EPTGood cheap starting character.
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SCdinner
Canada516 Posts
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Fisalia
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Niton
United States2395 Posts
Poppy and Alistar are very strong, but require more experience, and Soraka, Janna and Sivir are all very powerful but reward defensive play. I'd recommend trying the free ones from this post and seeing if any click with you. | ||
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Senx
Sweden5901 Posts
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sRapers_ValkS
United States644 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
450: Ashe, Sivir (ranged carries), Nunu (jungling), Soraka (support) 1350: Annie, Ryze, Sion (casters), Janna, Zilean (supports) | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On March 07 2011 11:19 Fisalia wrote: Personally I recommend Evelynn (1350) because she is a easy-to-use character. She is... imo as broken as they come. However, if you want a steady character, I advise Ashe. She's good for starters, and besides hawk-eye all of her abilities are fairly agressive. I also recommend Fiddlesticks (1350), because he can do a lot of fun stuff like drain the shit out of other people, and piss them off beyond belief :D. Lastly is Tryndamere... not much to say about him... but he is a great starter character... just search him up on google. use the words "tryndamere", "how", and "broken" and you can find great ways to play him. GL ^^ Tryndamere is bad and actually really difficult to play, Evelynn is easily shut down after you get past the meganoobs etc. and it's difficult as well. Ashe imo is too squishy to be reliable in the lower level games. I'd suggest Sion actually since he can play any role that's needed. Master Yi is awesome for carrying and easy to lasthit and farm with. Non-mana champions tend to be stronger in lower level games in general because of the mana issues. Mundo can stomp like crazy, but imo the best champion to get would be Mordekaiser if you can save up 3150. | ||
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Phrost
United States4008 Posts
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emperorchampion
Canada9496 Posts
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
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JFe4R
United States54 Posts
Easy to use and good staring characters: - Ashe (range ad carry) - 450 IP you will see ashe throughout every lvl range and ranked matches because she adds so much utility to the team. Range AOE nuke that can poke very far away, slow effect to catch fleeing heros, a scout ability and a good ultimate. - Nunu (jungler/melee mage tank) - 450 IP If you ever try to jungle, nunu is one of the best junglers/ganker of the game and very cheap just like ashe, both are use in competitive play. His best asset to a team is him jungle speed and utility to a team with a slow spell and a haste aspd/move spd buff for yourself and a team member. Also his devastating AOE ultimate is game changing if you can land it (it hits really really hard). - Ryze (mage/ap carry) - 1350 IP Good dmg and survivability for a mage, i haven't tried him yet since the recent changes but some ppl like him more now because he is more tanky than before. Really easy itemize just build tanky items with mana, starting with catalyst and/or tear of the goddess. - Sion (tanky/mage) - 1350 IP Hes a beast, you only need to spam 2 skills to be good with him and he can farm gold really easy. With 1:1 ap ratios he can burst ppl instanly and kill ppl with just 1 combo of his q+w (stun + aoe dmg shield). - Fiddlesticks (mage) - 1350 IP His combo can kill anyone .. with his game changing ultimate followed by his sick CC moves like silence+fear into casting "Drain" one of the most damaging starting spell in the game, you can turn any fight into your team favor. These are 1350 IP but a little more difficult to use but they are also really good. - Janna (support) - Zilean (support) - Annie (mage carry). There are many more good champs on the 1350 range like Mundo, Amumu, Singed but like I'm recommending you the easiest champions to learn and start owning scrubs. | ||
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
On March 07 2011 12:43 Scipaeus121212 wrote: Sion is great suggestion, aggresive and quite strong. Mundo is bad when you start draft mode, but before that and especially against newbies he is great. I'd also reccomend Cho'Gath, he costs 3150, but he is extremely aggresive and very strong as well; arguably top tank at the moment. MUNDO IS VIABLE WHERE HE PLEASES Fiddle will crush anyone who tries to outdamage drain in lane, can jungle without runes, has lots of cc, has an ult that just curbstomps disorganized players (i.e. solo queue)... basically fiddle is one of the best solo queue champions. Oh you can also solo dragon, which is nice. | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
If you learn ashe now you'll pretty much learn to be pro with every other ranged carry and carry bads in solo queue when you hit lvl 30. | ||
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overt
United States9006 Posts
I think Ryze or Sion are great choices, Sion is tanky and has a stun so you can afford to be a bit more careless with him and you can also gank pretty well. Ryze is good and helps if you want to play AP carry. Really it depends on what your friends play and what role you need to fill. If they're willing to play whatever then it depends on whether or not you want to solomid, jungle, dual lane, etc. For just in general though I'd probably say Annie, Ryze, or Sion as you can get kills with these three and play fairly aggressive (though you have to be careful with Annie as she's pretty squishy). | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
As for her being boring... I know a lot of people find her very boring but I also know people that enjoy playing her, like I. Just try her out and see! | ||
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overt
United States9006 Posts
On March 07 2011 14:41 HazMat wrote: Ashe is not easy. People have this misconception that Ashe is easy because she only has 2 "skills" and no blink. She is a ranged carry that gets punished for making one bad move (unlike other ranged carries that have a blink.) She also requires a lot of game sense because most of the time you'll be the one initiating and knowing when to initiate is a hard and important game skill. As for her being boring... I know a lot of people find her very boring but I also know people that enjoy playing her, like I. Just try her out and see! Just play defensive. You can't lose your lane vs. almost anyone and it's hard as dick to be ganked. Yeah, it requires game sense but once you have a basic understanding of the game she's way easier than most other ranged carries in my opinion. And as soon as you hit 6 you can kill the person in your lane so much better than any other DPS ranged carry. | ||
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HazMat
United States17077 Posts
And hard to gank? You gank once and make her blow ghost or flash. You then gank again and she is dead. dunno whats hard about that. | ||
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Dgiese
United States2687 Posts
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gtrsrs
United States9109 Posts
they seem to be what you're looking for | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
• Trist - ranged dps with steroids skill and an escape mechanism. Winning lane as trist depends a little more on a burst (at least imo). She seems easy to use, because early game she has nice burst, lategame she has awesome range plus she has her jump to help you get into better positions in fight (though at first you will probably use it to suicide 1v5  but once you learn to use it properly it's very powerful)• Annie - heavy nuker with stuns - if you like casters then there's no other cheap choice. Annie is very easy to use (point, click, boom). If you master annie, you will master initiation and you master estimating your burst • Sion - "easy mode" nuker. Beefy caster who has the advantage in many lanes, winning lane/game in low elo as sion is not hard, you may pick him to dominate games, though i don't see too much room for improvement when playing him. • Nasus - if you want to learn melee DPS paying only 1350 ip then this is your guy. A skill which rewards last hitting? Yes please! The longer the game is, the stronger Nasus gets. You can build him tanky with only 1 damage item and still be a threat to enemy team. I think the biggest progress i made with last hitting was when i was playing Nasus, his autoattack animation is good too. Biggest flaw of Nasus is that he has no hard cc, only one single target slow (but really powerful one, crippling autoattackers too). If you are farmed as Nasus you can burst down enemy squishies easily but at the same time the enemy team can't kill you fast enough. • Dr. Mundo - the other melee DPS. He outputs nice damage naturally, if you build tanky then it's really hard to kill him thanks to his ulti. Very good champion at abusing enemy mistakes, probably way stronger than Nasus at low lvl play, though i don't feel like he gives you as much room for improvement as Nasus does. • Alistar - a tank. His ultimate naturally makes him tanky even if you don't build too many tank items. Definatelly a lot of room for improvement (natural tankiness, huge amount of CC), but i would not buy him blindly - he really needs to fit you if you want to use him, because if he doesn't, then you will just be saving enemies from your allies, initiating bad fights, using ulti at bad moments, etc. Wait till the Alistar is free before testing him out (in other words, i listed him here only if someone else will ask the same question later and it will be free Alistar week) • Amumu - the other tank. Seeing lane amumu is quite sad (lol the pun!), though at lower levels it may not matter as much. He is AWESOME jungler, but: 1) he can't do it at summoner lvl 1, unless your team will help you with jungle (don't count on it) 2) people at low levels can't handle 1v2 lanes, ever. In other words, all that remains is to lane as mummy, and laning mummy is going to be harassed easily, you will not get too much farm. So you will have really hard early game, hoping to get farm and survive till his awesome lategame (awesome only if you have farm of course) • Nunu - he probably can already jungle at summoner lvl 1 (i'm not 100% sure), at lower levels of play he's gonna be great pick, you will get full ults often and stomp enemies. I consider Nunu to be a beast at lower and higher levels of competition, mediocore at medium levels of competition (where you don't abuse his strengths that much and average game length is 40+ minutes, yet enemies know what your ult does and how you interrupt it). If you have someone who will handle the 1v2 lane then picking Nunu is really great idea, his early game is awesome and he supports teams quite well. From these champs i recommend the most: Ashe - 450 IP, Annie - 1350 IP, Nasus - 1350 IP. Depending on the role you want to fulfill (with Nunu - 450 IP being another cool choice if you have someone who will play with you and handle 1v2 lane, no point in not jungling as Nunu) | ||
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
On March 07 2011 16:19 Dgiese wrote: In my opinion learn one of the cheap jungler's (Nunu or Yi). Jungling is a skill that will serve you well at any level of play, and you'll pretty much be guaranteed to get jungle without having to fight your teammates for it (All too often you'll have to fight your teammates if you choose a character that relies on mid). yi can't jungle without attackspeed runeset | ||
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locodoco
Korea (South)1615 Posts
carry-ashe caster-annie jungle-ww or olaf sidelane support-janna sidelane tank-shen or singed | ||
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Tadzio
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On March 07 2011 22:19 freelander wrote: yi can't jungle without attackspeed runeset I think that's a little pessimistic. It's harder to steal as many enemy camps, but he still jungles fast enough to steal 1-2 early camps and that's all you need to screw the other team's jungler. I'm not sure how well Yi Jungles with zero runes and zero masteries, since I didn't try to jungle him til I was level 20, but he doesn't need ideal runesets to stay at pace with solo lanes. I know for sure that nunu can jungle without any runes at all, though. So if you were just crapping on Yi's viability to convince the OP to play Nunu, I guess I can dig that..... The things I'd be looking for in a character for an aggressive new player are survivability and ways to punish equally aggressive opponents. So, I'd suggest: 450 Nunu - He's beefy, is good in lane if you can't jungle. And if you can jungle, he's perfectly capable of ganking non-stop by level 3. 1350 Singed - He's beefy and he embarrasses aggressive opponents. Real fun to play with a good lanemate. 1350 Zilean - Really strong in the lane, and his support skills are great. He's psuedo-squishy, but with his ult and the threat of a double-bomb most people leave him alone. 1350 Sion - AP Sion rocks. His potency is diminished considerably if he's forced into a dual lane, and he's not as fun without flash/ignite, but it's really hard to feed with him and if your opponents don't get banshee's viel or force of nature, you'll be rockin them all game long (I just got out of a game where I went 15-2-18 with him, so I may be overstating things). 1350 Fiddlesticks - He takes a little more finesse than the other heroes in this list, but played right he's next to impossible to kill earlygame without a stun. He can jungle. He has multiple long lasting CCs. And his ult is hilarious fun when it lands. | ||
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Vlanitak
Norway3045 Posts
On March 07 2011 22:19 freelander wrote: yi can't jungle without attackspeed runeset I jungle yi with only aspeed quints on US. | ||
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
look he said he was a new player i dont think he can jungle with only a few mastery points and no runes as yi | ||
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BlackPaladin
United States9316 Posts
On March 08 2011 02:58 freelander wrote: look he said he was a new player i dont think he can jungle with only a few mastery points and no runes as yi Need lucky q procs but you can. Not advised though b/c it's all luck at that point. | ||
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SCdinner
Canada516 Posts
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Sandbox
Canada65 Posts
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Zeroes
United States1102 Posts
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TheTreebeard
United States41 Posts
On March 07 2011 22:29 locodoco wrote: if u wanna learn the "core" of each classes i would recommend carry-ashe caster-annie jungle-ww or olaf sidelane support-janna sidelane tank-shen or singed Words of wisdom from loco, although I think only ashe and annie are 450 ip. I think alistar is also a good tank to learn on, although i wouldn't try to roam with him if you are fairly new. If you are new to the game in general I would suggest staying away from jungling. Learning laning, both solo and duo, is going to help you get better at the game much faster. Jungling typically involves very specific (and expensive) runesets and jungling paths. Then again, it might not be the greatest idea to completely stay away from jungling like I did. I am 1700 elo but can't jungle for shit, although I know the basics and how it impacts me/others in the lanes. | ||
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0123456789
United States3216 Posts
On March 08 2011 08:01 TheTreebeard wrote: Words of wisdom from loco, although I think only ashe and annie are 450 ip. I think alistar is also a good tank to learn on, although i wouldn't try to roam with him if you are fairly new. If you are new to the game in general I would suggest staying away from jungling. Learning laning, both solo and duo, is going to help you get better at the game much faster. Jungling typically involves very specific (and expensive) runesets and jungling paths. Then again, it might not be the greatest idea to completely stay away from jungling like I did. I am 1700 elo but can't jungle for shit, although I know the basics and how it impacts me/others in the lanes. annie 1350 | ||
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crate
United States2474 Posts
I've been jungling with Nunu on my level 11 smurf occasionally. I feel the lack of runes and masteries but in the games where I've jungled we've usually gotten a giant lead early on (thanks to more total gold/exp + ganks) that I can't as often accomplish playing in a sidelane (or mid, but most of the champs I play aren't ideal solo lane champs to begin with so I don't play mid much). I'd recommend waiting till about level 20 to really get into it (that gives you 8 utility + 12 defense, which is about where you stop needing more levels to survive jungling in my experience). Personally I recommend learning to jungle as early as you can contribute (go test in practice) if you're interested in learning to do so. Certainly if you want to learn jungle Nunu you can start very early since he's so strong in the jungle anyway. | ||
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O-ops
United States4236 Posts
On March 07 2011 20:25 gtrsrs wrote: i would go with vladimir, galio, caitlyn, ezrael, or karthus they seem to be what you're looking for They're cheap as fuck too. Yi is terrible in the jungle low level. His jungling is just so damn slow and he's at half most the time. His ganks aren't very strong without red, and by the time you got red and at full hp ready to gank the bot lane is around 4-5 already. If you want to jungle low level (and you should, because most of the time no one else does it), you should try out Nunu. His iceball + haste pretty much guarantee a kill against whoever is pushing the lane, and you get a lot more freedom in the jungle because of your Q. | ||
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Athos
United States2484 Posts
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MobutuTheWindSeeker
United States50 Posts
One of the most common things among people that are just starting out is losing to a champion with a gimmick that seems overpowered and then buying that champion. Blitzcrank, Kassadin, Teemo, Pantheon, Karthus, Vladimir, Twisted fate and Twitch are some examples of what I'm thinking of. Essentially what happens is you see someone who is much better than you dominate a game using a weird new champion against your team. You see that he keeps using this cool move and think, "I can get good at playing that guy and dominate games like him too!" Don't fall into this trap, it is how riot steals your money (half of the guys i mentioned cost $10) People that kick ass in low levels are often higher level players that made a new account and bought an expensive, flashy champion specifically to kill newbies with. As a newbie it is extremely hard to learn how to get all those kills without dying often yourself, and playing new champions will only delay understanding the real reasons you aren't doing as well as you would like. A better plan is to just pick a few cheap champions and learn how to play them really well; no 450's become less viable as you get better and they include some of the best tanks, junglers, ranged and melee dps. Don't buy any other champion until you've played them and know you like them during a week they were free. This will not only help you manage your IP, it will also force you to learn how to play the few champions you own very well, which is much more valuable than basic experience with lots of different champions. + Show Spoiler + Last word of advice: playing master yi, getting a ton of powerful items and attacking the other lanes while a teamfight is happening and everyone is distracted will allow you to win 90% of games before hitting level 30. Often you can get to one of their inhibitors and in games that low whoever loses their inhibitor first usually loses. This is especially satisfying if you are an 'aggressive' player as you say. But don't tell anyone, it's a big secret! | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
Ashe is imo the best champion to learn. She is cheap at 450 IP, she doesn't weaken in higher ELO, she is a carry so if you are good, you can win a lot of games. Being a carry is probably the most important part. You don't want to play things like support when you are still learning the game. There is little use in helping allies that aren't skilled enough to abuse having a support on their lane. Be a carry. If you are good you will be able to carry a lot of games. If you are a very good support you don't really guarentee a win against lesser opponents. | ||
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necrosed
Brazil885 Posts
Free: Tristana (AD Carry) 450 Champions: AD Carry: Ashe, Sivir Junglers: Nunu, Master Yi Support: Soraka Total: 2250 1350 Champions: AP Carry: Annie, Ryze Support: Janna, Alistar, Zilean Tanks: Amumu (Jungler, too), Mundo, Singed Total: 10800 3150: Tank: Shen Total: 3150 That's 3150 + 10800 + 2250 = 16200 IP. Now some level 1-30 math: you have an average of 2.7ip per minute played in game on wins and 1.8 on losses as seen here. The average lenght of a game in league of legends is 38 minutes. Thats 102 IP per win and 68 on losses. Averaging 85 ip per game, not counting first win of the day bonuses. It takes around 300 games to reach level 30. That 25500 IP on average without counting your first wins. Also, that averages 190 hours of gameplay. That means, you will have: 47 wins of the day bonus if you play around 4 hours per day, 31 wins of the day bonus if you play around 6 hours and ~24 if you play 8 hours. That's at least 3500 extra IP for hardcore gamers and 7050 for people that play not that much. 25500+3500 = 29k. Enough to afford that package of heroes. Now you need some runes. My suggestion is ArPen and MPen marks, Armor and mana regen per level Seals, MR per level glyphs and Health/Movespeed quints, that are a little expensive. Thats 7380 IP for the marks, 3690 for the seals, 1845 for the Glyphs. Let's use a tier 2 movespeed glyphs and that's another 2460 for the total of 15k IP. So 16200 +15k = 31200 IP for a "budget" competitive package of heroes that have every important function in the game, along with a runepage that fits for them. And of course, you can always charge some RP into it. I hope that's helpful. | ||
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SCdinner
Canada516 Posts
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Southlight
United States11767 Posts
Edit: He can jungle too, but you need runes for that I think, + it's not efficient. But it does get the job done. | ||
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waffleduck
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Flakes
United States3125 Posts
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PandaBlunt
United States292 Posts
Other good characters: teemo, vladmir, olaf, katerina. These arent cheap persay, but good nontheless. Any more questions feel free to pm me or add. User: Pandablunt Glhf bro, cLvPanda | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On March 24 2011 18:44 PandaBlunt wrote: As a new player you should stick to characters that have the recommended tag. They are generally easy to play. I.e: ashe, nunu, warwick, ryze. Other good characters: teemo, vladmir, olaf, katerina. These arent cheap persay, but good nontheless. Any more questions feel free to pm me or add. User: Pandablunt Glhf bro, cLvPanda I disagree about Nunu... and Warwick and Ryze as well, actually. The recommended tag means nothing, Riot doesn't really know anything. | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
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Iplaythings
Denmark9110 Posts
I recommend Warwick for junglers, annie for casters, rammus for tanks and mf for carrys. Thats the ones I had the easiest time with, I dont count corki because he actually can be tough to play.. Also heads up at the guy who recommended sion, really good char to start off on, viable in any lane and not too hard to play. | ||
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On March 25 2011 01:45 Iplaythings wrote: I recommend Warwick for junglers, annie for casters, rammus for tanks and mf for carrys. I would actually recommend Ryze or Sion over Annie for casters. Annie's lack of an escape and relative squishiness punish you much harder for poor positioning than Ryze or Sion, who are both much beefier. | ||
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awesomoboi
United States42 Posts
On March 24 2011 06:07 Flakes wrote: lol three pages and no mention of kayle as a 450 champ. Sure she's not gonna carry like ashe or jungle like yi/nunu, but definitely one of the best runeless champs when doing the 30 grind (a lot of mana regen items are good on her, manamune, nashors, dfg, etc). These past few months... I've sort of forgot Kayle exists, I haven't seen her in a single ranked game since July and I rarely ever meet her in normals. But yes, great recommendation. Was one of the first champs I bought and I really enjoyed playing her. She's really easy to get used to and pretty fun if you enjoy the carry/support hybrid. | ||
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BouBou.865
Netherlands814 Posts
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Tooplark
United States3977 Posts
Sion, Fiddle and Kayle are really quite good, as are most bulky melees. Depends on your playstyle. | ||
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cascades
Singapore6122 Posts
Good duolaners like Singed is what I would suggest. | ||
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BouBou.865
Netherlands814 Posts
On March 26 2011 01:28 cascades wrote: Sion is worse in duolane now with hp nerf though. When he is playing with experienced friends, dont think he will get a solo. Good duolaners like Singed is what I would suggest. Also, nobody plays tanks at low level, so everyone will love you. Plus he stays totally viable at high level. | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On March 26 2011 04:16 BouBou.865 wrote: Also, nobody plays tanks at low level, so everyone will love you. Plus he stays totally viable at high level. And if you can get your team to actually do Baron, low level teams will fall for the Singed split-push bait every time. | ||
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57 Corvette
Canada5941 Posts
He is not extremely easy, but after a couple of games you should be able to beat noobs with him. Oh, the major downside is that he is 3150 IP. | ||
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SQWKZ
Finland720 Posts
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Kaniol
Poland5551 Posts
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SQWKZ
Finland720 Posts
When I was sub 30, hardly anyone picked tanks in my games, so Shen and Cho were pretty much always available and welcome picks. Don't know if that is common for everyone, tho. Edit: Post 6 Cho can also fit the kill anyone that comes in your way criteria somewhat. | ||
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BluzMan
Russian Federation4235 Posts
On March 07 2011 20:25 gtrsrs wrote: i would go with vladimir, galio, caitlyn, ezrael, or karthus they seem to be what you're looking for Cheap characters ye. | ||
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cascades
Singapore6122 Posts
"Cheap" characters.Well Galio and ezreal don't fit. | ||
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