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* TheAhnold: Half his old lines were Arnold Schwarzenegger shout-outs. All he retained in the new lines is [[Franchise/TheTerminator "I'll be back."]]... sans the accent, as well as one of his jokes "Your puny body is the only joke here" is said in the famous Ahnuld accent.

-> '''Voiced by:''' J.S.Gillbert (Original-2013), Creator/ScottMcNeil (2014-present)

* TheAhnold: Half his old lines were Arnold Schwarzenegger shout-outs. All he retained in the new lines is just [[TheTerminator "I'll be back."]]... sans the accent.

* TheArtifact: Since the % chance of slowing an enemy on Phage / Frozen Mallet / Trinity Force got reworked, Sion's old passive was literally the only element of chance in the game (besides critical hit chance). Since the developers' stated goal was to remove RNG mechanics from the game (the exception being crit chance), this was expectedly removed with his rerelease.

* CrutchCharacter: The old AP build. He starts off very good, but falls off late game.
* Expy: When his relaunch splash art was discovered, players couldn't help but notice a visual similarity to WorldOfWarcraft Orcs, particularly a notorious ex-Warchief with a black jaw, bald head, and massive axe.
* FeelNoPain: The name of his old passive, verbatim.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom

A deadly mercenary and tomb robber, Sivir became infamous in the deserts of Shurima for her skill in battle and her ambition for gold. She was recruited by Noxus to fight in their name, but she broke ties when they began the invasion of Ionia. Surprisingly, their next contact was not one of revenge; Cassiopeia Du Couteau requested Sivir as an escort in search of an ancient Shurima artifact. However, their excursion went awry; Cassiopeia backstabbed Sivir, using her crossblade weapon to open the Tomb of the Emperors. The consequences were dire, releasing Xerath and Renekton from their imprisonment and cursing Cassiopeia into a lamia-like form.

Bleeding to death, Sivir collapsed within the temple and inadvertently resurrected the Shurima Emperor Azir, as her blood came from his. Azir took his descendant to the Oasis of the Dawn, bathing her in its life-granting waters. Sivir was resurrected and witnessed that the selfless act had completed Azir's Ascension, heralding the return of the Shurima Empire. Whether Sivir chooses to continue her mercenary life, or to help rebuild the empire of her ancestors, remains to be seen.

Syndra is a mage-support champion with a complex ability set based around summoning and manipulating spheres of dark energy that rewards a skilled user with strong damage. Her passive, ''Trascendent'', enhances each of her abilities when they reach their max level. Her first ability, ''Dark Sphere'', summons a sphere of dark energy at a nearby area, damaging all enemies around it, that will remain there for a short time an can be manipulated by her other abilities. When it reaches max rank, ''Trascendent'' increases the damage the sphere deals to enemy champions. Her second ability, ''Force of Will'', telekinetically lifts a nearby enemy minion or ''Dark Sphere'' for a brief duration and, when the ability is reactivated, hurls it at a nearby area, damaging and slowing all enemies when it lands. When it reaches max rank, ''Trascendent'' increases the duration of the slowing effect. Her third ability, ''Scatter the Weak'', sends out a wave of dark energy that damages and knocks back all enemies in a cone in front of her. Any ''Dark Spheres'' in the same area are also sent flying backwards, stunning all enemies they collide with. When it reaches max rank, ''Trascendent'' increases the width of the cone. Her ultimate ability, ''Unleashed Power'', summons three ''Dark Spheres'' and hurls them, along with any other on the field, at a nearby enemy, dealing heavy damage for each sphere. The spheres will then remain around the target for a brief duration. When it reaches max rank, ''Trascendent'' increases the range of the ability.

Soraka is a support-mage champion with a heavy emphasis on healing, protecting and sustaining her teammates over damaging or disabling enemies. Her passive, ''Salvation'', grants her greatly increased movement speed when moving towards heavily wounded allies. Her first ability, ''Starcall'', allows her to call down a comet to a target location, damaging all enemies hit, while enemies in the center of the explosion take bonus damage and are slowed. Her second ability, ''Astral Blessing'', passively heals Soraka for each enemy champion hit by ''Starcall'', and can be activated to heal a nearby ally (but not herself) at the cost of Soraka's own health. Her third ability, ''Equinox'', creates a field of energy that damages and silences all enemies within. After a brief delay, the field expires, damaging and rooting enemies inside. Her ultimate, ''Wish'', restores a large amount of health to Soraka's entire team, regardless of their position on the map, while also removing any healing-impairing effects from them and restoring more health to heavily wounded allies.

Soraka is a support-mage champion with a heavy emphasis on healing, protecting and sustaining her teammates over damaging or disabling enemies. Her passive, ''Salvation'', grants her greatly increased movement speed when moving towards heavily wounded allies. Her first ability, ''Starcall'', allows her to call down a comet to a target location, damaging all enemies hit, while enemies in the center of the explosion take bonus damage and are slowed. Her second ability, ''Astral Blessing'', passively makes ''Starcall'' heal Soraka for each enemy champion hit by ''Starcall'', and can be activated to heal a nearby ally at the cost of Soraka's own health. Her third ability, ''Equinox'', creates a field of energy that damages and silences all enemies within. After a brief delay, the field expires, damaging and rooting enemies inside. Her ultimate, ''Wish'', restores a large amount of health to Soraka's entire team, regardless of their position on the map, while also removing any healing-impairing effects from them and restoring more health to heavily wounded allies.

Soraka is a support-mage champion with a heavy emphasis on healing, protecting and sustaining her teammates over damaging or disabling enemies. However, ''how'' she does that has changed over time. As released in the First Forty, she was a back-line character with a global Magic Resistance buff, a short-range HitScan AoE, two heals and an ability, "Infuse," that restores {{Mana}} to others ''and herself'', in addition to silencing enemies if used on them. Per WordOfGod, this was [[TierInducedScrappy boring and stifling]], and today she's been transformed into more of a CombatMedic. Her passive, ''Salvation'', grants her greatly increased movement speed when moving towards heavily wounded allies. Her first ability, ''Starcall'', allows her to call down a comet to a target location, damaging and slowing enemies hit. Her second ability, ''Astral Blessing'', heals allies with a very short cooldown, but is CastFromHitPoints in addition to Mana; as a compensation, it also gives ''Starcall'' LifeDrain when it hits enemy champions. Her third ability, ''Equinox'', creates a field of energy that silences all enemies within, and roots enemies when it expires. Only her ultimate has remained unchanged: ''Wish'' restores a large amount of health to the entire team, regardless of their position on the map. It also removes healing reduction effects and restores extra HP to allies in poor condition.

* TheAhnold: Half his old lines were Arnold Schwarzenegger shout-outs.

* PsychoForHire: He's Zaunian, but he quite willingly sold out his "expertise" to Noxus during their invasion of Ionia.

-> '''Voiced by:''' J.S.Gillbert (Original-2013)

[[caption-width-right:116:[-[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/b/b8/Sion_Select.ogg I do it.]]-] ]]

* {{Retcon}}: In a way. Sion's old lore linked him more with Katarina and the Du Cocteau house, being the ones responsible of resurrecting him. In his new lore, it's all done by Swain and [=LeBlanc=], so he no longer has any ties with Katarina, but instead switches to the Black Rose. And he's now buddies with Urgot, presumably due to their both being BackFromTheDead.

* {{Retcon}}: In a way. Sion's old lore linked him more with Katarina and the Du Cocteau house, being the ones responsible of resurrecting him. In his new lore, it's all done by Swain and [=LeBlanc=], so he no longer has any ties with Katarina, but instead switches to the Black Rose. And for some reason he's now buddies with Urgot.

* MightyGlacier: With a base movement speed on the slower side and with abilities that need winding up, he's one of the slower moving champions, but he hits harder than most of him. His ultimate can make him into a LighteningBruiser, but it's extremely difficult to control his direction.

Soraka is a support-mage champion with a heavy emphasis on healing, protecting and sustaining her teammates over damaging or disabling enemies. Her passive, ''Luminary'', grants her greatly increased movement speed when moving towards heavily wounded allies. Her first ability, ''Starcall'', allows her to call down a comet to a target location, damaging and slowing enemies hit. Her second ability, ''Astral Blessing'', heals allies with a very short cooldown, but at the additional cost of some of Soraka's own health. The spell also passively causes ''Starcall'' to heal Soraka when it strikes enemies based on her missing health. Her third ability, ''Equinox'', creates a field of energy that silences all enemies within, and roots enemies as it expires. With her ultimate ability, ''Wish'', Soraka fills all her allied champions with hope, restoring a large amount of health to them regardless of their position on the map, while removing healing reduction effects and restoring more health to allies in critical condition.

* TheArtifact: The idea of a healer Champion was thought up in season 1, back when the design team thought that it was a harmless and popular niche. Since then the dev team has declared that healers don't belong in PVP games, stating they warp game balance and are extremely binary (either they heal so much they make any attempts to damage their team pointless, or don't heal enough and thus are basically useless). While other champions with healing abilities bring other things to the table, and thus their heals don't need to be overpoweringly strong, Soraka is a dedicated healer that brings nothing but healing to the team, and thus she's basically impossible to balance correctly and has received nerf after nerf. Right now Soraka is basically in the game to keep the people who demand a healer be in the game happy. But in exchange, she'll never be completely viable since healing is so inherently unbalancing.

* BoringButPractical: Her gameplay role more or less boils down to health/mana dispenser but she can save her teammates dozens of times per match and keep her team going for lengths that other supports can only dream of. Even her ultimate is one of the most boring in the game but has many uses. Teammate about to die on the other side of the map? Saved. Teamfight about to go south? Not anymore.

* CherryTapping: Starcall will do at best moderate damage, but the sheer frequency at which it can be cast combined with the magic resistance shred means that it can get pretty damaging if she continues to spam it.

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Again, [[SpamAttack Starcall]]. Each attack shreds more and more Magic Resistance, making it possible to whittle down and kill enemies with teammate support... though your pinky will ache by the time you're done pressing "Q".
* DifficultButAwesome: [[http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/champions-gameplay/BTP5uwf1-this-rework-is-going-to-be-bananas-soraka-rework-preview-and-discussion Her reworked kit]] has a slightly higher learning curve than ever. For starters, her well-known mana battery ability, Infuse, is removed. However, this is compensated by a stronger heal (at a cost of 10% of her ''maximum'' health and mana) and better crowd control ability. That being said, her Starcall is also reworked so that it can heal her based on the number of champions hit by Starcall (in addition to a powerful slow if landed correctly). Finally, she's given a new ability that when placed correctly, it'll silence a group of champions and after the duration is over, it snares them. Her passive is reworked in lines of TheNeedsOfTheMany where she loses 20% of armor and magic resistance in exchange for more ability power. And since her abilities and healing scales well with ability power, it somewhat allows Soraka to build a little tanky consisting of magic resistance and armor AND have more ability power.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Soraka won't get many kills, she's pretty much dead if caught alone by almost any character, your teammates will scream for heals constantly, and yet you are probably the most important player in the team. A fed Soraka can make a huge difference in the endgame. She can keep her whole team healthy and loaded with mana for a considerable duration, her Starfall spell will make the team's AP Mage squee at the group of unprotected enemies, her Infuse spell will shutdown any spell spamming champions and her Wish will ensure that even when the team is wounded and retreating they'll be able to regroup and counter attack swiftly.
* ImplacableMan: In her heyday. Most heroes have to retreat for healing by the time they've got about 1000 Gold, sometimes 500. With luck and care, Soraka could stay on-station into the 3,000s. Some players only headed back to base ''because'' they've got so much gold that they might as well spend it. She is far less capable of this after a slew of nerfs due to the obvious ridiculousness of such a tendency.

* TheMedic: The most heal- and sustain-focused support champion in the game. Unless you manage to reduce her or her carry's HP to 0, they'll both hang back and come back with near-full health a short while later. If you think she's bad now, be aware that there have already been a number of {{nerf}}s to her, like removing her ability to restore her own MP and doubling the cooldown of her heal.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Soraka's reworked passive. It involves sacrificing her own armor and magic resistance at the expense of having more ability power, which means stronger heals and utility.

* NoSelfBuffs: She can target herself with Astral Blessing but not Infuse. This was a deliberate {{Nerf}} that prevented her from being a completely self-sustaining [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]] that literally had no counter.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Soraka utility is limited to healing and mana sustain with virtually no crowd control aside from the silence from Infuse (and even so, a single target silence is also really unreliable, particularly if the enemy will still gap close into you anyways). Her mana sustain is relatively useless for champions that ''don't'' rely in mana and there are more reliable mana sustain such as Athene's Unholy Grail and Mikael's Crucible. Getting close to someone to spam Starcall is also dangerous due to her squishy nature of her kit. At least with Sona and Nami, they at least have powerful crowd control in their kit. Riot acknowledges her underuse and limited utility and plans to rework her kit.

* SquishyWizard: Yes, she has two heals and an armor buff, but if those are burnt and she's still being chased, she's screwed.

* MyGreatestFailure: Riot has admitted that with his pre-relaunch kit, together with Poppy, he's one of their worst designed champions, both gameplay and flavor-wise. He's a huge hulking zombie with an axe, but he isn't very encouraged to fight at melee and doesn't make any use of the axe in any of his abilities, and has some abilities that don't make sense flavor-wise (why is a warrior zombie able to emit stunning, glittering eyebeams and generate exploding energy shields?). Gameplay-wise, he has only two builds: an AP mage build, which completely ignores and doesn't make use of his E and R, or an AD-build, which also gets no use out of his W ability. The main problem thus is that his abilities and gameplay don't mesh well with his appearance, and that he's forced to forego several of his abilities if he wants to be viable. They have already announced that, if he gets reworked, he's going to undergo pretty hefty changes.

* UnskilledButStrong: Described as a "human battering ram" in his lore.

[[quoteright:120:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SionSquare_171.png]]

Take his kit with a grain of salt, as he's got ''major'' changes incoming.

[[folder:Sion, the Undead Champion]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' J.S.Gillbert

->''"For Noxus, death is a promotion."''
-->-- '''Pantheon'''

Sion is a fighter-mage champion who can be built as either a resilient attacker or a burst mage, in both cases preferring to fight up close and personal. His passive, ''Feel no Pain'', grants him a chance to ignore a percentage of damage taken from basic attacks. His first ability, ''Cryptic Gaze'', damages and stuns a nearby enemy with a terrifying gaze. His second ability, ''Death's Caress'', surrounds Sion with a damage-absorbing shield made of souls for a duration. When the duration ends or the ability is reactivated the shield bursts, damaging nearby enemies. His third ability, ''Enrage'', is a toggled ability that, at the cost of some health per attack, increases Sion's attack damage and grants him a permanent bonus to his maximum health whenever he kills a unit. With his ultimate ability, ''Cannibalism'', Sion goes berserker for a duration, gaining a large bonus to his attack speed, making his basic attacks heal Sion for a percentage of the damage dealt, and also healing all nearby allies for a percentage of the amount healed to Sion.

* AffablyEvil: Even as an undead behemoth, Sion and his Choppa don't seem very sinister. His death sounds calm compared to Nocturne and like Singed is just plain calm in battle.
* TheAhnold: Half his lines are Arnold Schwarzenegger shout-outs.
* TheArtifact: Since the % chance of slowing an enemy on Phage / Frozen Mallet / Trinity Force got reworked, Sion's passive is literally the only element of chance in the game (besides critical hit chance). Since the developers' stated goal was to remove RNG mechanics from the game (the exception being crit chance), this is going to be the first thing to go when Sion gets his re-work.
* AnAxeToGrind: It's huge... and named Choppa.
* AwesomeButImpractical: A Sion with many accumulated stacks of Enrage to boost his max HP as well as a full build (including an Atma's Impaler to convert bonus HP into AD) will be nigh-unstoppable as hacks everything to death in his path. However, he requires the majority of a game's length to farm to make this happen, which ends up making him a liability compared to other fighters that can achieve sufficient amounts of damage with much less investment.

* BloodKnight:
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/4/4b/Sion.attack4.ogg "Lead me to Battle."'']]
* TheBrute: Probably the least intelligent of the Noxian champions and also among the strongest.
* CombatMedic: He doesn't fulfill the healer's role per-se, but his ultimate causes his physical attacks to heal both himself and his allies close by for the duration. When built as a physical DPS, Sion can easily keep his whole team alive with this massive lifesteal.
* CrutchCharacter: As AP, He starts off very good, but falls off late game.
* DissonantSerenity: He's a raging undead berserker that for some reason never raises his voice, not even when dying.
* FeelNoPain: The name of his passive, verbatim.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: It's even incorporated into his ability, Cryptic Gaze.
* ICallItVera:
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/5/51/Sion.attack5.ogg "Get on my Choppa!"]]''
* ImplacableMan: A fully leveled Sion is virtually impossible to kill and can take disgusting amounts of punishment thanks to Enrage's permanent health boosts, Cannibalism's sky-high lifesteal, and his natural bulk. There's gameplay footage of a fully-built Sion [[UpToEleven killing an entire enemy team from full health in their spawn]] while the 1000-damage-per-second laser is damaging him, a feat that pretty much no one else can do.
* LifeDrain: His ultimate grants this to his melee attacks for him and his allies during its duration.
* MagikarpPower: With an AD build he needs to farm to be of any use lategame, but becomes a true beast when fully built. Enrage lets him permanently stack HP for each minion killed and without a limit, giving him the highest feasible HP pool in the game (and potentially highest AD with Atma's Impaler converting HP to AD). This means that like Nasus or Veigar his effectiveness is directly proportional to how many creeps he's farmed over time.

* MyGreatestFailure: Riot has admitted that, together with Poppy, he's one of their worst designed champions, both gamplay and flavor-wise. He's a huge hulking zombie with an axe, but he isn't very encouraged to fight at melee and doesn't make any use of the axe in any of his abilities, and has some abilities that don't make sense flavor-wise (why is a warrior zombie able to emit stunning, glittering eyebeams and generate exploding energy shields?). Gameplay-wise, he has only two builds: an AP mage build, which completely ignores and doesn't make use of his E and R, or an AD-build, which also gets no use out of his W ability. The main problem thus is that his abilities and gameplay don't mesh well with his appearance, and that he's forced to forego several of his abilities if he wants to be viable. They have already announced that, if he gets reworked, he's going to undergo pretty hefty changes.
* NotTheIntendedUse: While Sion is made to be a fairly beefy physical-damage bruiser, a few players haven noted his ridiculously high magic scaling. Thus, AP Sion, who is known for his ability to kill most champions with only ''two spells''.

* ShootTheMedicFirst: In one of the strangest (and most counter-intuitive) examples in game, killing him while his Cannibalism effect is active will make killing his team significantly easier. Targeting the giant bruiser in front instead of the squishies behind him is not often the best way to proceed in teamfights.

* WeaksauceWeakness: One of the biggest problems with AP Sion is that if his shield gets broken before it blows up (a very real possibility late game), it eliminates roughly half of his damage output.

In his new lore post-relaunch (promotional site [[http://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/reborn here]]), Sion was a solider of Noxus long before the time of the League. He was hailed a champion in death, breaking through the overwhelming numbers of a Demacian invasion and personally slaying their king Jarvan in his final moments. To rally the nation around their hero, the Noxian Grand General had Sion raised into undeath with the Black Rose's aid. However the Sion that returned was more monster than man, indiscriminately slaughtering enemy and Noxian alike. After revolt among the Noxian ranks, Sion was sealed in his memorial, a mistake to be buried and forgotten.

In his new lore post-relaunch (promotional site [[http://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/reborn here]]), Sion was a solider of Noxus long before the time of the League. He was hailed a champion in death, breaking through the overwhelming numbers of a Demacian invasion and personally slaying their king Jarvan in his final moments. To rally Noxus around their hero, the Noxian Grand General had Sion raised into undeath with the Black Rose's aid. However the Sion that returned was more monster than man, indiscriminately slaughtering enemy and Noxian alike. After revolt among the Noxian ranks, Sion was sealed in his memorial, a mistake to be left alone and forgotten.

Many years later, when Jericho Swain became the Grand General of Noxus, he discovered Sion's existence and the dark history around the fallen hero. Calling upon the Black Rose once more, he procured the blood of Jarvan IV, the descendant of the Demacian king Sion had slain so long ago. Swain could not control Sion's bloodlust, but he could direct it; and so he released the abomination from its tomb, to kill for Noxus once again.

Many years later, when Swain became the Grand General of Noxus, he discovered Sion's existence and imprisonment. Calling upon the Black Rose once more, he procured the blood of Jarvan IV, the descendant of the Demacian king Sion had slain so long ago. Swain could not control Sion's bloodlust, but he could direct it; and so he released the abomination from its tomb.

A deadly mercenary and tomb robber, Sivir became infamous in the deserts of Shurima for her skill in battle and her ambition for gold. She was recruited by Noxus to fight in their name, but she broke ties when they began the invasion of Ionia. Surprisingly, their next contact was not one of revenge; Cassiopeia Du Couteau requested Sivir as an escort in search of an ancient Shurima artifact. However, their excursion went awry; the tomb they opened held not treasure, but a powerful force that changed the pair forever. As a champion of the League, Sivir continues to amass wealth and influence, but also searches for clues to her newly discovered legacy and ties to Shurima.

The Shurima arc gave her a significant {{revision}}: The excursion ended with Cassiopeia backstabbing her, and the trap cursing the noblewoman into a half-snake woman and released Xerath and Renekton. Bleeding to death, Sivir collapsed within the temple and inadvertently resurrected the Shurima Emperor Azir, as her blood came from his. Sivir was resurrected and witnessed that the act completed Azir's Ascension, and the Shurima Empire has once again risen.

Soraka is a support-mage champion with a heavy emphasis on healing, protecting and sustaining her teammates over damaging or disabling enemies. Her passive, ''Salvation'', empowers her healing and mana restoring skills depending on how much health/mana her targets are missing. Her first ability, ''Starcall'', allows her to repeatedly call down a shower of falling stars that damages all enemies around her, shredding their magic resistance and reducing the cooldown of her ''Astral Blessing'' ability if she hits an enemy champion. Her second ability, ''Astral Blessing'', heals a nearby ally and also grants them a massive bonus to their armor for a very brief duration. Her third ability, ''Infuse'', either restores mana to a nearby allied champion or damages and silences a nearby enemy. With her ultimate ability, ''Wish'', Soraka fills all her allied champions with hope, restoring a large amount of health to them regardless of their position on the map.

** Lead designer Morello has recently stated his intent to rework her. He's aware that people accustomed to her role as a dedicated healer will probably complain harshly, but he thinks Soraka deserves a kit that's not purposefully underpowered.

The Shurima arc gave her a significant retcon: The excursion ended with Cassiopeia backstabbing her, and the trap cursing the noblewoman into a half-snake woman and released Xerath and Renekton. Bleeding to death, Sivir collapsed within the temple and inadvertently resurrected the Shurima Emperor Azir, as her blood came from his. Sivir was resurrected and witnessed that the act completed Azir's Ascension, and the Shurima Empire has once again risen.