What champions are good for learning specific aspects of the game?

5000000000000000·Mar 10, 2017·1 votes·725 views

For me, I used Nunu jungle to improve my map awareness (and worked well too). Who are some other champions who can be useful for learning different aspects of the game?

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Chaos Milk TeaMar 10, 20174 votes

Pick up a mage with a terrible auto attack animation and try farming without wasting mana. That'll teach you to cs, lol.

5000000000000000Mar 10, 20171 votes

Karthus and Anivia are probably the best for that. Soraka and Janna too, technically.

LapisMar 10, 20172 votes

Annie is a good champion to learn last-hitting, due to the mana refund on her Q.

SkelenthMar 10, 20172 votes

Nasus pretty much shows you how important it is to farm

Sassmast3rMar 10, 20172 votes

Hmm.................

I would argue Diana is the best champion for learning when you should and should not take a risk (you have to actually think). After level 6, each time you land her Q on someone, you are given a choice; You can either go in on them and try to burst them down, or you can sit and wait for a better opportunity. Diana does a stellar job at teaching players to actually think about the circumstances around an assassination, rather than just flying in and hoping to kill someone.

Lulu and are generally the best at teaching players how to farm properly. Both have really high mana costs, but with Lulu, you have to time AAs well, and with Cassiopeia, you have to time your E well. Both are great champions for teaching how to CS.

5000000000000000Mar 10, 20171 votes

~~You could even say Diana does a lunar job~~

Isn't it fairly easy to last hit with Cassiopeia? Her E acts like a second set of AAs. Or did you mean more than just last hit when you said farming?

Sassmast3rMar 10, 20171 votes

Well yes, but with Cassiopeia, you will get punished if you don't hit them with your E and kill them. You lose mana UNLESS you kill the minion with your E.

OleandervineMar 10, 20171 votes

Bard is good for Warding, since he's incredibly mobile and encouraged to roam. Miss Fortune is probably one of the best, basic ADCs out there (more so than Sivir or Ashe), and Nami is a great start for learning to support. I'd say Nautilus is great at teaching tanking, and that Garen is a great starter bruiser.

AvienalMar 10, 20171 votes

Plenty of champions at least are good in teaching the standard 'roles'.

Ashe for marksman or even Ezreal i guess too but no one wants to play him it seems atm, even if his one trick build style would give him a good counter of armor against all the lethality abuse stacking. Lux or Annie for standard 'mage' play whether as as mid lane or support. Zed even if he's one of the strongest champions in mid lane, is also one of the most standard AD assassins to learn how to play an 'assassin'. Garen is the go to for top laning and playing 'tankie fighters'. MonkeyKing actually fits the top lane for learning to be a 'aggressive' fighter. Ziggs Veigar all can be the niche for 'damage dealing nuke mages' for practicing those. Warwick or MasterYi are the good picks now for 'learning' how to jungle, especially since warwick's rework put him in a nice place to fight the current 'power house enemy champions', but his kit didn't get too complex for more new'ish players.

Plenty of other roles could easily be 'covered' in learning how to play particular champions, but Leblanc Yasuo LeeSin Draven Ekko Evelynn Jinx MissFortune Shaco Syndra Zilean Zyra i would not count really in good champions to 'learn' how to play, since most of them either have complex kits, require fast button pressing or require some proper thinking on knowing when to use your abilities and when not to (such as timing Zyra's so you root a enemy right next to a bunch of your seeds to damage nuke them, then just try and rush out seeds and burn up your mana too much).