All Yordles In League Of Legends, Ranked

Summary

• Yordles in League of Legends have rich backgrounds and play pivotal roles in Runeterra's tapestry, from tragic figures like Amumu to heroes like Poppy.
• The Yordles' stories showcase diverse personalities and styles, such as Corki's pilot adventures and Rumble's defiance of stereotypes.
• Each yordle, from Tristana to Lulu, brings a unique blend of humor, bravery, and mischief to the League of Legends world.

League of Legends is a MOBA that has given us a vibrant cast of champions to fall in love with. Runeterra is a flourishing landscape of individuals, made up of a number of species and races, from multiple planes of reality.

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One of the most magical and mysterious is the yordle race, originating from the spirit realm, but have been major influences in the physical realm for millenia and this list ranks some of the smallest and cutest of them.

Updated on February 2, 2025, by Christopher Padilla: Far from just being cute mascots, the Yordles are an important part of the rich tapestry of people that make up Runeterra. For a more in-depth look at each of their circumstances, we've added some info about where they come from and who they know. We've also added the saddest character in League of Legends, who in true Amumu fashion, we forgot about.

15 Amumu

The Saddest Boy In Valoran

Region

Shurima

Notable Relationships

None

Amumu is the most tragic figure in Valoran, whose origins are a mystery. Some say he's the first and last Yordle Emperor of Shurima, a delusional tyrant who caused his own downfall. Other tales cast him as a wanderer, looking for a kind soul to validate his faith in others. Yet other tales tell that he's not a Yordle at all, just a child twice-cursed by cruel circumstance.

One thing that all the tales agree on, however, is that he is an ill omen and should not be approached. His touch causes decay and his neverending tears sap the very life around him. The tragedy is that all he wants is a friend, something he cannot have. Worse yet, when the loneliness gets to be too much, he falls into an uncontrollale tantrum which isolates him further as everything around him is obliterated.

14 Poppy

Demacia's True Hero

Region

Demacia

Notable Relationships

Galio, Shyvana

Poppy is your typical goody-two-shoes, humble warrior, who just so happens to wield Orion's hammer, but as she says, "I'm no hero, just a Yordle with a hammer". Poppy helped to build Demacia alongside its founder, Orion, who pledged his weapon to the Hero of Demacia on his deathbed.

Somehow she still hasn't realized that she's the hero of this story. Maybe if she took a second to stop catapulting enemies back to their Nexus she'd figure it out.

13 Corki

The Pilot from a Different Time

Region

Bandle City, Piltover

Notable Relationships

Heimerdinger, Veigar

This yordle is 90 percent moustache, but don't underestimate him. After leaving Bandle City behind he headed for Piltover where he fell in love with the steampunk aesthetic and amazing machinery and where Heimerdinger built him his signature plane.

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Flying around in his ROFL-copter, Corki conjures images of old British fighter pilots, dishing out class and Hextech Bombs in equal measure.

12 Rumble

The Underdog

Region

Bandle City, Piltover

Notable Relationships

Tristana, Ziggs, Heimerdinger

Rumble is the epitome of an underdog, from within his own city and among tinkerers the world over. Despite being a bit of a scrappy runt, Rumble was recommended to the Piltover Academy of Science and Progress to follow in Heimerdinger's shoes.

But he was tired of yordles being the butt of humanity's jokes and refused that path. Instead, he entered the League of Legends from within a firespitting, harpooning, rocket-throwing mechsuit named after the rambunctious Tristana. His goal is to prove yordles are superior, and this list agrees with him.

11 Tristana

Defender of the Little Guy

Region

Bandle City

Notable Relationships

Rumble, Teemo

One rank above Rumble, Tristana is fully worthy of her fellow yordles' admiration. She began her adventures wide-eyed and awestruck by the people and places she journeyed to visit, though stuck to the secret pathways only yordles know of. That was until she witnessed the destruction of a Bandlewood Portal, one of a limited number of gateways to Bandle City.

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Since that day she has adopted a military style of life, forming a brigade known as the Bandle Gunners and travelling all of Runeterra defending her people's home.

10 Lulu

Mischief Managed

Region

The Glade, Bandle City

Notable Relationships

Tristana, Veigar, Gnar

Lulu is the Alice to Runeterra's Wonderland, though she's forever trying to return to that most magical place, the Glade. Her little purple friend Pix led her to the Glade a long time ago, granting her whimsical powers to use for mischief's sake! There could be no yordly-er yordle as Lulu will never take anything seriously, regularly throwing herself into chaos and danger just for a laugh.

Some of the other yordles might say she gets on their nerves, and she admittedly did turn a group of children into toadstools for a full month, you can't deny you sometimes wonder what purple actually tastes like.

9 Ziggs

The True Mad Scientist

Region

Piltover, Zaun

Notable Relationships

Heimerdinger, Jinx

In the dank depths of unchallenged experiments, Ziggs laughs maniacally at his latest creation. Zaun's freedoms allowed his imagination to become reality, and with Jinx at his side it has run wild. He wasn't always living in Piltover's underbelly though, and was once a protegee of Heimerdinger, a tinkerer like many other yordles. However, the day he carried out a one-yordle prison break to save his professors from a Zaun facility was the day he came into his own.

Jinx may still be convinced that Ziggs is just a figment of her conscience, but as long as he can keep creating hexplosives neither of them really question it.

8 Fizz

The Dampest Yordle Yet

Region

Bilgewater, The Ocean

Notable Relationships

Illaoi, Nami, Nautilus

Yordles are known to have an innate magic within them, never aging and able to live secretly around other races, but Fizz is old even for a yordle. After his ancient home in the Guardian's Sea was destroyed by monsterous gigalodons, Fizz went dark, drifting in ocean currents for thousands of years.

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Somehow, in spite of this macabre backstory, he is still a feisty and fiendish spirit. When he washed up in Bilgewater, the local inhabitants praised him as a demi-god, showering him with tributes in hopes of a good haul or safe passage at sea. Now he prances about in the League of Legends, frustratingly just out of reach of weapons and spells, ready to summon Longtooth for a final chomp.

7 Master Kennen

Balance of the Kinkou Order

Region

Ionia

Notable Relationships

The Kinkou Order (Akali, Shen), Zed

He may look just like any other small, annoying yordle, dashing about in funny clothes, but Kennen is the longest living member of the Ionian Kinkou Order. He trained up Akali, but refused to fight the old acolyte Zed as he now led the Noxian army, putting the balance in jeopardy.

Kennen may be even older than Fizz, in fact, and works to balance Shen, the Eye of Twilight, and the Fist of Shadow, based in the First Lands. Despite being a living electric maelstrom Kennen is a pillar of calm and control.

6 Gnar

You Wouldn't Like Him When He's Angry

Region

Freljord

Notable Relationships

Nunu & Willump, Rengar

A prehistoric looking yordle, Gnar wandered into Runeterra from the spirit realm around the same time as the first humans, and before Lissandra and her sisters were created by the Watchers. During the whole Freljordian fiasco poor Gnar got frozen in True Ice. He has yet to sue Lissandra for emotional damages.

Just watch out for when he doesn't get his way, as he seems to be stuck in the terrible twos (two millions that is) and will throw a full-blown tantrum, magically turning into a much more ferocious beast with incredible strength. Gnar may be the oldest toddler in history.