User blog comment:Troll the Fools/X champion is OP because Y.../@comment-5194571-20120729113204

What annoys me is when people say a champ is OP without really knowing much about them. I play Leblanc a lot. I know her well. I know her strengths and weaknesses. She's got the highest single-target damage in the game, yes. But it is only single-target and she's basically this worthless auto attack machine for a few secs after her full burst. I hate it when people say LB is OP because she does loads of damage and practically instakills someone. But the reality is 90% of the time they are also stupid enough to not build MR and totally ignore cooldowns in factoring this "OP status" she apparently has.

I also hate "He's OP so pros ban him, so we ban him a 1.1k elo." Shen, anyone? There's nothing wrong with Shen. A good Shen player can potentially be an easy win for your team. But are you likely to find one of those excellent Shen players at such a low general skill level? No. Ban someone else you are personally bad against, it's much more useful and reliable than banning a potentially not picked champ or one that won't be an absolute nightmare. Because of the above reasoning, I often ban Xin and Teemo if given the choice. 90% of the time I get hate and flame from my team for "fail bans" and not banning Darius/Jax/Kassadin/Karthus etc.

Also, any champion can be "OP" if played well. I've started playing Singed a lot on the Twisted Treeline this past month. Yesterday I did really well up top and they ended up sending 2 top, 1 bot to try and shut me down. Still didn't work. I was simply playing really well and was outplaying the enemy team often. The Ezreal on the enemy team decided to say "Ur not pro, Singed is OP noob champ". Yes, I had 100+ CS while nobody else on either team had even 100. Yes, I had 8/0/6 for my score, despite Ezreal getting a double kill at first blood (>.<). Just because someone is doing well with their champion and is carrying their team doesn't make them OP. Learn to tell the difference please.