What do you consider when stating your "main"

Winters Dawn·Jun 4, 2017·2 votes·309 views

Back when Kindred came out I was hooked. I had just barely got into league and this character that looks so ominous comes out. So I considered myself a kindred main ever since. For the past couple years she's been out That's what I;ve considered myself even tho sometimes I take a week or two break from her. I have seen posts on the forums like "who should I main now" "I use to main this champion" But how do you consider what constitutes you main? is it who you play the most or your favorite? No matter how long of breaks I take away from kindred I will always consider myself a Kindred main. Guess it's just weird to me when I hear someone has 'changed their main'

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Fondling GemsJun 4, 20173 votes

I am a Taric main. I have played under 50 games on him this whole season if I had to guess. I can still consider myself a Taric main for a couple reasons.

I still know how to play Taric very well. I know his damage, how tanky he is, how to use him, how to build him, and I know all this to a much higher degree than most Taric players at my elo.
Taric is my soul animal. He is my inspiration and a role model for me. Regardless of whether or not I play him in game I am always playing Taric in my heart because he has so many qualities that I strive towards. He is the champion that defines who I am.

People tend to have two different ideas of what it means to main something. There are people who main something because they love them, though to what degree and why varies. We, and many others, fall into that category. The love I feel for Taric is nothing like the love you feel for Kindred, but we both love our champs for reasons beyond their winrates or power levels.

Then there are those who consider a "main" to be something that you "main"ly play. To them I would be a Karthus main because 50% of my recent games have been Karthus games. There is nothing wrong in thinking like this. The issue is that both groups are using the same term to describe two different things.

Mains are both the champions that you couldn't play without, regardless of the frequency with which you play them, but mains are also the champions that you frequently play.

Dark NephthysJun 4, 20171 votes

I have always been a Anivia Shyvana main. I have played them since I started playing league which was the beginning of Season 3. Though I did take breaks from playing Shyvana because of all the changes to her, items and her match ups during Seasons 5/6. I actually play her Top lane, which was very good and extremely rare in season 3 and most of season 4. Though I believe she started becoming common and meta in season 5(?) where top lane was literally only Shyvana vs Renekton , so I took a break from her during that time since she was to meta for me. Then she got nerfed and her items got nerfed and stopped being a strong pick top lane. I still play her top lane a bit, though I'd generally play Chogath as my top laner now but will always love Shyvana as my main top laner.

As for why I picked her? You know..I don't really know why I picked Shyvana as one of my mains, I most likely really liked her kit and her theme and because dragons are cool so that might of been why I started playing her. Though as I mentioned before my other main is my actual best champion who is Anivia . I play Anivia a lot and never took a break from her, and she is my highest mastery at like 230k mastery points which the next 2 highest under her is Lulu Shyvana both around 80-85k mastery points. So you could see how much more I play Anivia than other champions.

I picked Anivia up because I have always loved Phoenixes and anything that resembles a Phoenix.

Umbral RegentJun 4, 20171 votes

I consider myself as maining a Champion if I check out a few criteria with them:

Do I like their thematic/design?
Do I like how their abilities feel/look? (the "look" is a variable, usually skins do the trick for me)
Do I play reasonably well with them? (Consistently capable of scoring high A's/ low S's.)

Those are pretty much the biggest things I try to fill out when I call myself a Champion main, though I also will baseline say it for anyone I have MR7 on.

Dale WardarkJun 4, 20171 votes

I consider myself a Garen main. He's not my highest win rate champion, nor my best played, but I do know his damage output, the best items to build, some good strategies, and several of his best lane match ups. I also know what happens to him at every stage of the game, and who he is best suited to fight with on a team. For instance, just last night I played against a GP in lane. I knew that of the GP was good, I would most likely lose lane, so I started out by simply freezing the lane and not pushing too far too fast luckily the GP seemed to have no interest in pushing the lane either. However, by late game, even with me fed and killing the GP four to five times during laning phase (he killed me twice) he bounced back, where as I knew my effectiveness as anything but a meatshield/ultbot was gone.

AhristocatsJun 4, 20171 votes

i consider maining a champion when i unlocked every knowledge about him

Thresh is one of my most played champion and that every season, i know everything about him every trick every combination (can W while using Q, can ult while using Q, can stop dashes with E, can use Q into monsters to escape)