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New Site Feature: Updated Charts

by Ashelia on May 16, 2013 45
We have some exciting news! We've just updated all of our charts as well as added a most popular skin chart!
On top of that, we're scraping more data and regions than ever before to bring accurate statistics to the Fields of Justice. Brazil is now available as a region and we will be adding Turkey and Russia as soon as those regions have more data to display. Finally, we created charts for every game mode (Twisted Treeline, Howling Abyss, Summoner's Rift, Dominion) and new brackets (Diamond, Challenger).
If you have any charts you would like to see on LolKing, be sure to let us know in the comments!

Contest, Week 40: GUNNAR Giveaway

by Ashelia on May 16, 2013 220
This week we're asking everyone to play as champions with glasses for our contest in honor of GUNNAR sponsoring this contest!
From the stylish sunglasses of the Commando crew to the seductive glasses of Fiora in her Harrowing outfit, all you have to do is play as a champion that has eyewear in one or more of its skins. You do not have to play as the skin that has the glasses.
This week's contest is sponsored by GUNNAR! GUNNARS are a technical eyewear solution that helps protect, enhance and optimize your vision. When you are gaming for long hours GUNNAR eyewear helps minimize eye fatigue and visual stress, while improving contrast, comfort, and focus.
Our friends at ZAM did a review of GUNNARS a while ago and we will have one up by our own Ashelia soon!
Be sure to thank them and check out their Facebook and Twitter!

GUNNAR Giveaway

To enter this week's challenge:
5 Prizes

Last Week's Winners

Last week's contest had 14620 entries to our giveaway! The following people won prizes:
Additionally MitRay32, IWantToBreakFree, AgeNightroad, Sebastian GS, and Shauneh13 won a $10 Riot Points card for answering our survey.

Comment to Win: Do You Use Digital Download Services?

by Ashelia on May 13, 2013 16,648
Here at LolKing, we sometimes do marketing surveys to help us improve the quality of ads around the site. This time we have a simple question about digital game distribution services. We will be giving away five $10 RP cards to five lucky users who leave a comment--all you have to do is answer the question below!
Do you use a digital download service such as Steam? If so, which one and why?
Simply answer this question in the comments for a chance to win RP--it's that simple!
This contest is now closed. Winners were announced here.

Welcome Turkey and Russia to LolKing!

by Ashelia on May 13, 2013 113
We have some exciting news for you guys!
We were finally able to add support for both the Turkish and Russian League of Legends servers to LolKing! If you have a summoner on these servers, give it a test and let us know how it goes in the comments. It's still in beta, so help us find out any issues.
With the expansion of LolKing, we've been working with Riot to ensure that our usage of their service does not effect performance. Due to limitations we have with the Korean service, we haven't been able to access Korea for some time. To clean up our frontpage, we've gone ahead and removed the Offline notification for Korea, but as soon as we're able to we'll re-add Korea to LolKing for everyone to use.

Contest, Week 39: Comrade Sunny

by Ashelia on May 9, 2013 246
This week, we're all about vision as we ramp up to a HUGE contest coming next week! We're asking you to play as champions that grant you vision through fog of war. All you need to do is play 5 games with a champion that has an ability that grants you vision on an enemy champion or grant vision through the fog of war in your games on a map that has normal or ranked queue.
Please remember that all five of your games must be played after this post was made.

Comrade Sunny

To enter this week's challenge:
5 Prizes

Last Week's Winners

Last week's contest had 7258 entries to our giveaway! The following people won prizes:

League Trends: Ban, Pick, and Win Rates

by Ashelia on May 6, 2013 102
We have another League Trends article this week from Alex Ferri covering all the increases and decreases in ban, win, and pick rates for champions. These are for the week prior to the Freljord patch and we will have the changes after this current patch has had some time to sit--expect a lot of changes as this recent patch was huge!

Champion Pick Rates

Top Five Biggest Increases

3.79% -> 10.18%
(+6.39%)
18.23% -> 22.78%
(+4.55%)
18.05% -> 21.99%
(+3.94%)
23.22% -> 26.83%
(+3.61%)
9.31% -> 12.86%
(+3.55%)

Top Five Biggest Decreases

29.27% -> 23.02%
(-6.25%)
31.11% -> 25.39%
(-5.72%)
11.15% -> 6.40%
(-4.75%)
43.36% -> 40.27%
(-3.09%)
29.33% ->26.43%
(-2.90%)

Champion Win Rates

Top Five Biggest Increases

50.78% -> 54.50%
(+3.72%)
38.14% -> 40.35%
(+2.21%)
46.45% -> 48.55%
(+2.10%)
49.34% -> 51.35%
(+2.01%)
48.13% -> 50.11%
(+1.98%)

Top Five Biggest Decreases

49.06% -> 46.22%
(-2.84%)
(48.90% -> 46.70%
(-2.20%)
51.45% -> 49.38%
(-2.07%)
54.24% -> 52.47%
(-1.77%)
51.36% -> 49.73%
(-1.63%)

Champion Ban Rates

Top Five Biggest Increases

54.54% -> 75.33%
(+20.79%)
11.04% -> 26.57%
(+15.53%)
45.84% -> 59.13%
(+13.29%)
34.31% -> 46.24%
(+11.93%)
21.4% -> 26.74%
(+5.27%)

Top Five Biggest Decreases

30.27% -> 14.45%
(-15.82%)
34.42% -> 20.29%
(-14.13%)
21.88% -> 8.32%
(-13.56%)
9.47% -> 2.46%
(-7.01%)
24.22% -> 18.67%
(-5.55%)
Nautilus got some small but very helpful buffs in the 3.05 patch. His base armor was increased and the cooldown on Titan’s Wrath, his shield, was reduced. These changes resulted in huge changes to his pick and win rate. He’s now picked in more than 10 percent of games and wins more than 54 percent of his matches. The Titan of the Depths has also been indirectly buffed by all of the nerfs to other popular junglers like Xin Zhao, Vi, Volibear and most recently Nasus.
Ezreal actually saw his pick rate increase this week after it had been on the steady decline for months. He never completely fell out of play, but his pick rate had dropped to 23 percent. That’s increased to almost 27 percent now after players discovered a new item to build on the Prodigal Explorer: Spirit of the Elder Lizard. Despite its nerfs, Ezreal players are seeing some success with the item—it’s now his fourth most purchased item and holds a 56 percent win rate, above The Bloodthirster.
Taric’s pick rate continues to plummet for yet another week, now falling below 25 percent overall. His win rate has stabilized around 50 percent, but other supports like Thresh and Sona have been getting much more play as of late. He seems to have settled into a spot as an all-around average support, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Thresh’s drop in pick rate this week is almost certainly a result of his astronomical ban rate rather than a decrease in popularity. He lost almost 3 percent pick rate as his ban rate increased to above 75 percent. It will be interesting to watch how his rates change after the nerfs he’s receiving this patch.
Karma has seen her pick rate fall all the way back to her pre-rework levels. She’s picked in just 1 percent of games, but her win rate did actually increase by a couple percentage points this week. She still only wins 40 percent of her games, but that could change soon—she’s receiving another set of changes this patch that might finally balance her kit.
Nunu’s win rate increased this week as well. He’s been much less successful as a support recently, so his 2 percentage point increase is most likely thanks to the increase in solo lane Nunu, which players saw a few times in the EU LCS. Nunu players now take Ignite 35 percent of the time and build Spirit of the Spectral Wraith in 23 percent of games. His main strengths as a laner include his ability to sustain and harass almost endlessly as well as solo baron with just a few items.
Akali continues to fall in win rate after the nerfs she received a few weeks ago. Her win rate has fallen well below the 50 percent mark, and it may well continue to decline after a change in the most recent patch that limits the amount of health potions a player can carry to five. This will likely further decrease Akali’s win rate as players will lose the ability to start with nine potions and two wards.
Lux’s pick and win rate have fallen following the nerfs to her base movement speed and cooldown on Final Spark. The new cooldown on Final Spark often means players are no longer able to cast it twice in a team fight, and they can’t use it to harass or wave clear as often. Her overall utility wasn’t damaged, but she now sacrifices a bit more for it in terms of damage and mobility.
Thresh is now the most banned champion in the game. He’s banned in 75 percent of all games, which is 15 percentage points higher than Twisted Fate in second place. That rate might drop after his recent nerfs, but he brings so much utility that it’s hard to imagine him falling out of the top few spots.
Nasus also saw a big spike in ban rate recently, going from 11 percent all the way up to almost 27 percent. The strongest part of his kit and the ability that most players are likely banning him for is Wither, which cripples any champion that relies on attack speed. Riot cut that attack speed slow in half in the most recent update, so Nasus’ popularity and ban rate will likely drop as a result.
Volibear’s ban rate was cut in half due to his recent nerfs. He lost a ton of mobility when his Rolling Thunder was nerfed, and it shows in his statistics. His pick, win and ban rates have all dropped considerably after his movement speed buff was cut from 45 to 30 percent at rank one of the ability.
Vi has almost completely fallen off the ban charts this week. She’s now banned in only 8 percent of games as players have prioritized banning other junglers like Nasus over her. Her win rate has also dropped well below the 50 percent mark, a sign that perhaps her nerfs hit a little bit too hard.