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The computer game League of Legends is full of characters, so-called champions, who are inspired by various aspects of the traditional or modern culture in many countries around the world. In this paper, I take a closer look at the territory of Ionia, which largely draws inspiration from Asian countries and their rich culture and tradition. I will focus on the characters from these countries and the use of Orientalism in depicting them within the game. It will be necessary to introduce aspects of culture, such as mythology, Japanese anime, East Asian languages, their inspiration, and approach them in general. The corpus will contain a list of specific elements that were used in their creation and assigned to the countries of East Asia. Then they will be generalized. In the analytical part I will focus on their concretization in individual characters and the individual elements will be divided into thematic groups. In the end, the results of the analysis will be summarized. The method of my work is primarily comparison. Its purpose is to evaluate the form of Orientalism in creation of the mentioned above characters, and how they introduce a picture of Asia to the players since a large number of the gaming community knows nothing about their origins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]