What makes a champion overpowered?

Kitty von Tuna·10/15/2015, 9:36:19 PM·1 votes·610 views

Because let's face it, there ARE overpowered champs in the game. Saying something else is just stupid.

Then what makes a champion overpowered? In my eyes, there are 4 things to measure how OP a champ is:

  • Mobility
  • Damage
  • Durability
  • Cc

There's a difference between an OP champ and an OP ability though. Let's take Mordekaiser as an example. He has (what I would say) a ridicolous overpowered damage with his Q. But nothing else in his kit allows him to be OP. That's why I would say that Mordekaisers Q is op, and not Morderkaiser himself.

A champion that has a kit with several of these things, is in my eyes overpowered.

Let's take Vayne Vayne as an example:

  • Mobility; With a ~2 seconds cooldown on her Tumble, she has alot of great mobility.

  • Damage; Her damage is most based on her W. An ability that deals true damage based on her enemies max health, so it has no counterplay whatsoever. With this, she has a high damage

  • Durability; She's not tanky herself, but with her E that she can knock enemies away with, aswell as a stealth each time she Tumbles with her ultimate on, she is still very hard to kill. She could easily get killed if she's strongly focused though. So I would say her durability is ~normal.

  • Cc; With only a knock back, and a potential stun, she has a low amount of cc.

With this kit, I would say that Vayne is an overpowered champion.

If you would go after those 4 dots, then who do you guys think is overpowered?

Edit. Of course every champ has a counter, and facing your counter in a lane means a big chance of losing your lane. But being overpowered doesn't mean to win your lane. It means having alot easier to carry a game to victory. Because losing a lane doesn't mean losing a game.

10 Comments

3tyson10/15/2015, 9:38:55 PM1 votes

being named riven

Squidsmastah10/15/2015, 9:46:38 PM1 votes

A truly,truly,truly OP champion would be one with extremely high mobility, a shitton of damage, and a shitton of tankyness. No champion has those numbers. Even Riven isn't that way.