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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8785160" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>They're simply not, though. Rexxar is an obscure-but-nerd-popular WoW/WC3 character known only to fairly serious Warcraft fans.</p><p></p><p>He is in no way iconic outside of WoW/WC3. He is not well-known. He is not a trope-forming character ("lol basically batman" memes are about as famous as he got), nor is he a character most people aspire to be. And even after all that? HE DOESN'T USE MAGIC IN WOW! Canonically he not a spellcaster of any kind, and doesn't even use Hunter magic. Abilities-wise, and you can look this up, the NPC has <em>Warrior</em> abilities!</p><p></p><p>In the long-forgotten HotS, he's a Beastmaster, but doesn't use any magic not directly relating to his animals. This is strictly non-canon though, a lot of HotS characters have wildly divergent abilities from their WoW/WC3 self.</p><p></p><p>Ashe doesn't have any Ranger abilities, isn't really a "nature person" beyond being the leader of a "horde", and her magical abilities are those of an Arcane Archer in D&D terms. The only things even making you think she's a ranger are:</p><p></p><p>A) She has a bow.</p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>B) She's technically a rip-off of Sylvanas from WC3/DotA, who is an ex-Ranger who became sort of Death Archer.</p><p></p><p>She's also not exactly one of the top-flight LoL characters. She's no Jinx, Ahri, Garen, Teemo or the like. She's one of the basically second-tier (arguably pushing third-tier at this point) characters in terms of how popular she is. People don't even do 10% as much fan art of her as the top-tier ones. Literally the only reason she's even remotely known is that she's a tutorial character (or was, I dunno if it still works that way).</p><p></p><p>So the idea that she's particularly iconic is also pretty questionable, given she's a rip-off of a WoW character, and not even a Ranger in any meaningful sense.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't really understand what you're saying here, I'm afraid. Perhaps could you rephrase significantly?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8785160, member: 18"] They're simply not, though. Rexxar is an obscure-but-nerd-popular WoW/WC3 character known only to fairly serious Warcraft fans. He is in no way iconic outside of WoW/WC3. He is not well-known. He is not a trope-forming character ("lol basically batman" memes are about as famous as he got), nor is he a character most people aspire to be. And even after all that? HE DOESN'T USE MAGIC IN WOW! Canonically he not a spellcaster of any kind, and doesn't even use Hunter magic. Abilities-wise, and you can look this up, the NPC has [I]Warrior[/I] abilities! In the long-forgotten HotS, he's a Beastmaster, but doesn't use any magic not directly relating to his animals. This is strictly non-canon though, a lot of HotS characters have wildly divergent abilities from their WoW/WC3 self. Ashe doesn't have any Ranger abilities, isn't really a "nature person" beyond being the leader of a "horde", and her magical abilities are those of an Arcane Archer in D&D terms. The only things even making you think she's a ranger are: A) She has a bow. and B) She's technically a rip-off of Sylvanas from WC3/DotA, who is an ex-Ranger who became sort of Death Archer. She's also not exactly one of the top-flight LoL characters. She's no Jinx, Ahri, Garen, Teemo or the like. She's one of the basically second-tier (arguably pushing third-tier at this point) characters in terms of how popular she is. People don't even do 10% as much fan art of her as the top-tier ones. Literally the only reason she's even remotely known is that she's a tutorial character (or was, I dunno if it still works that way). So the idea that she's particularly iconic is also pretty questionable, given she's a rip-off of a WoW character, and not even a Ranger in any meaningful sense. I don't really understand what you're saying here, I'm afraid. Perhaps could you rephrase significantly? [/QUOTE]
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