Perception = reality in most of the player base.
I lol'ed when I read this:
>There was one time when I was pretty new at Rito where I submitted a Vladimir nerf (removing the bonus speed from his pool) but forgot to actually submit the files into the patch. As a result, the patch notes went out and sentiment was that we had killed the champion. Vladimir’s play rate plummeted and his win rate decreased a bit, even though the changes never actually went out.<
>We had a similar instance when Riven was released where she was viewed as very weak. We hotfixed in some buffs and shortly after posting it to the forums, her play rate spiked and feedback was very positive. Players happily reported how great the buffs felt, even though the hotfix hadn’t actually gone live yet."<
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By: Scarizard
Goes to show, that how people feel about a champ, will effect how they play the champ.
I had not considered this. Perhaps I should change the way to look at my champion pool and start assuming they are OP =)
instead of 
3 months before she saw her LCS debut last year.
back in late season 3 and AD 
and top 
back in season 4.
top/mid and I am just waiting for some pro to use it and then he becomes popular and everyone realizes that it is viable.
for example, you're like "yea he's got a strong champ we're gunna do good" which makes YOU do good, and makes the rest of your team do good, while the 
or 
or whoever you want
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OP in my heart no matter what.... nerf her, buff her... she's my boo
does everything she does a lot better and has abilities that help him tank.
should be your build pretty much every game. The final item is situational but Warmogs is usually your best bet. 12/0/18 masteries with Strength of Ages. AS Marks, HP/lvl Seals, CDR glyphs (any mix is fine so long as you end up with 10%), and AP quints. Early game, you are weak. That means you focus mostly on farming and don't gank unless it's completely free or you can get a safe countergank. Start Talisman+Refillable. Your first clear is any 5 camps. Once you've cleared 5 camps, you back to buy your machete, a hunter's potion, and a pink ward. Start farming again on the same path you started. Once you have your ult, you should look to pull off a gank if possible but otherwise keep farming. You want to get lvl 9 and Cindehulk as quickly as possible because that's when you really take off, and that means you ignore your team to farm for it if you have to.
, you'll find you can pretty much outduel everyone else in the game and can very easily solo their mid or top laner and can often even 1v2 their bot lane. This is the point where you want to start looking to push down towers and force teamfights. Assuming your team isn't significantly behind yet, you should win fights fairly easily because of how strong you are. If your team isn't ready to group yet, just keep farming and looking for chances to push side lanes. You waveclear extremely quickly now with your IBG and those Sheen procs make you take towers fairly quickly as well.
to rush to lanes if they were fighting or getting ganked. Result was often that I was slowly falling behind in farm and exp.
