Hi Summoners,
Thanks for taking the time.
Do you think it is favourable to be a one trick pony (OTP) or to specialize a lane and counter pick your opponents to climb (at a silver/gold level)?
I kind of waver back and forth on this topic. Looking for some experienced feed back.
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Thanks, CBennett1212
I'd guess it's best to main a small pool of champions that cover each other's weaknesses well.
Have at least 1 good generalist that can be picked blind. Then have 2-3 champions that are strong counters to most of the champions that come to your lane.
It's important to keep your champion pool small, as you need regular practice on a champion to get really good at them. However one tricking can be costly - sure you may know how to deal with your counters but you're still subject to Riot's balance team bringing your champion into and out of favor, not to mention your pick getting banned.
Player to player honestly.
Over all its better to have a deeper champion pool. You can counter, you can adapt, your less likely to fall off in a meta shift. However not everyone can invest time into this. Not everybody's going to be great at adjusting their playstyles to multiple champions. I certainly struggle with it.
So overall rule of thumb more you can do the better you are but if you cant do it don't bother.
Have a OTP and maybe one other champ in case they get banned.
It depends on how often you play. If you play a lot, invest in a pool, if you don't have much time, invest in one champ.
I'm more of a counter-picker guy myself, but I do believe that even OTP players can deal with counter picks once they're good enough with their specific champion, be it by knowing their weakness, the enemy strengths, what it takes to cost your team the game, etc. You can't simply one trick someone slow and call GG at the start of the game just because they picked your hard counter. "I only play Ornn. Oh, my enemy later is Yasuo? Report jungle for never ganking."
But yeah, it's also good to be well versed with other champs just in case yours gets banned. I kind of feel bad for Zed OTP to be honest.
With that said, it really does come down to whether or not you really one to be a real one trick pony and want to commit that hard to your favourite champion, or if don't like that repetition and feel comfortable playing/adapting to specific match-ups. Which ever sounds better to you is probably how you should go about it.
I'm kinda in the middle.
I don't like OTP'ing because if you get banned out or your champion is picked, you're forced onto a subpar champion to which your knowledge of playing isn't at it's best.
Like I'm a Vayne main, the matchup I used to have the most issues with was Caitlyn. I started playing some Caitlyn and now I know how both champions function I can play the Vayne Caitlyn matchup decently and not get completely smashed like I used to.
LeagueofGraphs says I have a 100% win rate as Vayne vs Caitlyn right now. (It's only 2 games sure, Thankfully Caitlyn isn't popular)
I also don't like intentional counter picking.
Counter picking and not knowing how to play the champion or the matchup is as bad as being autofilled and picking one of the hardest champions in that specific role.
Like every time I lock in Vayne and the enemy auto locks Caitlyn... I check OP.GG/Porofessor.gg and see they have no experience on Caitlyn or have really bad stats on her I just smile.
