Joe 'Hephastopheles' Ziegler

Joe 'Hephastopheles' Ziegler is currently working at Riot Games Inc. as a Game Designer on an R&D project.

About

Hephastopheles worked at Pandemic Studios.^[1] His main is Warwick.^[2] He's usually referred to as Ziegs.^[3]

Contribution

Champion Design

• Jayce, the Defender of Tomorrow (partly with Brian 'FeralPony' Feeney And JuliusEjsing)
• Talon, the Blade's Shadow^[4]
• Viktor, the Machine Herald^[5]
• Zed, the Master of Shadows (partly with Bradford 'CertainlyT' Wenban and 'Samizul')

Trivia

• The champion Ziggs is named after a nickname for Ziegler.^[6]
• His designer name "Hephastopheles" is a portmanteau of the Greek God of fire and metalworking, Hephaestus, and a pseudonym for the Devil, Mephistopheles.

See also

• Official design employee page on Riot Games' site
• Hephastopheles on Twitter

References