What role do you think is the best for climbing and why? Also what roles are better for climbing in low elo vs high elo. I've seen lots of jungle and mid mains in challanger but in my rank jungle doesn't seem to be so adored.
Mid, as a mid laner you can have so much pressure on the map. Objectives revolve around you and your lane control. So actually getting good at the role feels rewarding. If you're losing because "Team feeds", it's likely your pressure just sucked ass.
1 - Every role has the potential of influencing the game enough to be considered "hard carrying" except for support.
2 - Play whichever role you feel you're best at
BUT
3- whichever role you pick, take advantage of easy champions.
Tip 3 differs based on your current and desired elo but I'd say having a mastery over extremely basic champions will get you up to plat relatively easy when compared to being "just ok" or "pretty good" at a skill intensive champ like yasuo.
4- the lower the elo, the longer games tend to be. Especially in silver and below, late game hyper scaling champs have the advantage since teams tend not to know how to and a game quickly.
Top lane - juggernauts and splitpushers like garen mordekaiser, tryndamere are very easy to play with the right mindset.
Mid lane - Annie is extremely powerful with a very easy game plan (flash ult). Veigar and malzahar are also good. Mages in general tend to be easier and more accessible than assassins.
Jungle - it's your choice between gankers and power farmers but keep in mind that simplicity and scaling are your friends. Vi, udyr, Warwick, master yi are all great.
Adc- simple but effective ones are jinx, Caitlyn, and kaisa if you have good aim.
Better jg wins
One one hand, it really depends on your playstyle.
On the other, the jungle difference and the difference in your ADCs is usually the more relative factors in a good game.
as someone who has played since season 2, and how the current meta has shifted with jungle xp nerfed a bit, solo lane xp buffed. and the impact to the entire map i would say mid would be the best.
and im saying this as someone who plays top and support mainly, who has in past jungled and adc the only role i never got good at was mid.
Slightly long answer incoming: 1 way to answer would be to say your BEST role, yes i know arguably we should know how to play all roles (because of pick order in old times, and autofill in current times), but the reality is that you will very likely have 1 Role where on average you perform better and feel more comfortable in than other roles. For me this ended up being Jungle, the primary reason being my Optimal champ pool (the champs I am most comfortable/experienced on) is relatively small, and while I have good general knowledge on what champs in league can do I am ignorant of many specific interactions between champs (sub-optimal matchup knowledge) which I realized was a significant liability if i wanted to play a lane.
So, the first answer is a more "practical application/logic" answer, 2nd answer is going to be more "in theory." If you believe your true skill level is well above your current MMR/ELO then the best role to climb is Mid: You get the most resources of any role (shorter lane= more minions), can gain a large advantage in lane and then push that lead by helping your jungler or roaming bot/top, Jungle may have the highest potential to influence multiple lanes, but Mid has the second highest and because Mid is a higher resource role a midlane roam has more potential impact than a jungler gank.
However If you think you are relatively close to your True Elo, but still have the ambition to climb and improve Jungle and Support Can be good roles to climb with. The reason for this is Jg and support are statistically the least popular 2 roles, and this means on average the player in your games assigned these roles are statistically less likely to "main" the role. So if you learn these roles and can consistently perform above average you can generally win more games than you lose and climb.
if you are good at it jungle, even with the changes it is still the most influential role in the game.
Shouldnt you play marksmen or AD assassins if you wanna climb?
Also lethality lee-sin support is hilarious.
Here's how I'd rank the roles from best to worst (in preseason)
Mid + Support -----> Top -> ADC -> Jungle
If you mean best role to CARRY games with, that would be mid.
But if you mean best role to climb to the highest possible ELO with a given level of skill at the game, support is the best role as it sets the lowest bar to climb.
Top lane without a doubt.
Pick bruiser, collect free win, repeat.
mid and jg make the most diff in the game but you can pick any role...
Support. Because Supports can fill literally every role.
Mid/Jung.
Best role to climb with is the one you have a 51% win rate on or better. Their is no one role that climbs better, its all about the player. I always just dicked around in ranked with friends. But this season i picked to just climb, and to play the role i know the best and have gone from b4 to working on my gold promos as a support main.
ANY ROLE CAN CARRY....if you play it right. For me, i dont care if my adc is shit/afk...If im skilled enough i can carry the game....and in low elo...I actually enjoy when the adc afk....watching people flip out in chat when you 1v2 and walk away with double kill as a support is great! While others would flip out as they are autofilled or just dont understand.....im happy to out xp your ass and hit 6 before you!
You have to find yourself in league, Your role, your champion pool, and your style of play.
