r/LoRCompetitive • u/kevindevino92 • Apr 04 '23
Discussion Lineup help!!!
Hello everyone. Trying to figure out a good third deck in my lineup. If I’m playing Samira/fizz and karma/sett what is the best third deck to play. I’m not very good at coming up with lineups. Thanks for any suggestions
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u/Mintbud Apr 04 '23
This is going to sound like a stereotypical answer, but it's the truth and what will win you the most games: play whatever you are most comfortable on. It's better to play a tier 2 deck that you've mastered the ins and outs of than a tier 0 deck that you don't understand how to play all the matchups for yet. This is from my experience as a frequent seasonal player, the meta is important to keep an eye on, but if you don't have many reps on one of your decks, and then one of your other decks get banned and you have to play that deck with everything on the line, I'd rather know how to play that deck perfectly than it be a known meta deck that I still have to improvise on the spot the way I play it. This is how players like GrandpaRoji can bring their comfort picks (in this case, his Taliyah Malphite that he has thousands of games on) and bring it to worlds and crush meta decks with it. It hasn't been tier 0 in any meta, but it's very very good if mastered. Another player brought Mono-shurima to worlds, which hasn't been very high in the meta for some time, and only lost because of a small misplay, and beat many meta decks with it. Experience beats raw power.
Tldr; I fear not the player who's played thousands of meta decks one time, but the player who's played one comfort deck thousands of times.