[Patch 1.0.0.146: Late August] General Discussion - Page 117

On September 09 2012 12:41 Sufficiency wrote:


I used to think Akali was the most OP champion ever. That was 8 months ago.

On September 09 2012 14:17 Dgiese wrote:

When was it that pre nerf revolvers could stack? Cause spell vamp akali was a beast with those things. Like 20% spell vamp each or something

On September 09 2012 14:13 Craton wrote:

They were certainly doing it when I started and for sometime after and I certainly remember there being Kindlegem items around.

On September 09 2012 13:47 UniversalSnip wrote:
I really don't think the kindlegem items existed craton O_o. Unless people ran those garbage blues for much longer than I remember.

On September 09 2012 15:16 ViZe wrote:
when i first started my friend and i reached a consensus that malphite was incredibly op (probably because his abilities are pretty intuitive). it was somewhat fulfilling when malphite actually became op lol. i too hated the shit out of akali back in the day and i hated tryndamere even more. tryndamere used to be 1st ban status below like 1200 when i first started ranked play. further back was pd first ashe, and even further than that were my mbr on every carry days.

On September 09 2012 14:32 Celestial wrote:


Kindlegem was added like Sept 10th 2010, it was pretty much something Ruby Crystal built into for Shuerelias. It was the same patch as Sona. Pretty much the only use at the beginning was it slowly weaving into Soul Shroud and then Spirit Visage. Of course Locket was still in the game at the time so nothing beat rushing that on Veigar/Udyr/everyone.

Honestly there have been some pretty amazing item abuses back in the day, such good memories.

On September 09 2012 15:20 gtrsrs wrote:


a little bit after his most recent remake (ohh.... idk 8 months ago? maybe a bit less?) tryndamere was insanely powerful. basically could a-move his way to victory top lane with 1 item. the protoss of LoL (h4h4). so if that's when you started, then yeah trynd was OP

i remember PD first ashe too. near the end of s1? people were all about ashe's utility more than her damage, so her ult and arrows were insanely highly valued. don't think it was ever overpowered but it was definitely a cool/different style.

man, thinking back to all the trends of things that have been OP... LoL such a great historied game. like if i could take my game knowledge now, and transport me back to the beginning of s1... holy shit haha. i would be so dominant. it's funny the trends we don't see until well after the fact.

On September 09 2012 15:25 TheKefka wrote:


The reason why Trynda was so good was because he had insane sustain with his Q and the rage decay was so slow.
They nerfed both really hard.People were .going as far as running ap quints and you could just stay top forever no matter what

On September 09 2012 15:28 gtrsrs wrote:


yes but trynd wasn't good with ap quints. the fact that you could run ap quints on a physical melee carry and not do shitty should have been an indication that he would be overpowered with a more natural build
his Q was a big part of how strong he was but his ability to 1v1 anyone with one 1600g item is what the problem was. impossible to push out of lane, impossible to trade with, impossible to gank, impossible to kill. he was like a top-lane nightmare.

somewhat coincidentally i think that had we known malphite's power back then, malphite would have been the end-all be-all counter to trynd at the time too. but i think the big one that people picked was ww iirc

On September 09 2012 15:40 MooMooMugi wrote:
Stacking revolvers for only 1200g for 20% spellvamp so OP back then T_T so was cheap WOTAs

On September 09 2012 15:25 gtrsrs wrote:
udyr and gragas locket oh my god
cannot lose -> can 1v5

On September 09 2012 15:53 BlackPaladin wrote:


I will still never forget tapiocaball tryharding in a trollhouse with locket udyr and still losing l0l

And man i've not played since beta but i did start over 2 years ago. Crazyyy. Didn't realize it's been that long.
I think some people did still use cdr/lvl blues for a while. But it took them a long time to realize supports aren't dead weight, shurelyas is awesome, as is aegis, gp10's can actually be useful, and that mr/lvl blues are awesome. I remember supports used to always build doran rings and half the time couldn't even afford an aura item before shurelyas was even in the game and people's ideas began to change. The addition to kindlegem, adding items it could build into, and nerfing/buffing certain runes all played a factor into all the changes in the metagame.

Like hell back in those days malady still gave lifesteal. Do you remember all the bad players building malady on ww and teemo? I do lol
We walked 15 miles from top lane to bot, and didn't have cdr boots to do it either, sonny.