Vinny Gausden, more popularly known as Choleraninja, puts out videos regularly on his YouTube channel. He does a variety of Let's Plays, including such games as Paper Mario, Kingdom Hearts, and Shadow of the Colossus. He is most famous, however, for his series of League of Legends highlights videos. Collectively the series is called "I'm Bad at LoL," and features content edited from the many, many games Cholera Ninja has played and recorded. The series is notable for being not only funny but also showcasing both Vinny's victories and defeats in a manner that doesn't try to hide the silliness and bad plays to which he's sometimes prone.
Tropes that apply to {Choleraninja}:
- Amazon Chaser: Has a bit of a thing for strong women with six pack abs like Undyne.
- BFS: Is a Great Sword main in MH and many characters he makes have oversized weapons.
- Book Ends: His first and final "I'm Bad At LoL" video featured Xin Zhao.
- Bowdlerise: His "Online Game Simulator" video (even though his impersonation is bad enough as it is). In the words of one top comment, "This is a terrible depiction of the League of Legends community! The real playerbase is much worse."
- Button Mashing: His method of playing Xin Zhao.Next time I get into a fight, I'm just gonna hit every fucking button.
- Epic Fail: His first Lee Sin Jungle video; his first time jungling with a champion he never uses, with very predictable results. The second one starts with his whole team going jungle with him, and the rest is just them goofing around during an obviously hopeless battle.
- Fake Shemp: "Also Bacon Couch wasn't on skype so his role will be played by Swagbot47
." - Glass Cannon: Noticeably builds zero defense items on Tryndamere or Gangplank in his earlier League of Legends videos since... well... see The Real Man.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: In one Chivalry: Medieval Warfare video, he forgoes any weapons as a Vanguard and just runs around punching people to death. They actually work.
- In-Series Nickname: Calls Yordles "Moogles". The main character and final boss of Shadow of the Colossus are Carl and Dave respectively. And there dare no Super Saiyans, only super sand (which later evolves into "super sand legend"... and then "super sand lesbian").
- Kiai: Done to the point of annoying his friends in his Xin Zhao video.
- Large Ham
- Last-Second Word Swap: Courtesy of Microsoft Sam.HEY YO WHAT UP friend.
- Laughing Mad: Thanks to staying in-character, Cholera Ninja falls into this for over 30 seconds after a kill in his "Zag Ziggin'" video.
- One of his Halo 4 videos is literally called that, and is all about it as he gets more and more kills through ramming vehicles and explosives.
- Leitmotif: Quite a few champions get those: Xin of course gets I'll Make A Man Out of You, Darius has Gaston, Ezreal and Veigar get various Mega Man (Classic) and Final Fantasy IX songs respectively...
- Man of a Thousand Voices: Can do an impressive range of impressions, nearly all of which are hilarious (especially ones coinciding with him being a Large Ham).
- The Real Man: Very much his playstyle. He fully admits he doesn't play League to win, but to have fun and kill people, which is why his favorite champions are mostly in-your-face brawlers such as Darius or Tryndamere (and Ezreal). And then there's his tendency to show up with melee weapons or large calibers in FPS...
- Robo Speak: The aforementioned Swagbot 47, who mostly repeats "SWAG SWAG SWAG SWAG" over and over in a robotic voice. And then subverts it as it starts Trash Talking.I'M A STRONG INDEPENDANT GOLEM I DON'T NEED NO MANWHAT UP PUNK ASS
- Screaming Warrior: All the time in combat-related games, he'll start screaming out of (fake) anger, surprise, or triumph. Or just when he feels like it. His claim to fame was playing Xin Zhao like this, screaming exaggerated Kiai noises every time he stabbed something.
- Shout-Out: All the time, both in and out of his "I'm Bad at LoL" videos.
- Be a man!
- Whenever a moment of particular stupidity occurs, Cholera Ninja is fond of flashing an image of a certain blitzball player on the screen.
- The gruff voice that he uses for Graves is also, by his own admission, reminiscent of Scruffy the janitor.
- While discussing possible Gragas skins with his friends, Cholera Ninja mentions that he wants a Coach McGuirk skin.
- Slow Motion: Used frequently to highlight moments of awesomeness, as well as bizarre glitches in the game. Also sometimes used...
- Slow "NO!": ...if Cholera Ninja's gotten into a particularly nasty team fight. Usually Played for Laughs in the video, even if he was upset in-game.
- Take That!: Most spectacularly the "Online Game Simulator" video, in which he teaches a new guy the ropes of MOBAs... that is to say, insult your team the whole game and act like you're the only one doing anything.
- Talk Like a Pirate: During his Gangplank videos. At one point someone points out that he forgot the extra "R"'s in Parrrrley so he tried again and dragged the "R" part out to over a minute.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: "Nunu Ascends", in which he downright nukes two champions with a 893 AP Nunu while screaming FINAL FLASH!
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Started with this video, as a Monty Python parody, and culminating in the Kings of Dunkshire saga, in which the whole team acts like that for an entire game.
