Legend of the Poro King: What Champs Work the Best for You?

Gigglebytes·12/17/2014, 11:48:58 PM·2 votes·27,579 views

Hi guys, A lot of us have been playing LotPK and have been discovering some champions that work especially well in this game mode. I've found that Amumu does pretty well with his AoE stun and abilities and his tankiness. What works well for you guys?

34 Comments

IwfiKe3qjM12/18/2014, 12:46:43 AM4 votes

maybe Amumu/Rammus/Ziggs/Lux/Fiddlesticks

Amumu Q and ult combo can initiate Rammus can initiate with all combo Q for knockup stun, E can taunt, W for E proc, ult Ziggs have AoE damage Lux Q root and E stun maybe can initiate Fiddlesticks ult can have same use as Rammus ult and have W for drain

maybe others poke and nuke type too...

Leti the Yeti12/18/2014, 12:15:29 AM3 votes

If they were god tier in ARAM, they would be god tier in Poro

might as well get nidalee/jayce/ziggs/sona/soraka

the first 3 can poke forever and soraka can heal forever as sona heals soraka ;l

Howldoom12/18/2014, 12:58:46 AM2 votes

Sejuani

Sachabot12/18/2014, 5:53:20 AM2 votes

I enjoy playing Sejuani. I mean, I always do, but Poro Rider + Gentlemen Poro is the best.

Also, I get my kicks out of denying the enemy team whatever they were trying to do just by throwing my ult.

Moussetracks12/20/2014, 4:00:22 AM2 votes

Off tank Lissandra. Its tricky, but you can hit poro, cast E, port to poro, get off a WQ and re-e back into position.

Herr Grohe12/21/2014, 11:01:52 AM2 votes

I think the Champion with most of the fun isSkarner ... throw poro , activate, ult and back to poro king :D

Addy the Cat12/18/2014, 7:51:47 AM1 votes

My favorite has to be Janna. She's great at defending turrets, has some amazing cc, and she deals tons of damage.

KillerPenguins12/18/2014, 8:53:30 AM1 votes

I've been going for garen and udyr and anyone else who doesn't have a gap closer in their kit, poro snowball is a massive buff for them. The poke comp seems to matter less in this than in aram because the games tend to not be as long.

Hiryuu1612/19/2014, 4:27:32 PM1 votes

Try Galio. He's so forgotten that he's rarely banned, but the free gap-closer fixes his biggest weakness on other maps. Poro in, ult, watch them all walk to their doom. Plus, AP is over-represented as usual for this map, so you get very tanky.

SeCKS Egai12/19/2014, 9:43:59 PM1 votes

I like using Ziggs since I never get to use him on ARAM.

I personally prefer the strong poke champions as I often doubt my team's willingness to commit to the melee engage.

MrBuffington12/20/2014, 12:50:12 AM1 votes

In typical ARAM style I've had/seen a lot of success with poke champions (Xerath for me) and snowbally assassins (Kat, Yi, Fizz, Akali, etc. are common bans).

However, I also really like Sion for this mode; he's still got ability to poke with his E, great lockdown with his Q (so long as you're watching for things that can interrupt you) and is very tanky with his W (I'll usually max this first). Additionally, people seem not to expect you to come back from the dead; I've gotten many double kills this way. Finally, because the map is so narrow, your ult is easier to hit since there are fewer places to run.

The new summoner spells really helps out champions who otherwise have trouble getting into a fight; Galio is terrifying on this map.

One thing you want to keep in mind though is your team comp; if everyone on your team is running poke champions and you play a dive champion, no one is really around to follow up on your engages.

Bresn12/20/2014, 1:49:33 AM1 votes

Kalista + Morgana duo combo with a friend on skype op.

League of Potato12/20/2014, 11:15:50 AM1 votes

Okay here we go...

Unlike most I prefer not to use the obvious snowball and OP champs (Akali Katarina MasterYi) except for maybe ziggs occassionally

However I've enjoyed playing a lot of APC types of champions for carrying aspects such as Brand Syndra Velkoz (before he was banned)

The only adc's ive really enjoyed were Graves MissFortune

I've also found a lot of success with really tanky/bruiser champions...any one that can dive into their whole team and get a kill without dying makes my day...such as.. Alistar Chogath JarvanIV Malphite Nautilus Pantheon (more of a fighter I know, but I like my pantheon to be tanky and hard hitting)Taric

I remember one game I played, the other team's poke may have been the most cancerous team comp of all time...Ziggs Sivir Nidalee Karma Velkoz(again this was before the ban) ...My team literally couldn't do anything, it was just infinite spam, and as if it wasn't hard enough dodging the endless spam of their skill shots, we also had to dodge the poros. I know a lot of people would just say that we were all just bad and needed a smart tank with smart initiations, but when you can't even initiate because you're getting poked down to below half health constantly, there's not much you can do. I'm sure if you could convince all 4 of your teammates to run a similar team comp you'd have an easy win.

I also played against someone who went straight tank Shaco which is something I've never seen before, yet it worked quite well. Probably the only reason it did was because he actually knew how to use shaco. A lot of players don't understand how to really succeed with shaco (especially on aram). However we still one against their team, but I don't think it's because shaco built tanky. He was one of their biggest threats even with a straight defense build.

All in all I've found this game mode to be quite fun, especially once you understand the mechanics of the poros/"summoner spells".

MetaAwesome12/20/2014, 11:40:39 AM1 votes

Alistar So many mistakes have been made by enemies jumping to me, and so many wins have been made by me jumping to the enemy.

Mirage Seraph12/20/2014, 11:49:52 AM1 votes

My three favorite champs have been Azir, Poppy and Kalista.

Azir is just in general a great anti-siege champ, nothing hilarious to really do with him aside from poro toss into ulting everybody towards my team.

Poppy is just. Well. Poppy. Land the poro and you just smash their face in with glorious AP diplomacy, and type #outskilled while teleporting back to the Poro King.

Kalista? Land the poro and bring your alistar or malphite or whatever along with you for the ride. (I'd love to have a shen on my team as well, maybe tomorrow!)

I've been trying to make Twitch work. I've done a few silly things with the stealth teleporting (especially with some Zilean bombs into the mix) but it takes Twitch too long to really take off plus he isn't very survivable so I'm often finding myself useless.

Jungle Lux God12/20/2014, 8:36:27 PM1 votes

I personally have had the most fun with Skarner and Fiddlesticks.

Skarner I have so much fun moving super quick between W and Guardian's horn and throwing out poros and E's at everyone. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get the Impale > To the King combo out, but he's been super fun regardless.

Fiddlesticks is also really fun for his amazing teamfight AoE and its synergy between Poro Toss/ To the King. My personal favorite play, which I term the "poro wind fountain dive okey doke", where I use Poro Toss on a low health enemy in the enemy fountain, follow up on the dash, and cast Dark Wind on them. I've gotten at least two kills from that play alone, at least one of which ended in myself being executed instead of being killed by the enemy team.

Evil Jester12/21/2014, 12:26:07 AM1 votes

Pantheon: I've done so many back door ults to win games. and when i ult there poro king with all of them crowded around it. its epic. I almost always leave with a kill or 2 before I get focused and die. then my team plays clean up crew.

Wukong:

  1. throw poro
  2. poro dash in their team
  3. ult
  4. laugh your @$$ off XD

Vayne: building all Atacks speed with a BOTRK and her true damage W melts enemy poro kings as soon as they land. even if they get the poro king every time, its so useless when i literally melt it in 2 seconds.

Galio:

  1. throw poro
  2. poro dash in their team
  3. ult
  4. laugh your @$$ off XD
aYrz12/21/2014, 8:06:05 PM1 votes

In my opinion... Galio is the most op champ because, for hat i've seen so far, people take mostly AP champs ! Since Galio builds Ap while building MR, he gets the tankiness and damage needed... Plus Amumu has his Q for gap closer, Galio has none... So the Poro Toss works wonderfully with him ! Thats what I think :D

Mirador12/23/2014, 12:53:48 AM1 votes

I would recommend Karthus with a tank and someone with a fast auto attack for the most powerful Poro mode combo out there.

  1. Have a friend pick a tank with AOE damage. My friend preferred Garen , but Sejuani , Amumu , or Rammus work better because of their CC.
  2. Have another friend pick someone, preferably a bruiser, with good auto attack speed. My friend chose XinZhao , but really any fast auto attack champ will do.
  3. Pick Karthus .

Doesn't really matter who the other two champs are, but it helps if one of them is another AOE damage champ like MonkeyKing , Swain , or Vladimir and the other is someone with long range who can stall out the opposing team with poke.

Each of your jobs are as follows: Tank: Toss poros back and forth and engage on the enemy team with your AOE damage ability whenever your team is there and the enemy team isn't under their tower. When you have the Poro King stall them on the other side of their turret and make sure you peel for your team.

Karthus: Pick up item 3165 to shut down any health steal or healer champs and item 3027 as soon as possible and always follow the tank in, preferably with a poro toss. item 3116 and item 3151 should be your next two items for obvious reasons and be sure to die strategically. If you have the poro king on their turret, die on the other side of their turret so that they have to go through you to reach your team. If they have the poro king on your turret die in front of your turret and use your passive to burn down the king as fast as possible. If they have the Poro king and he is stalled momentarily killing Minions while your team is up and fighting him then die on the enemy Poro King to burn him down as fast as possible again. You will die a lot and people might panic, but you will cause more damage than anyone else because you have 8 seconds of free damage or eight seconds where the enemy team just won't get past you because they are afraid of your damage. As for your last two items take your pick of item 3089 , item 3157 , item 3135 , or item 3152 , but skip the boots, you don't really need them now that you have a gap closer.

AA Bruiser: Make sure you are alive whenever your team has the Poro King on the enemy turret and just beat down that turret while Karthus and the tank provide a diversion.

Used this strategy to perfect success most of Saturday. The only time we lost when using this strategy that I can remember was when we ran into an enemy team using the exact same strategy and my computer crashed. Since I was playing Karthus they dominated my team before I could get back. Check my match history if you don't believe me.

IM8TTRTHNU12/25/2014, 5:05:11 PM1 votes

Draven is all you need :D

Giovarco12/27/2014, 11:25:37 PM1 votes

Ezreal with blue build = perma slow

Sirin Gioro12/28/2014, 4:15:45 AM1 votes

Sona, Mundo for me. Sona = permaheal Mundo = Permaslow? oh yeah and blue ezreal

Sasafrassus Rex12/18/2014, 12:11:28 AM1 votes

Garen. lel

Sachabot12/28/2014, 3:16:11 PM1 votes

Gnar is....disappointing on this mode, sadly. Perhaps because he doesn't have a lot of room to play around with. Although his initiations get scary.

The Chin12/18/2014, 12:53:12 AM1 votes

Heimerdinger can one shot the poro king

And when you get the poro king tanking their tower, you can set up all your turrets right under their tower (it's usually a bad idea to place heimers turrets in tower range cause they get one shot) OP seige, if they even come close to there own turret they'll die

CalciferHowel12/18/2014, 12:55:47 AM1 votes

Garen wrecks shop. it's funny.

Ultoblaknite12/18/2014, 1:27:02 AM1 votes

Nidalee worked well for me every time I used her, with mad poke and her cougar form for follow up damage and executions in short range.

insaiyanbacca12/18/2014, 5:54:13 AM1 votes

ap mumu is hilarious

Acadiaum12/18/2014, 6:44:02 AM1 votes

Twisted Fate, as long as they don't have a tank. Most of the time they don't and I end up going 20 + a game