Top 10 Most Broken League of Legends Champions

Back in the day, League of Legends had 40 champions you could choose from. Right now, at 156, that number is basically four times what it used to be. It’s great to have so much to choose from but sometimes new champions bring new balancing issues. so with that said, here are the top 10 broken League of Legends champions.
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[@callumengland6395]

There should be an honorable mention for galio once they buffed his ap numbers (it was something like 80% Max hp on his q) they hot fixed it super fast

[@branchy7159]

Yeah but that was a preseason buff so it didn't really matter

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

Is it really a buff? I seriously thought that it's juat a bug or something...

[@Blackkray777]

I played that version of him. It was fun oneshotting everyone

[@doughboiii51]

I remember hitting a 14k hp Chogath for 6k off the tip of my Q and I knew it was too busted lol

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

@@cn2673 so Riot must have smoked something at that time, buffing Galio to the point where he can 1-shot anyone, even a tank.

[@silent7159]

If you're going to talk about beta TF you need to at least mention beta Jax. He could dodge everything including the fountain lazer. He would just sit in the enemy fountain and auto attack the entire team ro death

[@timschmidt3644]

Ahh a man of culture :p

[@aldwinjasperjoniega8973]

Also his passive back then was ad/ap to hp so you could basically build all damage and still be beefy...

[@kinohokage]

@@aldwinjasperjoniega8973 the damage to HP passive was after his first rework. The Beta Jax that Silent referred to was different. Both versions of Jax were hideously overpowered, and capable of easily winning 1v5's

[@aldwinjasperjoniega8973]

@@kinohokage i forgot that was the second rework... The 1st iteration of his passive was additional damage right? Flat 15% and also his empower was a cleave...

[@kinohokage]

@@aldwinjasperjoniega8973 I think so, I'd have to look it up, that was a long time ago and my memory is fuzzy on the exact details of beta jax. Other than the dodging tower shots and fountain laser.

[@ryaplayerofdoom1130]

And a special thanks. Ornn: the mage, deathnight, paladin, hunter, rogue, warrior, enchanter, tank, bruiser, wizard, warlock, priest, assassin, gunslinger, druid, shaman, necromancer, ninja, gunslinger, bard, monk

[@reformedafk9784]

the only champ that is allowed to have one trait twice

[@tbone9474]

Right now he's just a wet noodle though

[@Daisferry]

How much did you list from World of Warcraft?

[@bl00drose6]

98% Banrate in soloque nope Kassadin were not broken as sh*t

[@kejadventures241]

The kassodin complaints genuinely bothered me, at that point AD was so strong that you could 100 to 0 people in lane pre level 3.

[@moxopal675]

Or jax that was immune to turrents

[@Partrees]

Or that post rework Skarner had the highest win rate ever. Or that release LB was more broken than release Xin...

[@kejadventures241]

@@Partrees Nothing was more broken than release zin he could 100 to 0 people at level 2 with 0 items. Even if they had items. Don't joke about that crazy shit.

[@Partrees]

@@kejadventures241 I've played since Beta. Current Irelia can almost do what Xin did. LB could kill people from level 2 on. She was hot fix nerfed twice in the first week because she was far too oppressive. Both were broken as hell, but LB was worse because she was ranged with comparable damage.

[@mylessundiniv4330]

I am surprised that there is no Kassadin on this list

[@arthurclement8656]

Yeah the season 4 100% ban kassa xas pretty busted

[@limitedbom2206]

It’s because aphelios had memes. You had kassawin but 200 years was everywhere.

[@WhyJusticeWhy]

clement iiiii9⁰ks

[@Torilati]

Or Morde / GP

[@VankoBagera123]

i am suprised that there is no Sylas on this list

[@ThatOneBlackGamer]

I honestly believe Samira on release should've been in the top 5 on this list. She had ridiculous damage, insane healing, and she could dash to her own minions and teammates which made dives with her the easiest thing to do. I started playing a couple of weeks before her release but since then I don't think any other champ that got released since then was as broken as she was

[@MicroCheese64]

She was broken by modern standards, but doesn't come close to the abominations in previous seasons.

[@cuozu]

She wasn’t that broken just overtuned numbers they shoulda kept the allied dash tbh

[@CT-gc5rt]

@@cuozu Agree, Not being able to dash to allies really limit the champ

[@maxschw.5239]

@@CT-gc5rt Makes picks so much more annoying to get, yeah. besides, Nilah has 2 dashes that can also target allies

[@giomongta6961]

@@CT-gc5rt Dashing to allies removes counterplay Yeah, Nilah can do that but Samira resets her E on takedowns

[@localhobo5362]

I mean this game has too many champs, it's like 50 "most broken champions" already, lol.

[@GamingGaming-pe2pj]

When I play, almost every champion I used is so Broken..

[@mercury2110]

Honestly love Aphelios - he's my fav champ by far. But his kit does feel like it should belong in a totally different game. It's brilliant, but should be up against equally wacky kits - not MF's W to walk a bit faster(plus, his infernum auto is her Q).

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

He'll actually fit perfectly with DoTA 2's other broken as heck kit.

[@SafetyKitten]

Ironically, miss fortune is literally a counter to aphelios. She can just run him down early-game and absolutely destroy him.

[@kanevanutrecht]

i love china!!!!

[@gameguru42392]

Mf shits on every adc that dosent out range her tho

[@wladynosz1565]

@@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904 "If everything is broken and overloaded, nothing is" - Dota 2 xD

[@mashiroshiina8895]

play at 1.5x speed to save time.

[@abhishake24]

I play it in ×4

[@mobwow6833]

play at 0.5x speed to waste time

[@wizzy-]

Pre nerfs Kassadin is still in my heart. And toplane tank Ekko. Wasnt that busted to end up here, but hell, it was so fun to play

[@justsomerandomguyontheinte3635]

Kassadin main here this is the reason i main kass❤️

[@wizzy-]

@@justsomerandomguyontheinte3635 i feel you. I started maining kass in s4 when I learned the game and always was sad that I didnt get to enjoy him being prenerfed, with silence on q. Got lots of fun nonetheless though, good times

[@wladynosz1565]

@@wizzy- As an Azir main I cry, Azir was never truly busted, just faker and a few other OG players abused him who are good with every champ, and got nerfed to the bottom to being the worst midlaner since years in SoloQ... Even proplay like 46% winrate...

[@wizzy-]

@@wladynosz1565 I feel you brother. I still kept playing kass when I could (vs ap if I got to pick into enemy) simply coz I enjoyed him. Azir was quite a doable matchup although a good azir was always a nuisance ngl

[@bordoy6673]

But notice how almost all of these champs have been released or reworked within the past couple of years. Rito is doing a good job over there.

[@cookiecreeper22]

This video is shit with the recency bias that's why beta - s3 had way worse champs.

[@kinohokage]

@@cookiecreeper22 Beta Twitch, Beta Jax, Damage to HP Jax, Invincible Release Morde, Release Pantheon, S1 Gangplank, Kassawin, So many other busted champs from early league that this list just forgot.

[@nekrataali]

Not to mention Ez + Heimer + Soraka kite/poke all day every day. You could beat them through teamfights....but they would just run away and heal and not actually engage. Good ol' 40 minute games of watching your towers slowly get whittled down against opponents that had easy escape mechanisms. They didn't even bring up Janna's "lol I do everything" kit from early in the game's history.

[@MagicV00D00]

10) I 9) Dont 8) Know 7) Who 6) Will 5) Be 4) In 3) That 2) List 1) Aphelios

[@malsawmzela609]

I'm surprised the list didn't include every recently added champions as honorable mentions.

[@tachi0131]

you forgot kassadin who had a 100% pick ban rate in both solo q and pro play

[@2424dynasty2424]

Samira is on par with Aphelios. Samira's release deserves at least #2 spot. The amount of life steal in her ult is absolutely a terror to play against. Disappointed she's not in the top 10 at all.

[@kejadventures241]

Lmao xin Zhao Used to be able to 100 to 0 anyone in the game at level 2. Cry more

[@eugene12310mobile]

Samira seems tame when you know that ganging up on her and just pouring CC and poke down her general direction fucks her up because she has short range

[@KatarHero72]

Absolutely not. Not even close. If anything should have been included, it was either LB's release, Kassawin, or the 61% Win rate Skarner of Juggernaut.

[@miguelangelgonztorr8674]

The Leblanc with the assasin rework was broken. The tanks on season 6, Poppy when was resorked the damages where brutal.

[@allentokjuman]

akali’s placement is ridiculously low and the fact that darius is on this is a meme. no mention of season 3kassadin?

[@EroticInferno]

I’m really surprised reworked Urgot wasn’t mentioned. He had 100% pick/ban in Korea for most of season 7. Champion was a terror

[@tokyobangbang6999]

Hope to see LoL streamers appear on Vice Stream, I love to watch this content

[@bellalabolee5019]

I'd to watch LoL content too, it's seems v i c e 's so well-known, I see many pp retweet their content on Twitter. Is it good?

[@zoeyjackson5364]

@@bellalabolee5019 Depends on your evaluation. Wanna reaed their whitepaper?? I can send u.

[@dinhhan7093]

@@bellalabolee5019 I'm not bias V i c e but in twitter this one is famous, maybe due to its reliability

[@jintianpiaoxue223]

@@zoeyjackson5364 Where do u get the wwhitepaper?? Do u find out any others NFT platform??

[@johnnydang8573]

@@dinhhan7093 howw can u say that it's credibility

[@ataya6507]

The Leblanc rework was one of the OP champs that they swtiched her back because of her 90% ban rate lmao

[@tumau3908]

Huh I thought that sucked so much they had to switch it back

[@ataya6507]

@@tumau3908 it was switched because she can't be played With powerful burst and wave clear And can save a teamate all around the map with her global ult

[@grindmonster8373]

@@ataya6507 she was reworked because shewasdogshit and nobody played her

[@aziffikmal]

Should've include master yi for S3 AP build, that was broken as fk, no healing reduction and MR item could stop him so they just reworked his stat

[@synccmaster1592]

Ap master was pretty nutty too, and im surprised Ekko didnt make the list, IMO he should be number 2, he was like zoe v2 just Q E and you one shot plus his ult had no mana cost

[@sheik9484]

Thanks for all the amazing videos you make you realy make my day as i have alot home problems so you make my day

[@geo6337]

Rengar on release was insanely busted and he had to go through sm reworks..

[@friedrichexternbrink5414]

Good ol' Kassawin gonna be sad, that he got aVoided.

[@khorramzadeh5892]

Underrated

[@GrantTripple]

Love the editor! I wonder how good he'd be at editing Don't @ me!!!

[@Lunaroblivion99]

AP Yi season 2-3, Rammus season 1-2 and kassadin season 3 kinda deserves to be mentioned imo

[@LevimesterTheOne]

Those ap yi pentas… ah, any time was feeling down, I just played one ap yi game with a guaranteed penta. Good old times :)

[@fezthedracky8468]

Also Juggernaut update Mordekaiser, 100% pick ban in worlds and genuinely one of the most overpowered champions that ever existed.

[@darkbanditxd2763]

season 3 kassadin was so op that people would DDOS games so no one would have to play kass

[@lordmalkom1675]

Old Urgot in Botlane as adc? Unbeatable for anyone on that lane at the time.

[@syzex]

Almost all of the Champs were reworked/released in the last couple of months/years. Good job riot :)

[@Inscipio]

On release rek'sai was pretty disgusting. Her passive healed her to full between every camp on her first clear, and back then, that was an insane advantage since most junglers took a ton of damage early on. She could also run triforce into hydra and then full tank. That build let her do as much damage as most adc's while being nearly unkillable. She was nerfed 6 patches in a row and was pick or ban in professional play for a long time.

[@ioannishussein8038]

And I’m even more amazed that Aphelios is the most broken!

[@triples2745]

I’m surprised Tahm Kench wasn’t on this list, he’s been extremely broken because back then the more health he had the more damage he does, he also had his E that could create two health bars whenever he takes damage, and his W which is now his ult could literally eat champions, removing them from the map for a few seconds before spiting them out dealing tons of damage, which can really screw over enemy teams in late team fights. Tahm got nerfed so much that he isn’t even worth playing anymore and is just a shadow of what he once was.

[@zaboono]

Kinda surprised I didn’t see samira or akshan, they were both stronger than Gwen on release imo until they got their nerfs

[@jackjohnson5603]

Just clicked on the video, I hope to see my main, Akali I’m proud of you

[@doibelx]

this video is 1year old but i'm still happy to see my main on it (gwen)

[@SkillsByNiels]

Who wrote this script? So much misinformation

[@jadenandreirosanes2004]

This is like my second day playing, haven't really played more than 5 champions, can you suggest any champion that can stay long in every team fight?

[@itskam2398]

Dr mundo

[@greensabr200]

ASol on release was so busted Dopa called anyone who got to Challenger with him boosted trash lol

[@manuelalcausin7712]

AP master yi (though I didn't play long enough to play with it), and old fiora should also be in this list.

[@sekri0940]

A new champ gets busted every week

[@fartloudYT]

Twitch around the beta-official release. Entire enemy team could be hiding under tower and if you have the vision, you could take them all out by yourself. Think mid towers, while standing at red buff side of the jungle. Going below 20 kills per game was a terrible performance.

[@franciscopetrucci]

Yasuo ando Yone though? Double crit? Infinite mobility? WIND WALL?

[@GateBreakerZ]

Honorable mentions:Aatrox Rework,Kassadin,Galio after AP buff,Master Yi season 2 and Rammus season 2

[@winny_on_tt]

Yooo isn't this Danny from Top 10.. Yo i missed this manz, no homo

[@legrandretour5524]

Aphelios in Urf is brings back memories

[@driplordissa]

Need to update this list ASAP

[@mehdildj6199]

i still didnt watch the video but i guarantee you Its mr 200 years at number 1 isnt it

[@Tururu134]

you're correct

[@LisaEifie]

I feel like these picks were quite biased and little research was actually done

[@vishnumannam9961]

No viego clip is complete without the inspired pentakill. After seeing that live I was like.... How did this champ even make into the game?

[@DR20005]

Can you make a video about the new M4A1-S meta in CSGO?

[@austrianguy881]

I dont think Gwen was this broken atleast in Plat-Dia EUW

[@mr.spanksheep576]

Picking 2 early league time Champs feels awkward, like everything was broken. It starts season 4, we're they really try to mainline the balance. Yet only 2 out of way to many broken Champs 2015 for example no mention to adc mordekaiser, or kalista the best adc? Gangplank? Or early season 5 the Warwick rework? U missed nearly every real broken champ. Saying Gwen or virgo is broken, but yet nearly half of all Champs are broken is just ridiculous.

[@Firedrakee]

Yeah honestly this video is massive clickbait (which I should've expected, but still). Though I'll say I don't think there are many champions that are inherently broken, most OP stuff disappears after a patch or a couple of patches. Darius and Zoe for example don't deserve to be on this list at all, as annoying as they might be. Since I didn't think they'd actually be able to find 10 inherently broken champions I was hoping it would be 10 broken champions on certain patches, but it wasn't even that really because it misses out some really obvious ones like everything from the juggernaut update, Galio with the AP ratio buff, 4.20 Warwick, etc etc.

[@jonnywilder261]

It's so sad that I'll never truly be able to play Aphelios, the REAL Aphelios, that could 1-shot entire teams ever again. That champ is gone. All that remains is a shell

[@ll-me4wz]

Do an episode for Haunmie (the current TFT champion).

[@Mtno9]

You need to make a video on doggo, the league pro player

[@adambenceracz4082]

It's funny how out of these, FOUR were designed by the same guy (namely Zoe,Akali,Darius, and Aphelios). I will forever stand by my statement that the only balanced champion CertainlyT ever designed was Thresh.

[@DiabloTommaso]

Try to find an old or not reworked champ on this list

[@EYYL39]

What about release Kassadin when he had a silence?

[@undertag9139]

Release Kalista. But she's beyond forgotten these days, so it's kind of poetical that noone remembers the monstrosity that she was :P

[@ioannishussein8038]

I’m shocked that there’s both Aphelios and Viego on the thumbnail.

[@jessejohn7406]

Ahh yes release day Zoe was the bane of everyones existance..it was such bliss☺☺🥂

[@r3kiwi20]

Will halo content be coming when the competitive scene will be live?

[@shrimpdaddy1700]

it freakin better

[@leonbrooks4656]

Where is release Ornn. Also in the 2015 Worlds where Darius was OP, Gangplank had a 100% PickBan and 100% Winrate so was arguably more OP. Also Tank Ekko.

[@dangerousplays3978]

Want to tell us anything about them after the nerf so we can see if they are actually still usable or not?

[@LCKHDandFriends]

I mean, all i remember is vel koz on release. Ult just bug splatted your game. If thats not broken, what is?😂😂😂

[@Hydrodictyon]

The fun part with Zoe is they added her to rift and she’s exactly that annyoing

[@zurealx1757]

that dude who said gwen was the most bs champion he'd ever seen mustve never played league before this, ive literally been one tapped by a dudes auto attacks before what do you mean

[@akiviper965]

i cant belive he didnt mention sion

[@phoenixflamegames1]

Im honestly surprised kassadin isn’t on the list

[@vilhelmvobbe2502]

Jax in the start could Fontain dive because off his Dodge chance i Think that should have been om the list

[@Sabang882]

How to counter all broken champions: PICK ORNN

[@Soshi12005]

They forgot the old ap malphite oneshotting my entire team - ADC player

[@OMEGATHROWAWAY]

half the footage is LCS, might as well show bronze or silver solo queue games, its legit the same level of skill and coordination it hurts its still true in 2024

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

so i guess i need to check theme out one by one then

[@mohammadnibb1623]

The worst thing is that there is no way you could put olaf boost in this one ☹

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

But can they put the Faker vs. Ryu one here?

[@LARPBill]

I came here to see if Juggernaut Darius made the list, and I was not disappointed.

[@KatarHero72]

Uh, Juggernaut patch Skarner? Still the highest winrate of any champion in the history of solo queue.

[@Mikemar16]

The only one missiing was S1 Jax with omnidodge...

[@RB-xc9wg]

Im kinda missing the post rework aatrox

[@chancho1010]

Red Smite + Feral Flare Warwick should've been in here somewhere

[@DerTolaf]

Every champion hat it’s Moment i think. Diana, Kassa, Galio, gosh there are so many more

[@skeleyold5991]

I dont remember Singed being pick or ban and shaco was basically never played in pro play

[@selby545]

Release Le Blanc was the most broken thing in existence. The had to disable her and hotfix her 6 hours after she was released. Yeah, 6 HOURS

[@akinakyildiz1117]

Aphe is indeed overloaded but not neither overtuned or broken .

[@raven6717]

I still barely know what Aphelios does, sheesh

[@soapmactavish5223]

Riot be like: lets nerf asol

[@jiongwu7410]

So Xin Zhao had actually been through the same process as in Wild Rift?

[@DeadFanDeadFan]

Nobody in here mentioning how Sett had anime protagonist plot armor the ability for a long time after release, and then they did math Sett. And then they did pro math Sett. And Sett support. And Sett jungle. Oh, and new math Sett which is just as broken as old math Sett. Maybe I’m crazy but he’s still incredibly strong

[@Io-ik4yv]

cuz he has clear weaknesses and strength, so his exploitable and has counterplay and the math sett thingy that you see on youtube or any media. it only happens in low elo, where people dont respect other champions strength and weakness. like how a garen main thinks he can beat a ranged champ cuz he has Q ms boost. like what?

[@APPEUW]

youll need a top 100 list bud

[@dziosdzynes7663]

Pre-nerf Pyke with full build at 18mins still being weak compared to these monstrosities is peak design

[@hassakitty]

at first i thought he was Sheamus lol

[@wierdwackkerronii5838]

I remember my first game in lol. I finally let my friend tour me in it and let me use his smurf account then we match with aphelio spammer. And we just nod to each other to play other game

[@raydare5087]

Release Ekko was really broken too

[@TickleTwinkleTwink]

Idk i was expecting to see samira. She just dashed to me and i died. We had same items. That's the end of league for me.

[@SpectralSound.]

Only 10? Damn you guys are nice people.

[@bloopblob]

Anyone remember S3 Red Pot Start Riven?

[@Fr1sen0]

Old Yorick was pretty funny

[@nekrataali]

Holy hell I totally forgot how well he could push a lane on release.

[@xyzen9673]

Ahhh zoe... She was mu main for a while since shes so fun to play

[@legendagamer1790]

Idk how the 95% ban rate kassidin didn’t make the list

[@zh6523]

I honestly predicted Kai'Sa or Akshan to be here