Weirdest Bot Lane You've Seen?

Top River King·Nov 1, 2015·1 votes·654 views

Last night, we faced a team comprised of the following: . I assumed Gangplank ADC, as I'd seen it before, back before his rework when he was sorta like a male version of Miss Fortune. And I was honestly concerned about having to face Swain top as (since I was betting on Syndra mid). But it actually ended up being Syndra, of all champions. Even stranger, they found a way to make it kinda work. Part of that was on one of the 4 friends I was playing with, however, as he went 1/7/7 with Blitzcrank before leaving the match.

We ended up winning the match somehow at the hour mark, despite it being 4v5 for about the last third of the match, surviving two barons, and sealing the victory with a baron of our own. It was one of the oddest matches I've ever been a part of...

(http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1995916103/228789219?tab=overview)

13 Comments

LuggNov 1, 20153 votes

Shaco and Blitzcrank was the hardest bot I have ever faced. We literally couldn't do anything to them in lane. They would just sit in the bot lane bush with a pink ward so we couldn't ward it and see what they were doing. The shaco would drop 3 boxes and the blitz would pull us in. You got knocked up, feared, and killed without being able to do anything at all. Plus they would take turns backing and we wouldn't know.

Our whole team tried ganking them and they all died. It was crazy.

Top River KingNov 1, 20151 votes

Not gonna lie, this sounds like it would tilt me enough to AFK, and I say that as someone who can only recall AFKing once... in a 3v3 bot match... when my 2 teammates were feeding the bots to the gills, I had to leave for work, and I could tell that my efforts were only delaying the inevitable loss. And that was only for a couple minutes, as that's all it took.

ImNLuvWitATeemoNov 1, 20152 votes

Mordekaiser x Darius

actually seen it a couple times

sadly for them they didnt buy item 3302 and i was playing Caitlyn the first time and Ashe the second time

the second time i was heavily titled and gave them a few kills for no reason bit but still ended like 15/10 .... really dont know how they expected to win lane lol

Top River KingNov 1, 20152 votes

That actually sounds horrifying. You're essentially giving Mordekaiser a Blitzcrank who can pull you both and possibly output even more damage than him even on a support's income.

I faced an Ekko ADC once right around his release. I believe we messed up at the start, giving him a double kill, and my friend, who I was supporting that match, went full-tilt for the rest of the match. It wasn't pretty.

yogozinNov 1, 20152 votes

I've DONE some wacky things.

Karthus and DrMundo

Rammus and JarvanIV

And a couple of other mixes that I'm actually proud of that me and my friends made work!

AnomanderNov 1, 20152 votes

Blitzcrank Chogath JarvanIV MonkeyKing Sejuani Leona Leona Irelia Singed Volibear XinZhao

I have won a lot of game as all of these combo's......I even have above a 50% win rate with these combo's....

However they are still bad things to do and should not be done outside of a premade/teambuilder

Top River KingNov 1, 20151 votes

What I wouldn't give to see modern-day LCS teams try something along these lines. The weirdest we ever get is stuff like Kennen or Jayce ADC. I honestly think pro teams could find a way to make it work simply through catching the other team way off guard. That is, if they practiced it (at least in solo queue) beforehand.

SEKAINov 1, 20151 votes

Judging by your gold difference, you guys have been winning until that fight where you lost 3 people and 3 turrets in 1 go, and picked up again because you guys got the Baron buff, as well as ace'ing them at Dragon shortly afterwards.

But really though, their comp doesn't favour late game due to the lack of reliable sustained damage. But yeah you guys don't seem to have it either lol. it worked out thanks to Brand's massive damage chuck I suppose.

Top River KingNov 1, 20151 votes

We still would've eventually lost had it not been for four factors. One, I saved teammates so often that the other team could do nothing but QQ about Tahm Kench after the match. Two, my friend, the Blitzcrank, was probably more use to our team AFK. He's always a liability, feeding ~10 kills nearly every match, win or loss. That was especially true this match; my other friend, the Caitlyn, described a moment where he flashed into a group of minions for a hook that obviously failed due to minion blocking. Another time, we'd all died up near their blue, and rather than booking it... he hooks Alistar at him... then stays to fight even with the rest of them coming for him, resulting in an ace. Three, I had at least 3-4 levels on their entire team at all times and was full (tank) build quite early on. This is how I limited myself to 4 deaths, despite sticking my neck out time and time again to try and save teammates. All 4 deaths were a direct result of these attempts. And four, we wouldn't have gotten the majority of the turrets we did had it not been for my Banner of Command. Our team had next to no pushing power. That first inhibitor turret we got? Barely got it thanks to a Kha'Zix split push with one of my Banner minions while we kept their entire team pre-occupied.

**EDIT: **Didn't even notice Brand did over 100K in damage. Holy mother of god. He wouldn't have even survived to deal most of that damage had I not been prioritizing saving him over Kha'Zix, our only other damage threat.

7ha7guy777Nov 1, 20151 votes

Rammus Malphite was probably one of the more fun ones i've done. I don't know how often it works and i don't know if it would have worked if their jungler or top did any magic damage. Maokai Blitzcrank has some bad matchups, but when it works you win by enemy surrender. Swain Malzahar mana refund for days. DoTs for days. Probably similar to morg malz with the root + pool combo. I had to play against vayne with a vi "support" with morde naut. Can't say i want to do that again.

Adc-less botlanes pretty much require some sort of ranged dps elsewhere on your team. In other words: teambuilder, premades, or maybe normal draft if everyone is ok with it and understands how it works.

EndlessSorcererNov 1, 20151 votes

Teemo Shaco Bottom Lane. Both built AP and constantly set up traps in our jungle, which my teammates would then insist on fighting in.

On the plus side, I was Dr. Mundo and managed to chase Teemo down through 8 shrooms and 3 Jack-in-the-Boxes to kill him after landing every cleaver.

That was a good normal game honestly; no one was taking it seriously and everyone was having fun talking in all-chat. The Teemo and Shaco weren't even queued together.

Found it: http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1672028388/200604827?tab=overview

Jungle Lux GodNov 1, 20151 votes

I once did a Khazix Annie bot lane a couple seasons ago and our Kha'Zix got so ridiculously fed. Even though our mid laner ended up ragequitting in the middle of the game we were still able to get so ridiculously ahead in the game that it didn't matter that we didn't have an ADC because every time we had a teamfight we'd get at least 3-5 kills in exchange for less than 1-2 of our own. Eventually the enemy team surrendered in what was otherwise a super dominant game.

More recently I played against a team with a Quinn MasterYi bot lane (with Yi being the support). Surprisingly, it was not the weirdest thing in the game, with the enemy team having a jungle Twitch and me having a dominant performance on jungle Viktor .