When People Ask Me Why I Main Rumble!

TheTarians·6/24/2016, 1:43:47 AM·14 votes·2,682 views

It's because of this sentence. _ As such, he was used to being bullied_

And this one

_He returned home bruised and bloodied _

And these connected to me on a personal level. Since both of these did happen to me. And after reading Rumble's lore and reading his quotes. I see that him and I are more alike than when I first saw him.

Then there is also the fact that we both have a crush on a certain girl, but really don't know how to tell them that we like them. In his case he used his machine, Tristy, in my case... Well... I made a song my crush, but have not played it for her.

SO MEMES & GAMES.

I want you to tell me.

How were you attracted to YOUR main?

And I know I will get certain comments cough Laughing Fish cough where they will be "BECAUSE REASONS!!!!!1!!!!!1111!!!!!1!one". But I am prepared for these.

But seriously, what really attracted you to your main?

34 Comments

Bârd6/24/2016, 12:19:58 PM8 votes

Bard He had an incredibly low win rate on release. His spells can backfire horribly on his own team. I saw how much Bard sucked. I recognised an opportunity. "If I can win with this guy when he is THIS BAD, imagine how much I can win when he inevitably gets buffed" Also, the magnificent baits. For example, I could ult my ADC right in front of the enemy team, and get the enemy to all jump right on top of him. Little did they know that my ADC had Orianna's ball.

AhmCha6/24/2016, 4:05:53 AM6 votes

I main Gnar because I'm a 4 year old boy and no one understands me when I talk. Also I have anger issues.

(Actual Reason): I'm a sucker for small animals and Gnar is indeed, a small animal. Also his joke makes him chase his tail and his best skin has him wearing a top hat.

tzxxTjM8FA6/24/2016, 4:19:34 AM4 votes

Well the issue is I have two mains

Thresh:

  • I started playing Thresh because (back when i discovered him) I was REALLY into edgy things (black/green, skulls, 'I am death'), And I was am completely full of myself, and landing juicy flash hooks completely fuels my ego makes me feel good about helping my team win the game ^u^

Lucian:

  • I learned about Lucian by playing Thresh ironically. I was getting sick of playing support around season 5, and I had picked up a lot of tidbits about playing ADC by playing Support. Lucian fit my "Big Dick Plays, Go Big or Go Home" attitude more than the other ADC's, so I said yolo and picked him up.
Mad King Hades6/24/2016, 7:24:40 AM4 votes

Olaf I thought we were a good combo, both blonde, both tall, both from the North, but it didn't go through.

Mordekaiser So I started meeting him. I like how brutally hits people, how he does not stop and always continues onward. That's how I think of myself. (I mean think, not necessarily are).

Arakadia6/24/2016, 2:47:55 AM4 votes

Swain likes birds, as do I. Quinn is cool but I'm more of a Mage player.

Niyumi6/24/2016, 9:55:40 AM4 votes

Wish I had some story to tell about what got me into my main, but I'm just some kid who calls himself a fill main and pretends to be competent in any role. Go me.

WrÆth6/24/2016, 2:10:00 AM3 votes

This is so awesome. I'm actually thinking about maining rumble, cause I quite like his playstyle, even though everyone thinks i'm crazy. I guess i'm just a special snow flake or something lmfao.

EvilUnicornLord6/24/2016, 3:17:46 AM3 votes

I main Poppy because... Well I can't say I'm humble because that would be prideful... How do I put this?

DorkunedAuras6/24/2016, 4:44:47 AM3 votes

RekSai I was attracted to her because of her sheer badassery. She is an animal. She claims her territory and it is hers. She wrecks the shit out of everyone who comes in. For some reason, I absolutely fell in love with her design. I remember seeing her for the first time and just thinking "This is my main".

It's hard to truly explain why I love her, but she resonated with me.

VentusDragoon6/24/2016, 9:44:43 AM3 votes

Bard Womp.

But in all seriousness, even though Bard himself is an enigma, I just can't help but be attracted to him. From the day he was released (even though he's in a better state now), he was an extreme underdog that was rarely played, shunned when he was played, and for many, ended up killing his own team instead of saving them. He never had strong damage or great heals, and was known to always leave his lane partner to die.

So, I started playing him. (Mind you, I started playing him like 2 days after he was released, but the hatred for him was clear even then...) And, after a while of practice, I got really good at him, actually. Instead of like most Bards around that time (and even now), I started his heal instead of his Q. Before minions spawned, I would always go to top, mid, and the jungler, and leave a health pack for each of them. (Usually after my ADC yells at me asking where I'm going). I always built him tank instead of AP because he's rather short range in his playstyle, and relic shield works wonderfully as a supplementary heal for him.

Most of all, though, Bard has taught me, and even forces me, to remain calm. No matter how much I'm frustrated with my team making bad decisions or raging at each other, I almost always make sure in my Bard games to never talk except for "womp." Womp is not praise. Womp is not an insult. Womp is womp. And that is always how Bard replies to anything. Forcing myself to remain silent (or near silent with only Womp) keeps my stress levels far down by avoiding arguments and letting me think clearly, even making me have more fun in game by simply acting in Bard's character, rather than my own. Not to mention that it's often unexpected when Bard pulls off something impressive to catch someone or save your teammate.


I do hope you are able to get your crush, eventually. We root for Rumble and we root for you too!

\ Bard / Womp.

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Catastrop6/24/2016, 12:17:05 PM3 votes

Lissandra She's got this graceful feel about just everything she does and personally, I'd like to have that because I'm honestly just so clumsy. In addition she uses ice, is blue and frankly I want her to win.

Lulu Honourable mention to Lulu, who while I haven't played her as much as I used to(I don't support much these days), I still consider her one of my main champions, and I can definitely relate to her lore...not the running away into a magical glade and getting a fairy companion part, everything else....though that would be nice.

esmelar6/24/2016, 3:26:51 AM2 votes

I main Soraka, because i just love to save saving people

ZT Xperimentor6/24/2016, 12:10:42 PM2 votes

Blitzcrank was my first main way back in season 1, and pretty much my turn to through to season 3. By far the longest stretch of time I've played the same champion, even now. Though I've only seen the mortal kombat games played, I've never played them myself; but in other platformer brawler games I enjoy beating my opposition face to face. While I wasn't persecuted in the usual sense, I tend to try forcing a peaceful solution by hand if provoked enough. And in the bored days I'd read lore and found blitzcrank was similar at the time, and given his capacity to turn a poking contest into fist fight, I quickly learned to enjoy playing him. However unlike most people, I enjoy playing against him as well; I find it interesting to see how other people play him, and take mental notes on what they can accomplish with him. Then I incorporate these into my own tactics when I play him. For those of you who still hate facing him, be glad his grab isn't a point & click anymore, lol.

Anyway as time wore on I found my own skills inefficient, but still enjoyed the flexibility of being able to be effective regardless of how I built. Then guess who joined the league in season 3, thresh. Having a dark comedy air about him I found him rather amusing how he'd say such impending cruelty. Playing like a splice of amumu & blitzcrank, I soon honed my skills of grappling for another season; and found him to be often more flexible than the automaton for getting my teammates into & out of combat. But as season 5 began I noticed riot was drifting in the direction of 'more damage', and thresh has the lowest base armor in the game; while he can scale up indefinitely, the shorter the game the less he can stack up. While I also enjoyed his morbid humor and is often a fall back for me, I'll only pick him if I know we can stall the game beyond the early bit.

Since season 5 though I've been floating around trying several champions here & there, with a handful of standbys such as thresh & blitzcrank. Pretty much waiting to find another I enjoy disrupting with destruction. And yes I've played amumu & nautilus plenty in the past too, still play them rarely but never a priority for me.

tylerciler6/24/2016, 3:10:14 AM2 votes

i main adcs (main corki and i want ez) because i love them across map kills and burst

Mig896/24/2016, 12:41:02 PM2 votes

I main Zyra because shes who im best with but my favorite champs to play for the hell of it are DrMundo and Teemo . I got the Toxic mundo skin and it looks like hulk during the game and teemo's omega squad quotes are just epic. that and the helicopter recall

GinkoG6/24/2016, 1:16:03 PM2 votes

Velkoz

He fills my need for untold destruction...and I like the part where he learns things.

Solari Fortune6/24/2016, 1:53:08 PM2 votes

Ah how I fell in love with MissFortune In my young days of spamming bots I always had to go fight the Miss Fortune Bot. Her E slow always annoyed me because it would just be enough for her to escape my kill. So after enough time I gathered the IP and bought her myself. Then finding out how the Q bounce works it did a lot of damage and her ult would her so much that I just instantly fell in love with her. Then her Bilgewater update came and I was worried at first but then I even loved her even more because I could chunk people for 1/4 of their health with a Q crit bounce. Sona andLeona was the case of I did not like leaving bot lane so I decided to grab a support and Sona clicked with me the most along with Leona. They are able to fit my playstyle of aggression because Sona I can poke constantly and Leona I bash their face it with a shield Lastly is Vi Who had this auto click from the first time I played her. I also been able to take out a lot of stress while playing her because of the damage I can do.

bulldoggamer6/24/2016, 3:59:06 PM2 votes

Ekko Someone who feels incredibly isolated and has a hard time fitting in. So he uses his unique talents to help those less fortunate than him. You can tell he's someone that's been through a lot but had no one to lean on through those times so hes incredibly strong and really wants to change to world. Basically my life story.

mason water6/24/2016, 11:59:32 AM2 votes

Azir i have a god complex

The 2nd Horseman6/24/2016, 7:42:17 PM1 votes

I play Fizz and Ekko ap (usually with a rod of ages) simply because I love that feeling of toying with my opponent until out of nowhere I pop em. I used to main gnar because i enjoyed that feeling of turning the whole fight but i stopped after it felt like I relied on a team in order to do anything as gnar.

Bemapon6/25/2016, 5:14:32 PM1 votes

I used to main Shaco . Believe it or not im actually a pretty nice person. I just loved the mind games i could play with the enemy team.

Jungle Lux God6/24/2016, 8:19:06 PM1 votes

Part of it was that when I first started playing I just tried everything. And by everything, I mean I played just about everything that was on free week to try out a variety of champions, and bought the champions I enjoyed the most. It wasn't until I started consistently playing the champions I owned that I actually realized how much I enjoyed some of them.

Nautilus in particular is the first champion I knew I wanted to main, and the champion I still main to this day. At that time, I could sometimes feel like I was doing well in, but I never really felt like I was carrying my team or that I was the deciding factor in the game. Nautilus was the first champion that changed that. I remember a few games where my team was pushing a tower when the game was dead even, and I'd land a few hooks and set my team up for getting kill after kill and tower after tower until the game ended in a decisive victory with the enemy team's surrender.

It wasn't that my team won that I mained Nautilus. It was that I caused my team to win. The game shifted from dead even to decisively winning in the span of around 5 minutes, and it was all because I was landing the hooks and making the engages that my team was following up on, and that feeling was unreal, and form that point on I knew I had to main Nautilus.

Tyren6/24/2016, 9:28:26 PM1 votes

Thresh Nautilus Bard Because I like playing them?

ARequestOfDeath6/24/2016, 9:29:03 PM1 votes

Renekton I felt betrayed by a close friend when I picked renekton up. I wanted revenge served to that friend. My friend actually did nothing and it was someone else's fault. Me and My friend were like brothers.

Nasus Played him before I started playing renekton and the incident, cause he kinda represented how I acted in real life at the time

Mordekaiser I was really unpopular at the time I picked mordekaiser up.

Slythion6/25/2016, 6:54:58 AM1 votes

well I main Amumu but uh...ya item 3070

PelicanOfDeath6/25/2016, 5:08:39 PM1 votes

Jax So good he had to be restricted to be allowed into the place where the galaxy-creating dragons and satan catfish run wild. Able to destroy near the end, either through splitpushing or teamfighting, Jax is a sight to behold in my eyes.