Why do you play your primary role, and would you ever consider changing it?

Mira Arya Enthe·Feb 21, 2017·3 votes·1,168 views

Jungle and Support for me. I'll admit it, it is because I absolutely hate last hitting and wave control and don't want to spend 10 hours in customs practicing it. Even if I play mid or top I pick people who can last hit easily or clear waves with abilities. Last hitting is my least favorite mechanic in a videogame, so I play Jungle and Support. Only way I would change is if last hitting became easier or was removed, and I don't want that to happen because it is important aspects of LoL, even if I dislike it.

What is your main roles, why do you play them, and would you consider changing them?

27 Comments

EndlessSorcererFeb 21, 20172 votes

My main role was jungle for the majority of S6.

However, I'm not a fan of the current jungle and I've stopped playing the role.

Top, Mid and Support are my preferred roles at the moment.

Tanks, Fighters, Artillery Mages, Enchanters are my favourite classes to play. As such, I prefer playing the roles in which they can be used.

Best Kog NAFeb 21, 20172 votes

ADC first, Mid second. I've started queing up as Mid first and ADC second because Marksmen are very unrewarding to play and doesn't feel as fun as it used too. I play those two because those are the strongest my baby Kog'Maw preforms in. As long as I can play him I have fun. I like the fast pacedness of him and I especially love orb walking his autos at around 1.5 - 2.0 attack speed (Normally I have this much at full build, I rarely get to 2.5 attack speed).

Mira Arya EntheFeb 21, 20171 votes

I like ADC. But I hate last hitting :V.........

JavelinJoeFeb 21, 20172 votes

lol that is kinda important for ADCs

LuxychanFeb 21, 20172 votes

Mid/Support and I wouldn't change them. Went through too many seasons trying to change roles and I settled into what I like. I have a handful of champions that I enjoy and that's who I play and will always play. Too stubborn to change.

Mid for the 1v1 pressure. Unlike top, it's not a farm fest as action is much closer and easier to get to.

Support for keeping the team alive and helping out where I can. Not just limited to the adc, wards also help jungle and mid depends on gametime and placement. No better feeling than keeping your team up in a huge fight and walking away with all 5 people alive.

Mira Arya EntheFeb 21, 20171 votes

Oh trust me, a junglers best friend is the support.

ProtestantCaesarFeb 21, 20171 votes

But a mid's best friend is a jungler.

Poor mids.

Mira Arya EntheFeb 21, 20172 votes

See, the thing is. Junglers like to like mids. But there is that ping "Blue"!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" that some mids give us... so depends on the mid.

ProtestantCaesarFeb 21, 20171 votes

Yeah. Sometimes a jungler asks me if I want blue, but usually I let the jungler have it because it's theirs. If I need mana, I'll build mana. (And use blue cards all through laning phase.)

RebonackFeb 21, 20172 votes

Play Treeline and spam the hell out of Kog.

JavelinJoeFeb 21, 20172 votes

ADC/SUPPORT I play them because they are fun, but I usually go support if I hate the current ADC meta (like what we have now where only like 3-4 ADCs are viable).

xxxDogmanxxxFeb 21, 20172 votes

I play Jungle and Mid, the two most influential roles. Recently, I've been playing a lot of Support because it's fun.

ProtestantCaesarFeb 21, 20172 votes

I play mid because TwistedFate does best there. I like last-hitting and 1v1 laning (so I also like top). I'm considering practicing TF ADC so I can play him well in two roles.

I would change main roles if my friends asked me to. I like to play League with my friends.

Mira Arya EntheFeb 21, 20172 votes

I love TF, I suck at him, but love him. Also never felt TF was unfair or OP, ever... like at all.

ProtestantCaesarFeb 21, 20171 votes

Even when he doesn't feel OP, he probably is. That global vision + semi-global teleport is so powerful.

Sassmast3rFeb 21, 20172 votes

Mr primary role is Support, since I feel as if Support is the only role where you can play the game in a relaxed manner; unconcerned with being the best, but still determined to help your teammates through thick and thin. Despite the fact that you do not get thanked for your assistance occasionally, and maybe some people give you shit for saving another teammate instead of them, the idea of being the "backbone" of one's team is inexplicably blissful.

The only other role I play is ADC, and for similar reasons. When your primary goal is to farm (which is rather basic), it makes the game much more fun for me. Not that I don't enjoy try-harding from time-to-time, but after a long day, I'm typically too exhausted to perform well in any other roles honestly, despite how fun they can be.

I would gladly play other roles/positions, it's just much easier for me to do that when I have spare time on my hands and I'm not exhausted 24/7 (like during the summer or on a break).

<3 A Karma main

Mira Arya EntheFeb 21, 20171 votes

You can support me anyday <3

Shyvana jungle <3

Sassmast3rFeb 21, 20171 votes

Omg the Shyvana main noticed me <33333333 can I actually friend you omg

Big LincolnFeb 21, 20171 votes

top because i love to obliterate kids in 1v1, hell i'll gladly 1v2. i tell my jungle to never come top and i walk away if they gank, cos I don't need them making me look bad

only reason i would ever change lanes is if it became meta to bring my champs somewhere else.

i play support for bard and that's it. xd

Handy Sandy Feb 21, 20171 votes

Mid/top both playing the same champion because I don't trust anyone else to carry.

LauchmelderFeb 21, 20171 votes

Mid because of how fun it is to battle it out in that 1v1 or when surviving the 1v2.

Top only when I can play Cassiopeia or Ryze. I dislike melees because in a melee matchup they always enter my comfort zone.

Keira HelshFeb 21, 20171 votes

Assassin/mid because that's were the characters I like most are (kass/kat). My role choice is dependent on which champions champions I like, so, I would change if a champion I loved was released elsewhere or Kassadin was reworked into a skirmisher

5000000000000000Feb 21, 20171 votes

I fill because I really don't care which role I get. That automatically means that I become a support main, though. I like support because I don't like being the primary damage dealer in a team. I like bringing CC so that my teammates can kill people. When I get bot/ADC, I usually pick Ashe or Caitlyn for their utility and range, so I can stay mostly away from the fight. When I get mid, I usually pick a tanky DPS mage like Swain, or sometimes a tank if our top laner and jungler are both carries.

nyakasgoodsFeb 21, 20171 votes

I play Mid most consistently, but I'll sometimes I'll just change roles on a whim and spam a different one (except jg. ew.) for like a week. I like playing mid because I feel like the champs there have the most interesting and influential kits and I actually feel like I'm doing something every time I Asol E down to botlane as opposed to sitting on some adc farming and knowing I'll eventually be useful. In addition, many of the mids just have an odd appeal to me that makes me just wanna play them even if they're in a bad because they're, for some inexplicable reason, most fun to me.

Alternatively, I'll usually play support because the idea of invisible power and giving agency to others above myself appeals to me (usually a supportive player in games like Battlefield as well). Also, the support class is imo the most diverse in League which gives a bunch of fun and different lane phases depending on the picks. Unfortunately, since the current state of support is "pick a mage and kill the other laner", I'm kinda turned off by the role atm.

I'll occasionally change these roles just 'cause I'll get a random craving for a random champ (Sivir was a recent one) where I'll just have the time of my life playing them until I get burnt out like 10 or 20 games later. Probably would consider switching to playing top more often since a lot of the principles that I enjoy apply to tanks as well, but I'm not comfortable enough holding the team's tp yet.

RalanrFeb 21, 20171 votes

I primarily play top because much of my champion pool doesn't function well or to my liking outside of it. I used to be secondary jungle but the early tank meta enforced by Vi and Hecarim kicked me out.

I'd probably go primarily support because I'm usually more focused on trying to help my team do stuff. I can play some of my pool there, but not to the same effect.