Archive post, November 2012. The counterplay this comp is designed to punish doesn't exist any more, which takes the plan with it. Oracle's Elixir left Summoner's Rift, and the pink ward went with it. Their jobs now belong to the Control Ward at 75 gold and the Oracle Lens trinket, which every player carries for nothing. The whole strategy here turns on bleeding the enemy dry buying vision, and vision stopped being expensive. Enjoy it as a Season 2 curiosity.
| SUGGESTED LINEUP Top: Rengar Mid: Akali AD Carry: Twitch Support: Alistar Jungle: Evelynn | ADVANTAGES:
- Enemy team is cocky
- Can win hard against lower skilled players - If one person snowballs it can quickly escalate - Can force enemies to waste gold | DISADVANTAGES: - One trick pony - Needs to snowball hard - Doesn't work well on higher skilled players - May be heavily AP depending on builds |
Also, the team itself is once again fairly squishy; however with a tank like Alistar as support you can use him as bait while the rest of your team cautiously places themselves in strategic locations.
STRATEGY:
The strategy to this team is simple: walk around invisible and kill champions. The enemy team will buy oracles and pink wards - kill the wards, kill the champions. If you succeed once or twice, it will place the enemy team sufficiently behind through all their pink purchases to give you enough of a gold advantage to win.
This team is also based on the psychological factor. The enemy team should be so busy typing "MIA" and yelling at each other that CSing and ganking will be a breeze. However, be sure not to get baited by pink wards. If you get counter-ganked, it could put a heavy damper on your plans.
COUNTER-STRATEGY:
This team is more difficult to counter than it seems; in order to win, continuously put pressure on bot lane. While Alistar does have disengagement methods, once Twitch uses up his invisibility it becomes very difficult for him to escape death 2v3. Top lane should ward up and play passively, whereas mid-lane should try and pressure Akali pre-6 and then cry in a corner if you haven't built up a decent lead as she dashes around killing you and all your friends.
The key is to (despite popular advice) NOT buy pink wards too early since it will set you behind in items. The exception is of course if you have a very strong mid range like Zyra, who can afford a pink ward while zoning Akali and staying ahead in total gold.
Naturally, once the game starts progressing, and oracle is a MUST; however if you buy one too early it's relatively easy for this group of assassins to jump on you and kill you, setting you back another 400g.
Group up and watch out for zombies!
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The strategy to this team is simple: walk around invisible and kill champions. The enemy team will buy oracles and pink wards - kill the wards, kill the champions. If you succeed once or twice, it will place the enemy team sufficiently behind through all their pink purchases to give you enough of a gold advantage to win.
This team is also based on the psychological factor. The enemy team should be so busy typing "MIA" and yelling at each other that CSing and ganking will be a breeze. However, be sure not to get baited by pink wards. If you get counter-ganked, it could put a heavy damper on your plans.
COUNTER-STRATEGY:
This team is more difficult to counter than it seems; in order to win, continuously put pressure on bot lane. While Alistar does have disengagement methods, once Twitch uses up his invisibility it becomes very difficult for him to escape death 2v3. Top lane should ward up and play passively, whereas mid-lane should try and pressure Akali pre-6 and then cry in a corner if you haven't built up a decent lead as she dashes around killing you and all your friends.
The key is to (despite popular advice) NOT buy pink wards too early since it will set you behind in items. The exception is of course if you have a very strong mid range like Zyra, who can afford a pink ward while zoning Akali and staying ahead in total gold.
Naturally, once the game starts progressing, and oracle is a MUST; however if you buy one too early it's relatively easy for this group of assassins to jump on you and kill you, setting you back another 400g.
Group up and watch out for zombies!
Got more ideas for team compositions? Ways to improve on this one? Post them below in the comment section!
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Love it!, but instead of Twitch I'll change to Vayne. Dat ult!
ReplyDeleteOracles = you're fuucked. lolol
ReplyDeleteOracles has been nerfed to a 5 minute timer
ReplyDeletepink wards ples
ReplyDelete