From lane swaps to 5 teleports, what awesome strategies have you found designed to counter today's most popular composition (to clarify, top solo, mid solo, marksman+support bottom, and jungler)? I'll start it off:
"The GSG" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAoZJolrYI
I love new strats! Everyone complains about the meta but doesn't put in the effort to bust up the meta and counter it. If you know what your opponents basic team comp is going to be and strategy then it should be worth it to think outside the meta-box and find a good counter to shake things up.
Personally I've really enjoyed this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NUjIpJES0
It's not really possible to counter the meta in soloq but as an organized team I think a lot of older strategies work very well: adc mid, double bruiser bots, ap/tank toplane with someone on the team able to transition to jungle when the bot and top turrets are pushed down. A duo toplane requires heavy aggression and relies on an early tower kill so someone can transition to jungle or turn bot into a 3v2. The whole concept would be to push down the outer lanes' turrets asap to force early map control and abuse the lead from there.
still my favorite pro game to date.
Bot kill lanes are my favorite. Leona/Jarvan, Alistar/Fiddlesticks, and the like. It doesn't matter that you don't have a Marksman if their Marksman is 0/5 with 30 CS at 20 minutes.
I actually entered a game the other day where the Enemy had no Jungler in the loading screen; I thought okay, no problem. Turns out they were a full on (Starting at Level 1!) 5 man Tower-Taking Comp. It revolved around the Push strength of Zyra and Heimerdinger, the disengage and sustain / Tower-tanking of Alistar, and the poke/zoning of Lux and Ashe. Definitely a hard team comp to react to in solo-queue, but it was really fun to adapt to a different strategy within the game. In the end, we won, but only because we outscaled them in items and farm, but to their credit, they had taken the first Inhibitor turret at around ~15 minutes.
I was playing with friends with duo jungle idea - it was working pretty neat, especially with strong laners with hard CC or good damage, like Ryze, Jayce, Liss, Zac. Duo jungling requires a lot of coordination tho, as jungle always lacks exp, so you need to gank as much as possible, counter as much as possible and tax lanes as much as possible. Some crazy combos like Vayne+Nunu are just hilarious to play. It's basically changing jungle and ADC+support position, but it may be double bruiser jungle too. With good enough dive comp, it's pretty doable.
It depends on the champions picked as it isn't optimal xp-wise, but a support/bruiser kill-lane such as Taric/Thresh with a Jarvan/Pantheon with an ADC top who can solo lane like Vayne has potential. When used as a counter pick, the extra dragon control it provides can offset the wonky distribution in xp.
I find that percent damage tanks are quite impressive in this Meta, I am surprised I have not seen Amumu resurface, as I like to have him in most of my compositions (especially AoE comps. Ex:
-Amumu (jungle)
-Ahri (mid)
-Miss Fortune (or corki ;)) (adc)
-Zac (top)
-Sona (supp)
Laughed my butt off at this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BT2NvvnV5o&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fOOfJkBnjw
Just watch it, it's hilarious!
What I actually found interesting lately is AD on mid! Corki, Trist, Ez, and all those who have a chance to harass their AP since they rarely have any armor and focus too much on MR, which brings them to focus on armor that's not usual route for them and gives you an edge! But then you need AP in top and/or jungle.
Singed and Twitch go bot. Gangplank goes mid. Teemo goes top.
Cassiopeia jungles, maxes out E.
When ganking bot, Cass uses the Triple-Trap-Wombo-Combo-of-Toxic-Terror: She, Singed, and Twitch all throw out their slows in a line behind the enemy. Singed tosses the target back after catching up while Twitch and Cass do facerolls on their keyboards.
When ganking mid, Cass lets Gangplank start with a Parley. Then, she places her slow behind the target and facerolls. Gangplank simultaneously places a Cannon Barrage right behind the enemy. Cassiopeia makes sure to stay between the enemy tower and the target so she can land her ult to synergize with Gangplank's.
When ganking top, Cass ganks from behind with an ult, allowing Teemo to place a mushroom on the target. They proceed to faceroll.
Aside from that, the teamfights basically follow your general meta strategy: ranged squishies stick behind the wall of meat that is the other teammates.
And there you have it, League toxicity at its utmost height. I have never done this before, and surprisingly, I have not seen it myself. I hope that does not change.
Anyone involved in a team that uses this build in ranked gameplay should be demoted to the bottom of Bronze 5 and not let out of the division.
here is one be nice to the support if your adc i got killed 3 times by a bot xin but my adc didnt get mad they just had me fall back a bit and our jungle started to gank a lot teemo was top and im not sure who was mid but holy cow we pushed hard bot love friendly adcs so yea teemwork op also wart tele for the adc that is fun
^Holy shit@
If you have a Chogath and Nunu, you can put them either top or jungle doesn't matter and that gives you a ton of objective control. You can basically out-smite any enemy jungler because you essentially have 3. Add another smite for your top laner if you really want to pile on the fun.
