Singed In high ranking play

Deus Imperator··1 votes·756 views

Is singed actually viable on high ranks?....i mean, aatrox,mordekaiser,yorick, Etc are actually designed to kill SOMETHING

you have to be chasing singed in order to get killed by him, or he must flip you into his team in order to contribute anything in a team fight

is there even a singed main here?

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Cowgirl Ed1 votes

theres a guy that streams he is diamond or something but yeah he actually has a high win rate i think

Cheesecakecrush1 votes

Sirhcez. He also does Nasus, another "high elo" avoided champ. Favorite streamer, need to watch him more.

Mysticman891 votes

As I understand it, higher ranks are less of champion blood baths and more strategic objective taking oriented.

So even if singeds at low ranks get champ kills due to people foolishly chasing them around and that may not happen at higher elos, singed can still become a big annoyance proxy farming between turrets, and his kit is prone to let him get away with it. A late game singed then might end up with near perfect cs but no kills, and even if he isn't a huge factor in teamfights, he'll be off split pushing/proxy farming as a swarm of minions beat down on a tower.

Hard4Hamsters1 votes

Singed is pretty good in less organized play. He is a split pushing demon and his ability in a teamfight to contribute is actually very significant if you are not behind (if you are, just keep splitting and have your team turtle for a while until you attract enough attention to get 3 or 4 man ganked. Proceed to press R and spam laugh as you run away while your team pushes midlane/gets drag/kills lonely enemy). If you are ahead, you can completely zone enemy carries off of your team, burn a flash or two, and possibly flip an enemy into your team if they think they can kite/peel you (#!$@ you Janna). It is very easy to overextend as Singed so be careful.

Anyway. I'm not sure how effective Singed can be in higher tier, organized play, but mains can definitely hold their own in solo queue. A buddy of mine was a Singed main for a while (looks like he was maining Vayne in S5) and had about a 70% winrate with him in Platinum. He told me once that he stopped playing Singed at some point because he would get bored playing and it would cause him to throw games. He sometimes would break it out when he put his tryhard pants on, but otherwise he wouldn't play him, opting for more "technically challenging" or "fun" champions. Anyway. This might not answer your question entirely, but it's one of those things where I can say I knew someone who was able to get pretty far in solo queue playing Singed and Singed has had some success here and there in the pro scene as a niche pick and SSW's Looper played him at World's with great success in Season 4.

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