I only play veigar, and I'm very good at him.
Will I improve as a player faster by being a OTP and playing with higher Elo players and thinking about stuff besides mechanics?
Or would I be better off picking one or two other champions to get really good at besides veigar?
I'm Silver 4.
It's always good to have a back up pick incase it gets banned or countered hard
honestly, a healthy combination of both.
I main nautilus, around 400k mastery on him.
But i can play every support at an acceptable level, and this helps when nautilus isnt the right pick, or when hes weak in general.
I only play veigar, and I'm very good at him.
Will I improve as a player faster by being a OTP and playing with higher Elo players and thinking about stuff besides mechanics?
Or would I be better off picking one or two other champions to get really good at besides veigar?
I'm Silver 4.
Playimg lots of champs will make you better as a player, after which one tricking would get you far. Try playing aram in your free time, that'll get you up to speed on a lot of champs because of the skirmishes.
It depends really.
Do you want to climb faster or improve faster. Limiting your champ pool is a good way to climb. Playing lots of champs helps you learn.
Being a one-trick pony will take you very far in low-to-mid Elo solo Que, because the players are so bad that meta and team comp doesn't really matter. As long as you have good mechanics and are playing a champion that can carry you will consistently carry games if you can play well mechanically and then snowball. In high elo your rates of climbing will slow down drastically as you encounter more people who are as good as you are and know how to counter your one trick.
Think conventional wisdom from high elo coaches is generally main only a few champs, so you can focus on learning the game rather than learning and trying to implement mechanics.
Once you've got the game down, expanding your pool isn't terribly difficult.
Now sure, you should understand how the majority (or really all) of champs work, and playing a little bit of everyone can help with that, but by playing I mean casually use them a few times in normals or even ARAM, not playing them enough to be comfortable enough to take them to ranked. Just enough to discover any nuances you might have missed just from playing against them (for example, for a long time I thought karthus wall only slowed, but it turns out it also lowers MR), but you don't need to pick them up seriously.
Theres probably some utility in having a back up pick or two in case your main pick is picked/banned, but I wouldn't go much further than that. If you're playing 10+ champs in ranked though you're probably not doing anyone (including yourself) any favours.
OTP = Be good at 1 thing. allows u to focus on the game, not on ur champ.
not OTP = be shit at everything, cant focus on the game cuz too busy focusing on ur champ.
OTP = learn the game faster
not OTP = be a shitter forever
The jack of all trades loses against a one man master.
Have another backup pick and then another another backup pick for your offlane. Should be fine there.
As a OTP, I'd have at least 1 or 2 pocket picks that you can play reliably. ( Tobias Fate has Karthus and TF for example ). It's just a general rule I follow.
I've stuck with Kha'Zix through leveling to 30 in Season 2, Bronze 5 in Season 3, all the way to my peak at Plat 3 in Season 7, and every change and rework in between. The reason why it has taken me so long to climb is pretty straight forward. I'm not very good at League. I am, however, very good at Kha'Zix. I'd rather learn how to crush any matchup with my champion than learn what champions play the matchup better. As opposed to learning a new mid laner after Kha'Zix was relegated to jungling in preseason 4, I found a way to make Kha'Zix mid work. Fast forward several years and I have bit over one million mastery on this account and about 400,000 on my smurfs. I have no interest in branching out, whether that inhibits me or not. I play to win, absolutely, but I play to win my way.
Since then, I've mastered most top lane matchups to the point of Darius being one of my personal easiest lanes. I actually main mid lane on account of hating jungle in general. Of course, I'm capable of playing that role, as well. Recently, I've started to learn Kha'Zix as a support. It might sound silly, but between Dark Harvest and Duskblade, Kha'Zix has all the damage he needs to assassinate carries into late game and build support/tank items. In combination with evolved W and whatever the hell that allied healing mark is in the Resolve tree, it can be a pretty potent combination in a lot of scenarios. It might seem farfetched, but most of the people who would talk trash about it couldn't even shine the shoes of the platinum ADC mains getting ruined by it.
You want to main Veigar? Even better. Support is the role you'll find yourself pigeon holed into most often when you don't get mid, and Veigar thrives there as well. Stick with it and don't let toxic LCS wannabes ruin your game. If you're honest to God trying to win, then play whatever you want. I'd rather have a Veigar jungle that knows what he's doing with the champion than a bandwagon J4 who just watched some streamer shitstomp and is playing his second game on him. Learn your combos, learn your builds, and if necessary, come up with your own. I don't build boots and get Triforce second item. Do you research and then find out what works for you.
Let me just say that I'm not trying to hype myself up like an asshole. Okay, maybe a little. However, the main point is to demostrate to you that if you dedicate yourself to playing one champion, you will easily crush any flavour of the month bandwagoner equal in skill level to yourself.
Even as Kha'Zix support with one damage item.
Just stick to one champion for now. Once you can play that champion well enough, you will start to go into autopilot on it, which allows you to focus on other aspects of the game such as map awareness and decision making.
