Arcane Season 2 has concluded, and it got yet another burst of non-League of Legends fans interested in the characters and world. Here’s every League of Legends champion in Arcane.
League of Legends has more than 160 unique characters, a staggering roster for any game. Arcane chooses to focus on the stories of just a few of these characters, with more of them appearing in the foreground and background at various points.
We’ve assembled a comprehensive list of every character who has a distinct influence or appearance in Arcane. Fans don’t necessarily see their face or hear them talk, but their involvement in every instance is beyond a shadow of a doubt.
All Arcane characters in League of Legends
All the League of Legends champions in Arcane
As of the end of Arcane Season 2, fans see 10 champions who make distinct appearances while three others either make short cameos or are a part of Arcane’s story without appearing on-screen. Some of them are going to be glaringly obvious to fans of the show, but some might surprise non-LoL players.
Vi
Role: Jungler
Archetype: Bruiser
Damage Type: Attack Damage
Vi is one of the oldest champions on the list here. She’s an aggressive, close-range fighter just like the show, wielding her signature Atlas Gauntlets. Vi has a short-range dash that knocks enemies up, an AoE ability that discharges her gauntlets, and an armor-shredding passive. Her ultimate is a single-target ability that causes her to dash to her target, knock them up, and slam them into the ground.
Vi is one of the game’s premiere fighting junglers with her mobility and point-and-click ultimate. The creators of Arcane did masterful work translating how she feels in-game to her on-screen character.
Jinx
Role: Attack Damage Carry (ADC/Bot Laner)
Archetype: Marksman
Damage Type: Attack Damage
Jinx is a squishy, immobile, ranged carry that snowballs off of kills to become one of the biggest hyper-carries in the game. She can swap between two weapons, her iconic minigun PowPow, and her rocket launcher, FishBones.
Jinx has her weapon swap, a straight line skillshot that slows, a set of deployable Flame Chompers, her strange mouthed grenades, and fires her iconic rocket from the “What Could Have Been” sequence as her ultimate, dealing more damage the further it travels.
When Jinx gets a kill, she attacks and moves much faster for a duration, allowing her to chain this bonus by wiping up a team fight.
Caitlyn
Role: Attack Damage Carry (ADC)
Archetype: Marksman
Damage Type: Attack Damage
Caitlyn is another ranged AD carry that plays the same role as Jinx. Caitlyn has one of the longest auto-attack ranges in League of Legends, and dishes out brutal poke damage and quick executes.
She can fire a straight-line skill shot that deals damage, deploy a trap that roots, fire a net that slows enemies hit, and throws Caitlyn backwards. Finally, she has a single-target channeled sniper shot that can be blocked by enemies.
Jayce
Role: Top Laner
Archetype: Skirmisher
Damage Type: Attack Damage
Jayce is a top laner and a lane bully, a character that is incredibly strong early and tries to snowball a lead by devastating their opponent in the one-on-one laning phase. He foregoes a standard ultimate to swap between his hammer’s ranged and melee forms, giving him two completely different sets of abilities in each form.
He can enhance his auto-attacks, fire a Hextech blast, and speed himself and that Hextech blast up with a Hexgate while in ranged form. In melee form, Jayce has an AoE damage ability, a jumping strike where he slams the hammer down, and a swing that knocks back a single enemy.
Viktor
Role: Mid-Laner
Archetype: Control Mage
Damage Type: Magic Damage
Viktor is the only magic damage-focused champion in the lineup of main characters in Arcane. He’s also the only mid-laner. Viktor is another immobile but high-damage character, this time with incredible burst damage and huge AoE potential.
The now-former machine herald has no mobility, but several powerful abilities. He can throw a directional laser that hurts enemies hit, deploy a large trap that stuns enemies who stand inside it too long, enhance an auto-attack for huge damage, and summon a Chaos Storm that grows with every champion it kills.
Heimerdinger
Role: Mid/Top Laner
Archetype: Summoner/Control Mage
Damage Type: Magic Damage
Heimerdinger’s character in League of Legends is completely different from his Arcane character.
While Arcane’s Heimerdinger was a timid incrementalist when it came to Hextech, his in-game version has no such compunction. The League of Legends version of the character summons Hextech turrets, throws Hextech grenades, launches waves of Hextech rockets, and his ultimate creates a massive version of one of the previous abilities.
Warwick
Role: Jungler/Top Laner
Archetype: Tank/Skirmisher
Damage Type: Physical Damage/Mixed
Warwick is the beast that Vi and Jinx’s adoptive father, Vander, eventually turns into as a result of the experiments performed on him by Singed. Warwick’s final form looks quite different from his Glorious Evolution in the final act of Arcane Season 2, but he’s no less of a feral beast for it. Arcane fans got a taste of how this champion plays in League of Legends with his initial introduction, where he tracks the blood of Singed.
The decidedly more lycanthropic character gets a global movement speed boost toward low-health enemies and bonuses against them, rewarding him for tracking down the scent of a fleeing foe. Warwick has a life-stealing bite, the ability to fear enemies in an AoE around him, and an ultimate that flings him in a direction, crowd-controlling the first enemy hit in a line.
Ambessa
Role: Top Laner
Archetype: Diver/Assassin
Damage Type: Physical Damage
Ambessa wasn’t a champion when she appeared in season one of Arcane, but she was so captivating that Riot Games decided to make her a proper champion in League of Legends.
Ambessa’s key ability is that whenever she uses any ability, she can input a movement command to dash in a direction. This makes Ambessa one of the most mobile characters in the game when it comes to closing a gap on open ground.
Ambessa has two slashes of her twin Drakehounds, each in a different shape, a shield that deals damage after dashing, and a long-range skillshot that teleports Ambessa to the last enemy hit.
Ekko
Role: Mid Laner/Jungler
Archetype: Assassin
Damage: Magic Damage
Ekko in League of Legends is a very skill-intensive magic damage assassin, meant to execute individual enemies rapidly before fleeing to safety. He can throw out a straight-line projectile that deals damage and returns to him, create a delayed AoE that slows enemies and both stuns them and shields Ekko if he steps into it, and a short-range dash to an enemy.
His abilities in Arcane are mainly seen in his ultimate, where he snaps back to the position he was in four seconds ago. This kit lets him pounce on an enemy, nuke them down, and slip away to safety.
Singed
Role: Top Laner
Archetype: Tank/Mage
Damage: Magic Damage
The chilling scientist sometimes referred to as Dr. Corin Reveck, has no fight scenes for all of Arcane, so fans might be surprised to learn he’s a playable champion in League of Legends. Not only is he playable, he was the very first League of Legends character ever designed, and remains in the game since his original state.
Singed’s gameplay is unique, with most of his kit revolving around his ability to leave a poisonous trail of gas behind him as he runs that deals damage-over-time to enemies who walk into it. There’s even a community meme about the first rule of League of Legends being “don’t chase Singed.”
He tends to be a frustrating character to play against since he often wants to avoid interaction. Instead, he’ll run around the map killing minions, frustrating champions, and collecting gold.
Orianna
Role: Mid-Laner
Archetype: Control Mage
Damage: Magic Damage
Orianna Reveck is Singed’s daughter, who he commits horrific acts to try and save from a comatose state. At the very end of Season 2, fans get a glimpse of her, now held in the porcelain-esque body of Viktor’s glorious evolution.
In-game, Orianna is a fully Hextech being, and uses a Hextech ball that is bound to her to fight. Her kit revolves around positioning her ball around her, with each of her abilities affecting the ball differently. She can move the ball to damage enemies on the path, slam it to deal damage and slow nearby enemies, amp it to speed up allies in its area, or create a devastating shockwave that deals damage and pulls enemies towards it.
Orianna is one of the game’s oldest, most prolific control mages sheerly due to the zone control that her ball allows her. She’s also a favorite of League of Legends’ top professional player, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok.
LeBlanc
Role: Mid Laner
Archetype: Assassin
Damage: Magic Damage
LeBlanc is a secretive Noxian mage who runs the Black Rose, the cabal that kidnaps Mel and that her mother feuds with. Viewers don’t get to see her face in Arcane, but whenever one of the Black Rose agents speaks to the Medardas, or when Mel meets the shadowy “Deceiver,” that’s Leblanc.
In League of Legends, Leblanc is a burst mage; a magic assassin who appears from the fog of war, deletes a player, and disappears again. She has a single target burst spell, a dash that deals AoE damage on arrival, a chain that roots and damages enemies, and an Ultimate that lets her double-cast these abilities.
Swain
Role: Middle/Top/Bot Laner
Archetype: Battlemage
Damage: Magic Damage
Again, Swain isn’t directly shown in Arcane, but the influence of League of Legends’ most tyrannical champion does appear.
The Grand General of Noxus is in charge of the enormous, militaristic Noxian empire. In modern-day lore, he has bound Raum, the demon of secrets, to himself and forced the demon to become a magical prosthetic arm. Swain uses Raum’s powers and his iconic six-eyed ravens to observe all over Valoran, gathering secrets and spinning conspiracies to empower his empire.
At the very end of Arcane, after Jayce and Viktor’s battle at the Hexgates, a six-eyed raven steals the Hextech Gemstone in the version of Jayce’s hammer from his alternate timeline. This raven is likely Beatrice, Swain’s favorite raven, and a demonic aspect of Raum.
Swain has a short-range conal blast of magic damage, a long-range AoE that grants temporary vision and deals damage after a short delay, and a straight-line skill shot that damages on the way out and roots enemies hit on the way back. His Ultimate causes him to ascend into a raven-coded demon form, dealing damage and draining nearby enemies. He can stay in this form as he has enemies nearby, making it one of the most powerful sustained ultimates in the game.
That’s a full list of all the League of Legends champions in Arcane as of the end of Season 2, but an honorable mention should be given to Mel Medarda. The Arcane character has appeared in leaked playtesting screenshots, and seems ripe to become the latest LoL champion from Arcane.
