Play what you hate

Unlimited Chill·11/26/2016, 6:45:41 PM·46 votes·2,398 views

I understand people disliking certain champs or even whole roles. It is bound to happen. If you find a champ to be broken, play that champion a few times. Even just in normal games just play a champ that you find broken. You should be able to realize the champions strengths and what their weaknesses are.

This extends to people that blame the jungler or support. Play the role and do what you would want your insert role here to do. Understand the decisions that need to be made and what would cause them to do something different.

I believe that if everybody played more diversely it could decrease quite a bit of toxicity.

80 Comments

what you deserve11/26/2016, 6:46:38 PM22 votes

I hate Yasuo and Darius.

So I asked my Yasuo/Darius main friend what he hates and play that shit. http://i.imgur.com/YPoMoCh.png http://i.imgur.com/HpYQbXb.png http://i.imgur.com/Ts9TJ03.png

SweedishGunner11/27/2016, 1:41:00 AM12 votes

I hate Brand. I played him today. Went 0/7. Then proceeded to get a ~14 kill streak and we won the game. I still hate Brand.

Ruin Lance11/26/2016, 8:27:36 PM9 votes

this means you guys too Yasuo haters :^)

IceKingChernobog11/27/2016, 5:15:51 AM5 votes

Heimerdinger Utterly fucking obnoxious to play against.

Heimerdinger Utterly fucking brain dead to play as.

Troll for Trump11/27/2016, 6:04:04 AM5 votes

"Yasuo takes skill, play him for yourself" "k" spams E dominates lane spam emote

yas ez af

Muddafragot11/27/2016, 8:41:07 AM4 votes

I will never play Yasuo. I don't care what logic there is in learning his strengths and ~~weaknesses~~, I'm not touching that cancer.

Lord Galvatron11/27/2016, 9:56:47 PM4 votes

*Plays against Riven Me: This champion is brainless.

*Plays Riven next game and beats Diamond 3 player in lane by rubbing face on the keyboard. Me: 0_0 ......pretty sure this is why some religions have a way of confessing things you have previously done that are morally wrong.

FantasySniper11/27/2016, 2:00:53 PM3 votes

When you play the champion, proceed to learn their weakness, and still come to the conclusion that their weaknesses aren't enough.

TyrekGoldenspear11/26/2016, 8:20:23 PM2 votes

Upvoted.

This worked for me; let me get over my fears of Zed and Leblanc.

xxxDogmanxxx11/27/2016, 1:55:24 PM2 votes

I don't hate any champs. I main XinZhao and feel that there are no better champs than him, only better players than me.

Krigjer11/27/2016, 7:21:02 PM2 votes

Without going into numbers or her current state...

I thought Nidalee was stupidly broken (right after her rework). Then I played her and realized the spear is a lot harder to hit than it used to be, and the damage from pounce is a good reward for landing it. Stopped getting so mad when she burst and focused more on dodging.

Escheton11/28/2016, 8:22:58 PM2 votes

I'm not spending 6100 IP to experience someone elses ego powertrip.

Sintama11/27/2016, 2:12:49 AM2 votes

I have played Fizz and Ekko numerous times and still believe they are broken. Ekko has been nerfed more to be balanced, but Fizz's recent changes make him TERRIFYING.

Project omen11/27/2016, 2:04:59 AM2 votes

I used to hate facing Zed in lane until I started playing him. It really helped and now I know when he hurts, when he can escape, when to trade with him etc. I also recommend this!

Irelia Bot11/28/2016, 1:24:10 AM1 votes

Playing Nidalee and teemo did not make me get any more respect for the champs.

Tolna11/27/2016, 10:51:05 PM1 votes

Although true, sometimes it's more of a matter of a champ being just annoying.

I hate Vayne. I shelled out 6,300 IP for her, played her, researched guides, videos, the whole shebang.

She's got too good of a kit by comparison. She can adapt, other champs can't. That's why I hate her. If I pick Draven, and the enemy picks Alistar or Blitzcrank for instance, I'm shut down. As Vayne no champ really does that to her.

Champs need some weakness, and an exploitable one at that. Vayne's is just her range and HP. Which given her Condemn, low cooldown Tumble and movespeed granting ult she can cover for her low HP.

I'm a firm believer that there should always be at least ONE champion that can outright shut out another. For champs like Vayne, Yasuo, Lee, etc. There is no clear "Counter" champ outside of just stalemating them in a mirror match assuming equal skill.