Looking to Expand My Competitive League Playing Knowledge

Boltnix·6/16/2015, 2:26:16 PM·4 votes·632 views

From a simple player to hopefully a pro player, I am hoping to learn the ins and outs of league on the competitive side, most specificly the champion select side of things. I'd like to know 1) how do you know what champions syngergize well together, for a team, for bot lane, between lanes, jungle, wherever champions synergize, and if I'm looking to do a specific style what should i be looking for to achieve this? 2) I'd like to know what exactly runs through a competitive scene team's minds when it comes to the champion select, what are they looking for when they pick champions, what makes them pick champs in certain orders. What should be looked at when the enemy team is picking their champions? What about for building a specific team composition? simply put, what is the checklist so to speak that you run through when going through champion select in team?

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Buttigieg 20206/16/2015, 5:06:36 PM1 votes

In competitive play a team usually comes up with a strategy before a game starts, they do specific bans to make sure that a)their team comp isn't countered or b)the enemy doesn't get a comfort pick (ie dyrus on maokai).

Competitive players also look for synergy within champions. For example if a team is going Maokai top Orianna mid Gragas jungle and Nautilus support then you would want to complement them with a Sivir ADC rather than a Lucian or a Graves . Also in competitive play, the meta means a LOT. You very rarely see people break the meta in competitive. Since pros can play most champions really well, they pick the best champions. Hence why only ~25% of the champion pool is regularly picked in competitive.

You also want to try and counter an enemy team. If you see that the enemy has massive hard engage and massive burst you wouldn't pick a jinx. Another example is if the enemy has a full late game team, you would want to counter it with either an extremely powerful early game or another powerful late game. Take my advice with a grain of salt since I haven't actually played in compettetive play and I don't religiously watch compettetive play but that is what I have learned about champion select in compettetive play.

PoisonedTea6/17/2015, 11:31:27 AM1 votes

I have would not think most advice he is right.

As for how teamwork works, you have some people playing a supportive role and some people playing a carry role, take TSM as an example Dyras always plays a support role on the team, should he likely always not because we know Bjersen can play a support role as well(those that might be a waist too).

Then look at old C9 Hai always played a support role mid. Letting the rest of his this carry. That just shows that every on carry champions you can play a support role in the team, Just like even on supports you can play a carry role on the team. I guess the biggest example of this is Mata, Yellowstar is a good example as the carry from the support position.

I guess how it works is all dependent on what players are on your team and what type of teamcomp you wanna create(as in win conditions).

Knowing what champions are strong and how to play they is a player responsibility. Matching them or finding new ones is for annalists to find out(possible with the help of players).