Diamond 2 ADC/Jungle. AMA about league of legends!

They're nikes because im a jungler that likes to go fast.

against riven, simply never touch her unless you are 100% sure you can kill her within 5 seconds without her being able to run away or until you have 1 item.

basically, rush either thornmail or randuins depending on the rest of their team and your champion (usually thornmail tho). good champions against her are all those that are strong standing fighters able to take her combo at 1 item and are also able to punish her if she tries to combo you like olaf, darius, garen and similar champs. if you are a champ like shyvana who will get comboed and stunned and then riven just jumps away, no matter how strong you are she can always combo you for free. dont get comboed.

also, dont get baited into fighting her before 1 item except if its 100% clean and easy and not reliant on "outplaying".

against tryndamere, just always push him in and be ready to all-in him if he tries to trade. tryndamere is actually a pretty weak champion and he only has one power he can use in lane: he can push you in and trade with you even under tower while sustaining it all up. if he falls behind a little bit in health and yo ucan push him in, he has no ways to push back and sustain so unless he recalls, he cant harm you anymore and once he recalls, just do the same, buy thornmail + lifesteal and keep pushing.

Counterplay/counterpicks against:

1. Pick a lane bully like draven and punish her really hard in laning phase to shut her down early since shes heavily reliant on items to deal dmg.
2. Buy pink wards/scanner lens to counter her stealth mechanic in teamfights

1. Pick a scaling tanky top laner like (just farm the lane and don't force plays unless you know u can beat her)
2. Build armor
3. Riven is very mobile and can snowball the lane with 1 kill so deny her the ability to get those kills with safe and smart laning phase gameplay.
4. Having harsh slows can greatly reduce her mobility so this gives your team more room to kite her or wait until her spells are on cooldown to engage on.

Tryndamere is one of those champions that is tougher to "counter" because he has a bunch of weird powerspikes so I wouldn't say he has a direct counter but you can outplay him in lane and during the game. I think these are the two options you really have:

1. Shutdown tryndamere in laning phase. This means outplaying him with a good 1v1 champ or asking for continual ganks. Tryn is not good in teamfights and hes known for splitpushing so doing this weakens him.
2. Pick a champion that does extremely well in teamfights like gnar. Just farm the laning phase and make TP plays elsewhere. Once you win the teamfight, immediately rush an objective (especially turrets) and push with your team.

Regarding , there really isn't any counter to this item. Most junglers will reach "sated" status ~18 mins (earliest). Now the one major mistake alot of devourer players make is they try to focus on farming strictly and avoid ganks. So to counter this you can:

1. Pick a jungler with alot of early game ganking presence like and gank the lanes as often as you can.
2. Ward up the enemy's jungle and steal her camps. That will heavily delay her stacks. A jungler with a strong early game/1v1 can invade the enemy jungler with ease.
3. You need to pick a jungler that scales really well with

No thoughts YET on or since I don't pay attention to pbe. I usually wait for patch notes because thats when the changes are finalized.

1. Regarding Pick/Bans , I can only speak about my own elo but here are the highly contested picks: - her human form E is 1.75 second stun. (very OP for a lvl 1 ability that you can take pre-6 and this makes her early game ganks devastating for the enemy) - the stealth mechanic is very annoying to deal with. If the enemy doesn't buy pink wards, her ganks are devastating. Enemies are forced to play more passive/scared if they dont have the necessary vision on eve. Even if the enemy buys pink wards to counter eve, this forces them to spend more gold on pinks in general. - Insane scaling on this champion as a devourer jungler. Her ult makes her presence very difficult to deal with as she can protect any allies and reduce the effectiveness of an enemy's burst comp with a well-timed ult - insane scaling with devourer. Combine that with her tankiness and she can 1v1 anyone on the enemy team,specifically the back line and squishy carries. Once she builds Botrk , it is extremely hard to escape from her. - insane scaling with devourer. Really strong snowballing and can 1v1 anyone. Very good at splitpushing and picking ppl off, especially squishies. Getting botrk makes it very hard for anyone to escape him. - As one of the non-devourer junglers, Rengar provides insane assassination power. He has a high potential for snowballing and can easy kill the enemy ADC/Mid laner. He does very well in smaller skirmishes. He is an enemy you should fear if your vision control is awful and your teammates are splitpushing. - Shen being a top laner provides very annoying presence on the map post level 6. His ulti makes it incredibly hard to force all-ins as both the shield and ability to increase the number of enemies by 1 in a fight make him very annoying to deal with. - Arguably one of the best mid laners right now. Solid laning phase and wave clear. Has alot of AoE dmg, a shield, and an AoE zoning stun.

2. I personally recommend picking high snowball champions like Katarina/Khazix/Rengar/Master Yi/Jinx. Only play these champions if you are decent at them. Otherwise, whether you pick a champion better suited for teamfights vs. high single target dmg assassinations will depend on your playstyle. Realize the strengths and weakness of your champion and play to that extent. This means if you pick zed, look to dominate your lane and try to roam around and pick off single targets. Don't try to teamfight unless you have a clear advantage like being able to explode 2-3 targets within your AoE or maybe your team is really far ahead. If you pick a teamfighting champion like Orianna, aim to group more often with your team. It really doesn't matter what champion you play as long as you're really good at that champion.

3. In terms of strong vs. comfortable on , it really is up to how you use the champion. Even if a champion pick is a counter to another, it is still your responsibility to play the champion well and abuse that. Otherwise, the pick is pointless. I think its better to go with a champion you're strong on because you have alot more control over the game. Besides, there isn't anything wrong with being a 1-trick pony. Alot of challenger players are 1 trick ponies.

4. Other mechanics to improve on include: minion wave control (which encompasses a bunch of other smaller mechanics all aimed at giving you both a CS and Level advantage over the enemy), objective control, decision making, rotations/roaming, kiting, harassing the enemy when they go in for cs, and playing off of enemy cooldowns.

If its the #1 thing, then its between mechanics and decision-making. I've seen horrid mechanics and very slow decision-making from plat players compared to my elo. The speed of the plays are on two different levels.