The world of Runeterra is enormous and its ever-increasing cast eclectic, lending itself to being adventurous, awe-inspiring, touching, scary, heartrending, and naturally, full of lots of funny moments.
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In-Game (Champion Interactions)
- When Sion was updated in 2014 from his ridiculously unpopular status, he ended up gaining a joke when directed toward an enemy Urgot, who similarly occupied a similar space of archaic design:Sion: So, uh... Urgot... We can't hang out anymore. I'm cool now.
- It's even more hilarious come mid-2017, where Urgot received his own rework and probably became cooler.Urgot: (ult executing Sion) Ah, Sion... you were already dead to me.
- It's even more hilarious come mid-2017, where Urgot received his own rework and probably became cooler.
- Tahm Kench's tearing into enemy champions:(to Ahri) "You're as modest as a freshly-paid courtesan note ."
(to Ashe) "Girl, you got as much 'foresight' as a blindfolded mole."
(to Azir) "You're the emperor - of mashed potatoes and gravy."
(to Braum) "My mustache will eat yours."
(to Darius) "You're as subtle as a gold codpiece."
(to Draven) "At least the rumor of your vanity isn't overrated."
(to Jinx) "Girl, if brains were dynamite, you'd be a dud."
(to Nami) "The tides call you sashimi."
(to Renekton) "I appreciate your mind is unsullied by the complications of reason."
(to Xerath) "A slave's mind is never free, but I suspect you got yours on discount." - When he isn't being incredibly disturbing, resident Mad Artist Jhin has a wickedly deadpan sense of humor with his many champion-specific taunts.(to Draven) "I find your work very, very... obvious."
(to Illaoi) "When you speak, I don't hear god, I hear an idiot babbling."
(also to Illaoi) "You can take my soul... if you'll shut up."
(to Sion) "Break a leg! Hehe, oh. 'Break a leg', hehe... ah, delightful. I do cut myself up."
(to Tahm Kench) "You have too many lines."note
(also to Tahm Kench) "Oh, before you ask, yes, your whole ensemble makes you look fat. Very fat." - Not that he doesn't have the massive power to back it up, but Aurelion Sol's sheer dismissiveness towards who he considers beneath him (in other words, almost everyone) makes Smaug seem like the paragon of humility. And he's hilarious.(to Ahri) "You aspire to be human? Oh, darling, there are so many other variants on mediocrity!”
(to Amumu) “I am overwhelmed by an emotion when you are not around. It is called... happiness.”
(to Malphite) “There is a saying on this planet, ‘Dumb as a rock.’ It’s not a compliment.”
(to Nasus) “Bravo, Nasus, you’ve ascended yourself into a dog! Now fetch me something more interesting.”
(to Renekton) “That whole practice of Ascension is adorably amusing, like a kitten trying to walk upright.”
(to Riggle, held by Dragon Trainer Tristana) "Oh, come on! Have a little self respect!"
(to Shyvana) “Almost interesting. Almost.”
(to Vi) “You are going to punch a star dragon? Good luck with that.”- If Aurelion hits a single target enough times in a row with his passive, he begins saying a deadpan "Boop," everytime one connects.
- Taliyah has her moments of stupidly funny taunts.(To Ekko) "Did the Earth Move for You, Too?... Did I Just Say That Out Loud?!"
(To Fiddlesticks) "Don't be silly, scarecrows can't talk."
(To Rammus) "You sure you're alright/okay?"
(To Ryze) "This time, rock beats paper!"
(To Taric) "Ooooohh, you're pretty. Guys can be pretty, right?"
(To Braum as Freljord Taliyah) "You love goat's milk? I LOVE GOAT'S MILK!" - The very concept of Jinx being a heroic Star Guardian is amusing on its own, but thankfully for her fans, she retains her deranged, manic sense of humor in her taunts.(To Star Guardian Janna): "Hey, Janna! You might wanna look into a retirement plan."
(To Star Guardian Lulu): "You can learn a lot from Lulu. Just not sure what."
(To Star Guardian Lux): "Only Lux could make battle so boring."
(Also to Star Guardian Lux): "Lux even makes boring beautiful."
(To anyone with a Mecha skin): "I AM A MECH. I AM PROGRAMMED TO LOSE."
(To anyone from the Void): "Wait, does Void refer to your home, or your head?"
(To another Star Guardian Jinx): "Wait. I look like that!?"
(In one of her jokes): "So, Shiro, what was in the Star Guardian contract I signed?"note - In spite of how dark she is, Camille has a remarkably classy sense of deadpan humor. Even better for her, she taunts her enemies while attacking them, rather than simply being a limited emote, allowing it to really shine through.(Attacking Annie): Oh, I'm not playing with you.
(Attacking Blitzcrank): Oh my... can someone put a sheet over this hat rack?
(Attacking Caitlyn): Did Daddy buy you that gun? note
(Taunting Caitlyn): Belts? Is dressing like a commoner fashion now?
(Attacking Darius): How very... Noxian of you.
(Killing Ezreal): Next time, take the map.
(Attacking Kled): You know, I don't even believe in you.
(Killing Ryze): SCISSORS. BEATS. PAPER.
(Attacking Volibear): You would look better as a rug in my foyer.
(Killing Wukong): Monkey see, monkey die.
(Attacking Zac): I am a weapon. You're some sort of... pudding.- She actually has lines for when she kills the same enemy champion up to three times in a row. The BM potential says it all, really.
- The first thing she will say upon spawning on the Howling Abyss? "I. Hate. Snow."
- Her Hookshot ability allows her to dive into the Fog of War, but if she's to accidentally slam into an enemy champion doing so, she might say "Watch where you're going!"
- Reworked Urgot is a heaping helping of creepy, but he's not without a few funny quotes.(Taunting an enemy Kled) This is not your land, and that lizard doesn't even like you.
(Taunting an enemy Tahm Kench) Your coat isn't even as nice as mine.
(Taunting an enemy Teemo) Compared to what you do, this is merciful.
(Hitting Caitlyn with ult) Keep struggling. Maybe you can save your hat.
(Hitting Gangplank with ult) Think of all the innocent barrels I'm saving.
(Ult executing Azir) Say Shurima one more time!
(Ult executing Gnar) I don't know what he said, but he screamed it.
(Ult executing Lulu) Let me know how it tastes.
(Ult executing Skarner) Not. Viable.
(Ult executing Trundle) You bargained away your freedom... for a frozen stick.
(Ult executing another Urgot) I liked the old you more. - Honestly, Kled has so many hilarious lines in general, that we could honestly put his entire quote list here and call it a day. Some highlights, however:"I'm gonna' cut you open and use your spine for a back scratcher, because it is itchy! Very itchy!"
"I came here to — well, I don't know what I came here for, but I'm gonna defend it!"
"I'm from all over. It's next to nowhere and shut the hell up!"
"I am Kled! High Major Commodore of the First Legion Third Multiplication Double Admiral Artillery Vanguard Company! You will respect my authority!"
"There's fixing to be two sounds! Me hitting you, and BIYAYAHGUH!"
(Starting up the game) "Holy sh*t, where are we?!"
(Generic taunt) "Oh, before I forget, what, uh... rank are you, exactly?"
(When a nearby enemy jokes) "Real funny! Knew a funny guy in the Dreckon campaign — took a javelin in the spine, couldn't walk after that. Used him as a coat rack."
(After killing an enemy champ) "Now, I might have overreacted to you unlawfully entering my property — BUT I DON'T THINK SO!"
(Also after killing an enemy champ) "It's funny, 'cause he died right on the border of my land, and more of my land!"
(again, killing an enemy champ) "Don't let the door hit you on your way to HELL!"
(After killing an enemy Yordle) "I could feel bad about killing you, or we could stomp on your corpse!"
(Killing Cassiopeia) "Was that lady half-snake, or that snake half-human? She is... confusin'. Dead, but confusin'."
(Killing Draven) "KLEEEEEED... naw, it's just Kled."
(Killing Illaoi) "I gotta stop the mushroom juice... I swear that girl had some tentacles or somethin'!"
(Killing Katarina) "A sinister blade? Heck, girl, Skaarl's got farts more sinister than you was."
(also killing Katarina) "I like a girl with moxie." (Skaarl squawks) "No, obviously she didn't have any! That's the darn point!"
(Killing LeBlanc) "She had one crazy getup! Them city-folk clothes is getting ridiculous." (Skaarl squawks) "Yeah, I'll try it on later."
(Killing Swain) "Master Tactician? He can keep that title." - Ivern, being the communicative Friend to All Living Things he is, has unique quotes while interacting near or with jungle camps, and casually converses with them like friendly neighbors, giving us some amusing insight to their lives.
- Brambleback (The red buff) is a helpful guy who tells the best jokes, and was involved in something called the "Kumungu Affair." Ivern still thinks it's Brambleback's fault.note
- He thinks "Blue" the Blue Sentinel and Daisy, the Sentinel whom Ivern summons for his ultimate, would make a cute couple.
- "Scuttles" the Rift Scuttler is always on patrol watching the dragons/Baron Nashor, and is "a gentlecrab and a scholar." Apparently Ivern owes them some razor clams.
- Gromp's full name is apparently "Lord Grompulous Kevin Ribbitton of Croaksworth," the "epitome of frogdom." Even more hilariously, one of Ivern's other lines he can say even if Gromp isn't around is "It's okay, Gromp is a slow learner too," suggesting he only calls him that to humor him.
- Krug apparently has a wife, and is a respected storyteller, though Ivern comments that his last story could've used a better third act.
- He mentions to the Raptors the "Crimson Raptor's" singing, and how it's come a long way. When he frees them, he asks them for where they got their gold from.
- The Wolves are like playful dogs who like to play fetch, but Ivern shows concern of the two-headed wolf, apparently having asked him before to have his second head checked out.
- Xayah and Rakan have so many great lines, alone or paired up together, it'd be simple to say just about anything that isn't deadly serious or utterly adorable. Some choice phrases from both of them, though:Xayah: (taunting Amumu) Aw, poor sad little mummy! I just want to take you home!
Xayah: (taunting Caitlyn) Who does your wardrobe? Fire them. Immediately.
Rakan: (killing an enemy Xayah) I find this parallel universe stuff very upsetting!
Rakan: (also killing an enemy Xayah) HELLO WORLD! I AM SINGLE NOW!
Rakan: (killing Illaoi) What was with that girl's dumb purse?
(starting the game) Xayah: Ugh, I hate everyone today.
Rakan: I know what'll make you feel better.
Both: Murdering everyone~!
(starting the game) Rakan: Hey, I have a plan!
Xayah: You... have a plan?
Rakan: Yeah! I'll go on instinct!
Xayah: That's the opposite of a plan.
Xayah: Keep 'em distracted.
Rakan: That shouldn't be a problem!
Rakan: Where are we going?
Xayah: You forgot the plan.
Rakan: No, I... yeah. Hey, have you seen this cape?
(from a distance) Rakan: After this, how about we get some human food?
Xayah: A nice dinner?
Rakan: Chocolate!
Xayah: That's not what—
Rakan: ♫ We're eating chocolate! ♪
(also from a distance) Rakan: Caw caw, caw caw!
Xayah: You used the secret call! Is everything alright?
Rakan: We have a secret call!? I just like that sound! Caw caw!
(upon killing an enemy together) Rakan: I love watching you kill.
Xayah: I love killing for you.
Rakan: Let's make out. - Ornn's grumpy, deadpan demeanor naturally leads to some hilarious lines, many of which are oozing with snark.I have fur. It is soft. Do not hug me.
(Joke response) Buy a joke book. And a clown./I now like you less. I did not think that was possible.
(Ally buying his upgrades) If you want a weapon, here's a weapon. If you want conversation... here's a weapon.
(Attacking Gragas) Give me the ale and no one gets hurt.
(Last one standing on the team) Good job, everyone. - Reworked Evelynn takes any form of subtlety she had, and tosses it into the nearest shallow grave. If you're not bewildered at how Riot managed to get away releasing a champion this risqué, you're probably laughing at the sheer audacity some of her much more suggestive lines reach, or possibly the odd, casual mundanity she approaches her monstrous behaviour with."Their mouths say no, but their bodies say 'flay me alive.'"
"Girls just wanna tear your throat out with their teeth."
"All my exes are dead."
(recalling) "Mind if I slip into something a little more... painful?"
(respawning) "Ugh, dying is such a turn-off."
(killing an enemy champion) "We need to talk. I wanna kill other people."
(also killing an enemy champion) "Was it as good for you as it was for me? No? Too bad!"
(attacking a dragon) "Not the first time I've had dragon."
(also attacking a dragon) "Don't worry, honey, I'm open to all types."
(attacking Baron Nashor) "Finally! A man who can satisfy me."
(general taunt) "First time being tortured? Don't worry, I'll do everything."
(taunting tank champions) "You look like someone I could hurt for days."
(taunting Amumu) "Ugh. I wouldn't torture you if you were the last person on earth."
(taunting Bard) "I can make you do a lot more than jingle, space man."
(taunting Dr. Mundo) "So, you're a masochist? Whatcha doing later?"
(taunting Lee Sin) "Blindfolds, huh? Whatever does it for ya."
(taunting Nocturne) "Why don't we leave the lights on for this?"
(buying a Void Staff) "It's so... big..."
(also buying a Void Staff) "Think of all the places this can go." - Anything Zoe says or does, due to her Immortal Immaturity. One of the methods chosen to make her a cosmic messenger: a toy ball.(Attacking Aurelion Sol) "Ooh, I'm a space dragon and I'm the center of the universe!"
- Kayn and Rhaast, a hardened killer and an omnicidal Blood Knight, both consider the Scuttle Crab annoying and difficult to kill. It only gets worse when they transform:Kayn: How tedious.
Kayn: These things always prove to be a challenge.
Kayn: Ughh.. This may take a while.
Rhaast: He just won't die!
Rhaast: So little! So annoying! So.. Hard to kill!- To mark the game's special Odyssey event, the normal announcer's voice is replaced with that of Odyssey Kayn and Rhaast. Given how much lighter and zanier in tone the Odyssey universe is, the two are allowed to have more openly comedic bantering, and the snark between them is a hoot.Rhaast: Welcome, mortal, to this crucible of destruction!
Kayn: See? You can be dramatic!
Rhaast: I was being literal.
- To mark the game's special Odyssey event, the normal announcer's voice is replaced with that of Odyssey Kayn and Rhaast. Given how much lighter and zanier in tone the Odyssey universe is, the two are allowed to have more openly comedic bantering, and the snark between them is a hoot.
- Following his Season 8 rework, Swain has lines for several champions when he obtains a Soul Fragment from them, usually uncovering and commenting on some Dark Secrets of theirs. However, if he pulls a Soul Fragment from another Swain, he'll simply say "I already knew that."
- One of his jokes also comments on the nature of Soul Fragments; apparently he also uses them to find out "who has a crush on whom."
- Reworked Aatrox. Gone is the minimal line having, kind of dull Darkin. In his place is an insulting, loud and exceedingly hammy monster with a Russian accent.(taunting Varus): Varus. V-A-R-U-S. Your name should have an 'A' and then another 'A', Varus. There was a memo, Varus. There was a memo!
(taunting Kayn): A scythe? A scythe? Are you planning on murdering fields of wheat?
(encountering Gangplank): Guns and oranges? Are you a joke or a cliche?
(encountering Kayn): Ooh, a shadow warrior. How edgy.
(encountering Camille): Scissors for legs... okay... I thought I had seen stupid designs before... alright, let's go.
(encountering Taric): Hail Taric! Aspect of... get a haircut!
(enemy flashes Mastery): Mastery? I must congratulate you, obviously your parents never had reason to.
(killing Kled): What is property, and why did this dead hamster want me off of it? - Neeko is already a very endearing champion due to her generally odd, yet friendly mannerisms, which become especially amusing when she shapeshifts into ally champions, often providing commentary on their forms.(mimicking a male champion) "Do I smell as bad as I look? (sniff) ...yes."
(mimicking a Voidborn) "Neeko feels... wrong. Not good. Void is full of never."
(mimicking Aurelion Sol) "Look out! Neeko so fabulous now!"
(mimicking Blitzcrank) "Beep-boop, Neeko is metal-person!"
(mimicking Brand) "AAAAAAAH Neeko on fire! Just kidding!"
(mimicking Evelynn) "Evelyn is so... extreme! (provocatively) Neeko curious..."
(mimicking Ezreal) "Pretty! For a boy. Too pretty."
(mimicking Garen) "Life as Garen just simple. Just swing sword around. Very bland, yes."
(mimicking Illaoi) "Neeko loves everything about... I-yao-i? Did I say it right?"note
(mimicking Kled) "I like angry yordle! Stab stab! Tacos! Skaaaaarl!"
(mimicking Varus) "How do three people wear one pants?" - Sylas is a fairly serious champion, but he does get some funny lines every so often.(first encounter with Ezreal) "At last I've come for you- Jarro Lightfeather!"
(stealing a 'tryhard' ultimate) "Now it is I, who tries hard!"
(stealing a time-based ult) "I'm great at doing time!"
(stealing an enemy Sylas's ult) "Well, this is going to be confusing."
(stealing an underwhelming ult) "I actually feel cheated."
(stealing an underwhelming ult) "What do you do with this?" - Battle Academia Ezreal takes his already-prevalent Animesque qualities to an utterly hilarious extreme, with his new design and personality resembling something from every stock shounen anime ever. His stilted dialogue which resembles something from a bad English dub (and is effectively a minigame of "spot the Japanese Stock Phrases") is the icing on the cake.
- Surprise Party Fiddlesticks post-rework. Seeing as Classic Fiddlesticks has become a horrifying abomination who talks by mimicking the words of his victims, having the Silliness Switch be turned on and seeing it turn into a Laughably Evil Monster Clown is surprisingly hilarious."I used to think life was a comedy. Now I know... it's a horror show!
(attacking a jungle camp) "Welcooooooome to the party! Now DIE."
(joke emote) "Wanna hear a joke? It's a riot!"
(responding to an enemy joke) "Unless you've got some deeply creative clown puns, I'm not interested."
(setting up a Scarecrow Effigy) "People LOVE finding clowns in the dark!"
(encountering Gragas) "Kiss me, fat man!"
(encountering Surprise Party Amumu) "What the hell are you supposed to be? Nobody ordered a cake! Get out!"
(encountering Nunu and Willump Bot) "You just understand me, meme robot and... horrible, tiny child."
(generic kill quote) "The world will never know a greater clown than you."
(generic kill quote) "Here's your nose and rainbow wig! You earned 'em!" - Rell, the Iron Maiden: badass with metal magic powers, crusader against the Black Rose... developer and poor handler of many crushes on opposing champions:(to Ekko) "O—oh, your name's Ekko? That's... that's cool!"
(defeating Ekko) "Ugh, just when I thought I knew him, he went back in time."
(to Leona) "Alright, Rell, be cool... it's just a... tall... super-strong armored lady."
(defeating Leona) "Ugh, I hope this won't hurt my chances..."
(to Seraphine) "You're cute, Seraphine! (beat) Uh... well, bye."
(to Sett) "More like 'The Boss of Having His Shirt Off'... OH— I think he heard that!"- Her /joke animation has her convert her Mechanical Horse into The Kiddie Ride version, complete with "Whee... I'm the happiest girl in the world."
- Viego is a rather serious, spooky, and occasionally even tragic character, but he gets a glimmer of comic relief in his interactions with Vladimir, who is apparently his great uncle. For obvious reasons, it appears they haven't talked in a while.(encountering Vladimir) "Hello, uncle. I'm surprised you haven't been torn apart by an angry mob."
(defeating Vladimir) "So angry, uncle! It was one unanswered letter a thousand years ago!" - Gwen has some fun moments in trying to piece together the new world she's exploring:(encountering Olaf) "Madman that wants to die, what is your story?"
(killing Olaf) "Quite strange... you seemed to enjoy that."
(encountering Ornn) "A giant ram who sharpens scissors? Why, dreams do come true!"
(killing Seraphine) "A pretty voice, Seraphine. What a shame that's all you were."
(encountering Yasuo) "Yasuo... your clothes are... truly terrible!"
(reacting to an enemy taunt) "How sad... you must be broken on the inside." - Dr. Mundo was always a darkly comical champion, but following his 2021 VGU, Riot pulled out all the stops to take full advantage of his horribly misguided and endearingly hilarious potential:(encountering a champion) "Hi there, patient! Looks like you got too many parts!"
(also encountering a champion) "You patient or donor? It not matter, me do same thing!"
(to a robot champion) "Good news, robut! Me found problem! You covered in metal!"
(to a Shadow Isles champion) "Mmm, bad news, ghost person. Test results say you dead!"
(to Gangplank) "Me sorry, cap'n! You got da scurvy! Stage 12."
(to Heimerdinger) "Ah, Dr. Heimerweiner! Always nice to meet fellow genius!"
(to Jax) "Patient Jax, we need to talk about your eyeball numbers."
(to Malphite) "Chisel!"
(to Singed) "Dr. Singed! Oh, me big fan! Ate all your books!"
(to Urgot) "Oh, me sorry, no cure for crab legs!"
(moving a long distance) Sometimes me wonder, who is me to play God? Then me remember; Me Mundo!"
(recalling) "Mundo need medical supplies! To the dump!"
(respawning) "Uh... is me okay? Mundo can't remember Mundo's name!"
(generic move quote) "Doctoring hard! Everyone always screaming at you!" - Tied to above is Corporate Mundo, and with his subsequent upgrade in Mundo's broad VGU, the writers took full advantage of the opportunity to make every "evil, incompetent businessman" joke they could pack into him.(to his normal self) "Mundo file copyright infringement!"
(to Primetime Draven) "Small man louder than Mundo! Must fix HR problem!"
(killing Primetime Draven) "Mundo more primetime than small man with small axe!"
(to Lumberjack Sion) "Yes, Sion! Invest in lumber! Future of real estate!"
(killing Lumberjack Sion) "Timber! Mundo remove lumber middleman!"
(after a triple kill) "Mundo give unemployment in triplicate!"
(joke emote) "Best way to be rich is to not be poor!"
(taunt) "Good news! Mundo have entry level job for you! Just need two years experience!"
(triggering his passive)note "No, Mundo embezzle that!"
"New memo to staff: Dear staff, Mundo firing only most of you! Congratulations!"
"Big problem in housing bubble. Mundo must pop to grab all profit inside!"
"To all staff, do not underesti-sitimate yourself! Mundo do that for you!"
"Mundo don't have case for phone. Me not irresponsible or poor."
"Company stock too high. Maybe warn friends with inside information."
"Me book meeting to schedule other meetings."
"Mundo wear multiple hats! VP, presidetent, and CEO!"
"Mundo cut vacation. For motivation!"
"Oh, Mundo is hide-and-seek champion. Play every day with IRS!"
"Mundo used to be doctor. Saving lives less fun than making money." - Sentinel Graves. Taking the dour, humorless cowboy and turning him into a loudmouth, comical hillbilly with a desire to rob any and everyone.(Encountering Ruined Draven) "I had a dream we fought once, Draven. You got murdered by my buddy, Rango."
(Encountering Sentinel Diana) "Hey, Moon Lady. Is there a Sun Lady? Are y'all friends...oh, I see."
(Encountering Illaoi) "Oh, no. I ain't falling for your sea priestess tentacle magic. Not a fourth time!"
(Encountering Sentinel Olaf) "I can respect a large, musky barbarian who knows what he wants."
(Encountering Sentinel Riven) "Doing a crime ain't that bad, Riven. Oh, war crimes? Yeah, that's bad."- He has some choice words for Viego.
(Encountering Viego) "Still looking for pieces of your dead wife? You dumb, green, shirtless idiot."
(Killing Viego) "Isolde don't even like you no anymore! You big, sad ghost baby!
(long move) "So the man-ghost is evil and the lady-ghost is his wife? Well why'd she marry him? That guy sucks!" - Caitlyn's 2021 ASU updated her voiceover, giving her plenty of room to expand on her badass, dignified sniper/sheriff attitude, so it may come as a surprise that her first reaction to encountering Seraphine is to completely drop it for a starstruck fangirl moment.Caitlyn: (Gasp!) Seraphine! Would it be inappropriate to ask you for an autograph?
- Qiyana is an Alpha Bitch incarnate, and her quotes are cruel and ruthless, but they ooze with so much arrogance and sass, it loops back into hilarious.(moving) "It's not a ring blade, it's an ohmlatl! Idiots.
(scoring a kill) "If you bleed on me, I'll kill you again!"
(scoring a pentakill) "Failure, failure, failure, failure, FAILURE!"
(starting a match) "Congratulations, you have Qiyana! The other side, they have no Qiyana." (she still says this even if the enemy team does have another Qiyana)
(encountering an enemy champion) "How proud you are of your abilities, like an ape who just found a stick."
(recalling) "*ahem* Everyone, your future empress is leaving the fight! ...Okay, carry on."
(recalling as Battle Boss Qiyana) "Hello? Qiyanalings? Carry my digital palanquin, would you? Thanks."
(respawning) "See? Even death is no match for Qiyana!" - The VO update for Varus gives players what they've always craved: His response to missing the double 'A' name of his Darkin brethren.Varus: Aatrox, brother, the double 'A' thing is absurd and you know it.
In-Game (Everything Else)
- Some champions' jokes.
- One of Xerath's meme-laden joke quotes:POWER LANING! POWER FARMING! POWER GANKING! POWER KILLS! SO MANY KILLS! 400 KILLS!note
- Ziggs's joke emote is hilarious, and his quote seals the deal."You wanna know how to disarm a bomb?" (eats the bomb, then burps out the explosion)"Come on, does this look dangerous to you?"
- One of Vi's jokes is not getting why her Talk to the Fist policy never gets results, but it also involves Vi going hilariously high pitched roleplaying her "victim.""Why can't I get a straight answer? It's always just 'Oh no! Stop hitting me! Ow, my face!'"
- In the Japanese version, the contrast is even more obvious, Vi there normally sounds super gruffy aggressive, but when 'roleplaying', she suddenly sounds so sensual like someone asking to be spanked.
- While Nautilus' joke itself is a rather lame pun, the animation in which he performs his joke with is him SWIMMING IN MID-AIR. It's as bizarre-looking as it sounds, especially considering Nautilus himself. One of the loading screen hints even says "He's weird like that" in reference to the animation.
- The classic Shout-Out joke by pre-rework Pantheon, made even better by how instantly he shifts in tone between sentences."MY PROFESSION!? You know, now that I think of it, I've always wanted to be a baker."
- Furthermore, when Pantheon got his rework, this joke stays. Pantheon materializes a freshly baked bread out of nowhere with his godly power and stated that it's his "secret dream."
- Syndra, the Ionian dark sorceress that killed her master, lifted up a castle to the sky and bursts foes with her powerful dark balls of energy, cheerfully hops her energy balls like a little girl for her joke emote.
- Before her remake, Poppy simply had No Sense of Humor. After her remake, she has a sense of humour- she just Cannot Tell a Joke. She starts telling an incredibly long (by League standards) joke, only to fluff the punchline- twice!
- Jhin's joke involves him spinning his gun, only to clumsily drop it and have it fire all over the place while he cowers back in fear, then nervously picking it back up when it stops. Combined with the exaggerated, almost cartoonish animation, it's a weird image.
- The PROJECT: Ashe skin has her call to Avarosa, who it turns out is just a small hovering drone, leading to this exchange:Ashe: Avarosa, guide me!
Drone: In 400 feet, turn left.
Ashe: Thanks, Avarosa! - Akali's visual update retires her classic "Too many noobs" joke, but she instead gets a cute animation of herself munching on some ramen.
- Gwen's joke has her resting on her giant hovering scissors, somehow reverting back to her doll form as she flips herself on it over and over. If you look carefully, she appears to be holding onto the blades by wrapping her curled locks around them.
- One of Xerath's meme-laden joke quotes:
- Fun with alternate skins:
- Pre-VGU Grungy Nunu dressed Nunu and Willump as Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster.
- Reverse Annie dresses her as Tibbers...while also dressing Tibbers as Annie.
- Uncle Ryze dresses him as Uncle Sam and turns his scroll into the U.S. Constitution.
- Monarch Kog'Maw turns him into a butterfly with girlish eyelashes.
- Sinful Succulence Morgana puts her in a baker outfit, though the humor mainly comes from the skin's portrait where she's frustrated over burning her gingerbread men.
- Post-visual update, it shows her after burning the apparently sentient gingerbread men in a rage, but one just barely survived and another, slightly charred one is running away.
- Blast Zone Heimerdinger makes him look like he was caught in an explosion, hence the name.
- Gragas, Esq features all the drunken uncouthness of regular Gragas in a high class suit.
- Statue of Karthus dresses him as the Statue of Liberty.
- Urf the Manatee. It's not Warwick in manatee clothing, we swear.
- Related, Urfrider Corki replaces his copter with Urf.
- Brolaf gives Olaf a polo shirt and jeans, turns his helmet into a beer-drinking helmet, and turns his axes into ones made of recycled beer boxes.
- In ARAM, Greyor will occasionally shoult "BROOOOOO!" to an Olaf using this skin.
- Gentleman Cho'Gath puts him in a top hat, monocle, and a fancy coat. Like Brolaf above, it also comes with new voice clips.
- Deep Terror Thresh has a unique recall animation where he fishes up a treasure chest and rests a foot atop it proudly. He doesn't always catch it though.
- Pool Party Renekton suits him up as a lifeguard, but the best part is his Recall. And that's before some people decided to go to town with it.
- Who's that large, lumpy man in the poor-fitting suit? Whoever it is, it's definitely not Blitzcrank.
- When Arcade Miss Fortune recalls, she brings out a TV and plays a game similar to Duck Hunt. Apparently, she lost, if Gangplank popping up to taunt her like that goddamn dog is any indication. In her anger, she promptly draws her gun and shoots the TV.
- Final Boss Veigar is a loving reference to all sorts of video game villains, but one of the simpler joys is his /dance emote, where he shoves his staff into the cuff of his right hand, enlarges it to roughly his own size, and allows his apparently-sentient staff to dance alongside him.◊
- Omega Squad Veigar. It puts him in fatigues to match Teemo's, but grants him none of the grim darkness. The animations for the skin actually make him more goofy and emotive, his eyes shifting into various shapes to accentuate his mood. The crowned jewel is his recall animation, which has him set up a missile launcher, only for it to not really launch the missile after priming it, leading to him mashing his controller's button to summon an evac.
- Poro Rider Sejuani, which has a Giant Poro as a mount and a Poro-Snax as a flail.
- Three words: Dunk. Master. Darius.
- Two more words: Gentleman Gnar. Sophisticated as Hell made manifest, especially the hilarious recall animations for both forms.
- Pool Party Rek'Sai. Her recall has her chomp down a poor frog, and her original ult had her ride a jet ski... which somehow sounds like a tugboat! (no, really)
- Many of Dragon Trainer Tristana's new lines; i.e., upon buying a Statikk Shiv, one of her responses is her telling Riggle not to chew it, only for him to do exactly that and get electrified. She also tears into other champions such as Quinn ("Cool eagle, what does it breathe? Air?"), threatens to cook Azir, and is horrified at the sight of enemy champions using the Dragonslayer skin line (*gasp* "What are you wearing?!”).
- Everything about Primetime Draven. Just check out what happens when a self-absorbed narcissist becomes a shoutcaster for his own match.
- Speaking of Draven, the Draven Draven skin features Draven with a comically oversized version of his head. He'll even bop the head if he dies!
- In Pool Party Fiora's recall animation, she gets into a sword fight with a crab, which ends with her disarming and kicking it away.
- The second set of SKT T1 skins (commemorating the team's Season 5 World Championship victory) features unique recall animations based on the members' suggestions (except for Marin, who declined, so they made one from scratch), most of them being as comical as they sound.
- Wolf's submission video had him accidentally knock over a chair while doing his pose, so the logical conclusion? Have SKT Alistar do the same thing.
- Faker's submission simply had him brushing his hair (which is already amusing, since Ryze is bald), but then Riot went the extra mile and had him suddenly perform Faker's famous on-stage roll.
- Bang's submission is by far the most out of left-field, having SKT Kalista do The Monkey before leaping into the air and flashing the peace sign, complete with an Audible Gleam!
- In Candy King Ivern's recall, he's surrounded by sentient gingerbread men and blowing kisses. When he accidentally knocks one of the gingerbread men over and tastes the icing it left on his hand, he begins rapidly eating all of them while they're all still alive and screaming.
- Snow Day Graves' recall has him tamper with his snowblower-shotgun, and sticking his head toward the barrel for a look. He then accidentally fires a snowman's head into his face, complete with coal and branch as eyes and eyebrows, and a carrot for a cigar!
- Dreadnova Gangplank's recall animation randomly spawns an airlock as well as a tiny green alien, leading a confused Gangplank to punt it before aiming his gun at it (with the alien adorably putting its tentacles up in the air). And then a giant tentacle emerges from the airlock and drags him through before he can fire his shot. The kicker is that while returning to spawn, he and the tentacle must've had an awesome offscreen struggle, because he lands alongside it, cleanly chopped off.
- The sheer cartoonish redundancy of the Moo Cow Alistar skin is already funny on its own, but its recall animation adds to it by having him pull out a milk bottle for a trio of Meowkai's weird alien cat things, tossing aside the cork but unknowingly bonking one of them out cold. The funniest bit is that as the other two rush towards the saucer, Alistar does a quick headcount, but by the instant he gets to the third one, the recall completes before he can appropriately react to it.
- Dragon Trainer Tristana's death animation where she's blasted apart from Riggle and he tries to get her back up? Horribly distressing. Dragon Trainer Heimerdinger's death animation where he's blasted apart from Pythagoras, only for Pythagoras to steal a drumstick from his dead body and fly off? Horribly hysterical.
- Count Kledula's recall animation has him really lean into a cross between a Cool Old Guy and a Grumpy Old Man, playfully spooking a trio of trick-or-treating poros... then actually spooking them by firing his Hand Cannon like he's signalling them to get off his lawn.
- Papercraft Nunu twigs around with Nunu's dance animation in a hilarious way. Normally, he plays his flute while dancing around, but with this skin, he instead pulls out a rolled-up sheet of paper and "plays" that. It sounds exactly as you would expect.
- Little Demon Tristana's recall gives her a shoulder Little Devil Teemo who whispers something in her ear, followed by another Little Devil Teemo, but wearing a heavenly toga and halo... who Tristana promptly decides to fling into her cannon to fire him out as both she and the other Teemo laugh.
- Annie-versary replaces Tibbers with Teemo, who when summoned by her ult is Tibbers-sized and melees enemies using knuckle dusters with mushrooms on each end. It looks exactly how it sounds.
- For bonus, out-of-game points, the splash art's existence becomes exponentially funnier when you learn that its artist was famous before Riot hired him ALSO for drawing an inappropriately beefed-up Teemo.
- Little Devil Fizz summons a giant Little Devil Teemo with his ult. His recall, meanwhile, has him fight another angel Teemo for Little Devil Teemo's crown.
- The occasional Funny Back/Foreground Events in the skin portraits can be worth a chuckle or two.
- "Pool Party Ziggs": Ziggs does a cannonball, much to the chagrin of Garen, Katarina and Darius. Yeah, Garen and Darius in the same pool (Katarina is a different issue, though).
- "Pool Party Leona": Taric chases after Lux, much to Ezreal's dismay. The best part? Taric does the Girly Run.
- "Heartseeker Vayne": Apparently, Dr. Mundo asked Vayne out, and she responded with a crossbow bolt to the back.
- "Forecast Janna": Teemo can be seen flying in a tornado behind Janna.
- "Dino Gnar": Gnar is playing with figurines of Garen and Katarina. Katarina appears to be running towards Garen's loving embrace.
- "Nurse Akali"note : Poor Amumu is Afraid of Needles.
- "Kennen, M.D.": Cho'Gath looking worried. Also, his X-ray shows that he ate a minion, complete with both their skeletons...
- "Cottontail Fizz": Fizz is running from a giant rabbit along with a terrified Cottontail Teemo.
- "Bewitching Nidalee": Nidalee is flying away from an angry mob while holding onto a cat by the front leg making the most hilariously terrified face.◊
- "Pool Party Fiora◊": Demacia's most skilled swordswoman leaves Tryndamere, Darius, Katarina and Ashe speechless. Garen is also there cheering her on. She also broke Tryndamere's pool noodle, presumably with her own.
- "Pool Party Miss Fortune◊" has a really easy-to-miss one, in that if you look closely, you'll realize that Pool Party Lee Sin is holding his phone upside-down.
- "Pool Party Taric◊": The reworked Ezreal "boyfriend" has him in full fanservicey Baywatch mode attracting the attention of the beauties Fiora and Miss Fortune, and a quite pleased Braum. There's even a blond who might be Ezreal, though there's not enough detail to be sure.
- The shared splash art for the 2019 Cats vs. Dogs event has all sorts of background shenanigans, with the dog side featuring a dog dressed as SKT T1 Ezreal, Archduke Nasus, Urfwick, and Dragon Trainer Tristana, while the cat side features Meowkai and Nidalee. In between the two appear to be the contest's hosts, including Primetime Draven, Kindred, and Neeko disguised as Kitty Kat Katarina.
- It's worth noting that with Kindred, Wolf is clearly the actual host between the two of them. Lamb is just there because he is... and she clearly has no idea what's going on, going by her lost look. Given her normally calm and stoic demeanor, seeing her like this is definitely worth a chuckle all by itself.
- "Pizza Delivery Sivir": Annie is trying to take Pug'Maw for a walk while Birdio just crashed his van into a fire hydrant.
- The dances in general will cause you bust a gut laughing. Some are expected, such as Olaf's dance being based on "Techno Viking" and Corki "Doing A Barrel Roll". Some, however, are completely out of the left field, like Twisted Fate channeling his inner K-Pop star by dancing to "Gangnam Style"!
- Elise, a Ms. Fanservice champion with an extra emphasis on her legs, has the Can-Can for her dance emote. This carries over to her spider form where she actually forms an impromptu chorus line with her spiderlings. The results will make you spit your drink across the room.
- Pre-rework Urgot, the undead cyborg monstrosity, does the Kirby Victory Dance!
- What's probably one of the best ones, however, doesn't even belong to a champion. Vilemaw, the boss for the Shadow Isles version of Twisted Treeline, is a gigantic undead spider. Dancing within a certain radius of him makes him do The Carlton Dance.
- Malzahar would like you to know that you can't touch this.
- Pre-VU Kassadin does the sprinkler.
- Post-VU Garen would like you to do The Monkey with him.
- Post-rework/VU Poppy's dance is a reference to the Grunka Lunkas, expies of Oompa Loompas. The fact that Poppy herself has an Oompa Loompa skin in the form of Lollipoppy is already amusing enough, but it's even better when she ends up making her infamous, creepy-as-hell Lollipoppy face.
- PROJECT: Ashe's dance emote has her handing her bow to her "Avarosa" drone, which then begins spinning mid-air, providing a convenient lightshow and bangin' music to dance to!
- God King Darius' goofy dance with his giant spirit wolf is hilarious enough, but it's somehow made even better when you realize what meme the both of them are referencing.
- Not to be outdone by God-King Darius and Dragon Trainer Tristana, God King Garen lifts up his giant spirit lion to wiggle his arms back and forth ala Keyboard Cat, all while said lion is making a particularly unimpressed expression.
- With Poppy's rework, the splash arts of all her skins were updated. In her Lollipoppy skin, one of the lollipops in the background has the old skin's infamous face, and she also puts on a similar face in her dance animation.
- Guardian Angel is an armor that revives you on the spot with roughly half your HP on death, playing the animation in reverse to simulate getting up. Kog'Maw's death animation involves him exploding, so it would be kind of weird on him if he should somehow equip it. Thus, Riot has the item coded to play his dance emote when its ability goes off instead.
- Sion's ultimate, Unstoppable Onslaught, has lines that he shouts while using it. Normally terrifying. Hearing him shouting “COWARDS!" while running away from the enemy team? Hilarious.
- The Discount Demons Bundle was a bundle of skins that were mostly demonic- and spectral-themed, including Blood Moon Thresh, Underworld Wukong, Reaper Soraka, Underworld Twisted Fate, Dark Crystal Ryze... then there was Lolli poppy.
- In a small, but highly amusing bit of Black Comedy, the Flavor Text for the Dead Man's Plate item."There's only one way you'll get this armor from me..." - forgotten namesake
- Emote spamming, which consists on spamming taunts until your fingers ache. Some champions are culprits of acoustic contamination like Garen and Heimerdinger. Others are more silent but will still make anyone laugh (or annoy) other players with their weird movements like Tahm Kench, Nami or Graves.
- If you're really clever, you might be able to recognize how to combine several emote animations between multiple champions to make something funny. Or maybe instead just make it look dirty.
- Kled in general, being a ridiculous, exaggerated parody of Noxian aggression, expansionism and ruthlessness. When you take Demacian virtues to their extreme, you get Poppy: honest, noble, self-effacing and heroic. When you take Noxian virtues to their extreme, you get...a deranged, foul-mouthed, drug-addled, ambiguously cannibalistic hillbilly who steals titles from his victims and rambles incoherently about things that never happened at battles he may not even have been at.
- Kled's vanilla splash art is also hilarious, picturing Kled and Skaarl in the middle of a battlefield with arrows being shot at them. Kled's angrily screaming off to the side while holding an arrow (which he presumably caught mid-air!), but more notably, Skaarl is smiling dopely while staring at a butterfly in the other direction.
- Kled is so bloodthirsty that not only does he plan on killing his teammates after they kill the enemy, but before it was removed, every single champion excluding Skaarl was listed as a rival on his website profile, including for some reason, himself.
- It turns out that when Skaarl takes enough damage and makes a run for it, she's specifically programmed to rush to and hide in a nearby bush. Also as part of that, until she returns to Kled, she can be detected with the Red Trinket while hiding, even if you can't actually interact with her until then.
- The Champion Ban voices. While this usually have the characters have lines saying they're leaving or mocking your fear of them, three members have very funny lines. The first is Taric, whom deems you as blind for not choosing him, Draven, whom only calmly leaves (while all the others, apart from Swain, taunted you), and as for Taliyah..."GROUNDED!?"
- Meanwhile, Lulu apparently endorses queue-dodging."I recommend skipping!"
- Meanwhile, Lulu apparently endorses queue-dodging.
- Summoner's Rift has several one-time-only instances of minute critters wandering around the map, making it feel that much more alive. However, some fans have noted a random frog that around 1:30 into a game near the top-right corner of the map, jumps off a cliff apparently to its death. Riot's officially stated it's just going home, but fans have embraced this interpretation, giving the frog the nickname of "George the Suicidal Frog."
- Became an Ascended Meme in the reveal video for Neeko, which starts with Neeko catching the frog right before he jumps off the cliff... only for him to jump off the cliff anyway as soon as she puts him down and leaves.
- Kayle and Morgana's 2019 relaunches were released simultaneously, with Kayle, who had a massive gameplay update in addition to a massive graphical update, getting an appropriately comprehensive champion spotlight for her new abilities. Morgana, however, mostly received just the visual facelift with little to no actual gameplay changes, so her spotlight is... different.
- The April Fools 2018 login screen is a sight to behold. It's a Self-Parody of the login screen used at the start of Season 8, only instead of scrolling against multiple champions, this scrolls up to... Birdio. Multiple times. With the epic orchestral music blasting behind it.
- After being probably the 2nd biggest fandom in-joke behind Graves' cigar, Riot decided to make Star Guardian Urgot an official skin for their 2020 April Fools event. Well, sort of. The justification is that he's cosplaying as a Pajama Guardian - hence the name "Pajama Guardian Cosplay Urgot" - but the community seems to have deemed that "close enough".
- Ahri's Spirit Blossom skin has an animation where she turns into a full fox and dives headfirst in a pile of snow that appears out of nowhere. Funny enough, but then she gets stuck and has to pull herself out. Her struggles to escape are cartoonishly exaggerated, with borderline squash and stretch physics at play, which extends to even the snow pile.
Lore and Other Supplemental Material
- The Journal of Justice has this in spades. Along with giving extra info and backstory on the champions for the interested (quite a few) there are a number of "joke" articles which are just meant to be amusing. Special mention for Annie doing advertisements for dental hygiene. Yes, that Annie.
- The Journal of Justice had an article, viewable on the wiki here, about Blitzcrank creating a sort of dating service. The article was amusing, but the best part was the accompanying illustration in which Blitzcrank shows photos of successful (well, he might have a different definition of it, being a robot and all) pairings from his service - one was Rammus and a cactus.
- The two blooper reel videos Riot made of their own Season One CG Cinematic. The first is worth a good giggle, with Groin Attacks and Epic Fail but the second is HILARIOUS, asking Fridge Logic questions like "what if the summoner controlling a champion is a klutz?", "aren't those minions Cho'Gath eats actually animated constructs?" and "just how dog-like is Nasus?"
- The tale told in this newspost. To give a quick brief, Mundo had taken a bunch of other champions to a bar, and the waitress kept asking, of all people, Rammus if the table wanted more drinks. You can probably guess how things go from there.
- The trailer for the Mac version is also highly amusing. It starts with Corporate Mundo going where he pleases and ends with one of Zigg's hexplosives standing in for the Apple logo. It also includes such hilarities as a child's drawing of Mordekaiser standing next to a burning house with "I [heart] My Daddy" written on it, a banana included on a display wall together with a collection of other weapons, an emergency glass cabinet with "Press R to win" printed on it and a water cooler that dispenses health and mana potions.
- The Rise of the Dragonslayer video has a subtle one. It was supposed to highlight the new Dragonslayer skins and slaying Dragons, be it neutral Dragons, or Shyvana. But in a blink-or-miss, Dragonslayer Pantheon still has time to lob his spear at a nearby Teemo even though he's not a Dragon!
- Karthus apparently Can't Hold His Liquor, according to this news flash. And he complains when his bandmates point that out.
- The lore entry for Gnar (a prehistoric, 4-year-old Yordle champion) is written from the perspective of Rengar. Gnar starts to annoy him, so he throws the poor tyke's boomerang into a tree... cue Gnar pulling a Hulk Out behind Rengar's back and throwing the tree at him.Rengar: I've made a terrible mistake.
- A New Dawn has its share of moments. Everything from Katarina bolting around to kill Graves, only to meet Graves' shotgun pointed at her face where Graves gives her an eyebrow wiggle worthy of Groucho Marx, to Draven coming in to try to kill Ahri and just shrug at her as if to say "Hey, just following orders."
- And then, for those Summoners who are quite familiar with how toxic the community can be, there's "If A New Dawn was Solo Queue".
- Azir's Champion Spotlight has this one gem, in regard to his soldiers:Sand soldiers are afraid of enemy turrets. They refuse to attack them and disappear much faster when one's around. Bunch of wimps.
- In the Warriors - 2014 World Championship (Imagine Dragons) music video, around 0:18 seconds in there is a Kappa face on the door. 0:23 seconds in? Twitch chat is utterly filled with them.
- The Shadow & Fortune story-line, while rather dark and focusing around the Harrowing, has many rather comical moments with, of all characters, Olaf being so annoyingly frustrated at being unable to have his glorious death. Best exemplified in this one line:That beast just shit you out?note
- Rammus' updated lore is arguably one of the most hilarious, and certainly one of the most goofily straight-faced pieces of writing since the Journal of Justice. While Rammus retains his Mysterious Past, it reveals that he is speculated in-universe to be an Ascended being as old as the concept of Ascension, and is worshipped as a god, leading to this gem:Disciples of the cult devoted to Rammus demonstrate their unwavering faith in a yearly ceremony by imitating his famous roll and somersaulting through the city in droves.
- Additionally, it documents a time when he saved Shuriman tribesmen from Noxian forces by collapsing an ancient temple over them, causing them to retreat. While it is unknown exactly why he did it, one tribesman speculated that "Rammus was simply sleeprolling and had no intention of taking down a temple."
- The entire concept of a cult devoted to Rammus is humorous, as it seems that sages and scholars seek him for his counsel. Keep in mind that he only has 7 lines, all of them single-word answers. One wonders if the "revelations" that they seek actually come from talking to themselves and arriving at a different conclusion.
- Yorick's new Champion Spotlight HAD to crack a joke about "graves"..."Also, none of the graves can have a cigar."
- LeBlanc's rework in the Assassin Update gave her a new ability where she can summon a clone globally to bait enemies into wasting spells. While this is hilarious on its own, the practical explanation Scarizard gave to it... is nothing short of sensational."Pretend to gank top lane while you head towards bot lane. Or pretend to gank top lane... AND THEN ACTUALLY GANK TOP LANE!"
- The adventures of intrepid Piltover writer and explorer Eduard Santangelo in Ionia to search and investigate the ancient race of the Vastaya led to some hilarious moments during his meeting with these creatures such as offending the otterfolk for asking if they were the result of human and shapeshifter reproduction and his infatuation towards Ahri when he met her bathing in a lake naked."I wished to stay and ask more of the otterfolk, but one of my questions seemed to cause great offense, and I was unceremoniously ejected from the village and the creatures’ good graces in one fell swoop. My question, for those looking to avoid the same mistake, regarded whether the pairing of the two species was purely magical or more (shall we say) physical in nature."
- Teemo rares up to take names in the video for "Mortal Reminder". Fearlessly walking through the chaos, scaling a rocky spire, readying his blowgun... before getting absentmindedly booted into the stratosphere by Kayle.
- The Lost Tales of Ornn reveals Fizz's trident began life as Ornn's eating fork.
- The "League of Legends New Player Promotion" trilogy features a bunch of live-action players in an Institute of War-esque building armed with the weapons of the champions they're choosing to play. It's as comical as it is incredibly endearing.
- "Born to Spin" features a team ready to go, all except for one who's clearly a beginner and having a hard time picking a starter champion. To boot, he fumbles with Draven's machetes, fires Ashe's arrows at his teammates (which the Janna player has to shield), and blows up a window using Lux's wand.
- The instant the video came out, one editor on Reddit decided to put his own spin on the ending of the video.
- "Escalation" features everyone demonstrating their weapons that do just that: The new player shows off Katarina's daggers, followed by Riven's reconstructed blade, Rhaast, Fishbones, and Tibbers, who explodes into form all in front of their eyes. By that point, it's honestly very hard to disagree with the newbie's ecstatic "We're gonna win!"
- "The Plan" features the party returning from a lost game, with one of them suggesting a better team composition... resulting in everyone ignoring him for the most immediately cool-looking weapons and running off (with the newbie making off with Ekko's clock hand).Only Sane Man: Guys, this is never gonna work!
(everyone excitedly rushes to the battlefield)
Only Sane Man: (looks at his Darius axe) Maybe it will.- Some commenters have pointed out that judging by the release order of the videos, this takes place after "Escalation". So much for "We're gonna win."
- "Born to Spin" features a team ready to go, all except for one who's clearly a beginner and having a hard time picking a starter champion. To boot, he fumbles with Draven's machetes, fires Ashe's arrows at his teammates (which the Janna player has to shield), and blows up a window using Lux's wand.
- Willump chewing on a baby Krug in the "It's Me & You" video. Not noticing the very annoyed and very large Mama Krug behind him.
- "Just One More". Following a supremely unlucky 5-man on a big losing streak. Special mention goes to them unloading every ult on Karthus...forgetting his passive. And proceed to get nuked by his ult.
- "Welcome Aboard", a teaser for the Odyssey skin line, framed as a recruitment video by Jinx. Combined with the blatantly obvious Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) influence, it's predictably a riot.
- The video starts (and ends) with footage of Jinx celebrating Malphite's birthday, complete with cake, balloons, and a silly party hat.
- The whole video contains a ton of fun filmmaking details, from the title cards written in marker on brown paper, to the shoddy Chroma Key job as Jinx introduces The Morning Star.
- Malphite's proper introduction shows him precisely trying to make a miniature Morning Star in a bottle, and when he accidentally shatters it, he smashes the entire table.
- Yasuo's introduced in his captain's quarters reading something, and when Jinx tosses him a dummy to show how unfazeable he is, he instantly chops it up and resumes reading without missing a beat... and then it zooms in to show it's a saucy Romance Novel titled The Storm and the Sabre, and he reacts with shock after turning a page.
- Even better, the book cover◊ appears to have Garen and Katarina in their Bilgewater skins, and is written by someone named Brian Francis Sword.
- Word of God has revealed several other rejected titles for the book. Among them are the suspicious and implicitly Ship Tease-y Immortal Journey Vol 2: The Sacred Sword, The Battle Bunny's Secret Weapon, Featherstorm, The Tempest's Last Breath, and The Gentleman and The Gem.
- The best part is, it's funny whether you think Yasuo were really reading the novel or whether he and Jinx just staged it for the video.
- Other crew activities on The Morning Star include recreational karaoke (singing over "Burning Bright" from the Star Guardian universe), hands-on medical training (with Jinx repairing Malphite's armor with a blowtorch while he's still wearing it), and team-building exercises (the three playing some sort of Variant Chess, with one move by Malphite prompting Jinx to tackle him among a sea of censored profanity, at which point Yasuo silently knocks over one of Jinx's pieces with a smirk).
- Jinx sharing the footage of Kayn sending a threatening message to them, focusing less on the fact he's an assassin out to kill them, instead admiring how "beautiful and psychotic" he is.
- The video ends as Jinx signs off, and Yasuo silently and unflinchingly takes the camera and sends it flying out the airlock. When she's playing the (presumably recovered) video for Sona, you can see the camera looking worse for wear and covered in some kind of alien slime.
- "An Explorer's Journey". Chronicling the adventures of Ezreal and his surprising lack of preparedness.Day 4, somewhere around lunchtime: I really should have packed a snack.Day 4, well past noon: Is pomade edible?
- Veigar's color story, "The True and Ghastly Tale of the Beast of Boleham Tower", puts his own brand of "evil" on full blast, and is naturally packed with laughs.
- When Veigar notices an angry mob approaching his tower, he gleefully prepares his Big Entrance, complete with dramatic pose and lightning... which takes a while for the mob to notice.
- His introduction to the leader of the villagers is described as such:The mob retreated, and Veigar found himself alone with her. She seemed more than twice his height by this point, and radiated confidence.
He hated her. - The fact that Veigar, during his "campaign of terror," had inadvertently helped the villagers by ridding an actual threatening warlord from the area is met with an understandable combination of thankfulness and utter confusion. One of them even points him towards another evil warlord in case, you know, he feels like popping over that way later.
- In an extremely bleak sense, the ending to "At the Edge of the World". After being unknowingly sent on what turned out to essentially be a Suicide Mission and left stranded in the horrific Shuriman jungles, Ysard Tomyri comes up with a last-ditch plan to escape with her surviving crew, ending her commands with "This place will not be the end of Ysard Tomyri." The following section hard-skips to much later, where a random villager encounters her corpse. Sorry, Ysard.
- The 2018 "Year In Review" —a retrospective for each individual player with highlights and overall statistics — pokes fun at the champs, with a humorous quote for the whole roster.Alistar: Don't milk those.
Amumu: When you invite everyone to your gank, but no one shows. Q.Q
Azir: May I have a moment of your time to talk of Shurima?
Evelynn: You can hear it in my growl growl growl growl.
Garen: Not a Mage. Giant falling sword is pure coincidence.
Karma: It doesn't matter how many seasons pass. They never expect the Karma damage.
Karthus: You were Karthus before it was cool.note
Maokai: Saplings!
Sivir: Have you considered a career in pizza delivery? Or cosplay?
Talon: TalON = death. TalOFF = death.
Teemo: Don’t listen to everyone. We like Teemo, too.
Tristana: Rocket jumping out is only okay once you’ve got the penta.
Varus: It takes two to dance with death. Wait, no, three.
Vayne: You’re reeeeeeaaaaallly good.
Yorick: There are dozens of us! - During "Roots of a Poisoned Tree":
- The description of Malphite shifting an inner cave wall to form a face for himself entails "two deep craters that looked like closed eyes, and a projecting crag that could be a nose." While the accompanying illustration hints that that's indeed what it's supposed to be, one has to wonder if this ambiguity is a nod to the general fan consensus that Malphite's in-game head looks like a nose.
- In the same story, as Malphite is dramatically introducing what he is, the normal human miners tell him to quit moving his face around as it's causing the tunnel to crumble around them.
- As serious as it is, there are laughs to be found in the "Zed" comic.
- After Zed assassinates a prominent target for the Navori Brotherhood, Kayn later grumbles about how they should have taken his spear and sold it.
Kayn: We shoulda taken Althon's spear. We could've sold it.Zed: We aren't thieves.- Akali's hilarious summation of Kayn in issue 3.
Akali: It's your eyes.Kayn: What?Akali: I mean I hate admitting it, but the abs and shirtless thing? Actually works for me. But those eyes? Crazy. You're hot. But crazy. - Combine one bomb loving Yordle and one completely wacko anarchist, and what do you get? "Paint The Town". A hilarious buddy comedy featuring Ziggs and Jinx.
- Jinx consulting her Shoulder Angel Ziggs and Shoulder Devil Ziggs on what to do with actual Ziggs.
Devil!Ziggs: Blow him up! Nothing stops this party!Angel!Ziggs: BLARGH BURF I EAT FARTS!Jinx: You both make good points. This will take a lot of soul-searching and consideration and MAMA BORED! LET'S BLOW UP MY SENSE OF MORALITY!- Jinx getting revenge on a bakery that she feels did her wrong. For very Jinx-like reasons.
Jinx: I've sworn vengeance on the owner cause he wouldn't serve me unless I put on a top.Ziggs: Why weren't you wearing a top?Jinx: I was about to eat cake. - "A Feast Fit For A King". Full of the off the wall Toilet Humor you'd expect of a story starring Trundle.
- The Spirit Blossom event stories. Taking champs and turning them into characters straight out of a Visual Novel. The kicker being the normally serious Riven being turned into a possessed Tsundere.
- Thresh blushing is as if he's got a night light lit inside his head and practically turns all of it hot pink.
- The nameless protagonist of the event in general. Thanks to multiple response choices, you can play them either as someone taking the situation rightfully seriously, or as a medium aware weirdo treating the whole thing like a game. Of particular note is their interactions with Cassiopeia, and their odd fascination with having her crush their bones. Cass herself starts getting a little creeped out by it after a bit.
Cassiopeia: My Champion, this request is getting a little...weird. - "The Boys And Bombolini". A hilarious, explosion filled romp starring Twisted Fate and Graves is full of funny moments.
- Apparently Graves has been telling the story of how he defeated Viego for months. TF is sick of hearing it. And the butchering of the details therein.Twisted Fate: "I’m ungrateful? I’m not the one who disappeared for months to go fight some Camavor ghost prince, then rolled back into town one night like he owned the place."Graves: "He was a ghost king, and you’re lucky I fought him or we’d all be ghosts! You’d be a ghost, I’d be a ghost. Everyone would be a ghost!"Twisted Fate: "You weren’t even there! You think I don’t read Shauna’s letters? Graves, I’m a con man, you can’t trick me. They left you outside while scissors doll and the shirtless wonder saved the day."
- “I think we’re sa—” said Goby, exploding.
- Graves on his taste in men.Graves: "I do not have terrible taste in men. I have good taste in terrible men, and there is absolutely a difference."
- Apparently his friendship with Vayne has one caveat.Graves: And for the love of all that’s sacred, never call her ‘Shauna.’ She will break your neck by looking at it.
- Apparently Graves has been telling the story of how he defeated Viego for months. TF is sick of hearing it. And the butchering of the details therein.
- To go along with the release of HEARTSTEEL's music video "Paranoia", they animated a short blooper reel of the boys goofing around and struggling to get their video made. It's hilarious.
- Kayn still has his "Shadow Step" ability in the HEARTSTEEL universe, but has a little more trouble controlling it. He walks face-first into the door, gets his foot stuck, and gets stuck halfway through with all the other members making fun of him.
- K'Sante threatening to tell Yone when Kayn steals the car keys. Later, Yone is shown lecturing them after they crashed the cars in the gladiator scene, as they all hang their heads like guilty children (except for Ezreal, who is stifling a massive laugh behind Aphelios).
Yone: THIS....is why we don't play chicken with the very. Expensive. VEHICLES!- Aphelios' eyerolling at his teammates' antics, mostly Sett.
- Sett falls asleep on Aphelios, snoring loudly as the latter tries in vain to get him off. Later, we see that the bandmates doodled all over Sett's face as he slept, with Aphelios' camera capturing a video of an obliviously sleeping Sett.
- Ezreal and Aphelios doing rock paper scissors to see who is going to drive with Kayn. Ezreal loses, pleads for a rematch, and Aphelios won't take it.