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After being stuck in gold 5 for about 3 weeks straight, I'm willing to shift gears and get plat

Peel Your ADC·6/26/2015, 3:14:32 AM·1 votes·3,208 views

My biggest gripe I always seem to struggle with is that I can only perform within a certain cap of our weakest teammate. Now don't get me wrong, I do all roles with pretty high success. I'm flexible in champ select and I have a relatively small champ pool I'm fluent with with other flex picks that arise in an opportunity.

But for the love of all that is holy, if one lane cannot function with the same capacity as everyone else, it just falls apart. Whether it be a Gnar rushing B veil as his first item while being 0/8 at 20 minutes as they take an inhibitor or an Ahri who cannot recognize danger if it turret dived her 6 times in the exact same way. I cannot make people buy items that suit the situation. I cannot tell them to stop missing a crapload of cs and eating poke for free. I cannot control the jungler going to farm krugs as the other 9 players are doing a dragon dance.

But what I can do is figure out one particular champion that will let me bypass all that. Bypass the duos that don't know what they're doing and get rid of high priority threats. Take objectives quickly and then making a smooth escape since more than 1 person is throwing down trinket wards (Have the nasty habit of overriding the ones already out since we need vision in a new area and no one puts any down...).

Champion suggestions: go.

6 Comments

IlIIllIIllIIlIl6/26/2015, 3:18:58 AM2 votes

RIVENNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's who I main and I climbed from silver 2 to gold 4 promos in like 4 days and then I got banned for being toxic because I'm toxic at all times even when I'm winning. RIP but yeah RIIIIIIIIIIVENNNNN! Or Talon!!!!!!!!!! super aoe easy to carry team fights! and if you win lane remember to roam and help your team!

LaceUp236/26/2015, 10:06:39 AM2 votes

With the shift from assassins to more teamwork style play, the champion options are getting limited. There is always Vayne, but you kind of have to rely on your support first of all, and then you have to rely on your team not feeding at the beginning of the game to the point where your late game doesn't matter.

Just don't play Riven. Only douches that can't do anything else play Riven.

S2C2Xd9KOy6/26/2015, 4:21:38 AM1 votes

No one will admit this but to play Riven well you need a lot of games with her. She is mechanically difficult with her Q combo mainly and other things such as learning how to wall hop perfectly and predict flashes for her ult (or bait them). Im learning her right now just because I think she's fun and being almost plat myself I wanna play her in a competitive environment. For the poster: Feel free to learn Riven, she's fun and strong and good in team fights. Learn how to use her first though. Also if you're going to main Riven, learn top lane mechanics. Very similar to other lanes but ward locations and minion control seem a bit more important up top. Playing top and getting ahead you can start warding not only for yourself but for your jungler. You should learn where you want the minions to be for certain matches. Theres some other stuff but I won't get into it mainly because theres a chance he will automatically say "Nah, Riven sucks".

Other champions that are good in general are Azir, Syndra, Gnar, Sivir, Lucian (he's very meh right now, but still decent), Janna, Thresh, LeBlanc, Irelia, Ahri, Annie*, Ezreal, Malzahar, Nidalee, Yasuo, Rek'Sai, Morgana, Anivia and there are definitely some other great picks. Those are just the ones I can think of.

Felixphaeton6/26/2015, 3:02:10 PM1 votes

If you're looking for easy wins while ignoring your team, you can always pick Tryndamere and split-push while ignoring your team the entire game.

If you actually are a plat level player though, you'll make an impact in most of the games you play no matter what you play. If you can't consistently influence your game solo, you belong where you are.