Formerly OP LoL Champions

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Formerly OP LoL Champions

9 Guides · A New One Every Sunday

Every League of Legends champion who's ever been genuinely oppressive eventually stops being that. Riot reworks them, or one patch quietly takes away the single thing that made them terrifying, and a whole kit leaves the game. The people who played against it remember. Everybody who started later has no idea what the fuss was about.

Formerly OP is our record of those kits. Each post covers one champion: the years they ran the game, what the old version actually did to you, and the patch that finally ended it. Here's every entry we've published.

Formerly OP #1

Old Twisted Fate

Season 1 · Ground down by Season 2 nerfs

Has the magic gone out? A global ultimate, a free stun and a card that paid for itself.

Formerly OP #2

Old Nidalee

Seasons 1 to 4 · Ended Patch 4.10

She was killing dragon before your jungler even reached the pit. That was Tuesday.

Formerly OP #3

Old Evelynn

Seasons 1 to 7 · Ended Patch 7.20

For eight straight seasons you couldn't see her coming, and that was the entire point.

Formerly OP #4

Old Release Xin Zhao

Season 1 release · Ended Patch V1.0.0.143

He showed up on release day already capable of 1v5ing a lobby that had no idea what hit it.

Formerly OP #5

Old Master Yi

Seasons 1 to 3 · Ended Patch V3.10

One kill was never just one kill. It reset the whole kit, and then it was your turn.

Formerly OP #6

Season 6 LeBlanc

Season 6 · Ended Patch V8.8

She burst you down, then more LeBlancs appeared and did whatever they wanted.

Formerly OP #7

Release Graves

Seasons 2 and 3 · Ended Patch 5.22

An AD carry who traded like a bruiser, and bot lane never forgave him for it.

Formerly OP #8

Old Jax

Season 1 · Ended Patch V1.0.0.132

He didn't block your attacks, he simply never got hit by them, and the game had a statistic for it.

Formerly OP #9

Old Rengar

Seasons 3 to 6 · Ended Patch 6.22

He picked a bush, waited, and removed you from the game before your screen finished showing him arriving.

Coming Up

A new entry goes live every Sunday. These are the champions already written and waiting on their date, so check back when one comes due.

• Aug 17 · Old Udyr
• Aug 24 · Old Darius
• Aug 31 · Old Vladimir
• Sep 7 · Old Heimerdinger
• Sep 14 · Release Vayne
• Sep 21 · Old Warwick
• Sep 28 · Old Pantheon
• Oct 5 · Old Yorick
• Oct 12 · Old Tryndamere
• Oct 19 · Old Shaco

If you'd rather read about champions who are strong right now instead of ones who used to be, the solo queue tier list ranks the current patch, and the counter guides tell you who beats them. The Top Ten archive has more reworks, more history, and a lot more arguments.