League of Legends/Trivia

• Banned in China: Similar to the issue with the Forsaken in World of Warcraft, Karthus was redesigned from a skull-faced lich to a withered, shadow-wrapped figure for the Chinese art, due to taboos about representations of skeletons in media.
• Development Gag: According to Phreak, Swain's ability that ensnares enemies with raven claws was supposed to be called Nevermore. Developers called it Nevermove and forgot to correct the name before launch.
• Dueling Games: With Demigod, Heroes of Newerth and, of course, Defense of the Ancients. Heroes of Newerth unquestionably the most.
• Fan Nickname: Numerous.
  • All champions with more than five symbols in their names have shorter nicknames for typing. Usually just first letters of the name, but any short name that clearly identifies the champion in question will do. Veigar is sometimes called Vivi, Gangplank is Pirate, and Alistar is Cow.
  • Certain champs get their perceived overpoweredness reflected with a spin on their name. For example, Win Nao the Senechal of Demacia, Free Win the Blind Monk, Gankplank and Feed-lesticks.
  • Second accounts are called "smurfs" (more or less officially, as Pendragon himself has one and calls it a smurf too).
    • This one extends outside of LoL.
  • Ezreal is sometimes called 'EZ-Real'.
  • A Yordle support? Suppordle.
  • Master Yi's sword (in the Chosen Yi skin) is referred to as "popsicle". He is also called "Master Right Click".
  • Swain's Decrepify skill is usually referred as Lazer Bird.
• Flip-Flop of God:
  • Karma's Sakura skin was originally referred to alternately as either "Sakura" or "Lotus" in different parts of the game until Riot settled on "Sakura".
  • Nunu's a boy. No, a girl. No, a boy!
• Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Some players have noted Garen's English voice sounds just like the English voice for Iron Tager. Or Algol.
  • Faye seems to have put on some clothes for once, or perhaps Xianghua got tired of having to block with her sword.
  • It would seem Noel is no longer using dual guns.
  • Rumble sounds like Billy and Daggett.
• Jossed: Popular fan theory that Lee Sin's been remade into another, already released champion.
• Name's the Same:
  • Ahri's passive, Essense Theft, was originally called Soul Eater... the same as Nasus'. The community wasted no time in pointing this out to the devs.

Ezreal: Whoops

• • I thought MsFortune was a catgirl in a newer fighting game.
• Reality Subtext: The champion Tryndamere is also the username of the president of Riot, Marc Merrill. His wife's name is Ashley. The champion Tryndamere has a political marriage to Ashe. But actually this is averted - the creative design team simply had the two champions marry since the champions both hail from the same region, and they were not aware Ashe was named after Marc Merrill's wife.
• Teasing Creator:
  • Riot gets all over this on April Fool's Day. They released Lee Sin, the Blind Monk AND an Urf the Manatee Corki Skin at once. Not ONLY that, but in the following Journal of Justice, there were two articles that talk about both. One mentions how Urf could be revived, and the other was a talk with Lee Sin. Not too bad, but the name of the article about Lee Sin? Trolling with a Monk (trolling is a type of fishing, which Lee Sin was doing in the article).
  • Riot then released this "spotlight". Game Breaking... no DESTROYING power, a "blurry" screen debuff, and the ability to kill members of your own team who defect to the other side. They released an actual spotlight video shortly after.
  • Their 2012 prank (a really bad 3D mode) was obvious (made even more so by the Urf cameo at the end), but nonetheless hilarious. Incidentally, they've actually named April Fool's Dy "Urf Day".
• What Could Have Been:
  • Riven was originally pitched as "Gooder than good" according to her designer Xypherous.
  • Xypherous originally intended Nautilus to have an ultimate that involved picking up an enemy champion and spinning them around him]]. It, regrettably, simply did not pan out. He also wanted Nautilus to have a base movement speed even lower than the bottom-of-the-barrel 300 Nautilus has right now, but said they wouldn't let him make it any lower.
  • Wukong's kit was originally completely different, and stated to be very complex.
  • Omen was a ranged champion concept that was shelved. Rioters elaborated on why he didn't make the cut, reasons including he was felt to be lacking personality and his visual design clashed with his gameplay.
  • Komachi was a tank champion concept by Xypherous that died once the artwork concepts happened... apparently they couldn't make the champion not cliche.
  • Lee Sin was one of the first champions designed and was in Development Hell until 2011 when he was finally released.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: When Riot gave people a boost to get a Corki skin and reduced it in price... the people who missed it screamed so loudly they've since been very careful about that. The developers don't often post in the forums because the average post is usually about as negative as the temperature in Antarctica. And most recently, a code to get a free skin for Caitlyn as well as the champion if you didn't already have her was put in the November issue of PC Gamer. A lot of people are reporting that people are going into stores and copying down codes printed in the magazine so they don't have to pay for them. Several people have predicted that they won't be doing this anymore, even though PC Gamer is combating this by having people email or call in with a proof of purchase to get another code.
• The Wiki Rule: There's some wiki:
  • The League of Legends Wikia.
  • The Leaguepedia, which covers the Esports scene.