So what's the appeal of Nemesis Draft? To make others play shitty champions?
More importantly, how many games do I need to play/win in order to be eligible for the icon?
This mode doesn't appeal to me all that much...but I still want the icon.
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If you don't like it, don't play it. Simple as that. No one is MAKING you.
I personally love it. It's a mode for people who like playing underused champs and like the strategy behind trying to turn whatever goofy teamcomp the enemy hands you into a legit team. I used to play magic: the gathering games the same way... where you make a utterly MISERABLE deck with minimum required amounts of certain things to make it technically winnable to use, then swap with your opponent and see who can pull a win out of a bad situation.
I love that there's more strategy to it than "pick the champs everyone is picking and copy a pro-build off of a site". I like that I actually know how to play Urgot and I laugh every time the enemy "forces" him on me. I love that it's not a contest of the same 15 meta champs every match. My last game I was Garen mid. Before that, AD bruiser Braum top. It's done more to make the game fresh for me than anything and I love it. Everyone loved URF up and down when it was out and I didn't see why. It was just a contest to pick the champs who were best when able to spam their abilities. No real strat in lanes or the like. Just a spastic fustercluck. But that's just MY opinion and a lot of people did like it. So don't trash my Nemesis and I won't trash your URF. Let me have my fun while it lasts. I'm gonna be sad when they phase it out.
It gives unliked and probably underplayed champions a chance to actually be tried out, breaking the meta and forcing you to think in other ways than "Oh, I'll do AP mid lane because that's the standard." It's nice change of pace to do Malzahar ADC or Taric top lane and is just a genuinely fun way to try new things. If you did, say, support Jungle Zed in normal champ select, you'd be laughed out so hard. At least here you get some flexibility of play because you have to not only work around a champ you don't play or hardly play, but also everyone else in the same position.
The reason is because a lot of people want to play OP champions or copy what the pro players do. As for the icon, you only need to play one game without dodging.
Nemesis has done more to showing how to work around bad comps thatn Teambuilder. Nemesis is doing teambuilders job, but better and actually accomplishes it.
The mode gives those champions who "aren't popular, but still useful when played right" an opportunity to see play.
I'm talking about champions like
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