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Counterplay VS Counterpick

Dale Wardark·7/8/2017, 6:10:02 PM·1 votes·277 views

Yesterday I had a jungle Ekko tell me that I lost lane because I counterpicked myself against a Trundle as Garen. Keep in mind, this is B4 Flex, so I'm mostly playing what I know and to have fun. I know exactly why I lost, and it wasn't counterpick. I lost lane because I was counterplayed. I had several bad engages and several bad plays. I cleaned up my act and mustered a little comeback for myself, but it was too late, our boy lane had lost, and the enemy Ahri has gotten fed off it.

Turn around next game against a top lane Ekko and I absolutely crushed him due to an early gank and subsequent kills on him that shut him down hard.

Point being that counterplay>counterpick. I've been shut down by Ekkos that played much better than the last one I faced, and I've won against Trundles just as skilled as the last one I faced.

2 Comments

Critmaster Garen7/9/2017, 11:31:35 AM1 votes

under normal circumstances there is no winning or right choice that you can make as garen against trundle. hes simply going to outstat you.

worst case scenario, he ults you and uses your own resistances youre trying to build to survive against him against your team.

the only thing that beats trrundle is enough cc.

if you didnt mention that you were playing flex b4, id have said the dude was right.

there are some matchups in this game that are so ridiculously onesided that they cant be considered as fair. this is one of them. nasus into trundle isnt any better.

Revali7/9/2017, 11:38:25 AM1 votes

I'd say the ekko was right, you weren't going to win the lane, but you did have easily avoidable deaths in that sense. and potentially stalled it out instead of taking poor trades leading to you getting all in'd

league doesn't have many hard counterpicks if any still (hello cho'gath)