Why Can Veigar and Kennen Use Magic But Other Yordles Can't?

Virgin Ray·Dec 23, 2015·1 votes·1,253 views

His lore says nothing of him gaining magical powers through an accident or being born with it. It just says "Instead of returning to his people and Bandle City, he sought tutelage from dark wizards across the land. With his demented will focused on one task, he quickly became a dangerous and powerful wizard in his own right. "

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Veigar/Background

Are yordles born with magic? I mean Kennen uses magic too right? The whole lightning power kit he has? It says he was extremely quick and used lightning manipulation ever since he was a baby, so why don't other yordles use magic?

EDIT: I am aware Lulu also uses magic, but like veigar it doesn't state anything in her lore which gives her magic or if Pix gave her magical powers. I can only speculate that she was born with it and Pix trainer her to use her powers.

20 Comments

alasarcherDec 23, 20152 votes

Lulu uses magic too.

VesarixxDec 23, 20152 votes

Lulu They do

Ebonmaw DragonDec 23, 20152 votes

Well, technically Techmaturgy is a kind of magic, so Heimerdinger Tristana Rumble Ziggs and Corki are using magic.

And the Poppy Hammer must be magical as well.

Doctor JarvisDec 23, 20151 votes

I think everyone can use "magic", right? Isn't that the foundation of mana?

Virgin RayDec 23, 20151 votes

Well yea, but champions like Darius use mana and doesn't have any magical abilties.

Doctor JarvisDec 23, 20151 votes

His axe is comically oversized for a good portion of his abilities. His pull would never work without magical assistance. I'm pretty sure Crippling Strike requires mana to be so amazingly consistent. But beyond some random bullshit I made up just now, it seems like everyone has some amount of magic inside of them, and some people are naturally more proficient with it than others. Some people just don't use it.

Virgin RayDec 23, 20151 votes

I mean Zed uses shadows and death marks, but he uses energy. It's a really confusing topic, that riot probably doesn't give a flying crap about.

BroLaneDec 24, 20151 votes

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His axe is comically oversized for a good portion of his abilities. His pull would never work without magical assistance. I'm pretty sure Crippling Strike requires mana to be so amazingly consistent. But beyond some random bullshit I made up just now, it seems like everyone has some amount of magic inside of them, and some people are naturally more proficient with it than others. Some people just don't use it.

Garen

ModWulf HelhammerDec 23, 20151 votes

Mana is only connected to magic in fantasy novels now. In games, it is primarily used as a balancing technique

RalanrDec 23, 20151 votes

Ahh Magic...something that Valoran could go a little deeper on in general. Like if it's taught or if it's innate.

Becuase you know, Syndra was basically born with magical power, but was Lux ? Was Ryze ? Was Swain ? Was Leblanc ? How much of magic is innate and how much of it is learned?!

IT REALLY BOTHERS ME.

To the post: Yordles need to be expanded anyway.

Maximum MordeDec 23, 20151 votes

Cause fuck your logic

FasmodeyDec 23, 20151 votes

Not every human can use magic, so using magic is not necessarily for yordles neither.

buneterDec 24, 20151 votes

I can't think of a single yordle thats AD so they are all magic. Its not limted to Veigar and Kennen

SpecterVonBarenDec 24, 20151 votes

Tristana.

buneterJan 1, 20161 votes

However she can be played AP atleast last i checked. I don't player her ever

Sona PingDec 24, 20151 votes

I mean Kennen uses magic too right? The whole lightning power kit he has?

Nope, that should be ninja techinques; It's nothing out of the ordinary there.

Don't worry too much about the lore. It's quite silly.

DwarvenGiantDec 24, 20151 votes

I think that it was stated in Poppy's lore that all yordles have some degree of (somewhat-chaotic but fun) natural magic, in a lot of cases, I assume, it's less visible- Perhaps it just makes some much more energetic, some have an incredible sense of Techmaturgy (which involves some kind of magic, I'm pretty sure) and some have the ability to actually manipulate the universe's dark essence.

GreenLoreDec 24, 20151 votes

Gnar s transformation is probably magical as well.

Anyway poppys lore talks about yordles having innate magic,but I guess that this magic only manifests under certain circumstances,like veigars imprisonment,lulu being in the glade,gnars family being attacked(kennen would simply be a prodigy)

Other yordles learned to rely on tools since their magical powers never awakened.

SpecterVonBarenDec 24, 20151 votes

You assume that because they can use magic that they can use big impressive magic when it could be very small scale magic or it could manifest itself in specific circumstances or certain things.