AP Malphite and Annie Bot Lane

LVL 1 Mage·12/30/2015, 9:23:51 PM·1 votes·789 views

So, I just got out of a match as Jinx, my friend was playing Blitz support. We were against and AP Malphite and Annie bot lane. I literally could do nothing against them. Try to get farm, and Malph takes a quarter of my health bar with one Q. Every. Single. Time. Our top laner and Jungler started to flame me, saying bot lane sucked, but there was literally nothing I could do to stop them myself. They refused to gank us too.

There was way too much burst and CC.

And once they got to 6, I would just die from flash Malph ults comboed with Tibbers, or vice versa.

What, realistically could I have done here?

5 Comments

Penns12/30/2015, 9:31:51 PM1 votes

When I play against unbeatable bot lanes like that, I wonder "why do you even need adcs?" lol Like they can push turrets faster than other champs but does that really matter in yoloq?

Tikail12/30/2015, 9:50:41 PM1 votes

Well the tradeoff for Malphite is that him going full AP makes his tankiness shit, so he is extremely dependent on his ult for survival and engaging. Can he hit hard? Absolutely. But he was reliant on Annie watching his back to prevent you from catching up.

Malphite/Annie is an insanely good combo for bot lane but they naturally fall victim to Vayne in lane and Lee Sin jungle. Your top and jungles did the expected thing outside of flaming you though, if you're losing the lane that bad, no reason for them to hand out free kills trying to salvage it.

Ravenhale12/30/2015, 10:01:19 PM1 votes

First thing that comes to mind is lane swap. Jinx might be able to farm in mid or top, depending on the lane matchups. This also only makes sense if the top or mid would do any better in bot lane.

Next thing that comes to mind is Mercurial Scmitar, Treads and Maw. It's not ideal things to build, but in that particular lane it would make sense.

BluePolarizer12/30/2015, 10:08:44 PM1 votes

You need to assert your dominance at level 1. Like, if you and your friend were duo, walk right next to the minion line between your caster minions and your melee minions. You have an extremely strong Jinx+Blitz lane. If they even try to last hit, kill them or chunk them.

Also, the Malphite was gold 1. You are silver 3. Your expected win rate against him is 9%.

The Deckowner12/30/2015, 10:09:43 PM1 votes

their team should be squishy as fuck of they have ad mid/top or no ad dmg if verse visa.