User blog comment:Derpinator Power/Rarely Played Champions/@comment-25003900-20140808150037

I agree with most of your points, here's what I disagree with.

Corki gets played frequently due to the LCS popularity he's found lately, 90% of the Corki's play like shit outside of LCS, but they still play him.

Gangplank is still an extremely viable champion, you shouldn't look at his ultimate as a killer, more an assistance to other lanes, or a way to farm cs from a distance. Plus I don't think I've ever seen a Yasuo top, at least not since I've hit level 30, so the wind wall block isn't a concern. The last hit vs harass isn't an issue either, take the last hit, harass a little later the skill has a 5 second cooldown, take a tiny bit of CDR and you can pop them out inbetween last hits as well. Critplank is still completely devastating when you don't play it like an idiot.

Poppy with half a brain is a huge pain, there's no reason to be concerned about getting CCed out of your Ult. If you get CCed out of 6/7/8 seconds of immunity their team has too much CC for yours to hope to win anyway. Plus her E is a gap closer, use it.

Yorick, though never in a free week, takes very little knowledge to play and will completely dominate top lane against most top laners. He'd probably only have issues with champions like Ryze and Swain, who poke and CC so hard you might as well lane swap.

Zac has seen a massive resurgance in play due to the Spirit of the Ancient Golem rework, whole the bloblets are easily dealt with most times in the early game, building enough health almost guarantees a reformation. If you die to a jungler, be ready to not reform though, I know that I smite bloblets without any hesitation, and with a 40 sec cd, smite is probably up. The chunks dropped from abilities do make jungling a little more delayed since your health is your resource afterall, but by the time mid game comes around they've become a massive asset to you and you'll often leave camps with full health.

I have Zero experience with Viktor as I'm waiting for a free week to try him out before I buy him, but I've seen a few people play Viktor recently and he can be absolutely devastating if you understand how to use combo mages like him well. Cassiopea and Brand come to mind as two others in this same camp.