K'Sante/Trivia

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Development

K'Sante is voiced by DeObia Oparei.^[1]
In the Japanese voiceover of League of Legends, K'Sante was voiced by the late Yasumichi Kushida. Following Kushida's passing, he is currently voiced by Taichi Takeda starting from the HEARTSTEEL promotional material.^[2]
K'Sante is inspired by West African culture.^[3]
- The visual goal for K'Sante was to create a West African champion, with Ghana being chosen early on as an inspiration.^[4]
Joel Virgel provided the vocals for K'Sante's theme.^[5]
K'Sante's codename in development was Shurima Tank.^[6]
K'Sante's placeholder model in development was a recolored Storm Dragon Lee Sin.^[7]
A scrapped ability tested in development was on where K'Sante would drop his ntofos during his ultimate and they would become dash or terrain points.^[7]

K'Sante wields two extremely large Ntofos, which is just a play-on-words for Tonfas, the inspiration weapon.
K'Sante is openly gay, having been in a relationship with a fellow hunter named Tope.

▶️ "It seems I am built different." is a reference to a popular meme in the English-speaking part of the world.
▶️ "Pride...! My downfall..." is inspired by millenia-long teachings^[8]^[9] around the consequences of arrogance. In the modern day, this is cited through the remark 'Pride was (someone's) downfall' or the proverb 'Pride (comes before) a fall'.
His pentakill quote ▶️ "Form is temporary, Nazumah is forever!" references a popular cliché in sports, often said to originate from cricket circles, quoted as "Form is temporary, class is permanent". Long after the quote's inception, the first part of that phrase trickled into popular culture and also reached meme-status, and it is used as a way to contrast something superficial or physical with something more profound, virtuous, or intellectually valuable.

HEARTSTEEL K'Sante
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