I find it weird how hec and sejuani are considered "OP"

Meta-changes, item changes, and changes to those specific champions. Funny how that has an effect on their power.

Hecarim is 'OP' because he became FoTM and the fact that until recently he was rarely seen in the Top lane especially at low elo so very few people know how to deal with him.

First time I played vs a hecarim top I was comprehensively destroyed, literally couldn't do a thing, fed him immediately from the start and he snowballed and rekt everyone. So I decided to do the only logical thing - Cry to Rito to get him nerfed Look at his kit, play him myself for a bit and try and understand what his strengths and weaknesses are. I quickly realised he was a very fun champ who wasn't overpowered but is able to snowball easily if his opponent is clueless or doesn't understand the matchup. I realised what I was doing wrong vs Hecarim and adjusted accordingly.

Many people have no idea how to play vs hecarim properly and I constantly have to facepalm when I see players standing in the middle of enemy minion waves trading with Hecarim (This is what I was doing when in the match where I got completely destroyed) or chasing him through minions to hit him with auto attacks when all hecarim has to do is Q and kite for days.

Of course easiest solution is to just reactively nerf Hecarim immediately until he goes away again back to the jungle (where he sucks) and we can all go back to using the same champs in the same positions once again.

How Exciting!

All thanks to the tank buffs. Now that they're viable (and perhaps rather more than viable) they can be balanced with relative ease.

Hec is OP because you can't rely on your idiot team to spend 250g to upgrade their fucking yellow trinket because they're all morons.

There is this thing that happens called buffing a champion, both gotten significant buffs and the cinderhulk buffed them even further. Sejuani got her w buffed alot and now it scales off her health so she does a lot of damage late game while being very tanky, and Hecarim got buffs to his Q and W and what do you know, lane hecarim gotten stronger.

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just few months ago this didnt exist lol

Between now and a few months ago both of them got some pretty nice buffs.

Sejuani got some buffs that allowed her to compete in the jungle when tank junglers like her were not tuned to be able to compete. Then Cinderhulk came and made her the single best jungler in the game.

Hecarim also had gotten some buffs as well, and those made his laning a lot stronger. Therefore he started to see play in the top lane. Also noteworthy is that sometimes a pick gets used as a counterpick to some of the other really strong champions at the time. Hecarim is also an example of this, as if I'm not mistaken he is a pretty good counter to Lissandra, who was one of the best top laners when he started getting picked. Then players realized that he was less of a counterpick and more of a legitimately strong top laner, very much one of the best in the game.

Gee, I wonder how someone like Sejuani could see a raise in popularity?

She was buffed directly, had her competition nerfed, got a new jungle item, of which she has some of the greatest synergy, and the jungle damage was nerfed. Oh and she was well known for being decently strong post 4.21

Hahah hehe hah he so funneh how randumbly she got popular :^) who woulda gussed

Just imagine what it must be like for us Urgot players!

Tank items and gromp buff is the reason Sejuani become top tier (+ obviously the buff she had received previous to those changes).

As for Hecarim, one of the main reason he has seen so much play top lane, is because he does decently well in most matchup, doesnt really need flash (and as opposed to what most people use, doesnt necessary need ghost). In a TP heavy meta for top lane, being able to run Teleport and Ignite is actually pretty good, you dont let go of TP for splitpush/ganks/etc, and you get a lot of kill pressure into your lane, which also help you snowball. He also doesnt do too badly early in laneswaps, since he can farm the jungle decently on his own. His Engage and kit-synergy with homeguard and TP is really good for teamfights. And of course the buffs he received were pretty good for him. Mean he can spam more abilities and with only triforce he can already deal good damage and can go tank for the rest.

Definitely not as high priority as Sejuani but still a good pick. Usually that's how champion rise up or fall off form popularity. Whenever the game see changes with a new patch, a lot of picks that were good, can suddenly not be as great and vice-versa depending on what has changed. Those changes doesn't necessary need to affect them directly too, sometimes it can be subtle how some meta shift influence picks (example, Vayne on the second half of S3, she became more popular because most of her counter got nerfs and became less popular. Corki and Lee Sin have become less popular recently despite any nerf (outside of corki mana cost on W), because the timing window of their power spike have been reduced significantly by the tank jungle meta that is happening right now.) Mind you, they all still good champions, and in fact i dont thing there is a bad champion. Its just that for certain circunstances and meta some are better then others.

please learn to follow patch notes. This explains sej.

Hec top has been popular since season 4 and was in pro play in CHINA

the thing happen with nidalee they buffs her vs mosters so she could jungle then they started nerfing her becuase she was good.

except the only thing g different was the nerfs affect her laning abiltis more than they affect her junlging abilties. so the pratty much gave midalee the ability to jungle then removed her ability to do her other THREE lanes. nidale could prevoiusly mid top and support. now she can only jungle and now she isnt even good at jungling...

Its like Kayle and Eve from S2 rising from NOWHERE

I played Sej in Season 4, the biggest noticeable differences are:

• Her clear time is far better
• Her early game damage is better ( previously only her early game CC was good, the damage didn't really become a threat until late )
• Her sustain in jungle is better

Sejuani always had the potential to be god tier because of her kit and the amount of CC it provided. I always told myself "wow, if this champ ever gets decent clear and higher damage early on, she's going to be insane". Looks like my prediction was spot-on.

It isn't funny if you read the patch notes, they each received buffs for several patches in a row, and then they both got blanket buffs. Hecarim got mana sustain and health sustain buffs, as well as buffing his passive (which is why TP homeguard Hecarim is a thing again). Sejuani got her kit rebalanced into a much stronger mid game kit with much better clear and burst.

They may literally be the least surprising part of the meta shift, they both received very obvious and publicized buffs

cough SHUT UP ABOUT ZED HE'S ON THE WAY OUT cough cough

Oh no. It is strange how they got super buffed. WOW it is so crazy.

Well sejuani got buffed both by items and straight buffs,so that one is pretty obvious.

Hecarim I guess people didn't try top lane? I don't know much about that lane.