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Before we begin, this is not a whine post where I complain about my losses and blame teammates. This is just me voicing my opinion on the trending picks in Ranked.
Now, is it just me or has champion select in ranked been extra annoying lately? Every single game I either have a Renekton who loses his lane in the early game and goes 1/5 (and builds only damage) or a Jungle Rengar/Eve/Lee Sin that manages to get a few kills early game and is useless for the rest of the game. Why are these picks a problem you ask? Because people don't seem to understand the scaling/power levels of these champs.
Lee Sin and Renekton are obviously early game champions. If players can't win their lanes and/or make plays with these champions early in the game, why bother picking them? It just makes no sense.
And the Rengar pick..oh boy..the Rengar pick. One of the reasons why I think it's acceptable to hate the LCS is because of the things they bring into it. Just in-case some of you aren't aware, in LCS they have been playing Jungle Rengar a lot recently. It hasn't had much success and guess what, it's probably worse in Solo Queue. I don't know how well Jungle Rengars perform in Diamond but as for Plat, every Jungle Rengar I've had has been alright early game and really bad late game. I just hate the pick so much. Why bother picking Rengar in the jungle if you can just pick a normal jungler like Elise, Lee Sin, Jarvan, Evelynn, etc. If you ask me, the people who play Jungle Rengar are nothing but bloodthirsty killers who only think about kills instead of objectives like Towers, Dragons, etc. It's just a stupid pick in my opinion and Rengar himself doesn't provide everything you need in a jungler. Basically, Jungle Rengar is yet another cheese pick and I can't wait until they nerf him or something cause I can barely stand him anymore.
Well..to be fair..it's not the champ's fault..I just hate the way people play him I guess? Cheese the enemy team and try to kill them a lot or fail and be useless the entire game if you don't get ahead. I really hate strategies like these.
Oh and since I'm a support main now, I'd like to talk a little bit about support variety. Right now, the main 3 picks in ranked are Braum, Morgana and Nami. Usually it's Braum > Morgana > Nami. Thresh is still picked of course but those are the main 3 picks. That's kinda bad if you ask me. A lot of supports used to be good all around and you could play whichever support you wanted to but since these 4 picks are so good, it's always the safer bet to just go with one of them. The other supports need some kind of a buff if they want to see more play and I hope Riot does that. Alistar got some cool changes recently so we might see him being played real soon.
#Believe!
Anyways, thanks for reading guys! Sorry if the post sounded kinda rant-ish haha.
Now, is it just me or has champion select in ranked been extra annoying lately? Every single game I either have a Renekton who loses his lane in the early game and goes 1/5 (and builds only damage) or a Jungle Rengar/Eve/Lee Sin that manages to get a few kills early game and is useless for the rest of the game. Why are these picks a problem you ask? Because people don't seem to understand the scaling/power levels of these champs.
Lee Sin and Renekton are obviously early game champions. If players can't win their lanes and/or make plays with these champions early in the game, why bother picking them? It just makes no sense.
And the Rengar pick..oh boy..the Rengar pick. One of the reasons why I think it's acceptable to hate the LCS is because of the things they bring into it. Just in-case some of you aren't aware, in LCS they have been playing Jungle Rengar a lot recently. It hasn't had much success and guess what, it's probably worse in Solo Queue. I don't know how well Jungle Rengars perform in Diamond but as for Plat, every Jungle Rengar I've had has been alright early game and really bad late game. I just hate the pick so much. Why bother picking Rengar in the jungle if you can just pick a normal jungler like Elise, Lee Sin, Jarvan, Evelynn, etc. If you ask me, the people who play Jungle Rengar are nothing but bloodthirsty killers who only think about kills instead of objectives like Towers, Dragons, etc. It's just a stupid pick in my opinion and Rengar himself doesn't provide everything you need in a jungler. Basically, Jungle Rengar is yet another cheese pick and I can't wait until they nerf him or something cause I can barely stand him anymore.
Well..to be fair..it's not the champ's fault..I just hate the way people play him I guess? Cheese the enemy team and try to kill them a lot or fail and be useless the entire game if you don't get ahead. I really hate strategies like these.
Oh and since I'm a support main now, I'd like to talk a little bit about support variety. Right now, the main 3 picks in ranked are Braum, Morgana and Nami. Usually it's Braum > Morgana > Nami. Thresh is still picked of course but those are the main 3 picks. That's kinda bad if you ask me. A lot of supports used to be good all around and you could play whichever support you wanted to but since these 4 picks are so good, it's always the safer bet to just go with one of them. The other supports need some kind of a buff if they want to see more play and I hope Riot does that. Alistar got some cool changes recently so we might see him being played real soon.
#Believe!
Anyways, thanks for reading guys! Sorry if the post sounded kinda rant-ish haha.
^ Yeah, I agree with you...
It's like 4 good supports, 4 playable supports (lulu, zyra, karma and leona) and the rest just isn't worth playing :c
It's just really monotonous and frustrating when you get shunned for not picking one of the top 4 (even if what you picked is still somewhat good)
meh
Yup :/
I'm actually not sure why the cow isn't picked that often (except when facing
We might see more of him really soon because of the changes he received. Let's hope so! >.<
It's like 4 good supports, 4 playable supports (lulu, zyra, karma and leona) and the rest just isn't worth playing :c
It's just really monotonous and frustrating when you get shunned for not picking one of the top 4 (even if what you picked is still somewhat good)
meh
I feel like you can safely pick tier 2-3 champs and do well, or if you've mastered a champion that is "off the meta" you can still do well. A lot of people pick "the OPs" and are completely trash.
I talk from experience, getting players from gold 2 to plat 2, I've faced many a
I get that at an extremely professional level of play, the roster diminishes, but even that is an imposition top players give themselves due to the whole "follow the Koreans" thing. I mean, we all saw how, after buffs,
Pick your roster and have fun, if the rest is doing FotM it's their issue, they have to constantly adapt to nerfs and bans while you're doing your thing, at which you're experienced anyway.
I'm aware of all of these things. My problem isn't with my champion pool. My problem is the variety in ranked. At least for support. Everyone mainly plays the top 4 supports and occasionally you see a Zyra or a Karma or a Leona. It's just not as fun if I have to play vs the same champs every game. I would like it if people played more supports.
I talk from experience, getting players from gold 2 to plat 2, I've faced many a
I get that at an extremely professional level of play, the roster diminishes, but even that is an imposition top players give themselves due to the whole "follow the Koreans" thing. I mean, we all saw how, after buffs,
Pick your roster and have fun, if the rest is doing FotM it's their issue, they have to constantly adapt to nerfs and bans while you're doing your thing, at which you're experienced anyway.
jungle variety isnt much better, same with adcs (lucian or bust)
the game is actually boring now because its the same 15~ champions in the game and if you pick anything that isnt them youre ****ed because theyre so much better than everything else, i was hoping lucian changes would have fixed it for adcs at least but we all know what happened after that
Yes. I agree. I don't think the entire game is boring but ranked is boring for sure because you have to play the OPs or you'll be at a disadvantage :/
the game is actually boring now because its the same 15~ champions in the game and if you pick anything that isnt them youre ****ed because theyre so much better than everything else, i was hoping lucian changes would have fixed it for adcs at least but we all know what happened after that
Meh, i think the supports you listed are good, but i think other supports can be played perfectly fine too. I've recently had a lot of success with karma support, for instance, and I now try to pick her whenever i can, if my team is lacking AP damage, lacking mobility, or I am going against a verry pokeable bot lane
That's not my point. My point is, those 4 supports outshine the other supports and are picked constantly because they are just better. Other support like Lulu or Leona are good as well but people don't play them as much because they can just play the main 4. I want more support variety because it's not that fun to see the same 4 supports in every game. But in order for that to happen, some of the other supports need some buffs in order to be viable for LCS play. Sadly, these days people only copy whatever is played in LCS so if the other suppprts see more LCS play they will most likely see more play in Solo Queue as well.
I get what you mean with power curves, but there are times you get fed by yourself playing said early game junglers and it's really frustrating that often you still aren't able to help your team because they position/play pretty poorly. I've been fed most of my jungler games during my last ranked month and lost half of them, and it's stuff like me tower diving and flashing away afterwards, not mere "KS urmagerd"
Ah but you see, if you don't get early kills with Jungle Rengar you are most likely gonna be useless for the rest of the game because you didn't get an early lead and you didn't snowball it. I would much rather have a Nautilus or an Amumu or even a Sejuani who is behind as my jungler instead of a Rengar. At least they can build full tank and they can be a little bit useful by tanking a lot of damage. Rengar can't afford to build full tank.
I get what you mean with power curves, but there are times you get fed by yourself playing said early game junglers and it's really frustrating that often you still aren't able to help your team because they position/play pretty poorly. I've been fed most of my jungler games during my last ranked month and lost half of them, and it's stuff like me tower diving and flashing away afterwards, not mere "KS urmagerd"
For the supports, I suggest you pick zyra up since she can go positive vs all of the 4 supports, you just have to play your cards very very well. (by this I mean don't overpush, don't go OOM without hitting at the very minimum 80% of your skills, assure your plants get a minimum of 2 hits for lashers or 3 hits for spitters off on the enemy and try and work around your super slow speed with proper positioning...)
yes I just realized it's just better to pick some of the top tier supports instead because it's a lot less work for a similar (or more rewarding) result... woops
Personally, I'm sick of jungle rengar and lee. In low gold 99.9% of lee sin's are decent early game and fall flat on their face once midgame starts.
Jungle rengars get 2 cheese kills and then proceed to suck for the entire game and cry because the enemy team is smart enough to not give them the opportunity to assassinate people. :D
Solo q always sucked though
meh
Err yeah, my champion pool for supports is all good. What I mean is, those 4 main picks are always played if they are available :p Zyra actually gets picked sometimes as well but I wouldn't say she's on the priority level of those 4 picks.
And yeah screw Jungle Rengar. Such a dumb pick. If they're gonna pick Rengar I'd much rather have them play him top, not jungle.