Author: NGA-Rinakawa ♀ Akira ( ♀
Since the return of the 2022 LPL Spring Games, other leagues have also started last week, and everyone is groping for the S12 version of Meta. Which heroes are version traps, and those heroes are the children of versions, is always something to talk about. At the beginning of the season, all the major teams made experimental attempts, and there were many heroes who appeared in the past week, and there were only 2 heroes with more than 80% appearance rate, Caitlin and Li Qing.
Couch gradually became the version OP hero
In global statistics, only one hero with a appearance rate of more than 40% has a winning rate of more than 60%, that is, ace pilot Kutch. He is currently 68 times disabled and 82 selections, with a record of 50 wins and 32 losses, and Kutch's winning percentage is four points higher than the 57% win rate of second place Kinkith. Kutch has undoubtedly become a single-position version of the OP hero, which has attracted the attention of many teams and players.
Cooch's strength was reflected as early as the 2021 Demacia Cup, and he is very popular in the current LPL spring game, although the overall winning percentage is not as high as the global winning rate, but it is also more than 54%, which is a good middle choice. In the 24 games in the first week of the LCK Spring Games, Couch made 11 appearances, with a 46% ban rate, while the record was 5 wins and 2 losses, the average KDA was 4.1 per game, and the economic lead in the first 15 minutes was -33 gold.
Judging purely from the LPL and LCK data, Kutch does not seem to be a very strong hero, but Doinb, Chovy and Gori have won four times using Kutch. Gori had a round where Couch died a few times in the early stages, and a wave of explosives packed in the next group battle opened the RNG team to directly help the team win. In the game between GEN and the DK team, there is a saying in the forum that even if Chovy's state is worse than this, he can still use Kutch to win, indicating that this hero is really strong.
Cooch's mid-term poke and pulling abilities are strong
Chovy said in a post-match interview with the winning DK team that Kutch is an OP-level hero, because now the player can't use the teleportation skill to affect other roads at will, and once Kutch has safely developed through the early stage, he can successfully grow into the late stage of the hero's strength, causing huge damage. Of course, Chovy also mentioned that he had several Cooch's Conte heroes, which he might use later on the LCK arena.
The hero of Kutch has a very high statistic, that is, the average damage of the points, his average damage in the LCK League is 814, ranking first in the first week of the LCK, and the second place hero has only 456 points of damage per point. Kutch has a powerful firepower, once he reaches the middle of his development, he can produce extremely strong poke damage, and in the LPL we also see the scene of the auxiliary being killed by Kutch's one-hit second. In the game where GEN defeated team DK, it was the Kutch Explosive Pack that caused huge damage to the Dragon Regiment.
98% of Kutch players used the first attack as the cornerstone rune, 94% chose to cut magic, and in the mythological equipment selection, Luden's agitation was 44%, and the Immortal Shield Bow was 35%. Kutch's version has two outfit ideas, the critical hit stream of the Shield Bow Endless Cannon, and the law of Luden Shadow Flame. No matter how Kutch dressed, the purpose of this hero is to develop smoothly, and it does not matter if he is a little behind in the early stage of economy and experience, and he uses the explosives package to win the resource group. A small number of players used Kutch in the upper single position.
Preseason changes led to Kutch's successful rise
There are several reasons why Couch is so strong in this release. The priority of the river crab is reduced and the transmission is weakened, so that the early pressure of Kuqi is reduced, before the selection of Kuqi means that the wild must lose the river crab, Kuchi must use the teleportation to make up the line in the early stage, the other side can use the teleportation to fight, and the side road is easy to be rolled up snowballs. This version has become less stressful for the developmental single, Kutch can easily survive the early stages of prison, and his mid-term fighting ability is obviously much stronger than That of Casadin.
The second is that the equipment is very suitable, the change of the mage equipment allows Kuchi to create a new genre, if the early stage is very smooth, the critical hit flow, the development of general or inferior will be out of the law through the flow. The poke damage of the law piercing stream is also not low, the big move hits the crispy skin is very painful, and the damage of the explosive pack also has an AP bonus, which can be pulled in the team battle. The ADC heroes in this version of the arena basically have the ability to harvest, and after Kutch enters the field to destroy his opponents, whether it is Kinks, Caitlin, or Ephelius, they can complete the harvest.
Attacking runes first to speed up development is also another factor. Finally, the strategic point mechanic slows down the pace of the game, and the inferior side has more flipping ability. There are more and more big-core heroes in this version, the lineup needs some late heroes as a guarantee, Kutch has mobility in addition to high damage, and the ability to dismantle towers is also very strong. In the case of inferiority, Kuqi can try to rely on the line push tower to take strategic points to alleviate the pressure of his own military line, and the resource group battle with explosive packs can play a role in dividing the battlefield and have the opportunity to win the inferior regiment.
epilogue
So far, Knight's Kutch has won two games, Strive's Kutch has won three and lost one, and Faker has also begun to practice this hero in qualifying, and I believe that in the next two weeks, Kutch's hero's appearance rate will be higher and higher. In fact, Kutch's ban rate has been increasing, and many teams have realized that this hero is not easy to handle, although it is said that heroes such as Tedamir are Conte, but not every single player can play well.