Indecisiveness is a bitch. (Need help deciding on what roles to main and maybe some general advice.)

FennekSucksAtLOL·5/1/2017, 2:28:29 AM·1 votes·681 views

So I have been playing League for almost a year now and I finally decided that I want to play ranked. I have heard that one of the better ways to get good at the game was to find a main role. However, I have been playing every single role and I can say that I want to main all of them except jungle and I have been told that being a fill main is bad for if you want to improve. Most people just say that you should main your favorite role or what you are best at but for me that advice has gotten me nowhere fast. Honestly my only option is to either become a fill main or get some help on deciding which as you can see I have opted for the ladder. If it helps I plan on maining 2 of these roles and quite possibly 3 if it comes down to it. What I can do right now is list all of the roles that I am considering so here are my options in no particular order:

Top Lane:

Champions I play in this role: Renekton Nautilus Poppy ??Teemo ??

Champions in Consideration: Kled

Details: This role is quite a fun one to play in my opinion but the one thing that makes me unsure about this role is that it is harder to be helpful to teammates than other roles which is why I mostly play tanky and juggernaut champions top lane. I also have trouble figuring out a good champion pool for top lane but that may or may not be fixed depending on if I like Kled or not.

Jungle:

Champions I play in this role: Rammus Rammus Rammus

Champions in Consideration: Rammus Rammus Rammus

Details: No, just no. If you must know why it is because for one thing Rammus is the only jungler I can play in this role and for another I am super bad at this role when I'm not Rammus as in 0/10 Wood 5 Yasuo bad. So no, it's not okay.

Mid Lane:

Champions I play in this role: Orianna Annie Ahri

Champions in Consideration: Lissandra Ziggs

Details: If I ended up picking this as a main role I would be able to start playing ranked RIGHT NOW actually. However, the reason why I am unsure about this role is mainly because I might find the other role more fun and this is even further driven home by the fact that I don't really have much incentive to play mid lane besides "You can carry the game hard."

Bot Lane:

Champions I play in this role: Twitch Ashe

Champions in Consideration: Ziggs Xayah

This role seems to be the one that I am best at out of the 5 options and Twitch is a really fun champion in my opinion. However, I have heard a lot of thing about adc that makes me very hesitate to pick up this role such as there being constant meta shifts and being one shot by every other champ in the game. While I could deal with the one shot thing, I don't know if I would be able to keep playing Twitch if the meta shifted heavily out of his favor who is the biggest reason for me wanting to consider maining adc.

Support:

Champions I play in this role: Lulu Leona ??Sona ??

Champions in Consideration: Braum Soraka Rakan

Details: Honestly, my most familiar role out of the 5. I have been playing this role ever since I was a fresh noob. Honestly, I don't see any reason for me to not secondary this role (Especially since auto-fill is a thing). However, while this would be a great role for me to secondary it is not really a role I want to main because then I would get it almost every game and get bored of it after playing it for so many games in a role and besides, I want spice things up every now and then and not just be stuck to one role.

Summary: These are all the roles I have available to me and I would love some feedback on this because I have been doing this for so long with no progress and no input. As a side note, I am not forcing myself to play any of these roles or champions (besides Jungle).Also, I left a poll so that everyone can leave some input. Thanks in advance.

18 Comments

MrHaZeYo5/1/2017, 2:37:34 AM1 votes

I'm a Primary Mid laner, Secondary Jungler. I can support, top, and AD pretty viable, I'm just not as strong at them. I picked Mid because in every RPG style game I've ever played I enjoy Mages. Then I fell in Love with Ahri when i found her early Season 3. So I just played mid mages and slowly started picking up the Assassins. Through out the years I played the other 4 roles as well, but I ultimately ended up back in mid time and again. I choose Jungle as my other role because I like to roam as a mid laner so I felt Jungle would help me learn to identify when to roam and when to go for certain neutral objectives.

My advice is to find that 1 champion you love and evolve your play around that champion's lane.

Rewt5/1/2017, 3:59:04 AM1 votes

Get Hecarim first item item 1401 then item 3078 Get item 3009 Thats your core shit. Now if they are really AD heavy rush item 3742 and if they are really AP heavy rush item 3065 If they are a good split just build against who ever is doing the best. After that its pretty much how you are doing. I personally just like item 3053 but if im fed as fuck i get item 3142 .

Hecarim is pretty amazing and you should give him and Jungle a try. Also you say you can only play Ram-Job. Who have you tried outside of Ram-Jam?

And yes Im a 4 Season Jungle main... so im kind of Biased towards this being the most fun role

Netherfang045/1/2017, 4:19:26 AM1 votes

Realistically you need to main 2 roles for ranked. Being able to do everything okay is good but its important to main 2 (Focus those mainly not 3 just the two). Right now I am struggling with the changes that have happened in 7.8 and I can't seem to win. But what I do know is that currently the main form of carrying is Top adc mid jungle support for competitive and in solo que its ADC Top mid jungle though I tend to see more Tops carrying right now even in Solo. Find the champions you like to play most. Do you find that when you're getting ready to play you tend to want to pick bruisers/tanky champs? Then go top. Are you wanting to play mages/assassins then go mid etc. I personally focus on mid and top because I tend to do really well in the lanning phase however I stay away from bot because I don't do what my supports want or they don't do what i want. So once you find the types you tend to gravitate to the most then you can pick your role from there. I agree jungle is rough and right now its in a bad state. I liked it where it was farm and gank but now farming is useless and I am not for learning jungle at this moment. But Khazix sure is fun

Malfectious5/1/2017, 10:39:55 PM1 votes

From reading this, I would say mid. You said yourself, you are ready to go in the mid lane, and you have a good mid champ pool.