A League of Legends player has admitted they only just figured out, after a decade of playing, that Miss Fortune’s name is a play on the word “misfortune.”
The late realization led to a wider discussion among players about Riot’s habit of slipping puns and hidden meanings into champion names, with many veterans confessing they had also missed the obvious wordplay for years.
Miss Fortune, full name Sarah Fortune, has been in the game since 2010. The Bilgewater bounty hunter is one of League of Legends‘ most popular ADCs, known for her dual pistols, ultimate ability Bullet Time, and a revenge-fueled backstory tied to Gangplank, who killed her family.
A roster full of hidden wordplay
The discovery brought back the long-running fan game of decoding Riot’s champion names. Players pointed to community favorites like Shaco being an anagram of “chaos,” Master Yi sounding like “mastery,” Lee Sin reading as “listen,” and Nasus being “Susan” backwards.
Others flagged Ekko, where the double K is said to mirror the rewind icon fitting his time-bending kit, plus Singed as an anagram of “design” and Hecarim as a rework of “chimera.”
Some examples lean more toward etymology than puns. Nami is linked to the Japanese word for “wave,” Mordekaiser reads as a death-and-emperor mashup, and Udyr is close to the Danish word for beast.
