Juggernaut Meta

MegaCrayquaza·10/25/2015, 4:14:20 AM·1 votes·894 views

Hey guys, So, the juggernaut meta is going on right now. Unforunately(or not), I am mid lane, and I know from gameplay experiences that top lane bruisers are tanky to assassinate or burst. As a result, you end up losing the game and the enemy top lane carries. As a mid laner, especially an assassin, when a top laner is fed, what should you do? I've heard about focusing about other enemy laners, but then at the end they aren't very worth it. Additionally, I'm not even sure if it's right to split push as a mid laner. Thanks!

4 Comments

TehNACHO10/25/2015, 4:49:10 AM1 votes

If you are playing an Assassin, try switching your typical target of the enemy DPS to the enemy Burst Carry. In english, focus on (indirectly) protecting your adc (usually a DPS Carry) by killing the biggest threat to them on the enemy team, which is almost always the enemy Burst Mage or Assassin (if the enemy team has an unorthodox setup like Azir mid and Graves bot, go ahead and focus Graves since he's the Burst Carry in this case). Your DPS Carry is the key to killing the Juggernauts. If enemy Juggernauts are fed, you need to do everything in your power to make sure they're alive.
If you are playing a ranged mage and are fed and/or your ADC is a Burst Carry, you can try out building the AP Tank Buster build of Liandry's Torment, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, Boots of Lucidity, and Void Staff (not necessarily in that order, mind you). You should adapt your play style to be more kite based like the ADC, focusing on shutting off the enemy frontline from afar.
If you are not fed and/or your ADC is a DPS Carry, you really should consider focusing your CC on peeling for the ADC in question. CDR is great in this scenario.

I have a few more specific tips but these are the more general picture sort of things. Do you have any more specific questions?

Vesarixx10/25/2015, 5:10:44 AM1 votes

You could play Ahri, she's a pseudo assassin but has great kite potential, as a tip, her W counts as a single target spell, so if you get the furor boot enchantment it will proc from W, giving you extra move speed whenever you use it, along with her other abilities you can kite juggernauts all day, which is their main weakness.

Another champ you could try out is Quinn, if you build her item 3153 item 3142 you can duel just about anyone, and E is one of the best kiting tools in the game, plus with ult you can roam extremely easily and the execute makes 100-0 on an ADC extremely easy. Play her mid or top instead of bot as she is a fighter/assassin, not an ADC.