distance, her immunity to disables when Black Shield is up and her two separate disables, she is almost impossible to gank or force out of her lane. To compensate, she is one of the slowest characters and has very limited offensive reach.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The purple kind - probably as a result of her type of magic - seeing how Kayle lacks any sort of glow in hers.
* GradualGrinder: Her only spell that's purely instant damage is her Dark Binding. If she can land it, though, her Tormented Soil and Soul Shackles are free to lay on the damage for several seconds.
* HypercompetentSidekick: A possibility in the gameplay sense. Though rarely seen, Morgana can perform very well supporting the ADC in bottom lane. Black Shield goes a long way to gankproofing her partner, she's infinitely less squishy than most supports, Dark Binding can pin an out-of-position enemy for a couple of seconds at a time (an eternity during the bottom laning phase) without even needing your jungler, and the carry can go back to heal and buy as much as they want when she can comfortably hold 2v1 while they're gone.
* [[ImplacableMan Implaceable Woman]]: Morg is [=LoL=]'s most infamous immoveable object; unless you counterpick her (which is not easy considering how she's strictly a counterpick in the first place), you will '''not''' be able to dislodge her from the lane no matter how hard you try. Go ahead, do whatever you think will work - it's just not gonna happen.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: There's implications that she's done this in her background -- she started off helping the Chaos side of OrderVersusChaos with the reasonable justification that their enemies wanted to such order and safety at the cost of freedom and the individual...but by the time she was deemed as "fallen", she was said to be "not innocent", having used forgotten and forbidden ways to obsessively become more powerful to defeat her sister. However, it's not stated what horribleness she's done for her magic if any, and her goal of defeating Kayle to win the war for the chaotic side still remains.
* LethalChef: Probably, if her Sinful Succulence skin is anything to go by.
* LifeDrain: Notable for having innate Spell Vamp, which goes a long way in surviving in lane.
* MightyGlacier: Compared to other mages, Morgana lacks mobility (low movement speed and no positioning abilities) but is much more resilient. It's also worth noting that she's distinct from GlassCannon nuker mages that have near-instant burst then remain vulnerable until the cannon reloads, she deals more consistent damage over a short period of time, but it 'really' hurts if she can get her hands on you for that long.
* NonIndicativeName: Her Black Shield ability is... blue on the target. Presumedly, it's named as in "Black Magic Shield" and trying to avoid being long-winded.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: As well as the general background differences noted in Kayle's entry, Morgana shows that when they [[FallenAngel "fall"]], they fall ''hard'' -- apart from what her dark magic has done to [[PointyEars her ears]], her skin has turned a pasty grayish colour and her wings have either been severely burned or have rotted while still attached to her, preventing her from flying. Despite this, she's still hot somehow.
* PointyEars: A result from her strong use of magic.
* PurpleEyes: Is pretty mysterious and powerful with her FallenAngel vibe and dark magics.
* PurpleIsPowerful: It's all over her and her spells.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: See Kayle's entry; although Morgana is explicitly younger than her, she's still undoubtably many thousands of years old.
%%* RivalTurnedEvil
* SquishyWizard: Averted. Morgana is actually one of the bulkiest mages in the game and can substitute quite well for a tank.
* StoneWall: Morgana used to be banned left and right not because of her offensive ability (she '''can''' lay down a ton of pain, but it's very situational and will not happen very often at all), but because unless counterpicked, she is absolutely impossible to force out of lane, as she can heal herself with her passive and farm easily with her Cursed Ground, without the need to endanger herself. You can try and budge her, but she'll just shrug it off and go back to farming like nothing happened. Even ganking her usually fails because she'll just shield herself against crowd control effect, toss down her ult and blast you with her combo, which really, really hurts to the point where you might actually die.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit is more or less a long skirt and a bra. The way she takes hits, you'd think that's a Kevlar Wonderbra she's got on. After her latest art update, her bra is clearly metal, for what it worth. And if her skirt was riding an inch lower, the game's ESRB rating would have to go up.
* SupremeChef: Unlike what her appropriate skin [[LethalChef suggests]], the Journal of Justice claims her baking is excellent and she vaguely alludes to enjoying it (while swearing about her sister in the same breath, natch).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Compared to Kayle, she's a more girly girl -- Morgana exclusively uses spells and wears, y'know, [[{{Stripperiffic}} that outfit]].
* VillainsOutShopping: When she's not inflicting pain on her opponents in the Fields of Justice, Morgana runs a chain of bakeries called 'Sinful Succulence'.
* WomanInWhite: Ghost Bride Morgana, which is explicitly based on the various La Llorona legends.
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[[folder:Nami, the Tidecaller]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/NamiSquare_5012.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/77/Nami_Select.ogg I decide what the tide will bring.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/CassandraLee
->''"I am the tide, and I cannot be turned."''
A member of a race of mermaid people called the Marai, Nami refused to sit and wait for their prophesied savior, the Tidecaller, and instead set out to become the Tidecaller herself. Retrieving an Abyssal Pearl from the Great Deep after six days of intense battles, she ventured forth to the surface to fulfill the covenant with the landwalker who bears the sacred Moonstone her people needed to survive. When the bearer of the Moonstone did not show up, Nami journeyed onto the land to seek them out instead. Her search eventually brought her to the Institute of War.
Nami is a support-mage champion adept at boosting her teammates and disabling her enemies with flowing waters. Her passive, ''Surging Tides'', gives a brief movement speed bonus to any allies hit by one of her abilities (even if that ability can only affect enemies). Her first ability, ''Aqua Prison'', fires a bubble into the air at a nearby area, damaging and stunning all nearby enemies when it lands. Her second ability, ''Ebb and Flow'', unleashes a stream of water that bounces between allies and enemies, healing and damaging them respectively. Her third ability, ''Tidecaller's Blessing'', enhances a nearby allied champion's next three basic attacks with water, making them deal bonus damage and slow their target. Her ultimate ability, ''Tidal Wave'', summons a powerful wave of water that surges forward in a line with extreme range, damaging, knocking up and slowing any enemies it contacts with, the slow growing in strenght based on how far the wave has traveled.
Nami's alternate skins include Koi Nami and River Spirit Nami.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AbsoluteCleavage: With her ''scales''.
* BilingualBonus: 'Nami' means 'Wave' in Japanese.
* [[ChainLightning Chain Water]]: Ebb and Flow bounces between an enemy, ally, then enemy or ally, enemy, then ally depending on who she targets.
* CombatMedic[=/=]TheMedic: Ebb and Flow simultaneously damages and heals. With a bit of extra AP her supporting and damaging powers are even more powerful.
** ShootTheMedicFirst: Occupational hazard for sustain supports, unfortunately.
* CoolCrown: You know it is.
* DamageDiscrimination: One of her abilities is essentially a [[ChainLightning Chain Water]], but it discriminates between allies and enemies, healing and harming them respectively.
** Also comes into effect with her passive: Hit an enemy with an ability, and they take damage. Hit an ally with that same ability, and they get a speed-boost and none of the negative effects.
* [[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin Friendly, Playful Mermaid]]: For all her regality and quotes about her people depending on her and her quest, she's not above joking around, moonlighting, and having pool parties.
* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Her ultimate, It has a long range, and the further away you are from it's starting point, the more you get slowed after the wave has knocked you up for a little while.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Downplayed, but she still thinks of how strange things like feet and the need to breathe air are. A particularly funny one is her comment "Urgh... Whale breath..." possibly a complaint of her terrestrial lady teammates. ([[labelnote:Don't get it?]]Perfume. Ambergris, historically a component in many expensive perfumes, is produced in the digestive tract of sperm whiles. Anyone wearing a scent smells like whale puke to her.[[/labelnote]])
* JackOfAllStats: She can heal, but it is difficult to make use of compared to Sona or Soraka. She can crowd control, but not as well Alistar, Blitzcrank, and it's harder to land. She can slow, but not as well as Janna. This trait makes her highly valued in competitive play because top-tier players know how to use each of her JackofAllStats traits to their fullest.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Subverted, she didn't actually ''receive'' a call, but jumped anyway for the good of her people. It's kinda a case where [[TheUnchosenOne she took the call 'cause no one else was picking it up.]]
* MakingASplash: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Of course she uses water-based powers!]]
* MagicStaff: Looks like a cross between a traditional wizard's staff and a halberd made out of blue crystals.
* NonMammalMammaries: There was some rather heated discussion in the lead-up to Nami's release about her prominent boobs, despite her overall design being more fish-like than the average mermaid. Her green scales actually [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdmoq8HDGa1rbb6jao1_1280.jpg cover her entire body, but split above her waist to show off her breasts]] [[AbsoluteCleavage like an open coat.]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Mostly toward the non-human edge of the scale.
* SirensAreMermaids: River Spirit Nami, modeled on the Brazilian ''Iara'', lures men under the water in her lore and will sing while doing her recall animation.
* SquishyWizard: Like Janna or Zyra she has strong peeling abilities but if she's still being chased after those are used, she's dead.
* TheUnchosenOne: Nami's doing it because the actual Chosen One never appeared.
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[[folder:Nasus, the Curator of the Sands]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nasussquare_6124.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f5/Nasus_Select.ogg The cycle of life and death continues. We will live, they will die.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Eugene [=McDaniels=] (2009-2013), Jonathan Adams (2013-onward)
->''"The Keeper of the Sands, though contemplative, is not to be trifled with."''
Nasus is a librarian from another dimension where mankind is protected by a race of animal-headed men in the vein of the Egyptian pantheon. Nasus was also a soldier bent on fighting his totalitarian, crocodile-headed brother Renekton, but was summoned to Runeterra before he could finish him off. He agreed to help protect Runeterra from the forces that were poised to tear it apart, seeing them as no less threatening to innocent lives as the war he left behind.
Nasus is a fighter-tank champion with the potential to deal truly devastating single-target damage while also being able to take a lot of punishment if allowed to farm enough. His passive, ''Soul Eater'', makes his basic attacks restore health for a percentage of the damage done. His first ability, ''Siphoning Strike'', makes Nasus next basic attack deal bonus damage. If the attack kills its target, said bonus damage will permanently grow stronger, without any sort of cap. This allows Nasus to deal enormous damage without the need to build damage items if he farms enough. His second ability, ''Wither'', ages a nearby opponent, slowing their movement and attack speed for a brief duration. These slowing effects grow stronger over the duration, reaching massive numbers close to the end of the effect. His third ability, ''Spirit Fire'', unleashes a circle of blue flames at a nearby area that continously damage and reduce the armor of enemies within. His ultimate ability, ''Fury of the Sands'', transforms Nasus into a towering avatar of death, granting him bonus health and summoning a raging sandstorm that continuously damages all surrounding foes and transforms a percentage of the damage dealt into bonus attack power for Nasus.
Nasus's alternate skins include Galactic Nasus, Pharaoh Nasus, Dreadknight Nasus, Riot K-9 Nasus, and Infernal Nasus.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* TheAgeless: Several of his lines hint towards his immortality.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e7/Nasus.move08.ogg "Eons... Pass like days..."]]''
* {{Archnemesis}}: To Renekton.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Nasus dominates late game if he can get enough farm. If the enemy is aware of this, they will never let you farm up that much and you will be a liability to your team. This is easily remedied, however, by simply farming under your turret, and eventually, you can keep farming by simply one shotting minions without even worrying about how low on health they are, making it AwesomeYetPractical.
** DifficultButAwesome: The downside to this strategy is that, while Nasus' lane will be safe from ganks since he'll be happily farming under his turret, that Nasus won't be able to roam as soon or as well, his gaking jungler is more likely to get a kill than him which will stifle his golds incom, and any early teamfight scenarios, like invading the enemy jungle, will be impossible. This is DifficultButAwesome for your team, not so much for the Nasus player himself, and Nasus is still considered one of the best top laners.
* ArtEvolution: Yet another example of an original champion who very much needed a visual upgrade then got one in Season 3.
* BadassBaritone: Has the deepest voice of all League of Legends champions, even after his visual rework.
* BadassBookworm: Well, he is a librarian. Doesn´t mean he won´t beat your ass 5 ways to Sunday with that staff of his.
* BadassBoast: Like 90% of his lines.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/31/Nasus.attack04.ogg "Life is part of a cycle; yours is over."]]''\\
''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/8a/Nasus.attack01.ogg "Anthropomancy. Divination by entrails."]]''\\
''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3e/Nasus.taunt02.ogg "There is such potential in one mortal life. You have wasted yours."]]''
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Come on, Nasus can not only drain life, he can cause his target to age much faster! His passive is called "Soul Eater", his Spirit Fire is described to "desecrate the earth" and his ultimate, "Fury of the Sands" used to be called "Avatar of Death". Despite all this, he comes off as somewhat of a GentleGiant.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As mentioned before, he's one of the nicer champions. [[OhCrap But let him feed and free farm...]]
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Brother Instinct]]: (Keep in mind, it's never specified who's the older brother) It's heavily implied in Renekton's lore that Nasus did care for him as he tried to reason with him when he went nuts. Averted in that Renekton is now considered beyond redemption and Nasus is determined to strike him down.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f4/Nasus.Renektontaunt02.ogg "Renekton was lost long ago. You are but his pale shadow."]]''
** Averted with his Infernal Nasus skin, which has it's own unique taunts for Renekton, but instead of it being about striking him down for it's own good, it's more about a show of strength.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/48/InfernalNasus.Renektonkill01.ogg "The 'butcher.' Carved to pieces."]]''
* BoringButPractical: Jungle Nasus is not fast nor a particularly good duelist, but clears the jungle safely, has good ganks and is good at keeping enemy junglers at bay. He is also flexible and can adapt his item build depending on team composition and gold income.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Renekton's Cain.
** However when they're on a team together they become absolute terrors. A fed Nasus (jungling) and Renekton (top lane) can very easily, utterly steamroll an enemy team into submission at level 18.
* CastingAShadow
* ComicallySerious: With one of his visual upgrade jokes. Justified in that if ''you'' had the head of a dog and were treated by people as such, you'd be pretty annoyed too.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d5/Nasus.joke02.ogg "No. I will not fetch the ball."]]''
** It's also a CallBack to the Season One Trailer Blooper, whereas the trailer ended with Ryze throwing his ball and Nasus suddenly acts like a dog and tried to fetch the ball, ruining the whole trailer.
* CulturedBadass: Was the lorekeeper of his previous world, who would teach mortals that were pure of heart. He now cares for the League's archives.
* DarkerAndEdgier: His visual rework can be described as this, as he started off looking less intimidating and his voice was more serene (but stern) compared to the guttural voice he has now. Infernal Nasus is darker still, with him replacing his enlightened lines about life and death with those foretelling the doom of the world.
* DarkIsNotEvil: In the season one trailer, he appears as a largely inarticulate monster, working with the likes of [[EldritchAbomination Cho'gath]] and Warwick. He is huge, menacing, and constantly rambles on about death in a deep, booming voice. He is also a truly noble creature, a gentleman and a scholar.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/55/Nasus.move12.ogg "No dawn comes without darkness."]]''
* DishingOutDirt: Well, sand.
* DissonantSerenity: Nasus' old voice was deep but calm-sounding in spite of the lines he spoke about death.
* EgyptianMythology: His appearance invokes the god Anubis.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Infernal Nasus. This depicts an 'ascended' Nasus who is bringing about the apocalypse. To put it plainly...
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f5/InfernalNasus.attack04.ogg "This is the way your world ends."]]''
* EvolvingAttack: His "Siphoning Strike" ability, which gains bonus damage every time Nasus kills something with it. If he's given enough time to concentrate on the skill, he can forgo buying damage-increase items entirely and build entirely defensive items and ''still'' hit like a truck.
* FanNickname: There's a massive amount of names for his Siphoning Strike, usually more threatening as he gains stacks on it. Due to his staff´s eerie color, a common name for it is the Plutonium Stick. [[OneHitKill Which is a pretty good analogy as to how hard it's gonna nuke you lategame]]. Another popular one is ''The [[ArmorPiercingAttack Pimp Cane]]''.
** Another nickname he has is "Susan" which is "Nasus" spelled backwards.
* {{Foil}}: To his brother, Renekton. Both are fighter champions based on Egyptian mythology and both have ultimates similar in appearance that increase their size and empower them (including AOE damage). However, Nasus is a quintessential late-game champion who starts weak and is forced to farm a ''lot'' but becomes unstoppable once his Q accumulates last-hits while Renekton is a quintessential early-game champion who has an aggressive kit very useful for getting kills in lane but falls off later due to poor scaling.
** Lore-wise, Nasus is far more calm and collected while Renekton is destructive and bat-shit crazy (although he wasn't always like that). Plus, Nasus was the curator of his homeworld's archives (just like he is to the Institute of War now) while Renekton was the gatekeeper and turned away anyone with dark intentions.
* GentleGiant: One of the nicer guys in the league who quickly accepted the new world around him, despite being huge, imposing and commanding a slew of evil-looking powers.
* GlassCannon: Normally, people build Nasus with all tank items and stack his Siphoning Strike up massively to maximize it's damage, so he can both never die and shred teams. However, if you like, you can build all Ability Power items and take an entire enemy team down to 2/3 HP with one Spirit Fire cast, and proceed to use Fury of the Sands combined with Rylai's Crystal Scepter to slow the enemy team so everyone else can finish them off. It's not as tanky, but still very viable.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: But he's actually a good guy.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Nasus looks like Anubis (jackal), and Renekton looks like Sobek (crocodile). One can only wonder what their parents looked like.
* JackOfAllStats: Does a bit of everything.
* MagikarpPower: In the early game, Nasus is quite an easy target, but "Siphoning Strike" can hit like a train in the late game. The number one rule of fighting against Nasus is "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Do. Not. Let. Him. Free. Farm]]''" or he will turn those 200 creep kills into a staff-whack that removes half of your health.
* MightyGlacier: Taken to extreme levels. Has very high natural damage that scales off how many creeps he's killed with Q, made stronger by sheen procs, allowing him to build full tank with triforce/IBG, but has no mobility to back it up.
* NotSoDifferent: Both Renekton and Nasus are considered by players to be among the best top laners, although for completely different reasons.
* OddFriendship: The website lists ''Sivir'' as his friend of all people.
* OneHitKill: Siphoning Strike has this potential. It's one of the very few skills in the game that has ''no {{cap}} on its damage''. This leads some people to describe him as a "hyper-carry," a true OneManArmy, though others dispute this claim, and a third camp claims that ''[=LoL=]'' doesn't ''have'' any hyper-carries. (This is especially true because nobody can agree on what the term ''means''.)
* PlayingWithFire: Infernal Nasus
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/e/e9/InfernalNasus.move01.ogg "Each fork in your path leads to fire."]]''
* RedEyesTakeWarning: On his old model and splash art.[[AvertedTrope But he's a good guy.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Renekton's red.
* ShoutOut: His Infernal Nasus skin makes a WorldOfWarcraft reference when you activate his ultimate.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/32/InfernalNasus.R2.ogg "By fire be purged!"]]''
* [[TheOnlyOneAllowedTODefeatYou The Only One Who Can Defeat You]]: Towards Renekton, of course.
* SkillGateCharacter: He's a fighter that's relatively cheap in IP, making him a prime candidate for a beginner's first fighter (along with Garen). He teaches new players the importance of farming and last-hitting (instead of constant pushing like most first-timers do) by giving them a concrete reward for doing so through Siphoning Strike stacks. Likewise, enemies ''facing'' a Nasus usually learn the hard way why it's a bad idea to let enemies farm unharassed when his Siphoning Strike blows them up 25 minutes later. Like other examples in League of Legends, he's not necessarily bad after the beginner stage and remains viable even at high-tiers.
* TranquilFury: He never raises his (famously deep) voice.
** Although he gets a bit louder, his Infernal Nasus skin still retains the tranquil bit. Only instead of going on about life and death, he's going on about the destruction of the world.
* UnfortunateNames: Although it would take a bit tinkering. 'Nasus' itself IS a fine name, but when you realize that it's [[SdrawkcabName "Susan" spelled backwards]]...
* WarriorPoet
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/fb/Nasus.taunt01.ogg "Your legacy shall drift away, blown into eternity like the sands of the desert."]]''
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[[folder:Nautilus, the Titan of the Depths]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/NautilusSquare_7264.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/0/02/Nautilus_Select.ogg Bewaaare the depths.]]-] ]]
->''"When lost in utter darkness, there is nothing left but forward."''
Once a sailor commissioned by the Institute of War to explore the oceans of Runeterra, Nautilus was abandoned at sea while he was dragged down into the depths by an unseen force, grabbing the ship's anchor as he sank. When he awoke again, he found that his diver's suit had merged with his body, and his memories were fuzzy at best. With nothing to go on but the anchor, he trudged through the depths of the ocean until he reached Bilgewater, whereupon he was directed to the Institute of War. He joined the League so that he could discover and punish those responsible for a lifetime lost.
Nautilus is a tank-fighter champion who, despite his cumbersomeness and slowness, can deal some pretty devastating crowd control and area of effect damage. His passive, ''Staggering Blow'', makes his basic attacks deal bonus damage and briefly immobilize the target, but this effect only works on the same target every few seconds. His first ability, ''Dredge Line'', makes Nautilus hurl his chained anchor forward like a grappling hook. If it hits an enemy unit it will damage them and pull Nautilus and the enemy towards each other. If it hits terrain it will pull Nautilus to it and the ability's cooldown will be halved. His second ability, ''Titan's Wrath'', protects Nautilus with a temporary damage-absorbing shield and, while the shield lasts, makes his basic attacks apply a damage over time effect to the target and all nearby enemies. His third ability, ''Riptide'', releases three consecutive rings of explosions that expand outward, damaging and slowing all enemies hit. His ultimate ability, ''Depth Charge'', fires a water shockwave that travels underground towards a target enemy champion, knocking up and damaging all enemies it passes undearneath. When it reaches its target it explodes, damaging, knocking up and stunning them.
Nautilus' alternate skins include Abyssal Nautilus, Subterranean Nautilus, and [=AstroNautilus=].
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AnchorsAway: Nautilus is armed with the anchor of the ship aboard which he served. He grabbed it as he was being dragged to the sea floor.
* CaptainErsatz: The resemblance to the [[Franchise/{{Bioshock}} Big Daddy]] has not gone unnoticed. For bonus points, have him team up with Annie.
* CrosshairAware: Depth Charge lets everyone know who it's heading towards. The target's teammates have a tough choice to make: get out of the way to prevent being knocked up or stay where they are (in the path of the shockwave) so that Nautilus can't get an easy Dredge Line on the target.
* DarkIsEvil: Whatever grabbed Nautilus came from a black ooze in the section of the ocean.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may look quite frightening and have a pretty nasty set of powers, but he just wants to find out who left him for dead and what made him the way he is.
* {{Determinator}}: Despite having incredibly hazy memories, and being weighed down by an impossibly heavy diver's suit-anchor combo, Nautilus woke up after death and walked across the sea floor for who knows how long, in utter blackness and loneliness, in order to find the people who decided he was better off dead.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Nautilus in his suit is so lumbering, he couldn't swim back to shore. As a result, his movement speed is tied for the slowest in the game and every melee champion moves faster than him, leaving him reliant on using his anchor through his Dredge Line ability for mobility. The tradeoff is that the extremely heavy diving suit benefits his durability as much as you'd expect it to.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: This can be justified as being the lights of his diver's suit. Taken to a logical conclusion with his Titan's Wrath ability, causing his eyes to glow ''even brighter'' while it lasts.
* [[GrapplingHookPistol Grappling Hook Anchor]]: His Dredge Line ability uses his anchor for this, capable even of dragging Nautilus to terrain, turrets, and walls.
* HooksAndCrooks: He uses his anchor as a very effective grappling hook to overcome his lumbering speed.
* TheJuggernaut: Slow and cumbersome even when he is using his hook to get him places, but do '''not''' let him get close. He's ridiculously durable, deals extremely high sustained damage, and has enough crowd control to ensure that you'll never get away from him alive.
* LeftForDead: His backstory made concise.
* MagikarpPower: When jungling, Nautilus is slow, weak and ironically enough very fragile during his first clear, making him susceptible to invading enemies. Given just a couple of levels and ranks in Titan's Wrath he quickly becomes a powerhouse who survives lots of abuse and deals tons of damage while his shield holds. He is not a very extreme example of this trope as he gets over his weakness rather quickly, but it's still there.
* MakingASplash: Multiple splashes actually: His 'Depth Charge' ultimate causes multiple watery explosions towards a target, each one increasing the speed of which the explosion homes in on its target: Supposedly, you can avoid it by outrunning it for 5 seconds - but you'll need movement speeds well over one and a half thousand for that to happen.
* MightyGlacier: Once he activates Titan's Wrath, he upgrades from a StoneWall to this, giving him a decent-sized shield to improve his durability and adding AOE damage to his autoattacks while the shield still holds. He's encouraged to build tanky due to the shield size (and by extension the buff duration) scales as a percentage of bonus HP.
* OceanMadness: Sort of. By the time Nautilus got back to land, he no longer remembered much of the details of his life.
* PowerGlows: His Titan's Wrath ability, causing his anchor to glow red, and his eyes glow even brighter.
* ThePowerOfHate: Long after he'd given up hope of ever reaching home, he was still motivated to keep trudging on in the dark depths in order to find his former crewmates that left him for dead. He ended up reaching land eventually.
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* {{Revenge}}: His reason for being in the League is basically to take revenge on those responsible for his lost life and time. Hell, this may even be [[ThePowerOfHate the reason he's alive in the first place!]]
* SadisticChoice: His crewmates chose cutting him loose rather than try to pull him up but risk everyone's lives. He is not very happy about that.
* ShockwaveStomp: His Riptide ability. The waves that fan out can hit his enemies twice, meaning it may be better to hold your ground against Nautilus. Or... you're in a MortonsFork situation.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: His joke has him plant his anchor and start ''swimming mid-air''.
* StoneWall: A very dedicated tanking character with large amounts of disruption and a respectable damage output, but has the lowest possible base movement speed, a trait usually reserved for ranged characters.
* StuffBlowingUp: His ultimate is Depth Charge, blowing up upon impact with its main target and causing them to fly up into the air.
* TunnelKing: Subterranean Nautilus substitutes the anchor for a massive drill.
* WalkDontSwim: His diver's suit was so heavy that he had to trudge along the ocean floor all the way to land.
* WasOnceAMan: Well, technically he still is one, but he's somehow become one with the diving suit and infused with some terrible dark energies, so he's not quite the way he used to be either.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He was forced to slog on the ocean floor for so long, by the time he surfaced nothing that remained of his former life was left.
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[[folder:Nidalee, the Bestial Huntress]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nidalee_Square_0_2785.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/76/Nidalee_Select.ogg They will fear the wild.]]-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' KellyBurge
->''"Nidalee was taught to fight by her feline family, battling viciously with tooth and nail. Something in her feline ways may draw you to her, but remember that she is no pussycat."''
A child abandoned in a magical jungle when her treasure hunting parents were struck down, Nidalee was raised by a family of jungle cats. Infused with magic, she can morph into a cougar at will. She joined the League to protect the environment from civilization.
Nidalee is an assassin-support champion with great versatility thanks to her ability to switch between a long range form meant for burst damage and support and a short range one for mobility and sustained damage. Her passive, ''Prowl'', grants her a brief movement speed boost when she travels through brush, and access to a unique ''Hunt'' mechanic. When she strikes an enemy with her ''Buskwack'' or ''Javelin Toss'', they are considered hunted, and Nidalee gains bonus movement speed when moving towards them, and her cougar abilities have bonus effects. Her first ability, ''Javelin Toss'', throws her spear forward to damage the first enemy unit in a line, the damage increasing the further the spear flies, and making the target hunted. With her second ability, ''Bushwack'', Nidalee lays down a trap that damages, reveals and causes her to hunt the target for a brief duration. Her third ability, ''Primal Surge'', heals a nearby allied champion or herself while also granting the target a brief attack speed boost. Her ultimate ability, ''Aspect of the Cougar'', which she has at level 1, transforms Nidalee into a ferocious cougar with a melee attack range and an entirely new set of basic abilities. Her first ability becomes ''Takedown'', making her next basic attack deal bonus damage depending on the target's missing health. ''Takedown'' deals bonus damage on a hunted target. Her second ability becomes ''Pounce'', making Nidalee lunge a small distance forward, damaging all enemies around her landing point. She can cast ''Pounce'' on a hunted enemy to jump to their location from twice the normal distance. Her third ability becomes ''Swipe'', slashing all enemies in a small cone in front of her to damage them. Using ''Swipe'' on a hunted target refreshes the cooldown on ''Pounce''.
Nidalee's alternate skins include Leopard Nidalee, Snow Bunny Nidalee, French Maid Nidalee, Pharaoh Nidalee, Bewitching Nidalee, and Headhunter Nidalee.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Her Bewitching skin changes her cougar form into a black cat.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Definitely one of the more dark-skinned champions.
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: ''*CHUNK*'' That's the sound of you getting hit by a Nidalee spear from the fog of war and subsequently breaking your keyboard. With little no no counterplay to this, Riot, for Nidalee's gameplay rework, reduced the range and damage potential of her spears and introduced the ''Hunt'' mechanic, so that Nidalee has to get close to a target to do real damage.
* ArtEvolution: Got a sweet upgrade to her model and Classic artwork.
* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: An ability of her's involves throwing a spear, which does more damage based off how far away it is from Nidalee upon impact, seemingly like a gyrojet.
* BladeOnAStick: One that's thrown, to be exact
* CatGirl: Well, she doesn't actually have cat ears, but she can turn into a cougar and was raised by cats. It certainly seems this was what the creator(s?) was/were going for.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Implied when her boyfriend Bob Nashahago the summoner promptly fled when the gossip column ran with Blitzcrank's dating service finds him a match with Janna instead.
* CombatMedic[=/=]TheMedic: Primal Surge heals for a decent amount and grants an attack speed boost- with some AP items it can heal quite a bit whilst still increasing the potency of Javelin Toss (the combat part). Anyone [[ShootTheMedicFirst targeting her first]] will find she doesn't die quite as easily as other medics as she escapes in cougar form.
* CrackShip: In-Universe example in that the Journal of Justice reporter certainly think so.
* CrutchCharacter: Is less powerful endgame than a dedicated support, ranged-DPS, or fighter champion.
* DifficultButAwesome: The above and below claims are somewhat subverted in that during a highly memorable tournament game between TSM and CLG (ie: two of the best teams playing [=LoL=]), Nidalee was still automatically banned by TSM solely due to CLG's Hotshotgg's fearsome reputation when playing her. While nerfs have taken her viability down a notch, she can still pull off some jaw-dropping moves, examples including Javelin Toss snipes and her Pounce's endless juking potential.
** AP Nidalee's spears used to be a strong contender for ''the'' highest damage output in the game relative to its cooldown and range... if they can be landed consistently. At late game, a good Nidalee can snipe a squishy enemy for half their health ''or more'', effectively turning the situation into 4v5 as her victim is forced to retreat. [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Her rework changed this.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: A sexy [[StealthPun cougar]] in a FurBikini whose /dance emote causes her to pole dance on her spear and whose /joke is "Did I mention it's mating season?"
* Foil: To the other feline champion, Rengar. While Nidalee is one with nature, Rengar hunts nature as worthy prey. One shifts from human to cat form and vice versa, and the other is an anthropomorphic lion. Even with their kits, Nidalee is played in the middle or bottom lane as a long range support caster, who heals her allies and sets traps to find enemies in bushes, while Rengar is played in the top lane or jungle, hides in the bushes himself to leap at prey, and gets up close and personal to rip his target to shreds, without much potential for supporting allies directly. It's not surprising much of the fanbase ships these two.
* FrenchMaid: A skin for her.
* HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Almost paraphrased in her joke but replace 'sexually active' with 'mating seasons'.
* HelloNurse: Nidalee is apparently very popular with men in-universe, ([[StealthPun especially the younger crowd]]).
* HotWitch: Bewitching Nidalee
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Did we mention the {{Fanservice}} already?
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: "Nidalee" sounds like a rather rude term for "big-breasted" in Chinese. [[{{Fanservice}} Oddly fitting.]]
* JackOfAllStats: Can be played reasonably well as a support, fighter, or mage but generally not as well as specialists in those types.
%%* JunglePrincess
* LightningBruiser: Nidalee is both fast and really hard hitting, and due to her ''Hunt'' mechanic, she can zip around the battlefield at respectable speed. Catching an eneemy in a trap or with a spear usually means death, because soon after, a frothing cougar will pounce from the bushes and delete their health bar. And because of ''Primal Surge'' and ''Pounce'', she is also frustratingly hard to catch and kill.
* NatureHero
* PlayerTic: Running away from her last Javelin Toss or quickly switching to cougar form and Pouncing away. This is a habit that started when her spear damage was calculated based on the distance between ''her'' and impact, so moving away would increase the damage. It was changed to calculate distance based on the start position of the the throw, so this reflex is mostly pointless now, but it's still around.
* RaisedByWolves: Cougars, after her parents were killed by an unidentified disease.
* ShipSinking: Many players ship her with Rengar, what with them both being feline hunters. Alas, they're listed as rivals on the website, for reasons unknown.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Allegedly with Bob, believe it or not.
* StealthPun: She has a hidden passive when [[VoluntaryShapeshifting in cougar form]] that gives a very small amount of exp to any nearby friendly champions lower level than her. [[DontExplainTheJoke Because she's a "cougar".]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Wears a FurBikini and not too much else.
* UnflinchingWalk: Because of the old mechanics behind her spear toss, the game used to encourage you to do this each time you toss it. Badass indeed.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She can go from human to cougar form and back again for free and with a cooldown of only a few seconds.
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[[folder:Nocturne, the Eternal Nightmare]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nocturnesquare_3267.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/7/7e/Nocturne_Select.ogg Embrace the darkness.]]''-] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' JasonWishnov
->''"The darkness is closing in... it’s pitch black now... but I can still see him..."''
-->-- '''Kelvin Ma''', patient #4236
Prior to Nocturne's appearance in Valoran, the League was bewildered by a growing number of summmoners being driven mad or not waking from feverish nightmares. Eventually a faulty nexus gave Nocturne physical form, and he slaughtered all in his sight before the League captured him. They feared that if destroyed, Nocturne would simply return to continue his torture of those helpless in sleep. To that end, Nocturne is now bound to the will of the summoners he would gladly haunt.
Nocturne is an assassin-fighter champion who spreads darkness and fear throughout his foes, isolating them from their allies and pouncing on them from the shadows. His passive, ''Umbra Blades'', transforms his next basic attack every few seconds into a whirling slash that damages all enemies around him and heals him for each unit hit. His first ability, ''Duskbringer'', sends out a giant shadowy hand, damaging all enemies in a line forward and leaving behind a trail of darkness that boosts Nocturne's movement speed and attack damage while he's inside it. Enemy champions hit by the attack leave behind the same trail as they move for a few seconds. His second ability, ''Shroud of Darkness'', passively increases Nocturne's attack speed, and can be activated to protect him with a dark barrier that blocks the next ability that hits him and briefly doubles the attack speed bonus if it does. His third ability, ''Unspeakable Horror'', creates a tether between a nearby enemy and Nocturne, planting terrifying nightmares on their mind that damage them over a duration. If the target doesn't manage to get away and break the tether they will be feared, running away from Nocturne at reduced movement speed. His ultimate ability, ''Paranoia'', covers the whole battlefield in pitch-black darkness for a brief duration, greatly reducing the sight radius of all enemy champions and preventing them from seeing what their teammates are seeing. While ''Paranoia'' is active Nocturne can reactivate the ability to pounce upon an enemy champion from a humongous distance, dealing damage upon arrival.
Nocturne's alternate skins include Frozen Nocturne, Void Nocturne, Ravager Nocturne, Haunting Nocturne, and Eternum Nocturne.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Absurdly Sharp]] [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Blades Below The Shoulder]]: To give you a hint; They were able to slice right through Ryze's supposedly indestructible scroll.
* AndIMustScream: An odd variation of it; he is chained to the League's will. Literally.
* BedsheetGhost: Haunting Nocturne looks like one.
* BerserkButton: Summoners seem to ''really'' piss him off.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Victims of his ultimate gain the 'possessed by horror' variation to onlookers.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He has two ''gigantic'' curved blades attached to (growing from?) his forearms.
* CaptainErsatz:
** An omnicidal assassin who kills people in their dreams and hates a specific group, whom he harassed in the past. Are we talking about Nocturne or Freddy Krueger?
* CastingAShadow: More literally than normal, Duskbringer throws a shadowy claw that leaves a shadowy trail behind it. While on the trail Nocturne hits harder, moves faster and can pass through other units like a ghost, and if the claw hits an enemy champion, they'll start leaving said trail behind them for a while - granting Nocturne a shadowy highway straight to his target.
* CreepyLongFingers: Even with his [[BladesBelowTheShoulder Blades Below The Shoulder]] being the attention grabbers that they are, his long claw-like fingers are definitely noticeable.
* CrutchCharacter: Considered to be a strong early-game champion due to his fast clearing times, strong dueling, and solid ganks (especially once he has Paranoia). However, a Nocturne doesn't typically fair too well late-game if his team is counting on him to initiate, since he can quickly get to the enemy backline with Paranoia and try to assassinate someone, but he'll likely die soon after (even with a tanky build). However, a well-timed Paranoia in conjunction with a strong initiation ability is an extremely potent combo for throwing the enemy team into disarray, so keep that in mind.
* DarkIsEvil: Omnicidally so.
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: The first part of his ultimate, Paranoia, actually affects summoners, not the champions themselves, making them distrustful of their fellow summoners around them for a few seconds and literally blinding them with fear. As such, this effect also barely crosses over into ''allied'' summoners, darkening the corners of their screens and providing a very faint laughing sound.
* DynamicEntry: And you won't even know who it's being done to, because your screen just went dark.
* EasterEgg: If Graves uses his Smokescreen ability on Nocturne, Graves says one of two special lines of dialogue.
* EldritchAbomination: He's a dream-born monster who utterly despises all life, ''especially'' Summoners, and wants nothing more than to slaughter everything because it offends him.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/60/Nocturne.move4.ogg "This place disgusts me..."]]''
** Eternum Nocturne switches out the darkness and nightmare related theme for an equally terrifying extra-dimensional terror theme.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/36/EternumNocturne.attack10.ogg "Their existance is a mistake.."]]''
* EnemyToAllLivingThings: He REALLY hates Summoners, but life in general is an abomination in his eyes.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/5b/Nocturne.move5.ogg "People are flames to be blotted out!"]]''
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Frozen Nocturne
* EvilIsVisceral: Eternum Nocturne is made of twisted, skinless flesh covered with armour. Void Nocturne also replaces his usual metal arm blades with a pair of meaty, organic "blades."
* EvilLaughter: Type /Laugh during play and you'll understand why this guy is titled 'The Eternal Nightmare'. He also laughs when his spell shield blocks a spell and as an alternate line during his ultimate.
* {{Expy}}:
** Spectre from [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]], in both looks and abilities (The trails of darkness).
** You're forgiven if Eternum Nocturne's voice and method of speech reminds you of [[Videogame/MassEffect2 Harbinger]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: His body is pitch black, so in a dark nightmare, all his victims saw were those glowing eyes. No surprise that the ones that did ''wake up'' were frightened by the thought of going back to sleep.
* HeroicSacrifice: The summoners who died to Nocturne so the League could capture him, although its been strongly implied the "Summoners" were an illusion used to trap him.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Nocturne makes it clear that he's an OmnicidalManiac because life as we know it offends and disgusts him.
* InterfaceScrew: Your screen just went dark and you can't see your team's vision. No, it's not a bug - it's his ultimate.
--> '''''"[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/82/Nocturne.ult2.ogg Darkness...]]"'''''
* LaserGuidedKarma: After delivering eternal nightmares to the summoners for so long, they decided to respond in kind by chaining him to the League to serve the very same summoners for extra poetic justice.
* LightningBruiser: He was designed to be a GlassCannon, but anyone halfway decent with him will build him tanky thanks to Duskbringer's attack boost, which allows you to build a fair amount of defense and still do enormous damage. When built this way, he's nearly impossible to peel off a target or escape from but can also take a good beating and fight off multiple opponents with ease.
* [[LivingDream Living Nightmare]]: The possibility was mentioned that he is someone's nightmares given physical form.
* NothingIsScarier: When you hear the creeping ''"Darkness"'' sound of his ultimate being used, this is in full effect for the duration. One of your allies is probably getting sliced up and there's little you can do about it... unless you're the one Nocturne is aiming for, in which case you're probably more worried about the living nightmare doing its best to murder you.
* NeverSplitTheParty: Being off on your own almost always puts you at risk of being picked off by a jungler or assassin, but Nocturne takes it new levels. At least in most cases you can call for help and signal where you're under attack; with Nocturne's Paranoia, no one can see where you are even if you do signal you're the target. Staying relatively close to one's team makes it easier to figure out who's being attacked and possibly help since players under the darkness effect can still see a very limited distance around them.
* OmnicidalManiac: Now that he's been ripped out of the dream world and into the real world, his only desire is to massacre anything and everything he can get to.
* [[{{Pun}} Paranoia]] [[ParanoiaFuel Fuel]]: Even before the screen goes dark from his ultimate being used, playing against an enemy Nocturne can be this to the enemy team: If Nocturne isn't visible on the map, and his ultimate hasn't been used in a while, enemies tend to group up or stay near their tower for protection.
* PsychoForHire: Probably the only relief of his slavery; at least he still gets to torture people during matches.
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c1/Nocturne.taunt.ogg "Bring me more fleshbags to slice up!"]]''
* [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed Evil In a Nexus Shard]]: That is, until someone needs him on the Fields of Justice. Once a match is over, back in he goes. Not that being sealed up has stopped him from constantly, unrelentingly slicing away at the barriers. Even approaching his prison has his trademark effect of everything getting darker, implying that while the shard may keep his body contained and jailed, his powers still have a limited reach outside it.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: If the new cinematic from Riot is any indication, his ultimate gives you damn good reason to be paranoid of your surroundings. The amount of lovecraftian horror that Ryze experiences while under the influence would make Cthulhu proud.
* TimeAbyss: Eternum Nocturne, seeing how he's 'The manifestation of all future nightmares'.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/c/c3/EternumNocturne.move7.ogg We transcend time!]]''
* TronLines: Void Nocturne generates them on the ground beneath him in the same manner as Kassadin.
* UnstoppableRage: Considering that he's being held prisoner by the people whom he despises above all others, this is pretty much his only setting.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: All his voicelines carries a faint echoing to them. And he likes to stretch the words out as well. Eternum Nocturne pulls out all the stops, however, referring to himself as 'we' and having robotic background noises with each spoken word.
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[[folder:Nunu, the Yeti Rider (and Willump the Yeti)]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nunu_Square_0_329.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/44/Nunu_Select.ogg Here we go!]]-] ]]
->'''Voiced by:''' CristinaUlloa(Nunu), BrianSommer(Willump)
->''"Willump and I have a whole world to explore. Don't get in our way!"''
Nunu could only barely remember his parents or a time when he wasn't walled inside the citadel of the reclusive Frostguard tribe. His desire to explore and natural compassion put him at odds with his cryptic elders, so he was sent to apprentice with the Frostguard beast master. Unique among the creatures under his supervision was Willump the yeti, a creature of incredible physical strength and unusual mystical qualities. Nunu was told to keep the wild beast poorly fed and to whip it frequently, but as Nunu tended to the creature he began to see it as more than just a brute. Feeling sorry for the sick yeti, Nunu snuck him bits of meat until he became stronger. When treated with kindness, he found, Willump was completely benign and not at all the savage monster he was lead to believe. Nunu hoped to convince the beast master to treat his new friend better, but before he could Willump escaped from his cage and fled to the wilderness. Nunu, upon discovering a crude drawing Willump had left for him, pursued him out of the citadel and found him being beaten by the beast master and the warriors of the Frostguard. Nunu threw himself in front of his friend, but the beast master had no qualms about turning his whip on the boy. Enraged at the sight of his friend in danger, Willump summoned unseen fury, scattering the soldiers and leaving his former abuser bloodied in the snow. Now both outcasts, they turned their backs on the Frostguard and set out to explore the wide world that had for so long been denied to them. With no other place in Freljord to go, they went to the League for protection.
Nunu and Willump are a support-fighter champion duo with a strong emphasis on buffing allies and debuffing foes, their wide variety of skills making them very versatile. Their passive, ''Visionary'', makes their next spell free to cast after a certain number of basic attacks. Their first ability, ''Consume'', makes Willump bite a nearby enemy minion, dealing large unblockable true damage and healing them. If he bites a jungle minion they will gain a buff for a long duration that varies with the minion: golems grant them ''Rough Rock Candy'' (bonus maximum health and size), reptiles grant them ''Ornery Monster Tails'' (their attacks and spell gain bonus damage equal to their maximum health), while wraiths and wolves gran them ''Spooky Mystery Meat'' (killing a unit grants them a small movement speed boost). Their second ability, ''Blood Boil'', heats both their and a nearby ally's blood, granting both of them increased movement and attack speed for a duration. With their third ability, ''Ice Blast'', Nunu throws a ball of ice at a nearby enemy, damaging them and slowing their movement and attack speed. Their ultimate ability, ''Absolute Zero'', makes them channel, sapping a large area around them of heat, which slows the movement and attack speed of all nearby foes. When the channel ends or the ability is reactivated, an icey explosion is created, dealing massive damage to all surrounding foes depending on how long they channeled.
Nunu's alternate skins include Sasquatch Nunu, Workshop Nunu, Grungy Nunu, Nunu Bot, Demolisher Nunu, and TPA Nunu.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AscendedMeme: Nunu Bot, named and based on a series of [=YouTube=] videos about how horrible the AI version of the champion can be.
* BigEater: That Yeti can eat minions riding self-propelled cannons, aswell as Dragons, Lizards, Golems and more.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Rides a Yeti by default and a Sasquatch in his Sasquatch Nunu skin.
* BlackMagicianGirl: Arguably, when Nunu was a girl. The yeti takes care of the physical work while she casted spells.
* BoringYetPractical: Playing Nunu as a support involves constantly casting Blood Boil on your carry and throwing a snowball at the enemy once in a while. Not very flashy, but the attack speed buff from the former and attack speed debuff from the latter will almost guarantee that any duels between the two carries will end in your side's favor.
* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his yeti.
* BrownEyes: But Nunu's not the most typical person ever, really, so, AvertedTrope.
* ChargedAttack: His ultimate is a three second channel, during which nearby enemies are slowed. If you manage to complete the entire channel without getting interrupted, you pretty much win the teamfight by default.
* CrutchCharacter: When played as a solo laner he can shut down most rivals with his ice blasts and heal back any damage taken with Consume, making it tough to beat him in lane. When played as a jungler he excels at counter-jungling by stealing important buffs and jungle creeps, shutting down many junglers. However, he doesn't have too much going for him late game due largely in part to his unreliable ultimate- it's easier to count the champions that ''cannot'' interrupt it.
* DifficultButAwesome: His ultimate is an absolute bitch to land, as almost all champions can interrupt casting, and some of those who cannot can escape it in time. When fully channeled, through clever use of brush, proper teamwork and timing it is the absolute most powerful thing in the game. Nunu's ult has one of the highest base damages of any ability ''ever,'' and the AP scaling (2.5 damage for one point of AP) is more than some champions have across their entire skill set.
* FanVid: Amazingly, a whole series starring the game's [[ArtificialStupidity Nunu Bot]] and player Angry Goran. Check the first one out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpQZ1zbigk&list=PLC6F712DC45CA9157&index=1 here]]. Also an AscendedMeme: Riot honoured the series with an actual Nunu Bot skin, featuring a robotic yeti that mimics the voice from the series.
* FlipFlopOfGod: For a good while, Riot couldn't seem to decide whether Nunu was the kid or the yeti, or whether he was a boy or a girl.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Devour instantly restores hit points, not unlike Cho'gath.
* JackOfAllStats: In terms of gameplay.
* NotTheIntendedUse: One of the most common uses for Nunu at the moment is as a 0 CS botlane support, leaning on his ability to buff the AD carry with Blood Boil and slowing the enemy carry with Ice Blast.
* {{Retcon}}: Nunu's lore has changed multiple times throughout the game's history, including flipping him from a boy to a girl and then ''back'' to a boy.
* SkillGateCharacter: Teaches you some basics of jungling like sustain (Consume) and counter ganking (Ice Blast). More experienced players will choose a jungler who excels better in ganking and sustaining power (for example, Xin Zhao) or know how to interrupt his ultimate in teamfights.
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[[folder:Olaf, the Berserker]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/olaf_571.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/8/8b/Olaf_Select.ogg Leave nothing behind!]]]]
->''"When you meet your ancestors, tell them Olaf sent you."''
A warrior from the extreme Lokfar peninsula in Freljord, Olaf was always eager to seek glory in battle and share the tales of his exploits. One night, while he and his clansmen told tales around the fire, one of his elders grew weary of Olaf gloating and told him to read the omens to see if his future matched his boasts. Olaf, mocking the envious barbarian, threw a set of bones on the ground to tell his future. All joy left the scene as the bones foretold a long life and a quiet passing, the worst possible death for a warrior of Lokfar. Enraged, Olaf set off into the night to challenge the feared frost serpent, a giant beast that had consumed thousands over its ancient lifetime. Olaf hoped to die a glorious death in combat with the beast, but as he came closer and closer to death his ferocity only increased. When he came to his senses, he discovered the beast's carcass floating next to him. Olaf set out again to hunt every creature and warrior that stood a chance against him, but every time his frenzy in the jaws of death earned him the victory. He decided that his only choice was to challenge the most fearsome tribe in Freljord: the Winter's Claw, lead by Sejuani. He struck down scores of her troops before clashing with Sejuani herself in a battle that ultimately lead to a standstill. Sejuani's fearsome gaze cut through Olaf's rage just enough so she could make him a deal: fight for her in her campaign to control Freljord and she would give him a warrior's death. Olaf agreed and vowed that he would carve his legacy into Freljord itself.
Olaf is a fighter-tank champion who is built to recklessly charge into the fray without any sense of self-preservation, getting stronger the closer to death he is. His passive, ''Berserker Rage'', increases his attack speed for every percent of health he is missing. His first ability, ''Undertow'', throws one of his axes, damaging and slowing all enemies in a line. The axe then sticks at its landing location for a few seconds, during which Olaf can pick it up to greatly reduce the cooldown of the ability. His second ability, ''Vicious Strikes'', grants Olaf a temporary buff that increases his attack speed, makes all his basic attacks heal him for a percentage of the damage dealt and increases healing from all sources depending on his missing health. His third ability, ''Reckless Swing'', strikes a nearby opponent with a double-edged blow that deals true unblockable damage to the target and a percentage of that damage to Olaf. Attacking an opponent reduces the cooldown of the ability. His ultimate ability, ''Ragnarok'', passively increases Olaf's defenses, and can be activated to remove all disabling effects on Olaf, become immune to them and grant him a massive attack damage bonus for a brief duration, at the cost of losing the defensive bonus.
Olaf's alternate skins include Forsaken Olaf, Glacial Olaf, Brolaf, and Pentakill Olaf.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Everyone has options for it, but he's pretty much the biggest utilizer of it in the game. His Reckless Swing ability does true damage, which is so armor-piercing it deals full damage regardless of enemy defenses, unless they have something that makes them invincible.
* AscendedMeme: Brolaf, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVLWKsO6CQ now a skin!]] Includes a ShoutOut to Garen's favorite battle cry. '''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d5/Brolaf.ult1.ogg Bromacia]]'''!
* AttackAttackAttack: Due to his passive and buffing ability, the best tactic for surviving a fight with Olaf is to make sure he dies first or ignore him entirely. Going somewhere in between will probably allow him to slaughter you all at some point in the fight.
* AxeBeforeEntering: His axe-throw usually hits you way before he appears on-screen.
* AnAxeToGrind: [[DualWielding Two of them!]]
* BadassBeard: You're damn right it is.
* BarbarianLonghair: His hair is even longer than his impressive beard.
* TheBerserker: [[CaptainObvious It's his title, if you haven't noticed yet.]]
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: His axe when thrown, which being an axe probably makes more sense.
* BlessedWithSuck: He's damn good at fighting, but it frustrates him that he keeps slaying whatever he throws himself at so he has to wait for his glorious death in combat.
* BloodKnight: He's only truly alive when he's in the primal state of sheer, unadulterated violence.
* CastFromHitPoints: His Reckless Swing ability deals true damage to the target, and a portion of it back to Olaf. Considering his passive ability, this can be a ''good'' thing.
* CloseRangeCombatant: His Undertow throws an axe with some range, but make no mistake, that ability is there to slow enemies and keep them within maiming distance of Olaf as long as possible.
* DeathSeeker: Olaf's only desire is to die in battle, but he's so good at fighting that he just can't seem to find anything capable of killing him.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: In the middle of fighting Sejuani to an epic stalemate, she offered to let him join the Winter's Claw for his unmatched strength and he accepted.
* DifficultButAwesome: While otherwise fairly straightforward to play, Olaf's passive encourages you to flirt with death as long as possible in fights- turning and running when it would be sane to do so for most champions wastes a lot of its potential. Activating his ultimate as late as possible while combined with Vicious Strikes will make Olaf hit like a train [[{{Metaphorgotten}} that can't be encumbered from hitting more and gets healed from all of its hitting]]. Naturally, activating it too early or too late will be much less glorious.
* DropTheHammer: His Pentakill skin replaces his axes with maces that he uses as drumsticks.
* DualWielding: He holds two axes.
* EvilCounterpart: To Tryndamere, although the 'evilness' is based on the one Olaf supported (he supports the ruthless Sejuani, while Tryndamere supports the benevolent Ashe) rather than his own personality. They're both the right-hand men of their respective leaders in Freljord, and also BloodKnight manly close-combat warriors sporting CoolHelmet most dangerous when they're near death. Hilariously, while Tryndamere goes DarkerAndEdgier with his Demonblade Tryndamere skin, Olaf instead goes LighterAndSofter with his Brolaf skin.
* [[FoeTossingCharge Foe Carving Charge]]: He spotted Sejuani and her warband and decided he would fight her to finally get his warrior's death. Sejuani was amused, so she sent her warband after him to dispose of him - what happened next was Olaf ''effortlessly'' carving a path through anyone between him and Sejuani.
* {{Fratbro}}: The Brolaf skin turns him into an immature dude who likes hot babes and chugging beer.
* Music/HeavyMetal: His Pentakill skin reflects him as the drummer in the Pentakill band.
* HornyVikings: With the obligatory horned helmet.
* ICanStillFight: Normally, players are below half their maximum health would retreat to heal up. When Olaf's below half health, he's [[LetsGetDangerous just getting started]].
* ImplacableMan: His ultimate works well to making him this, making him immune to crowd-control effects. Even when it's not triggered, he gains a bonus to armor and resistance.
* TheJuggernaut: Slow as hell, but designed to plow right through your defenses and massacre everyone he comes across. His ultimate brings it up a few notches. Funnily enough, Olaf has one of the highest base movement speeds in the game, so he's not that slow. His lack of a true gap-closer, however, makes him more easily kited than those who have them, since he has to land his axes properly to keep chasing.
* MagikarpPower: At lower levels, the vast majority of ranged champions easily handle him on a one-vs-one basis, and his jungling is fairly risky since utilizing his potential to the fullest requires him to be constantly low on health and easily killed by an enemy champion plundering in on him. In a teamfight late-game with Olaf's build complete and his allies with him to stop the enemy from simply backing away, Olaf is a MightyGlacier with very few drawbacks of the "glacier" aspect being apparent.
* MightyGlacier: A melee-fighter whose damage tends to devastate whoever he hits, will do even ''more'' damage as he loses health and has an ability for life steal and spell vamp to keep him alive longer, especially deadly when combined with his potential to make himself temporarily immune to crowd-control effects and gain a massive attack damage boost for a short duration... he also has absolutely no innate mobility tools in his kit and completely relies on Undertow's slow to get to and from enemies.
* NotAfraidToDie: He believes that fear of death is for cowards and lesser men. Gameplay-wise it can be advantageous to adopt this attitude (up to a limit) to unexpectedly keep fighting and kill people who were expecting him to run away like would be sane for most champions.
* NoSell: If an enemy Olaf is chasing you down with Ragnarok active, don't bother trying to snare him or slow him down, just ''run''.
* OddFriendship: Is the drummer of the Pentakill band, with Mordekaiser, Sona, Karthus, and Yorick.
* OneManArmy: He could probably take on Sejuani's whole tribe if he didn't have to fight [[StoneWall her]].
* {{Plunder}}: His original motivation in his older lore (when he was an outsider to Valoran instead of a native).
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: A viking warrior of Lokfar.
* RatedMForManly: He is an enormous viking that dual-wields axes who just gets pissed off by your feeble attempts to kill him, [[ScreamingWarrior as you will hear]].
* SchmuckBait: A competent Olaf knows that players have a tendency to pursue anything with low health, letting him bait them into a fight before gutting them with his passive. Also, go ahead and try to steal jungle farm from the enemy Olaf, [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong he's at low health, what's the worst that could happen]]?
* ScreamingWarrior: When he activates his buffing abilities. This is a good sign to his enemies to watch out.
* SelfHarm: Reckless Swing is so reckless he hurts himself in the process. Given how Olaf works, in general, [[ViolationOfCommonSense this is not necessarily a bad thing.]]
* ShockAndAwe: Mildly; his Reckless Swing ability hits the target with a lightning bolt. His axes also gain a lightning aura-y effect when Vicious Strikes is up.
* SillinessSwitch: If one equips the Brolaf skin on him, he goes from vicious, rage-filled DeathSeeker viking to a loutish, immature boor that's basically a stereotypical fratboy wearing sandals, a beer-drinking helmet, and equips ''cardboard cutout'' axes from beer boxes.
* SpringtimeForHitler: The most desirable death for a Lokfar viking is to fall in glorious combat. The trouble is, Olaf can't seem to find his glorious death because he just keeps slaying whatever he throws himself at (man and beast alike), so he's frustrated how he's continually failing ''at failing''.
* TakingYouWithMe: Likely his best option is to turn around and try this if he's at low health and cornered without an escape. Because he gets stronger at lower health, he might even ''survive'' if it's only one opponent.
* TurnsRed: Right about at half HP he gets significantly more dangerous. As of 2013, even players that are unaware of this mechanic will know to run when he [[VisualPun ''literally'']] turns red in-game.
* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: The Unstoppable Force to Sejuani's Immovable Object - in case you're wondering what happens when the two clash, it's forceful enough to rock the entire glacier region they're in.
* UnstoppableRage: Get him to half health and watch him pop his ultimate. If he's not on your side, you best start running.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: The eastern character on the icon for Ragnarok means "power" in Chinese ("li") and Japanese ("chikara").
* ViolationOfCommonSense: If you see someone with less than half health running toward a full-health enemy looking for a fight, there are three possible explanations. 1) They are performing a HeroicSacrifice or acting as bait 2) They are not very good at this game 3) They are playing Olaf correctly.
* [[KungFuSonicBoom Weapon-clash Sonic Boom]]: His battle with Sejuani rocked the glaciers with its force.
* WhosLaughingNow: Most Olaf players will let you get them to at least half health before they chop you to pieces.
* YourMom: Twice from the Brolaf skin, the first as a joke and second as (lame) last words:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/6/60/Brolaf.joke1.ogg "I'm OP? Your ''mom'' is OP!"]]''
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/d/d8/Brolaf.dying1.ogg (dying) "Your mom!"]]''
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[[folder:Orianna, the Lady of Clockwork]]
[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/OriannaSquare_9909.png]]
[[caption-width-right:116:[[AC:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/f/f9/Orianna_Select.ogg We will kill your enemies. That will be fun.]]-] ]] ]]
-> '''Voiced by:''' HeatherPennington
->''"Dance with me, my pet. Dance with me into oblivion."''
Orianna Reveck was a young girl who loved dancing and the League of Legends. She trained to achieve her goal of one day becoming a champion in the League but died in a tragic accident. Her father, a brilliant scientist from Piltover, built a new Orianna -- a powerful android that could fulfill her dream of being a champion, along with a mechanical sphere to protect her from dying again. Orianna is not quite human but is desperate to fulfill the wishes of her father and predecessor.
Orianna is a mage-support champion based around commanding her floating companion, ''The Ball'', as a focus of her abilities which allows her to control key areas, support allies or harrass opponents. ''The Ball'' will authomatically blink back to Orianna if she strays too far away from it. Her passive, ''Clockwork Windup'', makes her basic attacks deal bonus magic damage that increases with each consecutive strike on the same enemy. Her first ability, ''Command: Attack'', makes ''The Ball'' fly to a target location, damaging all enemies in its path. Her second ability, ''Command: Dissonance'', emits an electric blast from ''The Ball'', damaging all nearby foes and leaving behind for a few seconds an energy field that slows enemies and boosts the movement speed of allies that enter it. Her third ability, ''Command: Protect'', passively increases the defensive stats of the allied champion ''The Ball'' is attached to, and can be activated to make ''The Ball'' dash towards an allied champion or herself, damaging all enemies in its path, and attach itself to them, granting them a damage-absorbing shield. Her ultimate ability, ''Command: Shockwave'', makes ''The Ball'' release a powerful shockwave that damages all nearby enemies and flings them into the air towards ''The Ball''.
Orianna's alternate skins include Gothic Orianna, Sewn Chaos Orianna, Bladecraft Orianna, and TPA Orianna.
'''Associated tropes:'''
* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: All of Orianna's joints swivel freely, allowing her to do such things as easily wind her own key while still keeping her eyes directly on someone. She thinks nothing of it, but others find it [[UncannyValley disturbing]].
* AttackDrone: The Ball is regularly launched at enemies.
* BondCreatures: The Ball protects Orianna and obeys her commands.
* CaptainErsatz:
** The mechanical distortion in her voice makes her sound like a character from ''Videogame/{{Portal}}''; either [=GLaDOS=] or the Turrets.
** The characteristic of her skills emanating from the Ball was supposedly inspired by [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Youmu Konpaku]].
** Her Bladecraft skin resembles R. Dorothy Wayneright from ''Anime/BigO''.
* ClockworkCreature: A dancing/fighting replacement-daughter.
* CompanionCube: Her ball, and to a lesser extent herself.
* CreepyDoll: Sewn Chaos Orianna.
* DamageDiscrimination: Command: Dissonance either speeds up allies that walk over the area of effect or slows down and damages enemies that do the same.
* DanceBattler: Not in a typical sense though. Orianna does the dancing while the Ball does the fighting.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Getting hit by the Ball once or twice isn't highly worrying early on but a competent Orianna will make sure that it happens over and over again, slowly but surely wearing down an opponent's health as she farms comfortably from a distance. If she gets seriously fed, though, [[MagikarpPower one or two slices suddenly becomes a problem for her squishier opponents]].
* DifficultButAwesome: In general considered one of the most difficult champions to play in that, while grasping her basics is easy enough, her ability to use skills from basically any point around her gives her a truly humongous amount of options. She's thus said to have an average skill floor (minimum skill needed to wield her effectively), but a sky-high skill ceiling (skill level needed to use her to her maximum potential).
** All of her abilities are centered on the ball, not Orianna herself. In order to be successful with her you need to micro around your ball to a good position for her skills while [[GlassCannon staying out of enemy range]]. Her Ball teleports back to her if she gets too far away. If you were just about to activate your ultimate, you now look like a [[{{Noob}} complete idiot]]. Similarly, using a teammate as a ball-carrier (ideally an initiator) to get a Command: Shockwave in the middle of the enemy team requires some coordination and good timing.
** Mastering when to use her abilities is crucial to success at her. Used in the right place, the slow/speedup can save yourself and teammates from a gank, and a combo of the slow and the character-moving ultimate can actually do enough damage to kill them. However, both have a smaller area of effect than you might think; miss one or put it in the wrong place, and you'll end up dead. Using the shield (which puts the Ball on an allied champion) can also change fights: you can shield a hurting ally, or you can put in on an initiator who can hop on the enemy, just to list two examples.
** Her basic attacks deal more damage the more she attacks the same opponent. So ideally you must focus fire on a single enemy to make the most of her auto attacks. This is easier said than done while keeping track of the ball and making the most of it to add to her damage output without her dying in the process. Challenging enough in solo lane duels, it becomes a whole lot worse in chaotic teamfights.
* EyelessFace: Her Sewn Chaos Orianna skin has X's sewn over the eyes.
* GradualGrinder: Orianna doesn't obliterate most of her target's health bar in a few seconds like many mages do later in the game, she deals takes chunks out of it over several ball movements (though her ultimate provides some fast burst).
* ImprobableWeaponUser: She wields a hovering ball of magic and technology.
* ImpliedDeathThreat:
-->''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/3/3f/Oriana.taunt.ogg "I know what makes them tick. I know how to make the ticking STOP."]]''
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: The original Orianna, whom the champion was built to replace. Or rather, the Mad Scientist's Beautiful ReplacementGoldfish.
* MagikarpPower: Her autoattack passive is mostly ineffectual early game, but its bonus damage increases sixfold from levelling up (on top of the actual autoattack damage itself), and it ''also'' scales with the help Ability Power items. Her Command: Attack ability also evolves in potency over the course of the game from "Well that's annoying" damage to "Ow, my FACE!" damage.
* ObliviouslyEvil: She isn't particularly evil by champion standards but she seems to regard mutilating and killing others to be a fun game, failing to understand that death is a serious and permanent thing. Judging by her inability to understand why people scream in pain or run from her, she likely can't comprehend that living beings are different from machines in so many ways.
-->''Why do they keep breaking?''
* PickYourHumanHalf: She has the form of a girl but her thoughts are clearly inhuman; compare that to Blitzcrank, who is crudely shaped but has a far more relatable personality.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She, rather off-puttingly, insists that she ''is'' the original Orianna, and gives no indication that she realizes she isn't normal in the first place.
* RobotBuddy: The Ball.
* RobotGirl: Made of magic and clockwork, and the Uncanny Valley.
* SwissArmyWeapon: That is one useful ball.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, people find her empty imitation of life to be very unnerving. During her League Judgment, she casually performs blatantly inhuman actions, such as keeping her head locked on to the summoner speaking to her while her body contorts in physically impossible positions to wind her key. The observation noted that, while she is far more human looking than Blitzcrank (who's basically a big lumpy man-shaped robot), she looks far less ''alive.'' Her delighted squeal of glee on being accepted as a champion is described as "horrifying".
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