Off-Meta Niche Picks
We list off-meta picks that have a certain niche where they can be successful
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support who has strong initiation and peel for an ADC with poke. Can use e to poke and shove lanes.
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ADC, ganking potential, self peel and initiate, AS steroid that's PASSIVE, bonus gold for passive, and a huge burst of magic damage on 4th attack that scales well with AS.
AP Top. Build Rylai's, RoA, and Liandry's plus whatever tank items you want and you burn like a fiery Steak of death.
Jungle. He clears really well and can soft leash with his passive quite easily. The only problem is that he is immobile and has no built in sustain outside soft leashing camps.
Jungle. He clears decently and always healthy, he can power farm indefinitely with mana pots or flask, and he can "gank" with his ultimate from across the map, all while racking up the gold for late game scaling.
AP. It is moderately effective, has good damage, and offers a TON of shield for whoever he ults.
AP. DON'T CHASE HIM. Seriously, Rylai's+Liandry's+RoA+Seraph's+Rabbadon's+Sorc Shoes and your poison deals 300 damage per second. The only problem is you have almost no resists to go with your 4k health, so you are actually pretty squishy to something like BotRK (then again, you are far tanker than most AP carries! XD).
AP. Not as good ever since they nerfed his Q AP ratio, but it is still a very bursty build with a lot of durability from his shield. Build nashor's tooth and then full AP with some resists from Zhonya's and Abyssal, and you deal a ton of damage (roughly 1400 damage with just your ult late game, and about 200 magic damage on every Q and AA).
AP. My personal favorite, this guy is actually sleeper OP in the tank meta, because a single set of AA>AA>AA>Q deals almost 60% of a tanks health in total. His passive is meh in either build style, but his W is absurd when stacked (each stack deals ~12% max health as magic damage, meaning a full triple proc deals up to about 36% max health in an instant) he has excellent AP DPS between his W on-hit and a Nashor's tooth, and his full burst rotation can melt whole teams (especially the massive nuke from his ult+W triple proc).
Poppy just poppy
Support.
as an ADC.
She's got slows, snares, a huge-AOE knockup and very long-range basic attacks.
He can go top mid and even adc. after level 5 jungle becomes an option too. Oh and a full build = solo ron
jungle. Early clear is rough, but it's easy to get your rage, and your ganks as mega gnar are terrifying.
Any lane, especially jg.
Mid, watch Xerath and Kat cry!
Support: Lots of cc and tankyness
Top
Bullies out tanky picks early on like Darius/Shyvana/Nasus
Has a really strong teamfight to compensate for the lack of frontline. Peels tanky opponents off your carry with ult and does a ton of damage. Lots of pushing power if you need to split push. REALLY good at defending turrets against multiple enemies so TP is a really efficient summoner on him for defensive play.
Note: Don't pick him into bruisers and fighters like Riven/Irelia/Jax. Lane phase is super difficult and your midgame doesn't have enough damage to keep them from murdering you even with your ult.
Great support, like playing Leona only with sharp spikes
Top laner, has great cc and does well if you build ravenous hydra then straight up tank
ADC, build lots of speed, pop the passive for great waveclear
Jungle.
Great cleartime, nice ganks, godly damage output.
Top
Great lane bully, seems to work really well against champs that depend on abilities, like rumble, maybe lissandra or kennen. Can be built in multiple ways to fit different roles, (Tanky, Bruiser, Assassin). Ult scares the daylight out of people.
Mid~ Every match up is the same, max stun first then once you have sheen and land a stun its a guaranteed kill. Beyond AMAZING roaming potential once you have Triforce. Can continue to build some damage like BotRK, Wits End, or Maw if your team needs the extra damage. :)
ap
come on you know u wanna fight me om nom or u wanna be passive q OMNOM
AD top Malzahar.
That's a nice turret you've got there... It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it...
Ryze ADC
His spells are all auto resets and getting muramana causes his spells to be strong as well.
My build:
followed by either a 
or a
support. You cheese people with your wallstun and hope you can snowball. I've only done it once, but it worked
Support:
peel machine, harass, stun/knockback, one of the best Ults in the game
Jungle:
healthy clear, Cinderhulk (nuff said), level 2 flash stun, great against AD heavy comps
Top:
(Triforce-tank build) great initiator, combo with Ori for the ultimate teamfights, build full CDR and some AS for crazy dueling potential
Mid:
Cheese enemy laner early with 
, roam all day
ADC: Try and catch me bishes
Others that work in the jungle: (lockdown and cinderhulk) 
(blind camps, gank two lanes within seconds of each other, good assassin) (healthy clear, taunt for ganks, ult for counterganks) (<--this was popular one time, no?, pretty good clear, good in 2v2s, Kamikaze style of play, top/bottom ganks can be potent when enemies hug the wall)
Top - He is tanky, has sustain and is a good duelist to boot. Basically everything that makes a good top laner.