This game has literally

Better Jungler·Jul 8, 2015·1 votes·370 views

just become "who can lock in the simplest champs the fastest"

if you have a fiora, you're going to win if you have a yasuo, you're going to win if you have a katarina, you're going to win if you have a blitcrank, You're going to win

or who can play the favor of the month champ

if you pick jinx, you win if you pick, smite ap ezreal, you win.

I dont honestly know why i play if im trying to play champs like nocturne, diana, and braum, if im just going to lose at the 15 minute mark because the premade fiora, yasuo, blitzcrank team overpowers my team inherently.

/rant over

8 Comments

xGarzillaJul 8, 20152 votes

Actually, if you have people playing that understand the game, you can shut MANY champs down, even if they have a great early game.

If Katarina shows up, take someone who has a silence, such as Cho'gath or Garen. They can withstand her attacks and silence her.

Yasuo has great early game but is very squishy. Snares can stop him in his tracks and make him useless while your team gangs up on him and kills him.

Fiora, does not do well against tanks. She is very AA reliant. Build a Thornmail and more tank items and she can't kill you as easily.

Blitz, he is pretty useless in my opinion anyways unless he can land a grab. If you position yourself to not be grabbed, he cannot do anything besides run around.

It's all about knowing how to shut down these champs in the first place. If you watch HIGH elo games, most of the champions you even named are rarely banned. It's all about knowledge and planning your team. Half the reason why i don't play Blind Pick modes(Norm Blind Pick and Team Builder). Not to mention i can't stand the instant spot spamming and then people dodging because they don't get what they want.

Hope this helps you out a little bit. Believe me, if you keep an open mind and plan for the match up's, this game becomes a lot easier for yourself. Granted your teammates do that same(which isn't always the case), but you get what i mean.

GłacıesJul 8, 20152 votes

Nah. People just don't know how to play against them. Fiora, for example, relies on getting fed early and snowballing, otherwise she is useless. Play safe early, lose some creeps to avoid damage and most of the time you'll be fine. Ward so people know if she roams, and don't rage at people. Katarina is very similar, she is a roaming menace and if you know you are facing her, bring exhaust (as mid).

Blitzcrank excels at exploiting mistakes the enemy makes (Not keeping an eye on creeps, stepping out of position, not warding/ facechecking etc.)

Work around them and get better. It's not the champion, it's the player. Aside from rare and usually brief exceptions (some champs on release), all of the champions are mostly even in strength. Some have kits that generally counter another champion's kit but either one can still do poorly. They can all be played though. You just need to learn how. If your complaint is about people around you, then focus on improving yourself and climbing elo, raging won't help. There are times that bad games happen, but you should learn from them and move on.

Also, a person who plays a champion frequently and have them mastered will be much more affective then a person who jumps from FOTM to FOTM.

Braum, Diana and Nocturn are all strong champions, don't blame them for losing, ~~How dare you insult my bb's Braum and Diana jk <3~~

Better JunglerJul 8, 20151 votes

i main those champs, i know how great they are, but they werent great the first 10 times i played them. it took me practice, and many losses to be good with them. I just played fiora for the first time and went 26-2 last night. my first time kat was same story. i got a penta on her in my third game if i remmeber right. I know there is a case by case basis. but overall, the champs i listed are simple to play, and easy to carry with. blitzcrank is completely useless until you leave laning phase, then he can make a 5 v 5 into a 4 v 5 with one ability, and its not 100% dodgeable, its not a hard skillshot to hit.

3TWarriorJul 8, 20151 votes

the hard part is that if blitzcrank moves into the brush while there isn't a ward (which is very easy unless the support wants to sacrifice their starting items and all gold at all to get stealth wards

so, in that moment you can't see the opponent, he Q's you and you die, or, you move closer to a potential jungle gank

thresh only moves you halfway to him, same with nautilus(who can root you in place and slow), but neither are as oppressive as blitzcrank as even a slight lag spike can cost you 300, probably 400 for first blood gold advantage to the opponent

tonzillacrayonJul 8, 20151 votes

none of those champions are A. very good and B. easy to play. You might just be reallly bad at the game.

NemeBroJul 8, 20151 votes

Yasuo is harder to use and has a higher skill cap than Diana, Braum, and Nocturne.

He's also probably not as good as any of them, and is definitely more team comp reliant.

Better JunglerJul 8, 20151 votes

this is a joke. its gotta be lmao.

AspynnJul 8, 20151 votes

Okay, Fiora Kat and Yasuo are all very feast/famine champs. Fiora is easy and almost ALWAYS gets fed without any real skill required, but kat blitz and yas do really require some skill (in general) There are lots of bad kats and yasuos and blitzes, but the thing about them is that with one decent play they can turn around a game. Blitz gets one clutch hook on your adc lategame and its gg. Yasuo gets one good setup from a malphite or a 3 person q, triple for him and possibly gg. All kat needs to d is clean up a teamfight and she is instantly fed with a penta. Locking in a champion does not win a game, but making one decent play on certain champs will immediately make them relevant in a game where they were previously shut down and couldn't do shit. Also so many people are picking up smite ezreal, I'd say at least 75% of the people playing it have no idea how to play ezreal and get shit on. Jinx really is not insanely strong on her own. She is totally immobile and doesn't fend for herself extremely well. Meanwhile someone like draven just has to be able to cs and get ONE lucky kill and he instantly gets a huge amount of gold, becomes relevant, and endgame does 400+ damage on his aas. Yet nobody complains about him. People that you like to play, Diana and nocturne, can get fed and carry a game VERY easily. A fed Diana will 2-3shot ANYONE. Nocturne can smartly invade an enemy's jungle and kill the enemy jungle, and take his buffs and all his camps.