What are your most favorite and hated lane matchups?

Mael bro··11 votes·3,044 views

What are your most favorite and most hated lane matchups and why? If you are more of a bot lane kind of person, please tell me which bot lane ADC/Support combo you hate the most? Or if you're a jungler which opponent jungler do you hate the most?

My most hated lane matchups top are: Ryze ,Kayle and Lissandra , because they are lane bullies and can scale hard into a late game. In Kayle and Ryze -es case they push the lane really hard and if your jungler is a potato and refuses to punish their agressive play, it can become a long and painful lane. What's disgusting even more, once they get their few core items, they can proceed to 1v1 any champion in the game.

Don't play mid a lot, but don't like laning against a super safe pokey type of champions like Xerath or Ziggs . Because they can farm from a distance and can abuse the shit out you if you are melee or your range is shorter. I both hate laning against Zed , because his laning phase is extremely obnoxious and barely has lane counters. The only way to stop him is to buy defense items. And if you are playing a mid mage, relinquishing mana regen early in the game is really not that great in early.

Love playing against a MasterYi jungle, because i have less fears of getting ganked, or if i am the jungler i can put a lot bigger pressure early.

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Stiv123411 votes

Mid: Good: Akali (her early is so abusable) Nidalee Teemo (he is so squishy and has neither range nor burst) Velkoz (just feels fair in general) Bad: Yasuo Zed these have frustrated me so hard I am halfway surrendering in the loading screen

I don't play a lot of top, but when I do, Nasus DrMundo annoy me the most. They just seem to be unkillable after they get one defensive item. The worst enemy support for me is Thresh because he seems to do everything better than me and his lantern denies so many safe kills.

The most disgusting junglers are Rengar Rengar Rengar Vi Rengar LeeSin KhazixRengar. Other honorable mentions: Riven Nidalee Rengar

Edit: Getting downvoted for my preferences. RIP in pepperonis

Hardstuck G42 votes

I get a feeling that you don't like a certain champion here. Gotta be Nidalee, mentioned her twice

Stiv12341 votes

You misunderstood me, I like her when shes my laning opponent mid, but I hate when she throws barely visible spears from her jungle and oneshots me under my tower.

Hardstuck G41 votes

It was a joke m8 ;)

Teemo or Feedmo10 votes

downvoted after seeing teemo has no range or burst

Verxint8 votes

For me there is nothing like Renekton vs Yasuo.

Yasuo players are always so cocky. Until I chunk 70% of their HP in a trade

Mael bro5 votes

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For me there is nothing like Renekton vs Yasuo.

Yasuo players are always so cocky. Until I chunk 70% of their HP in a trade

Doesn't every bruiser shit on Yasuo? But it's true that early empowered rage W hurts like mad.

Verxint4 votes

Most do, but Croc just seems perfect for fucking him over.

Stun will stop him mid dash and attack move lets you use it even if he dashes to you with Q3 up. Double dash lets you keep up with him, Q chunks him any time he last hits, and you will always have a eqe combo for his shield.

Personally I don't know why people bring yasuo top when they're not vsing a gnar, but hey

DarthSpectrum1 votes

Pretty much. Yasuo is countered by a lot of champions, generally almost every bruiser and assassin.

However, that is only if Yasuo builds his regular items. The top laner for TIP last season, Impact, builds Bam's Cinder into Sunfire Cape early on Yasuo. Yasuo has decent base damage, and he can actually beat a lot of bruisers by rushing Sunfire.

Then, Yasuo can follow his classic build of item 3153 item 3031 and item 3087 (with BoTRK second item). The current build with Tri-force is only effective if Yasuo is played as a burst assassin unless Tri-force is paired with Phantom Dancer and Sterak's, but I won't bore you with Yasuo builds.

Yasuo getting wrecked by most top laners is because people play him as an assassin. If he is played as a fighter, he can hold his own in most top lane match ups.

Handin Out Naps4 votes

Leblanc vs Zed is probably the most fun matchup. If both players are good at their champs one little mistake is easy to take advantage of. And they both fly around when they 1v1, its quite awesome :'D.

Pika3103 votes

Garen It's almost impossible to lose lane to a Garen. He's ignorable and punishing him is literal child's play. Because of the sheer frequency of times I've pointed out an enemy Garen having single-digit cs by 10 minutes, my friends have made a meme out of saying, "We get it... it's a Garen." when referring to anything that's a complete non-factor.

Sona This gold-filled pinata as the weakest champ in the entire game has no winning lanes. It's made of paper mache and incapable of fighting back. Simply smack it only once or twice with a stick for instant reward!


Chogath It's impossible to lane against him with anything other than a ranged champ and even then it's still a very difficult lane. He gets free AoE damage, free sustain, a massive knock-up+perma-slow that can be cast from off-screen, giant perma-silence and an ult that not only does an unreasonably absurd amount of high-scaling true damage with no cast time, but also gives him permanent tank stats just for spamming it off-cooldown.

Rengar Hide in bush. Hide in bush. Hide in bush. Rinse. Repeat.

I once laned against a Rengar as Ryze: he pushed the lane and I kept the wave perfectly frozen in front of my tower for a full 10 minutes. Rengar never appeared a single time on the map in those whole 10 minutes, surely he must've dc'd, right? He couldn't possibly have been sitting in that bush watching me cs for 10 full minutes? Walks up to bush, Rengar jumps out Same level as me and not a single cs gained in the entire time. Hell, after all that, he didn't even kill me when he jumped out. I just snared him and walked away so I could back for two and half complete items.

Mael bro2 votes

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Garen It's almost impossible to lose lane to a Garen. He's ignorable and punishing him is literal child's play. Because of the sheer frequency of times I've pointed out an enemy Garen having single-digit cs by 10 minutes, my friends have made a meme out of saying, "We get it... it's a Garen." when referring to anything that's a complete non-factor.

Sona This gold-filled pinata as the weakest champ in the entire game has no winning lanes. It's made of paper mache and incapable of fighting back. Simply smack it only once or twice with a stick for instant reward!


Chogath It's impossible to lane against him with anything other than a ranged champ and even then it's still a very difficult lane. He gets free AoE damage, free sustain, a massive knock-up+perma-slow that can be cast from off-screen, giant perma-silence and an ult that not only does an unreasonably absurd amount of high-scaling true damage with no cast time, but also gives him permanent tank stats just for spamming it off-cooldown.

Rengar Hide in bush. Hide in bush. Hide in bush. Rinse. Repeat.

I once laned against a Rengar as Ryze: he pushed the lane and I kept the wave perfectly frozen in front of my tower for a full 10 minutes. Rengar never appeared a single time on the map in those whole 10 minutes, surely he must've dc'd, right? He couldn't possibly have been sitting in that bush watching me cs for 10 full minutes? Walks up to bush, Rengar jumps out Same level as me and not a single cs gained in the entire time. Hell, after all that, he didn't even kill me when he jumped out. I just snared him and walked away so I could back for two and half complete items.

Rengar is the ultimate cheese champion after Shaco. After witnessing Ryan Chois(probably the most famous Rengar main) comeback with stacking item 1055, i instantly witnessed what kind of bullshit Rengar is. But you can downvote me, but to return like this takes a bit amount of skill, map awareness and limits of your champion. If you haven't seen the video, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI6pVvESotg. I sometimes love to play Rengar, but when i play him, he's real binary. Either i snowball and 1 shot everyone on the enemy team. Or i finish the game with score like 2/10 or smth like that.

Jorencice1 votes

Oh so THAT why you are defending that sona guy who has absolutely no evidence what so ever...

http://champion.gg/champion/Sona

Educate yourself.

Sona beats over 17 support champions.

And goes even with even more.........

Pika3101 votes

Oh, it seems I have a stalker now. While I admit that's a little flattering, it's also disturbing too.

Jorencice1 votes

Meh. U just happened to be here after I replied to your other post.

It enlightened me as to your motives.

Also I'm glad you have ignored every single one of my posts. Gj proving how bad sona is.

Pika3101 votes

Sorry if I can't troll the forums all day the way you do. I have a convention next weekend and multiple panels I'm running to prepare for. Then I have to get back to my Law studies literally the day after.

Some of us actually have lives.

Jorencice1 votes

Hahhahahhahhaha.

Oh man the best argument o the internet.

The "my life is better than yours therfore I'm right and your wrong"

Hahhahhahhahahah.....

Good job on doing the most worthless job in the world.

U hope you enjoy getting paid shit tons of money to destroy people that didn't deserve it and helping pedophiles get off Scott free.

Not my problem I have tons of free time while doing my job.

Being in charge of a robotics at a pharmacutical facility I just keep stuff running.

It isn't hard to pop out my phone and type something up in 20 seconds while walking from one end of the facility to the other.

Pika3101 votes

You make the assumption that I'm going to be a defense lawyer, when I never once implied as such and in fact do not plan to be. Then you make offensive comments based on a false assumption. How civil.

Caramel Chaos2 votes

Garen I don't care if I am a champion that counters him, he is so boring to fight, although I love to play him... Azir His zoning and roaming makes me tilt.

HayRoss1 votes

I only hate playing against Garen if I'm playing Garen

After silencing eachother, there's just this awkward pause for 1.5 seconds while you're just standing there looking at eachother like idiots while you're frantically spamming E and W

Teemo or Feedmo2 votes

kennen.

i once played lee sin mid in normals against him.

i almost killed myself irl after the match

Knoyle3 votes

Maybe I should pick Kennen back up and try him out some more.

1st Movement2 votes

I hate vsing mf or draven and a pokey support as vayne

Bisaknosp2 votes

most hated: jungle definitly this ahole LeeSin when i play a tanky jungle champ he always clears his whole jungle and invades me while i'm at my 3rd camp just retarded plus his insane mobility and his high movement speed allow him to be everywhere at any time oh and not to mention his damage that is way too high

mid these champs Leblanc Yasuo Fizz Zed i think there is no need to explain but most of the time i win against yasuo he is just annoying af zed just farms and pokes at the same time and all ins you at 6 to get a free kill then there is the fish who is like 'oh nice ultimate would be a shame if it would miss' with his low cd e that is by far one of the most unfair abilties in the game and lb at 6 she q r 's you every 30 seconds to chunk down half of your hp yea muh counterplay add another ability and you are pretty much dead

top DrMundo Jax Malphite just boring and at a certain point unable to kill them (except jax but this guy is just broken af with guinsoos)

bot Kalista this whole jumping around and how she saves her support every time he fucks up Vayne can go 0/6 in lane and still wreck everyone if she catches up in farm

Blitzcrank way too high damage for a tanky support esp at 6

shyv2 votes

easiest champs for me to lane against are probably

Illaoi DrMundo Kennen Jayce top

Heimerdinger TwistedFate Ziggs Velkoz mid

Blitzcrank Nami Sona Volibear bot

nightmare lanes would be

Jax Tryndamere TahmKench top

Leblanc Morgana Brand mid

Alistar Janna Nautilus bot

Hotlin3 Fling1 votes

Favourite matchup top lane:summoner 12 Least favourite matchup:summoner 14

Mael bro1 votes

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Favourite matchup top lane:summoner 12 Least favourite matchup:summoner 14

Agreed. But sometimes i am the one who brings ignite top. lol

charcharmunro1 votes

Most hated match-up in top-lane... Riven . Because I tend to play tanky characters without much mobility (Singed, Sion, DrMundo, Trundle) so I often have very little methods of actually stopping Riven from doing her annoying all-ins. She doesn't usually KILL me because I'm tanky, but she still just goes in, stuns, goes out and it's like "Well I guess I just have to take that".

Favourite match-up: Pantheon because I know he's going to go OOM before me.

Poske1 votes

This ll sound odd But I like playing against Yasuo- He is just really weak champion. I just aa him once bait out his w and destroy him ... Idk why people have trouble against him. I wouldnt mind going even against master tier yasuo. I am just to confident in wining that lane. He is also easy to gank

Le bl- I kinda main her and honestly if you main her then you can make le bl worthless for whole game unless someone is as good as I am at le bl at which point I ll still beat her but she wont be useless

Many people dont like playing against this 2 so I mentioned them however I Like playing against most of champions except those down below

Now I hate playing against Zed - Just Fk this champ. You dont even have to be good with him to beat any mage. He counters to many midlane champions in the game. I started hating him that patch where he had broken wierd buggy poke and I still havent stoped hating him because he is just iritating

Rengar- The higher you climb more you ll hate this guy. Like seriously Good luck

Soraka- She makes any botlane really strong botlane on top of being a support hypercarry. Needs a nerf Mundo- Ehm what the fk is that base dmg on e????? Tahm Kench- His e is Ultra good vs Poke,Burst,Sustained damage???? who though that was good design? His swallow renders assassins useless and his stickiness + dmg is disgusting. Nocturne - Darkness and then you die Janna- Just tired of this free elo support. I dont mind the peel no thats fine but she gives free bf sword + long sword and she is ideal support for duoq so often she + any adc ll destroy you if you are at botlane and not duoq yourself Good lissandra. Good lissandra is just ... freezing gladly few are good at her which is kinda wierd if you ask me Kindred- This is number 1 ebola champ in the game atm

Ice Birb1 votes

Favorite match up: Velkoz . It feels even and based on skill.

Least favorite: Yasuo . And no, I'm not saying he is OP. He is just so annoying. He uses your minions against you and once you think you hit him BAM! Windwall.

I would have said Zed, but when I lane against him, I feel more awake.

GrandpaTheGreat1 votes

Favorite: Riven . Keeping her from snowballing is an interesting struggle, and playing around her cooldowns and exploiting those windows of power lead to some interesting mindgames

Least Favorites: Vladimir (Top): I've got a bit of a fun story on this one. First time I ever fed was when I was against a Vladimir in Coop V Ai, and when I moved on to pvp normals Vlad remained the one champ I hated plying against. So I decided to pick him up as a main, to try and llearn how to deal with him. After becoming my second most played champ, I still think this guy's kit is toxic lol. Garen : I FRIGGEN HATE THIS GUY! He's so damn tanky he borders the line to invincibility, is good at all stages of the game, and has good damage. Before it was kind of like a watered down version of how I described Riven, just survive lane against this guy who's practically invincible early on, and then watch as you outscaled Garen later on as a reward. But now he still scales hard into the lategame.

ElJanitorFrank1 votes

My favorite match up is Yasuo, because I know how to actually counter him.

Also has something to do with me being a Viktor main.

Puppet33r1 votes

Mid: Zed and Lux . Their poke is total bs. Very easy to land and almost 0 chances to dodge. And after they poke you out, one can easily all-in you and the other goes fishing for a binding to drop full combo after. Both are very safe and risk nothing with their poke. Top: Irelia cause she is like the new riven. Snowballs super hard and super fast. Always scary to go into lane against her with any champion. Darius - one wrong step and you are dead. Renekton - he will kill you it's only a matter of when. Support: Blitzcrank - all it takes is just one hook. It doesn't matter how many he missed, only the one that he hit matters. Morgana - super fat super long range 3 sec binding + cc immunity to cockblock your tank engagers.

iamleburk1 votes

Favorite lane is either side of the Cassio vs Azir matchup. And i generally hate lanes against Yasuo and occasionally fizz. Usually i can contain the fizz with my own pressure but if he gets ahead just a little bit, usually from jungle pressure, he becomes an absolute nightmare.

Kelzedek1 votes

Any mid or poke champ top, why people do this is beyond me. granted they get fed but top is supposed to be ad/ap tank vs ad/ap tank

Br4ndon1 votes

Blitzcrank , Thresh and Alistar are my least favorite bot lanes to play against. They get a lot of reward for next to no risk to themselves, aside from Alister. Alister is just really annoying to play against.

Lulu is one of the most fun supports to play against to me. I personally only played her once or twice and she feels extremely skill based with proper risk/reward. If i die to a adc/lulu lane i feel like i was outplayed and not cheesed.

Mael bro1 votes

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Blitzcrank , Thresh and Alistar are my least favorite bot lanes to play against. They get a lot of reward for next to no risk to themselves, aside from Alister. Alister is just really annoying to play against.

Lulu is one of the most fun supports to play against to me. I personally only played her once or twice and she feels extremely skill based with proper risk/reward. If i die to a adc/lulu lane i feel like i was outplayed and not cheesed.

Lulu's broken as fck though.

Br4ndon1 votes

Anything but support Lulu is obnoxious to deal with. I wouldn't mind seeing her solo lane nerfed and support buffed. It's pretty boring seeing her picked so much in high level play as a solo laner.

Rozair1 votes

Personally I like laning against Yasuo or malz maybe even zed. I hate fizz. I fucking hate fizz!!!!!!!! He has no counterplay. I main Diana and swain is dianas number one counter. I'd still rather fight swain than fizz. Stupid op fish

Chaotic Reks1 votes

Top as Khazix : The good: Jax I can just cheese him early game, and i'm not usually auto attack reliant, Riven, just bait her shield and stun and i can slap he around silly, Sion just really fun to play against, RekSai, just bait out her tunnel+knockup.

The bad: Aatrox Darius Diana DrMundo Hecarim Fiora Garen Gnar Illaoi Irelia Jayce Kennen LeeSin Malphite Nasus Olaf Pantheon Renekton Rumble Shen Singed Teemo Trundle Tryndamere Vladimir Volibear MonkeyKing XinZhao Yorick all of these champions either have some form of good poke or sustain, or are very hard to kill or just feel unfair to lane/play against cough LeeSin cough As you can tell, i hate pretty much every top laner, yet i main top lane [zombie-brand-mindblown]

Weathered1 votes

Top: Illaoi Poppy (and sometimes DrMundo ) (I don't like tanks who do absurd damage) Quinn Mid: Zed Yasuo (I play TwistedFate ) Jungle: Shaco (not that he beats me personally, but he always wrecks my team no matter how much I ping) Rengar (I play Kha) Bot: MissFortune (Her laning is BS for damage) Supp: Soraka (paired with any ADC with mobility or long range, its terrible) TahmKench (again the whole "I'm building tank but completely wreck you")

Mael bro1 votes

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Top: Illaoi Poppy (and sometimes DrMundo ) (I don't like tanks who do absurd damage) Quinn Mid: Zed Yasuo (I play TwistedFate ) Jungle: Shaco (not that he beats me personally, but he always wrecks my team no matter how much I ping) Rengar (I play Kha) Bot: MissFortune (Her laning is BS for damage) Supp: Soraka (paired with any ADC with mobility or long range, its terrible) TahmKench (again the whole "I'm building tank but completely wreck you")

How does one win a lane against Zed as TwistedFate it's like literally near impossible.

Weathered1 votes

Oh wow completely forgot to clarify that these are all hated match ups xD Ya TF is terrible against those sort of all in AD midlaners.

Veraska1 votes

I really like yasuo vs yasuo mirror match it's fun and flashy and its silly

I try my best to avoid going against zed under most circumstances tho, I just in general never seem to be able to beat him in lane, so I'll swap roles with a teammate if I see the enemy locked in zed just cuz I know other people have better favor against him

Spizzle90001 votes

I love playing against either Zed or Yasuo.

I hate playing against Mundo, Vayne, Riven, Lee, or Akali.

Xeruon1 votes

To be absolutely honest, I absolutely despise mid Lux with a burning passion, she is so freaking safe, even if you somehow manage to get some decent damage in, she still can farm without a care in the world. It feels like killing her doesn't mater since her ult does very high amounts of damage and it's on a ridiculously short CD. After the buff to her E where she can pop it instantly, it might as well be point-and-click because it's almost unavoidable damage + slow. Her Q also is a two-target skillshot and the snare feels like it lasts 2 years. Other than that, the people playing her also seem like total douchebags at all times. They constantly seem to KS, act like playing her takes as much skill as someone like Azir, and when they go "support," they start item 1056 and don't even bother getting item 2049, and just play APC, not givng two shits about the ADC, or not taking his CS for that matter.

DrMundo Also Feels like a punch in the throat, his Q is an annoying as hell slow that does almost too much damage, and the sound it makes when it hits just makes me tilt harder than CLG at Worlds 2015 when they lost to Koo Tigers, and his E allows him to outtrade most other top laners, giving him ridiculous amounts of AD even though he doesn't even scale with that stat. His ult might as well be a kayle ult combined with two 45% CDR Sorakas healing you, both for 12 seconds. Oh, he also has built in slow resist. How Great.

In the jungle, Shaco is the bane of my existence. He always has a box hidden exactly where you are passing through somehow, whenever you almost have him, instead of a satisfying kill, you get a puff of smoke, then nothing. And when you do get gim, 60% of the time it's his clone and he's hidden in a bush somewhere recalling or ready to ambush or kill you. It also pisses me off that most of them take Smite and Ignite. Oh, a point-and-click slow that has a 1.0 AP/1.0 Bonus AD scaling is also fun. Loooooooooots of fun.

Tristana. Just. Tristana. Not only does she have an insanely high AS steroid, a jump reset ON AN ADC, a bomb that is pretty much the AA-Based ADC equivalent of a Zed Ult, that can also be used for melting turrets, and a built in nope button that you can also potentially InSec someone with. But she's voiced by Elspeth so that's a redeeming quality.

And last but not least, Morgana. Her binding has a ridiculously messed up hitbox, has very high base damages and an even higher AP scaling, and binds you for too long. Her W, combined with Rylia's is probably the easiest way to get a TL's proc, her E makes Both of my favorite supports (Thresh Blitzcrank ) as effective as, in KiandyMundi's words "Nipples on a helmet" and her ult is basically marriage simulator 2009-2016.

SnugglePuggle941 votes

Top: Jax Garen TahmKench Tryndamere Mid: Zed Jungle: Shaco Bot: Thresh Blitzcrank

math crab1 votes

playing as Diana vs Anivia is hell for me anivia's comparatively weak early laning doesn't matter when she has an enormous range advantage over me, and there's no way I can realistically kill her or even pop egg before 6. we both typically hit 6 at the same time, at which point there's enormous pressure on me- as a snowballing assassin- to kill her and start roaming immediately, but it is so hard to get a clean kill on her and she pushes mid lane so absurdly well that I can't really do either. she outscales me, and then zones me away from her whole team for the rest of the game. puts me on tilt every single time.

Milodic Mellodi1 votes

I'll only discuss Bot and Mid Lane, because quite frankly I'm not very good at the other lanes.

Fav. Bot: Tristana ADC and Karma Support. It's fun going against another Tristana, especially when I'm playing as her as well, but Karma just can't really help my opponent's Trist do anything but go back to their tower and lose much-needed CS. It also makes teamfights interesting, because the combination of the two in that teamfight can push against your team well enough. Kindred ADC and Alistar Support. The two together just make for an easier game, because they just don't fit too well together imho.

Hated Bot: Teemo ADC and Shaco Support. NIGHTMARES FOREVER! Draven/Kalista ADC and Blitzcrank Support. I main Tristana, and boy I hate going against this matchup so badly. I don't think I even need to explain why on these. Ezreal ADC and Janna/Morgana Support. While this can affect my ADC gameplay, it's more affective against my Support gameplay. A good Ezreal can gorge themself on a champion caught in a bad spot by these two.

Fav. Mid: Ryze. I also main Morgana, and she counters him very well. Annie. She's easy enough to deal with until Level 6, by which time I've already had a Gank or two in my lane and/or I've Ganked a lane.

Hated Mid: Yasuo. Even with proper Gank support, I find myself having a really tough time against him. At least I'm not alone. Heimerdinger. NO. JUST NO.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Since Lulu support is the only thing I play...

Good: Braum Trundle Annie Taric Alistar Bad: Leona Sona Soraka Karma Velkoz

You don't like the peel of Janna, the tankiness of the unkillable Alistar, or the poke of Karma? Shove everything into one champ, and we have the ugly!

TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench TahmKench

Thank god Lulu is one of those supports where dealing with him won't be as bad.

######No pun intended.

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