I need a bigger champion pool, Help Please

røckstãr··1 votes·1,102 views

So I'm an adc main, but I try to learn a champ in each role except Support, (no hate, you guys are awesome) but each champ that I like and want to buy is trash in the meta right now. I play: Top: Fiora ADC: Twitch Mid: ??? Jungle: Kha'Zix, Udyr, Kindred As you can see, I dont play that many champs and I don't even have a mid lane champ. Please share some balanced(meta-wise) picks. I wanted to try Azir and a few others that I forgot because of the constant bashing they get as "bad champs" Plus I'm about to get into cancerous ranked and I need some good champs(no placements done yet)

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IllegalBagel3 votes

hmm I would start by adding simple champions into your pool. Since the champs that you have cant go into most match ups. So here are the champs you should play (imo) For mid lane I would pick Annie or Ziggs maybe karthus For top I would add Sion and Garen. I Don't play adc but I think you should add trist. Jg seems fine. For supp you should play soraka or janna. Thats just in my opinion I think everyone should have 2 or 3 champs for each role. But that might be to much

Azure Hamster3 votes

Ziggs for midlane. Garen top. Amumu jungle.

Those are my recommendations.

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Tenth Leper2 votes

Swain mid. It is good times.

(And if you decide to have a go-to support I would try Sona as she is not mechanically intensive and can be played either as high damage or high sustain)

Dryditch1 votes

Currently have 100% swain mid winrate. He's absolute cheese.

Chaos Milk Tea1 votes

With the way solo queue works now, you don't NEED a mid laner. You can focus two lanes, and have some back up supports in case you get auto filled. You say you are an adc main, so obviously thats a role you would focus. You listed three jungle champions, so I'm guessing thats your next most played? You could main adc and jungle, with a few go to supports for when you get auto filled. Or, if you prefer, you could main adc and mid if you prefer. Just stick with two roles instead of spreading yourself too thin.

In terms of being an adc, or any carry for that matter, its useful to have some go to picks to change how much utlity or damage you bring to the table. For example, if you get the adc role and see that top lane is a riven and mid is a vladimir, your team's cc likely all comes from your support. In a situation like this, an easy champion like ashe would be preferred as she can sometimes peel for herself as the other lanes certainly won't do it for you. On the other end of the spectrum, there are pure damage adcs like jhin who can't protect themselves very well at all but work wonders on teams with two or more high cc champions to defend you.

Picking a champion who is currently good can be fine, but it is generally better to main reliable champions who don't occasionally become "too good' or "utter trash" based on the latest item updates or meta shift. For example, don't main ezreal as he has a tendancy to flip flop between godly murder machine and "meh".

As for easy supports, I would stick with tanky cc champions as they provide much more to a losing team than many mage supports do, and most other players will pick there favorite damage champs anyway. There's braum for when you have high attack speed low mobility adcs who can proc the stun easily and need a body guard. He's easy to play and after a few games you start to get when to be a guard and when to lay the smack down. Nautilus has CC on every ability AND his auto attacks. He is also VERY hard to kill and has both engage and disengage. Nautilus also is very easy to play, with the biggest learning curve being understanding how tanky you are, and when you can all in. If you need a damage support, go Zyra. Thanks to how she deals damage, she only needs a liandry's torment and a rylai's crystal sceptar to be useful for the entire game and deal relevant damage and cc at all stages of the game. It may be worth having a healing support like soraka, but their viability is rather shakey from patch to patch.

Dolasaur1 votes

Well, part of LoL is having an encyclopedic knowledge of all the champs in the game. Ideally, you should play at least a couple games on every champ. So while you're doing that, you might run into a champ you enjoy.

For your non-main roles, it's usually a good idea to play conservative picks that are always useful. Take Fiora. She's a fine champ, and I have nothing against Fiora players. But since she scales so hard with levels and gold, she provides almost nothing for her team when behind. And if you're playing ADC/jungle most of the time, then you're going to be super out of practice in the one-out-of-50 games you do get top lane. Plus, her early game is fairly weak, so a top lane main that knows how to bully Fiora mains will have an absolute field day with you.

In comparison, you could focus on someone who is harder to mess up with (like Azure's Garen recommendation) or someone who's useful even when behind (like Maokai). For mid lane, Ziggs fits both criteria nicely; it's super easy to farm with his long range abilities, and he can still zone and wave clear even when behind.

Unless you are always queuing together with someone who loves support (and will trade with you if necessary), don't fool yourself into thinking you won't have to play support.

For your main roles (ADC and jungle), you should play whatever you think is fun. If you enjoy the champions you play, you'll get better with them more quickly, and you won't give up. If you were a mid main, I'd say Azir is fine. It would be a challenge that you would enjoy. But like with Fiora, if you're only playing him once every 50 games, you're probably going to get destroyed and not have fun playing.

røckstãr1 votes

Tbh Swain mid seems fun and so does Sona Support... Tbh for jungle and adc I play whatever looks fun(Twitch ultimate is the best ultimate) and thats why kindred is my most played champion, even though I guess she isn't in the best spot rn. But I think only playing jungle, adc, and support(autofill) will be okay because of what Chaoswlkr said. But I need better junglers that aren't super ez like ammumu

SparkyXerath1 votes

What about support?

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