Season 12 of League of Legends is about to reach its halfway point with the arrival of patch 12.10, which is intended to be a return to the entire MOBA meta with many changes to champions, items, runes and even on some summoner spells. Although it will be added during MSI 2022 and everything remains to be known, it will be quite important for everything that will come in the second part of the season, both in solo queues and on the competitive circuit.
Olaf, OP like never before?
However, the changes have already started with the 12.9 update in which we saw two medium range revamps for Olaf and Taliyah. But this time, we’ll leave out the stone weaver and only talk about the Berzerker.
Following its redesign, players hastened to release it in ARURF and the result is absurd. Yes, it remains a very special mode that allows players the craziest games — but this video gives even more reasons why healing and shields should be nerfed in LoL.
As a reminder — or for those who have never played it — ARURF is basically a mix between the temporary URF (Ultra Rapid Fire) game mode, in which champion spell recovery times are extremely reduced (80% CDR), and ARAM (you only choose not your champion).
After 15 minutes of play and with buils almost finished on both sides, a giant Cho’Gath accompanied by a Sona wanted to assassinate an Olaf who seemed a little too excited. While we thought that the poor Viking was going to suffer a huge siege, we saw little by little that Olaf had become a real monster, both for healing and for power and attack speed.
Many of you will think he also tried to dodge some attacks instead of hanging on, but as you can see in the video, Olaf was static, constantly punching and spamming skills to besiege a huge and full of life Cho’Gath who was also getting a lot of help from Sona. But nothing seems to be able to stop the Viking when he charges with everything, especially with an item that recharges almost all of his life bar in the middle of a fight like the Eviscerator. After almost 30 seconds of non-stop strikes on the enemy, it was finally Olaf who won a duel of pure attrition – which nevertheless seemed to him unfavorable given the support Cho’Gath had. Keep in mind that this is a pre-12.10 game, so changes to healing, damage and shields haven’t been applied yet and this gameplay proves it.