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* InTheBack: This sort of effect happens with Talon's Cutthroat ability -- he teleports behind the enemy, silences them, and increases all damaged caused by himself to the target for 3 seconds.
* IOweYouMyLife: And he serves General Du Coteau because of it.

Talon is a assassin-fighter champion who can deal extreme physical burst damage, chasing and assasinating single targets, but must endanger himself by going into melee range. His passive, ''Mercy'', increases the damage his basic attacks deal against targets affected by movement-impairing effects. His first ability, ''Noxian Diplomacy'', makes his next basic attack deal bonus damage and make the target bleed, damaging and revealing them for a brief duration. His second ability, ''Rake'', throws three blades in a cone that immediately return to him, damaging and slowing enemies both in the way out and back. With his third ability, ''Cutthroat'', Talons instantly teleports behind a nearby enemy target, silencing them and increasing all damage he deals to them for a brief duration. With his ultimate ability, ''Shadow Assault'', Talon releases a ring of blades that damage all opponents they pass through, and then becomes invisible and gains movement speed for a brief duration. When the invisibility fades or the ability is reactivated the blades return to him, damaging all enemies they pass through again.

* MadeOfIron: Apparently can drink with the likes of Olaf and Gangplank and Gragas. When Teemo was used to surviving in the wild, beer is nothing to him

In Freljord, the Spirit Walkers are a unique caste whose only goal is protecting the balance of nature from those who would disrupt it. Once a generation, a child is born under a full moon and is taken to the Spirit Walker to continue the tradition. Udyr was that child when, in the dead of winter, he and his master were attacked by the Ice Witch. The Spirit Walker gave his life in protecting Udyr. Udyr's primal cry was so fierce that it brought down an avalanche, burying him so deeply that the Ice Witch was long gone when he clawed his way to the surface. With no one to guide him, Udyr was taken over by the spirits of nature and became a wild man, surviving on his own for many years until one day he smelled a visitor approaching without fear. The intruder repulsed Udyr's assaults with ease, forcing his rage to subside to the point where he could speak once again. The man was Lee Sin the monk who had come seeking guidance only to find another who had lost his way. Lee Sin brought Udyr back to his home in Ionia where the monks taught him to control his rage and to work with the spirits of nature instead of being ruled by them. Grateful to his adopted home, Udyr fought against Noxus when they attempted to invade Ionia. But as time went on, he felt that an even greater threat was emanating from the land of his birth, so he returned to Freljord to continue protecting the balance of nature and joined the League to help him in his goal.

Note: Trundle was given a rework, which retconned his story and changed his character because Riot had no more stories to tell with the original iteration. If you're looking for tropes on old Trundle, look at the [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsOthers Others]] page.

-> Valori Olant, Sludge Analyst: ''"We were just scientists, working on refining human waste into inexpensive baby formula... [EDIT] I saw it! I don't know how else to describe this crazed, enormous RAT screaming at us! Kicking over vats! Spitting on food! [EDIT] The lab was sealed. Nowhere to run. Chemicals flooded in through the sprinklers [EDIT] I woke up in the dark. Well, the acid had melted my eyeballs. I could SMELL the twitchy bastard inches from my face. It said, "NOBODY STEALS TWITCH'S JUICE!" cackled wildly, and skittered off. I can still smell it in my mind. OH MY GODS, I CAN STILL SMELL IT!!"''

''End transcript. At this point victim began screaming; has yet to stop.''

-> Valori Olant, Sludge Analyst: ''"We were just scientists, working on refining human waste into inexpensive baby formula... [EDIT] I saw it! I don't know how else to describe this crazed, enormous RAT screaming at us! Kicking over vats! Spitting on food! [EDIT] The lab was sealed. Nowhere to run. Chemicals flooded in through the sprinklers [EDIT] I woke up in the dark. Well, the acid had melted my eyeballs. I could SMELL the twitchy bastard inches from my face. It said, "NOBODY STEALS TWITCH'S JUICE!" cackled wildly, and skittered off. I can still smell it in my mind. OH MY GODS, I CAN STILL SMELL IT!!"

End transcript. At this point victim began screaming; has yet to stop.''

->''"The existence of Twitch proves that anything is possible on Runeterra."''
-->-- '''Heimerdinger'''

* CaptainErsatz: Twisted Fate is definitely not [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Gambit]]. Or [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Tubalcain Alhambra]], for that matter. He's also been mentioned to look like [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption John Marston]], especially in his [[{{Cowboy}} High Noon]] skin. Then there's also jokes about his Underworld skin looking like something out of DarkWatch.

* ParanoiaFuel: Riot said outright that this is an intended design aspect for Thresh. Like Blitzcrank, he often hides in bushes to wait until you're in a position to be chained up, leaving his opponents paranoid about going anywhere near a bush if they've suddenly lost sight of him. However, he must leave the bushes every so often to grab fallen souls, giving you a glimpse of him every so often like horror movies do for the monsters. In addition, when Thresh finally does throw his chain, he doesn't look in the direction he's throwing it until it's already out.

Tristana is a marksman-assassin champion who excels at blasting opponents from afar with her basic attacks while also being able to deal strong magic burst damage. Her passive, ''Draw a Bead'', increases the range of her basic attacks, ''Explosive Shot'', and ''Buster Shot'' as she levels up, giving her the longest normal[[labelnote:*]]beaten by several characters with abilities active[[/labelnote]] attack range in the game at its maximum. Her first ability, ''Rapid Fire'', greatly increases her attack speed for a few seconds. With her second ability, ''Rocket Jump'', Tristana propels herself into the air with her rocket at a nearby area, damaging and slowing nearby enemies when she lands. The cooldown of the ability is refreshed when she kills or helps kill an enemy champion. Her third ability, ''Explosive Shot'', passively makes enemies slain by her basic attacks explode, damaging nearby foes, and can be activated to launch a ball of shrapnel at a nearby enemy, damaging and halving any healing effects on them for a duration. Her ultimate ability, ''Buster Shot'', fires a gigantic cannonball at a nearby enemy, damaging and heavily knocking them back, along with all surrounding foes.

* ComputersAreFast: Tristana Bot will nearly always Rocket Jump away then Buster Shot someone the nanosecond she lands to escape pursuit, something only the best players can do. However, combine this trope with zero latency and you can occasionally see a knocked-up or knocked-back Tristana Bot Rocket Jump away while ''still in midair,'' which is impossible for players. Tristana Bot doesn't wait until she lands, she shoots Buster Shot as soon as she's ''in mid-air!'' The reaction time required makes this almost humanly impossible.

-->'''Rammus:''' Everyone does your job better. ''Everyone.'' [[note]]Ironically, Rammus also fits into this trope in terms of jungling[[/note]]
** This trope is slowly being averted. With many nerfs on some of the popular AD's like Graves, Corki, and Ezreal in season 2 along with the introduction of Blade of the Ruined King, she is being slowly seen in season 3 LCS competetive play. With many of the item nerfs of popular AD scaling items (i.e. The Bloodthrister) and the nerfs to the attack speed slow from Randuin's Omen and Frozen Heart, Tristana has experienced a powerful revival in season 4 LCS.

* InNameOnly: Unlike the other 2 champions to have this trope (Evelynn and Karma) Trundle's relaunch changed very little about his kit, being mainly a series of buffs, nerfs and changes not too different from what any champ may get in a normal patch. However, his ''entire'' character concept was completely dumped and recreated from the ground up, to the point that, apart from being a club-wielding troll, his name is the only thing he has in common with his original iteration. And as a first for Riot, Trundle is the first champion since the beta ended to have his title changed after his release, from "the Cursed Troll" to "the Troll King".

* InsistentTerminology: Considering the LeonineContract he had to go trough to get there, he doesn't like when others refer to him as less than '''Troll King''', calling him 'troll chief' will just mean a club in your skull.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: His joke is clearly a DoubleEntendre with this trope [[OneHandedZweihander and how he uses his sword one-handed]].

* UnstoppableRage: His ultimate is simply this trope reworded. Undying Rage makes it impossible to kill Tryndamere for five seconds. Even if you drain his entire health bar, he'll simply stay at 1 HP. This is when Tryndamere is at his most dangerous as he gains attack power for every percentage of health he's missing and extra critical strike rating the more Fury he has. For those five seconds, Tryndamere truly does become unstoppable.

* LaughingMad: Players of Twitch will notice he just seems to titter and giggle a lot while you're going about your playing. And when you activate his ultimate, it get's even crazier.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: Invoked, then hilariously subverted, when he gets caught in one of Caitlyn's Traps.

* MoreDakka: His ''Rat-ta-tat-tat'' ability certainly brings up the trope.

* ThePhoenix: Udyr has a Phoenix Stance. Unlike the other uses of the trope, Phoenix Stance is merely uses the fire aspect of the creature to make Udyr's main-source of area-of-effect damage, radiating flames around him for its duration (used to also provide an attack damage and ability power boost as well), and in front of him like FireBreathingWeapon for the first hit and every three autoattacks while in the stance.

Thresh is a support-fighter champion who grows stronger and more resilient the longer the game goes on, and excels at directing movement, displacing enemies and repositioning allies. His passive, ''Damnation'', is a completely unique mechanic; instead of gaining armor naturally as he levels up, he can collect souls that sometimes drop from nearby dying units, each soul granting him a permanent bonus to his armor and ability power that can stack indefinitely. With his first ability, ''Death Sentence'', Thresh launchs his chained hook forward, damaging, stunning and slowly dragging towards him the first enemy hit. He can also choose to reactivate the ability to make a ''Death Leap'', removing the stun but instantly pulling Thresh to the chained enemy. His second ability, ''Dark Passage'', hurls his lantern at a target location where it will stay for a few seconds, granting a damage-absorbing shield to the first ally to walk near it as well as to himself if he does so. Additionally, an ally can click on the lantern to be immediatelly pulled out alongside the lantern to Thresh's location. His third ability, ''Flay'', passively increases the damage of his basic attacks based on the number of souls he's collected and the time spent between each attack, and it can be activated to make Thresh sweep his chain in a direction, damaging, slowing and either pushing or pulling all opponents around him in the chosen direction. His ultimate ability, ''The Box'', summons a box of spectral energy around himself, inflicting large damage and a massive slow to the first enemy to pass through each of its five walls.

* TheDreaded: See also ''this entire entry''.

* ParanoiaFuel: [[invoked]]Riot said outright that this is an intended design aspect for Thresh. Like Blitzcrank he often hides in bushes to wait until you're in a position to be chained up leaving his opponents paranoid about going anywhere near a bush if they've suddenly lost sight of him. However he must leave the bushes every so often to grab fallen souls giving you a glimpse of him every so often like horror movies do for the monsters. In addition when Thresh finally does throw his chain he doesn't look in the direction he's throwing it until it's already out.

* SoftspokenSadist: Nearly all of his many lines are playful, sadistic mockery spoken in a magnified, echoing whisper. Pretty much the only time he raises his voice is when he's been killed and when he's laughing.

* YourSoulIsMine: His central theme - collect the souls of nearby dying enemies to get stronger, more or less indefinitely. That lantern of his carries all of the souls he's gathered. This actually carries over into gameplay [[GuideDangIt even though it's said nowhere in the tooltips]] - throwing his lantern at souls can capture them from afar.

Tristana is a Yordle girl who enjoys big guns and big explosions. She dreamed of living in the footsteps of a legendary sniper, and spent her childhood training to achieve this goal by joining the Megling Commandos, Bandle City's oldest and most venerable military unit. Now part of the League, her skill and dedication on the battlefield is contrasted by her cheerful personality among her fellows.

Tristana is a marksman-assassin champion who excels at blasting opponents from afar with her basic attacks, while also being able to deal strong magic burst damage. Her passive, ''Draw a Bead'', increases the range of her basic attacks and ''Explosive Shot'' ability as she levels up, giving her the longest attack range in the game at its maximum. Her first ability, ''Rapid Fire'', greatly increases her attack speed for a few seconds. With her second ability, ''Rocket Jump'', Tristana propels herself into the air with her rocket at a nearby area, damaging and slowing nearby enemies when she lands. The cooldown of the ability is refreshed when she kills or helps kill an enemy champion. Her third ability, ''Explosive Shot'', passively makes enemies slain by her basic attacks explode, damaging nearby foes, and can be activated to launch a ball of shrapnel at a nearby enemy, damaging and halving any healing effects on them for a duration. Her ultimate ability, ''Buster Shot'', fires a gigantic cannonball at a nearby enemy, damaging and heavily knocking them back, along with all surrounding foes.

Thresh is a support-fighter champion who grows stronger and more resilient the longer the game goes on, and excels at directing movement, displacing enemies and repositioning allies. His passive, ''Damnation'', is a completely unique mechanic; instead of gaining armor naturally as he levels up, he can collect souls that sometimes drop from nearby dying units, each soul granting him a permanent bonus to his armor and ability power that can stack indefinitely. With his first ability, ''Death Sentence'', Thresh launchs his chained hook forward, damaging, stunning and slowly dragging towards him the first enemy hit. He can also choose to reactivate the ability to make a ''Death Leap'', removing the stun but instantly pulling Thresh to the chained enemy. His second ability, ''Dark Passage'', hurls his lantern at a target location where it will stay for a few seconds, granting a damage-absorbing shield to all nearby allies. Additionally, an ally can click on the lantern to be immediatelly pulled out alongside the lantern to Thresh's location. His third ability, ''Flay'', passively increases the damage of Thresh's basic attacks based on the number of souls he's collected and the time spent between each attack, and can be activated to make Thresh sweep his chain in a direction, damaging, slowing and either pushing or pulling all opponents around him in the chosen direction. His ultimate ability, ''The Box'', summons a box of spectral energy around himself, inflicting large damage and a massive slow to the first enemy to pass through each of its five walls.

* DynamicEntry: Not him, his lantern has the potential to let ''others'' do this. Here's a tip: if an enemy Thresh throws his lantern into a brush you have no vision of for no obvious reason, start running. He's about to bring a ganker to you.

* GrapplingHookGun: Of the hook-on-a-chain that he throws variety. He can use this to yank an enemy closer to him ''and'' pull himself closer to them if he so chooses.

* YouWillNotEvadeMe: Par for the course for a "kill" support, he has ''three'' ways to enact this trope. Death Sentence in particular lives up to its name; it stuns a hapless foe, pulls them a short distance back towards Thresh, and can be re-activated to bring Thresh back into melee range. Combined with Flay's re-direction potential and The Box's incredibly powerful slow, a well executed Thresh combo can lock down enemies with ease.

** This trope is slowly being averted. With many nerfs on some of the popular AD's like Graves, Corki, and Ezreal in season 2 along with the introduction of Blade of the Ruined King, she is being slowly seen in season 3 LCS competetive play.

* SkillGateCharacter: To an extent. He's still useful even after the gate has been passed, but higher up in the league he loses his dominance to more damaging characters. His main trick, the mushrooms, lose their edge if somebody simply gets the ability to see invisible, allowing them to be taken out. Even once they lose their edge as hidden traps of death, they are still mobile wards, and if they are concentrated in an area it can become hard to remove them all before they get run into. That being said, his poison is potent and lethal, and there is nothing you can do to render it more harmless, so even if his mushrooms are simply wards or road spikes if he's being chased he can still deal out a good bit of damage. Edit: With the recent changes to vision, this is now averted. Teemo is now one of the most dangerous characters in LoL. Despite nerfs to the shrooms ap ratio, Teemo is rapidly becoming a source of frustration even to high ranked players.

* CrutchCharacter: Urgot has a strong early game, but his skills scale poorly for the lategame. Mind you, he still has a fair bit of utility in his damage reduction, slowing and repositioning. Edit: Subverted. While Urgot is hard to catch up with if he loses his lane badly, it turns out the huge amount of armor penetration on his kit makes him amazing at killing targets he can nail with his grenade, especially tanks.

** However, the developers still consider him a failure. While nowadays he's much more effective and playable than what he was at the beggining, Urgot is still a very niche character whose only strong point is bullying opponent during lane, as late game he can't deal noticeable damage. He's slated for a rework to make him less binary. Edit: Averted as far as not dealing damage late game. It turns out the massive amount of armor penetration on Urgot's kit when combined with a black cleaver makes him a highly effective tank killer and capable of wiping out squishier characters in a few shots.

* CrutchCharacter: Urgot has a strong early game, but his skills scale poorly for the lategame. Mind you, he still has a fair bit of utility in his damage reduction, slowing and repositioning.

** However, the developers still consider him a failure. While nowadays he's much more effective and playable than what he was at the beggining, Urgot is still a very niche character whose only strong point is bullying opponent during lane, as late game he can't deal noticeable damage. He's slated for a rework to make him less binary.

* HopeBringer: Ironically, he can become this for his team. Just got ambushed by enemy champs, only to see your ally Thresh toss his lantern over a wall to you? Your ass probably just got saved from a CurbStompBattle.

* CaptainErsatz: Twisted Fate is definitely not [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Gambit]]. Or [[{{Hellsing}} Tubalcain Alhambra]], for that matter. He's also been mentioned to look like [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption John Marston]], especially in his [[{{Cowboy}} High Noon]] skin. Then there's also jokes about his Underworld skin looking like something out of DarkWatch.

Twisted Fate's alternate skins include PAX 2009 Twisted Fate, Jack of Hearts Twisted Fate, The Magnificent Twisted Fate, Tango Twisted Fate, High Noon Twisted Fate, Musketeer Twisted Fate, and Underworld Twisted Fate.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Tiny mini skirts,]] anyone?

** Also, since her damage output all comes from autoattacks, many players can easily counter her by building items that reduces her autoattack speed (Randuin's Omen and Frozen Heart), items that reflect back autoattack damage (Thornmail), or tanks that have mechanics and skills that fuck up lategame hypercarries (Nasus, Rammus, and Malphite).

* DumbMuscle: Notably averted. He might be BookDumb but he is clever, cunning, fast-thinking and witty all the same. His /joke voice commands, on the other hand, invoke this trope.
--> ''[[http://images.wikia.com/leagueoflegends/images/1/17/Trundle.joke03.ogg "It's alright Clubbems, we'll get to smashing soon."]]''

* HeyItsThatVoice: His voice actor Brian Sommers also voices Warwick and Nunu's yeti.

* OddFriendship: He is listed as being friends with Zac. Probably because he reminds Twitch of home.

* BodyHorror: Being crippled with countless injuries over a long time-frame didn't help his physique. Being cut in half, killed, possibly mutilated further, and stitched back together with [[MagiTek techmaturgy]] didn't either.
* CaptainErsatz: Of Yagrum Bagarn, the corpus-infected dwarf from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''. [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Mojo]] also comes to mind.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He may be a monster, both inside and out, but with most of his lines expressing how painful his immortality is you can't help but feel a ''little'' sorry for him. On the other hand, lore outright states that the current in-universe theory by Urgot's creator for why Urgot is able to live in constant agony while all other attempts to create similar projects have failed is because of his all-consuming hatred and desire to kill Garen.

Taric is a support-fighter champion that prefers to aid allies in close-quarters combat, being much tankier than the average support and having powerful buffs, crowd control and healing. His passive, ''Gemcraft'', makes his next basic attack after using an ability deal bonus damage equal to a percentage of his armor and reduce the cooldown of all his abilities. His first ability, ''Imbue'', allows Taric to use earthen energy to either heal both an ally and himself at the same time, or only himself for a bonus amount of health. His second ability, ''Shatter'', passively protects Taric with a crystal armor that grants him bonus armor and also emits an aura that increases the armor of nearby allies. When the ability is activated, Taric shatters the crystal, damaging all nearby enemies and reducing their armor, but losing the passive armor bonus while the ability is on cooldown. His third ability, ''Dazzle'', fires a blast of light from his shield at a nearby enemy, stunning them and damaging them depending on how close they are to him. With his ultimate ability, ''Radiance'', Taric slams the ground with his hammer, damaging all nearby enemies and, for a brief duration, emitting an aura of light that gives himself and nearby allies an offensive stat bonus.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Bloodstone Taric discards the cape and dons a new set of red armor and even has RedEyesTakeWarning.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Enemies tend to not laugh at the gemstone knight when he uses his [[DropTheHammer gem-enchanted hammer]] [[GemstoneAssault to smash their faces in]]. The fact that they make him as durable as a a gem and he can use their magic to keep himself and his allies healthy is even better.

* MagicKnight: Magic? Check. Handsome armor? Check. Hideously heavy-looking melee weapon? Double check.

* ShieldBash: One of his auto-attacks is to smash his giant gem shield into the enemy.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: Tanky or no, he ''will'' find himself the center of the enemy's attention more often than not.

* StoneWall: Even if he heals his allies, it will heal himself as well, potentially making anyone resilient along with him. And if he heals just himself, it heals even ''more''. On top of that, his second skill passively increases his defenses, so he's able to start soaking damage that way anyways. Since another defensive aura also applies to his allies based on his own defense, Taric players have good reason for building lots and lots of it.

* AwesomeYetPractical: Destiny provides large amounts of utility for his team by revealing the entire map and letting them know exactly where all enemies are and Gate is very versatile for ganking lanes and reaching faraway fights to help out (or even as an escape tool if one is desperate). He's a common tournament pick because top-tier players can be counted on to keep track of when his ultimate is available, letting Twisted Fate's team exploit this invisible map-wide pressure: even the act of using Destiny as a bluff (without following up with Gate) can be a powerful deterrent to force enemies to back off.

Note: Trundle was given a rework, which retconned his story and changed his character because Riot had no more stories to tell with the original iteration. If you're looking for tropes on old Trundle, look at the bottom of the page.