When League of Legends<\/em>‘ newest champion Hwei arrived last December, the player base was worried about how broken he would be on the Summoner’s Rift. A month later, he has become one of the most-played champions in the game\u2014but with a massive caveat.<\/p>
Through Patch 13.24, Hwei currently holds an 11.7 percent pick rate among Platinum players and higher, boasting more than 727,000 matches globally within that ranked distribution according to U.GG<\/a>. The Visionary does, however, also hold a shocking 41 percent win rate, the lowest number by far across all champions in the game.<\/p>
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There have been many new champions who have made their League<\/em> debuts with a low win rate, such as Runeterra’s hungry jungler Naafiri, who opened up with a 40.69 percent win rate<\/a> shortly after release. A month later, however, she was tearing up the solo queue ladder<\/a> with the highest win rate in two separate roles, showing just how quickly summoners could adjust to ability sets and their various interactions on the Rift.<\/p>
Hwei, on the other hand, is far more complicated than his predecessors, since he is the first champion in League<\/em> history to feature 10 different abilities in his kit<\/a>. The talented artist has three spellbooks with three different skills each, and players judge specific situations to decide which spell to conjure\u2014all in the span of a quick skirmish or timely engagement.<\/p>
