We're finally getting 10 bans after preseason.

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No they won't. And Yorick, really? There are more than 10 champions on the ban list. Irelia, [new champ], Soraka, Hecarim, Vlad add to yours just to name a few.

I've seen quite a few Kayle bans, not enough to make much difference to me but there were some. A lot of people feel about Kayle the same way they feel about Tryndamere.

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Well... just don't do that, I guess? It's good to learn to adapt and counterpick, and I figured that it would be more fun to not do the same thing over and over and over again. It's really not that hard to learn 5-10 champions that you enjoy playing.

I'm not bullshitting myself. I'm only Silver. What the hell a noob like me would know about counter picking. That's some high elo Plat+ shit right there. If I ever get to Plat or Diamond one day, then I would probably be ready to learn all about that but I'm still learning. I don't need to get into that advanced meta stuff yet.

You see, I still have to learn how to roam properly, how to trade, when to freeze, slow push, split push. I'm still learning the basics. If I have to learn these things I need to focus on it as much as possible. One tricking helps me do that. I don't have to think about how to play my 1 trick. I could focus on other things. If I used to play a billion champions like everybody else, I'd still be stuck in Bronze. What got me out was knowing Kayle so well that I could carry a fuck tonne of games under a variety of circumstances. I could think about the macro game because I don't have to spend too much time guess what my champ can and cannot do.

I'll give you and example by comparing. Currently, I'm spamming Kayle. Another champion I spammed before was Aatrox. I have about 70K or so worth of games on Aatrox. I played him a lot, tried a number of builds and such so I have a fair idea of how he works. Kayle, I've played far more that any other champion except Azir. Got 300+ K worth of games on her. That's a whole lot more games by a huge margin. The sheer experience I have on Kayle in comparison to Aatrox makes a huge fuckin difference.

Now let me give you an example of how this applies. Lets say I'm in a game playing Kayle, and there's a Garen top lane getting fed. Lets say I run into him in the jungle on my way to push top. What do I do ? Fight ? Run ? If I see he has , while I have , I don't have to think about what will happen. I know what will happen. I can kite him out with the slow from Rylais but I will take forever to kill him and by the time I get him to half hp, one of his allies is gonna be there jumping on me. So I know that I shouldn't fight. I don't have to think about that. Due to the sheer number of games where I ended up in that scenario, I know from experience what will happen. It saves me from feeding in that circumstance. Now lets say I had . I know that if I have my ult and I can keep him off me for a few seconds with my Q, I can kill him fairly quickly and my ult gives me precious few more seconds to finish him if he gets close to me. From experience in this circumstance, I know that despite being far less tanky and not having a permaslow to kite as effectively, I am able to kill him.

Now if I'm playing Aatrox with vs a Garen with . I have no fuckin clue what would happen. I could lose, I could win. I don't know. Despite a good bit of experience on Aatrox, I haven't played him nearly enough times to encounter this specific scenario multiple times. If I had played him a lot more, I would find myself in this position a number of times and I would try different things and I would eventually remember what works so when I see it in a game I know EXACTLY what I need to do. This knowledge is what eventually got me out of Bronze. I could stomp Bronze players senseless because I knew exactly what I could and could not do with my champion, an advantage they didn't have. They would have to guess and I didn't. As a result, I get fed easily.

Yesterday, I was playing on a smurf account in B5 with my friend. I was Mid Kayle vs a Yasuo. He started bullying me early. Based on the runes I used on that account, I knew he would have the advantage early on so I backed off, I played as passive as I could. Eventually I bought Stinger and when I went back into lane, he tried that same aggressive shit and died. I knew from playing Kayle vs Yasuo dozens of times that a Stinger gives me a huge advantage over Yasuo. I didn't have to guess. He was at a big disadvantage. He fed me multiple times after that because he simply did not understand the power difference between us. So what happen was, he would have to test it by fighting me and this enabled me to kill him. I didn't have to test. I tested this already in the billion Yas vs Kayle games I played before. In contrast, if he has managed to get ahead of me in lane and finished while I'm sitting on a , the average person might look at that and say that he has the item advantage which is true but I will still take that fight because again, due to playing the matchup multiple times under these circumstances I know how to win it. In this case, all I have to do is pop his shield, back off before he can trade damage, and go back in and hammer him to death with my ult ready to pop at any time. Despite having more damage, I know my attack speed would melt his squishy ass in no time. My ult prevents him from killing me in time.

There was another game too where I just ran into the enemy team 4v1 after they won a team fight against my team. Got a Quadra. I didn't doubt for a second that I would succeed because I know what she can do and when she can do it.

Point is one tricking gives you a huge advantage at my level of play. I rarely have to guess about what I can and cannot do with my champion.

Except that some the most frequently banned champions are and , who all fulfill extremely common niches. If they were banned against champs they'd do well against, that'd be one thing, but they get banned regardless of team comp.

None of these are poorly designed, so really all it says is "players really dislike having to deal with" assassins, crowd control, or healing.