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Which role should I choose?

Immorgul··2 votes·808 views

I am an ADC main. In fact I have been doing so ever since I started league. Reason being that since most of them are marksmen, i am able to deal damage even while I am at a safe distance. And some champions like Caitlyn are able to be devastating in early games while champs like Ashe and Jinx can just tear through teams in late games. However, as I am starting to become more and more experienced with the game, I noticed one thing, almost every new player chooses to be an ADC or they just choose Garen (OP P.O.S They just spam his E and get the kills). Anyway, I also learnt that having more than one ADC is not a really good thing. And since I am just level 12, I have no idea which role I should pick. Which role will be a good transition from ADC to that role? All I know that I suck as tank as I soak almost every single damage and die very quickly. Also their attacks are very slow? Well, which role do you think I should choose? I would like some recommended champs for that role.

Thanks alot. guys

18 Comments

alasarcher4 votes

Support?

Immorgul1 votes

Hmm interesting. Which champs would you recommend

pattycakes52641 votes

I haven't played since the end of S5 but: Soraka, blitzcrank, Leona, and morgana are pretty simple and pretty effective. Thresh is very strong but difficult to play properly. It's a very fun role once you learn what you are doing.

alasarcher1 votes

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Hmm interesting. Which champs would you recommend

Well u like distance champions, that can steal deal damage, and be relevant.

Brand Bard Karma Lulu Morgana Sona Zyra

Shonjl1 votes

Depends on which type of support interests you. Currently there is 3 types of support. engage, utility, and kill. Leona, Blitz, Thresh are engage types since they have a lot of cc and are able to hold their target down for a long time for you or your allies to hurt or outright kill them.

Utility are like Sona, Soraka, Janna. They themselves don't do much to the enemy, but most of their kits consist of improving your allies. Sona can heal, speed up allies. Raka has the strongest single target heal in the game and team heal which does a lot. Janna has a powerful shield and tornado that is great for disengaging or even engaging with if timed right.

Then there is kill supports, basically Morgana and Annie. They usually don't build more than a single support item then pure AP and focus mostly on just quickly killing the enemy. It isn't uncommon for an Annie or Morg to kill one of the bot laners by themselves, or hesitate to get kills since they become powerhouses later in the game.

When I play Morg I always try to get the kill no matter the reason, my reasoning is if the ADC gets it then everything works out fine. If I get it then I negate a chunk of being starved in the early game, which allows me to be a threat much earlier. The ADC is getting farm and hopefully assists too so they will be fine regardless. A lot of people will say that is bad for a support but trust me, its better to have the ADC whine and whatever else they do and ignore it because they lived then even risk them dying which with ADCs the risk is almost always.

Khâmul1 votes

APC maybe?you can farm safely if you're not in hand to hand range,you're still a type of carry. (I won't recommend you to play support,because you'll say a lot of people that were playing your role,it'll be frustrating). You also don't have to play something close to ADC. you can go bruiser (mainly top/jungle). That way you won't be the main guy to engage (unless there's no tank) and you'll do some damages.i'm saying that according to what you said. But it' be better to try everything and see what fits you the most. don't give yourself restrictions.

1st Movement1 votes

Try gnar best at both worlds

Sona Ping1 votes

"Also their attacks are very slow?" Yes, their autoattacks are very slow because they don't build attack speed, though this isn't a problem because they usually rely much more on their abilities anyway. They usually want to do things like lock down potential threats or mitigate incoming damage which they do so through good use of their abilities. Or are you saying this as a possible downside for you, something you don't want?

"All I know that I suck as tank as I soak almost every single damage and die very quickly" This is an issue of knowing damage outputs and knowing how much damage a champion can conversely take, which is related to roles quite nicely. Right now, you say you play ADCs and ADC, as in a champ building a glass-cannon DPS build, is a champion who have a, quote-unquote, damage-absorption rating of "Minimal", generally you want to avoid getting hit at all. Knowing how much your champion can take at a certain time is something that comes from experience and you will learn it in time. So if you want to avoid that for now and take a set of champions whose intentions are similar with "take as little damage as possible" you can go with the traditional Mages. You would play ranged damage, artillery if you would like, and want to do damage while avoiding being engaged on in teamfights. There's differences, your damage will work around cool-downs and you'll have to start worrying about mana to even do damage, and CS will be harder since your auto-attacks do little damage but you will also be able to CS without about getting stuck in close-range auto trading situations that you would with two melee champs, so you may find benefit in that.

"Well, which role do you think I should choose? I would like some recommended champs for that role." All that said, I would actually recommend you try out the free rotation instead because people seem to find that works for them. Being able to play a champion yourself should be the best way to figure out whether you'll have fun with them, more than whatever role they are supposed to be, while the champions that may be recommended to you may cost more IP than you currently have and it would probably suck if you bought an expensive champion that you didn't like and won't play.

Immorgul1 votes

Man! Thanks for the detailed answer. From the first para you drew a really good conclusion. As I am accustomed to ADCs I prefer having champions with quick Auto Attacks. Even though ADCs have a minimal damage-absorption rating, I am kinda used to it as I am able to attack from a distance. Not only that, even in RPGs for that matter I prefer attacking from a safe distance. Being a tank never worked out for me. I don't know why. Maybe it's their speed or maybe I just suck or maybe i don't know the proper mechanics or maybe I am not just compatible. But anyways, thanks a lot,dude. Looks like I will have to try what almost every one is saying i.e. try the free champions.

VictoryDance961 votes

Try all of them. Seriously. Don't be hampered by playing only one or two roles efficiently. Try every free rotation champion that is released, and see who you are good with.

Immorgul1 votes

You make a good point. But in the words of Bruce Lee"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." I guess you get the gist

Gear Kitty2 votes

Not in League though, it doesn't hold up. The best (maybe ONLY) way to learn and know the capabilities of any given champion is having played them.

I'm not afraid of fighting a Rammus or Sion, because I main them. I know what it takes to handle them BECAUSE I've had those exact tactics thrown at me when I play as them. Same for say, Teemo or Sejuani.

You learn what your enemy can do by BEING your enemy, if only for as many times as it takes to get a proper feel for how they work. If you have the time, play every Free Rotation Champion at least once during the week. Get a sense of their strengths, and where each one might struggle. Watch streamers on youtube and twitch, and maybe some matches from previous LCS Seasons (just remember that a lot of things can/have changed, even from Season 5)

Immorgul1 votes

Mein Godt! League is more complex than I thought. Really easy to learn but difficult to master

Gear Kitty1 votes

Pretty much. There's too many learned skills and instincts for someone to be able to sit you down and tell you what/how to do something.

I've actually got an example that happened to me the other day, in Poro King. Enemy team had an Ezreal, and his first buy was a item 3070 and item 1027 . Your first instinct is that he's probably an AP/Mage Ezreal, that's a lot of Mana to buy at the start of a game! But no, that's the core items for a "Blue Build" Ezreal. Tear goes into Manamune item 3004 and the crystal is the start for an IceBorn Gauntlet item 3025 .

Humans learn via 3 different mediums; being told, watching it done, or doing it themselves. But like I said above, League is too big for you to just read everything that you might need to know, and if you constantly play the same handful of champions the chances you'll know how to deal with any given enemy drops as enemy skill increases (moving from Bots to Normals), especially when you're not familiar with every range, ability cost, and Cooldown they have.

You really don't get a feel for Karma's W-tether unless you play her. It's finicky and can be broken a moment after you cast it if you use it at max range and the enemy is fleeing. Talon's mana management isn't so apparent until you actually play as him and run dry by level 2 because you spammed like hell to wave clear and harass your enemy.

Knowing a champion let's you exploit their weaknesses when you face against them, is basically what I'm getting at.

Knowledge is Power.[slayer-jinx-wink]

Catastrop1 votes

What's your fantasy profession? By that I mean, if you were some character in a cheesy fantasy game, what would you be? This, as ridicukous as it sounds, is how came to be a mid lane main. Seriously, I've always had a hard on for mages or anything magical, so upon learning that Mid Lane was where all the magic dealers dwelled, I was like "There, I will go there."

Immorgul1 votes

Well the MMORPG that I play is Vindictus. And I chose the Archer class. And since then I've been doing the same thing. When I tried WoW, I chose an Archer. In fact even in Skyrim, I preferred playing as an Archer and only went up close when I ran out of arrows.

So yeah I would prefer being an Archer. Or you could say someone like Legolas. That guy is the definition of OP.

Bhagswag1 votes

Learn them all, so that you can pick any role if your team auto locks.

Shonjl1 votes

It basically comes down to one thing. Do you plan on playing Ranked in the future? If you do then it is required to know every role at least in a way without totally being a burden and its a nice idea to have like 2-3 for each role. I say required since you won't have a good time trying to force things. For the amount of people that get away with it, there is easily triple that amount that get told to fk off.

If not then just play who you like and if you see someone on your team or enemy team that interests you, pick them up. That is how I did it. Started with Ashe and Hecarim, then slowly expanded from there.

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