League of Documentary - Why These Champions are Garbage in Pro Play 

Ok but remember that time Buggax blind-picked Teemo top in game 5 of the LLN playoffs ;)

"A strong top laner needs to be like a strong shot of semen: It needs to be aggressive, thick, and most importantly: it needs to be sticky. Top laners need to stay on a carry's face."

"old seraphine"Why you have to hurt me this way

It’s really interesting how different the same exact game can be between a bunch of scrubs playing and a bunch of pros playing. A lot of high level strategies only work when the opponent also knows what they’re doing. It’s what causes some scrub to beat a pro in poker because certain decisions are based on the assumption that your opponent knows what they’re doing

17:53 „pro players can make use of more complex champions“ Jhin: proceeds to miss all four of his shots

"It's definitely the role that takes the most abuse from its teammates" Jung mains: Yep

That Sea man joke was a lot

"Slaves need to be storng without being fed." Damn this is just like 18th century all over again.

1 thing you missed about leblanc is gank setup. Almost every other assasin lacks proper and reliable cc

Udyr is the new aatrox, becomes good literally as soon as they announced his rework

Every other champ: has valid reasons Viego: BUG

"Old Seraphine" lmao Sona would've scream if she wasn't mute

"Cheese strategies in professional play don't last really long." You surely have forgotten about Taric + Sona and Garen + Yuumi

*"old seraphine"* RIP Sona mains

A note on assasins: mobility used to be valued much more back in the day. Nidalee was very strong in season 1/2/3 because she had a low cooldown leap, making her less punishing to play. When zed came out, he was considered very strong, because he was the only AD champion thar had a consistent escape, while also being an assasin with very good waveclear (so you can roam or take objectives). Having access to an AD assasin mid also opened up opportunities to play comps that didn't rly exist before. This was also a time where there were no armor items for mages and as i recall, seekers armguard was added shortly after zed, as a consequence. This was a time where xerath's W literally locked him to the ground and increased his range. By these standards, nocturne would be considered a safe champion, due to his superior speed... so it goes without saying that leblanc (who used to have a built-in silence, like talon and kassadin) was extremely overpowered against uncoordinated teams.

Remember that time when Showmaker picked Xerath in the finals of Msi and completely dominated that round

He's just trolling us with the Shyvanna pronunciation

slaves need to be strong without being fed! poetic line!

Showmaker saw Xerath in the thumbnail and said "hold my beer"

Wow, really well made video Dong, keep it up!

"and of course, old Seraphine." Oh, my sweet, Summer heart :,(

aye that's me 4:24

One of the most infuriating things as a jungler is you keeping track of your enemy jungler, ping, maybe even ward, maybe even type in chat, just to watch your laner die to the gank anyway.

Very nice video I appreciate the effort you put into this

DongHuaP: "Why Pros never play your favorite champions Me: laughs in Braum, Bard, Alistar, Rakan, Thresh

“And of course old saraphine.” Bro you didn’t have to kill her like that. 😂

The video aged like milk. Teemo is now a champ played by the pros!

I like how the name of the transitions literally makes no sense like they go from "I want to have fun" to "who was in paris?"

Pro players do tilt. They still show up to work even when they are upset. Ryu : Oh shit, here we go again.

the semen expression killed me XD , i did not expect that

This was one of the best informative important videos I have ever seen. What a bonus. I would never have guessed from the title

That’s what makes Dota so much better in the pro scene. Literally EVERY hero gets picked

At first when Donghuap said Lb was the only ranged assassin I kinda thought he forgot about Ahri but then I realize Ahri is a burst mage, not a true assassin...

The amount of ads in this video surpasses the pick rate for all the champions mentioned

"Who cares if the master Yi has 300 CS" Riot games: and I took that personally

i learned SO much from this. wish i knew this stuff back when i was still playing

as a silver 4 support main I know the pain of having my Aurelion Sol banned from me every game :(

Me playing this video in the background on speakers The video 2:43 : "A strong top laner should be like a strong shot of semen" Me : What ??!!

that save tho at the beginning of the jungler part. that kind of coordination is something my teammates have only in my wildest dreams 🤣🤣

I havent watched a 30mins video for a long time, yours excellent

Could you make a documentary about champions that have been not updated in a long time and they are still relevant now? For example, Zilean is more relevant now and his last update was in season 5.

You're really killing it with these documentaries

That part on Huhi reminded me of off picks(way back) for Poppy and Sivir both getting banned for the rest of the tournament. Off picks were what I loved to see and play when I was a regular

Dong, Great video man! Just one tiny bit of critique, the scrolling of pages with minor motion blur was hard to look at I think it should be either blurred out so that it is a blob moving or no motion blur at all.

2:43 I was stretching when this part of the video came up and I had to rewind this to make sure I heard it correctly

I want to take a moment to speak about 29:08 because I'm personally friends with Huhi's girlfriend, and I happen to know a lot about him and how he thinks. Huhi hates playing Aurelian Sol on stage now, he despises it. He says the only reason he ever did it for 100 Thieves was because fans asked him to. On stream he doesn't like playing it and in pro-play he's relieved he doesn't have to anymore because he role-swapped to support. He knows he's still good at the champion and could if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to. Why? Well, partially because he just hasn't found the champion fun in a while, but a lot of it has to do with the expectations put on him because of this one game. Aside from a few off-meta games from Caps, Huhi is the only player in the west to ever seriously give Aurelian Sol a chance, and that made him the ambassador of the champion. If other players were more willing to experiment, he probably wouldn't have that much weight on his shoulders, but he hates going into a game thinking "this is MY champion and I have to carry this game because if I don't steamroll then I'm going to get absolutely flamed." And he's kinda right, that's too much pressure to put on one player. If other teams committed to pocket picks and off-meta champions, it would be a lot easier for a player like Huhi to take Aurelian Sol off the bench only when he felt comfortable doing so. Players with picks like Froggen's Anivia or Bjergsen's Zilean have proven there is room in the meta for different picks if the team works around them more. Players should stop feeling like slaves to the meta and start changing the meta to fit their playstyle. And a lot of that falls on coaching.

I miss Aurelion Sol.... Cool design, unique kit, clear strengths but equally glaring weaknesses.... Now he's just a crappy Syndra with worse burst and 10 times more weaknesses but ever so slightly better roaming At this point even though he was my main mid for a time I forget he's a champion, because Riot gutted him to the point that calling him a champion seems generous

Great video!

I'm surprised you didn't talk about Pantheon's sudden disappearance as an example for junglers after patch11.2/11.3

Glad to see the analogies are still on point.

gj keep the content up!

The "Azir versatility" bit was surprisingly tasteful. Thanks, DongHuap

I love how Viego is seen in the list of least played champions in pro play

Axil watch out, this dude is bonkers with documentarys too. Loved all of it, thx for the hard work and dedication mate

You might surprise, Blitzcrank is a very common pick in PCS last year. Something that you think it's weird is just thing that you doesn't see it often.

“A strong top laner should be like a strong shot of semen. It needs to be aggressive, thick, but most importantly it needs to be sticky” That’s quite the analogy 💀

2:43 say that again DongHuap?

So happy that Donghuap's sexual innuendos are back

Welp, Tryndamere part kinda aged like milk

I got recommended this after Showmakers Xerath

0:14 That hit me like a truck... I wanna cry...

these analogies are on another level

yoooooooo we need a 2 year update on this, i love the knowledge behind this video. Shotout for it to be cool 2 years later with patch and all

“old seraphine” girl what that’s sona

What do you mean, Garen's kit isn't meant for pro play??

So glad that Donghuap's crazy analogies are back

Great analogies. More people need to learn from these.

wtf I always watch Dong Huap but only now YT recommended this video. I`m even subbed

man, old seraphine was so strong back in the day

Bro wtf if this channel how didint i find it b4. Ur work is amaizing and the info is 10/10 Gg wp im ur n#1 fan

My favorite pocket pick was Caps mid Vayne. It also ended up winning the game with an insane condemn on the enemys Tristana, mid jump.

Really appreciate the comparisons

Damn right when I wake up. I wanna go back to sleep.

Minor mistake: Aurelion Sol was absolutely meta in 2016. Alongside Thaliya. 2016 midlane was all about clearing waves and roaming fast, and A-Sol was absolutely busted at this, due to his W and Q giving him insane waveclear and his E granting him one of the best roaming ability in the game.

Those comments about Udyr pretty much sums up the majority of the League player base. Their opinions are entirely dictated by the most recent pro game they watched. If you pick a champion that wasn't one of the 20 champions picked or banned in that game, you are trolling, and each of those 20 champions is and always has been the most amazing champions in the game and people who doubted Trick2G 6 years ago should be ashamed.

That took me off guard😂😂 sticky my boi

Hold up, something about this "Seamen" metaphor doesn't feel right.

You should make a video talking about how Rekkles played ad kennen and why it worked out so good for him.

You should make a Historic counter pick (and reasons behind them) vid :O

love your content dong!

It’s important to note that Leblanc also has a 3 second root duration lol

So many clips of TheShy, respect.

Watching this after season 11 is entertaining with some of these champs coming into the pro meta

I really like that I see this now and it starts with Tryndamir, just as he gets in the meta

I remember Hai playing Teemo mid and dominating due to shroom spread through the whole map.

Damn now I kinda feel bad for Udyr. Which I shouldn't, at all.

Showmaker: Am I a joke to you?

I LoVe it when you mention Ryu case while talking about player tilting 🤣🤣

Rito then: We care for all players Rito now: We only care for pros and money

Your analogies are some of the best things to ever come out in the league community

2:42 I had to listen to that again, make sure I heard that right.

Where'd you get the statistics from? I'd like to be able to look at those myself.

16:50 made me crack up. Literally no counterplay to getting ran down that fast.

tl;dr: Farming and scaling is overpowered and makes 80% of the game's possible strategies unviable because of it.

Me, watching this while Tryndamere is one of the most-contested champs in the game: Huh

"A strong top lane should be like a strong shot of seemed, aggressive, thick and sticky"💀💀

12 years a jungler. Thanks dong I can always count on you to make me laugh.

these Morgana and Shyvana pronunciations make me wince

"a strong top laner should be like A STRONG SHOT OF SEMEN" excuse me whaaaaaaaaaat

You can always boil it down to tuning. We’ve seen Tryndamere be picked a lot in pro play after some numbers tuning. If Teemo’s base stats were increased, eventually he’d be picked too