Best early champions to snowball silver games?

Risen29··1 votes·9,559 views

In lower silver I found it sufficient to play a farming jungler like Shyvana that could wreck mid game, only taking ganks that presented themselves but not trying to force anything. Now more mid-silver that's not working as well.

One person suggested that the way to carry silver is to use a champion that will crush a lane, and tilt one of the players, leading to easy victory. I had previously assumed an early gank and lane crushing strat wasn't working for me because my team was never good enough to take advantage of the early gains to turn that into a game win. But maybe now they are getting better at doing that.

I've played a lot of Talon and Quinn this way in the past. Win lane, roam to gank. Or don't win lane, but still roam to gank. However, they've gotten nerfed a lot since I last played. And top lane is no longer as impactful it seems.

Options I'm considering (I am open to other suggestions):

Jungle: Udyr Jax Evelynn

Top: Fiora

Mid: Katarina Fizz

Ones that people say are good for this, but I'm not sure because I never played them: Akali (Mid) Shaco (Jungle)

Of those, it seems Evelynn and Fizz are more likely to snowball games than the others at this level.

11 Comments

catastrophicSkil3 votes

Annie Vladimir Darius Malphite Sion Sejuani are all really impactful champions that are easy to play i wouldnt recommend most assassins like zed yasuo because they require higher mechanical skills to be as relevant as the champions i mentioned.

Focus on CS not kills and you will win more games. Everyone in silver is garbage at CSing they average like 5 to low 6 CS per minute which is bad. if you can up that to like 7-8 per minute you average an extra kill worth of gold every 5-8 minutes. Once you're comfortable with getting good amount of CS then you can add in trades remember minion aggro is a thing just because you can hit the other champ doesnt mean you should. Obviously if the enemy player is playing bad punish them but CS is king especially in low MMR because players are garbage at closing out games

Risen291 votes

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Annie Vladimir Darius Malphite Sion Sejuani are all really impactful champions that are easy to play i wouldnt recommend most assassins like zed yasuo because they require higher mechanical skills to be as relevant as the champions i mentioned.

I didn't ask for an easy to play champion.

I asked for a champion that can carry silver when mastered.

catastrophicSkil2 votes

you dont master champions you learn how to play the game first. learning to play a champion will get you low plat at best.

Risen291 votes

Your "advice" hasn't been applicable since bronze. CSing and basic trading stops being enough to win in mid silver.

You're coming in here as an unranked trying to pretend you know something, offering advice that is completely irrelevant, and then are arrogant enough to insist that you don't need to answer the question of this thread because you know what I "really " need.

Since you're not interested in being helpful, but just stroking your own ego, I'll ignore you.

catastrophicSkil1 votes

thats a load of BS i've been mid/high plat every season for the past like 4 years with focusing on Csing alone. i've been playing on my alt account because i'm trying to learn a new role.

But keep telling yourself that CSing isn't important see how high you climb you're silver 4 with a 35% winrate who averages 5 CS per minute that is abysmal you are losing almost 100+ gold per minute YOU HAVE A GAME THAT AVERAGES 1.6 CS PER MINUTE like you must be trolling to believe the crap you're spewing is right

I'm giving advice that's been giving to me by challenger level coaches and players but i know a silver 4 player knows better than them right just because the are the basics doesn't they aren't important the ignorance of players is amazing especially when they're literally in the bottom 50% of the player base trying to talk like their knowledge of what it takes to climb is even close to correct.

EmeraldSands1 votes

Teemo

Risen292 votes

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Teemo

Is teemo a joke, or is he a serious suggestion? I think he's fun to play.

monoscape1 votes

I play him and he's pretty fun. Stay away from Singed though, I love this champ but he lost me so much LP

Mr Rontastic1 votes

LeeSin Riven Zed Yasuo

Risen291 votes

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LeeSin Riven Zed Yasuo

You know, I've always stayed away from Riven and Lee Sin as the prototypical pick that low elo feeds with, trying to carry. I suppose if I was good with them maybe it would work. I'll give them a try, why not. I've never been good with Yasuo, but Zed's style of midlaning is one I'm more familiar with. I'll try him first.

AttentionDEF1 votes

TBH Trundle top is so strong and easy to play. Garen top as well. Jungle Warwick. ADC Vladimir, support Sona, mid I don't play

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