New champion in LOL is a little too strong, will generate after only 2 days

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The first new Champion 2025 has been released in League of Legends, and they will already know Arcane fans. But right from the start she seems to have been a little too strong. After only 2 days there was a nerf.

Who is the new champion? Mel Medarda appeared on January 23, 2025 a new champion in the gap of the summoners. You know fans of Arcane as the daughter of Ambessa Medarda, which is already included in the game. In the game, Mel is a magician who brings interesting skills into play:

  • Passive ability: With every ability, MEL 3 receives bonus projectiles for her next attack, which increase up to a value of 9. Whenever it causes damage, overwhelming is triggered. The damage increases cumulatively. If an opponent has suffered enough damage from overwhelming, Mel can use the stacks and execute the opponent.
  • Q ability: Mel fires several projectiles that repeatedly cause damage in one area.
  • W ability: Mel receives running pace and a sign that can throw back every projectile of the opponent.
  • Electricity: Mel shoots a larger projectile that can hold on the opponent and slow down in the area around it. That counts as a root and not as a stun.
  • Ultimate: All opponents, regardless of the range marked by overwhelming, receive damage, depending on the overwhelming loads. If you skill the Ultimate, your overwhelming damage also increases

    • That sounds like a pretty solid kit that also works quite successfully. The start was probably a bit too successful, because after only 2 days, Mel received a nerf in the form of a hot fix.

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    Mel is probably too strong, will be generated directly

    How successful is Mel? Many new champions are not particularly good for the release – based on the statistics. This is because the players first have to familiarize themselves with the skills and the style of play. This was also the case with Hwei or Smolder, for example.

    It looks very different with Mel. If you look at their statistics on U.GG, you can see that it is quite successful.

  • Based on all ranks, she has a solid win of 50.84 % on the Midlane at over 111,000 matches (as of January 26, 2025, 11:30 a.m.).
  • It has a pick rate of 13.8 %.
  • However, players don’t really seem to be in the mood for them, because their ban rate is 43 % and is currently the highest, but this is quite normal for new champions.

    • It is probably not quite planned that she has such a win rate despite the lack of experience of the players. At least according to the nerfs, which were patched as a hotfix on January 25, 2025. The damage from your passive, your Ultimate and your Q.

    On the LOL developer account on X, it is said: Mel currently exceeds the expectations many times over, since we apparently overestimated their domination curve and underestimated the learning curve for the game against them.

    In the next few days you can see whether Mel will continue to perform so well. The next regular patch is expected to come on February 5, 2025.

    She wants to banish the community

    What does the community say about Mel? In a recent Reddit thread, the user Temporary Platypus80 explains that it banned Mel every match as long as it is not first-pick in her own team. He thinks she is far too strong and he would increase the chance of winning.

    With over 5,300 upvotes and over 800 comments, it receives a lot of encouragement:

  • For many users, the problem is primarily due to their w-ability and the possibility of reflecting projectiles. Tensai (via Reddit) also finds that: As long as there is the revolution of skills, I will ban them.
  • Crimsonavenger2000 (via Reddit) worries the win rate: I only fought against you once, so I can’t say what I think of your condition, but a champion has ever been 52 % [Win-Rate] reached during the release patch?
  • Mrchesey (via Reddit) questions why they are banned outside of ranked matches: a new champ comes onto the market, people want to play normally to try them out, they all banish them. They jump in Ranked, see that they are not forbidden and choose just to feel.

    • Of course, these are only impressions of the first few days. It can take a few weeks before a new champion has joined the game. Such a high win rate is a sign. Another current champion, Aurora, was so good for professionals that it had to be changed: LOL: A new champion has to be changed after less than 6 months because professionals are simply too good

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