Try this comp out when you have a few friends with you

Sir ArmaMalum·Jan 28, 2014·1 votes·11 views

Hey guys, had an insanely fun game the other night with 4 friends of mine using a comp inspired by The Hungry Ashe Games (SivHD). We were just messing around, but we not only won, but we won hard. These guys weren't bad either, although it was blinds so there's that. Anyway.....

Top (Any Marksman)
Jungle (Any tanky, initiator jungle)
Mid (Ad caster)
Bot (Any AP assassin/burst)
Bot(Any APC with reliable CC and burst)

Pros:
---Replace support with a utility heavy APC, bringing in more damage. Or allowing a caster support to build damage faster.
---Marksman (ADC) gets solo lane experience, as well as the "island" that is top lane.
---Allows some of the best fighter and duelists (AD casters) into mid lane, which can play very aggressive for that first turret.
---Two mage lane (bot) is incredibly hard to play against due to APC's natural burst and usually decent amount of cc.

Cons:
---Marksman is usually alone, leaving them vulnerable to very hard ganks.
---Usually no sustain bot
---Top and bot can be jungler reliant depending on how it goes, making the jungler's job possibly very difficult.
---Bot vulnerable to an aggresive tanky support.

And on the off chance he/she browses the fourms, I also wanted to give a brief shout out to our Vi, who was the one random and not only a skilled player but also a very good sport for playing along. XD

7 Comments

Noam BraumskyJan 28, 20141 votes

I'll try top with Quinn.

Sir ArmaMalumJan 28, 20141 votes

Be sure to start bots 4 pots. In this age of doran starts you can even kite a Riven with your range and harrier movement bonus.

Noam BraumskyJan 29, 20141 votes

I tried it. It didn't go well.

Garen AND Wukong were top, and I was with Irelia.

Sir ArmaMalumJan 29, 20142 votes

Ah, yes, duo tops with Quinn is challenging, she's one of the best 1v1 duelists but bring in two targets and her passive means less. Get up to 30 and you'll get into the normal solo top/jungle meta, and then try it again. Almost all current solo tops will have a hard time catching you. And keep up the W passive move speed bonus whenever you can.

RoaranorJan 29, 20141 votes

AP Mages bot lane are always a pain when I play ADC. You basically have a huge advantage until they hit 3, then you're suddenly walking gold for the rest of the laning phase.

I think it'd be worth noting that the duo mage bot lane will sometimes struggle later on, however, if they can't secure those early kills as they then have to share the limited farm/exp rather than the solo lane gold/exp that they're used to. This is especially true for champions like Leblanc who can "fall off" in a sense just by a passive Marksmen safe farming like Caitlyn or Ezreal .

Sir ArmaMalumJan 29, 20141 votes

A very valid point, it does come with a decent risk. But your adc is getting solo experience and even if they trade evenly with their top that's a huge advantage in teamfights. And luckily the fall of of a mage is mitigated by the fact that there are now 2 and not a support. Granted assassins like leblanc are always risky and don't teamfight well, but replace LB with someone like Brand and you have a duo lane in front of you...

Essentially any meta change will always have a weakness, like the current meta with the top lane fighter being isolated from a lot of teamfights, preventing reliable initiates. Or the fact that AOE mages like Ziggs or Brand have only 1 champ against them.

RoaranorJan 29, 20141 votes

This is very true.