Let me start off with a little introduction. For those of you that don't know me, I'm SSJSuntastic, a (currently) Diamond 4 support main. My mechanics are pretty bad, and I play sleep deprived a lot. For these simple reasons, I'm dedicated to searching for the "next ez OP champ", as that's the only way I stay afloat on the ladder.Below, I've compiled a list of champions that are not only performing exceptionally well in solo queue lately, but also have nearly brain-dead type strategies that anyone can pick up and execute with a few well timed words of "encouragement" from your teammates. Check out the full list below!
Introduction
Let me start off with a little introduction. For those of you that don't know me, I'm SSJSuntastic, a (currently) Diamond 4 support main. My mechanics are pretty bad, and I play sleep deprived a lot. For these simple reasons, I'm dedicated to searching for the "next ez OP champ", as that's the only way I stay afloat on the ladder.
Below, I've compiled a list of champions that are not only performing exceptionally well in solo queue lately, but also have nearly brain-dead type strategies that anyone can pick up and execute with a few well timed words of "encouragement" from your teammates.
Although I tend to play one champion at a time, I always keep a few of these in my back pocket in case I need to fill a different role. Check out the full list below!
Do you see a trend here?
Below, I've compiled a list of champions that are not only performing exceptionally well in solo queue lately, but also have nearly brain-dead type strategies that anyone can pick up and execute with a few well timed words of "encouragement" from your teammates.
Although I tend to play one champion at a time, I always keep a few of these in my back pocket in case I need to fill a different role. Check out the full list below!
Supports
As a support main, I think that starting with this one makes the most sense. Support mains have three jobs:
- Map Control
- Initiation
- Peel
Pretty simple. Now to help you on this quest, I've picked out two tanky as f* champions that can perform all three roles and even more importantly, stay alive doing it.
Nautilus - Sometimes a yellow submarine, sometimes a green one.
- Always make sure to right click champions as much as possible, one time each time your passive doesn't have them marked.
- His passive is what separates "people playing Nautilus" from "Nautilus players" (or people who read this blog).
- Perks: Super tanky, tons of crowd control, lots of free stats, low mana cost, one massive "skillshot".
Leona - So much CC, nearly impossible to get away from.
- If you're not comfortable initiating, feel free to be a secondary initiator or do peel duty.
- Try and let your AD carry auto in between your spells, again, like Nautilus, your passive is what will separate the good from the greats.
- Perks: Super tanky, ton of crowd control, lots of free stats, low mana cost, two massive "skillshots".
Marksmen
I am no Doublelift. I am no qtpie (maybe a little).
Do not play Vayne. Do not play Lucian.
- Guarantee the hit on your ultimate. If they flash they flash. Don't try and "predict" the flash. Make them work for it.
- You can play passive and farm, then be completely relevant using your ultimate.
- Perks: Second highest range in the game, ultimate is pure utility, global map control with hawkshot, still useful from behind.
Jinx - The ease of which she can pick up kills via her ultimate gives her insane comeback potential. Her passive is OP.
- Similar to Ashe, focusing on farm during her laning phase allows her to stay relevant late game with the massive range on her AOE gun and ultimate, even if you're behind.
- Perks: Insane waveclear, blocks off chasers, survivability is based on speed (no fancy tricks, just run).
There was a time when champions with strong built-in flashes were the cream of the crop. However, Riot's balanced it in a way where champions that don't have it make up for it in other (easier to utilize) ways.
If you do want to play someone fancy with a movement spell, make sure you use it offensively AND defensively at the same time (by dodging something). This is how Riot balances these spells. If you can't, then don't play those champions.
Top Lane
Get big. Get Relevant.
Singed - BUILD RYLAI
- BUILD RYLAI
- Currently insanely good right now with the new Rylai build path, he is a solo queue beast.
- Perks: Non-confrontational passive aggressive fighting, focuses on farm while others die around him.
- BUILD RYLAI
Wukong - Who buys pink wards anyway?
- Buy armor penetration items.
- Aim for the squishies.
- Squish them.
- Perks: Invisibility, AOE CC, huge burst, built-in armor penetration, NO SKILLSHOTS
Jungle
Junglers gank and get objectives. Farming is important, but if you could gank successfully every time and get every objective, then if you didn't farm nobody would care.
Warwick - From an initial incredulous "wtf Warwick God Tier" in week one of Patch 5.13, the complains quickly died down once people saw a few Warwicks run through three turrets and one shot the carry.
- Build devourer, blade of the ruined king, wit's end, and then tanky tanky tanky.
- Wait for teammates to be in position, ult someone delicious.
- Perks: Massive burst even if your ultimate is interrupted, freestyle jungling without items, massive 6 second team attack speed buff.
Amumu - A noob's best friend. Did you know he has a top 10 win rate in plat+ too?
- Farm to 6, don't miss your bandage.
- Feel free to ult single targets if it's a guaranteed kill. Don't put your ult on a pedestal.
- Perks: One skillshot to rule them all, massive scaling into late game with short cooldowns and percentage based damage, really obvious and nearly undodgeable AOE CC (allows follow-up).
Mid Lane
This is honestly my worst lane. Mid lane is a lane where:
- Ganks come from 5 different directions from any lane on the map
- Everyone can 100-0 you instantly
- Dying early often ends up with your opponent quickly power spiking to "LEGENDARY"
Here's how I approach this lane:
- I'm going to get outplayed. Let's not fight.
- Even if I don't get outplayed, their jungler is going to kill me.
- Let me pick on people who don't see me coming.
This means:
- Push in your lane.
- Stay warded.
- Stay out of sight and/or roam
Malzahar - King of hit it and quit it. Drop your magic space dust and hide somewhere laughing at the replay where your enemy laner continuously pings to be careful. Have you never heard of "The Fizz who cried Malzahar?"
- Start with your Q, charge it three times in base. Try and hit your opponent with a Q. Level two, get E and send your voidling after him, might cheese a kill if they're not paying attention.
- When you're level 6, make a point to keep pushing the lane and then walking somewhere that's not warded.
- Perks: Easy waveclear, tank shredder means he can kill anybody with W + R and doesn't need to be picky with his burst, excellent seiging power with his dot and voidlings.
Heimerdinger - Nearly impossible to gank, super baiter.
- Push to turret level 1, rush Zhonyas.
- Build turrets spaced out so AOE doesn't kill them all at once.
- Use your ultimate turret and Zhonya when they dive.
- Perks: Strongest Level 1 pushing power, difficult to gank even without wards, insanely strong damage when turtling.
Conclusions
Even if you think you're good, there's always someone better. Playing champions that are easy lets you focus in on different tasks that aren't mechanically dependent. These 10 are my favorite, what are yours?