71 DIFFERENT champions were played at world.

Myz··26 votes·1,483 views

Now stop complaining about lack of diversity.

More than half of the champion pool was used, it's obvious certain champions fit better into certain comp or are just slightly worst than others, it's impossible to have all equal.

Can we stop complaining about lack of diversity due to meta and other stupid complaint we see at least 10 times a day on the forum ?

28 Comments

Xelvi17 votes

It's funny that 'OMG HALF' is being touted as a good amount of diversity.

Says it all really.

BetaDude401 votes

Relative to last year's Worlds, it's improvement.

I mean, it's probably not likely we'll see every single champ played in one Worlds event, but we'll see.

2yordles1cupcake13 votes

Yep bet that shit scripted just so riot could save face. If people didnt complain then you probably wouldve been seeing the same 12 champs being picked in world. Urgot diversity my butt

Ferezilla3 votes

Your username is fitting.

Remlap12233 votes

Great counteragument. I bet you completely changed that guy's moral philosophy to the very specific detail.

Fraggleroc13 votes

There's still room for improvement. Almost half have not showed up.

... and Dota 2 (although it's a different game all together)... says hello.

Anidan7 votes

Only 6 heroes went unused at TI5 (DotA2) :\

Lissama11 votes

Gangplank Mordekaiser TahmKench Lulu are permabanned/picked. Nice diversity, dude.

Abyssphere6 votes

The amount of bitterness in this thread is ridiculous. Of course there's still room for improvement - the point is that this is a great step towards that. People complain that we see the same 30-40 champions at Worlds and this year we've seen more than 70. That's a pretty big deal even if it could still get better.

Awkward Couch1 votes

Thank you!

dEAdbUs5 votes

We've seen same amount in all previous seasons (around 50% of whole champion pool): http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/esports/V0WsriPU-champs-seen-at-worlds-a-list

Plus as always 20 champions were played/banned in 100% games, while other were played 1-2 times.

Earl Eulrich5 votes

though it´s sort of the same thing Dota had at TI5...it´s all fun and games early on, but quarterfinals onwards get dominated by 5-7picks. Worlds has shown some serious balance issues this year, more so than the last years. It had been a very fun groupstage with all the changes coming in, but now that a new meta is established it just shows that they really did a horrible job balancing things out with the worlds-patch (and it really somewhat did hurt the enjoyablity of the tournament, guess i´m not the only one not interessted in the finals anymore).

Awkward Couch2 votes

I blame a majority of the balance issues to the juggernaut patch right before worlds.

thumbnail94 votes

Yeah now what % of those champions occupy more then 65% of all the games?

dEAdbUs4 votes

But everyone was used just once, while 10 champs were played in 100% games. Nice diversity.

SymbolicFear3 votes

Exactly, not to mention the champions that had at least 90% ban rates

Mael bro3 votes

Where the fuck is Yorick Singed Poppy Shaco Swain Udyr Heimerdinger Nasus ? Diversity my ass. Riot only favor LC$ Big plays type of champs Azir Vayne LeeSin Thresh . trolololololololololololololololololololololololololol

Enosetc3 votes

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Where the fuck is Yorick Singed Poppy Shaco Swain Udyr Heimerdinger Nasus ? Diversity my ass. Riot only favor LC$ Big plays type of champs Azir Vayne LeeSin Thresh . trolololololololololololololololololololololololololol

do people actually want yorick to be played in his current state

has no one ever played against yorick

does no one remember how horrible it feels to lane against him

Mael bro2 votes

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do people actually want yorick to be played in his current state

has no one ever played against yorick

does no one remember how horrible it feels to lane against him

Since when Yorick is viable in this meta ? lol it can't be worse to lane against him than Annie Leblanc or any other point and click bs.

Enosetc3 votes

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Since when Yorick is viable in this meta ? lol it can't be worse to lane against him than Annie Leblanc or any other point and click bs.

nvm you're just the usual brand of parrots on this board squawking about how something isn't meta when you've never played with or against it

Praise the Son1 votes

Yorick is pretty oppressive but I've always just played Cho into him lol. Btw Cho hasn't been played in worlds either... In fact, 51 champions still have not seen play in worlds (yet). Some of these champions make sense Taric Teemo Sona Poppy however, many of the other champions not seeing play are actually quite good, some of which were buffed before worldsEzreal and some who had formerly been super meta picks like Xerath

The Bearded Bard1 votes

I'm really surprised Yorick isn't seeing a rise in play with all of these popular late game adc champs and lane bully top laners. Yorick is someone I see surviving a lane vs fiora, darius, garen, gnar, etc and still being useful especially with the rise of late game hyper adc champs like Vayne, Trist, and Jinx. Yorick ghost with Vayne gets silver bolts, Trist gets hyper range, and Jinx gets the long range aoe if you use it on her while she has Q on.

SymbolicFear2 votes

Out of those 71 champions, how many differences were there in the top lane? How about bot lane? Mid and Jungle are the only roles that aren't really affected by the meta as much.

RedCyclone1 votes

Only tank supports with a splash of Soraka and Morg though Allround diversity is better, but some key spots really need work

WarlockLaw1 votes

Isn't that still an improvement, wasn't last world's support picks tank supports and Morg. That's like one whole new champion in the role

N3mO061 votes

Ok, but all I see in my games is: Yasuo Veigar Thresh

Divewing1 votes

That's in professional play. In solo Q we are all seeing the same crap over and over and over again. Part of the reason theres so much diversity is there were NO COMPETITIVE GAMES PRIOR PLAYED. The closest we got was 1 or 2 LPL games, that werent even supposed to be, played on patch 5.16. The pros have an idea whats strong, but there hasnt been enough time to figure the patch out entirely, so its basically a: "lets try everything" approach

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