The second game went much better, though part of it was having a good Braum while the enemy support was Soraka. That meant they did not have much CC.
He's very skill dependent, unlike say Blitz.
That's almost 60%, nerf pls
nerf janna
You say that mid has a big-ass pool of viable champions, yet when assassins were not favoured you'd hardly witness an increase in overall variety with re-occuring picks in solo queue and the competitive scene. If it ain't Fizz / Zed / Yasuo, it'd be just as narrow of a selection consisting out of sustained DPS / poke / whatever mages in their place. Truly riveting stuff. Both 'metas' are just as bad in this regard; the community at large is narrow-minded and suffers from so much selective memory to the point they always deem only a handful (or less) as valid picks, on top of refusing to properly adapt if need be. "Oh man, a snowball champion? Better stubbornly bash my head against a wall thinking a squishy AP mid will work out for me this time!"
Immobile ADC's don't get picked either way, so let's not pretend assassins are exclusively to blame. Go look at bot lane instead with the likes of Corki / Ezreal / Lucian / Caitlyn / Tristana / et cetera running rampant at different points in time because they have an escape while still able to outtrade or outscale those who don't. Varus, Draven, Miss Fortune, Ashe and the like have been left behind for months on end with and without assassins.
The existance of variety and the possibility of variety are two completely different things. Just because some champions are popular does not mean others aren't playable. Assassins on the other hand drain that possibility, because if you pick anything that suffers from assassins and suddenly there's a Fizz in the next pick you're done, while the existance of say Xerath wasn't making something like a Lux pick suicide. Counterpicking sounds like a great idea, but guess what does counterpicking mid lane assassins means? Picking Ori/Syndra/Azir every fucking game because every other mid is not retarded enough to deal with this shit thanks to Riot nerfing them in multiple ways for no fucking reason between mana regen and mid game base stats, and if I wanted to pick the same shit to fight the same shit over and over and over and over I would just play one of the 4 other roles, and once Azir and co get nerfed we're back to late season 3 with Zed Vs Fizz Vs Kassadin Vs LeBlanc every single fucking game.
Varus, Miss Fortune and Ashe don't get picked because they are bad with wonky kits that are very counterable. During the same time Corki and co were strong you also see Twitch, Jinx, Kog, Sivir being very strong and sometimes dominant picks and the only reason they were played during League of Assassins besides Sivir is because you had stuff like double shield comps with Lulu/Ori, Zilean, Janna, etc. Draven is hard to play and when it comes to solo Q often not worth the effort, same for competitive.
Maybe they stole the Gromp from the jungler while leashing?
9/21/0
I'm pretty sure I ended up with 21/0/9 that matchI was so squishy.
if ur playing ranked it matters.
Huh? How does it not matter? What the game is played like at higher levels determines what is popular around solo queue. You think stuff like Zed suddenly doubling in pick rate doesn't affect normal people?
There's no real secret to playing Sivir. Have good reaction times, spell shield high priority enemy spells (like Zed ult), look for easy picks with ult, and waveclear with W when on the defense.
It does matter. How often did you see Liss top a month ago?
The degree varies, but it very much affects.
Don't make me open my "Oh, Japan" folder
How so?
