Practicing one champion vs play all of them - Page 3

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Canada372 Posts

February 15 2013 11:26 GMT

#41

On February 10 2013 02:11 Lylat wrote:
I think it's interesting to practice one or two champs a lot for solo queue but it's not if you play competitively because the other team will just ban the champ you're good at..
For example the NA guy called "Best Riven NA" is a sick Riven player and own solo queue, same with XJ9 he's really good with Vi..

Even then Its not too bad because if they are giving you respect bans they have 1 less ban to use against you. You can use that to your advantage if you learn something else :D (froggennivia, hotshotnidaleegg, regis lb, Toyz Orianna, I can go on...)/

Metafour

United States137 Posts

February 18 2013 00:44 GMT

#42

Wanna be good: Play a pool of champions in one role. Want to be great: Know every champion and all of his abilities.

imo. ^.^

Tatari

United States1179 Posts

February 18 2013 02:54 GMT

#43

I've practiced only one champion for extensive periods of time. During season 2, I had 656 games on Graves alone. I learned not just how to make him work during laning, teamfighting, late game, hyper carry if necessary, etc. but how to deal with other champions as Graves.

I took the liberty of devoting season 3 to Vayne, with 333 games on her so far. I know her far enough to the point where I'm much more comfortable picking her against a Draven or Graves than a safer pick like Ezreal, and I'm more worried about the billion possibilities of how my support can fulfill Murphy's Law.

At least in LoL, you can go champion specific and still learn about any other champion while learning that one champion and how to deal with the rest of the cast. DotA is nowhere as restricted as LoL in terms of roles.

Tula

Austria1544 Posts

February 18 2013 04:21 GMT

#44

Bot lane might be complicated on another level, because you need not only learn the matchup of your own champion, but also how he works with and against all possible supports on bot lane.

Anyway, on topic I've always played a pretty wide selection of champions (mostly without sense or system), but since S3 started I've pretty much restricted myself to jungle/top (prefferebly jungle, but not all ranked queues agree

) and 3 champions max within those roles. So far I can clearly see a marked improvement in my own games when i get to play one of those 3 junglers.

Restricting myself to a single champion might work, but my favorite jungler has been Xin this season so it would be fairly unrealistic (been banned quite a bit lately and is often picked fast by the enemy team as well). Still the point remains, if you want to get good (instead of just having fun) stick to a smallish champion pool and really learn the ins and outs of those.

Out of interest, if you say you simply want to play 1 champion in ranked how often do you have to dodge queues to get that role? :p Even with jungle not being quite as popular as mid or Top I've had up to 5 games in a row where other people insisted they had to jungle.

zodde

Sweden1908 Posts

February 18 2013 04:54 GMT

#45

It's kind of unrealistic to play just one champion in every single game if you play soloq. Even if your champion doesn't get banned or picked often, people will "steal" your role.

I do think that focusing most of your attention on a single champion is a good way to climb the ladder, just look at Destiny. Just make sure you have some backup champions if you don't get to play your ace.

If you play normals with friends, or ranked 5s, it can be possible to get your desired champion every single game though.

Also, when you reach a certain level, you might have to expand your champion pool. Some champions have lanes that are almost unplayable at high levels, when you can't expect your opponent to make stupid mistakes. But for getting to that higher level of play? Go ahead and play 90% of your games with a single champ.

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