History Headscratchers / LeagueOfLegends

* So after watching [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGCictw_TgM this vid]], I got wondering. Why ''hasn't'' Riot taken a shot at making a spinoff game? League's big enough to be called the video game super bowl so there should be an audience to sell to. I get that MOBA is a very different style from other games, but there's always the option to collab with other developers (like when Nintendo and Koei made ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors]]). I'm just curious is all.

** There's also the fact that League's lore is currently going under some ''major'' overhauls, so no issue with being behind in lore.

** I would say no. At this point a Champion is just a cipher to represent you on the battlefield, with some personality flavor to make it more interesting. If you take an interest in him or her and want to learn more, the information is there. The real barrier to League is learning the game mechanics, builds, and how to shrug off the occasionally-toxic community.

* Hey, I've been thinking about starting LOL. Will there be any *ContinuityLockout? Just wondering.

** I was actually excited to see that her eyes had turned blue. Give Ahri's backstory/lore a read: she's a gumiho ''trying to become more human/moral.'' The legend of the gumiho states that if the (naturally pretty ChaoticNeutral) gumiho can go 1000 days without eating a human, it will turn into a pure-hearted creature (or even become human itself). This December 11th, 2014 will mark Ahri's 3-year anniversary of joining the league. 3 years = 1095 days. It's hounestly FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Riot ''acknowledged'' this passage of time in A New Dawn. TL;DR her eyes were yellow when she joined the league, now they're blue, to show that she's become a good person (or is very close to being one).

** You were BornLucky. Because ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a free game, it's fully possible for people to have only two wins at level 10 because every other match they get into is full of [[SockPuppet Saboteur accounts]] as I call them. I don't know if this is happening in ''HeroesOfNewerth'' now that it's free or not, but you're not free from dummy accounts that are dumped at level 20 or so for people to just go in and troll, intentionally feed, and make newbies' lives a living hell by wrecking their games. If they get reported, then who cares? You're not losing anything - it's just a ''dummy account'' that's banned. That and they probably are playing more bot games. I play bot games mostly because I don't have the time to get into a game that can drag on for over an hour and people rarely let bot games drag on that long.

*** But for some reason, it's ''especially'' bad in MOBA games, especially DefenseOfTheAncients, HeroesOfNewerth, and this game.

***** Which is why you should ''never'' play ranked or ''any'' games that are "pro" environment like [=DotA=] or HeroesOfNewerth - If you're having fun, ''you WILL be chased out'' and kicked from games, blacklisted, trash-talked, etc. StopHavingFunGuys cannot be removed - they can only be quarantined by "pro" environments that stroke their egos.

** Sion is already dead. And if Urgot's selection quote ("Eternal life, endless torment") is any indication, those who undergo the process Sion and Urgot went through exist in pain, so death might be a release of sorts. For Draven, his death is supposed to be a shoutout to either [[MetalGear Liquid Ocelot]] or [[CowboyBebop Cowboy Bebop]]'s death ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oujWuLFx7Ug video comparison]]), and having it be more 'dramatic' would null the shoutout.

** There is no Texas in Runeterra. Therefore, he doesn't have a Texan accent within his universe. So!...it doesn't really matter. At least he doesn't sound like [[DawnOfWar Commander]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/DawnOfWar Boreale]]. Then, I'd complain about his accent.

** Losing is not fun in a MOBA. Any other multiplayer online game a round is 20 minutes at max, plenty of time to dust off and try to get another win if you lose your current game. A MOBA usually takes 45 minutes minimum. Like Tycho of PennyArcade said, the fact that you have to spend fifteen minutes farming stretches out the length and emotional investment of a multiplayer game far longer than it should, which makes losing worse, which in turn makes the community more resentful and angry. It essentially means that at any given time, half of the player base feels like they just wasted an hour of their life. That brings out the worst in people for obvious reasons, to a higher degree than any other genre.

*** Only for training games. Co-op vs. AI games do count towards wins.

** I was actually excited to see that her eyes had turned blue. Give Ahri's backstory/lore a read: she's a gumiho ''trying to become more human/moral.'' The legend of the gumiho states that if a gumiho can go 1000 days without eating a human, it will turn into a pure-hearted creature (or even become human itself). This December 11th, 2014 will mark Ahri's 3-year anniversary of joining the league. 3 years = 1095 days. It's hounestly FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Riot ''acknowledged'' this passage of time in A New Dawn. TL;DR her eyes were yellow when she joined the league, now they're blue, to show that she's become a good person (or is very close to being one).

** I was actually excited to see that her eyes had turned blue. Give Ahri's backstory/lore a read: she's a gumiho ''trying to become more human/moral.'' The legend of the gumiho states that if a gumiho can go 1000 days without eating a human, it will turn into a pure-hearted creature (or even become human itself). This December 11th, 2014 will mark Ahri's 3-year anniversary of joining the league. 3 years = 1095 days. It's hounestly FridgeBrilliance when you realize that Riot ''acknowledged'' this passage of time in A New Dawn. TL;DR her eyes were yellow when she joined the league, now they're blue.

** I was actually excited to see that her eyes had turned blue. Give Ahri's backstory/lore a read: she's a gumiho ''trying to become more human/moral.'' The legend of the gumiho states that if a gumiho can go 1000 days without eating a human, it will turn into a pure-hearted creature (or even become human itself). This December 11th, 2014 will mark Ahri's 3-year anniversary of joining the league. 3 years = 1095 days. It's hounestly FridgeBrilliance.

* Why are Ahri's eyes blue in A New Dawn? They're yellow. They've always been yellow. I can't find a single piece of official artwork, and only a very small handful of unofficial pieces, where her eyes ''aren't'' yellow. So why did they turn blue for the cinematic? Is it really that hard to glance at the splash art of one of your most popular and beloved characters before you start making a 3D model of her?

* Why are Ahri's eyes blue in A New Dawn? They're yellow. They've always been yellow. I can't find a single piece of official artwork, and only a very small handful of unofficial pieces, where her eyes ''aren't'' yellow. so why did they turn blue for the cinematic? Is it really that hard to glance at the splash art of one of your most popular and beloved characters before you start making a 3D model of her?

* How is it possible that Caitlyn's hat NEVER left her head? Even some hat-user like Miss Fortune had her hat fell off when she died, but Caitlyn? Her hat sticks in her head even as she fell down and die. How??

*** Carries should only greed a kill if they are underfed or 200ish gold short of an important item. While carries do require kill gold to maintain a strong presence throughout the game, 4 strong teammates are better than 1 really strong teammate and 3 not so strong teammates.

** Why does Cassiopeia's petrifying ultimate have the same effects on Malphite, a sentient stone, as it does an organic champion? Why does an enemy's Sunfire Cape hurt Leona, the representation of the Sun? How does Teemo's blinding dart do anything to Lee Sin, the already blind monk? Why do silences do anything to Sona, an already mute champion? Why does Ignite hurt Brand, a being of fire, at all? Why does Ahri's Charm work on Taric, a homosexual champion? How do champions without blood get affected by bleeding damage? And so on.

** Ahri's death sounds in general to those who don't know her lore or understand the symbolism behind it. Some are still a bit over the top.

* Perhaps one of the worst aspects of the game is when a player KS's (kill steals) another player. Depending on how the person who nearly got the kill is, s/he may not care at all or care that they went from getting a kill to only an assist. This gives birth to numerous issues if the KS'd player is not okay with having their kill taken. KSing can be intentional but can also be unintentional.

******* You are, lucky that is. Please find someone knowledgeable to help/train you a bit before you attempt ranked games. You'll thank me, trust me on this...

*** Only for training games. Co-op vs. AI games do couut towards wins.

** Sion is already dead, so that's kind of a moot point. For Draven, his death is supposed to be a shoutout to Liquid Ocelot, and having it be more 'dramatic' would null the shoutout.
** Well at least the rectify Eternum Nocturne's fear of death. Compared to Nocturne' former death sound he is much calmer.