Top Team Comps #130: Never Get Close (Caitlyn, Xerath, Lux, Nidalee & Jayce)

This team composition never lets a fight start at melee range. Every champion on it can punish a target from a screen away, long before anyone gets close enough to swing back.

Team Composition Score Card

AOE Damage: A
Crowd Control: A
Difficulty (1-5, 5 is hardest): 4
Diving Power: F
Dueling Power: C
Initiation: C
Poke Power: S
Pushing Power: B
Sustain: F
Synergy: A
Waveclear: B

Early Game: B
Mid Game: S
Late Game: B
Super Late Game: C

S = Amazing!, A = Good, B = Average, C = Below Average, F = Bad

Top Team Comps

Never Get Close

Caitlyn · Xerath · Lux · Nidalee · Jayce

This team composition never lets a fight start at melee range. Every champion on it can punish a target from a screen away, long before anyone gets close enough to swing back.

This team comp focuses on champions with abnormally long range. Xerath and Caitlyn can end a fight from a screen away, Lux and Jayce poke down anyone who tries to close in, and Nidalee punishes the flank before it ever reaches her.

Check out how to play it below!

Champions

Bot Lane – Caitlyn

No marksman in the game threatens from farther away than Caitlyn. Piltover Peacemaker snipes anyone careless enough to sit below half health, and Yordle Snap Trap turns the bushes around her into a minefield that punishes the exact dash meant to close the distance. Ace in the Hole finishes off whoever survives everything else.

Mid Lane – Xerath

Xerath barely needs to leave his own base to matter. Arcane Barrage lobs damage from a range longer than most ultimates, and Eye of Destruction chunks half a health bar before an enemy laner even sees the cast animation. Rite of the Arcane does not just zone a fight. It can end one from across the map.

Support – Lux

Lux plays the same game as everyone else on this team, just with a snare attached. Light Binding locks down anything that tries to walk up, and Final Spark turns a poke war into an execution the moment a target dips low enough. She never needs to be near a fight to decide it.

Jungle – Nidalee

Nidalee is the one member of this team who actually lives in the jungle, and she still finds a way to snipe. Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther it travels, rewarding exactly the kind of long range engagement this comp already wants, and Bushwhack punishes anyone who tries to flank through the brush to reach her.

Top Lane – Jayce

Jayce spends his laning phase in Mercury Cannon form, poking from a range no other top laner can answer. Shock Blast and Acceleration Gate combine into damage plus a speed boost that lets him kite a diver forever, and when a fight actually closes in, Mercury Hammer is still there to punish the commitment.

Key Concepts

This comp wants to win the poke war and force fights around objectives instead of committing to all in dives. Whittle a target down from range before anyone actually walks in for the kill.
Nidalee is the only champion here with real dueling power, and only in cougar form. Everyone else needs to keep distance to matter, so stay behind minions and let the ranged poke do the work.
Xerath's ultimate range and Caitlyn's trap zoning make sieging towers and contesting objectives from safety this team's strongest tool. Force fights at Baron or Dragon instead of open field skirmishes where a dive can actually land.

Countering

Countering this team means closing the distance before it can poke you down. Bring dive potential, gap closers, and enough crowd control to lock a target down the instant you are finally in range.

Here is an example team that may succeed: