Meta breaking picks
Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to the forums so bear with me on this.
I'm going to discuss the current meta picks, and how new counter picks with off meta champs can make games a bit more fun.
We all know that with this meta many picks can get stale and annoying to deal with. For example how we see spikes in certain champs like
that do well in the LCS games. I'm not saying these champions are never fun, but it can get boring and annoying to play with and against these champs over and over again. I'm also not saying the LCS is the only factor people look at to decide their picks. But with the current meta, people often get smashed on by other players for trying to change things up like playing with a mage carry bottom and not an ADC.
So here are a few off meta champions that I've seen do well that also happen to be quite fun:
As a bruiser on top. I actually saw someone post something about this in another thread, but I can't remember where.
She works like a
top and she makes melee fighters without hard gap closers miserable. She also does very well against some of the mage tops that are often picked. The good thing about Sivir though is that she has less late game fall off than Quinn. As Sivir can keep pressure on multiple targets with her Q and W. She also helps with disengages and objective charges with her R.
The only problem with Sivir is that since she has so much split pushing power she is often targeted for repeated ganks, and her lane is almost never empty. This can be good though as you are keeping pressure off of your team's other lanes by distracting 2 enemies at once.
When I build on bruiser Sivir, I generally like to go this path:
Start:
with
on first back
Mid game:
For a mage top opponent
For an AD top opponent
Late Game:
or
if you want the extra kick on the Muramana and the spellblade.
can also be replaced with
if their tank is too stacked. I also feel
does not really work for Sivir top. I don't know why, it just seems like she can't get a lot of use from it, even from champs with loads of health.
Next is the bot dunk squad
and
Although I haven't played this myself and I can't provide itemization, from what I've seen it's pretty fun. When I was in a game with these guys, they were very good at denying the enemy ADC creep kills in early/mid game. So when it came to late game, the ADC didn't have a full build.
Pantheon would stun the support or ADC while Jarvan would jump in and trap them. This duo seems very good at severely punishing positioning mistakes. And either of them could roam mid with their high mobility and get results if the jungler was busy.
Finally there is the mid dunk king
although it is already a pick I sometimes see, people can really get more use out of a Jayce mid. He is very good at bullying the lane and escaping ganks with his E in both forms. With his ranged form he can easily farm without too much worry, and with his hammer form he can close in on the current meta squishy mids.
The best part is that he can pretty much keep the same items that do well on him when he goes top.
His build stays
with pretty much everything else he needs being situational.
He can deal a ton of damage with just a few items. And the real kicker is that he can cause the enemy mid laner to switch their build paths.
Due to his high damage, the mid lanes will have to build armor or get dunked. Their problem will be that the only useful items for a mage in this situation will be
The latter of these two take quite some time to reach, giving Jayce a good kill window. And since an enemy mid mage will have to waste their gold on these items, this leaves their builds to
behind.
Assassin mids on the other hand can give Jayce some trouble.
have good ways to escape a Jayce dunk or shock blast. And they can out duel him very easily. But they will have the same armor problems as the mages. But this time there are no hybrid damage/armor items to go against Jayce except for
. So the assassins will have to sacrifice damage for armor if they want to survive Jayce's poke.
Sorry for the huge wall of text, I just want to help make League play more interesting and diverse than it is now. I may come back to add more later. I encourage you guys to come up with your own off meta picks that do well :)
as support, only for the sake that all other slots were taken and support was left
jungle this game" IN RANKED..