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champ select blunders - stop making them

BluePolarizer··6 votes·1,060 views

Even in plat I frequently see people not know how to pick champions.

Remember, the game starts at champ select. It doesn't start when you buy your items or go to lane. Frequently, games ARE decided at champ select.

A few very bad picks:

  1. 4 melees + ADC.

  2. 3 pokeless melee champs + low range ADC + assassin mid

  3. No tank with more than 1 escapeless squishy.

  4. More than 3 gold hungry champs. That includes some supports who need to snowball to be relevant like Annie, carry junglers, carry tops and assassin mids. Ideally, you should only have 2-3 gold hungry champs on a team, with the less gold hungry champs being harder carries.

  5. Picking the wrong team comp. If you have a protect-the-carry style teamcomp with a utility mid and tanky top/jungle, stop picking Lucian Corki Graves , as they can't solo carry. Pick KogMaw Vayne Tristana Caitlyn Jinx instead.

  6. All AD team.

  7. A team with less than 3 hard CC spells total.

  8. A team with less than 5 AOE damage spells total.

13 Comments

50000000000000002 votes

But your teammmates are alwayz shit anyway and you have to solo carry gaems everi tiem!

Minrog1 votes

You should contact Unicorns of Love to be their pick/ban analyst. :(

BluePolarizer1 votes

whats wrong with UoL?

Minrog2 votes

They broke like 6 of your rules in their recent set against Fnatic. Go check the vods and look at the 3 champion selects, you'll be flabbergasted. You might be able to come up with a few more rules to add to your list, like not playing item 3716 summoner 11 Ezreal and building item 3285 on patch 5.16.

My personal favorite was the protect the AD carry comp with Vardags on Lucian . Spoiler: He didn't carry.

BluePolarizer1 votes

lol. Seems like champ select blunders are made all the time, even by pros.

TurquoiseYoshi1 votes

Well, PoE DID go 5/2/0 on Runeglaive Ez, and those two deaths were because of bad teamfights.

But why the hell did they keep picking the same thing in every other position?

TurquoiseYoshi1 votes

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6 . All AD team.

As a tank main, this is when I lick my lips and start stacking Thornmails.

Need Gold 4 Tent1 votes

It's not as effective as it used to be, since more and more champs are getting shredding capabilities, and the existence of the new Black Cleaver. Get an AoE shredder like Garen or stack armor shreds with Renek/Wu/J4 with everyone else getting Last Whisper, more than half your armor just disappears. Besides, TM is for the Trynd top/Yi jungle/Yasuo mid type of comps, it's less effective on AD casters like Riven and Zed, not to mention Yasuo gets 50% armor pen and Yi with sated devourer is untankable anyway (devourer problem though).

BluePolarizer1 votes

Old cleaver was pretty much the same thing as new cleaver though lol. The real advantage is that you will have much higher gold efficiency from your items since you no longer need to buy MR. If an enemy team is all AD your whole team essentially gets 2000 extra gold per non-ADC player.

TurquoiseYoshi1 votes

All that is true. Normally, I don't just stack Thornmail, I build my core items (on Amumu, my main, it's CInderhulk and Righteous Glory), and then I build Randuin's, Thornmail, Frozen Heart, Dead man's, etc.

Fake Life1 votes

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TurquoiseYoshi1 votes

No, but it's just funny to look at.

2yftLP0KQC1 votes

i just wish everyone could see this post. how i really wish. if god was real, it would happen

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