Assume the role of an unseen 'summoner' that controls a 'champion' with unique abilities and battle against a team of other players or computer-controlled champions in the immensely popular multiplayer online battle arena League of Legends.
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Yordle inventor Heimerdinger has a line where he mutters "42... there's just something about that number," which is a direct nod to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where 42 is famously the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Feels about right for a genius who spends his days building giant turrets out of scrap.
The Jaximus skin has a genuinely heartfelt story behind it. It was created to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation after a young patient visiting Riot named Jax as his favourite champion, and every so often Jax will still say "here's to you, kid" as a small tribute to him.
Ever wonder why the plain, unglamorous BF Sword costs so much for a stat stick with no passive? Part of the charm is the name, which is widely taken as a cheeky reference to Doom's ridiculously overpowered BFG9000. Big, expensive, and a little bit of an inside joke.
It sits right there in plain sight until someone points it out to you. Rearrange the letters in Shaco and you get chaos, which is a pretty perfect summary of what it's like to be on the receiving end of his boxes and clones.
Someone actually sat down and compared Jinx's dance emote side by side with Jake from Adventure Time doing his own goofy little shuffle, and the moves line up almost beat for beat. Whether it was intentional or a happy coincidence, once you've seen the comparison you can't watch either one the same way again.
Before she became the gauntlet-swinging enforcer we know now, Vi's design was completely different. A senior Riot animator revealed her original concept was a roller derby cop named Ruby, patrolling the streets of Zaun on skates rather than punching her way through walls.
Irelia gets a reputation as the champion who's forever getting patched down, but Kassadin's numbers have quietly taken more hits over the years than almost anyone. Cooldowns stretched, damage trimmed, again and again, the poor Void Walker just can't catch a break.
Thresh doesn't always start the game with the same number of souls. Queue into a match against Lucian and he kicks off with just one, but there are specific matchup interactions tied to Nunu & Willump and to Sejuani that quietly change his starting count too. Most players never notice the difference, but it's baked right into his kit as a nod to his obsession with Lucian specifically.
Riot has actually gone on record joking about what happens if you eat a Poro, and the answer is somehow worse than you'd expect. Apparently it eats its way back out of your stomach, chestburster style, and if you try to chew one first it just splits apart into several new Poros instead of dying. Cute little furballs, horrifying flavour text.
Draven, Jax, and Vel'Koz all come out of the same voice actor's mouth, which is a genuinely tough one to spot given how different those three characters sound and act. Play their voice lines back to back for someone who's never touched the game and see if they can guess.
