Who would you consider to be a "main villain" in the current champion roster?

Akesgeroth·May 28, 2015·1 votes·2,137 views

So I had this thread on the old forums and I thought I would revive the discussion here:

Is there a champion you would consider to be the "main villain" in the LoL lore?

I gave a few choices in the poll. Swain is a contender merely because of his ambition and his seemingly ruthless quest for power. Malzahar, being the prophet of the void, is also definitely a candidate. I also put Mordekaiser in there because the old lore implied he might be the one in charge of whatever dark forces reign over the shadow isles. I also put Veigar there because he is evil, stop laughing! As a demon bent on spreading war, Aatrox also qualifies. Finally, last time I made this thread, a lot of people seemed to think Leblanc was the one pulling Swain's strings so I put her on there.

So, who do you think it is?

22 Comments

KendraMay 28, 20153 votes

Mmm...tough one. I think Lissandra should be on the list, since she has a lot of sinister plans to bury the world in ice!

AkesgerothMay 28, 20151 votes

Yeah, I hadn't thought about Lissandra. Would be a contender.

SEKAIMay 28, 20153 votes

Hero&villain is a thing of the past,

Protagonist&antagonist is what we use now.

Difference is, the first model defines who is good and who is bad, righteousness wins kind of stuff.

The second one is just about different perspectives and ideologies. Protagonist is the perspective we look at the story from, antagonist is just someone whose ideal is against the protagonist.

Hence it's possible for the protagonist to bear some extremist ideologies, while the "villains" in this case would be those who appears more socially correct. This can be used to create all sorts of other more interesting variants than the good o' hero&villain scenario.

It's best if there is no clear "villain", but just people doing their things.

AkesgerothMay 28, 20151 votes

Though I do agree, LoL's lore doesn't seem to be taking the perspective of one single protagonist.

The Bearded BardMay 28, 20153 votes

Jayce because he keep stealing all of Viktor's inventions.

Real talk though, just because Noxus doesn't agree with your ideals does not make them evil. Always annoys me when people say Demacia is good and Noxus is bad.

Deep Terror NamiMay 28, 20152 votes

I vote Leblanc, because all the others are who they say they are, but Leblanc could be a false identity and illusion for something much more sinister! She could even be Teemo!

TerraRisingMay 28, 20152 votes

All those choices... and no Teemo?

Seriously, the only champions who could be classified as villains these days would be ones like Singed. Champions with no regard for other people other than themselves.

GreenLoreMay 28, 20151 votes

Currently I'd say Swain. Noxus is simply the poster boy for the bad guys in LoL and Swain is the leader of them and rose through the ranks by killing his competition.

Although some regions have their own Big Bads,like Lissandra for the freljord(aatrox is more of a personal enemy), Xerath for shurima, Mordekaiser for the SI and Malzahar / Chogath for the void

(morde and cho lack quite a bit in terms of lore,so it is hard to tell if they truly fit that role or not,but they surely make that impression)

AzureInTheDarkMay 28, 20151 votes

One does not simply forget the GLORIUS EVOLUTION! Viktor

cshakesMay 28, 20153 votes

He's more of a person who desperately wants to make the world better, and does that by upgrading volunteers. Sounds more like a hero to me.

Tesla EffectMay 28, 20151 votes

Everyone is up for war, and who is the person who encourages war.... Aatrox

Malicious MetalMay 28, 20151 votes

Who the bloody hell is Morsekaiser? The emperor of secret code messages? Hue.

ZeichiVosMay 28, 20151 votes

I'd say Malzahar, on the basis that the void is the most unambiguously bad place around, with no yoricks or rivens to tip the scales towards neutral. This is of course assuming he acts as the spokesman for the void.

Thanotos OmegaMay 28, 20151 votes

the problem here is with the exception of the void and maybe the watchersm there is no real bigger bad, just allot of Big Bads to different groups, Swain for example is a threat mostly to Demacia, because say Azir could wipe him off the map, since his villain is Xerath another demigod, likewise there is no comparing Mundo a more shows up causes trouble monster of the week style villain with Viktor's force insanity inducing cybdernetics on everyone world threatening,

The Anagram KingMay 28, 20151 votes

I voted for Leblanc. Leblanc

She is not necessarily eeeeeevviiillll, but if anyone were to be the "Final Boss" at the end of the game; if ANYONE were to be the last person standing after the Void had invaded, once wars were concluded, once peons had taken their shots at ambitious revolt...

LeBlanc would be standing mere centimetres from the most influential spot in all of Valoran. And possibly sitting on the throne at the same time.

Ebonmaw DragonMay 28, 20151 votes

As someone said, Noxians are not "evil"... so, I Wouldn't put Swain or Leblanc

Malzahar is just a prophet of the Void, but not a "leader" or something like that... in fact, no monsters from the Void, aside from the voidlings and KogMaw are friends with him.

Mordekaiser I dont know... i think that item 3153 The Ruined King is a better choice.

Veigar HE IS EVIL AND BAD, the only problem is the part of "Big"... However, i voted for the MASTER OF EVIL because he is already the FINAL BOSS.

Aatrox even as a dark creature who likes war, he is not "evil" because, after all, he helps the loosing side, in fact, Demacia sees him as a Hero.

....................................

Anyways... Im surprised that you forgot about Lissandra and the Watchers

Mori PleaseMay 28, 20151 votes

Gotta be Veigar hes got a skin to prove it!

The SoulforgedMay 28, 20151 votes

Honestly, the void champs seem just to be made for pure evil. Ima say Malzahar ... Edit: ok this is embarrassing. Him + other void monsters like cho.

4nth0l0gyMay 28, 20151 votes

Swain's a major player in the political and military scene. If Noxus is evil, he is its brain.

Malz is just a prophet from the void, neither inherently good nor evil.

Morde isn't a plotter, he's a suit of armor.

Veigar is actually adorable. This is why we ship him and Lulu. If he ever does anything evil, it will be something like a catastrophic event featuring kittens.

Aatrox is a force of nature; once again, not inherently good or evil. We don't know his intentions yet, so we can't make that call.

Leblanc is Swain's underling, mostly. She might have schemes of her own, but Swain's hailed as the mastermind, so.

Other potentials: -Viktor enacting the glorious evolution. This is a pretty spiteful thing, though he doesn't see it as evil so much as advancement. (Hi Hitler) -Lissandra's definitely got some nasty schemes, but she's off in the North, well away from the major action of the Demacia/Noxus conflicts.

AkesgerothMay 28, 20151 votes

[{quoted}](name=CC Shepherd,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=l9EUpmxT,comment-id=000f,timestamp=2015-05-28T22:13:02.742+0000) Malz is just a prophet from the void, neither inherently good nor evil.

...you do realize that the void seeks to destroy Runeterra and all life on it and that Malzahar is pretty much the one guy trying to make it a reality, right?

4nth0l0gyMay 28, 20151 votes

This reminds me of the Annihilus Conquest arc from Marvel Comics, in which an alternate universe, the Cancerverse, tries to invade the Marvel Universe. They aren't evil, they've just run out of room in their own universe to live (Death was defeated in the Cancerverse...it's kind of weird), and need to find more.

I guess we'd view them as evil, though, so you have a point.

MootantJun 2, 20151 votes

I think Xerath is the main villain since he is basically using the nexus' to take power and break out of his armor so he can be omnipotent and destroy the world or Karthus since he can sing a song and kill anything