PSA: Your team comp matters in EVERY single mode

I see this far too often. A team of squishies, because top and jg think "team comp doesn't matter, it's only normals. lul go play ranked u tryhard".

Well. Thing is, their team has the slightest chance of having an assassin, or of having anyone with lethality, or any kind of burst whatsoever? Congratulations, you need a tank. I recently lost a game to a goddamned lethality Sion, because we had no tank to block him and eat the damage. Nobody to CC him. And I've lost countless others to not having a tank.

Simply put: You can't afford to not have a tank. It being a normals match doesn't change that at all. It being a normals match doesn't magically change the meta.

#In every match, you need a tank, unless their team has no burst capabilities at all.

Oh. And, of course, that's not possible anymore. Since Lethality is a thing, anyone can theoretically buy it and burst you. And, yes, if you have no tank, if anyone on their team is intelligent, they will buy some burst. Malphite will go full AP. Sion will build lethality. They will pick an assassin. Or two. Or three.

Those rare times where you see tankless teams win? Half the time, luck. The rest of the time? Serious coordination. Said coordination does not work in soloQ, because it doesn't exist. Your marksman needs to be able to peel himself, or the enemy team needs to be obliterated before they can get anywhere close to your marksman. Otherwise, it's a permanent 4v5, because your marksman won't be able to do anything. And neither will any teammate that requires peeling. You essentially screw yourself over, and you lose in champion select.

Note: Your fun is less important than the other four people's fun. Nobody gets to screw over anybody on their team for their own personal amusement - that's what trolling is. So, no. You having fun does not excuse you completely screwing over your team.