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  ^e "The Isles will bloom again!"

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  ^e "Your reckoning will come either way."

Upon Starting a Game

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  ^e "Beset by spirits, my home laid to waste... and they call me twisted."
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  ^e "Life can come back, once the earth is turned."
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  ^e "The water of life succumbed to death. The mortals will follow."
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  ^e "Hold tight, my sapling."

Attacking

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  ^e "You defile the grove!"
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  ^e "There is rot within!"
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  ^e "Your life bloom fades!"
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  ^e "Life feeds on death!"
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  ^e "Where men fall, saplings rise!"
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  ^e "It is good to ungnarl my limbs."
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  ^e "Bones break before branches."
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  ^e "The trees have learned violence."
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  ^e "To find life, I will snuff yours out."
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  ^e "It is in my nature."
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  ^e "I refuse to wilt."
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  ^e "Torment at your peril."
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  ^e "Madness!"
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  ^e "I will sow fear."
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  ^e "This power is mine to command."
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  ^e "Vengeance may be hollow, but so is my trunk!"
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  ^e "How my branches groan!"
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  ^e "Once this land knew solitude."
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  ^e "Protect what is pure."
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  ^e "I'll show you twisted!"
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  ^e "So much life, stolen."
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  ^e "Rooted out."
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  ^e "Life torn from your grasp."
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  ^e "The blessed waters churn within me."
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  ^e "In the end, they all scream!"

Movement

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  ^e "My heartwood is pure."
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  ^e "Flee into the forest? I am the forest."
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  ^e "I cannot find peace! Not even in the smallest branch!"
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  ^e "Reckless mortals!"
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  ^e "They trample life! I will trample them!"
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  ^e "Drink deep of what magic remains."
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  ^e "The idol is over."
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  ^e "I do nature's bidding... to the very end."
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  ^e "Oh... where did I put that sapling?"
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  ^e "Living or dead, they are all the same."
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  ^e "We must pull up our roots. Darkness corrupts the land."
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  ^e "I will punish their wickedness."
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  ^e "Life here existed in a time before death."
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  ^e "What have you wrought, mortals? What have I?"
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  ^e "Every step defiance!"
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  ^e "A shadow has fallen, as men have fallen."
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  ^e "There is beauty here, even now, in the human's fear."
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  ^e "I will show them what was lost in the ruination."
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  ^e "Human nature? Pah!"
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  ^e "Fight for the saplings!"
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  ^e "Nature's enemies gather."
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  ^e "Stillness is not peace! It is death!"
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  ^e "If I am already lost, I will take them with me."
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  ^e "Once they were human. Now, they are only in my way."
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  ^e "Mortals irritate me, like an itch beneath my bark."
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  ^e "I cannot stop. The forest needs me."
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  ^e "The Mist haunts my every move, yet I resist."
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  ^e "I will end this misuse of magic!"
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  ^e "I will fight for every pebble, every blade of grass."
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  ^e "I once had peace. It is better to have purpose!"
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  ^e "Once my limbs reached for the sky, now for nearest mortal neck!"
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  ^e "I can watch the mortals doom themselves from here."
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  ^e "The green in these plants, it is something I have lost."
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  ^e "Once more into the grass."
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  ^e "Nature conceals darkness."
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  ^e "There is life still untouched by the Mist."
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  ^e "The young sprouts beneath my feet, they tremble."

Joke

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  ^e "The circle of life starts with death."
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  ^e "If only the humans were vegetarians."
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  ^e "I love all my saplings, especially how they taste."

Taunt

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  ^e "The seeds of your destruction!"
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  ^e "The sapling does not fall far from the treant!"
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  ^e "If a human screams in the forest, will anyone hear it?"

Taunting a Shadow Isles Champion

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  ^e (Ally) "In the end, darkness destroys itself."
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  ^e (Ally) "I am nothing like you! I can't be!"
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  ^e (Ally) "For the forest to bloom, I will tolerate your presence."
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  ^e (Enemy) "Come and meet your end - and a sapling or two."
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  ^e (Enemy) "There is still life enough within me to grant you death."
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  ^e (Enemy) "Your existence was not meant to be."
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  ^e (Enemy) "To bleed the bloodless."

Taunting an Enemy Elise

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  ^e "Oh, what mortals will do for beauty. Kill, and wear pointy shoes."
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  ^e "Stop putting web in my branches!"
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  ^e "I hear your skittering, mortal."

Taunting an Enemy Hecarim

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  ^e "Trample that blade of grass, horseman. I dare you."
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  ^e "One of many shadows on the Isles. The Shadow of War."

Taunting an Enemy Kalista

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  ^e "It is the Isles that were betrayed!"
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  ^e "Spirit of vengeance? And what of the forest?"

Taunting an Enemy Karthus

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  ^e "The song of life, now silent."
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  ^e "The saplings wish to hear your dirge. Please, sing it... while I destroy you!"
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  ^e "You make me glad I don't have ears."

Taunting an Enemy Mordekaiser

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  ^e "Another pile of bones wearing a crown."
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  ^e "Rival to the Ruined King - in ruin."

Taunting an Enemy Thresh

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  ^e "It is torture enough being near you, spirit."
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  ^e "A lantern? Ha! The forest is very dark indeed."
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  ^e "The soul of the Isles is lost - beyond your grasp."

Taunting an Enemy Yorick

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  ^e "So you're what passes for a hero among the fleshlings?"
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  ^e "The Isles have forgotten more than just your name."
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  ^e "Have you ever tried to dig through roots? Good luck, human."
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  ^e "You would scour the Isles without planting a seed."

Taunting an Enemy Axe-Wielding Champion

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  ^e "An axe is no danger if I cut you down first!"

Taunting an Enemy Mage

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  ^e "Magic came from nature, and will return to nature."

Taunting an Enemy Yordle

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  ^e "Yordle! Stay out of my trunk!"

Taunting an Enemy Ahri

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  ^e "I'd like you more if you were a fox."

Taunting an Enemy Aurelion Sol

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  ^e "You create only destruction, Star Forger."

Taunting an Enemy Bard

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  ^e "You make me glad I don't have ears."

Taunting an Enemy Darius

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  ^e "Strength starts in the roots - and you have none."

Taunting an Enemy Fiddlesticks

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  ^e "You give sticks a bad name, and fiddles too!"

Taunting an Enemy Garen

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  ^e "Stop carving words into my bark! Everyone knows G <3 K!"
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  ^e "Demacia's walls will not stop the Black Mist."

Taunting an Enemy Ivern

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  ^e "Kill them with kindness?" Maokai laughs.
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  ^e "The sapling of the God Willow."
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  ^e "Only men seek redemption."
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  ^e "Make like a tree and vacate the area."

Taunting an Enemy Jayce

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  ^e "A voice follows this one! A song, like those in the Mist!"

Taunting an Enemy Kindred

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  ^e "The forest clings to life, and you would end it!"
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  ^e "I am no abomination!"

Taunting an Enemy Lucian

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  ^e "The forest clings to life, and you would end it!"
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  ^e "I am no abomination!"

Taunting an Enemy Nautilus

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  ^e "Darkness gathers on the Isles - from every depth."

Taunting an Enemy Poppy

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  ^e "Beware the mortals' gifts."

Taunting an Enemy Sona

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  ^e "You make me glad I don't have ears."

Taunting an Enemy Zyra

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  ^e "A dangerous bloom, that one."
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  ^e "The most beautiful flowers have the sharpest thorns."
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  ^e "It was a mistake to become human. You will share their doom."
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  ^e "You forgot your roots!"

Upon an Enemy Champion Taunting Nearby

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  ^e "Impressive words - but I'm a tree. I don't care."

Upon an Enemy Yorick Taunting Nearby

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  ^e Yorick: "I fight to free you as well - though a hatchet would suffice."
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    ^e Maokai: "Silence, mortal. You only give voice to darkness."

Upon an Enemy Ivern Taunting Nearby

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  ^e Ivern: "Are you going to Treemoot this year? I'm going to dress up as a sassafras!"
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    ^e Maokai: "No."

Laugh

Maokai's Sapling and left arm begin to laugh before Maokai silences them.

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  ^e Maokai growls.
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  ^e Maokai growls.
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  ^e Maokai growls.

Upon Casting Bramble Smash

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  ^e "Stand back!"
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  ^e "This will leave splinters!"

Upon Casting Sapling Toss

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  ^e "Give them room to spread their leaves!"
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  ^e "Seek the forest's foes."
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  ^e "Away, my sapling."
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  ^e "One with nature."
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  ^e "Patient as a tree."

Upon Throwing a Sapling to the Red Brambleback

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  ^e "Does this make you uncomfortable, Bramblefoot?"

Upon Throwing a Sapling to a Nearby Ivern

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  ^e "Greenfather, my sapling wishes to meet you."
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  ^e "Careful, my sapling. Ivern is watching."
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  ^e "The Greenfather spreads life. The Mist will end it."

Upon Casting Nature's Grasp

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  ^e "Lashing roots!"
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  ^e "Fools!"
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  ^e "Wretched souls!"

Upon Buying...

Doran's Shield

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  ^e "I wondered what happened to that tree."

Iceborn Gauntlet

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  ^e "To strike a blow for nature."
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  ^e "From a land where the trees are hardy and tall... and very, very cold."
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  ^e "I do tend to punch things."

Sunfire Cape

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  ^e "Burn through the Mist."

Warmog's Armor

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  ^e "Is it woven from branches? I can never tell."
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  ^e "To aid the waters within my wood."
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  ^e "Restoring life."

Upon Killing an Enemy Champion

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  ^e "Wood knocks back!"
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  ^e "Another shadow."
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  ^e "To rest, if only you could."
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  ^e "I would end your burden, but it always returns."
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  ^e "Enough bark, and there's no need for a bite."
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  ^e "Blood makes the grass grow."
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  ^e "Vengeance bears the sweetest fruit."
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  ^e "Mortals? Hmph."

Upon Killing an Enemy Champion in the Jungle

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  ^e "You would fight the forest in the forest?"
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  ^e "Mortals always invading."

Upon Killing an Enemy Shadow Isles Champion

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  ^e "Begone, vile spirit!"
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  ^e "The Isles will be cleansed."

Upon Killing an Enemy Ivern

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  ^e "A friend of the forest no more."
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  ^e "Pruning dead branches and odd ones."
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  ^e "Mortal to the end."

Upon Casting Recall

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  ^e "The grove beckons."
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  ^e "Uprooted."

Upon Death

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  ^e "Flee, my saplings... "
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  ^e "The forest... "
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  ^e "To the soil... "

Upon Respawning

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  ^e "Another blade stuck in my bark."
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  ^e "Didn't even notch my trunk."
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  ^e "Hope blooms anew."
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  ^e "The maelstrom has not ended!"
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  ^e "I rage against this curse!"

Co-op vs. AI Responses

Match Start

• "Do not defy nature!"

Player Team Victory

• "GG!"

Player Team Defeat

• "So this is what they call getting stumped."

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