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The League of Legends video game features a wide cast of characters involved in the game; they may either come as NPCs, or as playable champions (which form a large majority of the cast). The champions all reside in the fictional world of Runeterra whose landscape and geography has been significantly altered by the excessive use of magic in past disputes and wars. In order to prevent further damage to the land, a group of summoners, powerful magicians and often called as political leaders in Runeterra, have decided to form the League of Legends, an organization which would serve to mediate future political conflicts through sanctioned battles. Those that have been chosen to participate in these battles are considered as champions.

Creation and conception

Riot Games releases new champions for League of Legends frequently, around every 1~3 months, with each champion having a unique set of skills and play style. Some champions specialize in quickly subduing their opponents with a flurry of spells, while others are capable of soaking up plenty of damage or are able to effectively disrupt an opponent champion's movements.

Part of the development process for the champions involves drawing in inspiration from many sources, some of which coming from popular media at the time of creation. For example, the champion Elise's dance animation is based off the Can-Can.

Demacian Champions

Fiora Laurent

Title: The Grand Duelist

Release Date: 29 February 2012

Fiora is well known in Demacia as both for her skill as a duelist and for her sharp tongue. Coming from a family of duelists, she had always aimed for greatness and longed to match, or even surpass, his father's skill. Her father was, however, caught undermining an opponent for an arranged duel through the use of poison, ruining the Laurent family's reputation and placing a shadow of a doubt on Fiora's own honor. Out of desperation, she had challenged and defeated her father in a duel, seizing control of House Laurent and set out to re-establish her name not as the greatest duelist in Demacia but of all of Valoran.

Galio

Title: The Sentinel's Sorrow

Release Date: 10 August 2010

Galio was a result of Runeterra's mages experimentation with artificial life, created by a Demacian craftsman by the name of Durand. Made in the image of a gargoyle, Durand was protected by Galio during his journeys and allowed him to perform his work without any fear of being attacked by Noxians. In one journey, however, Galio was outnumbered by Noxian assassins and his ward was quickly killed. Without any reason to go on, he stood over his creator's remains for years till a mournful but resolute yordle girl with a Demacian crown rested under her shadow. Within the girl's burden and determination, Galio remembered the cause that his master had died for and created a new purpose for himself: to join the League of Legends and fight for Demacia.

Garen Crownguard

Title: The Might of Demacia

Release Date: 27 April 2010

Garen is seen as the paradigm representing the Demacian moral code to which all leaders are compared to. The leader of the Dauntless Vanguard, an elite Demacian squad, had found a worthy match on the battlefield upon encountering Noxus' Katarina. Ever since their first fight, he had pursued to fight her once again as a validation of his existence as a warrior.

Jarvan Lightshield IV

Title: The Exemplar of Demacia

Release Date: 1 March 2011

Lucian

Title: The Purifier

Release Date: 22 August 2013

Luxanna Crownguard

Title: The Lady of Luminosity

Release Date: 19 October 2010

Poppy

Title: The Iron Ambassador

Release Date: 13 January 2010

Quinn and Valor

Title: Demacia's Wings

Release Date: 1 March 2013

Shyvana

Title: The Half-Dragon

Release Date: 1 November 2011

Sona Buvelle

Title: The Maven of the Strings

Release Date: 20 September 2010

Vayne

Title: The Night Hunter

Release Date: 10 May 2011

Xin Zhao

Title: The Seneschal of Demacia

Release Date: 13 July 2010

Noxian Champions

Annie

Title: The Dark Child

Release Date: 21 February 2009

When Gregori Hastur, the Gray Warlock, and his wife Amoline, the Shadow Witch, leaders of the Gray Order, left Noxus and moved with their troop to the Voodoo Lands, they had their daughter Annie. At the time when Annie reached two years old, she miraculously ensorcelled a shadow bear which she named "Tibbers", but she often keep it spell bond as a child's teddy bear.

Cassiopeia Du Couteau

Title: The Serpent's Embrace

Release Date: 14 December 2010

Darius

Title: The Hand of Noxus

Release Date: 23 May 2012

Draven

Title: The Glorius Executioner

Release Date: 6 June 2012

Katarina Du Couteau

Title: The Sinister Blade

Release Date: 19 September 2009

Emilia (Evaine) LeBlanc

Title: The Deceiver

Release Date: 2 November 2010

Morgana

Title: Fallen Angel

Release Date: 21 February 2009

Riven

Title: The Exile

Release Date: 14 September 2011

Sion

Title: The Undead Champion

Release Date: 21 February 2009

Jericho Swain

Title: The Master Tactician

Release Date: 5 October 2010

Talon

Title: The Blade's Shadow

Release Date: 24 August 2011

Urgot

Title: The Headsman's Pride

Release Date: 24 August 2010

Vladimir

Title: The Crimson Reaper

Release Date: 27 July 2010

Warwick

Title: The Blood Hunter

Release Date: 21 February 2009

Warwick was once a man who used human specimens for the darkest type of scientific research. When he started to want more than what his abilities can achieve, he drank a potion. Even though the formula was incomplete, Warwick was determined to have the potion made. When he took the potion, he transformed into a manhunter who finds himself uncontrollable.

Ionian Champions

Ahri

Title: The Nine-Tailed Fox

Release Date: 14 December 2011

Akali

Title: The Fist of Shadow

Release Date: 11 May 2010

Irelia

Title: The Will of the Blades

Release Date: 16 November 2010

Karma

Title: The Enlightened One

Release Date: 1 February 2011

Kennen

Title: The Heart of the Tempest

Release Date: 8 April 2010

Lee Sin

Title: The Blind Monk

Release Date: 1 April 2011

Master Yi

Title: The Wuju Bladesman

Release Date: 21 February 2009

Shen

Title: The Eye of Twilight

Release Date: 24 March 2010

Soraka

Title: The Starchild

Release Date: 21 February 2009

Syndra

Title: The Dark Sovereign

Release Date: 13 September 2012

Varus

Title: The Arrow of Retribution

Release Date: 8 May 2012

Yasuo

Title: The Unforgiven

Release Date: 13 December 2013

Zed

Title: The Master of Shadows

Release Date: 13 November 2012

Bandle City

Corki

Title: The Daring Bombardier

Release Date:19 September 2009

Heierdinger

Title: the Revered Inventor

Release Date:10 October 2009

Poppy

Title: the Iron Ambassador

Release Date:13 January 2009

Rumble

Title: the Mechanize Menace

Release Date:26 April 2011

Teemo

Title: the Swift Scout

Release Date:21 February 2009

Tristana

Title: the Megling Gunner

Release Date:21 February 2009

Ziggs

Title: the Hexplosives Expert

Release Date:1 February 2009

Amumu

Title: the Sad Mummy

Release Date:26 June 2009

Kennen

Title: the Heart of the Tempest

Release Date:8 April 2010

Lulu

Title: the Fae Sorceress

Release Date: 20 March 2012

Veigar

Title: the Tiny Master of Evil

Release Date:24 July 2009

See also

• League of Legends
• Multiplayer online battle arena