Oct 1, 2011

Troll Picks in LoL: 16 Funny Champions to Troll With

Oct 1, 2011 3:51 PM 20 comments

Some of you love trolling. Even I like trolling on some occasions. But which champion is the greatest troll of all time?

Maybe it's Trundle... after all, he IS a troll. All kidding aside, he's a pretty decent troll character, but some of the ones below are even better!

I am no Troll. Oh wait...

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

TROLL PICKS

16 PICKS · UPDATED AUGUST 2026

Some of you love trolling. Even I like trolling on some occasions. But which champion is the greatest troll of all time?

Maybe it's Trundle... after all, he IS a troll. All kidding aside, he's a pretty decent troll character, but some of the ones below are even better!

This page has two halves. Sixteen troll picks by lane come first, all off-meta, most of them funny, and every one capable of winning a game in the right hands. Underneath sits the original 2011 list, which is about trolling your own team and is preserved exactly as it was written. Every interaction below is checked against the current game, so what you read here is what happens when you press the button.

What makes a troll pick actually work

There's a real difference between a cheese pick and griefing. The picks people remember do at least two of these three things. The ones that get you flamed do none.

They attack something nobody bought. Laners buy what the matchup told them to buy. Show up with the other damage type and their whole shopping list stops mattering.
They win without fighting. Waves, camps, traps and turret plates all count as progress, and the enemy has to come to you to stop any of it.
They only need one thing to land. A four-button combo that needs a friend in voice chat is a highlight reel, not a plan. The picks below mostly need one ability to connect.

Everything here is for fun first. Some of it holds up in ranked anyway, and we've said which.

Troll picks for the top lane

#1 · TOP

Singed

Fling [E]

Singed wins by refusing to play the lane. He proxies past your turret, farms waves nobody can see, and Noxious Slipstream [Passive] makes him faster every time he runs past you, so the chase you started is one you're already losing. Catch him anyway and Fling [E] throws you into his Mega Adhesive [W] to be rooted where you land. Ignore him and he takes your whole side of the map.

#2 · TOP

Sion

Glory in Death [Passive]

Sion gets a second life every fight, so the trade you thought you won isn't over. Glory in Death [Passive] brings him back swinging with life steal and damage scaling off your maximum health, which turns dying into something he spends on purpose. Take the fight you shouldn't and keep hitting after they've collected the kill. Our Hullbreaker Sion write-up has the split-push build.

#3 · TOP

Soraka

Astral Infusion [W]

Soraka top reads as a misclick in champion select and then refuses to die for the next twenty five minutes. Starcall [Q] heals her off anything it touches, so bruisers who can't kill her outright simply lose the lane to attrition. The part that costs the enemy team games comes later, when Astral Infusion [W] and a global Wish [R] start undoing ganks from the far side of the map. See top lane Soraka for the build.

#4 · TOP

Thresh

Damnation [Passive]

Thresh top turns a solo lane into a soul farm nobody contests, and every soul he picks up is permanent armor and ability power he keeps for the rest of the game. What actually ends the lane is that he decides where you stand: Flay [E] knocks you away from your turret rather than toward it, and Death Sentence [Q] drags you back the other way. Pair him with a jungler and your opponent never knows whether the engage is real or a bluff, which means they give up the wave either way. Our Thresh top write-up has the build.

Troll picks for the jungle

#5 · JUNGLE

Shaco

Jack In The Box [W]

Ability power Shaco is the reason people ban Shaco. Three Jack In The Box [W] in a river brush means the enemy jungler doesn't get a decision, just a fear and a death, and the boxes are untargetable until they spring. Hallucinate [R] does the rest: you drive the clone wherever you like and it drops three more boxes when it pops. We've run him at support in support Shaco, and there's a Shaco counters guide for when he's on the other team.

#6 · JUNGLE

Ivern

Friend of the Forest [Passive]

Ivern can't damage a jungle camp at all, so he takes yours instead. He plants a grove and walks away, comes back for the full gold without ever trading health for it, and Smite frees a grove no matter how far along it is. The enemy jungler spends the whole game arriving second to their own camps with nothing to fight over. Rootcaller [Q] then hands your team a free dash onto whoever it hits. Our old Ivern jungle report covers the serious version.

#7 · JUNGLE

Nunu & Willump

Consume [Q]

Nobody relaxes around an objective while a Nunu is alive. Consume [Q] deals true damage to monsters, so every dragon the enemy team starts is a coin flip they were forced to play, and a second Smite makes it worse. Biggest Snowball Ever! [W] is the punchline, because it grows the longer it rolls and knocks up whoever watched it coming for four seconds and stood there anyway. We've written him up out of the jungle too, in Nunu top.

#8 · JUNGLE

Garen

Judgment [E]

Garen brings nothing the jungle is supposed to need, no dash, no camp trick, no gank setup beyond running at you in a straight line, and he clears fine anyway because Judgment [E] is simply a lot of damage in a circle. What lifts him past a meme is what he leaves behind: six hits of Judgment [E] strips a quarter of your armor for your whole team to use, and Decisive Strike [Q] silences the mid laner who assumed a slow would let him walk away. See our Garen jungle guide for the clear path.

Troll picks for mid lane

#9 · MID

Heimerdinger

H-28 G Evolution Turret [Q]

Heimerdinger doesn't lane against you, his turrets do, and they never get tired or take a bad trade. Hextech Affinity [Passive] makes him faster than you anywhere near them, so the fortified position is also the one you have to walk into to do anything about it. Know before you pick him that his turrets deal half damage to towers, so this wins lanes rather than sieges them. Our old thoughts on Heimerdinger still read fine.

#10 · MID

Malphite

Unstoppable Force [R]

Full ability power Malphite is a meme build that deletes people. Unstoppable Force [R] carries a 90% ability power ratio, can't be stopped by crowd control once it's out, and knocks up everyone it lands on, so the rock who's meant to peel for your carry one-shots theirs instead. Granite Shield [Passive] usually covers the trip in. See AP Malphite mid.

#11 · MID

Sona

Crescendo [R]

Mid lane Sona works for the reason any support in a solo lane works: she pokes from a range that's awkward to punish, she heals through the answer, and the enemy laner didn't build for her. She's a coin flip in lane and a real problem afterwards, because Crescendo [R] is a team-wide stun the moment fights start. See AP Sona mid.

#12 · MID

Warwick

Blood Hunt [W]

Nothing here is as personal as a Warwick who has picked you. Blood Hunt [W] draws him a trail to anyone below half health anywhere on the map and speeds him up while he follows it, and mid is one river crossing from either side, so he arrives while the trail is still lit. Infinite Duress [R] suppresses, which tenacity doesn't shorten and Cleanse doesn't remove, so the answer is a Quicksilver Sash or there isn't one. Our Warwick mid guide covers the matchups.

Troll picks for support

#13 · SUPPORT

Teemo

Noxious Trap [R]

Support Teemo is the pick that makes people start typing. By ten minutes the river is a minefield that cost him nothing, and there's no engage to dodge or cooldown to bait, just health you lose to something you didn't see. Blinding Dart [Q] handles the other half, because the enemy ADC's entire plan was basic attacks. See support Teemo for runes and items, or the Teemo counters guide if you're the one suffering.

#14 · SUPPORT

Bard

Tempered Fate [R]

Bard is the only pick here that can troll both teams with the same button. Tempered Fate [R] freezes everything it touches for two and a half seconds and doesn't care whose it is, so it either wins the fight outright or rescues the enemy carry from your own engage. Magical Journey [E] is open to both sides too, which is how you hand the enemy jungler a lane entrance you built yourself. He's already on our list of trolling champions.

#15 · SUPPORT

Yorick

Dark Procession [W]

Support Yorick is a real pick and it's miserable to lane into. Dark Procession [W] walls the enemy in place while your team walks straight through it, so every all-in becomes a trade they aren't allowed to leave. It's fragile, one turret shot kills it, so use it on the engage rather than to hold ground. Later on the Maiden pushes a lane by herself while you go be a nuisance somewhere else. See support Yorick.

#16 · SUPPORT

Twitch

Ambush [Q]

A support who vanishes at level one and turns up in the enemy jungle isn't what anybody drafted against. Ambush [Q] hides him in the fog nobody's watching, and Deadly Venom [Passive] ticks true damage, so an item-less Twitch still frightens people who can't build against it. The reset is what makes the roaming pay: every champion who dies with the poison on them puts Ambush [Q] straight back off cooldown. Our AP Twitch support post has the build.

Looking for the duo or full team version?

Everything above is one champion doing something silly on their own. If you'd rather troll with a friend, the pairings live in a list of their own over at troll bot lane duos, which covers twelve combos that look like griefing and win anyway.

And if you can talk four friends into it, the whole-team version lives on our troll team comps page, which builds six full 5-man cheese lineups out of the same instinct.

Which of these troll picks is most annoying to face?

Fun to play and annoying to face aren't the same list. Of the sixteen above, these three are the ones worth muting yourself over.

Teemo. There's no engage to dodge and no cooldown to bait. You just lose health to a mushroom you didn't see, and then walk more carefully for the rest of the game, which is exactly what he wanted.
Shaco. The most toxic pick on the list, because the fear happens before you know he's there. Every brush becomes a decision, and getting it wrong costs a summoner spell at best.
Singed. He doesn't want the fight and he isn't going to give you one. He walks off with your wave, your camps and eventually your patience, and every time you chase him he gets faster.

That's only the troll picks, though. For the champions people find most annoying across the whole game, picked for their kits rather than for the joke, we keep a separate list of the most annoying champions in LoL.

Troll pick questions

Are troll picks actually viable?

Some of them, and that's the whole point of the list. A pick works when it attacks a resistance nobody bought, wins without needing a fight, or only asks one ability to land. Ivern and Sion aren't jokes at all once you know what they're doing. Anything that does none of those three things is griefing with extra steps, and your team can tell the difference.

Which troll pick is the most annoying to play against?

Teemo, and it isn't close. Mushrooms sit for five minutes, they're stealthed, and they reveal you when you step on one. Shaco is the runner-up for the same reason, except his version fears you first. Neither is the most annoying champion in the game overall, mind you, and we ranked that list separately.

Can you play these in ranked?

You can, and you'll get flamed for about half of them. The ones with a real plan behind them, meaning Sion, Ivern, Heimerdinger and Nunu, hold up fine. Save the pure meme picks for normals, and never first-pick one into a team that's already drafted around you.

What's the best troll pick for a beginner?

Heimerdinger. His turrets do the hard part, the lane pattern is simple, and he punishes exactly the mistakes new opponents make. Skip Bard until you're sure you know what stasis does to your own team.

What's the funniest pick in League of Legends?

Bard, because Tempered Fate [R] can lose the game for either team depending on where you put it, and Magical Journey [E] hands the enemy a free path through your own wall. No other champion gets to be that funny by accident.

The original 2011 list

Everything from here down is the list this page started as, back in 2011, and it's about trolling your own team rather than the enemy. A few of the tools it leans on don't exist anymore. Oracle's Elixir and pink wards are gone, replaced by the Oracle Lens trinket and Control Wards. Revive was removed as a summoner spell entirely, which retires the Karthus entry at the bottom. Elo became the LP ranked ladder. The champions and the abilities themselves are all still here, though, so most of what follows still works exactly as written. If you enjoy this era of the game, our League of Legends Classic FAQ covers the throwback mode built around it.

Champions to Troll Your Own Team

Anivia

Crystallize [W]

Her wall is definitely one of the most trollable moves in the game, since it blocks the terrain of allies and enemies alike. Here's a demonstration video

Trundle

Pillar of Ice [E]

Similar to Anivia, his pillar makes an impassable terrain that can block allied champions from getting to safety, making him a "Strong Troll" pick.