League of Legends dev settles 14-year debate by revealing the MOBA's worst matchups, and one character is such a loser that he's 3 of the bottom 4

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The worst matchup in League of Legends has been revealed - and it's so one-sided that it's also the second- and third-worst matchups too.

A 'hard counter' is one character or strategy that entirely shuts down another. Think rock-paper-scissors - rock will never beat paper, so you might argue that paper is a 'hard counter' to rock. The idea is found across all kinds of games, but if you find yourself on the receiving end of one in a game like League of Legends - with its lengthy games and focused 1v1 laning phases - it's unlikely to feel very fun to play.

Now, Riot has revealed arguably the hardest counter in the entire game. In a post on the League of Legends subreddit, one user asked "What do you think is the single worst champion matchup in the entire game?" Phrased another way, "What champion, when facing a specific other champion, do you think has the lowest chance of winning?" With a roster of 164 champions, there are a lot of potential matchups, but a Riot QA Engineer quickly jumped into the thread to provide the definitive answer: Malphite vs Sylas is so one-sided that Sylas has the massive upper hand, almost regardless of how you play him.

To get a sense of what that means, it's worth discussing who these characters are. Malphite is essentially a sentient mountain, whose main role in the game is as an anti-physical damage tank, and who has a massive, teamfight-engaging ultimate ability in which he charges forward and knocks up anyone caught in the blast. Malphite wants to build lots of armor, but he can build magic damage instead if he really wants to blow people up with that ultimate (but at the cost of his tankiness).

Sylas is, for all intents and purposes, a communist wizard, whose own ultimate allows him to