Top Team Comps #146: Blind Pick Special (Ezreal & Thresh)

Five champions you can lock in first without checking what the other team has. No lane on this roster loses in champion select, and that's what it's built for.

Top Team Comps

Blind Pick Special

Ornn · Warwick · Orianna · Ezreal · Thresh

Most drafts are built around a thing they do. This one is built around a thing that doesn't happen to it. Nobody here gets counterpicked, nobody here has a lane they simply lose before minions spawn, and nobody here needs the enemy to draft badly.

The thread is safety, and it costs something real. Every champion on this roster is a generalist with a wide matchup spread and a low floor of bad games, which means the team gives up the ceiling a specialist would have given it. You will not open a game already winning because of a counterpick. You will also never open one already losing, and across a long climb that trade is usually the better one.

Team Composition Score Card

AOE DamageB

Crowd ControlA

Diving PowerC

Dueling PowerB

InitiationA

Poke PowerA

Pushing PowerB

SustainB

SynergyA

WaveclearA

Difficulty

Power Curve

Early GameB

Mid GameA

Late GameA

Super Late GameA

SAmazing AGood BAverage CBelow Average FBad

Check out how to play it below!

Champions

TOP

Top Lane – Ornn

Top lane is where blind picking usually goes wrong, because the matchups there are the most lopsided in the game. Ornn answers that by not really having a losing one. He gets bullied by plenty of champions and killed by almost none of them, he never has to leave the wave to be useful, and he arrives at every teamfight with something the enemy has to respect from a screen away.

JNG

Jungle – Warwick

He clears healthily, he ganks without needing setup, and Infinite Duress [R] is a fight starter that works whether the game is going well or badly. That last part matters more than it sounds. Most junglers have a version of the game where they are useless, and his is just a slightly slower version of the same game.

MID

Mid Lane – Orianna

Orianna is the closest thing the mid lane has to a champion with no bad matchups. She clears the wave, she never has to walk forward to farm, and she is one of about three mid laners who can lose a lane badly and still decide the teamfight forty minutes later. Command: Shockwave [R] is also the piece that turns this comp from five safe picks into an actual plan, since it gives a roster with no dive threat a way to start a fight on purpose.

ADC

Bot Lane – Ezreal

The marksman who does not have to stand still. Arcane Shift [E] is why he can be locked in against anything, including the engage supports that make every other bot laner check the enemy's picks first. The tradeoff is honest: he does less damage than the marksmen who commit, and this comp accepts that because it would rather have a bot lane that never gets deleted.

SUP

Support – Thresh

Thresh does every job a support can be asked to do, which is exactly what you want when you locked in before knowing which job that would be. He engages, he peels, he saves someone who walked too far forward, and none of it depends on his lane partner being a particular kind of champion.

Key Concepts

• This is a draft for a solo queue climb, not for a tournament. When you know the enemy picks, giving up counterpick value is a real loss. When you do not, the same five champions are quietly the best expected outcome available.
• The comp has no early game plan, and that is fine as long as nobody invents one. Every member is stronger at twenty minutes than at eight, so farm the lane you were given and let the map come to you.
• Somebody still has to start fights. Safety and passivity are not the same thing, and a version of this team that waits for the enemy to make a mistake will be waiting when the enemy takes their fourth dragon.
• Objectives are the win condition. Nobody here wins by catching people out, so the game is decided by which team is standing on the pit when the timer hits zero. Set up two minutes early, every time.
• The one real weakness is a hard split pusher. Nothing on this roster beats a fed duelist alone in a side lane, so the answer has to be taking two objectives while they take one tower, rather than sending someone to lose a duel.

Countering

Generalists lose to specialists who got the matchup they wanted. That is the whole counter, and it is available to anyone who is picking second. Take the champions with the narrowest, sharpest strengths, aim them at the lane they beat, and accept the games where it does not work, because the games where it does are over by twenty minutes.

Here is an example team that may succeed:

TOP

Top – Camille

She is the split pusher this comp has no answer to, and The Hextech Ultimatum [R] removes the one champion it was relying on to teamfight.

JNG

Jungle – Kha'Zix

A team that farms safely for twenty minutes spends a lot of that time alone in a side lane, which is the only condition he needs.

MID

Mid – Zed

Orianna is safe against almost everything and not against him. Winning that lane takes the comp's only real fight starter off the map.

ADC

Marksman – Draven

The purest specialist in the game, and a bot lane built to survive rather than to win is the matchup he was designed to punish.

SUP

Support – Blitzcrank

Safety assumes the fight is fair. Rocket Grab [Q] makes one every couple of minutes that is not, and this comp has no way to punish him for missing.

Blind picking well starts with knowing what you are looking at, which is what our champion select reading guide is for.

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