Seriously. You think you will reach far by changing into the next "op" champ that comes up when riot screws up? You wont. And I hate you for playing champs that you dont normally use just cuz they "op".
Am looking at you all, Kayle/Master Yi/Aatrox/Diana players out there.
The Whamboozler2 votesI dunno... you can get pretty far by figuring out how to play well against the bandwagon champs and going to town. I main 
and I find is incredibly easy to kick the CRAP out of good ol' mid smite AP ez with her. I hope THAT fad never goes away so I can keep stomping twinks with mai waifu. But then, Ez has very obvious weaknesses... like being fragile, lacking CC and utility and having terrible poke and waveclear until he gets his Runeglaive. You can play around him.
On the other hand, Devourer is kinda garbage that's broken the game and I'm totally fine with it going the hell away. It's all I see anymore and I don't think it'll ever be balanced as-is. That item was poorly thought out and it rewards a very uninteractive style of play with a LOT of power. What's more, it's worthless on a lot of champs and utterly GODLIKE on others, pretty much limiting viable jungle picks to the ones who can abuse it... and Diana I guess, who is really the only jungler in the game that cares much about Runeglaive.
Tails Doll1 votesI dunno... you can get pretty far by figuring out how to play well against the bandwagon champs and going to town. I main
On the other hand, Devourer is kinda garbage that's broken the game and I'm totally fine with it going the hell away. It's all I see anymore and I don't think it'll ever be balanced as-is. That item was poorly thought out and it rewards a very uninteractive style of play with a LOT of power. What's more, it's worthless on a lot of champs and utterly GODLIKE on others, pretty much limiting viable jungle picks to the ones who can abuse it... and Diana I guess, who is really the only jungler in the game that cares much about Runeglaive.
Yeah but the problem with that logic is that FoTM champs change, well, every month. So yeah maybe one day your main is the perfect counter for the new FoTM champ. But what about the others?
And, honestly, my bigger problem is people picking up champs while they are broken by some reason and then sucking at the game, and even worst, raging at their teammates, cuz well... they are playing an "op" champ, so it's obly their fault, right?
And also the nerf this FoTM shit sometimes brings. For example, nerfing Ez is stupid as fuck, he was never broken and was actually quite balanced, sure ap EZ hurts alot, but I dont see them nerfing annie or fizz or what ever bullshit champ you can think of because of that. But since Ez became FoTM now boom, nerfs for him instead of indirectly nerfing him, like they should.
WukongMain1 voteshonestly, i dont mind freelo bandwagons it helps the people who feel like they deserve higher elo. see what happens is this guy thats low elo, uses this free bandwagon. he climbs higher. Higher than he truely deserves. he starts facing incredible players, players whose skill level he had never seen before. maybe picks up a trick or 2. unfortunately not enough.. he falls back down to the rank he had before. Defeated, But not broken. he says to himself, "i have fought...i have climbed and i have fallen! but my spirit is not broken. I now know that i deserve to be where i am right now"
He starts realizing that it is him who is holding him back. He realizes it is not the team. He starts realizing hes mistakes... and along the way, he remembers...what those guys higher than him did. and he does it himself. He has improved. and has now climbed back up there where those freelo champs brought him.
Its a vicious cycle. but a much needed one. you climb using op champions only to fall back down to where you deserve to be, but having learnt a lesson that only these events could convince you of. and that is that you deserve to be where you are. Only then , can one truly begin the process of improvement.
P.S : you named 4 champions. just ban the f*ks if you hate them so much.
Tails Doll2 voteshonestly, i dont mind freelo bandwagons it helps the people who feel like they deserve higher elo. see what happens is this guy thats low elo, uses this free bandwagon. he climbs higher. Higher than he truely deserves. he starts facing incredible players, players whose skill level he had never seen before. maybe picks up a trick or 2. unfortunately not enough.. he falls back down to the rank he had before. Defeated, But not broken. he says to himself, "i have fought...i have climbed and i have fallen! but my spirit is not broken. I now know that i deserve to be where i am right now"
He starts realizing that it is him who is holding him back. He realizes it is not the team. He starts realizing hes mistakes... and along the way, he remembers...what those guys higher than him did. and he does it himself. He has improved. and has now climbed back up there where those freelo champs brought him.
Its a vicious cycle. but a much needed one. you climb using op champions only to fall back down to where you deserve to be, but having learnt a lesson that only these events could convince you of. and that is that you deserve to be where you are. Only then , can one truly begin the process of improvement.
P.S : you named 4 champions. just ban the f*ks if you hate them so much.
Yeah that's all fine and dandy, but you forget about the part where he drags along some people with him too. And I especially hate it when they are your teammates on promos.
Still I get your point, but I hardly think that's the way to learn. I learned by practicing and watching pro players and YouTube videos. And lets be honest here. The only difference between most low elo and high elo players is decision making. No matter how much you try, if you dont know when to engage, when to follow, when to run, when to fight dragon/baron, when you can try impossible fights a prob come out ahead, then you will never climb.
Tricks like Ez eing out of Bliz Q are fancy and a little bit helpful, but it will hardly matter since you wont see a blizt every game.
WukongMain1 votesto each their own. some learn by watching examples of it, some learn by playing the game and being in those situations :)
it is frustrating tho having a lesser skilled player on your team :p
magic pole1 votesman i was just getting into 
, taking him mid a decent amount. now i feel like a total asshat if i pick him.
The Whamboozler2 votesEven before the abuse of devourer, you should probably feel like an asshat if you main Yi. He's the Katarina of the jungle, yo.
magic pole1 votesi played him mid
also i didn't say i main Yi. i don't have a main. just that he's fun to play every now and then