Today's team composition is one focused on some of the most beloved champions in the game. Technically advanced, great mobility, and massive nerfs are the common themes among this champion set.If you all happen to be good at your respective champions, this is the one for the highlight reel. On the other hand, it might also be one for the challenjour reel.
Team Composition Score Card
AOE Damage: B
Crowd Control: B
Difficulty (1-5, 5 is hardest): 5
Diving Power: A
Dueling Power: A
Initiation: B
Poke Power: B
Pushing Power: B
Sustain: C
Synergy: B
Waveclear: B
Early Game: B
Mid Game: B
Late Game: B
Crowd Control: B
Difficulty (1-5, 5 is hardest): 5
Diving Power: A
Dueling Power: A
Initiation: B
Poke Power: B
Pushing Power: B
Sustain: C
Synergy: B
Waveclear: B
Early Game: B
Mid Game: B
Late Game: B
S = Amazing!, A = Good, B = Average, C = Below Average, F = Bad
Theme
Today's team composition is one focused on some of the most beloved champions in the game. Technically advanced, great mobility, and massive nerfs are the common themes among this champion set.If you all happen to be good at your respective champions, this is the one for the highlight reel. On the other hand, it might also be one for the challenjour reel.
Champions
Lucian [Marksman] - The man with the plan, Luci-an. With his rapid attacks, flashy skills, and smooth dodges, Lucian has been a crowd favorite for quite some time now. He's still the go-to for most high level players when they don't know which AD carry to play, and has the distinct honor of having the lowest win rate in the game for AD carries in solo queue.
Azir [Mid] - The 50 minute master, Azir makes up in the late mid and late late game where Lee Sin starts to fall off. His unique ability to gain attack speed via cooldown reduction makes him an extremely hard scaling champion with extreme mobility.
Thresh [Support] - Ah Thresh, everyone's favorite support (though losing ground to Bard). With his insane amount of utility available at his disposal, the plays he can make are always impressive. Strangely though, he happens to be a ranged diving champion; this means he's always in the fray (in the flay?) but yet never gains any passive magic resist, unlike other melee diving champions. This means he tends to be somewhat squishy and needs to be more careful than say, a Leona.
Lee Sin [Jungler] - As arguably the most mobile jungler in the game, Lee Sin is the crown jewel of big plays. With the amount of variety at his disposal, a good Lee Sin player can attack from more angles than Picasso. In this team, he'll likely take on a tank role, so the majority of his strength will lie in his early game snowball and late game ability to "insec" players back into his team.
Ekko [Top Laner] - The newest champion on the rift, Ekko has all the features of a Season 5 champion. Sporting percentage based damage, a multitude of complex skillshots, extreme mobility and an instantaneous mobile self-heal, Ekko has all the hallmarks of a broken champion. Luckily Riot's balance team managed to require players to utilize all his skills correctly to be effective, landing him at a smooth dead last in terms of win rate in solo queue top laners at 43%.
Key Concepts
- This team requires a lot of individual practice, which as teams have learned the hard way, comes from solo queue.
- In terms of coordination, this team does require a fairly high amount, simply because of the high risk plays that these champions tend to make.
- If you're playing this team composition, be sure to have it recorded somewhere, you'll be bound to put together some great clips for your next montage.
Countering
This team is actually a fairly standard team in the hands of most players, if not a bit lower. Picking a team that's strong in lane and has decent teamfight power is usually enough, unless they happen to be really good at their champions.
Here's an example team that may succeed:
Here's an example team that may succeed:
- Talon [Mid] - Azir's major weakness is that he needs to react fast enough to do things. Talon removes that ability.
- Nunu [Jungle] - Part of Lee Sin's strengths lies in counterjungling. Getting counterjungled on the other hand, is not something Lee excels in, especially with his relatively high cooldowns and skillshot-centric burst damage. Nunu does an excellent job making sure he doesn't get ahead.
- Wukong [Top] - Nothing like a good old fashioned beat down. Ekko has an impressive 23% win rate vs Wukong top.
- Nautilus [Support] - Thresh's abilities lead him to engage more often than not when he lands a hook. As one of the most insane traders in the game, Nautilus deals more damage and locks down targets for longer.
- Ashe [ADC] - Taking a super short ranged champion like Lucian and pitting him against a long range AD carry like Ashe means that he's at a natural disadvantage. Meanwhile, her late game absolutely outclasses his in terms of sheer utility.
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