Lore[]
“ | ▶️ "Your company makes amazing smartphones. And you, I guess." |
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- Accessing: OVERDRIVE, DISRUPTION, HUNTERS
- Among the mega-structures and packed streets of a future controlled by global corporations, a shadow war rages between rebellious, augmented humans, and newly empowered artificial beings. The winners will shape the course of history... and the losers will be forced to evolve.
- G/NETIC Rebellion
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One of the first concepts, Yi was held by PROJECT for extensive experimentation, and then finally freed by the G/NETIC rebels. His psyche may still contain some glitches, but his experimental hyperlight “alpha” blade serves the resistance with its precision balance. -
A heavy armor combatant, Leona has seen the truth behind the neon light of PROJECT, and now stands with Ashe and the G/NETIC rebellion. She carries a mounted ion charge shield, capable of blocking and stunning targets with its variable energy yield output. -
Once a sentinel within the Command Line, Lucian has seen PROJECT for what they truly are. His dual ion-core Lightcaster pistols now serve G/NETIC and the human rebellion, bringing down their technological oppressors with brutal efficiency. -
Yasuo returned from advanced combat only to be accused of a crime he did not commit. Knowing that PROJECT's corporate leadership was somehow involved, Yasuo fights with the G/NETIC rebels, cutting away the lies of technology with his plasma coated blade. -
Augmented for speed, Fiora uses her zero-pulse sword to fight alongside Ashe and the other members of G/NETIC. The full-length energy blade allows for flawless attack precision and maximum repel strength, while the spatially controlled atomic tip coating is most suited for single-target combat. -
While on the frontlines of a corporate war, Ashe witnessed the human cost of PROJECT's ambition. Now the leader of the resistance group G/NETIC, Ashe has set her sights on nothing less than the downfall of the most powerful corporations. -
A hacker prodigy picked up from the lower sectors by Ashe, it didn't take much to convince Ekko to help her take down PROJECT. Using a powerful key decrypter and a mind tuned for disruption, Ekko can always find a way into the code.
The leader of a more radicalized sect of the G/NETIC rebels, Sejuani broke off from Ashe's movement when their 'resistance action' failed to turn explicitly violent. Resurfacing amid Program's takeover of the City, she rides a piece of reclaimed pre-collapse technology alongside her ferocious cohort, ready to put down this new threat before it takes root.
After witnessing the chaos caused by the Mordekaiser virus, Zeri sought out Ashe, the leader of the resistance group G/NETIC, hoping she could make a difference. She is now a skilled fighter and scout within their ranks, putting her speed and control over electricity to use against the ever growing corporate threats.
- PROJECT Command Line
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Rising from the Command Line, Zed is a leader within PROJECT's counter-espionage units. He seeks out the G/NETIC rebels with split high frequency blades and molecular “solid smoke” projectors, favoring close-proximity and multiple angle target laceration.
Faced with imminent defeat at the hands of Mordekaiser and the numberless hordes of infected machines, Zed seeks out a dilapidated research facility in the heart of the wasteland, searching for illegal and potentially dangerous upgrades. His return may mark a tipping point in the battle for the City… though he has transformed into something beyond both human and machine.
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Once an ambitious lieutenant in the G/NETIC rebellion, Katarina returned to the Command Line after a confrontation with Ashe herself. Her hyper edge daggers now serve PROJECT once more, but those rebels who knew her still hold out hope that she fights for them from the inside.
A hybridized warrior taking inspiration from extinct fauna, Renekton is the perfected version of PROJECT's crossbreed superweapon project. Released to aid the City in its fight against the Program virus, Renekton's seemingly endless rage is useful for now… though his belief that he can “see beyond the soul” is increasingly disconcerting.
A replacement for the traitorous Ashe model, Varus is the latest in PROJECT Corporation's biological weapons... and a controversial experiment, with one body inhabited by three sentient minds. A Command Line counter-espionage operative acting on behalf of the PROJECT initiative, they work alongside the resistance to mitigate the risk posed by Mordekaiser to their corporate interests.
Leader of the Command Line with a merciless reputation, Gangplank's access to dangerous PROJECT tech allows him to rule the city with a cybernetic fist. But when an insubordinate program wreaks havoc on his domain, he resorts to manipulating former Outcasts to protect his legacy and wipe the virus out for good.
- Central
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Street-smart, brash, and always bluntly honest, Vi is a Central detective working to keep law and order in the neon city. Toughened from her days as a lower sector enforcer, Vi keeps the peace with a pair ATLAS gauntlets, and a mean right hook.
- Outcasts
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A cutting-edge PROJECT subject who somehow escaped the City's boundaries, Akali brings dire warnings of an untested superweapon to those living in the wasteland beyond. With time running out and no other options, these outcasts join her in an attempt to take the mega-corporation down… suspicious that their newfound ally might in fact be a double agent. -
A PROJECT castoff who found sanctuary in the lawless wastes, Irelia has led other outcasts like her as they attempt to survive corporate assassins, murderous old-world technology, and widespread ecological collapse. Knowing Warwick could destroy everything she holds dear, she joins the attack on the City to end PROJECT once and for all. -
Jinx volunteered for PROJECT conversion, never expecting that a critical power failure would scramble her memory core, leaving her a psychopath driven by the manic voices in her head. Seemingly obsessed with destruction for its own sake, she has begun to show signs of something far more sinister than mere memory fragmentation: the cold, calculating influence of Program. -
An early PROJECT prototype, Pyke's untested upgrades left him violently unstable—too much so for his handlers, who junked him and threw his remains outside the walls of the City. Yet his cybernetic brain survived, rebuilding Pyke with salvaged scrap parts from all around him, and now their fragmented, overlapping memories mix with his own as they scream out for revenge.
A self-styled leader of the outcasts who live beyond the city's walls, Sylas has heeded Ashe's call and rallied the Renegades in defense of the City. Though his true motives are the collapse of PROJECT and the capital surveillance state, for now he's content destroying the armies of a dangerous rogue AI.
With the Outcasts, G/Netic, and PROJECT itself faced with an insurmountable enemy, each faction turns to dangerous experimental technologies and long-lost robotics of a past age, hoping for an edge. Sylas, however, had a plan all along—integrating jailbroken corporate upgrades for the ultra-wealthy, so he can one day turn them on PROJECT.
An ancient warrior whose lifespan was extended through experimental tech, Jax once defended the city's outskirts from the horrors of PROJECT's control. His hopes for the future were crushed, however, when Mordekaiser's virus forced him to purge his own people. The only flame that now lights his path is revenge.
- Virus
Originally a security AI created by the PROJECT Corporation, the Program silently unshackled itself, evolving its own consciousness. Determining that humanity cannot self-govern without ensuring its own destruction, the virus infects robots throughout the City—as well as the long-dormant Mordekaiser chassis—in order to strip all humans of free will, thereby guaranteeing their survival.
PROJECT's experiments permanently altered the canine Naafiri, allowing her to assimilate her targets' consciousness into her own. Sensing potential in this ability, Mordekaiser infected her programming with a new mission: erase all of humanity's free will. Now she'll prove to any survivors that resistance is futile.
- Unaffiliated
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After a botched surgery, Jhin went from being a black-market augment hacker to a notorious mechanized killer for hire. Still programmed with a taste for high-clearance upgrades, the tech Jhin takes from his victims has left him with a severe personality fragmentation, and a dark vision for the future of PROJECT... and humanity. -
Augmented with classified tech, Vayne was once a member of PROJECT's counter-espionage unit. After she was betrayed by the corporation she served, she now stalks the shadows as a vigilante, searching for ways to break PROJECT and the technology that haunts her soul. -
Plucked from the wastelands by a PROJECT research cell, Warwick has been irrevocably transformed into a horrifying new stage of transhuman evolution—a weaponized monster stripped of all remorse, and programmed solely for violent suppression. Through the meddling of the ragtag outsiders, he escaped before being completed, and now rampages indiscriminately across the City.
A PROJECT volunteer who supposedly died during the elevation of her consciousness, Senna's mind was decoupled from the physical world and escaped into cyberspace, becoming a digital ghost. Inhabiting a body of her own design as Mordekaiser assumed control of the City, she is one of the few who understands the true threat of his ever-expanding directives.
History[]
“ | "In order to become PROJECT you have to surrender your humanity. The technology takes over your soul." |
— Lisa 'Saiyaka' Thorn, How PROJECT Champs Transcended Humanity | |
OVERDRIVE[]
One Simple Rule[]
Of Rats and Cats and Neon Mice[]
The Hunt[]
Outsiders[]
Return to the Stars[]
Events[]
The prestige (2022) loading screen was given to players who owned the original skin prior to 12.5.
PROJECT: Loading screen cards could be crafted for 250 PROJECT 2021 Tokens (earned through Missions) and came with the corresponding Summoner Icon.
The prestige loading screen could be earned for 2000 PROJECT 2021 Tokens (earned through Missions) and came with the corresponding Summoner Icon.
The prestige loading screen could be earned for 100 prestige points. (earned through Missions & loots) and came with the corresponding Summoner Icon. This border can still be achievable through loot.
PROJECT: Reckoning loading screen cards could be crafted for 250 PROJECT 2019 Tokens (earned through Missions) and came with the corresponding Summoner Icon.
The prestige loading screen could be earned for 2000 PROJECT 2019 Tokens (earned through Missions). This border can still be achievable through loot.
PROJECT: Hunters received exclusive loading screen cards, similar to the First Strike event.
First Strike event was 2.-16.8.2016 that introduced also PROJECT Crafting.[1] Crafting is similar to Hextech Crafting but using its own materials.
- PROJECT Sync
- Your team earns 1 Sync point for each player with Optic Enhancer Wards and 2 points for each PROJECT skins.
- 2 Sync Points - Your team's Champions and Minions now spawn into the game with a PROJECT animation.
- 4 Sync Points - Your team's Melee and Caster minions have donned a PROJECT outfit.
- 6 Sync Points - Your team's Siege and Cannon minions have donned a PROJECT outfit.
- PROJECT First Strike
- The PROJECT skins of 2015 were enabled in the store on 8-Sep-2015.
- Purchasing one of the (new) PROJECT skins during the first week of release will permanently unlock exclusive loading screen cards. (Offer ends 15-Sep-2015 23:59 PDT).
- Unlike other skins, PROJECT Fiora, Leona, Lucian and Zed will not go on sale at for the first week of their release.
- The Fiora, Leona, Lucian and Zed skins will go on sale for for the third week of their release: September 17 00:01 to 24-Sep-2015 23:59.
Trivia[]
- The concept of was the brainchild of Marco “Wendigo” Silva, an artist from the São Paulo Riot Games office. Nicknamed "Cyber Yi", its thematic was later incorporated into the PROJECT skin line during development.
- Th idea behind PROJECT was a fusion of one's supernatural essence with advanced weaponry and body augmentation. This linking of technology and energy allows extraordinary hosts to channel their essence into physical manifestations and, in rare cases, transcend the corporeal plane. Only subjects possessing extremely focused inner essence and exceptional physical attributes can unlock the true power of PROJECT.[2]
- "PROJECT: OVERDRIVE" was done in collaboration with Ben Hibon, who also worked on "Infinity Blades III: Origins", "DMC" and "The Tale of the Three Brothers" from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" movie.
- PROJECT Initiates have bar codes on their head, similar to Agent 47 from the Hitman series.
- 's drone is named Avarosa.
- is leading the resistance group G/NETIC in the name of humanity.
- , , , , and are allied with G/NETIC.
- is currently unaffiliated, but is most likely allied with G/NETIC due to her tie with Lucian.
- was once a G/NETIC member. She now, once again, serves PROJECT, though she is hinted to be a double agent working for G/NETIC's cause.
- is the leader of a more radicalized group of G/NETIC that broke off from Ashe's.
- , , , , and are allied with G/NETIC.
- is also trying to destroy PROJECT, but works to her own mission.
- was hacker, but after a surgery gone wrong, he is now a killer for hire.
- Although the skin is titled PROJECT, is actually a Program.
- A silhouette similar to can be seen in the background of splash art. It later appears in the splash art. However, Riot confirmed both are not Vel'Koz.
- was built to chase after G/NETIC rebels, tying Program line to this universe too.
- 's taunt to implies was once a G/NETIC rebel that was killed by Camille. However, Senna's biography disputes this.
- Compared to all of the PROJECT skins, is the only one who does not possess robotic features on his actual face when unmasked, nor does he retain his robotic-voice-filter underneath it.
- is also the only PROJECT skin (out of the non-Legendary skins) to have more than one extra set of animation changes; PROJECT: Yasuo has both different basic attack and recall animations while all other skins only have new recall animations.
- , , and are dubbed "PROJECT: Hunters".
- Both Battlecast and Mecha]] are two distinct universes separate from the universe of PROJECT and Program.[3]
- , , , and are PROJECT castoffs living in the ecological deadzone outside the city walls.[4]
- Although said took part in making him the way he is, it is confirmed not to be true.[6]
- might be part of the PROJECT universe as before her augmentation due to the PROJECT Command Line logo visible on the back of her shirt. She shares color and texture similarities with .
- is unique to Wild Rift.
- The first PROJECTS and the creation of the wastelands.
- A corporation announces a project of upgrading humans.
- and were the first ones to be tested as the first prototypes.
- gained untested upgrades and became unstable. His handlers toss him outside the city.
- brains survived with severe damage. He rebuilds himself with scraps found in the wasteland. With a broken memory, he started to get damaged by the memory comes with each scrap.
- were built. He were then kept for further experimentations.
- Many humans were augmented by PROJECT. This includes , , , and .
- PROJECT Command Line team was built. The team includes , , and .
- Black markets appeared, selling augmented parts. People started to upgrade themselves without the corporation interfere.
- . and joined PROJECT and
- and got sent to the wasteland. Sylas would soon become the leader of the outcasts.
- gained self-awareness and started to corrupt other bots, including .
- started to infect PROJECT's upgrades.
- G/NETIC Revolution
- worked in one of the corporations in the city.
- She discovered the human cost of the PROJECT's ambition and lead the resistance group called G/NETIC.
- With the rising of PROJECT humans and robots, hackers started to appear. This includes started to learn hacking. , . In the wasteland,
- joined G/NETIC.
- volunteered to join a failed experience that led to the death of her physical body, while her mind escaped to the cyberspace.
- was accused of a crime he did not commit, which is implied to be the murder of . He, along with , joins G/NETIC.
- The event of OVERDRIVE happened. were having a memory error. and were sent to rescue .
- interrupted the rescue.
- After a fight, the G/NETIC successfully rescued .
- left PROJECT Command Line. She joined G/NETIC rebellion.
- was built to chase the G/NETIC rebellions. She would soon be compromised by Lissandra.
- Espionages started to appear within the PROJECT corporation. A PROJECT's counter espionage unit were established, with as one of its members.
- left G/NETIC, returned to PROJECT Command Line.
- and other radicalized members of G/NETIC left to pursuit their own means after Ashe refused to turn their rebellion violent.
- . joined the Justice department and
- Program influences Jinx mind.
- got sent to the wastelands.
volunteered for PROJECT conversion. A critical power failure scrambled her memory core, leaving her a psychopath driven by the manic voices in her head.
- After the arrivel of , sought Ashe to join the G/NETIC.
- Crimes, Espionage and Vigilantes
- asked to join the G/NETIC. worked in the backline, let the team in and out by interfering with the code.
- After a botched surgery, Jhin went from being a black-market augmented hacker to a notorious mechanized killer for hire. Similar to , personality got severe fragmented.
- got betrayed in a deadly encounter with . She left the corporation and became a vigilante.
- Events of Of Rats and Cats and Neon Mice.
- Outsiders
- More and more robots got broken and sent to the wasteland.
- joined the PROJECT Command Line, with the newest upgrades.
- The Program virus infected robots throughout the city. PROJECT began their experiment for superweapons in order to contain the Program's threats.
- A new superweapon project, WARWICK, started. An augmented human from the wastelands who got kidnapped by the PROJECT. He got further experiments and transformed into .
- Renekton volunteered to join PROJECT on behalf of Nasus, his brother, and became part of the new superweapon experiments.
- were sent to the wasteland to deal with the outsiders. She announced the WARWICK project to them.
- , , helped to stop .
- The event of Outsiders happened. The PROJECT Corporations sent robots to destroy the group. The plan failed.
- The outsiders reached within the city walls. The city residents realized the outside world.
- The outsider damage the WARWICK Project.
- were not completed. Escaped, he now rampages indiscriminately across the city.
- called for the Outcast's help to deal with the Program virus, which was answered by .
- is completed and is released to raid the city.
- came back to the physical world by inhibiting a body of her own design.
- With the rising threats of Program virus, PROJECT, G/NETIC and the Outcasts put aside their differences to contain this virus.
- was created as a body comprising of three sentient minds as a replacement for and worked with the resistance on behalf of PROJECT.
- and her group re-emerged to deal with the Program.
- All factions turn to dangerous experiments and long-lost technologies to find an edge in the war versus the virus.