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The Wonders of Trying Other Lanes (Ranked advice?)

xX Hyper Xx·2/9/2015, 8:21:51 PM·1 votes·805 views

What's gucci Summoners, Bronze V pro Hyper here with some stories for the bonfire. Are you a Support main? If the answer is yes then high @$%#ing-five because so am I. Now after about a month of playing ranked I've started to notice a trend in lower elo players (Thanks Season 4 and me not caring for ranked so my mmr is horrible) where... you can't feed them enough. Stars beyond I'll never understand how I can spoon feed my Cait or (smh) Ashe kills but they don't know what to do with all this power. (Why do people fly straight into ranked like it's simple? I'll never know but I digress.) As someone who calls "Supp pref" every game now you have on your shoulders that you can't trust anyone who calls adc pref because of how bad they are. What is the next possible step? Don't call fill, call a role you know that you know better then everyone else. Going into ranked you can't just know how to play one damn lane and I wish this was printed like a warning label on that "Play" button. By level 30 you should have had a strong grasp on every lane, maybe with some slouching on mid because you never wanted to touch assassins. Be sure to look at your team comp if you're last pick and depending on where your going assess the situation. Are you Top and if your team not looking too hot? Pick Nasus or Darius so you can snowball without your jg's help (As any top laner should be doing). Are you jg? imo don't go for tons of damage go for someone with slows and the power to hold people in their place such as Sejuani or Skarner. Ad carry and support speak for themselves and mid.... ehh again @%#$ assassins. My main point (which I may have gotten of track with) is if your not seeing hypercarries in other lanes, game after game after game, switch if up (Only if you are comfortable of course). If you've seen Garen go top 3 out of 5 games then go top and play a hardcore snowball champ. Eventually you will get to a point where your games will be skill based, they'll last for an hour not because your trying with your soul to hold on to your nexus, but because you and the enemy team are neck and neck with objectives. I've switched out of supporting for the time being and I'll probably get two people on this post who'll say "You should just stick to supporting if you're a support main" but there's other low Bronze players out there who can see where I'm coming from. Anyways I'm out.

13 Comments

Nova Skye2/9/2015, 8:34:36 PM2 votes

I had to vote the first option. I main ADC, actually, with a second pref on Support (bot lane, please!), and I've come to understand that anyone who takes ADC after I call it just plain stinks. Like you said, most people in bronze 5 end up there because they jumped into ranked as soon as they hit 30, which is definitely not enough time. It also doesn't help that I learned to play league in a team setting, so I have very little taste for the dysfunctionality you find here.

Side note: PET PEEVE! Do NOT take my role after I called it and then pick a champ that you've never really played before but is supposed to be a good counter to the enemy pick.

Or at least, don't tell me that's what you did.

ccseancc1432/9/2015, 9:41:03 PM1 votes

I try to avoid supporting as much as possible in bronze-silver. ADC are just plain old bad at playing ADC. A good adc changes games and a majority of "adc" mains in bronze and silver blow. If you main support try to play leona as often as possible,

BluePolarizer2/9/2015, 9:40:45 PM1 votes

Damage junglers are fine. Darius is worse than Garen since Garen can build crit, removes slows and has free resistances, while Darius has no sustain, no tank steroids and can't scale with crit. Nasus isn't that good because while his damage has no upper limit, it realistically goes to ~500 stacks in an average game and his tankiness has an upper limit, thus there are some champs that can kite Nasus indefinitely like Vayne and Azir.

Drukyul2/10/2015, 12:00:04 AM1 votes

I'm not winning any games as a support main because I was horribly maimed by a wall of text.

Zeke Maelstorm2/10/2015, 3:47:01 AM1 votes

Where's the I engaged with no backup?