Do you pick to counter or just choose your best champ .

ownagepants11·9/27/2015, 6:12:28 PM·3 votes·6,030 views

I have been wondering how everyone else picks their champ I just pick my best champ but on games where I first pick tryndamere theirs a high possibility the enemy will pick teemo any tryndamere worth his salt knows the proper way to lane against teemo and although I wont likely get any kills in lane I get good farm and proceed to destroy the enemy team while teemo becomes useless late game this seems stupid to me but Im sure it makes sense to other people.

24 Comments

ltmetal9/27/2015, 10:28:20 PM4 votes

A numbered list of priorities when determining what champ to pick, ordered from highest priority to lowest:

You are practiced enough with the champion to use them effectively.
The champion synergizes with your current team composition (ex your mid picks , so you get , , or ).
The champion gives your team enough mixed damage (physical and magical) when combined with the rest of the comp to force enemy tanks to build both resistances (ex you want jungle, but your mid picks , so you get instead).
The champion shuts down one or more of the enemy picks (ex into or into ).

You should never pick based on a lower priority if the higher priority is not met first. Priority 1 is not optional in ranked, but can honestly be disregarded when you are not playing ranked and want to learn a champion.

kile1479/27/2015, 6:43:03 PM2 votes

Get good with Irelia, counter everyone in lane by default. Best of both worlds

FooDang9/27/2015, 6:40:51 PM1 votes

Sometimes I will counter pick myself (in norms) for the practice

EndlessSorcerer9/27/2015, 6:43:31 PM1 votes

Am I familiar with a champion who fits our team composition an counters the enemy? I will pick them.

Do I have champion who counters my opponent but I don't play? I'll pick someone I'm familiar with.

I'll pick a counter if-and-only-if I know how to play the champion (and hopefully the matchup). I won't pick a champion solely because they counter another champion.

If you picked Tryndamere, I would likely pick Nasus or Gnar into you since I know them both pretty well. I wouldn't pick Malphite or Teemo because I don't actually play those champions.

3tyson9/27/2015, 6:48:00 PM1 votes

learn multipile champs pick a counter if u can towards as many champs as possible if not pick ur best

AirSonance9/27/2015, 7:04:11 PM1 votes

I try to make my picks work both ways. I try to pick for both team needs and to counter within my pool of champions.

MAN OF INTELLECT9/27/2015, 10:19:08 PM1 votes

Heimerdinger I main my freelo. His counter is worse than Urgot Syndra

TTUPhoenix9/28/2015, 12:35:15 AM1 votes

I pick the champion best suited to fight my lane opponent of the ones I play well enough to be confident taking into ranked.

TouchpadExpert9/28/2015, 1:08:37 AM1 votes

I usually base my pick on whats best for my team. I may be great at Lux, Thresh, Ashe and Renekton but sometimes the situation calls for something different.

Aeolian Melodies9/28/2015, 1:55:02 AM1 votes

I play what I think is best for me to play in the situation.

No point in picking a "counter" that I can't play.

If Morgana beats Thresh but I can't play her for shit I'll probably do better with Sona whom I play a lot.

WalkingInACircle9/28/2015, 2:00:53 AM1 votes

Most lanes I have a standard and a backup. If my usual is banned, or out of teamcomp, or countered, I'll go with the other one. Worst case scenario, dodge it.

Top: MonkeyKing or else Irelia , maybe Garen Jungle: JarvanIV or else Amumu Mid: Ahri or else Lux though they're both so FotM right now XD ADC: Ashe or else Jinx Sup: Velkoz or Malphite

3lancer9/28/2015, 2:10:20 AM1 votes

You should always have multiple champions for a role so you can pick depending on your team comp as well as the enemy team comp. There's also a possibility that your main champ gets picked/banned so it's always great to have variety.

It's generally not a good idea to always go your main champ. I.e., you play squishy junglers and your team needs a tank, you need to be confident that you can win early game and get a lead.

Honestly, this is a very situational question. There's no right or wrong answer, Having a good team comp matters, but so does everyone's individual skill level.

rtbf484192829/28/2015, 2:39:10 AM1 votes

Tryndamere is not a safe pick btw. Tryndamere gets countered very easily. Teemo is one of them. What tyndamere excels at is the splitpushing. However, such thing can't happen if the enemy team has malphite or renekton top for example, who'll just build armor and clear waves pretty fast and probably beat you 1v1 if they build right. I use tryndamere as a situational pick when the top has pretty squishy champs such as riven, another snowball champion. Good trynd player vs good riven player, good trynd player always wins and denies her farms and kills. Trynd is very effective against riven even in team fights with huge attack dmg reduction with his w(80 at max rank). it's just that not many pros play tryndamere.

There won't be a meta where a riven rushes armor in early game. Riven scales with AD so well that if she rushes armor, she won't get any kills, therefore have no impact in the game. I'd rather go riven mid than face tryndamere top.

When I usually first pick, I go with safe picks who would still do very well without lane dominance. I'm specifically talking about top.

NightOfLight9/28/2015, 5:51:09 AM1 votes

I usually just pick Garen since hes easy to use and does a decent job top lane and potentially jungle but the problem is that they made him so good that I have trouble picking him.

NoPaxt9/28/2015, 12:04:52 PM1 votes

If it's ranked you pick to counter, because the win/loss has large implications, you play to win.

In un-ranked pick any champion you want, and don't care about the match up. You need to struggle every now and again. "Smooth seas never made a great sailor" as it the adage states... Sometimes I pick a bead match up on purpose, just for the practice...

NemeBro9/28/2015, 1:23:50 PM1 votes

Both. Yorick

nananananacat9/27/2015, 6:16:54 PM1 votes

I typically go with whatever. I pick who I am best with sure, but I have a couple favorite champions, and if one of them counters the enemy laner, then good for me.

famouskill9/29/2015, 1:14:56 AM1 votes

It depends, if you have a counter to the other players champions, and you have experience with the countering champion, then i think its obvious to pick him. If you are really good at a champion, lets say Brand, then if the other team chooses someone who you are strong against or someone who is not strong against you, then pick Brand. Really what im saying is if you have champion you are good at, and neither strong or weak champion is against you then your in good shape. In lower levels, summoners dont even have a clue about countering. Even champions who are weak against another can still dominate that stronger opponent. it comes down to 80% skill and the rest champion selection. if you would want to get good with all chamions, then always pick the counter. You will get good practice with every champion.

Truly Prideful9/27/2015, 6:18:27 PM1 votes

I will pick a counter if I know how to play them well, otherwise I just pick what I'm already good with.