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How to know when you are ready to go into ranked.

YOUGOTKILLEDBRO·5/16/2015, 9:34:25 PM·1 votes·420 views

I feel this must be shown, know when to be ranked:

  1. You own 16 champions. There are 5 roles in the game. Top, Jungle, Mid, Support, and ADC. You should have 2-3 in 4 of the roles that you can play well and more in your main role. Example: Top: Vladmir, Malphite, Wukong Jungle: I main jungle so i have plenty of champs Mid: Kennen, Ziggs, AP Kog'Maw Support: Nautilus, Blitzcrank ADC: Ashe, AD Kog'Maw
  2. Know how to play these roles at atleast a 5/10.
  3. Know what to build on champions EX: Once i saw a Malphite in ranked build Zephyr, Nashor's Tooth, and other weird items. Malphite should build tanky with items like Warmog's Armor or Banshee's Veil
  4. Don't play Zed, Yasuo, Riven, and other high skill cap champs in bronze.

4 Comments

Commit Sudoku5/16/2015, 11:14:07 PM1 votes

ha riven high skill cap made me kek

T RexHasTinyArms5/17/2015, 3:08:10 AM1 votes

You don't need nearly that many champs. I have 2 or 3 supports I play 1 mid and top that I play 90% of the time and a back up that can do both roles if my main is banned/picked, and honestly I jungle so seldom I can get away w/ one, but I have 2 or 3 bc I like the variation. Total that's like 6-8 champs that I will play if I'm serious, and it's like 4 or 5 for 90% of my games or more. (Also you don't need to play all 5 roles if you can support and play 2-3 others. Support you WILL have to play at some point, but I just say I don't ADC and it is so seldom that my team asks me to anyway that my LP gains are better to just dodge that 1 in 100 game than play a role I don't enjoy and don't want to practice and get good at)

Gym Leader Yaki5/18/2015, 12:27:57 PM1 votes

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I feel this must be shown, know when to be ranked:

  1. You own 16 champions. There are 5 roles in the game. Top, Jungle, Mid, Support, and ADC. You should have 2-3 in 4 of the roles that you can play well and more in your main role. Example: Top: Vladmir, Malphite, Wukong Jungle: I main jungle so i have plenty of champs Mid: Kennen, Ziggs, AP Kog'Maw Support: Nautilus, Blitzcrank ADC: Ashe, AD Kog'Maw
  2. Know how to play these roles at atleast a 5/10.
  3. Know what to build on champions EX: Once i saw a Malphite in ranked build Zephyr, Nashor's Tooth, and other weird items. Malphite should build tanky with items like Warmog's Armor or Banshee's Veil
  4. Don't play Zed, Yasuo, Riven, and other high skill cap champs in bronze.

Dude, just because you have enough champions to play in every lane and you know what to build on them is not advice for ranked. I mean like, that should not be an indicator for people to jump into ranked games.

The concept of a champion pool is very important, but you don't need 16 champions for that. I would say UNDER 16 champions.