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List of Off-Meta picks that you can try at home, with SUCCESS!

Macilento··3 votes·1,083 views

Okay guys, let's create together, based on our experiencees, a list on off meta roles or champs that can work fine, even if they are not considered competitive

**Ekko Support: **Clear the wards in the botlane brushes, Enjoy your Surprise stuns on both enemies, with a great amount of burst and cc for follow that up.

**Mordekaiser Jungle: **His ganks are inexistent, but he is very good at pushing objectives with drake, it has inane dmg if someone sets him up

**Gnar Support: **Lane bully, good poke, very good vs melee supps, and great engage tool in his ulti.

**Talon Jungle: **His early levels are atrocious, but already at level 3 he can pull off some spectacular killing ank, at lvl 6 he is super fast, super deadly.

**Top lane Tank Leblanc: **Basically toplane, building Trinity force + all tank items. Unkillable, less bursty but with good AA, and basically annoying as fuck.

Volibear Support: Great against low range adc or melee supports, you will almost always have that guaranteed flip, and insene burst from W, + slow from E.

**Master Yi Mid. **Stat checks the vast majority of mid laners in a straight up brawl, and cancels burst (the predominant force of Mid Lane) quite easily via a good Alpha Strike or Meditate. Fantastic cheese laner that also scales into amazingness on Mid Lane's typical budget.

**Braum Top. **Building BotRK and Titanic Hydra for damage then straight tank. Does well against immobile champs.

**Akali Jungle: **She is worthless before level 6 but after that she is a beast, Coming from the fog of war with 3 dashes and great burst damage.

**Blitzcrank Jungle **Slow but steady, if you manage your vision weel you can pull off 100% kill with his grabs and stuns.

**AD/Tank Thresh Toplane: **The enemy will ALWAYS underestimate the damage of your empowered E auto, giving you a nice edge when starting a fight. YOu can pull off some very good 1v2 kills thanks to BOx and grabs.

And many more!!! Tell me yours and i will UPDATE this post

13 Comments

bloodybadger12 votes

I like Gnar support, volibear support, and top lane tank lb. They seem pretty good on paper imo.

Evolve Wings2 votes

PANTHEON SUPPORT! Yeah that's right. What ADC's do you guys think he would work best with in your opinion? I have found (at least for me) that Lucian is an amazing ADC for the composition due to the gap closing mobility and very high and quickly inflicted damage.

STRATEGY: The strategy behind Pantheon support is to go glass cannon early game(full AD) and Armor Penetration, and bruiser late. Even though most supports will take exhaust Pantheon should be using ignite to help give an advantage in lane, and have extra damage and healing reduction. Teleport can be used if you are focused less on your lane and more focused on snowballing top and mid. (Pantheon's ultimate with teleport can have almost constant threat across the map.) Start with your W so that you can have a stun leap, this also refreshes your block and allows you to put a full charge on your block passive, so you can have a Proc active and 3 stacks at level one. Which is going to be a lot of mitigation for damage provided you don't let the enemy support break the block. If you do it correctly you can block almost every enemy ADC auto attack in the laning phase. After W get Q and start poking down your enemy ADC. Usually I pick up first blood at level 2. I have learned that Your ADC should share the first few kills because of how snowbally Pantheon is naturally, after you pick up some gold, first back you will roam to mid and try to pick up another kill, then go back to lane until 6 and then once you hit 6 you leave the lane and use your ultimate to start snowballs in the other lanes. In essence, pantheon support is meant to quickly get bottom lane ahead because of the high kill potential, then turns the whole game to your team's favor by visiting other lanes and using your lead to snowball your team.

Ps: Panth burns through mana like no other, picking up a mana crystal early will double your mana and allow for a lot more frequent poke, you can then use it later to build a defensive item.

archerno11 votes

I like it. Gonna try it on my low gold smurf

GULAG 4 U1 votes

no kha'zix mid/top?

TehNACHO1 votes

Master Yi mid.

Stat checks the vast majority of mid laners in a straight up brawl, and cancels burst (the predominant force of Mid Lane) quite easily via a good Alpha Strike or Meditate. Fantastic cheese laner that also scales into amazingness on Mid Lane's typical budget.

FormationX1 votes

Braum top.

Building BotRK and Titanic Hydra for damage then straight tank. Does well against immobile champs.

Macilento1 votes

Added Master yi mid and top Braum

Beldair1 votes

I have done Mordekaiser Support, Renekton Support, Rumble Support

Macilento1 votes

Added Toplane Thresh, Jungle Akali, and Jungle Blitzcrank

WoonStruck1 votes

Leona top/jungle. Q (double AA reset) does 300 damage to monsters lvl 1; don't underestimate the clears too much. After bambi's/sheen (IBG) she clears insanely fast and can 100-0 solo squishies until mid-late game. Take ghost so you can lock down even the most mobile champs with your Q+E spam. Max Q first, W second/////////Corrupting potion is very strong on her if used properly with minion waves top lane. Probably best gank assist in the game, outside of maybe Nautilus. She brings far more damage if done right, though.

Easily the best scaling support you can throw into a solo lane since Taric's rework and her adjustments.

Irelia mid/jungle.

Cho jungle.

Galio top vs AP tops.

Karthus top/jungle.

J4 anything.

Rumble in the jungle. Skin required.

Morgana top/mid.

Vi top.

Vlad support. item 2303 can easily and safely be used via Q, and his damage scales nicely from it. item 3116 item 3190 item 3143 item 3157 item 3068 item 3065 etc all boost his damage and make him tankier. Not recommended vs assassin comps. You'll likely want CDR runes for him. Manaless poke/sustain is always a good thing, and your damage boost is more than enough to make you decent late game, esp with the E/W damage you'll likely have.

Very likely that you will want Locket early so you have some way of directly supporting your ADC. Also, due to the way it functions, item 3222 will give you a permanent very large HP regen buff, if you want that too.

DemoGuide1 votes

I used to play top lane leone once she was released. Refused to go support with her, and had moderate success. Dont know how is she nowadays after her mini-update though.

WoonStruck2 votes

She's infinitely better after the update.

item 3001 item 3068 item 3025 rush depending on match-up. Get all 3 as core, then 2 HP items. You do absurd damage and have 33% uptime on your Q's stun. Every 3 seconds you have a 1 second stun now.

Not only that, with even a tiny amount of AP, you do significantly more damage due to how her ultimate was changed. Hence the abyssal; plus it helps the damage of her other abilities and sunfire hit harder. Not only that, but abyssal was changed to offer a pretty absurd amount of MR for an AP/shred/CDR item. I think its over-tuned, tbh.

Run ninja tabi/mercs depending on higher threat (CC or autos), and go to town. Run ghost to make it impossible to be kited.

TBH, though, she's better in the jungle. SotA and Cinderhulk make it so she can grab those to no-hp items and not suffer in the slightest while scaling into mid-game.

If you get fed early, you can even run Cinder, Fmal, TF, Sterak's, Titanic and still be absurdly tanky due to scaling MR/armor runes and her W (~200 armor, ~150, 5k HP). You will be able to duel anyone and 1 shot squishies; just make sure you murder the ADC first so you don't get DPS'd down. Run 20% CDR runes if you don't want to grab SV (doesn't really help you much) or Locket (support will have), or Abyssal.

Other build is way more stable though.

DemoGuide1 votes

My friend had moderate success with Jungle GanKplank. here is the replay, and you can also open match history to find his build and so on http://www.replay.gg/search/ru/Raywen#109426305 I was playing AP EZ botlane, last game of the day and pretty tired, and performed poorly, but i tell you ap ez bot instead of adc is a thing.

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