One of the best games in the history of humankind and the history of esports, game in which at the moment play more than a million people at a time, game which attracted different regions of the world such as America, Asia, and Europe - League of Legends. There is plenty of information across the internet that your mind already knows about this beautiful game, but still, some exciting facts may impress you. The prototype of characters, global worldwide statistics about League of Legends analytics, LoL news, and other information was searched for finding unique things to introduce to you.

#1 What is the 2nd highest paying esports discipline? - LoL.

From the first look, we may consider that tournaments in this game have shallow prize pools - twenty thousand dollars here, ten thousand dollars there -. However, if we count the number of all events during the year that we may see on the latest League of Legends news, we may find plenty of them. Little by little, they are joining into a considerable amount of money per year, and as for now, if we count it all from the time of existence, it will be over 20 000 000$. Compared to other well-known esports gaming disciplines, it is more than all over prize gained in CS.GO and Starcraft which was very popular back in the day. 

#2 Koreans VS the West

As we can see from the beginning of the game's existence, there has always been competition between the Korean and the western regions (LCS and LEC), so let's compare them and define who is more skilled!

We may straightforwardly compare them by calculating the amount of prize pool won during the career in professional LoL teams. There is a massive difference in numbers, almost three times bigger prize pool from the side of Korean players, which means that they are more paid than players in the western regions. According to League of Legends facts, the full number of prize pools won for all time spent is more than 6 million dollars.

#3 A lot of references

We may see that in many different popular and modern projects, developers are trying to insert some easter eggs inside the lore of the characteristics of their characters inside the game. We found for you some exciting references inside the League of Legends, which you might notice while you are playing your favorite game:

• One of the most popular items in the game- BF Sword, is a considerable reference to the well-known project Doom.
• If you command your Jinx character inside the game to dance and may compare it to the dance of one of the most popular cartoon characters in the world - Jake from Adventure Time, you may notice that they are dancing the same way;
• The creation of the Aatrox character inside the game was inspired by the worldwide popular film - Lord of the Rings. The developer says that he was inspired by the animations of the Balrog and Sauron at that moment and wants to give some aspect to his character in LoL;
• The Tristana`s Buster Shot is a considerable reference to the famous Asian anime with Mega Man, who also uses the same ability;
• Nidalee was created and officially confirmed as a prototype of the Nävis from the French Graphic Novel "Wake", and resembles this character in almost all ways;
• Zelian was named after his creator- the person from the company of the developers in Riot and a person who also worked after the famous projects as Warcraft 3 - The Frozen Throne and World Of Warcraft.

#4 The ancient knight 

Among other characters, you may see the Fionna, who is well-designed and has a particular movement and abilities. All these facts are present because of the inspiration by a historical person who lived a long time ago - the Fiore Dei Liberi as an Italian fencing master, was one of the most famous in the world and developed his part of actual martial art during his life and was honored still for it.

#5 The Blitzcrank and his dating services

As you may read in the lore of the game, Blitzcrank, who is typically a robot, uses massive tools he got under his armored skin. But according to the legend of the game, he might have a heart at least, which is mentioned in his description as he is ruling the number of dating cafes named “Fleshling Compatibility Services.” It is a cute fact about him and a good idea from the Riot.