Gonna make some predictions on future 'OP FOTM' champs

The Bearded Bard··1 votes·691 views

Shyvana Specifically as a devourer jungler. Her clears are ridiculous, she's damn near impossible to counter jungle, can solo drag and herald relatively early, late game she's a monster with huge aoe damage and nearing 4k health and at least 150 of each resist. The only thing holding her back is how easy she is to kite, but item 3742 item 3153 take care of that easy.

Orianna item 3027 has been consistently buffed, cdr runes are popular, and initiator tanks like Malphite are very popular atm. I expect the yearly 'nerf orianna' threads are going to come early this year.

Hecarim Flexible as either top or jungle. He brings a lot of aoe damage, quite a bit of disruption, can double as a split pusher, and is tanky as well. A solid pick.

Zilean Crazy good utility, great damage, aoe cc. A solid support and a counter for most of the popular mid laners ( Zed Ahri Leblanc )

Kennen Flexible pick, can pretty much viable do any role, though obviously some roles are more viable than others. He provides decent poke, great damage, and huge aoe cc.

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Level 3 Rattata1 votes

Zyra jungle.... specially with that Echo item... i believe she could actually be a good jungler instead of some troll pick. She has good CC, she can use plants as vision for her jungle... use her plants clear faster without taking dmg.. Never tried it because I have not really jungled since they changed the whole VU and creeps, but I think she could be op.

The Bearded Bard2 votes

It's kind of like Ryze jungle. It's really good once you get rolling, but getting rolling is just too damn abusable. Going Ryze or Zyra jungle against the popular junglers right now (LeeSin Elise Kindred etc) is just suicide.

pE4CbxDPQO1 votes

Your first two predictions are like... the fuck? The rest are fine.

The Bearded Bard1 votes

I dunno man. Shyv's sporting close to a 55% win rate with a solid 5% pick rate. Aside from that, I've personally been doing really well with her lately. I average fully sated by 15 minutes, record time is 12:07.

As for Orianna, since she came out there has never failed to be a random upward flux in her pickrate followed quickly by 'nerf ori' threads across the boards/forums when they were forums. It happens every year.

The Bearded Bard1 votes

Hate to necro this, but Shyv's looking at some pretty ridiculous pick rates and win rates d:

Paroe1 votes

You forgot jhin. theres already shenanigans on PBE about his E, which does a lot of AD scaling magic damage and can be stacked. Its actually really funny to see squishes get fourshot (or oneshot- i mean, they do all go off at once) by a stack of jhin traps. Jhins massive AD amps will also make him supremely fotm im afraid.

The Bearded Bard1 votes

New champions are automatically FOTM and I know nothing about him aside from the basics of his kit.

Unpaladin1 votes

Bard If Riot touch him again in the slightest manner he's going to become death itself.

The Bearded Bard1 votes

That's a good point. He is rising in popularity. Sitting at 9% pick rate and 48% win rate.

Penns1 votes

Pls no Zilean

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