Highest skill cap Champions for each role?

HudnofskiBleh·6/9/2017, 12:28:07 AM·4 votes·59,416 views

What are the highest skill cap Champions for each role? I'm an Aurelion Sol main, but I want to figure out who else do I want in my pocket. If you can, name several Champions for each role. Any help would be appreciated!

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PhantomGG6/9/2017, 12:49:05 AM13 votes

top:Gangplank Riven Camille Fiora Jungle:LeeSin Nidalee Elise Khazix Mid: Zed Katarina Leblanc Yasuo Viktor Azir Taliyah ADC: Lucian Draven Jhin Kalista Support: Bard Thresh Taric Lulu

me Defending questionable picks

Fiora despite popular belief actually takes a while to learn how to play properly, and has a really high skill cap between all the cancels she can do with her autos, she's sorta a easier to play version of riven when it comes to resets, but she has small things about her play style that make her hard to play. Trust me, if she was so "easy" than we would see a lot more Fiora players carrying our games than feeding.

Jungle: Kha Zix ON A BASIC level is indeed easy to play, you press E, you jump, and press Q, a few autos, and you should nab yourself a kill. However since he is such a squishy champion, and with his jump reset mechanic on his E, their is so many things that can go wrong or great for this champion. A bad kha zix player, will jump in and get nuked, a mediocore kha zix player will sneak in, get a kill and jump out, a GREAT kha zix player, will sneak in, get a kill, and than begin to systematically destroying your team off one by one, jumping around like a mad man Like the Xenomorphs from the ailen franchise.

Mid: For the herp derp yasuo is so easy, q q q q q q type stereotypes, I fucking dare you to play yasuo, he is actually a very high skill cap champion with so many hard match ups. The reason he comes off as OP, is for in lane phase, if the yasuo player is good enough, he can win any matchup. Ranged champions if they get even the smallest lead, will pummel yasuo to the ground, and melee champions are honestly a skill vs skill match up. Yasuo is also a very easy champion to camp, i'm a jungle main and when I see yasuo on the enemy team i go. "ez game, initiate operation, tilt yasuo"

ADC: Lucian, very easy to play at a basic level, but because of his cdr resets, and all the possibilities he creates, he also has the most possibilities of how he can combo out of any adc, very high skill cap champion, with a very friendly toolkit to introduce to new players, all and all the dream champion.

Support: Honestly, read lucian. Simply put, champions with lots of buttons, increase the things they can do, thus increasing the skill cap of a champion.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo6/9/2017, 12:34:15 AM8 votes

Maokai adc

Cµpcakke8/24/2017, 8:08:58 PM5 votes

Top - Riven Camille Gangplank Fiora Jungle - LeeSin Nidalee Elise Ivern Mid - AurelionSol Syndra Azir Viktor ADC - Draven Vayne Kalista Lucian Support - Alistar Bard Thresh

Well, at lest in my opinion. cant play any of the champions mentioned besides Syndra lol [slayer-jinx-wink]

croco123812/10/2017, 2:56:13 PM5 votes
    1. top-Twitch jg-Twitch mid-Twitch adc-Twitch supp-Twitch izi
Pippen The Short6/9/2017, 12:33:51 AM4 votes

Top - Illaoi, Yorick

Jungle - Ivern , Maokai

Mid - Azir , Anivia , Taliyah

ADC - Draven , Kalista

Support - Bard , Zilean

Anevaino8/4/2017, 2:15:39 AM3 votes

Top - Riven Jungle - Riven Mid - Riven ADC - Riven Support - Riven

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Jackom16/3/2018, 2:32:33 PM3 votes

Top: Shen Gnar A lot of people think highly mobile champions are hard to master. But try to play correctly these champions. Shen has a high impact ult, and strong W, but those can easily make or break fights depending on when you use them. Gnar has a particular mechanic that makes him really hard to master. Many focus on his mini form for high damage, but his mega form is the one you should focus on, and you have to be pretty good in order to initiate a fight at the right moment. He's sort of a tank that's susceptible to bursts (in mini form)

Mid: Azir Karma Viktor Syndra Azir is supposed to be hard to master, in many ways he's like an adc without sustain, which says a lot. Karma has just a weird kit, half burst mage half support. Similar to orianna, but the latter has clearer ways to interact with opponents and allies alike. Syndra and Viktor have lower ranges than your average mage, without having reliable ways to soak up damage (viktor'q shield is pretty laughable). They have high bursts than can easily delete squishies, but have very low target selections, meaning that they'll hardly reach and adc without help. Theyr bursts, while high, can't really deal with tanks, so a proper frontline can easily deal with them, and may force them to waste their CDs on low priority targets. They're also weak to assassins, like all mages are, especially viktor, whose stun takes a while to work.

Jungle: Kindred LeeSin Gragas Kindred's new stacking mechanic didn't really solve her thematic problem, and now the scuttle changes forces her to fight early, when she actually doesn't want to. It's not just that the meta doesn't favor her, you NEED, more than many other junglers, to counterjungle as often as you can, while constantly looking for possibile champion kills. Otherwise you get no stacks and become irrelevant pretty fast. Gragas is neither a tank nor a damage dealer. He can't sustain as much damage as your average tank, despite his W and passive. You can build damage on him, but you'll be able to achieve takedowns only if you manage to connect all your spells together, usually hitting W and pushing a target with your E into a charged Q. He has disruptions, but struggles to pin down targets, and can't really initiate teamfights, unless he engages not from the front, but from the side. Not much needed to about lee sin, everyone nows that he's fun but very hard to learn. Still, even you struggle with the ward jumps and the Q-R combs, he can be a decent off-tank.

Adc: Kalista Lucian Tristana They are more difficult mainly because they need a proper team more than other adcs. Kalista painfully needs a decent support (that is, a decent player), and her opping mechanic, as it is right now, is hard to learn properly while still not saving her from all-ins. Lucian has one of the lowest ranges among adcs, but unlike Sivir , he has no way of dealing damage to the backline. He can't win attrition fights, he needs to constantly dash around while being relatively close to the enemy. Tristana right now starts with only 525 range, and by lvl 18 barely surpasses caitlyn. Also, she has no skillshots with with to poke the enemy, or even secure some cs from a distance. She can only deal damage through her autos, even her E is more of a AA amp than an actually spell. And her AA isn't insane to being with, she's no KogMaw or Twitch . She has good self peel, but you need to use it wisely otherwise it's like having nothing.

Support: Bard Thresh Pyke Bard needs to roam in order to stay relevant, even as a support, but that doesn't mean that you can leave your adc anytime you want. You have to learn to balance laning and roaming effectively. Sure, if you get a lot of chimes you can deal some serious damage, but it trying to get there can easily lose you games. Also his kit forces you to think, a lot. Thresh has a bit of everything but not enough to be unbearable. He's one of, if not the best champion, at least in terms of kit. He can peel, shield, damage (a little), even engage. He's a jack of all trades, and as long as you can balance all his abilities, then he's a beast, otherwise you'll have many dreadful games. Pyke has just been released sure, so people need some time in order to learn. But what i want to say right now, is that he's a half support/half assassin, which means that, despite wanting to build a lot of AD, his kit doesn't really allow him to kill targets on his own. No matter how much damage you think you can do, you always need at least on ally in order to win a fight. His ult might be the best clean up skill in the game, but you can clean anything if the enemy is still at high health, and your best weapon at that moment is cc, not damage.

With all that said, in pretty much all metas I say that the hardest champions to play are the ones who need good team coordination. That doesn't mean that their kits have to interact in some way with your allies. It means that in order to be effective, to succeed at your role, you really need the cooperation of your team. Viktor doesn't have interactions with his teammates (aside from a bit of cc), but you can never fight on your own, you're just a moving target in that situation.

MagicFlyingLlama6/9/2017, 12:35:20 AM3 votes

This would be a fairly endless debate, and keep in mind high skill ceiling does not mean high skill floor, a lot of high-skill champs like kat and riven are utterly braindead.

Azir for mages, definitely. Kalista or Vayne for ADCs? I am not too familiar with ADC mechanics in general. If teamwork/strategy/knowledge counts as skill, Bard Ivern for support-roles. Thresh Has far more complexity and mechanical tricks than most people are aware of, but i am not sure exactly how high his ceiling goes..

Sweaty Gihoes1/14/2018, 6:05:16 AM3 votes

Highest skills champions would be :

TopGangplank Camille Riven Shen MID Azir Yasuo Ryze TwistedFate Katarina Velkoz

All these champions have a high skill cap, with these champions being hard to master. To be good, you might need good map awareness, how to do your combos, how to lane, and how to do Geometry.

DoktorKaiser6/9/2017, 1:04:42 AM3 votes

Top: Riven Gangplank Rumble

Jng: Nidalee Elise Shaco

Mid: Orianna Zed Azir

ADC: Draven Kalista Ezreal

Supp: Bard Thresh TahmKench

Ahri Baka2/15/2018, 10:54:14 PM2 votes

Top : Garen Mid : Annie adc : all right click champions are hard Jg : MasterYi support : Janna Spamming shields takes a lot of skills you know , you have to press E and stuff like that

GodlyBane2/1/2018, 4:29:53 PM2 votes

Top: Riven

Jungle: Elise Ivern Gragas

Mid: AurelionSol Yasuo Zed

ADC: Draven Lucian Kalista Xayah

Support: Thresh Bard

Mutány Hús10/9/2018, 4:23:57 PM2 votes

Tryndamere Yasuo Akali Darius Garen Heimerdinger MasterYi Teemo

Slyding10/26/2018, 9:09:18 PM1 votes

where is cassiopeia?

I mean she takes a lot of skills to know how to properly play her

  • positioning! -decision making!

2 really important thing cassio mains need to have Cassiopeia

IssaRiceBoi7/24/2019, 3:06:54 PM1 votes

Annie Hecarim TahmKench Garen Jax Lux MasterYi Mordekaiser Nasus Pantheon Rammus Teemo Tryndamere Warwick Zoe