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I can't main a role, too many decisions!!

Qweertzer·11/21/2016, 4:44:48 AM·1 votes·628 views

I have been having trouble picking a main role for a while now and I think I know why. When ever i watch someone like bjerson or nb3 I want to Miami their role because I love those two players and what they can do in their perspective roles. Normally i main jungle because I love helping and applying pressure to lanes (I also like support if my adc is not a halfwit, and that's never the case in solo) but I also love mid lane becuase I can make a lot of the big plays and I'm the star of the team. I also like he 1v1 part of it. If I go jungle and it's a bad game then it gets kind of boaring ( as with both roles ) and I start thinking I should have gone mid (and vise versa). There is also another problem, I don't really have enough champions in each role to make a solid choice, I have mostly junglers and I climbed the ladder (b5-s5 in my first season in one month) with that role , so it has always been sentamental to me. And I keep thinking if I went into the lcs what role I would want to play and jungle and mid and support pop into mind (since there are good adc). And I can never choose, can anyone help me choose?

BTW this was written on my phone, so escuse my formatting and "great" grammaticaly correct sentences.

5 Comments

Flaherty11/21/2016, 4:50:13 AM1 votes

Just play them all, or focus on 2 or 3 of your favorite roles

RisenDarkKnight11/21/2016, 4:55:11 AM1 votes

You have to pick 2 roles anyway to queue up, you can just alternate between Jungle Primary Mid secondary and the inverse. If you have more jungle champs you might as well just queue as jungle primary for now, and you'll probably sometimes get mid.

Maining 2 roles is fine, just pick a small number of champions in each role to focus on to get good with.

I don't recommend maining support unless you are in gold or higher, because adcs in silver and bronze can let you down a lot.

Mysticman8911/21/2016, 4:57:31 AM1 votes

If you appreciate all roles equally, I'd lean toward the one you feel your teammates tend to do worst compared to what you feel you could do.

For a season or two I mained adc, which was fine and I got to silver or maybe low gold, but I soon realised most people suck at support and I could do a far better job of it. So nowadays I'm a support main and I shot up to mid-high plat, and expect I could go further. (I was briefly a mid main before I went to adc too, and made that transition for similar reasons.)

For now you can just jump around between roles as you learn the game/champs and build up IP, but after awhile you might find that your <insert role here> makes you facepalm a lot because they're so bad, and then you can turn around and show you can do it better (or occasionally discover it's harder than it looks).

As you jump around in roles/champs too you might find a certain champ/role combo really clicks for you too, and that'd make the decision easier. Although you really don't need to make a decision in the first place, since you aren't in the LCS and aren't part of a 5 man team with dedicated roles, so just play whatever you feel like and don't worry about 'maining' a role.

ZDrahgonz11/21/2016, 5:00:06 AM1 votes

I mean its ok to switch your roles. In season 4 I was just trying to figure out what i was best at and played all roles. Then in season 5 I found myself as a good mid laner. Season 6 I felt like adc was the right choice for me. And now preseason 7 i've been playing alot of top xD

Flaherty11/21/2016, 4:50:08 AM

Just play them all, or focus on 2 or 3 of your favorite roles