This iconic League of Legends item is no longer used by the archetype it was designed for, but other champions have gone OP with it!

For a significant portion of LoL players, The absence of a pre-season seriously undermines the healthy atmosphere in MOBAs. According to him, the game is League of One shotAnd several clips of players dying in a split second were shown as examples. The relevance of these allegations is yet to be demonstrated (Who would have thought that MF lethality in 12/1 would kill this lux supply full AP in the blink of an eye?) Especially since other clips are shown with champions who tank a lot. However, some statistics are alarming.

Youmuu, the OP item of some ADCs

Youmuu’s Spectral Blade is an iconic item for AD assassins, and has been since the item’s creation. she has Literally designed for this archetype

And there is more remained an exclusive item for a long time Dedicated to this class (with a little voodoo on Garen Beyblade and other fun). However, from the start of the new season, she Works better on certain ADCs than assassins.

ADCs who routinely Youmuu their first items (this is not a standard build for all ADCs) have a higher win rate than most assassins rushing the same item. today The best Youmuu wielders are not Zed, Talon or Rengar, but Sena, Urgot, Quinn, Akshan, Graves and Miss Fortune. This situation is quite surprising to veterans, because even though lethality ADCs have been around for many years, this is the first time that they seem to be better than assassins at carrying the item.

How did we get here?

The reason is simple Changes made to Youmuu last season to compensate for the durability patch

Which made a lot of champions goofy. Lethality was scaling to champion level before, but its value is fixed again To compensate for the power of tanks/bruisers in the midgame. Only with the Season 14 changes, many champions became more fragile at the start, except that the lethality remained the same.

Unlike other things, Its value does not change depending on whether the champion wearing it is melee or ranged. On an assassin fighting in close combat, the substance is quite thin, the high damage is offset by the fact that these characters can have trouble getting close. Only on ADCs that attack from a distance, damage from self-attacks set up for pokes accumulates very quickly. This quickly becomes a nightmare for the opponent if the latter plays a melee champion.

although Regular Youmuu users aren’t necessarily the best champions in the game. Of them, only MF and Briar are among the top SoloQ Champions. then Not all of the champions mentioned in the first part of the article necessarily run into Yumuyu and systematically build lethality.

So we will have to monitor to see if it becomes more popular.