"OP" champs, and you

The Ecdysiast·12/15/2015, 3:54:00 AM·1 votes·216 views

Edit: Apparently some people think this means, "don't practice at all." It doesn't. I'm saying that if you MAIN Yorick, it's not going to make you win against someone who MAINS Darius. You need to LEARN the OP champs, not just pick them for the first time in ranked. (Though we've seen in LCS how it goes with no practice if the champion is strong enough Mordekaiser.)

If you ever feel like you want to get up in ranks, remember:

Any champ you might consider OP is the champ you want to be playing.

You can't rank up by picking the ones that lose to those champions, and the opponent will be doing the same.

Sure, it majorly skews concepts of mechanical skill, but this game is about teamwork. Mechanical skill is often not needed at all, as long as you can communicate with the team. The better champions are often simple, and it's those champions that win.

But don't get caught into the trap of playing a simple champion assuming they're also effective. Darius is easy and powerful, so you can win. but Yorick is just as easy and falls off harder than any other champion in the game.

This isn't the kind of game where a player can win a 1v1 between any champion match-up by being better. Sure, you might be really good at Street Fighter, even with someone as worthless as Dan. But your skill can't give Yorick movement and attack commands that aren't coded into this game. So what you need to do is be the better champion, and communicate with allies.

3 Comments

Austinodood12/15/2015, 4:01:09 AM2 votes

Horrible advice. You can still communicate with your team while playing your best champions; its not required to play an OP champ in order to have teamwork. And besides, a champion you have mastered will always be better than an "OP" champion you have no idea how to play.