I don't care about your opinions about my champ picks. i'll play who i want.

Swerzz··150 votes·6,396 views

You can down vote if you want, you can call me salty. I don't care.

I hate when people try to tell me about what I should pick I champ select. "Viegar would be great in this situation." " You should pick Thresh as a support." Just shut up, Please.

Then when I pick who I want, they get mad because there favorite LCS Player isn't playing them. Do you want me to do good as a champ i'm good and comfortable with, or feed because I've never played the champ before. Most the time, i don't even own the champ. Sorry, but i haven't been playing long enough to get them all.

If i want to pick Xerath mid, then i'll pick Xerath mid. If i go Rumble top, I'm picking Rumble top. I don't care if you want me to play brand/annie support, i'm gonna pick Nami.

Just because they aren't the super "IN-META" pick right now, doesn't make them bad. I used to play Lux when people thought she was a joke. now I see her every second game. My friend who used to laugh at me for picking her now has a level 5 champ mastery on her. You would have laughed at the thought of Brand support a couple of months ago, but now he's one of the strongest Supp picks.

Thats why i don't care if people want to pick Urgot, Yorick, Galio, Taric. If you can play them well, go for it. I'd rather have that on my team then someone taking Anivia and feeding because he saw the pro's play her, (him?)

I think it's an advantage to play as a lesser played champ, because the enemy won't know how to play against you. they won't know your move set, your powerspike's, your combo's. So you can use that to your advantage.

That's my rant, down-vote if you want. I just wanted to get my thoughts out.

Just a sidenote, obviously i won't picksome one if it puts me/team at a dis-advantage. also i'll fill a certain roll if needed (Tank/CC) so don't get the wrong idea there, i'm not an dick like that.

173 Comments

TendajiX53 votes

I think you should play who you want as long as you fit the comp. It doesn't matter if you play yorick if he fits the comp. If you just throw off your team's synergy because you can't play champs with more than 1 playstyle there is an issue on your side. Nobody will give a fuck if you play Nami but if they need someone who can go in you have to have more than 1 support you can play well. I feel like i'm gonna get painted a bad guy so i should clarify I don't tell people who to play, i tell them what to play. I won't ask you to play Leona, i'll ask you to play a tank or engager of your choice. You can play who you want as long as it isn't an excuse to only know 1 thing.

Edit: This isn't directed at you btw, the poster, this is a psa of sorts.

Brahmsauce4 votes

[{quoted}](name=Yamazaki Tetsuo,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=AnAsQ3qP,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2015-12-14T23:27:21.240+0000)

I think you should play who you want as long as you fit the comp. It doesn't matter if you play yorick if he fits the comp. If you just throw off your team's synergy because you can't play champs with more than 1 playstyle there is an issue on your side. Nobody will give a fuck if you play Nami but if they need someone who can go in you have to have more than 1 support you can play well. I feel like i'm gonna get painted a bad guy so i should clarify I don't tell people who to play, i tell them what to play. I won't ask you to play Leona, i'll ask you to play a tank or engager of your choice. You can play who you want as long as it isn't an excuse to only know 1 thing.

Edit: This isn't directed at you btw, the poster, this is a psa of sorts.

I have to agree with this. I also live by this, I try to have 2-3 in each role that can "fit" into most comps well (AND be champs I love to play).

zacktootall2 votes

"Fit the comp" sounds the same as "play this champ" so no just play the champ are good/have fun with don't ever try to tell me otherwise got it.

TendajiX1 votes

Yea, you go play that ziggs into leblanc if you are good at him :D That's the logic you have here. If your team needs an engager, play an engager. If they need some peel play someone with peel. See how nowhere in there did i tell you what champ to play? I didn't say leona or janna, i said play someone you are GOOD WITH (like you said) that fits the team's needs. If you can't play a large enough variety of champs to play multiple playstyles if your team requires, you shouldn't play ranked. I could see you playing someone who doesn't fit the comp in normals because normals is to learn, but in ranked you need to pull your weight in the synergy department.

zacktootall2 votes

if my team knows they need somthing they can fix it them selves i will do my damndist to carry my self up the elo tree if you cant do the same for your self then sry im looking out for me and only me if you see a problem you should fix it what you shouldnt do is tell me to do it

Xonra8 votes

[{quoted}](name=Yamazaki Tetsuo,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=AnAsQ3qP,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2015-12-14T23:27:21.240+0000)

"I don't tell people who to play, i tell them what to play. I won't ask you to play Leona, i'll ask you to play a tank or engager of your choice. "

See this is reasonable to me.

When someone tells me "play x champion" I just roll my eyes and tend to ignore them. If they tell me "we need someone with engage" or "we need someone more tanky or a front line" THAT I can easily do. The first is telling me to play what YOU want me to play (if you wanted that champ why didn't you play it?), but if they tell me we need something specific for the comp, then I know they are looking at the team as a whole, not their own preference and nothing more.

elon wątroba3 votes

Team synergy in yolo q? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Poptart Evelynn3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Yamazaki Tetsuo,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=AnAsQ3qP,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2015-12-14T23:27:21.240+0000)

I think you should play who you want as long as you fit the comp. It doesn't matter if you play yorick if he fits the comp. If you just throw off your team's synergy because you can't play champs with more than 1 playstyle there is an issue on your side. Nobody will give a fuck if you play Nami but if they need someone who can go in you have to have more than 1 support you can play well. I feel like i'm gonna get painted a bad guy so i should clarify I don't tell people who to play, i tell them what to play. I won't ask you to play Leona, i'll ask you to play a tank or engager of your choice. You can play who you want as long as it isn't an excuse to only know 1 thing.

Edit: This isn't directed at you btw, the poster, this is a psa of sorts.

^ You can't expect to win easily if you pick Kha with a Kat mid, fiora top, and a soraka support. It just wont go well when you have to teamfight.

Kat will just sit back and wait. Fiora wont be able to fully engage without getting cc'd. Kha also has to pick so if they have hard engage you wont even be able to do anything about it and will lose the fight.

I really hate people in solo que who refuse to adapt picks to make the team comp work. No offense.

Anomander19 votes

Play who you want where you want. Just respect pick order in ranked.

HighH13 votes

and the rules. Pick what you want but not things like Teemo summoner 1 summoner 6

AIIan3 votes

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and the rules. Pick what you want but not things like Teemo summoner 1 summoner 6

Then I guess it's a good thing I'm playing him summoner 4 summoner 7. ADC. The tears of Miss Fortune players who loose lane are delicious.

Athenes Lulu18 votes

They all tell me to go top or pick a different support? I locked in Lulu and carried their shitty ass from botlane anyways.

"Don't pick Sona!" Wiped their asses clean with my musical support toilet paper.

This is why I always say "pick whoever you are more comfortable with".

SpecterVonBaren9 votes

[{quoted}](name=Cancerous Lulu,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=AnAsQ3qP,comment-id=0006,timestamp=2015-12-15T00:06:27.993+0000)

They all tell me to go top or pick a different support? I locked in Lulu and carried their shitty ass from botlane anyways.

"Don't pick Sona!" Wiped their asses clean with my musical support toilet paper.

So THAT'S what those floaty things behind her are.

Athenes Lulu9 votes

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So THAT'S what those floaty things behind her are.

Yup!

Good for crybabies in general, not just ADCs.

Only Play Darius2 votes

I don't know why everyone says Lulu is supposed to go top or mid. In my experience support Lulu crushes the lane more often than not

rescued4 votes

Lulu is my main for going support and so many times have I seen in champ select "Pick a real support" and then I end up peeling and carrying their ass. You're welcome. :'D

Virgin Ray7 votes
Maximum Morde7 votes

I just pick whichever champ has the lowest winrate to show my dominance, and for Maximum Disrespect.

killd0zer5 votes

Same. I play Mana Regen Kat support

but if you say anythign to me expect the report :^)

Saphixia4 votes

People tell me im s bad support because i dont own blitzcrank. But Level 5 Morgana, Level 4 Tahm and Janna is not good beccause they are all "bad supports" according to most people in bronze

Xonra2 votes

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People tell me im s bad support because i dont own blitzcrank. But Level 5 Morgana, Level 4 Tahm and Janna is not good beccause they are all "bad supports" according to most people in bronze

Yeah that must be people in wet paper 7, because I've never heard even people in bronze say Tahm or Morg are bad at anything. Janna isn't great but she isn't trash tier. Blitz is okay, but he is mostly a one trick cheeser.

Saphixia1 votes

Clearly you are very lucky loll, im in Bronze 1 and every time I pick Morgana they complain that i dont "synergise" with the adc that they are playing (which is usually Jinx or Vayne)

blkKalameet2 votes

At that elo all you need to do is take thunderlords, all the ap runes, and drop a black pool at the enemies feet.

Doesn't matter who the adc is at that point because morgona now controls the lane with prue damage threat. Hit somebody with a binding and drop a pool under them and there goes half there health.

And jinx is ridiculous with morgona. Have her throw chompers under somebody you hit with a binding and see if you don't get a kill.

disregardable3 votes

And people will upvote this post, queue up, and continue to report me for one trick ponying Jinx.

Woook3r3 votes

Then when I pick who I want, they get mad because there favorite LCS Player isn't playing them. Do you want me to do good as a champ i'm good and comfortable with, or feed because I've never played the champ before. Most the time, i don't even own the champ. Sorry, but i haven't been playing long enough to get them all.

we want you to be comfortable with champs that make sense and to have a reasonable champion pool by the time you get into ranked. also if you have yasuo oriana and your team wants malaphite just fucking do it.

Swerzz5 votes

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we want you to be comfortable with champs that make sense and to have a reasonable champion pool by the time you get into ranked. also if you have yasuo oriana and your team wants malaphite just fucking do it.

I am comfortable with my champ pool, some just don't like my champ pool.

On a side note, i do play Malphite, and pick him for the Wombo-Combo type comps :)

Only Play Darius3 votes

Putting all your eggs in one basket isn't a very good idea in soloQ. Remember there are far more bad Yasuo's then there are good ones

Xonra5 votes

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we want you to be comfortable with champs that make sense and to have a reasonable champion pool by the time you get into ranked. also if you have yasuo oriana and your team wants malaphite just fucking do it.

That is terrible advice.

What would be the point of playing the Malphite that some random person (I don't know or care who you are as I'll likely never play with you after the game anyways) wants me to play if I can't play that champions? Best case scenario is I feed in lane or get about 60 CS behind, and you are sated in champ select, only to berate me in game for not doing well with a champ you think is good.

oooooorrrr

I can completely ignore you and play what I'm good at, win lane, and you can whine until I hit mute, and enjoy my LP game and never have to deal with you whining about what I play ever again.

Hm, I wonder what option I'm going with?

Woook3r1 votes

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That is terrible advice.

What would be the point of playing the Malphite that some random person (I don't know or care who you are as I'll likely never play with you after the game anyways) wants me to play if I can't play that champions? Best case scenario is I feed in lane or get about 60 CS behind, and you are sated in champ select, only to berate me in game for not doing well with a champ you think is good.

oooooorrrr

I can completely ignore you and play what I'm good at, win lane, and you can whine until I hit mute, and enjoy my LP game and never have to deal with you whining about what I play ever again.

Hm, I wonder what option I'm going with?

What kind of person cant press R?

Abyssphere3 votes

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What kind of person cant press R?

Are you going to be happy with a Malphite that can press R in a team fight if you lose the fight anyway because the enemy top laner is 5/0?

Woook3r1 votes

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Are you going to be happy with a Malphite that can press R in a team fight if you lose the fight anyway because the enemy top laner is 5/0?

what kind of person cant stay behind minions and farm under tower?

Spicy Rice4 votes

You realize the enemy laner can just freeze the wave? It's a skill that should be aquired by the time someone hits gold.

Spicy Rice2 votes

Honestly, a good yas doesn't need an engager like malph or ori for him. If he's requiring you guys to pick champs for him, he probably isn't a good yas, and you shouldnt put that much faith into him

legionnaire993 votes

my dreams of adcFiddlesticks are still a thing*[zombie-nunu-hearts]*

legionnaire998 votes

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my dreams of adc Bard are still a thing*[zombie-nunu-hearts]*

Stand Alone Wolf3 votes

It's funny, because it works. . .

Carpe Victoria3 votes

90% of the time i play kog someone rages on my pick and tries to throw the game. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Br4ndon3 votes

I'm all for picking what you want but if its at the expense of team comp. Or will screw over our team ill suggest another champion.

And by expense of a team comp im talking we have a urgot mid yorick top and you really wanna go soraka jungle ill ask for something less trolly. . .

zacktootall2 votes

Ok if you run in to someone running that much of a troll pick then odds are they're trolling and you really can't do anything about that but why do I have to try to follow your "comp" when I know I can snowball my lane off any form of successful gank with say for example MonkeyKing top then start roaming and helping the team

LordForrest1 votes

Because sometimes there are champs that clash horrible with certain comps.

For instance:

Talon in a Poke comp.

KogMaw in a Dive comp. Etc, Etc.

zacktootall2 votes

ok you make it sound like i want to be in a comp what if i just want to do damage or be the burst in your poke or dive comps

Stand Alone Wolf3 votes

New champ comes out that day

"Dude, You need to pick the new champ"

Mimy2 votes

You just need to find others who aren't too meta based. and or don't care.

I thought my friend the beauty of sated yas jungle...

You dont see yasuo jungle.. nor do you usually see him with sated.. but by gosh he melted a dairus in under 2 seconds flat..

Swerzz2 votes

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You just need to find others who aren't too meta based. and or don't care.

I would, but it's hard to do that in ranked.

Mimy2 votes

Dynamic Que is coming and I hear you may be able to play ranked given the 4 other people you que up with are close to your level aswell.

OyddAWqJ5r2 votes

Play what you're best at but at the same time try to learn enough champions for your main role to cover most of your needs. If you are a mid lane "main" but only play Katarina, you aren't a mid lane main.

As a person who plays almost exclusively Hecarim, I know the struggle. I only have Renekton and Vladimir as my fallbacks. Luckily Hecarim is back out of the spotlight so I'm free to gallop about.

NazZomLord2 votes

People shall fear me and my friends legendary lane of Blitzcrank Heimerdinger bot. And if we want to push and teamfight like we want to actually win we go Orianna Nautilus

Seenan2 votes

I wouldn't care if you can do it well...But in my experience, they can't. They just watch LC$ and copy the pros, going 1-9 then throwing up FF

Beuhlakor2 votes

I think it's an advantage to play as a lesser played champ, because the enemy won't know how to play against you. they won't know your move set, your powerspike's, your combo's. So you can use that to your advantage.

Only works in low elo.

Xonra7 votes

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Only works in low elo.

Funny, cause I watch a guy in masters who pulls out Yorick and just poops on people because they don't know how to play with them as they are so used to picking their "meta only op" champs and seeing the same.

It works everywhere just fine. When you see Yasuo 5 games in a row, then you get a Ziggs, or a Talon or something, you are going to take a bit to get used to that.

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