Top Team Comps #139: Bring Your Own Friends (Yorick & Zyra)

Why play 5v5 when you can play 5v14? Every champion on this team shows up with extra bodies, and none of them are picky about whose bodies those used to be.

Top Team Comps

Bring Your Own Friends

Yorick · Elise · Malzahar · Zyra · Annie

Why play 5v5 when you can play 5v14? Every champion on this team shows up with extra bodies, and none of them are picky about whose bodies those used to be.

Every champion here fields something that isn't a champion. Yorick's Shepherd of Souls [Passive] raises ghouls and Eulogy of the Isles [R] sends a Maiden to push a lane on her own, Elise drops spiderlings every time she changes form, Malzahar's Void Swarm [W] plants voidlings on top of a wave, Zyra grows plants out of the Rampant Growth [W] seeds she left on the ground a second ago, and Annie brings an actual bear. The enemy has to kill all of it before they get to kill any of you.

Team Composition Score Card

AOE DamageA

Crowd ControlB

Diving PowerC

Dueling PowerC

InitiationB

Poke PowerB

Pushing PowerS

SustainC

SynergyA

WaveclearS

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 – Yorick

Yorick is a one man siege. Shepherd of Souls [Passive] Mist Walkers tank tower shots and chew through anything he points them at, Dark Procession [W] fences a target in, and the Maiden from Eulogy of the Isles [R] pushes a side lane by herself while Yorick goes somewhere else entirely.

JNG

Jungle – Elise

Elise gets spiderlings for free every time Spider Form [R] swaps her over, which means she never really ganks alone. Rappel [E] keeps her out of trouble while the spiders keep doing damage, and Cocoon [E] in human form starts the fight from range.

MID

Mid Lane – Malzahar

Void Swarm [W] gives Malzahar voidlings on a cooldown short enough that he always has some, and Malefic Visions [E] spreads through a wave until the whole lane dies at once. That frees him up to roam while the voidlings keep pushing.

ADC

Bot Lane – Zyra

Zyra bot lane looks like a mistake right up until the seeds start paying off. Her Rampant Growth [W] plants add damage nobody accounted for, they soak abilities meant for her, and Stranglethorns [R] throws the entire enemy team into the air for the rest of the comp to clean up.

SUP

Support – Annie

Annie brings the single biggest pet in the game. Summon: Tibbers [R] arrives with a stun attached, keeps burning everything near him afterward, and stays on the field long enough to be a second body the enemy has to deal with while Annie keeps stacking Pyromania [Passive].

Key Concepts

• Your summons soak turret shots and enemy abilities that would otherwise land on a champion. Send them in first every single time.
• Pushing is the win condition. This comp shoves every lane for free, so pick up towers while the enemy tries to work out which wave is the real threat.
• The enemy's answer is one big area of effect ability. Make them spend it on the pets, then start the fight while it's on cooldown.
• Malefic Visions [E] clears a wave on its own, which means he should almost never be standing in mid lane when a fight breaks out somewhere else.

Countering

Beating this team means killing things that don't matter as fast as they show up. Bring area damage in every role, clear the summons out, and then focus the champions who made them.

Here's an example team that may succeed:

TOP

Top – Kennen

Clears waves and pets from range, and Slicing Maelstrom [R] hits everything at once.

JNG

Jungle – Amumu

Area damage on a short cooldown, and Curse of the Sad Mummy [R] catches the whole group behind their own summons.

MID

Mid – Ziggs

Deletes waves, plants, voidlings, and ghouls faster than they can be replaced.

ADC

Marksman – Miss Fortune

Bullet Time [R] melts every summon on the screen and the champions standing behind them.

SUP

Support – Vel'Koz

Lines of area damage punish a team that always fights inside a crowd.

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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