@@choda_smeker What I mean by "nuking" is Diana's ability to one shot multiple squishies at a time. Lee can only target one person. Furthermore Diana's ultimate has way more impact in a team fight than Lee Sin's ult due to its larger threat radius, higher potential dmg, etc.
@@choda_smeker I'm not gonna pretend like Diana's early game isn't scary but she doesn't really fall off, unlike Lee Sin or Talon, and I'd argue she's much stronger on the mid/late game
i think one of the best decisions you can make is to choose a main that is as meta agnostic as possible, like Vi who can build any tank or ad item so she can adapt to the gamestate really well. or for mid something like ahri or vex
@@torsken3997 "Meta agnostic" means a champion that can be played regardless of the meta.... At no point in this post did he recommend picking a meta champion.
@@yGKeKe ah ok my bad wasn't familiar with the term. My point still stands though. I don't think your champ matters even if it's turbo weak the champ is not holding you back
@@sageboysen695 you'll eventually get filled to another role. Might not hurt to have a champion in mind for the other roles too, even if they aren't something you choose to lock in unless placed onto your secondary role or autofilled.
Your champ is 100% not holding you back from gold. Any champion is 100% viable until at least Masters, and honestly a skilled player can make champions work above that even if they'd traditionally not be the most suitable picks.
Ok so for anyone watching this the weak-strong doesnt matter at all until masters so you should ignore it pick a champ that you can identify with and that you have fun playing
Can you make an even bigger (more dimensional) matrix? Including stuff like if they are more keyboard magicians or macrogame geniuses and so on? For example WW: little mechanical skills, but you need to know how to roam so you can get the most out of your w
from adcs, most of lost games i had so far are because of jhin, its absolutely stupid how people dont understand how he works until some higher ranks and trade with him one auto for one auto, no comment, then you get 5/0 jhin
I was looking for a champion that fits my playstyle, i like to hit and run or to have the ability to 1v1 most of the champions in the game , so i chose draven and reached diamond only playing draven.
Game is changing its meta every 2 weeks. Imo its important and also good if you have like at least 4 champs in your pool. As Example you main Top and second. Jungle. So it would be good if you have like an AD and AP Top + AD + AP Jungler, also would look that the champ you pick is able to deal with tanks and also with assasins when you change runes and builds etc.
So I am a Katarina main, I’ve played her a ton. Over time playing with katarina got boring. I’ve been having so much fun playing with akali on the other hand. Is it okay to main two assassins? I am also scared to lose skills with katarina, if I start maining akali.
Oki, so, 1 ADC question. Why is Akshan never considered as ADC bot lane ? And in the same vein, Shen support ? I know you cant cover every champions per role. But Akshan is a marksman, i get why someone like Kindred doesnt work (marks) but him ? Im just curious. (also im subbed to skill cap, if theres a better place to ask this question lmk :D)
Akshan lacks dps and is more of a burst assassin champ. Shen is a really good support although he is favoured in top and mid as he is stronger in those roles
@Dawie Kleynhans I kinda understand that 😅 thx for the reply. My thoughts are. Vayne and nilah have short range too. Akshan get movespeed on auto OR double autos. Can follow a nice support engage to burst. But yeah he's probably on the weaker meta "adc" I just feel he should be mentioned xD
@@TheCadHD Yeah vayne is why i said basically every adc, there are ones with very short range. But vayne has her silver bolts passive which allows her to have massive dps(although she is dogshit atm) And nilah has a range and attack speed steroid built in while having her w to avoid AA's, without those she wouldnt be in botlane
shen has a very good early game trading potential with his taunt flash combo, plus if you were to play him as a support, his ultimate makes you teleport, so you have to be cautious, I hardly ever see shen support, but when he's top, he wins for like 70% of the time
I main kog'maw as a ADC Go ad when you have a descent matchup Go ap when you don't (kog'maw ap on botlane is so much more easy to win lane for some reason)
I think these videos are the only reason Jayce has a sub 50% WR lol. I dont wanna know how many poor Souls tried him because they were told he is strong and just lost a bunch of games on him. Meanwhile I am sitting on a 62% WR over 100 games on him. The champ is broken rn but people trying to learn him tear down his WR massively so he won't get nerfed.
Champs does matter in every elo. If u dont know the fundamentals and always strugling pick a champs that still have an impact in team fights like Malphite for exmp. When i play vs Morde for exmp i lose bunch of cs, his jng camps top, i just take xp and set up vision for good ultimates. My win rate sky rocketed to 88%
he scales hard by hitting lvl 6 and also he does scale rly hard as long as u dont just R into 5 people like a twat lol otherwise he has huge scaling he has 3 steroids in his kit..atck dmg Q , atck speed W and a heal on his passive....
@@torsken3997 1-what does tell you that i'm not master+ 2- What if the most picked champs counter tour main wich IS 70% of the games . For example i play Garen and the top 3 champs picked in toplane are Darius/Teemo/aatrox , you can't play Garen no more so you have to play something like Rumble/jayce...
@@Ray_Fulgent 1 what i mean is that master players are at a level where their fundamentals are good enough where the champ pick actually matters. 2 garen actually does well into aatrox and teemo. Although the teemo matchup has a bit of a skill curve to it cause you need to be patient and teemo can be frustrating to play against. aatrox isnt that bad as garen with stridebreaker has stickingpower and you can get onto aatrox by cleansing the w slow (or dodging the w) although you have to be patient as aatrox has good spacing. The darius matchup im not that familiar with but ive heard its hard for garen but i would suggest banning him then. Gl on your games garen is a great champion for climbing
@@Ray_Fulgent As an Aatrox otp, I can assure you that he is in shambles rn, and especially as garen you should have 0 issues against aatrox if you have good wave management and are able to secure early combos around level 3 and 6 where you can free dive with ult.
I kinda change my main role and champions all the time for like 3 years.....always getting bored with playing just 1 of them so I can't really choose a real main champ :D
my main used to be a champion called qiyana, which suited perfextly my playstyle, then people strat crying and mommy riot had to do something and after 14 nerfs all Qiyana mains almost expired. She used to be a wonderful champ now its a siege minion ult bot like kennen, but at least he doesnt lose all mana after 2 combos.
people realy sleep on varus he can build ap or ad and can play every lane imo he is the perfect 1 trick champ because of his diversity and also that he is very strong if you play him right with his % damage and hybrid dps
mordekaiser has shit early good past 6 ok late game. sett is a good pick if you are good at the fundamentals. he looks simple but the good setts and bad setts are very different
i am looking for a main for top and my teamfights usually go like this: its starts off with like 2v3, 4v3 etc and then the rest of the teams join after 1 or 2 die. what type of top laners could help me with those types of fights?
Not really sure what you mean but it sounds like you would want a top laner with burst (riven, camille, renekton, rengar, pantheon, jayce etc), also depending on your elo (everything below diamond and prob in diamond too but it depends) people are probably not playing the teamfights correctly so i don't really think thats something you should worry about. Your champs strength doesn't really matter until masters as the game fundamentals triumphs over champ strength
If your issue is trying to impact teamfights that start randomly without you being nearby, that's arguably something that could be addressed with proper game fundamentals (sometimes what people ask you to do in-game isn't the most ideal move). That being said, champs like Shen and Gangplank can impact fights anywhere on the map with their ultimates.
I've played since Season 1. And while I've had my favorites - Cho'Gath, Zilean, Renekton, Yorick, Bard, Rell, Vi, Aurelion Sol, Azir, Tristana, Akshan, etc - it was not until Season 9 when I picked up Yuumi and started playing her on-hit that I "found my main". Nobody before or since has felt right the way tiny murder cat has. Now, in less than 2 weeks, I will have to try her new kit that looks much less suited to the way I like to play her. RIOT has killed the nontoxic way to play Yuumi, in favor of making her even more toxic... and I'm saddened by that decision. But I'm hopeful that I'll still enjoy playing her, that it will still kind of work. I have to be, because RIOT is breaking my heart. And then I get this video in my feed, advising me on how to find my Season 13 main. Well it can't be Aurelion Sol, because RIOT screwed me over with him. The way that I played him, the old kit was much stronger than the new one. (At least the new Sol kit isn't bloody awful; Yuumi's new kit looks mind-meltingly awful.) It might have to be Aurelion Sol, honestly. At least he's still fun to play, even if he's a mere shadow of himself now. I main'd Cho'Gath for 7 seasons... I don't think I want to just go back to him. I could always just main AP Varus and make everyone else as miserable as RIOT has made me... but that's not really my style. Semi-tank Vayne! Nah. Back to AD LeBlanc (aka LeBonk)? Maybe; some of the recent buffs do apply to her AD build, and I've always enjoyed that style. I wish RIOT would stop reworking champions that already have fun kits. If you can't balance them, then step aside - the problem is not the task, it's the people being given the task. The task is not that difficult. Find new people to do it, and stop messing with champion kits so much. The new kits are worse more often than they are better. Yuumi's is especially bad, pretty much the exact opposite of what people were asking for.
TL;DR: GP and Fiora are too volatile to be mained. Avoid them. For carry toplaners: Trynda and Bel Veth work the best. For Fighters: Renekton, Pantheon or Sylas for earlygame. Nasus or Warwick for Stable strength at all stages of the game. For Tanks: Shen, Poppy or Malphite are most stable of the tanks. For Carries: Jax/ Tryndamere Mages: Vladimir, Lissandra Offmeta Picks: Fighters: Diana/Vi Mages: Morgana/Neeko or Annie Carries: Bel Veth, Cassiopeia Supports: Janna (Tank/Fighter)
====== Wall Of Text====== Toplane you don't want to main GP or Fiora, as they are very volatile. You have one job in toplane: Keep your jungle out of there, even when defending. As a result, what you are looking for is one of the 3: 1) Early win, but not hardcore drop in lategame. 2) Scaling and very hard to shut down/make obsolete 3) Stable powerlevels throughout the patches. Fighter champions to to main in toplane: Renekton/Sylas: Similar playstyle: Get in, kill, get out or if you build more defensively, then you can just be this big bad hard to kill mobile bruiser that is also very hard to set back. Have some CC, but requires a lot more thinking on positioning. Vi: This is a little different. In jungle, you rely on your auto attacks to do damage. In Toplane, you rely on your W passive. Hard no against good quinn or jax, can handle everything else. Has enough CC to lock down fed enemies, you can build even more CC if needed, you shred armor and can shred even more with black cleaver, and usually one damage is enough for most of the time. Downside is, you need to abuse the early power or you will be overrun. If the champion can be played in jungle, it can be played somewhere else and Vi can be used in almost any lane. Even as support. Pantheon: Pretty staple toplaner that follows the path of renekton most of the time. You're ahead? Damage. You're behind? Defensive. Enemy scales well into late? Don't give them the chance. Can't help against it? Build defensive and take a crapton of flack thanks to unvilnerbility giving extra durabbility. Easy to pick up, pretty hard to master. Nasus: Different end of the early vs late spectrum. Your whole laning phase consists of not falling too much behind and farming. You have versatile builds so despite what many guides say, you are not that vulnerable to being outright shut down. Need waveclear? get some Ability power. Need to deal with kiters? Max W so they can't run but you can. Need to just scale? Farm Q. Either way, your first item is almost never a damage item, you have far more success with defensive builds. Diana. If you ever needed an offmeta pick for toplane or an AP pick you could use elsewhere, Diana is your girl. You can build her as bruiser or as assasin, you can engage fights at your own pace, snowball and push on your own and you have decent dueling power. Your downside? Mana. Huge downside. If you run out of it, you're screwed. Yorick: Now this guy.... this guy spells trouble. You farm if behind, then push turrets like a madman when enemy leaves the lane. But if you get a lead, it takes 2 to 3 people to stop you and sometimes even that is not enough. In good hands, yorick is extremly dangerous. The downside is, yorick does not transition to other lanes too well, unlike the rest of the picks in this list, which can be played in multiple roles. Warwick is one of the best fighters to main in the toplane. You really can't shut him down, only delay him. He farms well under turret, he outheals most of the lane bullies and he can duel with almost anyone else. Nasus is his only true opponent. Tanks: The most stable of the bunch. First reccomendations are Shen and Poppy. Both have incredible damage, both usually build into tank, and both can influence the map very well. Shen has global ultimate, poppys ultimate can throw enemies back whenever needed. Oh, did I mention they are rarely weak? yhea. It is very hard to set those two behind. Malphite: Another Toplane staple with versatile build path. Magic resist against ap heavy deam makes sure you don't die to them. take frozen heart and the enemy adc won't melt you too fast either. You'll have more success with defensive builds, but he can also be played as AP, if there is need. When you get a large lead, AP builds can decimate entire teams if they are squishy enough. Howeverm defebsuce builds have almost always edged out AP builds. Carries: Vayne/Quinn/Tristana. For ranged carries, likes of vayne and quinn are played a lot, but there are better options. Pne of the strongest ranged toplaners in my opinion is tristana. You can build full damage if ahead. Or when behind, you can build defensive and use your ultimate to distrupt the enemy. Especially if you need to kick away that one very annoyingly sticky guy who is also quite fed. Tristana is also a natural lane pusher, so it is very hard to push her in or freeze the lane against her. Tryndamere Melee cariies are also played quite often. While Gangplank and Fiora are quite volatile, Tryndamere is stable- It can also deal with almost anything and has high leeway in what to build and when. You only need Navori for your passive to activate, after that you can build damage, defences, lifesteal, hell, even tank. In some matchups you can take a bit of AP to help you heal. And there aren't that many champions that xan shut you down that hard. You also pretty much scream "1vs2 me bro" with that pick so expect the enemy jungler to be in your lane a lot if you get even the slightest bit of lead. Even if you have the dumbest jungler in the world, you need only one of the other 2 lanes to also win to win the game. Jax Not much to say here. Always strong or relevant, the lowest jax has ever been was Relevant. Scales extremly well with all builds. Either get a lead and snowball, or farm and outscale the enemies. Hard to shut down, easy to pick up. Learning what you can dodge with your E is a bit of a tricky part. Bel Veth In the same vain as Tryndamere, you have bel veth. Now, she doesn't have ap build, but, she scaled infintely, she can build damage, bruiser or full blown tank and still be a threat. And any time the rift herald is up, you can bet your ass it is going to be a major point to get contested every time. You also tend to bring the enemy jungler into your lane, as a fed bel veth is terrifying for most people to deal with. And you really can't shut her down. As long as you stay alive and farm, you will outscale everyone. She is the attack speed version of baron having a sun with nasus. Highly disruptive to enemy, pretty much quarantees pressure. As Bel Veth, your only real enemy is your self and misplaced self confidence. Bel Veth with Herald and Herald lavender is extremly dangerous. Only champion more dangerous with Herald than Yorick. Yone/Yasuo = Nogo People do play yone and yasuo in the toplane, but I honestly do not reccomend that. Yasuo is rewarding to pull off, but he is far more erffective with 2 crit items+defences, but if you get shut down, you get shut down hard and your only option left is splitpushing. In a way, yasuo is a shyvana with crit: High risk, high reward, not that effective against most of the toplaners, and exeptionally bad against lanebullies and tanks, that are common in toplane. Kayle You also see kayle in the toplane. Quite honestly, she works a lot better in the midlane. She is much safer there, is good against assasins trying to dive her and she can build defensive or full damage depending on situation. Despite that, lack of early wave clear makes it easier to survive midlane melee assasins pre6 than toplane melee lanebullies. However, once you get to late, you are pretty darn powerful and there are not that many champions who can stop you. You also have very versatile build path. Cassipeia Casiopeia is also one of the few carry toplaners that does well there, but she is not that durable. You need to get ahead or scale and you can not afford to die. On the other hand, you are not that expected and will end up catching people off guard. Cassiopeia is also in pretty stable condition, rarely being strong (like it is now) or weak. If she peaks, your win skyrocket since she is such an obscure pick. However, your ultimate is such an iconic ultimate, that people mostly know how to avoid it. That is going to be hardest part of the learning curve, outside of staying in right position. Mages: Morgana/Neeko Now this is my favorite. I love to play Neeko or Morgana in the toplane. It catches the enemy off guard. And if you don't get a lead, you still have easier time farming since both of them have decent waveclear. You can not be dived either, since your crowd control allows you to clear the waves quite fast. Your only downside is mana regenration and people can abuse that. Lissandra also falls into this category, but Lissandra is expected pick here, though it is rare. Annie Annie is one of the few mages that rarely sees toplane light. But she is incredibly difficult to deal with. She can have her stun up all the time, can farm defensively or push offensively and has exceptional objective control. An annie with herald is just as dangerous as yorick with herald. And you tend to be really annoying in teamfightds. AP is optimal build for Annie, but defensive builds do also work in specific situations. Vladimir This guy is... something else. Enemy builds antiheal and your burst is the only thing you can rely on, outside of your W and occasional zhonya. However, if enemy does not build antiheal, this guy becomes an unstoppable monster after 3 items. Gameplan usually involves one of the 2: Get ahead or defend and farm ahead. Good in dueling or splitpushing, but does not fair well against lane bullies like Renekton or Jayce. That said, they do not pose too much of a threat. I have yet to find an effective vladimir counter that isn't a mage or an early assasin
Asssasins: Kayn: One of the most versatile toplaner out there, Kayn is capable of building and playing multiple ways. Blue kayn is an assasin capable of demolishing entire squishy teams. Red Kayn is this heavy duty fighter that is extremly hard to shut down and does a lot of damage. on top of that, you have exceptional waveclear, allowing you to farm not only enemy waves, but also enemy jungle. However, you will pull the enemy to the toplane, if there is as much as a whiff of lead. The upside is, you can also farm under the turret real easily and then just become an inevitable monster as red kayn. As Blue Kayn though, you only have one option: Snowball and end the game early. Possible builds are Assasin or Fighter, with fighter seeing much more success in the toplane. Oh, and you do have some mana issues in the post3 fights. KhaZix Another one of those infamous junglers that also works well in lane. Mana issues have been dialed up to 11, but the reward is your unique ability to assasinate anyone who is unfortunate enough to be out of posdiion. Multiple build paths, and since you will always be high priority target, you can also build dfensively, jump in and get out alive. or if the enemy is squishy enough, you can just rip them apart one by 1. You do need wards though. And a lot of them. No matter the rank you play in, enemy will keep an eye on you thanks to the champions infamy as someone who can get out of hand fast. Ekko Now this guy is interesting. his strength is ability to shove waves and do short burst of trades, then run. Jax is a problem, but everyone else can usually be handled. Beware of mana issues though. Ekko used to be strong toplaner, but has since climbed down into a solid waveclear and splitpush oriented toplaner. If you run teleport, you can do some neat tricks, like almost being 2 places at the same time. You do need to maintain a lead though, so high risk, high reward. Elise recently got nerfed a lot, but despite her nerfs, she is still very much a viable option for toplane bruiser builds. If you get ahead, you can build assasin instead. Elise is more of a safe pick, farm till midgame, then abandon your lane, only going there to farm and make plays around the map. Close the game out early, before the enemy becomes a problem. Her biggest weakness is her mana pool. It's low, so you need to make sure every ability counts. Support. One of the the two support champions I've played to great success is Janna. Gameplane is defensively farming and fending off enemy dives. That's it, that's your whole goal. Waste their time. Build defensive, tank if needed, and when the teamfighting phase comes, you'll be more useful than the enemy toplaner. No point picking against tanks, works well against carries and fighters alike. Alistar: Oh ho ho ho ho.... this cow is very deceiving. You have no trading power and it is incredibly hard to CS first few levels, but once you get past that, all you need to fo is survive, then whenever enemy dives just q, pop your ult, run away, then w the enemy back into turret once he starts getting out of turret range. The enemy can't trade with you either, since you can always headbutt him away. However, he only works against fully melee toplaners. Anyone with ranged abilities can wither you down, and right now, thats most of the meta toplaners.
i dont like kayn that much, because he is spammed kinda, but he should be placed higher, insane mobility, if he is smart you will never kill him and he can kill and pick off everyone one by one, insane in low elo for sure for 1v9
Its random so there's no way to increase the odds. But you can use rerolls or you could make a account where you intentionally dont buy champs except your main and it will increase the odds to get that champ
You list Swain as a scaling battle mage. Eventhough he has a stacks system it's far from the truth, his winrate drops significantly over the game and he becomes weak as he doesn't really have high damage scaling and his survivability is not that good in late. Also i would had Kog as an artillery mage. It's uncommon but pretty viable.
lol riven, until diamond no one should play riven at all, over 90% of people are unskilled on her, who locks in riven is usually the one who will Tilt whole team
My main used to be midmorg, but now she'd no longer viable mid apparently :( Also, they wrecked her lore and made both her voice and dance obnoxious...
i think that viegar is overrated in mid as his early lvls are some of the weakest i would recommend someone that has strong lvl 3 against viegar like yasuo and lux poke him right from early game and do not let him scale this way its easy for you farm viegar
Idk why guys have Diana listed as an "early game Assassin" when she nukes squishies and provides CC in the late game.
Lee sin nukes squishy champions late game, but he isn't a late game champion.
@@choda_smeker What I mean by "nuking" is Diana's ability to one shot multiple squishies at a time. Lee can only target one person.
Furthermore Diana's ultimate has way more impact in a team fight than Lee Sin's ult due to its larger threat radius, higher potential dmg, etc.
@@choda_smeker I'm not gonna pretend like Diana's early game isn't scary but she doesn't really fall off, unlike Lee Sin or Talon, and I'd argue she's much stronger on the mid/late game
they also called Pantheon an early-mid champ when his mid is shit and his late is scary
Diana is special she fits in every category
i think one of the best decisions you can make is to choose a main that is as meta agnostic as possible, like Vi who can build any tank or ad item so she can adapt to the gamestate really well. or for mid something like ahri or vex
Nah you should main a champ that is fun not a champ that is strong in the meta your champ is not what's holding you back until masters
@@torsken3997 true
@@torsken3997 "Meta agnostic" means a champion that can be played regardless of the meta.... At no point in this post did he recommend picking a meta champion.
@@yGKeKe ah ok my bad wasn't familiar with the term. My point still stands though. I don't think your champ matters even if it's turbo weak the champ is not holding you back
@@torsken3997 Strong champs that are meta resistant ARE fun.
Okay, I choose you, Ezreal, to be my main (and Vayne, Zeri, Varus, Ashe, Xayah, Jinx, Ahri, Katarina, Evelynn).
A classic
Way to many. Atleast stay in the same role
@@sageboysen695 you'll eventually get filled to another role. Might not hurt to have a champion in mind for the other roles too, even if they aren't something you choose to lock in unless placed onto your secondary role or autofilled.
9:12 thank you for list of good early game adc's , i'm playing rammus support rn and those are the best with his Q and glacial early power
I wish I could play Rammus, so boring tho
as a samira player, i wonder how that synergy would go, never had a rammus support
best main? the one you enjoy playing the most. in the end, your champ is most likely not holding you back from gold
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Your champ is 100% not holding you back from gold. Any champion is 100% viable until at least Masters, and honestly a skilled player can make champions work above that even if they'd traditionally not be the most suitable picks.
@@The23rdGamer Well Masters players are skilled so I don't really understand your point.
Okay, show me how you reach Master with Yuumi jungle.
@@Chraan the comment is about champs not holding you from gold not fucking trolling your games
Ok so for anyone watching this the weak-strong doesnt matter at all until masters so you should ignore it pick a champ that you can identify with and that you have fun playing
True
100%
Thresh is a ranged support, and abusing that with his E in early lane is key to winning a lot of matchups against melee supports.
Wait, why is Gwen considered early to mid? She's a late game scaler
I mean her lvl 1 is kinda good... ?
@@Marisad right but so is Kayle paradoxically, and we all know she's the definition of a late game champion
Can you make an even bigger (more dimensional) matrix? Including stuff like if they are more keyboard magicians or macrogame geniuses and so on?
For example WW: little mechanical skills, but you need to know how to roam so you can get the most out of your w
from adcs, most of lost games i had so far are because of jhin, its absolutely stupid how people dont understand how he works until some higher ranks and trade with him one auto for one auto, no comment, then you get 5/0 jhin
Can't really choose main just by role, Swain is completely different from Azir for example. How you like their abilities is most important.
Guide to chosing your main
Play whatever champ you have the most fun playing.
I was looking for a champion that fits my playstyle, i like to hit and run or to have the ability to 1v1 most of the champions in the game , so i chose draven and reached diamond only playing draven.
Bro this came at the perfect time. I've been looking at which champ to main this season.
Who did you decide on?
Game is changing its meta every 2 weeks. Imo its important and also good if you have like at least 4 champs in your pool.
As Example you main Top and second. Jungle. So it would be good if you have like an AD and AP Top + AD + AP Jungler, also would look that the champ you pick is able to deal with tanks and also with assasins when you change runes and builds etc.
So I am a Katarina main, I’ve played her a ton. Over time playing with katarina got boring. I’ve been having so much fun playing with akali on the other hand. Is it okay to main two assassins? I am also scared to lose skills with katarina, if I start maining akali.
Oki, so, 1 ADC question. Why is Akshan never considered as ADC bot lane ? And in the same vein, Shen support ? I know you cant cover every champions per role. But Akshan is a marksman, i get why someone like Kindred doesnt work (marks) but him ? Im just curious. (also im subbed to skill cap, if theres a better place to ask this question lmk :D)
Akshan lacks dps and is more of a burst assassin champ. Shen is a really good support although he is favoured in top and mid as he is stronger in those roles
Akshan also has a VERY short range so he can be abused by basically every "real" ADC
@Dawie Kleynhans I kinda understand that 😅 thx for the reply. My thoughts are. Vayne and nilah have short range too. Akshan get movespeed on auto OR double autos. Can follow a nice support engage to burst. But yeah he's probably on the weaker meta "adc" I just feel he should be mentioned xD
@@TheCadHD Yeah vayne is why i said basically every adc, there are ones with very short range.
But vayne has her silver bolts passive which allows her to have massive dps(although she is dogshit atm)
And nilah has a range and attack speed steroid built in while having her w to avoid AA's, without those she wouldnt be in botlane
shen has a very good early game trading potential with his taunt flash combo, plus if you were to play him as a support, his ultimate makes you teleport, so you have to be cautious, I hardly ever see shen support, but when he's top, he wins for like 70% of the time
The only reason why I main tanks is because no one ever wants to front line in my elo, they all want a pretty KDA
I main kog'maw as a ADC
Go ad when you have a descent matchup
Go ap when you don't (kog'maw ap on botlane is so much more easy to win lane for some reason)
How is trundle weak in split pushing? He can literally bite a chunk out of a turret.
which skin u got first on your main account is your main champ
Love your vids! Was actually trying to decide my main last night so perfect timing
I think these videos are the only reason Jayce has a sub 50% WR lol. I dont wanna know how many poor Souls tried him because they were told he is strong and just lost a bunch of games on him. Meanwhile I am sitting on a 62% WR over 100 games on him. The champ is broken rn but people trying to learn him tear down his WR massively so he won't get nerfed.
Cool humble brag🔥🔥🔥😱
Champs does matter in every elo. If u dont know the fundamentals and always strugling pick a champs that still have an impact in team fights like Malphite for exmp. When i play vs Morde for exmp i lose bunch of cs, his jng camps top, i just take xp and set up vision for good ultimates. My win rate sky rocketed to 88%
How is Sera the weakest of the scaling mages on mid?
Teemo top, teemo jungle, teemo mid, kaisa adc and teemo support. That's my champ pool right now.
hey if it works, then it works 🤷
Nocturne doesn't scale that well late game, he falls off very hard especially if the enemy has good dmg
he scales hard by hitting lvl 6 and also he does scale rly hard as long as u dont just R into 5 people like a twat lol otherwise he has huge scaling he has 3 steroids in his kit..atck dmg Q , atck speed W and a heal on his passive....
@@GrandmasterHobbyist i agree but compared to kayn or Rammus at late game its quite easy to kill him i kind of see him like a mid game champ
As a toplaner i can't play the same champ every patch Cuz the matchups change Cuz of the méta nerfs and buffs....
This is incorrect your champ doesn't matter until masters as lane fundamentals triumphs over champ strength
@@torsken3997 1-what does tell you that i'm not master+
2- What if the most picked champs counter tour main wich IS 70% of the games . For example i play Garen and the top 3 champs picked in toplane are Darius/Teemo/aatrox , you can't play Garen no more so you have to play something like Rumble/jayce...
@@Ray_Fulgent 1 what i mean is that master players are at a level where their fundamentals are good enough where the champ pick actually matters.
2 garen actually does well into aatrox and teemo. Although the teemo matchup has a bit of a skill curve to it cause you need to be patient and teemo can be frustrating to play against. aatrox isnt that bad as garen with stridebreaker has stickingpower and you can get onto aatrox by cleansing the w slow (or dodging the w) although you have to be patient as aatrox has good spacing. The darius matchup im not that familiar with but ive heard its hard for garen but i would suggest banning him then. Gl on your games garen is a great champion for climbing
@@Ray_Fulgent As an Aatrox otp, I can assure you that he is in shambles rn, and especially as garen you should have 0 issues against aatrox if you have good wave management and are able to secure early combos around level 3 and 6 where you can free dive with ult.
I kinda change my main role and champions all the time for like 3 years.....always getting bored with playing just 1 of them so I can't really choose a real main champ :D
Only thing I have to disagree with: 11:59 Ashe support was meta before Senna even existed in name only.
Hey guys, does Black Shield make Mordekaiser's Ult go on full CD?
So this guide’s meta is different from the tournament meta of different regions?
Man I got a real problem lol. I get bored of a champ and start playing others and then my winrates drop. Lesson learned. Belveth and Yi it is
SOOOOOO where is riven in the mid fighter tierlist? She has a higher winrate in the midlane then the toplane she deserves to be there
Katarina is a scaling assassin huh? What is it about her kit that scales?
my main used to be a champion called qiyana, which suited perfextly my playstyle, then people strat crying and mommy riot had to do something and after 14 nerfs all Qiyana mains almost expired. She used to be a wonderful champ now its a siege minion ult bot like kennen, but at least he doesnt lose all mana after 2 combos.
you cant play annie without help against lux its impossible, lux has actuallly insane dmg its absurd why they buffed lux
Ban lux if you're struggling with the matchup but yeah long range champs counter annie
Is cho’gath not a tank top laner?
I can’t choose between talon, fizz, akali, zed, qiyana, Fiora, rengar and riven any help or ways I can narrow down?
Play them?
I mean that's great and all, but how to swtich champ when you're already 1kk points on rengar and it's too late?
Yay you answered my question right away thank you guys so much need a main
people realy sleep on varus he can build ap or ad and can play every lane imo he is the perfect 1 trick champ because of his diversity and also that he is very strong if you play him right with his % damage and hybrid dps
How didnt u list Illaoi as a splitpusher
Why is Mordekaiser missing in the top lane list?
Imagine thinking that hard about choosing a main
I chose to main Talon just cuz he’s called the Blade’s Shadow and it sounded cool
Just picked whoever I had the most fun with
When i picked my main, it ended up being chogath because CHONKS
@@elmcchicken01 Beeg gamin
Step 1. Pick a champion with a kit that you can understand.
Step 2. See step one.
What about ivern
What about him?
guys i m getting a bug in lol where even though i closed my game when starting the video ezreal talks
Literally Nunu is one of the strongest ganking tanks right now this is a bit misleading taking into account maokai is weak atm after the recent nerfs
What do you guys think about Sett and Morde top? They seem to have a really good early.
mordekaiser has shit early good past 6 ok late game. sett is a good pick if you are good at the fundamentals. he looks simple but the good setts and bad setts are very different
Mains are overrated. Where is the random button?
long story short: (iterate the following steps) pick any viable champ, learn it, use it, love it, get bored of it
Genuinely do not understand how Gwen is off the radar rn. In a good spot this season and if she’s fed she can solo carry.
as a kayle main i am shocked she wasnt in the video
I’ve never played ranked in any game I only play casual but I’ll still watch
good guide!
i am looking for a main for top and my teamfights usually go like this: its starts off with like 2v3, 4v3 etc and then the rest of the teams join after 1 or 2 die. what type of top laners could help me with those types of fights?
Not really sure what you mean but it sounds like you would want a top laner with burst (riven, camille, renekton, rengar, pantheon, jayce etc), also depending on your elo (everything below diamond and prob in diamond too but it depends) people are probably not playing the teamfights correctly so i don't really think thats something you should worry about. Your champs strength doesn't really matter until masters as the game fundamentals triumphs over champ strength
@@torsken3997 thank you !
If your issue is trying to impact teamfights that start randomly without you being nearby, that's arguably something that could be addressed with proper game fundamentals (sometimes what people ask you to do in-game isn't the most ideal move). That being said, champs like Shen and Gangplank can impact fights anywhere on the map with their ultimates.
@@The23rdGamer ok thank you
People tried so hard to pick a main.
I chose Viego cause he is a king in the assassin role (even though he is a skirmisher)
With Viego, you get to play every champ in the game at some point or another X3
Why Pantheon jg is weak?
where is Kayle?
Why is lee sin a "weak" early game fighter?????
Thresh is ranged
This should get remade every once in a while
I've played since Season 1. And while I've had my favorites - Cho'Gath, Zilean, Renekton, Yorick, Bard, Rell, Vi, Aurelion Sol, Azir, Tristana, Akshan, etc - it was not until Season 9 when I picked up Yuumi and started playing her on-hit that I "found my main". Nobody before or since has felt right the way tiny murder cat has. Now, in less than 2 weeks, I will have to try her new kit that looks much less suited to the way I like to play her. RIOT has killed the nontoxic way to play Yuumi, in favor of making her even more toxic... and I'm saddened by that decision. But I'm hopeful that I'll still enjoy playing her, that it will still kind of work. I have to be, because RIOT is breaking my heart.
And then I get this video in my feed, advising me on how to find my Season 13 main. Well it can't be Aurelion Sol, because RIOT screwed me over with him. The way that I played him, the old kit was much stronger than the new one. (At least the new Sol kit isn't bloody awful; Yuumi's new kit looks mind-meltingly awful.) It might have to be Aurelion Sol, honestly. At least he's still fun to play, even if he's a mere shadow of himself now. I main'd Cho'Gath for 7 seasons... I don't think I want to just go back to him. I could always just main AP Varus and make everyone else as miserable as RIOT has made me... but that's not really my style. Semi-tank Vayne! Nah. Back to AD LeBlanc (aka LeBonk)? Maybe; some of the recent buffs do apply to her AD build, and I've always enjoyed that style.
I wish RIOT would stop reworking champions that already have fun kits. If you can't balance them, then step aside - the problem is not the task, it's the people being given the task. The task is not that difficult. Find new people to do it, and stop messing with champion kits so much. The new kits are worse more often than they are better. Yuumi's is especially bad, pretty much the exact opposite of what people were asking for.
@@TheTreadmillGamer Why would you hope that? And no, not remotely joking.
@@TheTreadmillGamer If you have nothing to say, stop saying nothings.
TL;DR: GP and Fiora are too volatile to be mained. Avoid them.
For carry toplaners: Trynda and Bel Veth work the best.
For Fighters: Renekton, Pantheon or Sylas for earlygame. Nasus or Warwick for Stable strength at all stages of the game.
For Tanks: Shen, Poppy or Malphite are most stable of the tanks.
For Carries: Jax/ Tryndamere
Mages: Vladimir, Lissandra
Offmeta Picks:
Fighters: Diana/Vi
Mages: Morgana/Neeko or Annie
Carries: Bel Veth, Cassiopeia
Supports: Janna (Tank/Fighter)
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Toplane you don't want to main GP or Fiora, as they are very volatile. You have one job in toplane: Keep your jungle out of there, even when defending. As a result, what you are looking for is one of the 3:
1) Early win, but not hardcore drop in lategame.
2) Scaling and very hard to shut down/make obsolete
3) Stable powerlevels throughout the patches.
Fighter champions to to main in toplane:
Renekton/Sylas: Similar playstyle: Get in, kill, get out or if you build more defensively, then you can just be this big bad hard to kill mobile bruiser that is also very hard to set back.
Have some CC, but requires a lot more thinking on positioning.
Vi: This is a little different. In jungle, you rely on your auto attacks to do damage. In Toplane, you rely on your W passive. Hard no against good quinn or jax, can handle everything else. Has enough CC to lock down fed enemies, you can build even more CC if needed, you shred armor and can shred even more with black cleaver, and usually one damage is enough for most of the time. Downside is, you need to abuse the early power or you will be overrun. If the champion can be played in jungle, it can be played somewhere else and Vi can be used in almost any lane. Even as support.
Pantheon: Pretty staple toplaner that follows the path of renekton most of the time. You're ahead? Damage. You're behind? Defensive. Enemy scales well into late? Don't give them the chance. Can't help against it? Build defensive and take a crapton of flack thanks to unvilnerbility giving extra durabbility. Easy to pick up, pretty hard to master.
Nasus: Different end of the early vs late spectrum. Your whole laning phase consists of not falling too much behind and farming. You have versatile builds so despite what many guides say, you are not that vulnerable to being outright shut down. Need waveclear? get some Ability power. Need to deal with kiters? Max W so they can't run but you can. Need to just scale? Farm Q. Either way, your first item is almost never a damage item, you have far more success with defensive builds.
Diana. If you ever needed an offmeta pick for toplane or an AP pick you could use elsewhere, Diana is your girl. You can build her as bruiser or as assasin, you can engage fights at your own pace, snowball and push on your own and you have decent dueling power. Your downside? Mana. Huge downside. If you run out of it, you're screwed.
Yorick: Now this guy.... this guy spells trouble. You farm if behind, then push turrets like a madman when enemy leaves the lane. But if you get a lead, it takes 2 to 3 people to stop you and sometimes even that is not enough. In good hands, yorick is extremly dangerous. The downside is, yorick does not transition to other lanes too well, unlike the rest of the picks in this list, which can be played in multiple roles.
Warwick is one of the best fighters to main in the toplane. You really can't shut him down, only delay him. He farms well under turret, he outheals most of the lane bullies and he can duel with almost anyone else. Nasus is his only true opponent.
Tanks:
The most stable of the bunch. First reccomendations are Shen and Poppy. Both have incredible damage, both usually build into tank, and both can influence the map very well. Shen has global ultimate, poppys ultimate can throw enemies back whenever needed. Oh, did I mention they are rarely weak? yhea. It is very hard to set those two behind.
Malphite: Another Toplane staple with versatile build path. Magic resist against ap heavy deam makes sure you don't die to them. take frozen heart and the enemy adc won't melt you too fast either. You'll have more success with defensive builds, but he can also be played as AP, if there is need. When you get a large lead, AP builds can decimate entire teams if they are squishy enough. Howeverm defebsuce builds have almost always edged out AP builds.
Carries:
Vayne/Quinn/Tristana.
For ranged carries, likes of vayne and quinn are played a lot, but there are better options. Pne of the strongest ranged toplaners in my opinion is tristana. You can build full damage if ahead. Or when behind, you can build defensive and use your ultimate to distrupt the enemy. Especially if you need to kick away that one very annoyingly sticky guy who is also quite fed. Tristana is also a natural lane pusher, so it is very hard to push her in or freeze the lane against her.
Tryndamere
Melee cariies are also played quite often. While Gangplank and Fiora are quite volatile, Tryndamere is stable- It can also deal with almost anything and has high leeway in what to build and when. You only need Navori for your passive to activate, after that you can build damage, defences, lifesteal, hell, even tank. In some matchups you can take a bit of AP to help you heal. And there aren't that many champions that xan shut you down that hard. You also pretty much scream "1vs2 me bro" with that pick so expect the enemy jungler to be in your lane a lot if you get even the slightest bit of lead. Even if you have the dumbest jungler in the world, you need only one of the other 2 lanes to also win to win the game.
Jax
Not much to say here. Always strong or relevant, the lowest jax has ever been was Relevant. Scales extremly well with all builds. Either get a lead and snowball, or farm and outscale the enemies. Hard to shut down, easy to pick up. Learning what you can dodge with your E is a bit of a tricky part.
Bel Veth
In the same vain as Tryndamere, you have bel veth. Now, she doesn't have ap build, but, she scaled infintely, she can build damage, bruiser or full blown tank and still be a threat. And any time the rift herald is up, you can bet your ass it is going to be a major point to get contested every time. You also tend to bring the enemy jungler into your lane, as a fed bel veth is terrifying for most people to deal with. And you really can't shut her down. As long as you stay alive and farm, you will outscale everyone. She is the attack speed version of baron having a sun with nasus. Highly disruptive to enemy, pretty much quarantees pressure. As Bel Veth, your only real enemy is your self and misplaced self confidence. Bel Veth with Herald and Herald lavender is extremly dangerous. Only champion more dangerous with Herald than Yorick.
Yone/Yasuo = Nogo
People do play yone and yasuo in the toplane, but I honestly do not reccomend that. Yasuo is rewarding to pull off, but he is far more erffective with 2 crit items+defences, but if you get shut down, you get shut down hard and your only option left is splitpushing. In a way, yasuo is a shyvana with crit: High risk, high reward, not that effective against most of the toplaners, and exeptionally bad against lanebullies and tanks, that are common in toplane.
Kayle
You also see kayle in the toplane. Quite honestly, she works a lot better in the midlane. She is much safer there, is good against assasins trying to dive her and she can build defensive or full damage depending on situation. Despite that, lack of early wave clear makes it easier to survive midlane melee assasins pre6 than toplane melee lanebullies. However, once you get to late, you are pretty darn powerful and there are not that many champions who can stop you. You also have very versatile build path.
Cassipeia
Casiopeia is also one of the few carry toplaners that does well there, but she is not that durable. You need to get ahead or scale and you can not afford to die. On the other hand, you are not that expected and will end up catching people off guard. Cassiopeia is also in pretty stable condition, rarely being strong (like it is now) or weak. If she peaks, your win skyrocket since she is such an obscure pick. However, your ultimate is such an iconic ultimate, that people mostly know how to avoid it. That is going to be hardest part of the learning curve, outside of staying in right position.
Mages:
Morgana/Neeko
Now this is my favorite. I love to play Neeko or Morgana in the toplane. It catches the enemy off guard. And if you don't get a lead, you still have easier time farming since both of them have decent waveclear. You can not be dived either, since your crowd control allows you to clear the waves quite fast. Your only downside is mana regenration and people can abuse that. Lissandra also falls into this category, but Lissandra is expected pick here, though it is rare.
Annie
Annie is one of the few mages that rarely sees toplane light. But she is incredibly difficult to deal with. She can have her stun up all the time, can farm defensively or push offensively and has exceptional objective control. An annie with herald is just as dangerous as yorick with herald. And you tend to be really annoying in teamfightds. AP is optimal build for Annie, but defensive builds do also work in specific situations.
Vladimir
This guy is... something else. Enemy builds antiheal and your burst is the only thing you can rely on, outside of your W and occasional zhonya. However, if enemy does not build antiheal, this guy becomes an unstoppable monster after 3 items. Gameplan usually involves one of the 2: Get ahead or defend and farm ahead. Good in dueling or splitpushing, but does not fair well against lane bullies like Renekton or Jayce. That said, they do not pose too much of a threat. I have yet to find an effective vladimir counter that isn't a mage or an early assasin
Asssasins:
Kayn: One of the most versatile toplaner out there, Kayn is capable of building and playing multiple ways. Blue kayn is an assasin capable of demolishing entire squishy teams. Red Kayn is this heavy duty fighter that is extremly hard to shut down and does a lot of damage. on top of that, you have exceptional waveclear, allowing you to farm not only enemy waves, but also enemy jungle. However, you will pull the enemy to the toplane, if there is as much as a whiff of lead. The upside is, you can also farm under the turret real easily and then just become an inevitable monster as red kayn.
As Blue Kayn though, you only have one option: Snowball and end the game early.
Possible builds are Assasin or Fighter, with fighter seeing much more success in the toplane. Oh, and you do have some mana issues in the post3 fights.
KhaZix
Another one of those infamous junglers that also works well in lane. Mana issues have been dialed up to 11, but the reward is your unique ability to assasinate anyone who is unfortunate enough to be out of posdiion. Multiple build paths, and since you will always be high priority target, you can also build dfensively, jump in and get out alive. or if the enemy is squishy enough, you can just rip them apart one by 1. You do need wards though. And a lot of them. No matter the rank you play in, enemy will keep an eye on you thanks to the champions infamy as someone who can get out of hand fast.
Ekko
Now this guy is interesting. his strength is ability to shove waves and do short burst of trades, then run. Jax is a problem, but everyone else can usually be handled. Beware of mana issues though. Ekko used to be strong toplaner, but has since climbed down into a solid waveclear and splitpush oriented toplaner. If you run teleport, you can do some neat tricks, like almost being 2 places at the same time. You do need to maintain a lead though, so high risk, high reward.
Elise recently got nerfed a lot, but despite her nerfs, she is still very much a viable option for toplane bruiser builds. If you get ahead, you can build assasin instead. Elise is more of a safe pick, farm till midgame, then abandon your lane, only going there to farm and make plays around the map. Close the game out early, before the enemy becomes a problem. Her biggest weakness is her mana pool. It's low, so you need to make sure every ability counts.
Support.
One of the the two support champions I've played to great success is Janna. Gameplane is defensively farming and fending off enemy dives. That's it, that's your whole goal. Waste their time. Build defensive, tank if needed, and when the teamfighting phase comes, you'll be more useful than the enemy toplaner. No point picking against tanks, works well against carries and fighters alike.
Alistar:
Oh ho ho ho ho.... this cow is very deceiving. You have no trading power and it is incredibly hard to CS first few levels, but once you get past that, all you need to fo is survive, then whenever enemy dives just q, pop your ult, run away, then w the enemy back into turret once he starts getting out of turret range. The enemy can't trade with you either, since you can always headbutt him away. However, he only works against fully melee toplaners. Anyone with ranged abilities can wither you down, and right now, thats most of the meta toplaners.
was quite easy for me.
Brand is burning = must be my main
Ahri is listed as a burst mage, good joke
I feel like it'd be easier to start sparring in the sandbox with your champ against another. Don't just go into a norm and expect the MMR to be fair.
No mention of Pyke? for support?
nm found him but not mentioned for being recommended
bro I was literally searching for a "Viego guide" and this popped out
161 unique champs (samira/nilah)
3:17 no swain makes me sad, he is a decent top lane mage
Any champ can be played anywhere if you are willing to work hard enough to make it work.
What is ad and ap? I hear it everywhere but I'm new
Ap is ability power and ad is attack damage
i dont like kayn that much, because he is spammed kinda, but he should be placed higher, insane mobility, if he is smart you will never kill him and he can kill and pick off everyone one by one, insane in low elo for sure for 1v9
No mention of Ziggs as a mage support; WHAAAAAT!?!?
Thank you Ezreal
i got d4 with rengar this patch, pog
Congrats!
Me, playing league for 2 years: Interesting🧐
How do i increase my chances of getting my main in aram?
Its random so there's no way to increase the odds. But you can use rerolls or you could make a account where you intentionally dont buy champs except your main and it will increase the odds to get that champ
no tryndamere huh?
You list Swain as a scaling battle mage. Eventhough he has a stacks system it's far from the truth, his winrate drops significantly over the game and he becomes weak as he doesn't really have high damage scaling and his survivability is not that good in late.
Also i would had Kog as an artillery mage. It's uncommon but pretty viable.
I main sett cause I like to punch things. All in with no regret
Teemo obviously.
Udyr where ?
Agreed udyr is one of the best champs to main because of how Versityle he is
@@torsken3997 Yeah But where is he
@@luckyboom8802 in the comment section
lol riven, until diamond no one should play riven at all, over 90% of people are unskilled on her, who locks in riven is usually the one who will Tilt whole team
Depends on your skillset but i agree sone recommendations here shouldn't be touched by new players (fiora gp jayce etc)
If u like the champ and are having fun who cares
Born to love junglers forced to hate jungle 🙏😔
Top late hypercarries? Where my babushka, Kayle??????
I cringe every time I see someone recommend Riven to new players. She is insanely difficult to master, even the top OTP Riven's will tell you that.
One tricks aatrox after the nerfs, then his items got gutted
Twitch only
My main used to be midmorg, but now she'd no longer viable mid apparently :( Also, they wrecked her lore and made both her voice and dance obnoxious...
I forgot she was in the game, been perma banning her for months.
Your toplane has no illoai
Where is shen mid lmao
i think that viegar is overrated in mid as his early lvls are some of the weakest
i would recommend someone that has strong lvl 3 against viegar like yasuo and lux
poke him right from early game and do not let him scale
this way its easy for you farm viegar
karma is burst mage now:
The answer to everything is Garen
I always pick the unfavored champions to main 😓.
The game is meant to be fun. Do what gives you fun.
renekton has a weak early game…? Wtf lol
Illoai !!
Heyyyy skillcapped when’s that 13.5 vid comin out 😏
Garen mid stronger than yone mid..? Ehh ok