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I won 3/4 recent games without (refusing) playing jg

z63XnLCMwX·2/24/2020, 9:38:55 PM·1 votes·2,291 views

The game I lost, I was 10-8 as ezreal in a duo mid lane. The 3 games I won was playing a support top + top laner. I think jungle is not really much of a necessary role anymore as a well co-ordinated duo top/mid will have much more influence. Sure, smite may help in securing jungle objectives like baron/dragon, but just how useful is it when your jungler is behind and your team is able to zone them out of the pit? Cho gath as a champion is able to out-contest smite at any point after 6, is a solid laner, scales well into mid-late game, naturally beefy while being able to deal respectable amount of damage, both in flat burst and %hp. Pair him up with any support champion capable of setting him up for his rupture, and he snowballs really hard. Most time, I play either zilean for the point click 99% slow plus exp reduction negation or Annie, for her flash burst combo with high AA range harassment in a duo top lane. If the jungler comes to make top a 2v2, they will naturally be down one summoner spells because of smite. All that needs to be done is to have the enemy solo laner tilt from dealing against two people's constant harassment before your bot lane crash. If a bot lane is able to play safe near tower, they should be able to survive till 6 without a problem. If they can't, they probably would still feed even if you were jg and ganking their lanes.

My thoughts in 10.4, a duo lane can still outperform a jungler if played right. Either go with Cho gath as a laner for Baron/Dragon secure, a hyper carry, or a strong pusher in a solo lane with a solid support and you will win against most jungler's team. Don't believe me? Try it out in normal draft with a team that is fine with duo laners.

12 Comments

Ginger9762/24/2020, 10:02:56 PM1 votes

So the comp is two supports, top, mid and adc?

Yukata2/24/2020, 10:35:59 PM1 votes

League doesn’t care they won’t do anything as long as they make tons of money

U R Good At Game2/24/2020, 10:50:25 PM1 votes

To be blunt, Since your latest rank is showing Bronze 3, I think you were playing against Iron and Bronze 4 players. i.e. you were playing with the bottom 10% of the game. While I'm not particularly great, I can go AP draven (who has no AP) and pull victories in that elo.

Combined with that, your logical outcome is flawed imo. Your assumption is that because you didn't play jungle and won that jungle is bad. In reality, it's more than likely supports are over-powered and when combined with the fact most top laners are irrelevant if they lose lane hard made it too difficult for the players in that elo to compete. i.e. your making a role that really struggles when behind, lose lane hard in an elo where players don't know how to play from behind or 2v1.

Emperør Rhaast2/24/2020, 11:19:53 PM1 votes

Dude you are in bronze 3 lmao you could literally spam ap kindred in bronze and win with it XD

Darkstar Annie2/24/2020, 11:21:45 PM1 votes

Just take smite for crucial steal chance. Take your sides camps whenever possible.

True Garen2/28/2020, 4:35:53 AM1 votes

This will only work in low MMR where players don't know how to take advantage. Any savvy toplaner + jg will be able to defeat the 0 JG team. This is why we HAVE a jungle position.

The unfortunate support item nerfs have further hindered the duo top strategy, besides.