10 Legendary Moments in LOL That Stunned Fans Worldwide
With over 20 million players, League of Legends has become the most popular game in the world. There is no other game on either console or PC that can compete with the sheer number of hours played in League. As a result, a very large competitive scene has evolved including some of the biggest prize pools in gaming. Each year we witness teams from all over the world clash in the most epic battles we’ve ever seen on Summoner’s Rift. Some of these moments shock fans worldwide and go down in the history books for how awesome they are. Here are 10 of those moments:
10. The World Championship receiving a higher rating than the NBA finals
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The season 3 World Championships took place in a sold out Staples Center, Los Angeles
This is not a specific in game moment as are most of the moments on this list, but it still marks a shocking milestone in League of Legends history. The Miami Heat managed to beat the San Antonio Spurs in a grueling 7 game series to take home the big trophy and the NBA championship title. Just a couple of months later though, SK Telecom T1 went undefeated against Royal to win the League of Legends world championship.
SKT Telecom T1’s final match against Royal was watched by 32 million people worldwide. That was far more viewers than either the NBA finals, or even the World Series attracted. This event was important because it really solidified pro-gaming and E-sports as a real thing. Due to this popularity many broadcasting networks have since taken up E-sports since it generates so much revenue.
9. LPL's Amazing Equalizer
One of the coolest moments that was heralded by Rumble fans across the world came as LPL and GPL clashed during the 2013 LCS All-Star weekend. LPL found themselves in a huge disadvantage as a fight broke out in the river. XiaoXiao (Thresh) was caught out and dropped fast, and Troll (Hecarim) was forced to ult away to safety. Everything looked great for GPL until PDD showed up with his Rumble. The entire enemy team had unfortunately grouped themselves up in the brush entering the jungle. The perfect Equalizer was thrown down and, with the help of the rest of his team, Rumble melted GPL to the ground for an almost clean ace.
8. ZionSpartan's Nasus backdoor against TSM
The 2014 LCS Summer Playoffs Quarterfinals ended in an exciting moment that shocked fans all around the world. TSM was putting pressure on DIG as they were fishing for a kill. The game had been going for over 50 minutes and TSM knew that they could win if they managed to get just one kill.
However, while all of TSM was putting pressure on the mid lane base turret, ZionSpartan who was playing Nasus for DIG teleported into the opposing base. There were no minions present but ZionSpartan could close out the game anyway. The race was on! TSM scattered trying to recall in order to save their base, but the rest of ZionSpartan’s team was denying as best they could. Eventually TSM’s Amazing (Lee Sin) made it back to base, but it was too late. Nasus closed the game with less than 200 HP left.
7. RapidStar's Quadra Kill with Karthus
It is every Karthus player’s dream to land a Pentakill with Requiem. The World Finals of season 2 brought us such a moment. Well almost, it was a quadrakill instead of a pentakill, but it was epic nonetheless.
The Taipei Assassins clashed with Azubu Frost in the river. The short skirmish drained both teams of plenty of HP. TPA looked to be coming out on top with 3 kills to none… But then Karthus dropped. You can see the rest of what happens in the video.
6. Madlife's Hooks
While not necessarily a specific event, MadLife playing support has influenced the League community as a whole tremendously. The video above features some of MadlLife’s absolute best highlights. His notoriety has led to his name being used as an adjective when supports do something awesome. “That was a MadLife Hook” or “that guy can play a MadLife Thresh”
One specific famous moment came when MadLife was able to predict where an Ezrael was going to flash too and hook him with his Q. MadLife has come to be known as the support God of the game.
5. The "Flash Banana" in CLG.eu vs Fnatic.RC
Never underestimate the banana! Soraka is not known for her offensive abilities, and therefore it is even more noticeable when a Soraka player pulls off something awesome like this.
Krepo was the one controlling Soraka as she flashed and auto attacked the fleeing Karthus for the kill under turret. The play itself really isn’t all that impressive, but it was the fact that it was done by a Soraka that made it famous.
4. Fakers Zed outplay against KT bullets
Not often can we actually say that we outplayed another player. We usually had help from our team or the other person made a big mistake. Player’s in Bronze and Silver throw around the term like candy though. If you kill another player, they automatically got “outplayed.” That is not the case. If you want to see what it means to outplay another player, check out this video clip.
This clip features some amazing Zed vs Zed action and demonstrates clearly what it means to get outplayed. Faker’s Zed was already at low health when the KT Bullets Zed showed up. The rest is history. You might need to slow the video down to figure out exactly what happened.
3. TPA's amazing underdog story
Everyone loves a good underdog story right? Well that is exactly what the formation of the Tapei Assassins and their journey to the World Championship was. The team was originally put together under the name For The Win. The team was just a bunch of friends who wanted to make it in the big time.
They competed in multiple tournaments and eventually received an official sponsorship. Their name changed to TPA and they went through a couple of roster changes. Eventually they qualified for Worlds and won despite being ranked as a severe underdog in every single match they played. They prove that you can win with the power of friendship as long as you just believe it!
2. Xpeke's famous backdoor
All League of Legends players should be familiar with this shocking moment. Xpeking has become a verb since the feat he accomplished was so impressive. In a very, very tight game against SK gaming, Xpeke took a huge chance as Kassadin by trying to backdoor and finish the game. Only Olaf on the opposing team was there to stop him, but that is when the “Xpeking” started. To Xpeke means that you are kiting another player around the Nexus which is what he did with Kassadin. Every time Olaf got close he would simply Riftwalk to the other side. This resulted in an extremely close win and one of the most epic and tense moments in gaming history.
1. The Greatest Comeback Ever in League of Legends (CLG.eu vs MOSCOW 5)
The biggest comeback that ever happened in League of Legends history was CLG.eu’s win over MOSCOW 5. We have all played unwinnable games, and had this taken place in SoloQ, you can bet CLG’s players would ‘ve been saying “ff at 20.” But this was the pros. You couldn’t just surrender. The game was painful and they were even down by 27 000 gold at one point. There was no chance in the world that they would win… But they did.
MOSCOW 5 lost the game through poor decision making and an inability to close out the game when they were so far ahead. CLG.eu just needed one break and it finally came right around the 60 minute mark.
This concludes our list for the most epic moments in League of Legends history. Let us know what your favorite moments are in the comments below.
