Top Team Comps #138: No Tall People Allowed (Gnar & Lulu)

Five yordles. No adults. The enemy team spends twenty minutes trying to click on something and then loses to a very small guy with a boomerang.

Top Team Comps

No Tall People Allowed

Gnar · Poppy · Corki · Tristana · Lulu

Five yordles. No adults. The enemy team spends twenty minutes trying to click on something and then loses to a very small guy with a boomerang.

Weirdly, the joke works in game too, because yordles share a kit shape. Every champion here has a built in escape or reposition, and none of them want to stand still. Gnar bounces, Poppy hops, Corki flies, Tristana jumps, and Lulu's skills makes any of them nearly unkillable while she’s around. You win by chipping the enemy down from range and leaving before they get to answer.

Team Composition Score Card

AOE DamageB

Crowd ControlB

Diving PowerC

Dueling PowerB

InitiationC

Poke PowerS

Pushing PowerA

SustainC

SynergyA

WaveclearA

Difficulty

Power Curve

Early GameB

Mid GameA

Late GameA

Super Late GameB

SAmazing AGood BAverage CBelow Average FBad

Check out how to play it below!

Champions

TOP

Top Lane – Gnar

Mini Gnar throws Boomerang Throw [Q] from a range nobody can punish and uses Hop [E] to leave from anything that gets close. Mega Gnar is a bit less subtle. He's the other half of the comp's entire engage, and GNAR! [R] into a wall is usually where the fight gets decided.

JNG

Jungle – Poppy

Poppy in the jungle gives this team the one thing small ranged champions normally lack, which is a defense against being jumped on. Steadfast Presence [W] stops dashes outright, and Keeper's Verdict [R] removes whoever survives it.

MID

Mid Lane – Corki

Corki is the closest thing here to an adult, which mostly means he owns a plane (and the mustache). The true damage on every auto attack from Hextech Munitions [Passive] fixes the comp's problem with tanks, and his ranged poke gives the team a caster replacement.

ADC

Bot Lane – Tristana

Tristana takes towers faster than the enemy takes fights. Rocket Jump [W] resets on a takedown so she can jump in and leave again, and Buster Shot [R] doubles as a peel button when something finally reaches her.

SUP

Support – Lulu

Lulu makes a squishy team stop being squishy at exactly the right moment. Whimsy [W] turns off whoever dove in, Wild Growth [R] buys a carry a full extra health bar, and Help, Pix! [E] adds shields on top of all the chip damage.

Key Concepts

• You have exactly two engage buttons, and they both belong to a yordle in the top half of the map. If GNAR! [R] and Keeper's Verdict [R] are both down, don't start the fight.
• Steadfast Presence [W] is half your defense against champions who jump on you. Keep her near the carries (the solo picks in the enemy jungle can wait).
• Track the Package. Corki's delivery is a real teamfight cooldown, and the enemy won't expect it to arrive from behind them.
• Every champion here can leave a fight they're losing, so take fights you can walk away from and refuse the ones you can't.

Countering

You beat this comp by being bigger and by hitting things that can't run. Bring point and click crowd control, a hook, and champions who don't care about chip damage, then force the fight where none of them have room to hop.

Here's an example team that may succeed:

TOP

Top – Sion

Chip damage doesn't kill him and he never has to aim, so the yordles have nothing to work with.

JNG

Jungle – Warwick

Chases anything that tries to leave, and Infinite Duress [R] isn't a skillshot they can hop out of.

MID

Mid – Orianna

Command: Shockwave [R] zones the entire group and punishes five champions who like to cluster at range.

ADC

Marksman – Varus

Out ranges the poke and chains the whole team together with Chain of Corruption [R].

SUP

Support – Blitzcrank

One Rocket Grab [Q] removes a yordle from the game before the fight starts.

What do you think about this team composition? Got ways to improve on it? Better ways to beat it? Comment below!

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