Former soccer pro Edgar Davids said the peel was based on him, as well as a Dutch courtroom agreed.
The League of Legends champion Lucian, equally described inward his official profile, "wields relic weapons imbued amongst ancient ability as well as stands a stalwart guardian against the undead. His mutual depression temperature conviction never wavers, fifty-fifty inward the seem upwardly of the maddening horrors he destroys beneath his hail of purifying fire. Lucian walks lonely on a grim mission: to purge the spirits of those ensnared inward undeath, his eternal dearest amidst them."
That's pretty heavy stuff, merely he's non all grim as well as grit. He likewise seems to convey an affinity for sports, peculiarly soccer, if his Striker Lucian peel is anything to larn by. But that peel has landed LoL developer Riot Games inward a location of trouble, equally one-time pro soccer histrion Edgar Davids filed—and won—a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it's based on his likeness.
According to a study on Dutch site Het Parool (Google translated), Riot argued that the similarities betwixt the peel as well as the existent mortal weren't equally peachy equally Davids claimed, as well as that LoL players wouldn't confuse the two. The courtroom saw the province of affairs somewhat differently, however, no incertitude at to the lowest degree partly thank you lot to this tweet from 2014 past times one-time Riot QA analyst Baconhawk.
The approximate inward the representative ordered Riot to expose to auditors how much coin the Striker Lucian peel has earned, as well as volition decide Davids' compensation based on that. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Riot rep declined to comment on the case.For all you lot wondering, Striker Lucian was inspired past times soccer pro Edgar Davids pic.twitter.com/Jf6nlYVmKWJune 5, 2014
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