The League of Legends game needs no introduction: millions of players around the world, a huge fan base growing every year, tournaments with the highest prize pools. It boasts not only amazing statistics and genius of developers, but also amazing facts, some of which can amaze even the most advanced gamers.
10. The only game studio Riot Games
No matter how surprising it may sound, but League of Legends is the first and only game of Riot Games studio. The company itself was founded in 2006, and the game was released in 2009. At the moment, the total number of employees is 2500 thousand people. In the gaming industry, there have never been cases when the first and only game of the studio immediately earned such enormous popularity all over the world, and at the same time, steadily increasing its fan base every year.
9. The names of many champions are not random
Indeed, the name of each champion (the so-called characters in LoL) has a certain meaning. The name of the blind champion Lee Sin, for example, is the homonym of the word “listen” - “listen”. Wai from Latin translates as "power." Champion’s name is the result of a rearrangement of the letters in the word “Chaos”. Hymerdinger is the result of a synthesis of two surnames - Schrödinger and Oppenheimer. Erwin Schrödinger became famous for his paradox - “The Schrödinger Cat”. Oppenheimer is the father of the atomic bomb. It is possible to enumerate names and their meanings for a very long time, since each name has its own interesting story.
LoL is officially a sports game. This means that the League of Legends is at the same level as the NHL, NBA, NFL and many other sports leagues. League of Legends players are considered the same athletes as soccer players, hockey players, basketball players and many others. The only difference is that LoL players are virtual athletes. By the way, recently in Russia, e-sports was recognized as an official discipline, which, undoubtedly, opens up new opportunities for millions of Russian players.
7. You can go to jail for restraint in game chat
Yes, there is no typo here. Once, a ridiculous story happened to one of the League of Legends players. During one of the disputes in the game’s chat, the 19-year-old guy was called a psycho, to which he answered: “Yes, I'm crazy. I’ll go take a gun, shoot some school and eat children's hearts. Lol. " Naturally, it was a joke, as indicated by the word “lol” at the end, in this context not referring to the abbreviation of the game, but “I'm just joking.” Despite this, the guy risked going to jail for 8 years only because the woman who reported to the police misunderstood his joke.
6. Some bugs exist in the game for years
Despite such a huge and experienced Riot Games studio team, in League of Legends bugs still have a place to be. So, at the beginning of the match, the timer does not work very well. Between the sixth and eleventh second, he misses about 3 seconds. To this day, no one knows whether this is a bug or not. The development team did not give any answers on this issue.
After the previous paragraphs, this is not surprising. The numbers that LoL boasts are amazing. Gamers spend more than 1.3 billion hours daily in a day playing League of Legends. LoL players managed to spend more hours in the game in just a couple of months than in the entire 8-year history of Halo. An interesting fact - every second about 10 games begin here. But here you should not count on the search for a future wife, since more than 90% of all players are men.
4. In the League of Legends, a bunch of hidden easter eggs
The game is fraught with a huge number of Easter eggs and hidden references. In LoL, there are certain sets of skins that hide references to 4 of the most popular browsers. Mordekizer skill names are references to heavy metal songs. Ninja Rammus looks like one of the ninja turtles. Draven borrowed his death animation from the anime "Cowboy Bebop." And this is only the smallest part of all the references, of which there are a huge number in the game.
3. The game looks different in different countries
Due to censorship in different countries, League Of Legends does not look the same everywhere. So, for example, Cartus in the USA is depicted with a skull, while the official icons of this character in China show a face without a skull. This is due to the fact that in China it is forbidden to show dice in video games - this is regarded as very rude and, therefore, is prohibited. And this is not an isolated case.
Many character dances in LoL were not just invented, but taken and adapted from popular clips of famous artists. Michael Jackson, for example, presented his “signature” moonwalk to Talon. Twisted Fate borrowed his dance from the popular artist PSY. Olaf’s dance was taken from a viral video called Techno Viking. Cale's dance was borrowed from The Prince of Beverly Hills. This is just a part of all those characters who borrowed their dances from popular artists
Yes this is true. Most likely, even after reading the information, not everyone will immediately understand how LoL is a sport. All teams in tournaments compete fiercely with each other. League of Legends tournaments are famous for their highest prize pools. In addition, these tournaments are held in huge arenas. Competitions are watched by millions of people around the world. Online broadcasts, on average, attract over 8 million people. A professional Russian player in League of Legends earns at least 168 thousand Russian rubles.