Not even a week from release and Jayce already took over that spot, seems that the community agrees that he's better on the crystal scar than summonner's rift. (which is good for us )

http://www.lolking.net/charts?region...ion-popularity

edit: apparently the link redirects itself to the ranked page even though Dominion is highlighted, be sure to click on Dominion.

Is there some reason this is any different than every other new champ on their first week?

FDru is correct. Almost every new champion is the most played champion on release week, on any game mode, save for Ranked, where they still usually hit top 10.

I wish they would stop, because most of them have been awful. Did see a handful of solid ones, however.

I find it funny that Teemo is 4th, ahead of Jax.

Ashe and Yi are both in the top 10. I'm guessing players below lvl 30 skew the results a bit.