Do you prefer Early game champions (lane bullies), mid-game, or late game champions/hyper-carries?

DCYOUNG888··1 votes·2,462 views

One thing I like to do is analyze things in League while playing or looking at certain champion pages to see how champions work. The thing I like to analyze the most is how a champion powerspikes (is at their strongest roughly) during certain parts of the game and I am curious to know which kind of champion powerspiking is your favorite (early, mid, or late) and why?

I prefer late game champions (such as Nasus Nasus, Camille Camille, or Vayne Vayne) because I like to think of it as an investment that pays back over the course of the game and having better contributions as the game passes on rather than fall off. I tend not to do as well in the early game generally especially against aggressive laners or junglers and prefer scaling over the course of the game with both kit and items and I tend to perform better in the late game (imo) than early because I tend to like making more impacts on teamfights than small skirmishes and laning and I do adapt over the course of the game.

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Karfuss3 votes

Early game for me.

Having the raw power to bully scaling champions into irrelevancy even through the mid-game (where they should start to scale) I feel has more bearing over the outcome of the game. You get ahead much earlier, you can throw your lead into other lanes to force them behind, if you do that on bot lane you can force a 3-4 man fight around dragon, you win that and claim dragon your whole team is even further ahead.

When played well it's 10-2, two turrets up with plating, a dragon up and the enemy team tilted beyond recovery.

DCYOUNG8881 votes

I can see that, yeah as much as I don't like lane bullies because they do fall off hard late game, they do have their benefits especially someone like Renekton Renekton and Pantheon Pantheon where they focus as hard as they can to shut people down before they start scaling while snowballing and trying to close the game as fast as they can.

BrokenRayquaza2 votes

Although I love all types of champs, I usually go for late game champs. Nothing is more satisfying than obliterating the enemy lane bully for the win after he harassed you for 20 minutes

Woodakoodashooda1 votes

No one knows how to play this game, including how to close a match.

That's been my experience anyway.

So I prefer late game champions. Because it provides a sense of security to me knowing that the longer a game goes, my chance of winning hardly ever diminishes as long as I play a scaling champion.

Pierce The Veal1 votes

Why pick when there are rito favorites that can do two or even all three of those things?

Woodakoodashooda2 votes

Champions that maintain a fifty and above win rate at all stages of the game exist. Some have an average early game and a good late game and others have a good early game and an average late game.

Power Cosmic1 votes

I prefer playing whatever will give me the most success given the game I am in. But, sadly, Riot has steered the game far away from this actually mattering. Who cares what you like if a Aatrox, Irelia, Akali, or Sett, amongst many others, is matched up against you?

LanceTheJungler1 votes

Aatrox has no counters XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Literally wtf, name one good matchup for Aatrox lmao

Iukiboy1 votes

Tryndamere

Power Cosmic2 votes

He is strong in all phases of the game, so at the highest level he consistently presents a strong (pick or ban) option with limited risk.

LanceTheJungler1 votes

No, you don't understand the Aatrox problem even in the slightest. Here's the hard truth, bruisers are the worst carry class. And pro teams don't want to spend time top lane because of that. So they draft self sufficient top laners. It's not like Aatrox lacks counters, honestly half the top lane roster is a counter to him. But the thing is to really enforce that counter pick the enemy team has to play around top lane, which no one wants to do. His safe pickableness comes from the fact that he can farm from range, and wait to impact midgame teamfights with his power spikes. He's a garbage tier split pusher but that doesn't matter since games rarely come down to split pushing anyway.

His laning phase has been heavily nerfed, and he never had a late game, but he still has all he needs to be a good pick, safety and midgame.

VoraciousX1 votes

Katarina is my favorite champion and I'd say she's best mid to late as long as there isn't a buttload of CC to cuck her. I like all types though.

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