That moment when Jhin passive is longer than Amumu Lore

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"Amumu is a diminutive, animated cadaver who wanders the world, trying to discover his true identity. He rose from an ancient shuriman tomb bound in corpse wrappings with no knowledge of his past, consumed with an uncontrollable sadness." 2 sentences 38 words

"Jhin's basic attacks utilize ammunition and his attack speed cannot be improved except through growth. Jhin can attack 4 times before having to Disarm icon reload for 2.5 seconds, and automatically does so after 10 seconds of not attacking. The final shot is a guaranteed Critical strike icon critical strike that also deals 15 / 20 / 25% of target's missing health bonus physical damage. EVERY MOMENT MATTERS: Jhin's Critical strike icon critical strikes deal 25% reduced damage, but grant 10% (+ 4% per 10% bonus attack speed) movement speed for 2 seconds. Additionally, his attack damage is increased by 2% - 40% (based on level) (+ 4% per 10% critical chance) (+ 2.5% per 10% bonus attack speed)." 5 sentences **112 words **

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Baron Von Bangin76 votes

"But, bro! Amumu got this sick music video telling you he's a mummy... and is sad!" -Rhino Games

A Superb Villain42 votes

"Did we mention he was cursed?!"

Melledoneus8 votes

"Oh, wait. We forgot to mention he's angry, too!"

A Superb Villain8 votes

"Too much work to squeeze in another sentence. Just post it as is!"

Melledoneus16 votes

Just put some crappy light effect with bandages flying everywhere. Yeah, just like that.

BallisticMouse9 votes

Today we witness actual Riot employees, disguised as actual board members, showing you what actually goes on behind the actual scenes at Riot. Actual.

Melledoneus5 votes

Undercover Reds.

missinggrave3 votes

Coming soon to Freeform. The new name for ABC Family.

Fasmodey36 votes

It's offical story of Amumu.

Greed and Tears

"The gods were angry, and shook the land. Cracks rent the earth," said old Khaldun, his crag-featured face lit by firelight. "It was into one of these fissures that a young man ventured. He found an opening; the entrance to a tomb, hidden for the Jackal knows how long. The man had little ones to feed and a wife to please, and so he ventured in, lured by opportunity."

Adults and children alike crowded in close to hear the old storyteller's words. They were all weary - they had traveled far that day, and the Shuriman sun had been unrelenting - but Khaldun's tales were a rare treat. They drew their cloaks tight around their shoulders against the chill of the night and leaned in.

"The air was cool in the tomb, a merciful relief from the scorching heat outside. The young man lit a torch. Its light made shadows dance before him. He stepped cautiously, wary of traps. He was poor, but he was no fool."

"The walls inside were smooth obsidian and carved with ancient writings and images. He could not read - he was a simple man - but he studied the images."

"He saw a boy prince, sitting cross-legged upon a sun disk borne by a team of servants, a beaming smile upon his face. Chests of coins and riches were piled before him, the offerings of strangely garbed, bowing emissaries."

"He saw other carvings, again showing the smiling prince, this time walking among his people. Their heads were pressed to the ground before him. Stylized rays of sunshine radiated from the boy's crown."

"Before one of these images was a small, gold statue. It alone was worth more than he could have hoped to earn in ten lifetimes. The young man took it, slipping it into his satchel."

"He did not intend to linger. He knew it would not be long before others came upon this place. When they did, he wanted to be gone. Greed makes fools of even the greatest men, and he knew that others would willingly spill his blood to claim that golden statue - and the other riches that were surely further in. Avarice was not one of the young man's faults, however. He felt no need to delve further. The other treasures hidden here were someone else's to claim."

"He looked upon one last image before he left the tomb. It showed the boy prince dead, lying upon a bier. Those closest to him were wailing... but further back, people were celebrating. Had the boy prince been beloved, or had he been a tyrant? There was no way of knowing."

"That was when he heard it: a sound in the darkness that made his skin crawl."

"He looked around, wide eyed, holding his torch up before him. Nothing."

"'Who's there?' he said. Silence was his only answer."

"The young man shook his head. 'It is just the wind, you fool,' he thought. 'Nothing but the wind.'"

"Then he heard it again, more distinctly this time. A child was crying in the darkness further into the tomb."

"Heard anywhere else, his paternal instinct would have been to go to the sound. But here, in the darkness of a funereal tomb?"

"He wanted to run... but he did not. The sobbing touched his heart. It was filled with such misery and grief."

"Was it possible there was another entrance to this tomb? Had a young boy found his way down here and become lost?"

"Torch held high, he crept forward. The weeping continued, echoing faintly through the gloom."

"A wide chamber opened before him, its floor black and highly reflective. Golden artifacts and jewel-inlaid walls glinted within. Gingerly, he entered the room."

"He stepped back sharply as his heel sent ripples spreading out across the floor. Water. The floor was not made of reflective obsidian - it was covered in water."

"Kneeling, he scooped a handful of it to his lips. He spat it out immediately. It was salt water! Here, in the heart of Shurima, a thousand leagues from the nearest sea!"

"He heard the sound of the boy weeping once more, closer now."

"Holding his torch before him, the young man glimpsed a shape at the edge of its light. It appeared to be the child, sitting with his back to the man."

"Carefully, he stepped into the room. The water upon the floor was not deep. The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end, and fear clutched at his chest, yet he did not turn to run."

"'Are you lost?' he asked, as he stepped closer. 'How did you get here?'"

"The shadowed figure did not turn... but he did speak."

"'I... I don't remember,' he said. The sound swam around the young man, echoing off the walls. The boy spoke in an old dialect. His words were strange... but understandable. 'I don't remember who I am.'"

"'Be calm, child,' said the man. 'All will be well.'"

"He stepped closer, and the figure resolved itself before him. His eyes widened."

"The shape before him was a god-statue carved in onyx, nothing more. It was not the source of the crying, nor of the child's voice."

"That was when a small, dry hand grabbed him.""

"The youngest of the listeners gasped, his eyes wide. The other children laughed in false bravado. Old Khaldun smiled, a golden tooth glinting in the firelight. Then, he continued."

"The young man looked down. The linen-wrapped corpse of the tiny prince stood beside the man. Dull, ghostly light emanated from the deathly boy's eye sockets, though his entire face was bound in burial wrappings. The corpse-child held the man's hand."

"'Will you be my friend?' the boy asked, his voice muffled by linen."

"The young man lurched backward, breaking free of the child's grasp. The young man looked down at his arm in horror; his hand was shriveling, turning black and withered. The wasting touch then began to climb up his arm."

"He turned and ran. In his shock and haste, he dropped his lantern. It hissed as it fell into the lake of tears, and darkness descended. Still, he could just make out the glow of daylight up ahead. He ran toward it, scrambling desperately, even as the wasting death crept up his arm towards his heart."

"At any moment, he expected to feel the deathly boy's grasp upon him... but did not. After what felt like an eternity, but could only have been a matter of heartbeats, he burst from the darkness into the desert heat once more."

"'I'm sorry,' echoed a mournful voice from the gloom behind him. 'I didn’t mean to.'"

"And thus, the Tomb of Amumu was unearthed," said old Khaldun, "and the deathly child released into the world."

"But everyone knows he isn't real!" cried one of the children, the oldest of them, after a moment of silence.

"Amumu is real!" said the youngest. "He's wandering the land trying to find a friend!"

"He's real, but he isn't a boy," said another. "He's a yordle!"

Khaldun laughed, and pushed himself to his feet with the aid of a gnarled walking stick.

"I am old, and we have far to travel tomorrow," he said. "It is past time I was abed."

His audience began to dissipate, smiling and talking in low, familial voices, but one child did not move. She stared at Khaldun, unblinking.

"Grandfather," she said. "How did you lose your arm?"

Old Khaldun looked down at the empty sleeve pinned at his shoulder, then flashed the girl a grin.

"Goodnight, little one," he said with a wink.

The Quinndred12 votes

Damn son. Where did you find this?

Fasmodey2 votes

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Damn son. Where did you find this?

lolwiki

Jeddy01711 votes

It popped up on the PBE during December of 2014.The lore people were using it to test out solutions for the dreaded tech issues at the time.

The Quinndred7 votes

Damn. I swear rito does some weird things sometimes. They have a perfectly good story like this that fits with the lore, and yet they decide not to do a bit of editing and then put it up with the rest of the update lore.

Jeddy0172 votes

They'll likely bring it back once the Shuriman champs get their updated lore.Though there would likely be changes to the story.

The Shuriman champs should be the next set of champs they update (getting back to the mess they left) if what they said in the Bio blog back in October is true.

LeafyGreen1 votes

I thought they released this with the Amumu music video

Jeddy0171 votes

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/12/1217-pbe-update.html

As you can see here,it popped up more than a month before the music video.

WarlordTim3 votes

I forgot about that story. Thanks for the reminder!

Pale Pirate3 votes

Slightly longer than 2 sentences and 38 words.

WolfBV1 votes

Maybe Zilean or one of the ascended or Bard can be his friend. They should be resistant. Unless Zilean can't use time to stop it from affecting him.

Tentacle Love22 votes

But the question is: Can you cram Jhin's passive into a smaller form?

"Passive: Jhin gets AD instead of AS because his gun won't shoot any faster. The fourth shot hits harder. His crits aren't as crit. They speed him up."

TurquoiseYoshi20 votes

At least Amumu's lore has some sort of meaning, plus he has a song.

Skarner, the crystalline guardian, defends the entrance to a realm deep beneath the Shuriman wastes. The few who survive trespassing his domain describe a creature of terrifying intelligence, anger, and precision. What this merciless creature protects, no one knows.

3 sentences and 29 words that amount to "Skarner powerfully defends something with crystals"

Rebonack2 votes

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At least Amumu's lore has some sort of meaning, plus he has a song.

Skarner, the crystalline guardian, defends the entrance to a realm deep beneath the Shuriman wastes. The few who survive trespassing his domain describe a creature of terrifying intelligence, anger, and precision. What this merciless creature protects, no one knows.

3 sentences and 29 words that amount to "Skarner powerfully defends something mysterious with crystals"

Needed to fix that for you.

The no one knows part is super important.

Scrimshäw7 votes

Illaoi rips the Spirit from a foe's body, forcing it to stand before her. Spirits echo a percentage of the damage they take to the original target. If killed, or if the target gets too far from the Spirit, the target will become a Vessel and begin spawning Tentacles. Illaoi rips the spirit from a foe's body, forcing it to stand before her, so she can teach them a lesson.Illaoi calls on the power of her god to pull the Spirit from an enemy champion for 10 seconds. The Spirit can be attacked by Illaoi and her allies and echoes 25/30/35/40/45% (+[0]%) of the damage it takes to the target.If the Spirit dies or the target leaves its range, the target becomes a Vessel. Vessels spawn a Tentacle every 10 seconds for 1 minute and have their movement speed slowed by 80%, decaying over 2 seconds.Tentacles swing at Spirits and Vessels dealing 0 (+0) physical damage.

Virgin Ray6 votes

It's longer than any edited lore really. But yea.

shyv4 votes

to be fair, jihn's passive is longer than his own lore too

shyv1 votes

oh jesus christ. i was just looking at the lore in the client.

Spitemaster4 votes

To be honest, you've chosen the wrong champion. There are a few champions with less lore than Amumu. For example: Jax

Fiddlesticks

Nocturne

An argument can be made that Maokai has lore, but I doubt it would be convincing.

Baby Bird4 votes

I am the only one who cares the lores more than the champions actually in-game strength?Zed

Sharjo3 votes

Well it's a good thing that the Shurima champs are up for getting that fixed in the near future, isn't it?

SpecterVonBaren13 votes

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Well it's a good thing that the Shurima champs are up for getting that fixed in the near future, isn't it?

TM 2014

GreenBastard1013 votes

Riot hasn't given a shit about the lore since season 3

Nikoyopu3 votes

OKRammus

TeCoolMage2 votes

Most things that Riot spreads around the website like harrowing are still canon, the lore in the client itself is intentionally shortened so they don't have as much work when they update it and put the lore in a small text box rather than its own page.

Simple Moon2 votes

But Jhin doesn't have an amazingly sad music video for him.

Asyde1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6CvkMpYuKo

This guys always delivers amazing league lore storytelling.

/THREAD

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Rammus Ok.

RisenDarkKnight1 votes

Still better than Rammus 's lore.

ciderspace1 votes

To be fair, everyone's passive is longer than Kalista 's lore. Kalista has lore?!?

Supreme Senpai6917 votes

In life, Kalista was a proud general, niece to the powerful king of an empire none now recall. She lived by a strict code of honor and expected others to do the same, serving her king and queen with utmost loyalty. Her king had many enemies, and when the rulers of a conquered land sent an assassin to slay him, only the speed of Kalista’s sword arm averted disaster. But in saving the king, she damned the queen. The assassin’s deflected blade was envenomed and sliced the arm of the king’s wife. The greatest priests, surgeons and sorcerers were summoned, but none could draw the poison from the queen’s body. Even the king’s magic could only slow its progress. Wracked with grief, the king dispatched Kalista to quest for a cure. Before departing, she tasked Hecarim of the Iron Order to stand at the king’s side in her stead. He reluctantly accepted this task, bitter at being denied the chance to join Kalista.

Kalista traveled the world, seeking a cure from learned scholars, hermits and mystics, but always without success. Finally, she learned of a legendary island beyond the ken of mortal eyes, a place said to hold the key to eternal life – the Blessed Isles - and set sail on a last voyage of hope. The island’s inhabitants knew of her quest and, seeing the purity of her intent, drew her boat to the shores of their island. Kalista begged them to heal the queen, and the master of the order instructed Kalista to bring her to the island, where they would cleanse her body. As Kalista boarded her ship, she was given arcane words to pierce the glamours protecting the island, but was warned against sharing that knowledge. Kalista sailed for her homeland, but arrived too late; the queen was already dead.

The king had descended into grief-stricken madness, locking himself in his tower with the queen’s festering corpse. Her uncle learned of Kalista’s return and demanded she tell him what she had found. With heavy heart, for she had never before broken her oath to the king, Kalista refused, remembering the warning given to her and knowing there was no purpose in bringing a corpse to the island. The king named her a traitor and imprisoned her until such time she relented. There Kalista remained until Hecarim convinced her to tell the king what she knew. He urged her to let the king find peace, either in his wife returning to him or in finally accepting she was gone and allowing her to be buried on the Blessed Isles. Between them they could assuage the king’s madness and bring him back with no harm being done. Hesitantly, for she sensed something amiss in Hecarim, Kalista agreed.

And so the king sailed for the Blessed Isles with a flotilla of his fastest ships. Kalista spoke the mystic words to undo the veil shrouding their destination and the king cried out as its glittering coast was revealed. The king marched towards a distant white city at the centre of the island where he was met by the master of the island’s guardians. The king ordered the man to bring his wife back from the dead, but was told that trying to cheat death went against the natural order of the world. The king flew into a fevered rage and commanded Kalista to kill the guardian.

Kalista refused and spoke of the great man he had once been, but her appeals fell on deaf ears and he again ordered the guardian’s death. Kalista called on Hecarim to stand with her, but Hecarim now saw a chance to realize his long-simmering ambition of replacing Kalista as the king’s favorite. He stepped towards Kalista as if to stand at her side, but instead drove his spear through her back in a monstrous act of betrayal. The Iron Order joined him in treachery, their own spears plunging into Kalista’s body as she fell. A brutal melee erupted, with those devoted to Kalista fighting desperately against Hecarim and his knights. Despite their courage and skill, their numbers were too few and Hecarim's men slew them to a man. As Kalista’s life faded and she watched her warriors die, she swore vengeance with her dying breath upon those who had betrayed her.

When next Kalista opened her eyes, they were filled with the dark power of unnatural magic. The Blessed Isles had been transformed into a twisted mockery of life and beauty, a place of darkness filled with howling spirits condemned for all eternity to the nightmare of undeath. She knew nothing of how this had happened, and even as she clung to her last memories of betrayal, they slowly faded until all that remained was a thirst for vengeance burning in her ruined chest.

A thirst that can only be slaked in the blood of traitors. Invocation

The sword-wife stood amid the burnt out ruin of her home. Everything and everyone that mattered to her was gone, and she was filled with fathomless grief... and hate. Hate was now all that compelled her.

She saw again the smile on his face as he gave the order. He was meant to be their protector, but he'd spat upon his vows. Hers was not the only family shattered by the oath-breaker.

The desire to go after him was strong. She wanted nothing more than to plant her sword in his chest and watch the life drain from his eyes... but she knew she would never be able to get close enough to him. He was guarded day and night, and she was but one warrior. She would never be able to fight her way through his battalion alone. Such a death would serve no purpose.

She took a shuddering breath, knowing there was no coming back.

A crude effigy of a man, formed of sticks and twine, lay upon a fire-blackened dresser. Its body was wrapped in a scrap of cloth torn from the cloak of the betrayer. She'd pried it from her husband's dead grasp. Alongside it was a hammer and three rusted nails.

She gathered everything up and moved to the threshold. The door itself was gone, smashed to splinters in the attack. Beyond, lit by moonlight, lay the empty, darkened fields.

Reaching up, the sword-wife pressed the stick-effigy to the hardwood lintel.

"I invoke thee, Lady of Vengeance," she said, her voice low, trembling with the depth of her fury. "From beyond the veil, hear my plea. Come forth. Let justice be done."

She readied her hammer and the first of the nails.

"I name my betrayer once," she said, and spoke his name aloud. As she did so, she placed the tip of the first nail to the chest of the stick-figure. With a single strike, she hammered it in deep, pinning it to the hardwood door frame.

The sword-wife shivered. The room had become markedly colder. Or had she imagined it?

"I name him twice," she said, and she did so, hammering the second nail alongside the first.

Her gaze dropped, and she jolted in shock. A dark figure stood out in the moonlit field, a hundred yards in the distance. It was utterly motionless. Breathing quicker, the sword-wife returned her attention to the unfinished task.

"I name him thrice," she said, speaking again the name of the murderer of her husband and children, before hammering home the final nail.

An ancient spirit of vengeance stood before her, filling the doorway, and the sword-wife staggered back, gasping involuntarily.

The otherworldly being was clad in archaic armor, her flesh translucent and glowing with spectral un-light. Black Mist coiled around her like a living shroud.

With a squeal of tortured metal, the spectral figure drew forth the blackened spear protruding from her breastplate — the ancient weapon that had ended her life.

She threw it to the ground before the sword-wife. No words were spoken; there was no need. The sword-wife knew what was being offered to her — vengeance — and knew its terrible cost: her soul.

The spirit watched on, her face impassive and her eyes burning with an unrelenting cold fury, as the sword-wife picked up the treacherous weapon.

"I pledge myself to vengeance," said the sword-wife, her voice quivering. She reversed the spear, aiming the tip inward, towards her heart. "I pledge it with my blood. I pledge it with my soul."

She paused. Her husband would have pleaded for her to turn away from this path. He would have begged her not to condemn her soul with this course of action. A moment of doubt gnawed at her. The undying specter watched on.

The sword-wife's eyes narrowed as she thought of her husband lying dead, cut down by swords and axes. She thought again of her children, sprawled upon the ground, and her resolve hardened like a cold stone in her heart. Her grip tightened upon the spear.

"Help me," she implored, her decision made. "Please, help me kill him."

She rammed the spear into her chest, driving it in deep.

The sword-wife's eyes widened and she dropped to her knees. She tried to speak, but only blood bubbled from her lips.

The ghostly apparition watched her die, her expression impassive.

As the last of the lifeblood ran from her body, the shade of the sword-wife climbed to her feet. She looked down at her insubstantial hands in wonder, then at her own corpse lying dead-eyed in a growing pool of blood upon the floor. The shade's expression hardened, and a ghostly sword appeared in her hand.

An ethereal tether, little more than a wisp of light, linked the newly formed shade to the avenging spirit she had summoned. Through their bond, the sword-wife saw her differently, glimpsing the noble warrior she had been in life: tall and proud, her armor gleaming. Her posture was confident, yet without arrogance; a born leader, a born soldier. This was a commander that the sword-wife would have willingly bled for.

Behind the spirit's anger, she sensed her empathy — recognition of their shared pain of betrayal.

"Your cause is our cause," said Kalista, the Spear of Vengeance. Her voice was grave cold. "We walk the path of vengeance as one, now."

The sword-wife nodded.

With that, the avenging spirit and the shade of the sword-wife stepped into the darkness and were gone.

MyTeamIsAwsome1 votes

A beautifull war is coming, Something mysterious is getting bigger, An hidden force is winning, The world is in danger, What is this mysterious thing, The shadow is getting closer, Ao' Shin is now approching, Be aware of the fire.

Speedphoenix1 votes

I'm crying :'( poor friend-less mummy

Colgate Gator1 votes

I genuinely laughed at this thread.

The Deckowner1 votes

rammus: OK

The Loveless1 votes

I mean honestly... what purpose does Amumu have in the world? He doesn't even know who he is. How do you write lore about Amumu when you, as a writer, decide to shroud him in mystery? I can't think of anything that can really be said about him.

Now with all that said and out of the way, @Riot, how about giving Amumu an ACTUAL storyline? No more secrets and mysteries that will take years to be revisited like the Darkin, the Watchers and the unknown C that Caitlyn has been chasing.

Impetual1 votes

Despite all of the informative threads about the lore retcon talking about stuff like this getting downvoted, players don't seem to care that LoL's lore is getting retconned into subjectively worse lore.

I guess we just have to chop it up to the ignorant masses saying yes to whatever they're being presented, regardless of quality.

Brenticus122 votes

Lmao the quality of lore has increased by a ton.

Yes, they haven't done everyone in the game yet, they've just barely done about 30 champions so far, but the quality of what we've been given is much, much higher than what we used to get. One of the best pieces of lore we got from the old lore would probably be Lux' judgement, and I'll give you that, but then you compare it to Jhin, Twisted Fate/Graves, Kalista, Hecarim, Thresh, Sion lore and you realise that the lore team has come a long way since then.

TzQGRUST391 votes

The quality of lore has been better, we just aren't getting that much of it right now.

Civil Dawn1 votes

This thread made my day.

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