League of Legends Triple Reaction - Rise, Phoenix and Burn It All Down 

This past Sunday we reacted to all KDA songs on our second reaction channel we started for more music, tv and movie reactions. You can check it out here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G4OPf2Gln04.html. This will also be the channel where we show our Arcane episode reactions. Right now we've covered the trailers and Enemy music video.

Yes, almost all of the Worlds song AMVs feature the likenesses of real pro players. In fact, Faker (the universally regarded greatest player of all time) appears in all 3 of these videos: as the "final boss" mage in RISE, as the player of "Karma", the mage character, in Phoenix, and on the billboard at the opening of Burn It All Down

you guys would love watching the league of legends worlds opening shows there quite cool. i would suggest watching each one in order from 2014 too 2021.

They are not only real players, they are THE players. The best of the best, the fan favourites, e-sports idols. The ones you get super pumped aboout watching compete for the title, the ones that make whole stadiums roar up when they walk on stage. Ok maybe Im fanboying a little bit but you get the point :D These worlds songs are a real highlight every year. Not only is the production value extremely high and the song always a banger but it also gets you really excited for the upcoming competition. So now you know what to look forward to in 2022 ^^ Also Warriors, Legends never die and Take over are great worlds songs from other years.

riot has always done well at celebrating the player. incorporating the actual people on these teams at worlds, and in the earlier days also showing people going from playing in their living room at home and rising through the ranks, in these cinematics/MVs.

I really love the League of Legends Worlds songs. The thing I like about Rise and Phoenix in particular is that they tell the stories of the professional players they feature. There's a lot more going on in all of them than I could ever hope to explain here.

I think the care they put into their TV show, Arcane, shows just how much they care about their franchise.

Riot's Art, Animation & Music department all deserve a raise after carrying the company for years and years. They've always exceeded expectations. And to answer the question about whether or not the people were actors or actually players: Throughout the videos, those wearing team shirts/outfits are in fact actual players from the world tournaments. One of the more memorable people being the player Faker. A legend amongst the League of Legends competitive stage. He's the person that holds the Tome in the first video turning into the champion Ryze at 3:00. Most people are depicted using weapons/moves from champions they are well known for playing during the tournaments.

behind Rise is emotive story about player who called Kang “Ambition” Chan-yong

It seems ironic that I was listening to these songs during my workout this morning 😁 and later seeing the reaction from you both is a wonderful surprise.

The people in the music videos are actual League of Legends players :)

The guy who appeared at 3:00 actually is the Best player ever of league of Legends called Faker

As these are all champion ship promos there is only 1 thing cooler then them. The opening ceremony for the finals every year(usually) The 2019 with the Phoenix one was the epicest who I have ever seen.

Im not sure how familiar you guys are with League of Legends (and if you are I apologize in advance). I play the game and watch the tourneys sometimes. The trailers were basically the top players of the game. The first trailer were a few players which used the weapons of some of their preferred league champions. At the end of the first trailer, the kid with the glasses and the book - that was a representation of 'Faker', the best League player, ever. And Im not exaggerating when I say he's AMAZING. His reaction time is in the split-second, bordering on the superhuman, and watching him play (if you understand the game) is quite literally EXHILARATING. For a regular player to kill him in game is considered a great honour and worthy of bragging rights. He is the one who stands at the highest peak. In game, he's approached with EXTREME caution, or just not at all. His title is the "Unkillable Demon King" (no kidding, google it) - and I assure you, it's well deserved. Here's a clip of one of his all time most famous plays - if you dont play the game, youll have no idea what just happened lol, but there's a little explainer afterwards. Even if you don't understand what's happening, the reactions of the announcers are enough to tell you how good he is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o8vGaC4OZIs.html

If you were wondering, the video is (kind of) a recreation of worlds 2020, the guy at the start looking up at faker is showmaker, who won the tournament and is considered the best player in the world right now, trying to live up to the expectations of being "the next faker". The one he was fighting at first was chovy, who he beat in the quarter finals, also considered one of the best players in the world and trying to live up to that reputation, but sadly wasnt able to. The other two featured are rekkles (blond) and jackeylove (hoodie), who played each other in quarters and are similarly trying to prove themseves after jackeylove beat rekkles at world finals 2018, jackeylove trying to regain his crown and rekkles to rise up to his level.

It cracks me up the blue sorcerer at the end of the Rise video is named Ryze. It's almost like they're shouting his name.

These songs hype me up so much that I still play even though I already lost 10 games in a row.

I love how the characters in the first one are modelled after the pros that play the game.

Pretty much every time the question of whether that person is a real League of Legends professional player comes up it's the real player.

League of Legends- the game so popular it became a worldwide professional sport.

Seeing the titles lined up shows that it's all planned: Rise (from Ashes) (to become) a Phoenix then Burn it all down (when the phoenix dies) then the cycle continues

That intro was so unexpected it made me laugh so hard! Ken's intros just get better and better haha.

Only when you know each year’s music video is the story of previous championship

Damn no matter how many times i watch RISE or BURN IT DOWN they just give me crazy goosebumps i played league for 5 years straight but i stopped cause of the toxicity but man watching this kinds of vids makes me want to play league again…but yeah i don’t think i really will the game is just full of toxic people

Hey, thanks for reacting to these masterpieces! Especially RISE is my all time favourite because of the song itself and the best music video in my opinion. I see that someone told you about te details but i want to tell you more about it. So at the begining at 0:44 there is the flag with the logo of the world championship, also the torn flags of the defeated teams with weapons of the champions like Fiora's sword 0:57 The main character is the player "Ambition" and Jungler of the team Samsung Galaxy who won this tournament with his team later 1:00 He picks up the weapons of the champions he played in the tournament: the claws from Kha'Zix, 1:04 the flail from Sejuani, 1:05 the lance from Jarvan IV 1:29 He encounters and defeats the player Perkz (Midlaner for the team G2) who played the champion Yasuo 1:52 In the background you can see the champions Kha'Zix (left) and Yasuo (right) 1:56 The thunder shuriken of the champion Kennen 1:59 The champion Thresh 2:06 Championship Ashe skin statue (left) with turrets 2:11 The champion Olaf 2:16 The next enemy is the player UZI (ADC of the team RNG) and my favourite player. Because of serious health issues he retired after 8 years in pro play on june 2nd, 2020. He really wants to come back and he may hopefully be back in 2022! He was also such high skilled that many people thought that he was the best player for his role or even tied with Faker as the best player. In this video he represents the champion Vayne, also his best champion. *UZI hits Ambtion's glasses, meaning Ambition lost every game against him during the tournament but UZI and his team gets eleminated by the team SKT later* 2:34 Ambition as Sejuani 2:36 Ambition keeps fighting, being in the finals after the win over Team WE, despite getting out of the Fight with UZI?? 2:38 The skin "Championship Zed" of the champion Zed in the background (Riot Games releases a special Championship Skin for Worlds every year) 2:41 Left: Samsung Galaxy White Talon skin? (There were 2 Samsung Galaxy Teams before. White and Blue until they both disbanded and one team was formed: Samsung Galaxy). Samsung White won Worlds 2014 2:44 The Samsung Galaxy skins of the champions Ezreal, Gnar, Xayah, Rakan and Taliyah (Each player who won Worlds choses one champion that gets a Worlds skin in the colors/theme of the team. The skins come out in the next year when the next Worlds starts. Ambition chose Taliyah) 2:53 Ambition reaches the final arena with statues which are holding the team logos of the previous world championship winners (On the left: Season 2 Taiwanese Team Taipei Assassins, on the right: Season 1 European Team Fnatic) 3:00 Ambition encounters Faker, his long time rival and the most famous player. Faker reads the magic book and carries the giant scroll of the champion Ryze which is one of his signature champions 3:03 Faker is the longest member and star player of team SKT (SK telecom, rebranded to T1 in 2019) which is also the most famous team in LoL because of him and three championship titles (2013, 2015 & 2016). He took part in every of them and is still in the team 3:05 The tournament final begins. Faker's Ryze vs Ambition's Jarvan 3:12 Faker roots Ambition with Ryze's "Rune Prison" 3:15 Ambition uses Jarvan's "Golden Aegis" and shields himself 3:27 Ambition uses "Demacian Standard" and throws the lance to Faker, jumps to him in the air with "Dragon Strike" and finishing him with the ultimate ability "Cataclysm", smashing the lance on him into the ground 3:37 Ambition stands up as the winner of Worlds 2017, taking off SKT from the throne when the team logo gets engraved into the statue. The left and right statue holds the logo of SKT due the wins in the previous years 2015 & 2016 3:45 Left: Player of russian team Gambit carries Darius' Battleaxe 3:48 Left: Season 2 "Championship Riven" Skin with her Sword in the background, Left: Player carries Jax's Lantern, Middle: Player carries ??? Right: Player carries Kalista's Speer 3:51 Left: Player carries Shen's Swords? Right: Player SwordArt of Team Flashwolves Left: Team Liquid's Player Doublelift carries Jinx's Rocket Launcher Right: Player of Fnatic carries Fiora's Sword 4:04 2018: The next year later after the loss on Worlds, UZI wakes up, being the MVP in LPL ("League of Legends Pro League" in his home region China) and the potential winner of Worlds 2018

For context, all vids featured the actual world tournament competitors dressed as/ with powers of their champions. You might have noticed the word ""Faker", he is a korean who won the championships 5x in a row. Havent been playing league for quite some time so all these videos are new to me too :)

The only thing that hurts more than the climb, is the fall from grace.

little detail : the studio that made Rise, is the same one that made Arcane

Love you guys y'all always make my day and it's always a great day when I see y'all uploaded

You guys literally react to trailers and content from all of my favorite games. You’re awesome!!❤️

In the 1st one - he was actually the underdog in every situation :) Also yes - those are real player faces.

Just letting you know in all of the music videos the guy with the book at rise was in all 3 vids his name is faker and he is the one of the best lol players out there and if you are confused in every vid was the player and his main champion

I think you should go for either of: 1. Worlds Opening Ceremony 2019 by Mastercard 2. Worlds 2020 Song and the videos that came with it (explaining how the tournament works) Or why not both

Every song that League has are bops.

we all hear the words from music and make our own thoughs. in my mind Phoenix is a song about overcoming your demons and doubt. hear it again with that mindset and well i get goosebumps every time :)

finally, thanks for that, now the wait for Death Battles begins....(hope it wont be months) its perfect for your fight night Fridays

They could react to kda-popstar, kda-more, kda-Villain, kda-i'll show you, kda-the baddest

How do y'all look so stylish every video

Nice. Hope to see you guys check out the opening ceremony of the worlds finals.

Actually waiting for the reaction of "breath" for legends of runeterra, it's a masterpiece highly recommended

YES !! Ofcourse I live for your League of Legends Reaction content~ To more reactions with you guys !!

RIOT always deliver! I recommend The Curse of the Sad Mummy music vid, always made me tear up.

Awesome! I've been looking forward to you reacting to these videos I love you guys

From that song by Cailin Russo & Chrissy Costanza - Phoenix, her perfect voice is chilling on her back

A good cinematic for League of legends is Called Varus As we fall. It's a song that tells the lore of a champion. Not sure if you've seen it because it be cool watching you guys react to it. (:

You guys forgot"Legends Never Die", but awesome video. Looking forward for more. ❤

Great Reaction! Basically all those people you saw were pro league of legends players from different teams using the characters they use in the game called "champions" which is how it is for almost every worlds video🤘 Also neat little tidbit of info, at the beginning you can see Showmaker looking up at digital board of Faker the "Eternal King of the LCK" from the last video u react to. I take this as Faker still being one of the greatest players in League's history, and that everyone in this video is striving to be like or better than him. His reputation is legendary.

In the heat of battle, the wolves shall rise among us. Hungry to be the victor…

So yeah they do use actual players for these and if you noticed theres 1 face that is in all of them and u see his name on his jersey jacket in the second. Faker is a repeat champion and if I'm not mistaken on the last one he retired as a champion and was becoming a coach at then

you sheer me up every time :) ty both

Holy shit, you guys actually did it, nooooooooooooooiseeee.

idk if anyone has explained it, but the RIse! video is depicting the struggle of ranked climbing and all the weapons they had were the champions they used to climb said "ladder" the guy at the end is considered the best league player in the world by the in game name Faker, the second video, yeah they are actual players, who are also very good players, top of the top, second video really just depicts how the game can really take its toll and you, how you will always struggle with your own belief " am i good enough to be here?" so on, last video "burn it all down" is explaining that theres no 1 great player, all are great in their own fields and champions, and the best way to practise is with your Frenemies

they are the real pro players of the pro play teams

If you guys liked these, their video called "Take Over" is really good too

Do they watch these without sound ? I don't see any Earplugs or something alike, the sound quality seems to good to be recorded together with their voice. Also, Bethany, kinda looks and talks a lot like Pam from The Office, cool.

The people in the videos that arent the characters are some of the pro players

I might be completely wrong in this one but that player whit the Oriana weapon (the techi ball) might be Toyz he is know to be one of the best players that use Oriana to her full potential

Ohhh we're getting hype today? Okay!

I am from latam and their reactions have reached me, I congratulate them because their content in general is very interesting and entertaining, I really recommend reacting to "the call of power" which is from my favorite character (Ryze) , and gives a general look at the story and several characters, it's like thanos from league of legends, and react to "As we fall" one of my favorite songs. Get jinxed, Pentakill mortal reminder, True Damage - Giants, The Curse of the sad mummy, Burning bright, lights and shadows, you really got me wild rift, Seconds- Ekko , are very historical songs too. (I know it's a lot of text but I really encourage you to share these excellent works of art) Of course I recommend all the songs of the World Cups but all in good time, it has always seemed to me that the RIOT art and music department does an incredible job, and ARCANE proved it again. a big greeting to you, I hope you like these videos and songs, I love them

These are all real players... thats why im still waiting for you guys to watch the first warriors

really need to watch the opening ceremony of all of that worlds. gonna blow you. and im not tired to say it :3.

in the second song, they were actually pro players, and the league champions representing them were the ones they failed thier teams with.

Really good songs in these videos, especially liked the second one. Great video as always

I got a little bit story about the all three LOL music. First, all the three LOL music are for the LOL WORLDS 2018A(Rise)，2019(Phoenix) and 2021(Burn It All Down), and all the three years, the LPL won the World Championship. Second, there are some interested background story for these music videos. In WORLDS 2018, IG of LPL won the World Championship, IG's slogan is Chinese is 極 which mean ‘Top of the top’. When u need go to the top, u need to 'Rise'. The WORLDS 2019, the FPX of LPL won the World Championship, FPX's full name is FunPlus Phoenix, and this year, FPX has got the new Mid(Doinb) and new Jungle(Tian), and them changed their style, u know ,this is look like ‘Phoenix rebirth from ashes’。 The WORLDS 2021, EDG of LPL won the World Championship, EDG is an OG team in LPL, even before the LPL been founded, the EDG is already there. The EDG is the memory of a generation of LPL, but they never get a World Championship, even they have the 1st Jungle(CLearLove7) of the world. In 2019, CLearLove7 retired and change to be the Head coach of EDG, then in 2019 and 2010, EDG fall into a trough. The 2021 WORLDS music video's Chinese name is 不破不立, which means 'without destruction there can be no construction', ClearLove7's retire is the destruction of EDG. That's all I want to share to you guys. Thanks for reading.

Bobby’s remix version is 🔥🔥🔥

Finally I waited for this video)

finally, love it when people react to these ^^

these LoL videos wayyyyy too good for a game like LoL... I always watch them, despite the fact that i really don't like MOBA games (like LoL)... these are truly awesome!

On the second video, yes they are pretty famous league of legends players

Rise is just my favorite , those are just so Amazing even more when you know the story that eatch battle/weapons tell, i mean everything is so ... I dont know haha really Amazing

Always love me some league from you guys :)

When K-corp will join the show, it'll be the biggest uproar ever seen ! Une nouvelle ère approche.

You watched the 2018, 2019, and 2021 videos. Please check out the 2020 as well lol, I wonder why it was skipped.

I love watching you two

Finallyyyyyy ... worlds oppening reaction now plzzzz from 2017 to 2021

Yes sir I'm glad that you loved all of them you can't really choose the best all of them are just perfect visually and song wise hope you enjoy kda as well I need to change my profile pic to celebrate the kda video

definitely watch Legends never die

Excited to watch this one, Riot always goes above and beyond and impresses. Hoping they do something big for Valorant this week.

Did you know the studio behind this cinematic is Fortiche?

How was the last more "pumped up" tha the first? That drop made the richter scale.

Love the reactions 😁

You should to the opening ceremonies of all the lol world championships. Pretty cool and great music.

Definitely gotta check out 2021 league of legends OPENING!

ah yes I love watching Steve Carell and Michelle Williams watching League of Legends

i know thiis old and not sure if you read this or was told this, the reason faker is so loved as he has beat the odds. 1. he is 26 which is old for a esports champ to still be playing and winning. he has won worlds 3 times, won the all-stars in paris, the mid season twice and iem championship. meaning for his worlds wins he has three skin modeled after him. plus he is now part owner of his own team!

theses are very famous players

World songs always either show players or animated version of the players.

Riot's art department is the bar of which we judge everything by now.

Rise is one of my favorite videos from Riot, and to your point about the main guy kind of steamrolling they sort of had another take of it with the 2020 video which I really liked, hope you guys check it out at some point

Lol you heard folks tunnel vision is good. 😉

It's probably already on your list of LOL things to watch, but I would love if you reacted to the Xayah and Rakan Champion Teaser Wild Magic, and also the KDA songs (the league kpop group)

Can't wait to see after you guys react to LoL most of their songs...you guys react to their live performance🔥🔥💓💓 Edit: probably just do the videos individually

my favorite is definitely Take Over

Watch 2019 world opening its the best performance on stage I have ever seen. They used holograms on stage too

Ok u guys didn't saw the epic one "Legends never Die one"

You guys should 100% look at every until dawn death there pretty brutal😀

Not something i would expect non league player to react to but still happy you reacted something lol related, just wish it would be something you could comment on more because i know you were both confused af

Rise is my favorite to...you need react "Take Over" from woelds champ 2020 is very good to...and the KDA songs is good to! thanks for reacting!

The first clip you saw was about Ambition (former LoL pro player) he was pretty much best Korea (and probably world) player but Faker (kid with the book in the end) "one day" appeared and kinda overtook his place. Fakers team dominated several world championships in a row and RISE is about Ambition overcoming obstacles and claiming once more his spot on top

I think there is a playlist in the official riot accout with all the musical videos and worlds live performances, you might like watch em ;)