I've played league since season 4 and one of the things I find is some people either main a role or main a champ. The question I have is it better to main a champ, role or even learn to main several roles or champs. I'm just a Bro 2 player so I've a lot to learn in terms of this game and its inner workings. Please help me
The Bearded Bard2 votesWanna know what happens when you get a main? They rework the champ and you've got to learn them all over again.
Seth Lightheart1 votesThere are positives and negatives. Mastering your champ will make your skills better. I.e. if you master swain you could take on people at a much higher elo than you would usually be able to.
However, as you already know if you don't get swain you will be screwed.
So what I would say is, find a champ you like, not one everyone thinks is op, and play them a crap ton. Then play a few others but focus on that one guy. So you will have your go to champ and a few others to fall back on.
The Bearded Bard1 votesMy advice is to play what you want, but have one or two champions that you can play when you really want to win. Champs you know you're better than most with.
KaisadiIIa1 votesPersonally I recommend you to master a few champions, just to cover every role (it is worth nothing to be the best mid NA if you will feed and lose every time you go to top). I'd tell you to master one or two mids, one or two tops and so on, preferably not gimmicky ones (avoid Kata, Nida, Zed... those are banned pretty often and, either way, people know [more or less] how to play against them). Try, for example, mastering Malzahar, Cassio or Talon in mid, it will be hard but once you get good with them, you will win almost every game you play with them.
One common mistake is to try to "be good" at a lot of champions, so you can always play "the broken ones" properly but... League is more balanced than you may expect, and, as long as you can play properly, you can win with every champion (even Yorick) at non-LCS level. Balance only matter at really high MMR.
The Paulrus1 votesI've been around a couple years. My advice: Have a 1-2 main champs, for at least 2-3 different roles. So start by maining a single role and a single champ. Then learn 1-3 more champs for that role. Then learn a second with a single champ, and so on and so forth.
For instance, I main support
My supp main is 
but I also occasionally 
and 
2ndary role is mid
Main 
Others: 
my 3rd role is adc
Main 
Others: 
HyperZEROXL1 votesHave to agree here, for example
My main assassin mid is 
My 2nd assassin mid is 
My Primary lane is mid, but I can use 
I'm VERY flexible at where I can go, I can go any lane, but I'm weaker in some roles than others. For example: My main top is 
and my jung main is 
. Now I DO supp main 
, but if he's banned or picked that leaves me with a short pool of champs, or 
. My adc main is 
and my 2nd adc main is 
. So I reccomend you to learn different champions for each role and lane, that way, you'll be more prepared for any role or lane. But my primary main is due me playing I think over 200 or less games with him.
PrinceArchie1 votesYep this is spot on, Main a role, then a champ, then get supporting champs for that role. When you starting picking up more champs outside of your main champ, or even when you pick you main champ try to do you research and see if it can work in any other role as well. The best type of champs to main are ones that can fit in multiple areas legitimately. Learning versatile champs is in many cases better than focusing on learning a role. Simply because with a single champ you can master all their individual power spikes and builds, then when you transition roles and choose that same champion the only thing you have to learn extra is nuances of the different role. Some roles aren't all that dissimilar either, outside a few key nuances such as warding pattern, trading habits, etc.
Joe Dredd1 votesJust play one champion in every single role.
Vecuu1 votesI've been playing this game for years and have thousands of games played.
I prefer not having a main. Being able to play any champ at any half level is more fun and keeps the game fresh.
However, when I play ranked, I keep my champion pool very limited. There is no denying that you will perform better on champions you play frequently.
The best way to play, I find, is to create a physical list (seriously, write it down and tape it to your desk) of champions that you will play. On a base level, I recommend three champions per role. These are three champions you have a decent number of games on, have a decent power level at the moment (power picks are important). and knowing match-ups.
So like, my top lane pool is: -Irelia -Sion -Cho'Gath
Irelia is a power pick, no doubt about it. She's just strong at the moment, and can swing a game. Sion is in a good spot, and provides a lot of CC and beefiness to a team, plus he has a semi-not-reliable engage tool Cho is definately off-meta. Nobody plays Cho. But I've played him a lot and know his potential utility, as well as how to play him into every match up possible from Riven to Jayce to Lissandra
Now, when you look at my top lane, you notice that they all benefit from sustain, tankiness, and, above all, relatively safe laning. That's just my style. I play safe. My #1 champion at the moment is Janna. Play your own style. I know people who play Riven/Wukong/Xin Zhao toplane, and don't even bother with Teleport and just play to devour souls. That's cool, as long as you know what's what. The most important thing is to be self-aware of your own limitations.
This has gotten sort of ranty. The important thing to take away from all this is how important consistency is. It doesn't matter how many champions you play if you win more than you lose. Be self-aware and try to look at metrics to see how well you do. For instance, if you're averaging more than 10 deaths per game as Master Yi over 10+ games and are rocking a 40% win rate with him. Maybe you shouldn't play Master Yi.
