Are my champs still viable in Solo Queue?

Ternt··1 votes·686 views

I mained Rek'Sai during S5 while the tank meta was around, but now it seems like she's too slow to play tank since games are much faster. Building her with Warrior feels weaker on her than other junglers like Wukong or Lee. I'm Silver elo, so it's nothing insane, but I'm looking to climb next season and am ironing out my champion pool. Here are my current champs I can play fluently without making a lot of mechanical mistakes.

Top: Jayce (50% - 159), Gangplank (75% - 4)

Mid: Orianna (53% - 62), Twisted Fate (46%, mainly because I played him jungle early in S5 - 26), Kassadin (61% - 33)

Jungle: Rek'Sai (55% - 166), Ekko (57% - 46), Gragas (63% - 51), Wukong (63% - 19), Lee Sin (45% - 95), Olaf (54% - 57), Hecarim (57% - 23)

ADC: Quinn (58% - 24), Lucian (24%, I suck with Lucian but I CS best with him - 21)

Support: Nautilus (79% - 19), Braum (43% - 7)

These are my champs that I play most frequently and their win rates and games played. I don't play champs to counter, I play what the team needs usually or what I am comfortable with in a matchup. I play Jayce far more than any other champion, so I will "counterpick" myself sometimes just because I am most comfortable on him. I can CS fine on ADC, but I usually make a lot of positioning mistakes mid-late game. ADC is by far my worst role since I play it once every 20-30 games or so. What champions should I focus on to help myself climb? Im open to criticism.

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Chroud1 votes

What tier are you Bronze Silver gold?

Ternt1 votes

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What tier are you Bronze Silver gold?

I said Silver in the post, but I am always bouncing between Silver 3-1, never higher.

Chroud1 votes

Sorry I missed that in your post. I Find the best way to climb for me personaly at low levels is Support or jungle were I can control my ADC getting fed or Jungle were I can help control lanes on my team so know one is getting pounced. You have 2 Great support options I would try and expand that to get a caster support also like Lux or Morg. Other then that your champ pool looks decent :)

Ternt1 votes

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Sorry I missed that in your post. I Find the best way to climb for me personaly at low levels is Support or jungle were I can control my ADC getting fed or Jungle were I can help control lanes on my team so know one is getting pounced. You have 2 Great support options I would try and expand that to get a caster support also like Lux or Morg. Other then that your champ pool looks decent :)

I main jungle though, and it got me out of Bronze, but it doesn't help in Silver. I find Silver harder than Bronze because you get new players in Silver more often than Bronze. At least in Bronze, you have people who just lack certain mechanics, but understand the game. There's basic mechanics people have in Bronze like even CSing, that Silver people don't. I can't tell you enough how many times I've had ADC's, Mid's or Top's have half the CS and down 0/3. Jungle just feels so terrible in Silver because you can't carry if all lanes are doing poorly. Support I feel even worse on sometimes. I play Nautilus because he is a monster when it comes to peeling, but when a carry front lines a team fight for no reason, there isn't much you can do. I only win games on Nautilus when I roam a lot, and literally had free kills to carries. 1 gank bot will always result in a double if I am playing Naut, especially at level 6. IDK, sometimes games are just unwinnable though, and it's frustrating to see people who can't CS or have no map awareness because there's nothing I can personally do about it. Pinging only goes so far when they are too focused on finishing the 1/3 health top laner anyways.

Chroud1 votes

I agree sometimes theres nothing you can do if you get stuck with a all around poor team. Finding a Duo partner does help also :)

Ternt1 votes

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I agree sometimes theres nothing you can do if you get stuck with a all around poor team. Finding a Duo partner does help also :)

I have 1 IRL friend who plays, but he's one of those "I play 14 games at a time" kinda guys. Getting him on to play is a pain. Most my other duos are really unreliable as far as game play goes. Sometimes they're huge, sometimes feed hard, no in between. I wish I could find another to duo with though. I carried a kid out of Bronze with me this season because he was middle of the road, never carried, rarely fed. And that was perfect, having just 1 other person not feeding is all I need to win a game. Depending on who is fed, ofc.

Chroud1 votes

add me in game ill support you well see how we do. :) Im on 5 pacific

darkmatchwaldo1 votes

GiveUdyr a shot. He has a build path and a skill maxing order for ANY matchup. He tears apart low elo teams who lack the coordination to shut him down. He has a very good early game, which is the deciding factor for effective junglers right now given the current meta. As good as his early game is, he only gets scarier the longer the game goes on. If you rush item 3025 or item 3110 into item 3124 you become a split pushing monster. All you have to do once laning ends is go pick a lane, split push until 2-3 come after you, run away like a boss, pick a different lane, and do it again. The map pressure you create draws enemies to you and gives your team a numbers advantage for dragons/skirmishes/pushing towers. This one sounds a bit crazy but another thing i've found to be really helpful when jungling is just to completely ignore bot lane unless it's a gank you could do with your eyes closed. Top and Mid lane champions snowball earlier and harder by nature and you're better off getting them rolling asap. It's much easier to gank those lanes because there's only one champion. The other thing is if your laner is dumb and they don't go in when you gank top/mid, 9 times out of 10 you'll be able to walk away alive after a failed gank. If you gank bot lane and your laners are dumb, 9 out of 10 times you're going to get CC'd by the support and die before your bot lane even figures out you were ganking.

Ternt1 votes

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GiveUdyr a shot. He has a build path and a skill maxing order for ANY matchup. He tears apart low elo teams who lack the coordination to shut him down. He has a very good early game, which is the deciding factor for effective junglers right now given the current meta. As good as his early game is, he only gets scarier the longer the game goes on. If you rush item 3025 or item 3110 into item 3124 you become a split pushing monster. All you have to do once laning ends is go pick a lane, split push until 2-3 come after you, run away like a boss, pick a different lane, and do it again. The map pressure you create draws enemies to you and gives your team a numbers advantage for dragons/skirmishes/pushing towers. This one sounds a bit crazy but another thing i've found to be really helpful when jungling is just to completely ignore bot lane unless it's a gank you could do with your eyes closed. Top and Mid lane champions snowball earlier and harder by nature and you're better off getting them rolling asap. It's much easier to gank those lanes because there's only one champion. The other thing is if your laner is dumb and they don't go in when you gank top/mid, 9 times out of 10 you'll be able to walk away alive after a failed gank. If you gank bot lane and your laners are dumb, 9 out of 10 times you're going to get CC'd by the support and die before your bot lane even figures out you were ganking.

I've tried Udyr a couple times and he really isn't my playstyle. I think he just takes a long time to hit a spike if you aren't snowballing, but then again, I'm not that great on him so playing him to fluency would probably help. Either way, Udyr just isn't my playstyle. I'm probably going to main Wukong jungle this season, as Wukong is really strong and versatile with builds.

EDIT: I would agree though, Udyr is a problem. I've played versus a couple good Udyrs in Silver and it was a pain. He's a beast for sure.

Vesarixx1 votes

Playing an average champion that you know is always more viable than playing a stronger champion that you don't.

BakedLotion1 votes

yes they're all viable. some are even on the strong side

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