Moral Alignments for every Champion

SwimyFish·8/2/2017, 6:52:58 PM·7 votes·3,522 views
Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

To start off with, I love League of Legends, not just the gameplay but every aspect of it. The lore can be so deep interconnected, and the universe as a whole is just so compelling. So as a fun little project (this actually took a lot longer than you would expect), I decided to try and classify every single champion (137 currently, Kayn being the most recent) into the classic Moral Alignment system of Lawful Good-Chaotic Evil. The link is to the article I used for definition, so if you have questions, try reading that first, and if you still disagree, there's a decent chance you're right. I tried to read as much lore/short stories for every champion as possible so I could be accurate, but likelihood is I still messed up. Without further ado, here's the list.

Lawful Good:Amumu~ Anivia Ashe Azir BlitzcrankCaitlyn Fiora Galio Garen Heimerdinger Irelia JannaJarvanIV Jayce~ Kayle~ Leona Lucian~ Lux Malphite~ Nasus Poppy Ryze Skarner Soraka Taliyah Taric Tristana XinZhao

Neutral Good:Alistar Bard~ Braum~ Corki Ivern Karma Kassadin~ Maokai MasterYi Nami Orianna Pantheon~ Quinn Shyvana Sona Teemo~ Vi~ Yorick Zac Zilean~

Chaotic Good:Annie~ AurelionSol~ Ekko Ezreal Fizz MissFortune~ Nidalee Nunu Rakan Rumble Warwick MonkeyKing Xayah~ Yasuo Ziggs

Lawful Neutral:Camille Diana~ Illaoi~ Jax~ Karthus~Riven Sejuani Vayne Volibear

True Neutral:Akali~ Gragas Kalista Kennen~ Kindred LeeSin Nautilus Rammus (ok)Shen~ Trundle Udyr

Chaotic Neutral::Ahri~ DrMundo~ Gnar Graves Kled KogMaw Lulu Olaf Singed~ Sivir Syndra Tryndamere TwistedFate Zyra

Lawful Evil:Cassiopeia Darius Katarina Kayn Leblanc Lissandra Sion~ Swain Talon Urgot Varus Xerath

Neutral Evil:Aatrox Elise Evelynn Gangplank~ Jhin~ Malzahar Rengar~ Velkoz Viktor~ Vladimir Zed~

**Chaotic Evil: **Brand Chogath Draven~ Fiddlesticks Hecarim Jinx Khazix Mordekaiser Morgana~ Nocturne RekSai~ Renekton Shaco TahmKench~ Thresh Twitch Veigar

(~'s indicate champions whose Alignment has been called into question. If you see someone you think should move somewhere else, post it in the comment, preferably with your opinion and thoughts on where they should go)

So here's where my disclaimer comes in. There are a ton of champions that could fit into multiple alignments, that's kinda important in developing interesting and compelling characters. An example I'll give is MissFortune . She is an agent of the Law, being a bounty hunter, so you'd assume she would be on the lawful side of the alignments, and you could make an argument for her to be Lawful Good or Neutral Good. However, from what I found in her lore, she respects the law, but not really in its application to herself, and she definitely lives outside of the orthodox ways of Bilgewater.

Another archetype of character that was hard to classify are those characters who don't really have a concrete motive. Examples of this would be Amumu , Annie , and Nautilus . We don't really have any examples of them responding to dilemmas, and therefore I could only guess at their alignments based on personality.

Thirdly, are the champions that just don't have lore at the moment. Mostly, this is due to the retconning of Summoners and the Institute of War. Fiddlesticks , LeeSin , and Nocturne are all good examples of this, as their lore included summoners or the Institute as some integral part. Then there's Jax . While his lore was based on the Institute of War, it also never explained anything to begin with. And since the entire point of Jax is that he's mysterious, I just pulled a cop-out and put him in True Neutral.

Please feel free to roast me in the comments if I messed up, I'll try and and edit with suggestions if any come up. In addition, I'd love to see some discussion about the Alignment of champions in a more broad sense, i.e is it good or bad that Lawful Good is the most common Alignment, do your favorite champions all have similar Alignment, how well does a particular champion express their Alignment with in-game VO?

Thanks for reading all the way!!

61 Comments

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO8/2/2017, 8:31:20 PM5 votes

Every time someone makes one of these I disagree with their opinion. Not that it's your fault or anything. The alignment system is rather ill-defined and simplistic to really apply with any degree of accuracy to most characters. For example, you are essentially saying that Noxus is evil and Demacia is good, and that assumption just doesn't work.

If you'd like I can go more into detail about which categorization I disagree with specifically, but we'd likely just end up arguing

Neamean8/3/2017, 8:08:08 AM4 votes

Kayle and Morgana should be Lawful Neutral and Chaotic Neutral they both teeter totter. Kayle is going back and forth from Order and Tyranny while Morgana is Freedom and Anarchy.

Moonboy658/2/2017, 11:04:09 PM4 votes

Ahri is more True Neutral than Chaotic Neutral

DarkRitual8/3/2017, 10:50:56 AM2 votes

Lucian should definately be NG. Seeking vengeance of death is not a LG thing. I would put Bard as True Neutral as well. He just tries to keep people from blowing the world up, no matter by who.

Ralanr8/3/2017, 4:23:22 PM2 votes

How is Mundo Chaotic Neutral while Jinx is Chaotic evil?

Poro Princess8/3/2017, 10:40:53 PM2 votes

I never thought of Kat as evil. She kills because its her job and thats what her family does. But i dont think she does it because she is evil. She even sided with Demacia once in the old lore. If anything shes one of the few good/neutral in Noxus.

Talvaren8/4/2017, 4:05:19 AM2 votes

I would love to give my personal opinion on this matter. I've actually written down a PHYSICAL list and I would love to show it fro everyone one's opinion here. Also to note it has been updated up to Kayn.

Lawful Good - Azir ,Caitlyn ,Garen ,Heimerdinger ,Irelia ,Karma ,Kayle ,Leona ,MasterYi ,Nasus ,Poppy ,Quinn,Taric ,Teemo ,Tristana ,XinZhao ,MonkeyKing

Neutral Good - Alistar , Anivia , Ashe , Blitzcrank , Braum , Ezreal , Fizz , Galio , Ivern , Janna , JarvanIV , Jayce , Lux , Nami , Nunu , Soraka , Taliyah , Zac , Zilean

Chaotic Good - Ahri , Ekko , Kassadin , Maokai , MissFortune , Rakan , Ryze , Shyvana , Tryndamere , Vayne , Vi , Xayah , Yasuo , Yorick , Ziggs

Lawful Neutral - Camille , Fiora , Kalista , Katarina , LeeSin , Lucian , Riven , Sejuani , Volibear

True Neutral - Akali , Amumu , Bard , Gnar , Gragas , Illaoi , Jax , Kennen , Kindred , Malphite , Nautilus , Nidalee , Orianna , Rammus , RekSai , Shen , Skarner , Sona

Chaotic Neutral - Annie , AurelionSol , Corki , Diana , Draven , Graves , Kled , KogMaw , Lulu , Olaf , Pantheon , Rengar , Rumble , Sivir , Talon , Trundle , TwistedFate , Twitch , Udyr , Varus , Velkoz , Zyra

Lawful Evil - Darius , Hecarim , Karthus , Kayn , Lissandra , Mordekaiser , Singed , Swain , Veigar , Viktor , Xerath , Zed

Neutral Evil - Cassiopeia , Elise , Evelynn , Gangplank , Leblanc , Malzahar , Nocturne , TahmKench , Vladimir

Chaotic Evil - Aatrox , Brand , Chogath , DrMundo , Fiddlesticks , Jhin , Jinx , Kayn (Rhaast), Khazix , Morgana , Renekton , Shaco , Sion , Syndra , Karthus , Urgot , Warwick

Krabohod8/2/2017, 10:01:53 PM2 votes

Annie who is literally disintegrates every champ with fire is Good? LUL Tahm is not chaotic evil. He is more lawful good or neutral evil, cause he does not do some chaotic good, he just suugest you a deal based on your desires. What so chaotic about it?

And this only two I saw. As was mentioned before list like that is impossible to create in League (and no reason to) cause borders of defining factors too blurry. As was mentioned by Warlord Dienekes even creators do not know for sure how this type of dividing works. And you shouldn't tried, sorry

DorkunedAuras8/3/2017, 8:02:44 AM2 votes

RekSai Is an animal. She is not intelligent enough to have an alignment one way or another. You could peg her down as chaotic neutral if anything, but evil requires intelligence.

GreenLore8/3/2017, 11:36:23 AM1 votes

I disagree with some(won't list everyone because I'm lazy :p) Blitzcrank he is mostly interested in helping people and there are barely any laws in Zaun anyway,so I doubt that he is lawful good,he is most likely neutral good.

AurelionSol seems more neutral than good.He share his secrets about the universe with the targonians because he wanted to help them,he did it because he was bored and thought it might be cool to hang out with some mortals.

Akali and Shen follow the codes of the kinkou,which would make them lawful.

DrMundo is actually a kinda weird case.Yes he kills people,but he thinks he is helping them instead,meaning that in a certain way,Mundo could be considered chaotic good.Though in actuality I think he is too insane to be properly listed here.

Jhin is definetly chaotic evil.Neutral evil people murder because they gain something of it.Jhin however murders because he just can't resist the urge to kill people,which is seen in his short story,where he murders a maid simply because he wanted to make her face more "interesting"