The latin root "Lux, Luc" means "Light" Which makes sense for Lux, who is "The Lady of Luminosity" and whos whole kit revolves around light. Also Lucian who weilds weapons of light, like his passive light slinger. "Luc" meaning light and the suffix "ician" meaning specialist. making Lucian a "Light Specialist"
Now, did you guys notice any more words hidden in champion names? :) post them in the comments!
BakedLotion14 votes
An ivi a. The ivi is an M. M stands for mana. The bird never has mana.
Illuminati confirmed
UPfreely10 voteswell if that's an m, shes an anagram for mana
Ragnar4212 votesSinged 
is derived from the root word "Sing" or to "Melodize or harmonize using ones voice". Whenever Singed laughs and dances it's like horrible music being spammed for 30 straight minutes.
The Red Warden12 votes
is an anagram for chimera.
is the name of a jester's skull that was found by a gravedigger in "Hamlet"
is an anagram for chaos.
the name of the submarine in "20,000 leagues under the sea"
KwangoTango11 votes[deleted]
Dotintheparadox3 votesSUSAN FARM!!
SUSAN SMASH!!
BakugoBestBoy2 votesDotintheparadox2 votesWRONG SUSAN, BUT YES.
KwangoTango11 votes[deleted]
libraryseraph 8 votesit's also a chinese phrase meaning "victorious vegetation"
Conncept4 votesIt is also the real name of one of the character artists that worked on him, Maokai Xiao
Destínum2 voteshe came out before I am Groot. And he's a tree.
So, Maokai came out before 1960?
Celio Hogane HD1 voteseh, no, maokai did not came before groot.
Well, before MOVIE groot yeah, before comic groot? nope.
Narasimha10 votes
In German, quite literally, means "Murder Emperor."
Sharjo9 votesSome from my favourite champions:
, not only is it the name of a species of shellfish that's been around for millions of years, Nautilus in the English language is a latin adaptation of a greek word, that word meaning sailor. Nautilus himself was a sailor before his transformation.
Nami is of course Japanese in origin and means wave. Tsunami, her ultimate, would be derived from ami (wave) and Tsu, which is its own character.
Vel'Koz's name is weird. In the lore his name is probably Shuriman in origin like most other Voidborn names, but in the real world Vel and Koz are two words that have a lot of religious connotations. Vel is the name of a divine javelin wielded by a Hindu God named Karthikeya, while Koz refers to Descendants of Judah in the Bible. Apparently.
Purodyuusaa9 votes
In almost every language(Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, etc), Katarina means pure. I guess you could use this to explain how she feels about Noxus.
"Never question my loyalty. You will never know what I endure for it."
― Katarina
Garen has French and German roots that means "guard" or "guardian." Pretty appropriate when you consider his role in the game is to tank damage and his role in the lore is the leader of the Dauntless Vanguard.
Maestro809 votesVayne's deal is kind of like Batman, who is Bruce Wayne. Wayne/Vayne...
junglerboy162 votesBruce Wayne and Shauna Vayne is even closer than most people realize (because Vayne isn't her first name...).
SleepyLionCub4 votesA friend who didnt play league at the time and i were talking and i told her a champions name was Lux, and she was like "that means light in Latin." and it blew my fuckin mind because i knew lux was a light mage.
ExHentai2 votesShe's not a light mage, she's just an ordinary mage.
junglerboy161 votesPlease don't troll, her kit is literally about using light to attack people, her lore specifically says she is adept at light magic, and her title is "the Lady of Luminosity" and Luminosity means Light energy.
ExHentai1 votesPlease don't troll, Lux does not identify as a light mage.
junglerboy161 votesUm, that is a blank tab, what are you on about?
ExHentai1 votesReload the page a few times. Otherwise, save the file and listen to it.
junglerboy161 votesI'm pretty sure the point of that is irony, because she is in fact a light mage, but she is using it as a pun in that she isn't a light mage (referring to physical weight, sort of like a lightweight boxer) but a normal mage (she hits just as hard as any other mage does).
ExHentai1 votesYou are reading too much into her quote with this light-boxer-light-mage analogy. I ask that you not take her words lightly as if it were a joke and that you respect her magical orientation.
junglerboy161 votesHow is saying a joke is supposed to be funny reading into things too much?
I'm still wondering if you are just trying to troll me out on this really hard...
Baron Von Bangin1 votesOne of Lux's jokes is her saying that she's not a light mage, just an ordinary mage. It's Touhou reference.
junglerboy161 votesDid it by any chance occur to you that the intended purpose of her joke is a pun? I don't know if it is a reference to whatever Touhou is, but it is supposed to be funny because it is ironic due to the fact that she is actually a light mage (otherwise it wouldn't be a joke).
Baron Von Bangin1 votesCould be that was the joke. But that was specifically a thing that Marisa Kirisame (a light mage) from Touhou said. Also if you know who Shurelia is you'd know that she was all about jamming references in League, especially ones about Touhou. See Youmuu's Ghost blade, Wriggle's Lantern and the name of Lux's ultimate.
Whatever the case may be I'm glad you've seemed to have accepted that that is indeed the joke she makes and you are no longer confused about what ExHentai said.
ExHentai1 votes[{quoted}](name=Baron Von Bangin,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=0ihWVEpg,comment-id=00090000000000000000000100000000,timestamp=2015-03-11T22:47:22.438+0000)
See Youmuu's Ghost blade, Wriggle's Lantern and the name of Lux's ultimate.
RIP in peace Finales Funkeln
Digaag Wa Riz4 votes
may or may not be a reference to Nana, one of the Ice Climbers which greatly resembles her/him (still not sure of Nunu's gender).
junglerboy161 votesNunu is a he, and since words ending in "a" tend to sound feminine, it could be related since Nunu would be a masculine variation.
DeusVult3 votes
Noc is latin for night
Pantheon is the group of ancient Greek gods that live on Mount Olympus
Udyr is an anigram for Rudy, who was a player deemed too small to be able to play college football, keep going, and nothing could stop him. Just like nothing can stop Udyr
Zac stands for Zaun Amorphous Combatant
While his name is german, if the parts are latinized, you get "death Emperor" So he's basically the king of death
GreenLore1 votesActually Mordekaisers name translates more into murder emporer,because Mord=murder and Kaiser=emporer
junglerboy161 votesThat is the German, yes, but DuesVult is also right because the Latin words Mort and Caesar (which is where the german words derived from) mean death and emperor.
Baron Von Bangin3 votesEkans is snake spelled backwards!
shosho613WINMODE2 votesSion has something hidden. His name starts with the same letter as Shrek. Sion is love, Sion is life!
Sharjo1 votesHis name actually has biblical connotations, which weirded me out.
junglerboy163 votesYeah, Sion could be interpreted as a corruption of the spelling of Sihon (pronounced the same), who was an actual Giant about 9 feet tall and ruled a small nation in Canaan.
PerishSoftly9 votes
and 
in a lane invalidate stealth champions. Their names together create ViSion, the ward of which can see hidden stealth enemies. Thus a ViSion lane is ungankable by 
jimmylism2 votes
, lux(lx) is also the SI unit of illuminance.
Takeuchi 172 votesi like this posting. always interesting the origin of names
Pinker 101 votesWe've got Light and a Light Specialist - Where's Lucifer? Someone had to bring all this light up in here
- Name of (one of) the Empire's Asassin groups in Malazan Book of the Fallen ~ coincidence?
Digaag Wa Riz5 votesThere's also the fact that Talon's playstyle revolves around swooping in to cut up enemies with sharp weapons, much like a hawk swoops in to catch its prey with its claws, or talons.
=Giant W at the sky
