looking for advice

Vyktor82·11/29/2014, 6:47:49 AM·1 votes·956 views

I am new. I bought a few characters. Looking for some advice about alternates and feedback on my intended mains.

Top : I am thinking shyvana. Garen and fiora as alternates Mid: Katrina. Don't have her yet but she looks fun. Not sure who else Adc: Caitlyn Support: Leona Jungle: sejuani once I get her.

Overall I like Tanky melee. I also like long range snipe which would be why I like Caitlyn. Ashe sees cool but she felt sort of boring. I'm not much of a fan of casters/mage type. Leona's design is great and fits my desire of Tanky fighter/support. Katarina 's design for assassin is fun looking and might be worth being squishy since assassin isn't known for tank. I am open to suggestions but please give reasoning with it. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

7 Comments

Desireaux11/29/2014, 7:08:49 AM1 votes

Try Maoki, Ryze, Irelia, and/Rumble top. They feel the same as other tanks but bring more to the table. Katarina is good, Jayce and Xerath are also fun. Caitlyn is really falling out of favor, try Jinx or Ezreal, they are fun and still fairly long ranged. Leona is good. Braum is just as good. Sejuani, Warwick, Udyr, Fiddlesticks, and Vi are grade A right now. Udyr is my favorite.

disregardable11/29/2014, 7:11:24 AM1 votes

I think Galio would be a good mid to try out, but he's not gonna be free for a while. Maybe Kayle? I don't think you'd like Fi much, she's squishy AF. Irelia is a good top, she's kinda like Leona.

Vyktor8211/29/2014, 9:23:20 AM1 votes

Irelia looks interesting. will probably either wait until she's on sale, or she's free to try.

What would kayle be good for? mid?

I have heard that people aren't so jazzed about Caitlyn, but she fits a style I like, so I don't plan on dropping her, but I would like an ADC that would be a good backup for her.

I do own warwick. I was also looking at Pantheon maybe?

Jayce looks interesting. Same as irelia...free week or maybe sale

Would there be a reason you wouldn't want to use shyvana or garen?

imamonster1311/29/2014, 10:10:24 AM1 votes

My opinions are: If I'm going top lane, I'm using either Irelia, or Elise, and sometimes garen. If I'm mid lane, I'm going with either xerath, akali, or heimer, Lissandra, or sometimes elise. If I'm bot (please dont make me adc) I'm ALWAYS going to choose quinn, and as for support I pretty much always go with lulu. And for jungling, I'm usually going to choose amumu. I think you would really like irelia, because she is a tanky AD champ, you would probably really like amumu since he can be a MAJOR tank. Quinn also has a pretty good range on him, and is also a really good gap closer.

Cale01711/29/2014, 7:56:49 PM1 votes

Shyvana's a really good top. She's who I used to learn both the Jungle and Top lanes. Consider Wukong as well, you can build them practically the same but Wukong comes with a bit more utility from his knockup. Shyvana has way more teamfight presence though. I'd suggest Rumble top, but he's as much a caster as he is a fighter, which you say you don't like.

If you don't have VelKoz mid, I'd really suggest him. He's tons of fun, but that's just a preference. The damage from his combo is insane, and while he doesn't have hard CC or escapes, his knockup and slow are usually enough to give you the distance to lay down his W for some extra damage. I can't tell you how many times people have chased me not realizing how much damage he can do in a short period of time. If you like assassins, try Akali. She has a much more sustained damage curve than Katarina, although she doesn't deal as much in as short a time without some serious combos. There's no real way to get a tanky midlane though, so you'll just have to save that for other roles.

Cait's solid. Graves is my favorite ADC, but you have to play him as more of a caster so some people don't find he works well for them as an ADC. He wins trades because of his passive, the main things are learning when and where to use your Q or your ult, and picking your times to use his dash for the AS boost. His W is great for zoning the enemy adc and denying farm as well.

Add Thresh to the list for support if you don't already have him. He's simply amazing. A pull, an AoE knockup, an AoE slow, and the lantern can make so many plays.

Sejuani REALLY isn't the best jungler right now. She can do a lot for a team, and her late game tankiness is amazing, but she isn't that great herself. Try Shyvana in the jungle instead, and once you get a bit more used to that consider someone like Nocturne or Rengar, both of whom can be built as offtanks if necessary, although I prefer the two played as high damage assassins. Volibear is a good pick if you want to forgo some damage for tankiness. He can lay down a surprising amount of pain if you get the Skirmisher item along with the Devourer enchantment, then just build straight tank after that. Makes his AAs do really good damage, you can pop your ult if you need more, and his execute will eat people alive after you get a Warmog's built.

soulchaos11/29/2014, 8:19:00 PM1 votes

well its not a amazing season for sejuani she has not been to strong. If you want tanky jungs try like naut or volibear if you want tanky supports Try thresh, braum blits. My problem with leona is you said your new and most bronze adcs dont follow uppp support grabs often if you go all in with leonas E and they dont fallow up then its normally suicide braums a fun support or if you want damage and tank try blitz

Vyktor8211/30/2014, 1:55:11 AM1 votes

Braum looks interesting. Will put him on the list

Graves is a maybe.

Shyvana as jungle? That sounds like something I could do which would free up my top heavy champ group. I am sad to hear sejuani is not doing well. I'm a fan of team play and support along with "cold" theme characters so she seemed a good fit. So New setup:

Top: garen/fiora - still need to do a doors game to see if I like her but I do like garen. Maybe irelia if not fiora. Mid - no one for sure but katarina and akali are in the running. Don't own either. Did someone mention jayce mid? Kayle mid? Adc - Caitlyn and then backup maybe graves or Quinn. I do own sivir too if any thoughts? Support- Leona and braum once I get him Jungle- shyvana with someone as backup. Maybe Warwick since I own already. Wish sejuani was a good choice

I've played games with Caitlyn garen shyvana and Leona so far. I like all of their styles so far. I own but haven't tried fiora Warwick sivir and the rest of the starter pack. I tried ashe and was underwhelmed.