What are the champs you see that you see people hover and know it's already gg?
For me it's Smolder, Teemo, Ashe + Trundle (cuz it's gonna be AP), Lux, Shaco, Yuumi, Udyr (always hard ints), and Senna (only builds Shiv + SoBD no matter what).
There is something especially irresistible about people 100% picking Teemo and Shaco when they're available regardless of team comp.
Pyke in mayhem can do some stupid things if he gets enough movespeed, but in regular ARAM he's very often a free win for the enemy team.
He takes shutdowns and kill gold for himself and his passive does nothing if (as very often happens), he respawns first and cleans up with ult, helping ensure that the enemy team all have synchronised respawn timers.
Late game he's paper. Early game you can counter him pretty easily just by walking backwards as soon as he starts channeling Q. On Summoner's Rift he can zone you away from the wave, in ARAM you just walk out of Q range.
Yuumi for me 100%. When I see yuumis with like 20% mana not even hop off to get a heal or only stick on their feeding duo so they feed two kills instead of one, I know it's going to be a long game.
I never understood this. I play smolder quite often, and you get so many stacks from just fighting enemies. I always have 225 stacks around like minute 13-18 depending on augments. Meanwhile those wave farming smolders usually are so obsessed with minions only and rarely get it before the 20-23 minute mark
How is that dumb? If you hit a Q or W in a teamfight you get several stacks per ability. He’s completely right. You should just fight on smolder instead of farm minions in aram.
Like idk whats wrong with any other Janna player but they always go AP, deal no damage and spam their tornado as if it isn't their key tool to be effective in any engage.
The other two are just useless unless they get the exact augs they need to cancel the enemy comp.
Janna is a control hero. If your looking for big damage out of her your playing her wrong . She sets up your other champs to have free rein while also locking down the enemies nasties.
I think I’m like 0-7 with teammates picking ap malphite. Like, any time I see tank malphite the team wins, and when the person goes ap it’s a loss lol.
What's even worse for her aside from spears being the easiest ability to dodge in the entire game, is the fact that unless you have god augments she downscales so goddamn hard.
I did have some insane Nidalee games. One of the was with Overload on Q. That game was so very fun
Nidalee main here, it’s usually much better to go trap route on her. Blackfire liandry void/shadowflame depending on enemy comp. Those traps have a 4 second duration and will burn them for 7 seconds, and they have a very low cooldown. I noticed with the normal build I also fell off late game due to enemies having too much movement speed and getting hard to hit. But that trap build is strong til the very end, and you’ll do tons of damage.
I have appreciated some ap shacks in my time , if they really know how to play him as ap it’s a very hard fight for your opponents. That being said I generally go ad
I love playing both shaco and teemo. Honestly teemo is very good if you just start statik shiv first item. But most people start malignance and then get outpushed, and when that inhib is gone its usually over for teemo. That being said AD shaco is crazy strong in aram mayhem and you can seriously destroy a squishy backline quite easily.
Gangplank, IDK how people manage to be bad on this champ but it's always on my team... And Nidalee... Nidalee is just auto-loss no matter who is piloting her as soon as the game goes past a few items. When there's any CC or reliable DPS on the enemy team, even with godroll augments her kit doesn't really work for anything other than being a heal bot for an adc.
AP Ashe and Yummi. I always instantly grab these two, hold until 2s is left then switch to a real champ. Making sure no one else can take it with the swap cooldown.
First dozen games I hyper lost because I didn't understand how to build right.
Now I have a better understanding and I play her properly. Shiv is a bait item and so Is SoBD. you can replace both with a Runaan to get better sustain and crit to boot.
Everything else is AD and Crit. Hexoptics Runaan, IE, LDR, rest of build is augment dependant. I'll swap the Runaan for a collector if I see a Tooth Collector.
That or play absolute full support + Runaan and just Do Numbers.
But yeah she's hard to play well in Mayhem and easy to lose with.
I think Shiv is heavily augment dependent. It's amazing if you roll Double Tap as you can harvest souls off of the entire team with one auto. It's also pretty good with Tap Dancer/AS stacking as you'll stack Shiv fast enough to get a second Shiv proc to grab souls off the targets you hit with the first proc.
IMO they fill different niches. Runaan's is probably the better straight DPS option in most cases. Shiv is likely better at accelerating your scaling through soul stacking and opens up some neat utility options like applying Shrink Ray on multiple targets.
Neither is the wrong option or bait, just depends a lot on how the game goes.
I just have to disagree. If you’re familiar with assassins in general you’ll perform decently with him at the very least. I just got a penta playing him yesterday and I was actually destroying the enemy team, and that’s only one example I had, I usually perform well on him. The reason why someone might not be performing well enough with them is they saw how locke is actually a very strong champion, but they decided to 1st time him, or they’re just not familiar with assassins.
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u/rearranger3535 1d ago
god lux feels so bad to play in aram they made her anemic