I mainly only play champs if I like their personality/character. I love playing people who are dark like nocturne, I also like playing people with the "crazy" feel to them like twitch and ziggs.
warpenguin55525 votesNo not at all. Have fun with who you like. Hell if Azir wasn't cool as hell I would have stopped playing him by now because he always gets nerfs
Ariel the Cruel9 votesThey're compensation for his bug fixes. . . . That never happen. (>_>)
Father Cthulhu3 votesExcept they happened all the time.
A Miss Fortune2 votesAnd there's still bugs he has.
Remlap122313 votes
It's ok Valor, we'll get noticed someday...
Who the hell are you?
Cupkek2 votesNo not at all. Have fun with who you like. Hell if Azir wasn't cool as hell I would have stopped playing him by now because he always gets nerfs
Pantheon. While his character is pretty bland (relatively), I love how much it clashes with his hilariously fun drop-on-your-face-and-murder-it kit.
"THEY WILL NOT ENJOY THIS."
Hyrum Graff12 votesWhat you do, is literally how the game is supposed to be. Keep on doing it. You rock, OP.
Predatore3 votesthanks <3
Syruponrofls8 votesMy 3 top favourite champs are 
. Makes me seem like a typical try hard but the simple fact is I love the way those 3 champions play and I just really like them as champions. And generally when you play who you like you do better. Long story short play whoever you want.
The Whamboozler20 votesMy 3 top favourite champs are
I hate you and everything you stand for.
Syruponrofls9 votesI mean I could say the same for any of the champs you like to play. I mean I could play fizz. Or morgana...riven........vayne...............any champ
Remlap12232 votesMorg's QQ days are over since they Olaf'd her pool. TBH I haven't seen her since then, despite the billions of Thresh and Tahm Kenches I see every damn game.
Mouthfeel Cafe6 votesHate me instead. My mains are 
, 
, and my heart truly lies with 
. Just yesterday I 1v5 Quadrad a team with the cancer clown.
High51 votesHate me instead. My mains are
Were they standing in the open laughing at Shacco?
Chicken4dinner2 votesWere they standing in the open laughing at Shacco?
I died doing that to his clone once, kept a pinkie 24/7 after that
AutoreactiveCD42 votesI know the feeling. I got a quadra as teemo once. I was on the other side of the map and one kill was from the support hitting a shroom while the ADC was recalling. Turned a 3 for 0 into a 3 for 4.
I miss Jack too1 votes
, 
,and 
4 lyf.
Lugg3 votesI agree with you. It's so sad that you HAVE to play meta champions if you want to climb. The balance in the game is so horrible.
Firu4 votesI agree with you. It's so sad that you HAVE to play meta champions if you want to climb. The balance in the game is so horrible.
The balance isn't as bad as you'd think. If you look at the statistics, it is rare that a champion is completely and utterly broken. For the most part, it's player skill that seems to determine outcomes at most divisions (Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum). It's only when you get to the very skilled level that differences in champion balance manifest more egregiously.
Lugg2 votesIt really is. There is a 15% difference in win rate between the top champ and the bottom champ. If the game was balanced, it would be 10% or less. There are 56 champs with a win rate over 50% and 70 below 50%. That is across all ELOs.
If you look at high ELO, it's even more skewed.
Leetri1 votesEh, 15% is not that high, it's actually the lowest gap. Looking at Dota 2 right now, Omniknight has a 60% winrate and Oracle has a 38% winrate, a gap of 22%. HotStorm has Leoric at 57% and Stitches at 39%, which is 18%. I can't find any good sources for Smite, so I can't say anything about that. So yeah, if you go by win rate gaps League is the most balanced of them all.
Lugg1 votesHonestly, I don't care at all what other games do. In a well balanced state, no champion would have a lower % than 45 or higher than 55.
High51 votesHonestly, I don't care at all what other games do. In a well balanced state, no champion would have a lower % than 45 or higher than 55.
There's quite a bit of unrealistic idealism here.
Lugg1 votesI don't think it's unrealistic at all. If Riot just nerfed the high win rate champions, the low rate ones would naturally move up. It's not rocket science.
Leetri1 votesIf you nerf the high win rate champions, another few champions will rise to be the best instead, because now their main counters are nerfed. For an example, say Syndra is only at 48% win rate because Zed is popular. Nerf Zed and suddenly her main counter is gone, now she's at 58% winrate all of a sudden. Now she's nerfed, meaning Annie will take her spot. See why it's not that simple? It's a constant circle of balance. Some champions have low win rate just because their kit is not good against the current popular champions. Some have high win rates because their kit complements another popular champion. It's not numbers or balance, it's just that they have the right tools for the job. The only way to balance that is to remove the champion, remove their abilities, or add a new feature which is good against it. It's why Thresh is picked so much, he pretty much always have relevant tools.
Lugg1 votesIf you do slight nerfs, it balances out. Yeah, there will always be higher win rate champs, but as long as it isn't an unfair gap, things are fine. If buffs can't bring someone up to an acceptable level, then you rework them. Same with nerfs, if you can't balance them, rework them.
Leetri1 votesIf you read the last part of my comment, I pointed out that it's not just numbers. Say that tanks have a lower winrate because right then tank shredders are popular. Should they rework all tanks to anti-tank shredders? The tank shredders could be perfectly balanced, it's just that they're FotM right then because a pro played one during his streams. Or maybe one of them just got a really cool skin. Or it works well with another popular champion. You simply can't fix everything by nerfing/buffing or reworking, because if you do eventually everyone is gonna have the same kit and it's a wet noodle fight.
Lugg1 votesAre you not entertained?
kfrr1 votesThis is hilarious to me. You're pretty closed minded, friend.
Riot introduces new champions pretty frequently. Those new champions can change the winrates of champions that have existed possibly for years. Remember how long ago Kalista came out? You don't think that bumped Blitzcrank's winrate up a bit when people started nailing the combo in higher elos? What about yasuo release? You don't think that boosted Malphite's win rate?
To say that you nerf champs with high winrate is narrow minded and wildly incorrect. There are an INSANE amount of other factors that go into a champion's win rate besides the champion's kit, and Riot does a HELL of a job keeping champions in check.
Lugg1 votesRiot does a HELL of a job keeping champions in check.
You can't be serious.
Anyway, I find it doubly ironic that you say I'm closed minded. Yes, new champions can directly or indirectly buff/nerf other champs. That's why you have to constantly adjust champions each patch. Like I've said a few times already, it's not a hard concept to grasp.
Joe Dredd7 votesYou don't have to play meta champs.
Lugg1 votesGood luck playing a non-meta pick into a team of 
Joe Dredd4 votesI don't need luck. Those champs are perm banned.
Biffolo2 votesIt's almost like there are high elo galio players. Regardless of his actual strength, he isn't meta. If you are good enough you can climb with anything. You just make it a bit harder on yourself, which can be said for any game really. If you aren't tryharding, it's going to be harder to get shit done.
Lugg1 votesI actually agree with you. You can climb to Challenger playing any champion. However, you make it MUCH more difficult not playing meta picks.
I love that you picked Galio as an example. I love playing him and I am a very good Galio player, but if I pick him in champion select, I get flamed and people are ready to report me for trolling. That just adds to the difficulty. I will have people dodge or, if I have a bad game, I know I'm going to get reported. So that's even more pressure on me to carry.
That is why the game needs to be more balanced. Players should be able to pick any champion and not catch hell for it.
Biffolo1 votesThat's the communities fault, not Riot's.
Lugg1 votesThe community doesn't nerf or buff champions. Riot does. All the community can do is make suggestions.
Biffolo1 votesI meant the community get's all up in a riot(heh) when people don't play what they want.
Lugg1 votesThat perceptions is because the vast majority of players when they play said champ feed. If champions were better balanced, you wouldn't have that perception.
Biffolo1 votesNot riot's fault most people are unable to play the champ well enough. Some balance things could use to be done, but most champs at least have a good success rate with people who play a lot of that champ.
Lugg1 votesI think you are not seeing the forest because of the trees.
Yes, some people are just not going to be good on some champs. But that should be a very small segment of the player base. If champs are better balanced, there won't be a big discrepancy and you won't get stigmatized for playing a champion that you like despite the fact that they aren't "meta".
Like I said with the Galio example above, I love playing him and I'm very good with him, but I risk getting reported if I don't have a good game. That shouldn't be the case at all. People shouldn't bat an eye unless you really do something off the wall like Braum ADC.
The Lexer3 votesI do agree that a champion's voice and attitude can affect the fun of the game. For example, Jinx is a ton of fun to listen to, which makes me feel slightly better when playing (Twitch is also amazing, but I don't own him)
Anyway, good on you for playing who you want and expressing yourself. I play a variety of different champions, but I always play who I want to. For example, recently I've been in the mood for aoe playmakers, so I've picked up Viktor and have been playing a lot of (by my standards) Orianna. Sometimes I want to play super tanks or hypercarries... you get the idea. If I don't know who to play and can't decide, then I jump into ranked and play what I get
ArgonX3 votesI love to play slow fat beefy champions 
Francisco Pires1 votesI love to play slow fat beefy champions
You forgot urgot
Revenix2 votesMaybe I'm weird, but I love playing "Heroic" or nice guy champions. It is literally impossible to play 
and be upset at the same time. I also enjoy 
because when he says "Bring down the hammer" it just gets me hyped. I dont really main any of these guys but they're probably my favorite champions to play
(NO I do not like playing 
, he does have a heroic attitude but he is too boring and broken)
AirSonance3 votesToo much 'Demacia' for you, perhaps?
