Champions for someone who's horrible?

Niyumi·Dec 7, 2015·1 votes·1,170 views

So, I've just come to the conclusion that I'm horrible at the game, and that's why I lose 95% of my games. While I'd like to go blame my team, or balance, or whatever, I know that none of it is true. There's only one common factor in all my games, and that's me.

Basically, here's my question: What champions can someone who has absolutely no common sense (League-wise), and no skill play and actually stand a chance at winning? I often have my ass handed to me by ADCs and other champs with targeted abilities, so it'd be nice to have some kind of defense against those.

I donno. Even when I play ADCs I just feed. So maybe there is no champion I can actually play.

13 Comments

RandomoniumDec 7, 20152 votes

It's really hard to give you advice without knowing what role you play.

I recommend you check out lol-coaching.com. you can get free coaching from plat+ players who can give you really specific ways to improve.

MasterSomethingDec 7, 20151 votes

Annie Here ya go. Have fun getting pentakills with no cast time nuke AoE stun ult. :)

ModAttysu The PoroDec 7, 20151 votes

Master Yi is a good one. My boyfriend is HOPELESS at LoL and only plays to bond with me (kinda like how I play CoD for him) and he only understands how Yi works. His kit is nice and simple, straight forward builds, and is usually very easy to carry with in low elo.

VeraDec 7, 20151 votes

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Lambs FrenzyDec 7, 20151 votes

He's permabanned in our elo unfortunately

LetMePullYouDec 7, 20151 votes

Malphite He is so much fun to play. One good ult and you won the teamfight, you can go full tank so you dont have to worry about any damage coming to you since youre so tanky+passive. Tip: get someone to play Yasuo with you

TalandirathDec 7, 20151 votes

We've all started somewhere, the thing is, you're already better than most people by simply admitting and realising that you're not very good at this game. That doesn't mean to say that you can't be.

My champion that I would encourage you to learn is Azir, he is a very very mechanically demanding champion, learn his abilities and play bot games, learn simple combos like W-Q to harass, learn when to trade in lane (look at the amount of minions, how close you are to their turret, look at the minimap and ward so you know it's safe to do so)

Practice his drift combo (w-e-q) till you can perform it perfectly, watch videos of pro games and watch how they play him.

Once you have a good understanding and mechanical skill, you will then have a champion that can more or less solo carry a late game team fight.

After that, increase your map awareness and use that to your advantage. for example : you notice you have a slow minion wave building up and heading to their bot side t2 turret, that means someone is going to have to clear it soon, tell your team to start getting vision control over the top side of the map, it'll put pressure on them, you then have the choice to take top/mid/baron, all situational choices.

One other thing to note: Concentrate on farming minions and avoiding damage rather than kills, with azir at the moment im starting with an RoA build for sustain so I can farm myself up to a nashor then deathcap easily and provides some counter to bursts.

Sorry for the wall of text though, hope something of that was at least useful to someone. I might post some more tips through out the day depending on how bored I get at work.

NiyumiDec 7, 20151 votes

I mean, I don't think actually I'm horrible (though I might be. I wrote this post while on a massive losing streak and was just fed up with it all), but I don't think I'm good either. I just don't really know what I'm doing wrong, and how to improve it. I have some games that I go 25/3 and win my lane and help others win their lanes, and some games that I go 0/10 and lose my lane in 10 minutes. There really is no pattern or rhyme or reason to it all that I can figure out, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I know I can get better, but I just need to figure out what it is that I need to improve upon. >.>

I actually bought Azir a long time ago, and have rank 5 on him now. I can play him pretty well, and know how to Tokyo Drift and all that. I know all the basics of League in general, such as trading, roaming, ganking, lane control, freezing, objective control, CS, when it's safe to go for a kill, all that (though when I lane against someone like Fizz, Diana, LB and etc., I have my ass handed to me if they're any good).

My typical playstyle is kind of passive, and I just farm until I see an opening or the enemy messes up, then I capitalize on it. If I can afford to harass them (like, say I'm Darius against someone with low damage, or I have a lot of range with Azir or Syndra), then I'll do a bit of poking, and then kill them when I'm able to.

Honestly though, I think I just need to find someone who's a high rank (like, high plat or diamond) to watch a few of my games (good ones and bad ones) and tell me what I do right in my good games, and tell me what I need to improve on in both by good and bad games. Get some lessons from someone who's climbed out of ELO hell. :P

And walls of text are fine. Unlike most people, I actually enjoy reading, and I've gotten quite good at it. Soooo, type away!

TalandirathDec 7, 20151 votes

Well I was diamond last season on EUW, it just sounds that you're more inconsistent, most people that are high Elo main a specific champion and then expand their champion pool later, I've got a gold smurf that I practice new champions, even if I play Swain, which I think according to lolskill I was top 30 in the world with, probably dropped now due to not playing him as much, is never a certain win.

You should never go 0-10 in early-mid game, I know a death or two is bound to happen but just work on avoiding damage and have a safer lane phase. Most of my deaths and losses when I reviewed my own games have been me pointlessly defending a turret 2v4 while my team are not reacting to the map and farming the jungle camp next to the turret, but that's not their fault, it's mine for staying there and trying to defend thinking they're going to react. That's the biggest problem with solo Q, a lot of people are focused on one thing and don't see the bigger picture.

When I realised this, I decided to play to survive and concentrate on having as minimal deaths as possible and I climbed to diamond. Recently I've tried to play as I used to as its only pre-season and as soon as I started to assume people would react, i tanked from diamond to plat 2.

So the best piece of advice I can give, is concentrate on your own game and not die, never sacrifice yourself for someone else, unless you're a support and you've got decent carries.

Also, if you've got experience with azir, main him. I was playing a game on my smurf as I feel my mechanics aren't up to scratch with azir. I won my lane while all others were losing, they wanted to surrender but I refused, I kept farming and just wave clearing, we had two inhibs down, we were down by about 15k gold at 35 minutes and just purely because of azirs late game hyper carry state, I was able to solo carry the team fight.

He's now going into my champion pool once I've mastered him.

AkeneroDec 7, 20151 votes

Tanks Tanks are good to learn on Also high sustain champions :3

VeraskaDec 7, 20151 votes

Garen, annie, any right click based champion, you can't really fuck up those champs mechanics wise

HyppocritamusDec 7, 20151 votes

what position do you want to play? We can suggest champs all day, but if you want to toplane, a suggestion of Lux isn't going to help you in the long run.

If you listen to players at my experience level (2 months, below L30, never played ranked), then Yi, Yasuo, and Teemo are all solid picks.

Pick a position, then pick a champ from there based on what you want to do. I enjoy playing Sup, and I've gotten a LOT of ADCs friending me now because they think I'm great at it, and want to play with me.

I know I suck - my Leona is far too aggressive, but it's nice to play with people instead of solo queue.

but I digress.

As I see it, botlane is quite easy to learn as it leaves you with someone to back you up in case of an emergency. Midlane's also not too bad, as it lets you get a lot of levels quickly, and snowball into an unstoppable force.

My main advice is to learn a position, rather than a champ, and work outwards from there. Once you know how to midlane, then learn to midlane with Annie, then move Annie to a different position and transfer that knowledge to have an advantage on learning sup with her.

Worked beautifully with my Lux.