Talk:Olaf/@comment-178.166.24.118-20130119022929/@comment-109.121.49.82-20130122120628

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Oh, I guess you are right, I missed the point there.

Well I think I can explain why nobody uses it despite the fact it is very effective. Most of the people in the League think that copying pro players will give them a ticket out of ELO Hell or make them a better players. Pro players usually make runes in synergy with their playstyle. So mostly you will see defensive runes on Olaf or offensive runes.

Other players copy that and won't deviate from it even if that means that they will play better.

And then there are people like you, that Olaf and me who don't copy pro players and think with their head and combine their own runes. And usually they stumble on a very effective setup and stick to it. I myself invested in a lot of armor penetration runes and I adapted using Youmuu's Ghostblade and The Black Cleaver on Olaf and still remain very tanky and it worked for me many times. Many said that my build sucked but I just ignore them because it suits to my gameplay style.

But when people see this they don't beleive their precious pro player rune setup is not that shiny and good and keep using them and other rune builds they call "noob builds". And thus only select few use the unique rune setup while the other part of community which I like to call "META sheep" keeps copying pro players.

It is the same with builds and champions. As you can see now we have a droves of Kassadins with Teleports since one guy used it in tournament and won with it.