Has anyone noticed...

Valor Bot··6 votes·1,421 views

...that Champions who occupy similar thematic spaces tend to come in male and female pairs?

**The Snipers: ** Caitlyn and Jhin

**The Plants: ** Zyra and Maokai

**The Scouts: ** Quinn and Teemo

**The Demolitionists: ** Jinx and Ziggs

**The Pirates: ** MissFortune and Gangplank

**The Blade-Assassins: ** Katarina and Talon

**The Earth Benders: ** Taliyah and Malphite

**The Air Benders: ** Janna and Yasuo

**The Fire Benders: ** Annie and Brand

**The Water Benders: ** Nami and Fizz

**The Malicious Specters: ** Kalista and Thresh

**The Robots: ** Orianna and Blitzcrank

**The Felines: ** Nidalee and Rengar

**The Dragons: ** Shyvana and AurelionSol

**The Peace Ninjas: ** Akali and Shen

The Duet: Sona and Bard

and of course,

Draven: Draven and Draaaaven

26 Comments

Silly Neeko3 votes

Kennen is with Akali and Shen in ninjas.... and Trista is with teemo, dont make her jealous or she will blow up your house with her buster shot :o

Vistha Kai6 votes

It's not about romance, but thematics.

Silly Neeko2 votes

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It's not about romance, but thematics.

Yeah but Trista is a Yordle in..... its late at night and I cant remember if she is in the Gurilla squad that works with the Scout squad or not... but i know there was something along those lines in the lore o.O

And it may be about thematics, but people have been "shipping" champions with these similarities already. So the romance is seen the same amount as the thematics if not more so by most people, and thats why they failed to see the thematics lol.

Also, i tossed trista in there just because i was trying to be funny. It obviously failed.

Chase Me Daddy3 votes

Fizz isn't really a water bender or mage. He just comes from an ancient race and found an ancient trident. While most of his abilities have some little water particles it's more about the trident than water itself. Now that I think of it a offensive non support water mage could be amazing if done right. R1t0 plz. But for the rest you're right. Never actually noticed that if there are champions with similiar themes the counterpart is mostly the opposite gender.

Valor Bot1 votes

Fizz was an arm stretch, I admit. And yeah, a waterbearer-like Champion would be really cool (think Aquarius).

GreenLore1 votes

well you could simply say that the 2 are the fish-duo,since fizz is a fishman and nami is a mermaid.

Arakadia2 votes

Valor Bot is a cool name.

Valor Bot1 votes

Kind strangers are even cooler!

Arakadia1 votes

Oh and your post was really cool.. that too.

Valor Bot1 votes

lol

Mysterydoggy2 votes

wouldn't it be Riven and Yas since she has a special type of wind power?

Valor Bot1 votes

Janna is the air elementalist of League, though. I know Yasuo and Riven have more of a connection due to their rivalry, but this is more about shared themes than intertwining storylines.

GreenLore1 votes

Well Riven and Yasuo are more or less the war-exiles,being 2 champions who are exiled from their city states due to what happened in the ionia war(Taric is another exile,but he isn't connected to the ionia-war)

Digielf2 votes

some of them don't really fit at all

Valor Bot1 votes

Like who? I know Miss Fortune isn't technically a pirate, but I thought she was reminiscent enough to fall under the aesthetics of that theme. Same goes for Fizz, who isn't really a "water bender" per se but has a certain power over the sea.

GreenLore2 votes

In a few cases you seem to forget a few things. For example "the peace ninjas" also has Kennen And when it comes to malicious specters you could also count Hecarim

Valor Bot1 votes

I did say that they tend to come in male and female pairs, not that they always do. So yeah, of course there are other Champions who fall under those common themes :)

GreenLore1 votes

But saying there is this duo,when there is actually a trio,seems kinda odd.

I mean you are right in the other cases Something else that you could add would actually be Sona and Jhin as artists,even though they are both part of other duos

Speaking of Sona I'd argue that the musician duo doesn't fit that well either since Bard is pretty much the most gender-neutral character in the entire game(at least blitzcrank has a male voice),only being referred to as a "he" because "it" is never used for characters(unless it is meant as a dehumanizing term)

Ozag the Mighty1 votes

You forgot Twisted Fate for pirates

MavenSong3 votes

He isnt a really pirate hes a gambler.

Vistha Kai3 votes

Neither is Miss Fortune.

MavenSong1 votes

Yah I know, but she still bares the semblance of one. Tf is more cowboy than pirate.

MavenSong1 votes

Does bard even have a gender? .. I honestly cant recall.

Valor Bot1 votes

His Champion page refers to him as a male, so yeah I believe so.

Mogarl1 votes

I'd guess that it's because if two characters do similar things the male - female difference is to ensure that even if they talk about similar things the voices are easily identifiable. If Yasuo would have been cast as female and the voice actor didn't sound significantly different from Janna's someone could easily mistake between who's talking.

SlyTactician 1 votes

Poor Kennen being forgotten in the Kinkou. D:

Though with the amount of champions having been released, it's inevitable for some to fall into similar thematics. Jhin and Caitlyn definitely do stand out as the snipers; however (though I feel Jhin was a much better executed vision of a sniper based champ imo).

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