Are you guilty of this?

Beerstein··1 votes·254 views

I'm very rusty with league atm and my main used to be AD Nidalee (never really played her AP) I know she's not really viable anymore, especially since she brings no CC to the team. That said I'm so refined and comfortable with her that I do better with her than any other champion by quite some margin at the moment. I still haven't picked a new top laner yet (thinking of Vlad though). That said because my skill level with her is so high above my skill level with other champions what happens when I do end up top lane and am forced to bring her out is I absolutely dominate the guy across from me. This is where the problem starts...

There is a reason I pick her, there's a reason I dominate with her. If you see an ally getting shut down by a crazy/stupid pick like AD nidalee when they're Fiora for example DON'T talk crap to them about losing to AD nid, don't insult them til they literally leave the game. The guy across from them picked that champion for a reason! Sometimes people have vastly different skill levels with different champions and can dominate people at their normal MMR with a champion they're simply much better at utilizing. I've had several teams now literally drive their top laner out of the game when this happens, it's not okay.

Also you know what? All of us also lose to that sometimes. Not only can it throw us off if we haven't faced the champion, but it's often possible that the guy across has faced your champion with that champion more times than they can count! I know every spell in most top laners kits and how/when they use them, I bet 90% of the people I'm facing have no idea how my cougars Q works.

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Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I'm close to hitting Gold solely using Nami. I'm afraid I'm losing skill with everything else D:

Beerstein1 votes

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I'm close to hitting Gold solely using Nami. I'm afraid I'm losing skill with everything else D:

I know that feel, sometimes when you're pushing for a rank just go with it though. If you feel like you pushed so far up with your main that you look back and can barely see your second best champion though you can always go to normals and work your weaker positions. For now I'd say keep pushing for gold with your nami. Also as evidenced by me if you get THAT comfortable with nami it's something that'll follow you even if you stop playing her for a year+ so it's not something you should worry about at all. Once you're done getting gold unless they massive rework her you'll always have nami main in your blood.

Also kudos for pushing ranks with a support, not many are willing to do it but I find support wins rewarding.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Ya I can hit gold if I win 5 games in a row. Once I do that I'm abandoning ranked and working hard on my other favorites in Normal.

Linthe1 votes

I mostly agree with this... A friend of mine was getting crap for picking Shaco jungle. He is actually pretty good at Shaco and one of a VERY SMALL number of champs it is safe to put him on.

So I told the other guy to let him plat what he was good at.

I am firmly in the camp that champion matchups are vastly over-rated at low ELO.

Beerstein1 votes

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I mostly agree with this... A friend of mine was getting crap for picking Shaco jungle. He is actually pretty good at Shaco and one of a VERY SMALL number of champs it is safe to put him on.

So I told the other guy to let him plat what he was good at.

I am firmly in the camp that champion matchups are vastly over-rated at low ELO.

Yeah, plus shacos a really good one to master, shacos can be so nasty in the right hands. In my last few games with AD nid though I got a bit of lip from my own teams (doesn't bother me tbh) and multiple opposing teams literally got my lane opponent to leave the game via trash talk after being dominated. Last game I just told them I haven't played since season 2 then said Season 2 meta OP every time I killed my lane opponent xD

The worst part is the last one I was teamed with a lower level friend and the enemy had a platinum 4 (in a lower lvl game) talking crazy trash to their poor top laner til he quit, then talking mad trash to us while he was in a low lvl game with a katrina...He lost anyways. In general though people really need to lighten up on their allies that are losing to off meta picks.

RogueWill1 votes

I only play 2 tops and I rather go into a countered lane with a champ I', comfortable with than try to counter my enemy and end up with a champion I'm not so good. The amount of people that gives me crap on champion selcet for picking x champion is so funny.

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