My Favorite Champions All _____?

Top River King··2 votes·550 views

What quality seems to link together all, or at least most, of your favorite champions? Or are you a more eclectic sort of League player?

For me, it occurred to me yesterday that I can't help but love walking balls of "nope." By that I mean champions centered around denying others in some fashion.

Poppy and TahmKench , my two favorite champions to play right now, are the perfect example of this. Poppy's kit is centered around disengage and stopping engages, and Tahm's is centered around an ability that gives allies what amounts to a moving item 3157. Nothing is more satisfying for me than, say, interrupting Leona's Zenith Blade to my ADC with Heroic Charge.

But that quality isn't limited to those two. The following would also qualify as big (or little) balls of "nope," I'd say: Bard Ekko Garen Janna Lulu Nautilus . Just to name a few.

17 Comments

1 800 MID LANE3 votes

My favorite champions all suck, but that's because I play them.

Azir Syndra Leblanc Diana Ahri

Talkrr2 votes

A quote that I would say all my champions use would be; " Fuck it ".

I'm rather aggressive when I play, so I like to go for risks.

Bard Elise Ekko LeeSin Poppy Quinn RekSai Shaco Zac

All of these champs have the risk mentality to them imo. Everytime I play them I'm put into a situation where I just say fuck it and get the rewards or the losses, hence why I'm a jungler. I love to roam and make as many plays as possible lol.

Top River King1 votes

I admire the risky playstyle, but it'll never be for me. I'm more the guy who always ends up with the fewest deaths on my team unless I have to constantly sacrifice myself for my teammates, given I play so many tanks. My positioning, decision making, and mechanics just aren't good enough to perform consistently with squishier, riskier champs. I need that margin for error being tanky gives me, which is why I've only ever hard carried with champs like Ekko and Wukong who have survivability to go along with their damage.

Talkrr1 votes

It's your style. I want to have the least deaths but I play so many off-meta builds like reksai devourer for example it's just like, she's so squishy but I'm so used to her kit that I can out maneuver so many people.Bard Jungle is another thing I do, same with Bard Mid. I wouldn't call them troll picks because more than likely I'll not carry but I'll support my team, set up ganks while making the big plays.

Top River King1 votes

I know people like Faker and Forgiven will skip defensive runes entirely and make it work, but I'll never be one of them. Heh. I build almost everyone, minus ADCs, like an off tank. It's why I'm afraid to do stuff like Vel'Koz support: to make it work, a full damage setup is required. So one wrong move and you're gone. That's why I admire people who can successfully and consistently do those sorts of things.

I have totally thought about trying Bard jungle before, though. Get all the chimes and wreck everyone. Sounds like an awesome idea.

Talkrr1 votes

Vel Koz Support is fuuuuucking crazy! I hope the rework doesn't ruin it.

Top River King1 votes

Actually, I think I'm gonna spam some Vel, Lux, Fiddle, and Ekko support this week. I'm set for traditional supports for ranked (Bard, Blitz, Braum, Janna, Lulu, Nami, Naut, Poppy, Tahm, Thresh) but want some of those secondary APC style supports. I would play Annie, but those 4 just fit me much better.

Billy VoHagen2 votes

The only champs I have Level 5 master on are Diana Talon Tristana and Skarner (pre- second rework)

So.... I guess going in and fucking shit up.

Ramnight1 votes

Elise is by far my favorite currently. High amounts of utility and scales very well into late game as a tank. Damage doesn't drop off too much as she has a % health attack and an execute.

Vi is a close second. And then they all fall into line: Volibear Shyvana DrMundo Graves

Tohob1 votes

Volibear Urgot Talon Illaoi some of my faves.. 2 high damage tanks, an assassin, and an AD mage? idk what to make of this lol

Top River King1 votes

Well, three of them are defined by their innate tankiness. Urgot's about as tanky as a marksman gets, aside from Graves. Volibear (volt ear or volume bear, if I let autocorrect have its way) has his crazy passive. Illaoi is tanky to begin with, and helped by her tentacle lifesteal. Those 3 are also all pretty immobile and have key abilities based around inserting themselves into the middle of a fight (Urgot and Illaoi's ults and, well, Voli's entire kit).

Talon, though, is a definite outlier, which I think we all have.

Tohob1 votes

the thing about Urgot is, i don't view him as a tankier marksman, i view him as something like an AD xerath, and use the shield only offensively for the slow

Top River King1 votes

Then you seem to be one of the eclectics!

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

Quinn Xerath Katarina

I'm not really sure. Burst damage maybe?

Taric the Gay1 votes

My favorite champions are all gay.

L Psy Kongroo1 votes

Shaco Nautilus Zilean

I guess I like.........I dunno, who the hell knows lol. I can't see anything these champions have in common, aside from the fact that they're my absolute favorites. XD

Top River King1 votes

I'm starting to think I'm the only one whose favorite champions are all quite similar. Nearly every champ I love is tanky or has loads of utility or CC. And there's definitely a "nope" through line that applies even to the ones lacking in tankiness, CC, or utility. Like Malz. Wanna tower dive? My ult says nope.

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