What Role Do You Main? Do You Like It?

7he Joker·Dec 28, 2014·1 votes·1,115 views

Since Season 5 is about to start I really want to main a role. Last season I was all over the place playing in this order generally Supp/Mid/Top/Jungle/ADC. This season I am really looking to find that role I like the best and play it every game when possible. My question to you players of all ELO's what role do you main? Why do you enjoy it so much? Do you think it's the best carry role out there?

9 Comments

Blade of JusticDec 28, 20141 votes

I main support.

I play as Zilean, so the reason I like it is the sense of control and the enemy team underestimating me due to me doing so little damage.

The reactions they have when they blew all of their ults on Darius just to see him revive and run at them at 555 movement speed is priceless.

Do I think it's the best carry role out there? No.

But if you have a team that does well, you can make them do even better. As well, infinite ghost/exhaust and an on-demand GA with a 30 second cooldown is never not useful.

sad gurlDec 28, 20141 votes

adc i don't think it's the best role to carry, i feel that its carrying relies on either snowball or late game. weak af early game. i enjoy it because idk...i started with adc because it was the easiest role to play when i first started the game and now that i know the mechanics better i have fun with it lol

UndeZyrableeDec 28, 20141 votes

Im a mid main... casters are very powerful at the moment, and I consider myself pretty good at knowing when I can get in, cause havok, and get out. (assassin role) These combined gives me a lot of options in mid. (My favorite champs atm being LaBlanc, Kat, Akali, Fizz, Syndra, and Cassiopia)

maikokkDec 28, 20141 votes

mained jungle s4. seriously considering changing to top due to jungle changes. cant stand not being able to carry without constantly ganking.

DryditchDec 28, 20141 votes

I'm a current Jungle and Top main.

In many cases, my favorite champions can do double duty for those two roles, so I don't really mind. Nocturne is really the only exception, but once I pick up Skarner , he'll be dedicated jungle duty too.

Malphite and Maokai are absolute beasts for health based sustain, so I love them in almost every situation.

Support roles aren't as bad as everyone likes to claim they are, and many tanky AP based champions can do really well with a Frost Queen's Claim. Taric's a bit underestimated at the moment, since people forget he offers so much free Armor with W and AP with that ult, plus his heals can go through the roof if you pick up the right items. I'll probably start giving him more of a chance bot lane support pretty soon.

4nth0l0gyDec 28, 20141 votes

Jungle's always been my home. When I started playing, my school's 'team' already had a bunch of people who played support and mid, we had a rotating ADC and top laner, and we had a bunch of randos who occasionally played jungle. I decided I'd be the permanent fixture for Jungle and settle the team a little better.

I guess I could have gone anywhere, but I've always liked the 'special' roles in the games I played (Goalie in soccer, First base/catcher/pitcher in baseball, silenced sniper in Bad Company 2)...jungle felt like the cool alternative to laning. And with players named Theoddone and Saintvicious playing jungle in the pro scene, I couldn't help but be allured. Plus the champs who you played there! They were all badass like Udyr or Nocturne , or they were silly, like Rammus or Maokai or Fiddlesticks .

I started maining Rammus and Udyr and Kayle ...I'd always have people flaming me, asking why I wasn't duo top. But I persisted, and eventually I got good.

Jungle as of right now is hard. It's not a good role to carry from, and yet it is the gateway to all other potential carrying in the game after a certain elo. I love playing as the underdog, so I thrive with the extra challenge. The way Riot's treating the jungle right now has made it really fun and exciting, despite the difficult to master nuances (which, by the way, really hard on newer players. I don't think anyone coming into this game right now is going to willingly be picking up the jungle for a long time).

But I love the diversity of champions you can put there, I love trying to beat the usual picks ( LeeSin , Pantheon right now) with some new or currently less common ones ( RekSai , Maokai , Rammus right now). Jungle's always shifting around, and it's dependent on so many other factors than just which champions have high base stats. It will always be the most difficult position to learn, to balance, and to master, but that's the beauty of it.