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How did you choose a main?

mikeuntold·7/8/2015, 11:16:48 PM·1 votes·2,391 views

When I finally hit Gold this season after playing since season one. After getting there i felt this sense of completeness and pretty much stopped playing league and moved to playing other games. Since I started playing I've always been fickle about the champs and lanes I play. Never could really identify myself with a champion or lane.

I got to gold by playing jungle mostly but after the break I've fallen into an identity crisis and can't decide what to play. I play with friends mostly and they like to play Mid,top,adc mostly so I fall into jg and supp a lot. But every once and a while i get into the other lanes. And i honestly feel like I enjoy them all.

TLDR; I never mained a role now i'm very mediocre at all of them, how do i decide where i belong so I can play ranked again.

Thanks for the replies everyone it really does help a lot. I'll dip my toes in your guy's advice and see how I like it.

17 Comments

slôw7/9/2015, 1:24:42 AM2 votes

I'll say what I think is the most comprehensive advice:

Play the different playstyle champions.

I.E play aggressive mechanical champions like zed, lee, riven, yasuo, etc. after playing a lot of them, like 20 or so games, see if they aren't getting old.

then move on to the next playstyle.

Don't focus on roles/champions so much as the playstyle that fits you the most. Then, get more specific, the ROLES that fit that playstyle how you enjoy it, and what roles allow you to do the things you want to do. then look for your favorite 3-4 champions.

For example, I started maining midlane recently and I want to play all rounder champions with a few really high mechanical champions that I'll play most of the time, and learn a bunch of champions that are really well rounded.

**Mains ** (will default to these most of the time, unless their comp doesn't let me do it easily)

  1. Riven - early-mid game AD mid (lane winner, like yorick)
  2. Azir - mid-late game AP mid (doesn't matter what their comp is, or yours, you WILL carry if you are playing better)
  3. Yasuo - mid game AD mid (let the bodies hit the floor if they have little hard cc) KILL EZREAL. DIE YOU BITCH.

**Secondary ** (if they have lots of cc, or an easy way to dive on me/pressure mid lane)

  1. Cho - mid-late game safe AP mid (safe, just farm and push lane, consistently useful)
  2. Katarina - mid-late game AP mid (katarina is pretty safe, and if i have team with good teamfights ill pick kat)
  3. Ahri - mid-late game safe AP mid (against less mobile teams)
  4. Cassiopeia - mid-late game AP mid (if they are all really tanky, ill just shred them, they won't kill me with E sustain)
  5. Leblanc - early-late game AP mid (if their mid requires a snowball, lets me shut them down and be useful)

Third (if i need to blow someone up with talon easily and theres a AP top/jng, or if my lane lets me farm very very easily)

  1. Talon - mid-late game AD mid (for 100% blowing up 1 person, new zed.)
  2. Ori - mid-late game safe AP mid (if I can farm without backing and good teamfight team)
  3. Brand - early-mid game AP mid (if they have a melee mid and i can farm)
  4. Veigar - late game safe AP mid (if I can farm and team is pretty decent late game)

not in this meta: Zed - early-mid-late game safe AD mid (Zed is almost unplayable now above gold with all the safe ADC's and CC comps)

my mains I know 95%, 2nd i probably know about 70%, and third picks I know about 60%

they are all good enough to play them in diamond, and it lets me play my desired playstyle (heavily mechanical damage dealers that have no kryptonite)

I would like to add akali to this but sadly she has a kryptonite, pink wards, unless you get to end game build and you have 50% spellvamp with 4000 damage sustained burst mobility abilities.

So this is just an example of a really fleshed out and LARGE champion pool and is built around a certain playstyle and is viable in pretty much every meta, if they have lots of cc then i play a safer laner like cho or ahri or brand/ori, and if I can farm i pick hyper scaling champions, if they pick vulnerable laners or I feel confident i can kill, then i pick my mains, or i just pick azir and can do everything all the time without a problem.

Find whats the most FUN, and doesn't get OLD. then get specific, after getting specific, you flesh it out and fill weaknesses of main champions with the strengths of others.

Deep Terror Nami7/8/2015, 11:43:53 PM2 votes

I started to main Thresh, but I was too low level (or rank) that my teammates refused to follow up when I engaged and I'd just die pointlessly. I started playing Nami and never that problem because I'm not so close to danger in order to engage, so now I main her :3

Kãtãrinã7/8/2015, 11:22:12 PM2 votes

you play a role you like or just find a champion you absolutely love and main them. I main katarina because shes fun and i enjoy the challenge.

Sxli7/8/2015, 11:47:20 PM2 votes

I main adc and what got me started was having a really bad jinx on my team and I was like "I could do that better" But honestly when I started out I was awful but now I can say that i`m better than average but that took a lot of hard work and many bad games.

Xonra7/8/2015, 11:49:32 PM2 votes

For me, it started with finding a champion I liked, and then expanding from there.

I've never been the best mid, but Morg has been my fav champ long before she was a support, so it was just natural for me when she moved down to bot lane.

The more I played her down there, the more I branched out to other champs like Sona, Soraka, then tanks like Nautilus and so on.

My secondary role (top) just came from, again finding a champion I liked, then trying similar champions or champions in that role that I liked, and found I liked a lot of it.

Support just felt natural and it just went from there.

Earl Eulrich7/8/2015, 11:58:48 PM2 votes

there´s nothing wrong with not having a "main"

e.g. if you look at the best mids in the world currently (e.g. pawn, faker, godv) you see that those guys play more than 20different Champions per season - and it just shows that they have experience in certain matchups from both sides + a better understanding of what their opponents are able to/will do in teamfights. So there are quite some upsides to being able to play a lot of roles and Champions, as you´ll have a better understanding of the game as a whole than people that tunnel too much on that one "main" role/champ

that being said there´s currently ~3main playstyles across the 5 roles:

  • if you prefer playing the "makro-game"/playing the map you can either jungle or support
  • if you prefer 1v1 laning with occasional cross-map-plays then toplane is the place for you to be
  • if you want to carry (mostly in teamfights) mid or adc are the roles you´ll like best
Registeel12347/9/2015, 12:33:48 AM2 votes

The way I decided to main Azir is by his theme. I love the theme that his character and his gameplay is built around, and that's why I started maining him.

mikeuntold7/8/2015, 11:46:27 PM1 votes

thing is i have like 9 champs I abosolutely love, Ahri, Cho, jinx, shaco, sona, gragas, janna, vlad,lux,noc.... theres a lot but otherwise I feel like I have equal fun with all of them