Champions with the BEST Lore in League of Legends - Chosen by You!

[@OutsideJoke]

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[@fongargaming318]

There is a mistake in the poll, it asks for the most toxic champs, no the most fun, so which one do we answer?

[@skere3925]

toxic or fun though

[@draculemihawk10]

​@@fongargaming318I voted for the most toxic ones.So in case Teemo ends up as #1 most fun champion you can blame me

[@jaimefuentes1856]

there is a msitake, it says toxic not fun!!! @OutsideJoke

[@luhell8850]

@OutsideJoke there is a mistake in the poll !!!!

[@chrishaven1489]

A correction on Viego's story: Isolde, his wife, was actually a positive influence on Viego's rule. Isolde's humble low-born origins made Viego a compassionate king. But it wasn't until after she was poisoned, and eventually died, when Viego started losing his sht

[@StratGame126]

I’ll throw in that Isolde was the one who made Viego do his duty. She was a gem. Also going to take this time to tell people to read the Runination novel. Shadow Isles became my favorite region after reading that.

[@GiovanniBoss]

The only good thing on Viego is Isolde. How the hell she fell for him? I guess even she had bad decisions.

[@worminaround]

To be honest, I would definitely be tweaking hard when my wife gets killed 💀

[@leonardsapuyot8601]

​@@GiovanniBoss she is actually forced to marry him cause viego was too obsses with her

[@spafifisch]

​@@StratGame126 it's also important for Kalistas Lore and basically every shadow-y being

[@MalcyTheMarionette]

Putting Shaco in the thumbnail is evil. My ingame name is literally "I Have No Lore"

[@LabRatz-Ivor]

if he ever gets a rework then him not having any lore would have a in universe reason (e.g. him being some sort of anomaly or paradox)

[@alexglover3236]

@@LabRatz-Ivor Oooo I like that! I would also like him being a demon (Azakana) in some way, that'd be cool too!

[@customch33s32]

What will you change your name to in 2030 when he finally gets lore?

[@PoorEdward]

@@customch33s32no wife, no life, no job, idk im sure he has a large pool to choose from

[@frozenburrito2.087]

Shaco mains deserve to be forgotten by Riot

[@GhostyBoi7737]

League lore (and being hopelessly addicted to the game) is the only reason why I still like and play the game

[@TankYou90]

If you want to quit start playing ARAM only.

[@YanYanicantbelievethistakenffs]

I would like to make a honorable mention of Singed who riot apparently likes to blame everything on him. Ionians distancing of pacifism? Singeds warcrimes in noxian war Shimmer and the plague of it in zaun? Singed. Warwick? Singed. Victor? Singed was a big part of his mentoring Jinx? Singed revived her. He has a small journal of experiments trying to fuse 2 people toghether. Riot loves blaming him of anything and its quite fun.

[@mathiasandersen3762]

Should add a note that Shimmer is now only cannon, in league lore, because riot not too long ago (after arcane was released) retconned what lore is cannon. same with singed having a relationship with Victor. I don't disagree that singed is in the top as well, just that he has gotten some extra roles in league lore because of Arcane and Riot being bad at keeping lore going over the last few years.

[@Eagle-Fly]

11:34 I think it's really important to point out kindred lore and death lore runs even deeper, every region used to have their own version of death but once they are forgotten they die themselves, so for example in the shadow isles it has become a problem for death to be remembered. Kindred is just one death that is really popular among the regions, known in damcia noxus and I think freljord

[@pangoomb6781]

What makes it better is the fact most kindred skins are canon but in difftent region

[@b3ntsound870]

and it sucks that her gameplay doesnt reflect that you are playing as 2 beings so why is it that her w is just single target aoe damage? they need a rework, but to keep lore the same

[@bratman9516]

@@b3ntsound870 but if you rework kindred to being two separate entities in gameplay you end up with a situation similar to the lost vikings in heroes of the storm, and.... i mean, only masochists play the lost vikings

[@b3ntsound870]

@@bratman9516 id still think it might feel better knowing that wolf is more than just a really slow hitting auto attack and an aoe cooldown on q

[@bratman9516]

@@b3ntsound870 absolutely, i play kindred a decent bit and i find myself pretty consistently forgetting that wolf is half of the champion, i'm just not sure how riot could implement a multi-character function without it a. feeling lackluster like it is now or, even worse, clunky, and b. being inherently overpowered

[@Mast3rH3r0]

Wow! People really need to read Lissandra lore, she made arguably the gravest mistake in Lore history and now she is trying to fix it by the bloodiest way, You can consider Lissandra as the main anti hero of the story.

[@d-kiwiangel1461]

Ayyyy, i love seeing these because i vote on every single one and then forget about them for like 6 months xD

[@OutsideJoke]

Thanks for voting haha, this one defintely got delayed longer then usual xd

[@Frog_Pants]

You forgot Aatrox’s beef with Xolaani.

[@reyrey9752]

Literally the main character ryze isn’t 1 is criminal

[@yesimthebird]

Damn I would assume Pyke would be on the LIST for sure

[@penis_owner]

Arr harr harr

[@DanielPetersen]

Agreed

[@Crona_Gowther_Kanato]

It’s all good he’s probably top 15 at minimum, (the video was just created through community votes on this one KZbin channel but if we were to go global player base yeah no shot Pyke isn’t top 15 imo

[@noid3571]

It was really inconsiderate of you to show Shaco at 25 but not explain his lore. Allow me to summarize:

[@TankYou90]

FR his lore is all about and he is top 25

[@Torchlava100]

His lore can be summed up in this title: Toy Story but Dark Horrors.

[@alexglover3236]

Yo great vid, always happy to see lore getting some love! I got an idea for you, what voicelines are the best in League? like top 10 saddest lines, top 10 coolest lines and such. Like common some are so good! Aatrox - "I am not your enemy, I am THE enemy!" Pantheon - "even if the stars are beyond my reach, I will grasp my spear, and take aim" Tristana - "is that a rocket in your pocket?"

[@riccardomosena4162]

GET ON THE CHOPPA!

[@mamemakimmk]

Why would anyone who actually read the whole lore vote for Azir instead of Xerath. Xerath lore is essentially Azirs lore with more details, that explain this shit

[@justhair17]

Because Xerath is a bitch

[@remen8021]

A small thing about Sylas' lore, he succeeded! In the mageseeker game Jarvan relented after basically everyone in his life left to defend terbisia (a mage city he ordered an attack on to kill all the mages there) and abolished the mageseekers.

[@MrLuzakman]

Man, do I love popularity contests

[@Megan-sb2ju]

real!! so many good ones slipped through the cracks because theyre less well known :/

[@kokaicola9116]

Loved your video

[@nighfirst2968]

i saw the timeline and saw that the BLUE GOD is not there, although to be fair my bro has nobody playing him

[@rayseodium]

The fact that Singed isn't even in the Top 10 really shows that this community has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Singed has the best character and the best stories in the lore and I am not talking about his Arcane version

[@riccardomosena4162]

old trundle has that spot for me

[@nixedification]

Riven, Darius, Irelia all are good too. Same with Leblanc

[@alciozc3591]

Yeah. Ryze isn’t on the list either

[@Bread011]

Yeah, same with shaco

[@Aiden_Weathers]

Man three back to back videos!? Life is good

[@TheRagheb95]

Bro Aatrox is fucking goated, and he has one of the hardest lines, and story in the game

[@rootyful]

The Still Here cinematic goes even deeper into its relationship with Kindred (I believe Necrit did a great analysis on it). In the flames after the scene with Aatrox, one can see lamb's silhuette in the fire. Aatrox WANTS to die, but as a Darkin, literally cannot. And the next scene shows old Yasuo in a fight with bandits, saving his own life to knock the last bandit/leader out of range of the rain of arrows, and accepting his own death in the same moment. Among the arrows is a glowing one heading straight for Yasuo - lamb's arrow - while the background represents wolf, watching, waiting to see if he gets to hunt. Also, it feels wrong to mention Jhin and not mention his influence on Hwei.

[@nullzero3455]

sad not seeing Brand and Ryze here, literally peak lore

[@SdarkDeathGod]

People who have played League for years be like: " Wait....League has a STORY??? "

[@codywilliams2615]

I can't believe Riven, Yasou and confessions of a broken blade is not here, or the sisterhood of war...

[@EmenussGOamazing]

Dont forget the fact that azir announced the freedom of all slaves right before he ascended

[@pangoomb6781]

Ye Xerath lore was told a bit wrong but I can understand that because the main character was Azir not Xerath

[@Torchlava100]

Don't forget he announced it during the ceremony right before he walked up the stairs to ascension. So the only people who heard what he announced it were all there. The only ones who lived the blast because of Xerath's choice of pushing Azir of his ascension were the people who didn't hear that he freed the slaves. So it would explain why everyone who are decendents of Shurima only know 2 things: if their god-emperor came back Shurima, if they become Azir's servants or chamber (basically announce loyalty to him) they will bask in living conditions that were told in storys by their forefathers as their glorious times or fear him because he is going to find out who are the decendents of the slaves and will enslave the descendants back into slaves. Remember anyone that was within the blast of, now, Xerath's ascension died; Azir included. Thankfully because of reasons unknown and not explain, yet, Azir was within the vicinity of where he could be called back with his or by his descendants of his DNA (I wish riot makes a lore where Shuriman science and magic was explained, but they never will because it's too hard I guess) and complete his ceremony thousands of years later. To what we know and how the story ended, Azir wants to rebuild Shurima. Xerath has his own powers and has the powers of the Sun Disk to create new warriors of incomplete ascended warriors. The 2 best bros are now at odds because of years of torment of the energy man. There is no continuation on whether or not, what are Azir's policies are for his rebuilding. We don't know if he knows that his subjects know he abolished slavery or not. That's the cliffhanger we are theorizing currently.

[@Mexican00b]

"BEST Lore in League of Legends" till they decide to retcon it in a few years

[@riccardomosena4162]

Rip old trundle, ruined by his rework

[@justhair17]

Also note about the trynda cinematic is that Lamb is also shooting at him, not just wolf chasing him, which likely suggests a part of Trynda actually wants to die, but cant

[@rachelmedina7592]

Nickyboi showing up made me cry tears of joy

[@soupfromyonder8232]

Kinda sad that Camille's lore isn't up there

[@crazyf1r397]

It's hard to say if she even has lor no, considering the Skarner rework and them basically deleting braken's involvement in hextech

[@EternityWithYou]

Just a note, the assassin didn’t miss Viego, Kalista was able to deflect the weapon away from viego which sadly went straight into Isolde.

[@Levi_Ackerman_005]

which I think that just got retconned in kalista's event in wild rift, because she is actually the one that went to the blessed isles in search of the water thingy (which she actually gets a vial of it)

[@EternityWithYou]

@@Levi_Ackerman_005 Neigh, it was even like that in the Ruination book that came out in 2022

[@Levi_Ackerman_005]

@@EternityWithYou yes, but the event is happening right now, and if we remember correctly, riot games team said, that EVERYTHING that came out (story/lore-wise) is going to be canon.... therefore, I'm going to quote the very first paragraphs of the kalista event in wild rift: - "A Redemption so Elusive: Kalista, the Spear of the Argent Throne, Princess of Camavor, will set off on a sea voyage to the legendary Blessed Isles the next day in search of a chance to save her beloved friend, Isolde, the queen who was victim of an assassination attempt. The voyage sounds nothing but preposterous to Kalista. Should she not be convincing Viego to face reality, and to guide him - like what her grandfather had bade her before passing - instead? Can redemption be found in the Blessed Isles? Is it worth leaving behind all that she holds dear to pursue something that may not even exist?" Here they are making it sound like the actual target was Isolde.

[@donutdoe1301]

lissandra deserved better!

[@TZAR_POTATO]

League's Jhin Vs Dota's Xin (pronounced shin) Ready? GO! Jhin is an artist Xin is a poet Jhin is obsessed with the number 4, having it in lore and in abilities Xin is obsessed with the number 4, only speaking in four word sentences. Also, Xin can attack four times a second with an ability.

[@CID5202]

The fact Zed wasn't on here is criminal

[@degamasters]

about number nine, his brazilian voice is also an amazing voice actor, he dubs Gemini Saga from Saint Seiya, and here in Brazil Saint Seiya was a big anime that made possible to more anime becoming famous in the country.

[@TJMorrison.]

Zoe literally is the aspect who keeps doing mischievous things and progressing the story, as mentioned in Fiddle and Aurelion, also Ryze has the scripts to the world, Kayle and Morgana are amazing in explaining liberty Vs authority

[@MeAreGreat]

Viego's lore being so good that they wrote a book about the consequences of his actions. The Ruination was such a well written story and got me into reading so much more League lore

[@GDSam75]

I was hoping Camille to show up 😭😭😭 but im a Camille main so im kinda baised but her lore is still amazing

[@pangoomb6781]

League lore is amazing for every character on this list there could be a dedicated 1h film talking about their lore and it wouldn't get boring even for a second

[@rehannath21]

I can't talk about lore but Singed definitely has the best short stories in all of runeterra.

[@justhair17]

The fact that Azir was actually planning to free the slaves makes his lore even more interesting

[@Mr.Animemeguy]

You completely left out the most important part of Azir's story. Azir freed the slaves just before undergoing ascension.

[@mestre12]

Ah the Jhin paradox. Do you put him in the correct placement when doing a top list, or, you put in the spot 4, for the memes.

[@worminaround]

Ironically 4 is actually the correct spot for him. In my list at least.

[@hypecosmo5723]

placing the 4 position in the first position, like: 5,3,2,1, 4

[@djeelaroza4675]

If you really want to get into League of Legends lore, here is the list of the absolute best lore league could offer; -Read anything about Singed and how his connected to champions you probably didn’t know about. -Ryze and his journey on obtaining the “World Runes” -Zed and Shen -All of Yasuo’s stories as well as Riven’s -Graves and Twisted Fate’s lore -Ezreal’s lore -Short stories from Rengar and Nidalee -Garen and Lux has some great stories too -Galio is such a underrated read -Darkin -

[@elderyt7222]

Love the nicky cameo, U should do more stuff with him, Would love to see some gameplay with him or just some random video, but seeing you and nicky together would be really cool!!

[@assasin0848]

18:54 the dagger didn’t (exactly) miss Viego, Kalista deflected it with her spear thanks to her awareness and reflexes, however it hit Isolde and so she was poised and died after Kalista returned from Helia

[@prestonsingersoll]

Minor note on Aatrox. Zoe wasn’t the aspect of twilight when Aatrox was sealed in his sword. It was her predecessor.

[@icathianPLD]

The fact that jax/zilean arent on this list is criminal

[@leventearnoczki1444]

There was the Sentinals of Light event back then where we saw that, when Viego revived Isolde (after collectig her aspects like kindness adnt etc.. (gwen was her last part)) even Isolde was not happy with the ruination what Viego did and at that moment Akshan killed her whith his reviveig gun. After all Viego lost all his power and support aka Tresh and he got locked up in i machine where he cant escape.

[@valentynromanyuk60]

Kalista was the one who deflected the poisoned dagger from viego, by throwing her spear

[@TheMarioPost]

18:48 the assassin did not fail. Kalista was there and used her spear to deflect the dagger that was thrown at Viego, which ended killing Isolde instead. Kalista blamed herself for that, thus going to the Blessed Isles. Quick explanation of the first few chapters of the written novel ;)

[@threshruleroftheshadowisle4247]

Shaco has great lore,He just read a bunch of Joker comics and said "Hey i can do that too".

[@Jhin966]

aatrox is one of the few champion that you know alot about his story by his voice lines and ofcourse his voice line is so Depressing that you star to sympathy with him

[@AidanWR]

Nilah has some really good lore too because she's just connected to so many champions in some way. Braum also has good lore because of the fact that he essentially has no lore. I still wonder when the questions about Braum would be answered, and it's kinda sad that no Freljord champions made the list because the power struggle is such a great part of the lore. Even to the point where it was the first ever secondary quest

[@rikuaxelsora]

Pantheon's lore after the Ruination is also so good

[@schnader]

The thing with a lot of lore in this universe is that many piggyback of off other champions. There's champs like Fiddle, Asol, Ryze, Lissandra, etc. who mainly impact the entire world of Runeterra. Then there's Jhin, Viego, Azir, Mordekaiser, Sylas, etc. which impact many other champions their stories. It's hard to judge the actual quality of their individual lore since they are neccesary for many other champions to even be relevant. The best standalone lore for a champion would probably be Camille in my opinion.

[@seanday3034]

Pyke is one of the most fun. Getting multiple executes in a team fight sounding like a damn slot machine going off.

[@hell_flames5675]

Honorable mentions: Swain, Ryze, Pyke, Bard, Olaf, Shen/Zed, Camille, and of course one and only Shako

[@nikolapavkov6318]

necit is proud

[@Vojta737Cz]

18:52 Sadly it wasnt somehow (or happily? Idk 😅), Kalista, as his nephew and general of the Camavor army (camavor being the nation where viego, kalista and hecarim are from) threw her spear to change the direction of the thrown dagger but that dagger sadly hit isolde (Book moment af)

[@joshuajoshepson8204]

They could expand shaco's lore into a younger version of isolde using his abilities to create him and after seeing him end in the way he did she became scared of her own abilities, even that could become a reason for her to reject viego initially. She was scared of hurting him.

[@ryuzaki9445]

Yasuo also has a really amazing lore which is quite relatable if you look at the bigger picture

[@Hinikk]

truly one of the lists of all time

[@pierre-alexandre8528]

Kinda suprised singed is not on their. His lore his so good

[@БаффБаннер]

you forget that fiddlesticks can't speak,he imitates the sounds he hears, like the rustle of grass, animal sounds, and so on. The only things he says on his own are the names of demons this means that Fiddle saw and was present at the death of Fortune's mother.

[@FattyPatty27]

I literally knew most of the lore from Bricky’s ‘so you want to main’ videos

[@tankenjoyer1891]

zeds lore makes alot more sense now

[@frozenburrito2.087]

Azir’s lore is the entire reason I started maining him

[@wailmerpail]

One more thing to add is that Xerath is the one that conducted a ritual to kill Azir's relatives to ensure his acension to the throne

[@guyooo5965]

For morde's lore, the neat thing when he does come back to Runeterra is that Riot will forget about Rell who is TRAINED her WHOLE LIFE to fight against Morde because of her ferromancy power... cough cough Yorick in Ruination cough

[@omegalongdong]

Galio's lore is the very underrated. Its very sad and you will understand his voice lines once you heard his story. If people knew galios lore he be definetly up on this list.

[@corwinek6438]

I just love Kindred. I think it is the best embodiment of Death that I've ever seen or heard in any book, game or movie.

[@AngerCreep]

thanks for nice break between studying

[@OutsideJoke]

gotchu

[@null2640]

singed not being here is WILD

[@rubenbomba3572]

9:40 It's not their greatest fears, it's specifically the last thing someone they loved told them before something bad happened.

[@IceedPro]

Doesnt fiddlesticks tell Kindred "Grey Man"? (their "one" name)

[@Kazcinelo95]

If you like viego's lore you should read the Ruination book, its really good!

[@glizzy457]

How didnt my man Braum make it into top 10 his lore is so good and heartwarming

[@tewartu6993]

Where's Shaco?

[@iceezs_]

yorick lore is also amazing ties in great to viego and gwen and the shadow isles as a whole. even ties into kindreds i just like yorick :)

[@muhammied]

sadly, everybody including riot hates yorick. he needs more respect.

[@Kasuutoo]

Funfact: Kindred and Tryndamere already fighted each other in the past. So Kindred should aready know about his undying rage

[@envy4848]

the rest of the votes r p intresting I love ur vid tho but I was confused to where camille was..or brand maybe udyr

[@GOKITTYxD3STROY3R]

jesus fiddlesticks voicelines are truly terrifying.

[@SwoggersLOL]

"number 4, pantheon lore is SOOOO GOOOD 😍😍😍😍😍" -God possess a human he thinks is weak🤡 -Loses a fight with aatrox (prob cuz he was possessing a weak human💀) -"AHA! You killed me! but not the one piloting the body! I am alive!!!11!" -Pulls ATREUS' SIGNATURE MOVE, determination!!!! and doesnt die!!!! -Attrox looses his ult revive (he simply wasnt determined)

[@kiszkjmt8564]

Sacred Isles existed for quite a while and noone tried to ditch in a corpse to revive it. But then Viego came, and I don't know if he knew of the consequences or not (I guess he did, because if there weren't any warnings, then someone would already try to do what he did), but he still went "fck it. Let's give it a shot". It's kinda nagging at me.

[@loptr9581]

Nilah not being here/being so low is a crime

[@thetorp]

yeah half of the people votef their main

[@ampopuwu]

the thing i just wanted to say was the reason isolde got hit by the dagger was because kalista tried to block it with her spear that is all :3

[@SuperTiger453]

Double kill was wild

[@georgikostadinov4061]

xin zhao lore is so underrated

[@Levi_Ackerman_005]

so wait... the fact that the darkin are basically fallen ascended... so it means that there are more than 4 darkins? or what? I don't understand; the last time I checked and remembered, there were supposed to be only 4 darkins still alive, aatrox being one of them and varus the second one, and naafiri the (third) one?.... or am I wrong?

[@Levi_Ackerman_005]

or the 4 darkins thing is old/non-canon lore?

[@schnader]

It's confusing because they've retconned this many times. Legends of Runeterra has shown us there's many more Darkin out there. The Mageseeker game has a lore node which tells us there's at least 5 darkin alive, which are the 4 we have as champions (Aatrox, Va(a)rus, Rhaast & Naafiri) and Xolaani. Both of these came out before the most recent retcon of the entire universe.

[@poisonedoak6563]

You forgot to mention Azir killing everyone who was borne in Xerath's hometown for no reason, elderly and children included.

[@Torchlava100]

His reason is because Xerath backstabbed him during Azir's moment of achieving his goal. It's like doing a project that took you 10 years to make and then your partner that you considered as a blood-brother. Then he just pulls the plug, taking all your work destroys it and burns it and then runs away with any extra funds that you can possibly do. Not only that he tries to unalive you through in secret. How much rage can you think from that betrayal would feel like? The anger. Sure it's wrong to even try to say that unaliving Xerath's hometown is justice but what should he do with all that anger? Heck, how do you make a bird man that is ascended heal from that kind of trauma? The question now is how will riot and their writers progress Azir's, Xerath's, the 2 brothers and Shurima's story forward? I think if somehow we get a new ascended champion we can see a progression between Azir accepting progress towards the creation of his greatest creation and his undoing. Or potentially see the newly ascended help bridge Azir and Xerath into understanding each other better and potentially see a compromise of them both. It would be interesting to see what kind of resolution they reach if there is one planed in the future. It would be an interesting character development to see if Azir is willing to forgive his ex-brother and Xerath to see admit and break his resolve that maybe he could've done things differently, and potentially see a redemption arc from him. That's the cliche solution I can see from their story.

[@poisonedoak6563]

… you do know that neither is the hero in this story and riot will never resolve this anyways right? Both are in the wrong here, you do not murder a town related on a technicality to one person who backstabbed you because you didn’t keep him informed that you were going to keep a very important promise

[@hoiblobvis]

no swain :(

[@maartenbondt9600]

Isolde made viego better not worse… he was already a bad and lazy king

[@tankenjoyer1891]

this video really filled most of the blind spots in my lore knowledge

[@weebspray6707]

In pantheon’s splash art you can see Aatrox in the background

[@DomoKuchikan]

Count Fourcula has the best lore masks down!

[@axeified]

Aint no way gragas and his epic quest for the mighty brew ain't on here

[@kestrelloz]

i think qiyana could easily have an incredible lore, she is the straight up villain of the story, without any boring traumatic story which is the standard for villains, and for the first time we could have a villain that wins in the story; idk it sounds innovative and fun to me

[@Mrcatletsplay-Rift]

1:26 not the double kill sound XD

[@joneschr7113]

You can tell our parents started with naming him. It's like, oh, Sylas. They had that one planned before they even got pregnant, I bet. And then they found out I was attached to him along for the ride and they said, 'Ah well, shit. Ah, just fuck it, call him Pylas!

[@ketzoquantum]

We need part 2!!!