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[Ergar]

Did I miss something ? Did they buff Tristana ? Why 4 of 5 games have tristana these days ?

Because she's one of the best adc's atm.

[Jordaen]

Because she's one of the best adc's atm.

And has been for a couple of months now >_> she's a late game hyper carry. All you gotta do is get past the mid game slump and you can wreck pretty much anyone thanks to the changes to some of the items.

[Noxina]

Yeah Tristana have been the ADC to play this season, and if you watched some LCS you'd notice she is almost a pick or ban option. (Though Maokai is more favored now).

For the "learn one lane and master it" thing, do it! Or even better, pick a champion you can play in jungle/top and/or mid, and master the champion and not the lane. This way you can play 2-3 roles, and just be really good about it.
Me my self have decided to main Jayce top (NO one in high silver/low gold know how to play against him), and Pantheon in mid/top(If I dont feel like playing Jayce)/jungle, I also sometimes pick Vi, but she is getting some bans lately.
Bot I main Thresh, and Thresh only (If forced I pick like Morgana or Karma), and as ADC I go with the safe pick of Tristana.

So all in all, I got like 3 champions I main, and some extras incase needed. (I also can play a bunch more, but those I got like below 10 games with).

TL: DR - Main a champion you can pick up in different lanes/jungle. Get godlike at it, and climb the ladder!

Also when you get into a game, try to say "I'd prefer top lane, but can also play jungle." sometimes you are teamed up with nice people that let you get the role! But never ever lose the lane if you do that, then the flaming starts

[StNimrod]

Also, don't underestimate the support role, you can still carry. Thresh or even Blitz can be deadly especially if you know when to engage (some people with fear the hook WAY too much, very easy to zone them)

Thresh is still crazy viable after the nerfs? OH THE SURPRISE.

Also, Leona gets an honorable mention.

[Charge me Doctor]

Don't underestimate Taric. Ever. 4 second CD on 600 heal if he has mana and in melee (and half of this time you are stunned), it's just sick. So many Zeds fallen victim of Tarics fabulosity.

Also, someone wasted post #44444

[Duronos]

Yeah Tristana have been the ADC to play this season, and if you watched some LCS you'd notice she is almost a pick or ban option. (Though Maokai is more favored now).

For the "learn one lane and master it" thing, do it! Or even better, pick a champion you can play in jungle/top and/or mid, and master the champion and not the lane. This way you can play 2-3 roles, and just be really good about it.
Me my self have decided to main Jayce top (NO one in high silver/low gold know how to play against him), and Pantheon in mid/top(If I dont feel like playing Jayce)/jungle, I also sometimes pick Vi, but she is getting some bans lately.
Bot I main Thresh, and Thresh only (If forced I pick like Morgana or Karma), and as ADC I go with the safe pick of Tristana.

So all in all, I got like 3 champions I main, and some extras incase needed. (I also can play a bunch more, but those I got like below 10 games with).

TL: DR - Main a champion you can pick up in different lanes/jungle. Get godlike at it, and climb the ladder!

Also when you get into a game, try to say "I'd prefer top lane, but can also play jungle." sometimes you are teamed up with nice people that let you get the role! But never ever lose the lane if you do that, then the flaming starts

This guy gets it.

[Charge me Doctor]

Yeah Tristana have been the ADC to play this season, and if you watched some LCS you'd notice she is almost a pick or ban option. (Though Maokai is more favored now).

For the "learn one lane and master it" thing, do it! Or even better, pick a champion you can play in jungle/top and/or mid, and master the champion and not the lane. This way you can play 2-3 roles, and just be really good about it.
Me my self have decided to main Jayce top (NO one in high silver/low gold know how to play against him), and Pantheon in mid/top(If I dont feel like playing Jayce)/jungle, I also sometimes pick Vi, but she is getting some bans lately.
Bot I main Thresh, and Thresh only (If forced I pick like Morgana or Karma), and as ADC I go with the safe pick of Tristana.

So all in all, I got like 3 champions I main, and some extras incase needed. (I also can play a bunch more, but those I got like below 10 games with).

TL: DR - Main a champion you can pick up in different lanes/jungle. Get godlike at it, and climb the ladder!

Also when you get into a game, try to say "I'd prefer top lane, but can also play jungle." sometimes you are teamed up with nice people that let you get the role! But never ever lose the lane if you do that, then the flaming starts

You need to pick high impact hero if you are going to play 1 hero, someone like Syndra, Shaco, Lee, not Urgot, Taric, or Sion

[StNimrod]

Damn, I just wish we had a Rocket Raccoon ADC... would be cool. Just sayin'

"Ain't no thing like me, except me!"

[Charge me Doctor]

Damn, I just wish we had a Rocket Raccoon ADC... would be cool. Just sayin'

"Ain't no thing like me, except me!"

Isn't Jinx already fulfills his role? And you can always switch to marvel heroes, he is already there for quite of time. And i don't like that rocket raccoon is mainstream now *hipsterface*

[Noxina]

You need to pick high impact hero if you are going to play 1 hero, someone like Syndra, Shaco, Lee, not Urgot, Taric, or Sion

Ever played against a Jayce that knows how he works? I can literally take 50% of their ADC/APC in one Q-E combo, then jump in and finish them off with a E-Q hammer combo. Or I take their blue when ever its up, and I see their jungler is like bot or something stupid. Then I decimate their top lane with a bunch of Q harass, also I do this when teamfights/ARAM mode in mid starts, poke everyone down to like sub-50% in no time, and the teamfight is easy peasy. Also I wreck those turrets down if I decide to just splitpush.
Atleast I get fed every game as Jayce, and I just picked him up (got 15 games as him), got a lot to learn and still no one knows how to counter me. I think I got 2 games with him I wasnt full build rather fast, and that was because their team /FF somewhere between 20-30minute mark.

So yeah - define "high impact".

But yeah you got a point, no need to main a champion that falls of incredibly, or just got a really weak kit.

[Charge me Doctor]

Jayce is one trick pony, all he (viably) can do, is Q spam until someone is low. Against characters with innate mobility, regen and/or defense (Shen, Mundo, Gnar, Quinn, Nida) he is quite "meh". Building him tanky is an option but it's not great way to get ahead of your enemy. Getting 300 AD early is great, but it doesn't happen very often, and you are just glass canon that depends on your team getting beating for you.

I've played against Jayce that know how he works, and have beaten these players. And have been beaten by them, now i do know that my favorite Rene won't work against Jayce very often, while my Urgot and Quinn is quite good at playing against non-tank Jayce.

High impact champion is a champion that can easily snowball to the sky (Syndra, Ziggs, Jayce, Mao, Lucy, Fizz), snowball his teammates (Amumu, Malphite, J4, Leona), help with getting early advantage in form of buffs, dragon, towers (WW, Aatrox, Udyr, Rengar), or everything above (Shaco, Vi, Lee). I'm not saying that these champions are the only way to climb up, but these are very good choice if you want to play only one champion. Some of them can take several roles, some of them don't fall back that easily, some of them secure advantage and keep kicking enemy lying on the ground while getting even more stronger. And you also need to remember that you will get better players at enemy team, and playing against someone with coordination (decent duo bot, not people who just met in chat room, but actually who queue together for some time and know how they play) will be significantly harder than playing against two players who don't know each other.

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I'm not talking about ~40 games played, but about 400 games played on a certain champion. If i will play 400 games on Twitch, i doubt that i will be much better than decent Twitch players, but if i will play 400 games on Syndra, i will learn to overpower almost everything on mid lane just because of how good her tools is.

[Noxina]

All you're saying is very true, some champions do have a lot higher impact than others.

But, if you play 400 matches as one champion, you know that champions strengths and weaknesses, so I would dare to say you'd perform better than one with 40 matches on his back.

And again, some champions you see this clearer than others, and those champions is what is considered "meta". There is after all a reason why the pros play those and not some random champion.

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Victorious skin - Morgana?

http://news.cdn.leagueoflegends.com/...oriousfull.jpg

Thats at least the first person I thought of when I saw that picture.

[Deleted]

If it's Morgana them I'm superdisappointed.

[Noxina]

If it's Morgana them I'm superdisappointed.

Yeah me too, who else got pointy ears and that "paint/make up" under her eye?

[Deleted]

You need to pick high impact hero if you are going to play 1 hero, someone like Syndra, Shaco, Lee, not Urgot, Taric, or Sion

You'll want cheese hero most likely. If you play only Syndra, chances are you'll easily master similar mage as well (In this case Karthus and Cassiopeia have similar mechanics). If you only play Shaco, you'll likely still be a "mechanical shitter" and will not know strengths of other fighters either, so you'll be true one trick pony. The good part is that you can focus on other parts of game that will win stuff for you and most likely climb much faster. If your only concern is something like when to press R to avoid death/damage, you'll most likely be able to fully comprehend situation and game flow. Also let's be honest - if you do well on mechanical champions, you'll start meeting people that are doing well avoiding those mechanics, so a lot of your effort is nullified.

I don't know about Lee either, there is some excessive clicking, some aim, and though it's hardly overwhelming, there is unfortunate power curve that makes his success more of a team effort.

I'd rather recommend DPS fighters instead, they are always simple and they always have strong splitpush options. As a side bonus they grab all the glory if team is winning anyway, and almost always are very strong laners so you are most likely going to be huge annoyance for enemy team. I suppose that Tryndamere is the best one, while Fiora the worst, but I think there is still a lot place for personal preference, which is kinda good.

Fiddlesticks is also a good cheese that works very well and arguably Sion is most definitely workable. I think the point of spamming single champion is to improve your own game as much as possible while avoiding learning "unnecessary" things. By choosing the "cheese" champion, you have it even more simple, at the cost of having it much harder to switch.

[Firebert]

Yeah me too, who else got pointy ears and that "paint/make up" under her eye?

The paint might just be for this skin.

The last Morgana skin was released on 14/6/13.

[Noxina]

The paint might just be for this skin.

The last Morgana skin was released on 14/6/13.

Then there is the ears. Do Syndra have pointy ears? Would love that skin more than Morgana. (Assuming I can climb back into gold.. Soooo many trolls lately)

[Firebert]

Then there is the ears. Do Syndra have pointy ears? Would love that skin more than Morgana. (Assuming I can climb back into gold.. Soooo many trolls lately)

I spent over 100 games at Bronze 2, so I really shouldn't care about the skin.

I was thinking Lulu but the face shape is wrong. Cassiopeia?

[Deleted]

Victorious skin is released for a champion that has been played a lot in soloq and competitive play, therefore it's most likely Morgana.

[Duilliath]

I'm just sitting here in shock people actually consider the possibility of that being someone other than morgana