This is probably a bad idea...

SH Azykan·9/17/2015, 4:39:31 AM·2 votes·774 views

I am going to let boards decide my off meta main to attempt to climb with. But first a little bit about me to explain why.

I have been playing games longer than I remember, and my first MMO was almost 8 years ago. Right away I fell into a "trap" of I cant decide what class to play...so I played all of them. I fell in love with playing a Tank Ranger and tank archer in the game. Their DoT's on top of how they could kite or be disruptive on top of it just being out of the norm (catching everyone off guard) just made it really work for me. After several years I actually managed to get a "Game Sage" Position for the game, right as I was losing interest in it. Around this time I started trying out other games, and it only took about 5 months to stumble into League.

Now I HATED League at first...holy crap it was bad for me. I was so used to MMO games like CABAL and Shaiya, that league being a moba was way over my head. (Think about if I had tried DOTA first...I'd probably have given up on gaming lol). Well one of my friends played league, and I kinda consider him a ditz (he is bronze 5...so I feel kinda half right there), so really how hard could the game be. I spent many months grinding the game, buying champions to try to learn as much about it as possible. Then it hit me, like a truck. I am bad at playing with the meta. But also really indecisive as to how I want to pursue things. My best champion honestly is Morgana Mid, but I just don't like playing it. It is boring and she is so predictable I cant win a lane against anyone actually better than me. My mechanics aren't the greatest so playing champs like Azir is entirely out of the question. Naturally here recently I started looking towards the most flexible roles: Jungle and Top. Now I have of course dabbled in both (Played the game about a year and a half now), and tried funky things in each. I had some success with things like Akali, Malzahar, and Quinn Jungle. Failed miserably with things like Evelynn top (Dont do it...she cant trade with anyone and is a squishy melee). And have come to the conclusion I just need to hyper focus on certain things. To improve on those and make sure I stay true to who I am, a guy who plays against the grain and eventually succeeds through sheer will and knowledge.

So I leave it to boards, which will either be my greatest decision ever, or my worst. And I promise to main said champion/role until I get into a least gold with them (currently in silver 5). I will play normals until I am confident on said champ in that role (Probably 50 team builder games, followed by like 20 normal drafts where I successfully get the pick) Then move into ranked. I already own a large champion pool, and most runes along with 16 rune pages (allowing plenty of experimentation to get it right).

So onto the choices: Top lane: Alistar Blitzcrank Braum Elise Leona AD-> Malzahar AD->Kassadin

Jungle: Akali Annie Leona Malzahar Quinn Shen Talon

Also open to any suggestions if you give a good reason. Simply put, comment Which role, with which champ. And add a little something saying why or just whatever floats your boat.

If a choice is overwhelmingly popular, I will go with that choice. If there is a kinda close call I will look at the reasons for which and decide from there.

If there is less than 5 people taking this seriously, or if I get downvoted into oblivion within 24 hours; I will main Teemo Jungle, pay for lessons and then destroy league from within by ruining everyone's fun ever (I already own the Omega Teemo Skin, so don't tempt me) If you wish to save my soul from Teemo, please just be awesome and participate <3 (If the thread is still active within that time I will put off the deadline until it pretty much dies, which is when I shall make my final decision and update the OP)

7 Comments

Fucck9/17/2015, 4:59:20 AM2 votes

Well the champions listed I don't know very much about. But I would have to say Alistar top wouldn't be a bad pick, he's pretty tanky and can sustain in lane, if the enemy wants to poke you just headbutt them away. Plus say you can't get your role in ranked and you end up having to support then you can just go Alistar support. Also for jungle Alistar is also viable but I don't think it's very strong so instead I would say go Shen jungle, he's got a global ultimate which can help with ganks. He's not too bad of a jungle it is viable but it might be hard, he has a decent amount of damage.But Shen jungle isn't terrible, if you can master it then you probably will end up winning.

DeadlyQuestion9/17/2015, 8:40:11 AM1 votes

Blitzcrank or Braum

Leona

Always a fan of a good blitz or braum top. So either of those are my vote.

Your jungle picks are soooo booooring, but if I had to vote, Leona gets it 100%. Even if you dont take her AD, AD leona is some of my favorite times.

SH Azykan9/18/2015, 3:53:08 AM1 votes

Less than an hour left... I fear Teemo jg might reign supreme.

insaiyanbacca9/19/2015, 3:53:16 AM1 votes

teemo jg is pretty legit, tho next patch ur gonna have to switch from devourer to runeglaive because ranged sated nerfs, akali jg is also pretty good, braum top is also pretty good