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Friday, March 18, 2011

Flavor of the month champions

Today i'll be talking about the concept of Flavor of the month champions in league of legends, every month there are 1 or 2 champions that the community "Discovers" usually during free week for that champion, Basically a high ranked player picks up the champion randomly and finds some overpowered new item build, pretty soon you start seeing these champions in every game, then people who dont usually see this champion and dont know how to play against them get destroyed, complain and then a few weeks later that champion gets nerfed down to nothingness.

The best example of a FOTM champions is Malphite, who just happens to have an awesome new skin.

A few months ago Malphite was in every single normal game and in ranked games he was banned constantly, I took advantage of this and played him every chance i got, i admit it was extremely unfair because he had extremely strong early game and at level 6 could kill the enemy laner 100% of the time. Late game he wasn't anymore fair as he could stack sunfires and passively do about 120 damage every second for just being around, this also made him tanky as all hell and unless you were trying to take on the whole team by yourself you could easily win team fights.


A few months before this popularity however almost nobody played him except for of course people who mained him, He was considered the least viable tank in them game, but out of nowhere with no changes, no buffs to the character a few high ranked european players start to roll face with him and he "becomes" the most overpowered champion ever, This is the nature of the game, Another example is irelia, Only a few specialty high ranked players figured out how to build the champion and again, Most overpowered champion and was nerfed to the ground.

When one of these comes along which the invariably do, just enjoy it while it lasts because believe it or not they actually listen to outcrys from bad players who could get destroyed by a small bundle of sticks and most champions do end up being nerfed.

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