User blog comment:Nhan-Fiction/Draft Pick Needs More Champion Bans/@comment-24613667-20140506105438/@comment-8506165-20140507050846

Oh, I'd agree that they're not broken. I'm merely saying that the "unviable at high elo" generalisation is only true of the poor Yis/Kats/whatever that just mindlessly use their skills in whichever order, when in actuality there's a fair bit more mechanical skill involved in playing them well than people think. I'd take minor issue with "They just do better as nubstompers then they do on serious levels of play", though. I know that for Fiora at least, her winrate actually goes up in higher elos rather than down. Granted, that's almost definitely partly due to people being wiser as to when to pick them. Might be true for others - I don't have the time to check right now, unfortunately. But yeah, the whole idea that only Bronze V people or smurfers are playing the infamous "noobstompers" clearly isn't entirely true. Sure, they're picked less at high-level play, but when they are picked, they don't always immediately fall flat on their faces if the person playing them actually has a degree of mastery. It's a common misconception (hell, for a long while I thought it was true), and has some motivation, but just isn't a gospel truth.