It’s done, folks – I now have wins with 76/76 champions in ranked games, the vast majority of which came in 5v5. In fact, all 11 of the champions I had remaining when I started attempting this achieved victory on Summoner’s Rift. Exciting stuff. You can see my top 10 ranked champions in the image below.

Ryze was the holdout champion, and in all honesty I thought I might be stuck on him for a week. He’s a tough champ to play against tanky teams because after a certain point he just stops scaling all together and you’re stuck with a defensive build against a bunch guys who can soak everything you throw at them. After six attempts, though, I managed to pull a win (went godlike in that game, no less). I think it was really our Eve that pulled us through. She did a great job ganking lanes early and keeping their Vayne down.

This was a really enjoyable challenge. It makes me wish Riot would get serious about getting some achievements into the game. Achievements are a tough thing for a MOBA because it can encourage some unconventional and sloppy play from players who should probably be learning the game, but it could be very cool to tie some kind of IP bonuses to achievements. At the very least it could encourage champion diversity from more players, which I think would be a great thing.

In between my Vayne testing and the occasional Kog’Maw game, I’ve been keeping up with my quest to get the 76/76 ranked champion wins. There have been some tedious games and I’ve had more than one Ryze win snatched out from under me by leavers or sheer foolishness. After picking up my Karma win this afternoon, I’m up to 74/76 champion wins, with just Ryze and Vayne left on the list.

My hardest won victory has definitely been Jarvan. I know he’s strong but I just couldn’t seem to get him to work with my team comps. I’m not really sure what it was, but since I first made the post about this little challenge I had to try six times before I finally managed a win.

Here’s a look at the champion list I started with. The crossed out names have been accomplished and the number denotes the attempts made, including the victory game.

Alistar: 3
Eve: 1
Jarvan: 6
Karma: 3
Karthus: 1
Lee Sin: 3, but I fed hard in the win game. Totally got carried.
Maokai: 1
Rumble: 1
Ryze: 4
Soraka: 2
Vayne: 1

My one Vayne attempt was nothing short of infuriating. I was up against Soraka and Alistar, with Tryndamere, Kassadin, and Rumble to support them. It was utterly impossible to get a kill. At one point in the game – mind you we surrendered at like 23 minutes so this was early – I think I counted 17 turret hits on Alistar in a row. All the same, this has been a lot of fun, even with its frustrating moments.