Hard counters

googleeman·4/19/2016, 2:40:28 AM·1 votes·346 views

Just wondering wtf was the reasoning behind having hard counters in game? It makes no sense. Nothing ruins a match more than going into blinds only to find your whole team is hard countered. There's hardly any room to outplay. In so many guides I've seen, it just says "well you're fucked unless your jungler helps you". Riot, why would you allow someones game experience to be ruined by this?

Like a Velkoz-Assassin match up? Heimerdinger vs a non poke heavy champ? Like wtf?

1 Comments

EndlessSorcerer4/19/2016, 2:49:29 AM1 votes

There aren't really hard-counters in this game.

There are some match-ups which make it difficult to defeat your opponent due to an innate advantage in their kit against yours, but they can all be worked around.

However, the main reason that certain guides view the match-up as very difficult is because they assume that both players are taking full advantage of their champions and know how to play the match-up appropriately. When both players are at the highest level of skill, differences and match-ups between champions become increasingly important.

Considering that you are an unranked player who seems to be getting matched primarily with Bronze and low Silver opponents, that is not a concern for you. Most players at those levels don't really know how to take full advantage of their champion, appropriately punish mistake or how to play out the match-up.

At your current level of play, sufficient skill or knowledge will allow you to beat pretty much any counter-picks.