League of Legends (LoL)

Elise will be returning to god-status. Last season, the "rework" of Ancient Golem ultimately is a nerf. Combined with the actual nerfs, Elise has fallen out of favor, and yet she's still played competitively. Elise's strength originated from the fact she was tanky, had tenacity and had basically everything combat wise you could ask for. The current golem is shitty for her because she doesn't stack health, the item has HORRID sustain, and the lack of tenacity makes Elise nigh useless. Spectral Wraith isn't bad on her but she becomes extremely squishy which is why that new enchant comes into play.

+Fuckton HP, +Tenacity, +CDR

The reason I believe she will be god tier is because of the fact, this is basically spirit of the Ancient Golem pre-nerf, AND MORE, she gets about 1.5x the amount of HP it used to give, AND it builds from not one, but TWO HP items. Because of this enchant alone, she will be able to build TANKY Spell-pen AP once again

I expect her Core items to be;
Juggernaut Enchant on Choice Machete, Sorc Shoes, Haunting Guise, Rylai's, Sunfire.

Shyvana is always a god who is heavily played every single preseason because she's that good of a jungler during its time, but there's something different this time, they implemented additional CC through these machete items. I believe with the new smiting champions concept Shyvana will be a god not only as a counter jungler, but now that she provides a 50% non-decaying slow NON-SKILLSHOT slow on top of her superb damage I believe she will be popular for a while, especially with the new "Feral Flare" enchant.

This guy is good no matter what. Extremely powerful duelist, with a fatal flaw, if he misses his combo, go ham. I've probably played at least 700 J4 games this season and I can say without a doubt he will be indomitable this season. Jarvan scales INCREDIBLY well with ArPen and most of all, Flat Damage. The new Warrior Enchant literally gives Jarvan, an AD Caster, the greatest stats he can ask for as one.

+Fuckton AD, +10 ArPen, +10% CDR

Honestly if I could buy this on Zed or Jayce, I'd do it in a heart beat because this enchant is so fucking strong.

As for machete choice? Skirmisher's Saber, no contest. Why Skirmisher?
J4 deals MASSIVE BURST DAMAGE, but sometimes the damage is just a tad shy of a kill. The new smite allows you to deal additional true damage per swing, J4 is one of those champions who are entirely capable of dealing true damage through his basic attacks because you run several ArPen reds, play 21/9, AND have his Q which REDUCES armor rather than penetrating it. Reducing armor has a different formula but it is applied before all else.

So on top of Jarvan bursting the life out of you, smashing 10% of your current health, reducing your armor and hitting you for basically what is true damage, he will actually have additional true damage on top of every extra swing which he gets Bonus AS from his E ability. Oh and the -20% damage taken, is just pure icing on the cake. I can see this item getting nerfed, no question.


Also I know I said Wukong also, just replace everything I said about Jarvan and put Wukong in there, sans the "go ham if he misses his combo".

Wukong literally does everything Jarvan does except he doesn't have the CC j4 does early on, or the burst, but he's definitely a far better team fighter with easier to coordinate abilities compared to him.