10 GOD TIER champions for LOW ELO for solo queue - League of Legends

[@Snapslol]

6:07 , so why is wukong ulting at level 1? visual bugs op

[@wargamez964]

XD

[@nipurr234]

+TenCrush it was 7

[@kolsenford3505]

+TenCrush i just know he leveled up to 8...I think a sej kill is worth 7 levels of exp XD

[@jertilolah9663]

+TenCrush I was also wondering xD

[@parkerrogers1340]

Yah I was like wtf

[@mocabe01]

1. Yi 2. Vollibear 3. Ahri 4. Annie 5. Ms. Fortune 6. Twitch 7. WuKong 8. Garen 9. Zyra 10. Soraka

[@jagabaga9106]

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[@speaver6276]

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[@NoblesseOblige-17]

5:54 If he can use ultimate when LVL 1 then he is definitely underrated.

[@ThePhylol]

Remember to leave your best picks to be featured in my next videos!

[@ThatEpicOne1]

Thanks for all the videos man!

[@ThePhylol]

+SpyciHD I already have! Search tilt on my channel. :)

[@ctonic2031]

+Phylol What is your honest opinion on udyr in the lower elo, and is he worth taking over yi or voli?

[@HowToMolly]

Oh ok ! It's my time to shine then ! I'm currently in D1 on TR and EUW. I used to climb with Jax + Irelia + Shen. Shen got a pretty hard slam and now nearly unplayable. Irelia needs some time to practice and for Jax... I mean he's ok ? In this meta it'll be best for "off tanks" or as Riot says "Juggernauts" to carry a game. I can't think of any other champion who can like headslam into the enemy team. Feel free to make criticism +Phylol

[@TheRotomFan]

+Phylol Naut is very strong, so much cc and tankiness

[@Alxbeginner]

1. Master Yi 2. Volibear 3. Ahri 4. Annie 5. Miss Fortune 6. Twitch 7. Wukong 8. Garen 9. Zyra 10. Soraka Thanks Phy!

[@CrazyCatMan13]

NAUTILUS! Come at me? Stun. Run away? Slow. Engage? Lol, Depth Charge. Also, watch me do top 3 damage with just tank items.

[@MARVELousNBA]

Snare*

[@TheNakriin]

+Peter Schipper tru, what do u build on him(main items)? I build RoA, Iceborn and Spirit visage (having 10%CDR@lvl18 in runes) and if i want some fun, i build titanic hydra or Liandry's :P Havnt lost a game on him this year yet.

[@CrazyCatMan13]

+TheNakriin i usually build Sunfire, Iceborn/Visage (depending on matchup), and then other tank items. I tend to avoid any damage items and ROA as he doesn't scale that well with AP. In theory it's fine, but he's can get so darn tanky and his base damages are fine with tank items.

[@yourbossgames]

+TheNakriin what is your IGN?

[@TheNakriin]

Yourbossgames i guess IGN means InGameName (ive never read hat until now^^) and in that case: Poro TheNakriin, why?

[@jordangreen4527]

I really like it when youtubers come out with videos that go over what champs are good in low elo because most people are in low elo and other videos that go over champs that are only good at high level aren't relative to most of us. Please come out with more :)

[@danielmarks5172]

on annie dont you think it is a bit too slow for a pure burst champion to build roa?

[@ThePhylol]

+Daniel Marks you trade early lane for better mid - late game. At lower elo I think that's probably better, plus if you don't you have no sustain and are very low health

[@xTrev]

+Pseudonym That's not even what he said...

[@TheSantifive]

+Daniel Marks The point of a RoA is to either boost a champion stats, which helps low mobility champions: If you have a huge hp pool you don't really need mobility since you won't get killed at least in the mid game and you'll get a chance to react to assassins. As Annie, this means they won't be able to burst you and you will be locking said assassin in place with your passive just long enough to burst them down.

[@dangerpr0ne]

+Daniel Marks Annie's early burst is good enough that you can affort to build for a better mid-late.

[@TahaMVP]

+Phylol Dude ur only dia in NA and ur talking about stuff like you were challenger in euw or something , building ROA is not good at any elo with annie. especialy in low elo you can just oneshot them with rushing ludens or rylai for some defensive stats

[@williamlangdon2511]

Hey Phy, I was just wondering why you didn't recommend QSS on either of the ADC's mentioned here in the builds. Is it not a good item for low elo, or just not good in general compared to other items?

[@TheGamesHitman]

Jungle - Master Yi Volibear Mid - Ahri Annie ADC - Miss Fortune Twitch Top - Wukong Garen Support - Zyra Soraka You are welcome

[@CreativeAvenueKai]

I'm currently Wood/Bronze II and I've found myself carrying games with Nautilus, Kayle, and Udyr. Udyr: good counter for the really common low-elo jungle picks (Xin Zhao and Lee Sin) and he deals tons of damage with just an Iceborn Gauntlet and the Runic Echoes item. Kayle: Hybrid damage. Also a flexible pick that can go jungle, mid, or top lane. Nautilus: With Nautilus, you really don't need to build damage items to make a huge impact. If you're tanky enough and just sit there spamming your Depth Charge, you'll outlast most team fights and hopefully help your backline clean up.

[@pizzapizza6322]

Have we forgotten Bronzodia? Amumu, Cho' Gath, Shen, Blitzcrank, and Malphite are all insanely good at low elo

[@SasNolan]

Blitz is banned a lot aswell, but yes, easy pick. Tho u DO need to know ho to play him properly.

[@benr1510]

Please analyse Udyr after the nerf. Do you still think AP Udyr is viable? Is udyr viable overall now?

[@onoderabestgirl8093]

phy, can you respond and maken my day? and i love playing jax top, yasuo and zed mid and yasuo adc

[@ThePhylol]

+Λαμπρος Κατσιμαρδος hey!

[@onoderabestgirl8093]

+Phylol MOM GET THE CAMERAAAA. aaand thats why i subscribed to you buddy. keep up your great work. :)

[@lukavrdoljak5151]

+Λαμπρος Κατσιμαρδος What a fanboy

[@hirenpatel2966]

+Λαμπρος Κατσιμαρδος ahha

[@hirenpatel2966]

+Phylol nice gesture on your behalf :)

[@nintendofan1625]

I have had a lot of success with Zyra in the mid lane. She is really underrated and people dont know how to play vs her. She has decent CC and insane damage with her plants. She also has quite some burst. Her ult in teamfights wrecks people and Zyra is still useful even if shes behind.

[@aaronsung6208]

darius/garen i think is the greatest low elo champion. they can be kited at teamfight, but most low elo ppl dont know how to counter them and underestimate them.

[@tommmmy1138]

Best champ for low elo: Xin Zhao.

[@dovacody3512]

most low elo players dont know how to kite

[@Junezor]

Hi @phylol whats the diff of quickcast with range indicated checked or turned on compared to unchecked? thank you..

[@Ch1l1C0nCarnag3]

Best Volibear Build. Swiftness Boots Spirit Visage 4x Warmogs

[@munz4569]

What do you think about kata? With the perfect team comp you can carry fights very easy no?

[@Ryan-fh9fh]

How is yorick not on here

[@joshuatorres7328]

Ikr

[@harrisonhatton6985]

They will make splendid corpses.

[@uzernam303]

because you guys are 3 of the maybe 7 people that play him. lol

[@quadcorestein1720]

+Neenjah Rammus 4 :D

[@martospideraspidera6645]

Neenjah Rammus that shit changed when they reworked him

[@madhatter2825]

on master yi, do you not get boots on him? cuz you show six items if you do build boots on him, do you recommend swiftness or berserker's?

[@WeedleTwineedle]

I'm so happy zyra is in this list, I went from Bronze III to gold II this season by maining her and dominating with her as support and mid if the match up isn't bad, my experience on the champion, and people's inexperience playing against her combined makes her very strong against most people. I just dislike her in this meta because of all the assassins.

[@whatever56567]

+WeedleTwineedle I agree, she's really underrated by alot of players. My only gripe with her is her passive. Trying to hit someone with a medium speed skillshot that delays for 1 second before firing, and takes 2 seconds before its ready to actually shoot is so frustrating, especially because with zyra people that kill you tend to get pretty messed up in the process. . Enemy is usually long gone by the time I can even use it.

[@WeedleTwineedle]

I hate her passive it's awful and it has only secured like 2 kills in all my LoL games as her. Riot needs to rework her passive into something better. Maybe a mini xerath ulti or a point click root Idk something that isn't an inferior kog passive.

[@whatever56567]

+WeedleTwineedle yeah zyra is supposed to be in the mid-year Mage update and I'm like 100% sure they're changing or buffing her passive. I know they're not leaving it the way it is, I pretty sure I saw a red post commenting on it. I don't hate it as a concept, but it's pretty useless the way it is currently.

[@WeedleTwineedle]

I am hoping they just rework it, because as good as AOE true damage is, having to die for it and have it as a delayed difficult skinny skillshot is just bad.

[@whatever56567]

+WeedleTwineedle I agree. Plus, there are already enough champions that have a death oriented passive and zyra is one that I feel thematically as well as practically it doesn't fit. Would much rather her gain extra abilities/upgrades for her plants after meeting certain criteria. Her mid game can be pretty weak and it'd be a stepping stone for until she grabs her money makers (IMO), liandries and rylais.

[@showmanshipgaming1326]

Plz stop telling people about my Zyra. I don't need people to start playing her and then Rito nerf her any further. :(

[@WeedleTwineedle]

+Showmanship Gaming Zyra is love, zyra is life. Riot needs to rework her useless passive though

[@choongren5836]

when do you take natural talent over the lifesteal/spellvamp mastery?

[@clayness9059]

I'm in bronze, I play Caitlyn and jinx and DESTROY

[@Peter-ft9fs]

Then why are you still in Bronze if you're ''Destroying''

[@lejionarulsef6009]

+Hi im Primo lmao

[@crownses7481]

Clay Ness noob champ player

[@crownses7481]

Clay Ness i always destroy but my team feed too hard like always

[@TheHipPro]

and you're still in bronze

[@vorrakedryom6547]

Getting back to the tier list Phy gives us : - Would you recommend Ashe or Caitlyn (or even Vayne) rather than Twitch ? explanations for Vayne : games at low elo are often long enough for you to free farm and get back into the game even if you had a rough lane. You can even hope for getting a lead during lane because of level 2 powerspike not executed correctly by the enemy botlane or if they take bad trades. - I disagree on Ahri. She has a decent laning phase, she can escape most ganks alive, but she needs to expose herself (and is skillshot reliant) to be able to kill someone, and thus needs some more practice than an Annie or Malz (or even Talon) who could just press all buttons at the right time and have a free kill, with no possibility for the opponent to escape. - What about Leona support ? Her CC potential and the damage she dishes out are enormous for early trades on botlane, she might be a rightful pick for low elo.

[@fleshseat9532]

Trundle top or jg, but I've been losing a bit lately, did he get a nerf any time recently?

[@shadowmetroid18]

I've been complimented on my Lux game on a few occasions. Lux has been my golden girl for a long time now, and now that i'm building her properly, I'm finding so much success on her. Use your E to simultaneously farm and make sure your opponent's can't safely get near minions. Proc your passive every opportunity and Lux can bully other champions surprisingly well.

[@CoDLover7771]

Thank you for doing this Phy!

[@bobi8778]

when do you stream on twitch Phylol ?

[@davipereira827]

Realy good channel,this is the first video i saw and i want too see the others Good job for the channel, continue the good work!

[@PerculesMr]

I so very much love your videos, i climbed in gold by myself but i think that with getting some more knowledge form your videos might help me get to platinum. I have a question. Where do you come from, when did you start youtubing and if you stream on twitch too? With friendly regards, Vasja aka Water Kangaroo

[@driftnick7022]

My best pick is Syndra, I absolutely adore her. Syndra's just so well rounded, she has 3-second poke, a powerful ultimate that just keeps getting stronger the better you are with her (as in, the more Spheres you lay down before using the ult, the more damage it does) and high all-in potential. She's a bit tricky to learn, but once you get the hang of how her abilities interact with one another she's pretty rewarding.

[@CoolSiroo]

+Phylol What do you think of eve in Season 6, long time ago u made a video about her.

[@ThePfeif25]

I've actually found Karma support to be a very strong viable pick. If the team consists of 2 or more dive heavy champs, you let your team engage, then combo your R+E and a Locket and your primary target can receive around 900-1100 shield and roughly 20 in each resistance. The other allies around the primary target receive about 700 shield and the same resistances. Your lane phase goes pretty smoothly between poke and speeding up allies to avoid ganks. Overall, Karma performs 2 specific roles, early game poke heavy support and mid/late game teamfight monster. I've had a lot of games where the enemy team tries to pick me off and dive through my team, just because I'm capable of keeping my allies alive much longer than they should be.

[@Joshua01CSW]

phylol wat do u think about jinx???

[@umarrii]

I think it's worth mentioning that a Zyra Support can go full AP because of how much gold she generates in games. Her Q+W+Auto attack combo will instantly proc all 3 spellthiefs stacks and also thunderlords, giving you big money and bigger damage. Zyra is the highest gold earning support of all supports and on average will almost earn as much as your jungle. I noticed you mentioned about getting a Sightstone too. Honestly though, in low elo, you're better off without one. There are no point of wards when no one will use them, so forego the sightstone. If you get caught when roaming the map, you can just one shot anyone. The drawback to this is that once you climb high elo where wards are relevant again, you won't have a clue what to do. My pick for the Top Lane has got to go to Trundle. He has it all, damage, sustain, tankiness. You can win lane with ease, you can survive lane with ease, Trundle does what he want. People underestimate the damage Trundle can do and tanks underestimate the power of Trundle's ultimate. He makes wins easy. This is the champion I used to learn Top lane and Jungle after I started playing mid-late season 5 and was a Taric Support main. Trundle was given to me as a free myself champion when I linked my Facebook with my account so he was truly bestowed as a blessing upon me :') Zyra was my other champion who helped unlocked my ability as a Support :)

[@beataornowska3186]

Im playing Fizz, Zed, Talon, Veigar, Darius, Renekton, Malphite, Lee Sin, Amumu, Alistar, Morgana, Nautilus, And hardly ever adc as Ezreal or Twitch. Is they are good too?

[@supernieva2419]

sir wats ur opinion on ramus is he good on low elo like gold

[@LordShpinaq]

+Phylol Your thoughts on jungle Pantheon?

[@vorrakedryom6547]

Hey there, Recently, I was playing as Cait with a Thresh vs Ashe + Zyra on botlane. The Ashe was having free farm while I took all of Zyra's harass and had no way to fight back. She dealt so much damage, I could hardly reach my CS and farm, so obviously I couldn't push away the lane or poke. When Thresh grabbed Zyra, we ended up killing her but gave away 2 kills. Some tips on how to play against her ?

[@GameplaysVGames]

Is wukong good at midlane? Is titanic hydra good for wukong?

[@DomagojSavordh]

Thanks for the video, Phy, always interesting to listen you even that you talk about bricks in the wall. But for people in low elo who're actually promising and want climb it's simple. Main hard snowball champ like Talon, Diana, Pantheon and get fed. If you know exactly what you're doing you can carry games alone. Of course you will lose a lot of games but you won't be depend on luck who far your 4 allies will carry or feed. You take Talon, take tiamat, clear wave, roam (bot most likely)get a kill, buy, take blue buff for mana, kill adc again and again (let's say you won your lane so our mid> their mid, if they're winning bot, we have advantage because Talon- ban of the adc's. (who cares if top is losing, your jungler will have more time for that if you take care of bot). So they will be focused on you all the time, split push, 2 people will come, run (if you don't wanna risk because your team on the other side is released from 2 enemies and can take objectives and/or towers and you're faster due boots and/or ult if you must, they will never catch you. Most of mid buys sorc boots but you're buying mobies or swiftness, you're much faster, use the very best of that). Maybe you don't have cc but you orchestre the game and with good decisions you will really feel like you reached gold wihtout only playing easy or forgiving champions. When I was in silver I don't know did I ever see good Ahri or Annie. Ahri is so predictable and non knew that I beat her hard with my other main- Vladimir. It never happened that she baited my pool with charm, only other way around. I don't even wanna talk about Annies or Yi's, I'll ony say their decisions are very questionable and whole teams goes mental because of that. And play what you like. I never started to play Talon because I saw that as opportunity than because I love that playstyle. If you don't like that playstile then you surely won't like to main that champion. I could never imagine myself (thank God) playing Annie, Yi (couple of others but let's not be that toxic right now), even that I know how tomorrow I'll be platinum if I play with them. Only because they're forgiving and easy to play doesn't mean people will actually climb in elo or improve game knowledge. When you're good with some high risk, high reward champ you'll always be better than that annie or yi players, in game and in elo.

[@reynerbernardo5802]

I guess it's blitzcrank. I'm also trying out Annie support, any tips?

[@squidsquad7394]

+Reyner Bernardo hybrid pen reds, health yellow, the rest straight up AP. Auto attack/ Q the crap out of ppl and when they're low health/ used up pots, stun burst em down with ignite= easy lane :P

[@ivecookies]

Does sated devourer on Volibear work?

[@derrack1]

i'm having great luck with Elise, the early game pressure really helps in a game where communication is quite limited, though i am having trouble closing the game out more often than i would like

[@joshw7848]

My fav champ to carry up into plat is Zac, low elo players can't outward his gank path and they don't know to watch for his shadow. Runic echoes and thunderlords give him a surprising amount of early dmg while he can still build tanky right after that. He feels like gragas but tankier with better gank paths and a free death. Love him

[@bengiesey7523]

I love Tahm support. I have played alot of games in silver, and Tahm is awesome for a few reasons. Even after back-to-back nerfs, he offers quite a lot of damage from his q, w, and ult passive. One of the biggest problems with low elo adcs is bad positioning; Tahm can remedy this by just eating them when they get engaged on. He is also fairly easy and fun to play and learn.

[@Hypersugar]

What about Vladimir in both mid and toplane?

[@perman07]

+Hypersugar Vlad loses against so many traditional mid laners though, his range is quite pathetic. Only way to do well with him is have a decent laning phase and carry after lvl 9, insanely dependant upon snowballing.

[@bronzepixelsd4945]

Y did wu have ult at level 1 5:58??

[@autisticsheep4364]

7:29 is 0/26/6 alright?

[@vilenrique]

the build on twitch is on order ? :)

[@sapphirepanda773]

Thank you very much phy for this uploading streak, now waiting everyday for your video !

[@v4l4444]

Caitlyn and Tristana are my go to picks for ADC because I believe that siege ADCs are the easiest at carrying your team. Mostly due to the objective control, and how the enemy team in lower elo won't react as fast as they need to to your team taking one of their towers, or sometimes their pathing on the way to an objective can be poor, which can easily result in a pick for your team.

[@BBVictini1]

I like ap teemo with rageblade. It is a pretty good way to pick people off after a team fight, or simply to utilize his stealth to go ham on someone while they group up.

[@ramtamargo]

how about janna? she can disengage easily which can be hard to deal with for low elos. she can also prevent her adc from fully messing up the fights.

[@krimrodin]

I've been playing for years...I always loved pantheon, but I felt always behind against similar role champs. In last season I just stopped playing him. I would like to get some tips to start playing him again on rankeds..but right now, I'm not confident enough. Now my golden egg is Fizz. I play him on Mid and on Jungle as well. And even when I'm hard behind, if I get enough gold, I can turn the tide of so many "lost" matches. On the other hand, when you get fed, it's like a 20-25min win.

[@CryMoarZ]

Volibear, Even tho my rengar profile I think he is kinda weak atm. Not sure I would like your opinion Phylol.

[@LowLightOI]

6:03 ult at level 1?

[@vinnyz9540]

What do you think about Nasus Top ?

[@mikerule1134]

+Phylol why would you go those masteries on wukong? Esspecially Sorcery and Natural talent.

[@KNMinecraft]

Top - Nasus/ Gnar Jungle - Udyr (Q) Mid - Ahri/Zed ADC - Lucian - My main, won like 10 from the last 13 games or something like that Supp - Tresh

[@trustmeImadoc91]

Kindred feels really good to me at the moment. Deals with tanks well, deals with assassins well, and great at early aggression. Climbed several divisions with her and am sitting at a 60% win rate. She has a tough time against bruisers, and champs with an excess of cc, especially knockups or displacements. Top lane she seems to be a pretty good pick against garen, jungle wise I pretty much play her unless the enemy picks elise or nidalee.

[@rokturi]

What is the song in the background?

[@NuggetForLife28]

I discovered a couple of months ago that Lucian is the only champion i can play really well. He has the perfect combination of face - rolling laning phase and snow balling into huge map pressure, but still with very good damage mid - late too carry home the victory. 9/10 games with him I get fed. If I get stuck with another champion I end up with negative kda 50% of the time :p

[@ilaibitan2181]

4:40 why renekton is lvl 1?

[@jamesye3964]

he went down mid and feed so he was lv1

[@jamesye3964]

hehe xd

[@mansoorahmad3739]

Sivir is probably my best pick. Ok, maybe takes a couple of games, so try it out in normals, since she plays slightly differently to other adcs (you know, with other adc champs, it's a good idea to not get hit by the Blitz hook). But honestly, if you can get ahead in lane phase, then you can carry since her AoE damage is insane, and she can teamfight whenever she wants. If your team gets behind, you can stall with the superior waveclear, and peel with ult, or engage when you have a numbers advantage. The best thing is, you only require one person on your team to be fed, you can speed everyone up, let the others engage them, and the fed ember then clean up. I recently played a game, where it seemed we were about to lose a lategame teamfight (I doubt we would've lost, since they still had quite a lot of towers to get, and we were pushing all 3 lanes) after I engaged with ult. I was the fed member, but the other team had to deal with 4 members running at them, then I destroyed them after waiting for a couple of key spells with my AoE, got a quadra kill, then proceeded to win the game with the long death timers. Also, her ability to clear waves means you can always keep high on cs, even if you don't get fed, you'll get items, plus it means that you can keep pressure even if your team is losing, by pushing the waves, which you'll probably be allowed to do in low elo.

[@ponsoke]

If by best picks, you mean the ones we are best at, then I pick Anivia. Most of the people I play against don't really expect the passive, so they figure of they can trade 1 kill for 1 kill, they'll be ahead because Anivia is a late game champion. They rush in and after the trading, we both lose all our health, except I don't die due to passive, so I get a free kill and then just play really passively until I get my passive back. If you mean recommendations for other players, then disregard everything I just said because while what I said is true, I've played Anivia for quite a while and have gotten good at landing her stuns. If you miss even a single stun early game, you won't be allowed to CS for about 6 or 7 seconds while waiting for it to get off cool down. Plus, the style I described is a really aggressive style that only actually works if you can consistently land stuns and then your e to poke your opponent out of the lane. If you can't do that, then you won't do well on Anivia. Now, I would recommend other players try playing Malzahar. I haven't played a lot of him, but I've played against him a fair bit and he is really annoying to play against especially in low elos because in low elos, when he ults, pretty much none of your teammates will cc him unless by accident when attacking other members. He outputs really high damage, and during laning phase, he essentially gets free ults because you can't cc him if you're ulted, so you basically have to rely on your jungle to cc him but at low elos, that probably won't happen.

[@sukirai3238]

It's 4:40 AM in Romania so i should go to sleep but OH Phy posted!

[@BasilBeefcake]

Ekko. Has an amazing aoe stun that low elo players have trouble avoiding, tons of damage, burst, diverse build path ( tank, ap, hybrid ) One of the most forgiving champs as his ult is essentially an undo button, so it's very hard to mess up.

[@arethornCA]

I've had a lot of success with kill lane sona support. Running her for her apc items and focusing on early poke and mid-late heal makes her a good pick. Build her with void staff and sorcerer's boots and her q melts. I had lich bane, sorcerer, void, and echo and 2 shot a vayne 2 levels higher than me. 70% win rate as a support carry.

[@wadud92]

Sona is pretty good IMO. Thunderlords means she do a lot of poke damage early. She also has a heal/shield and move speed for when things go wrong.

[@esmeraldak8984]

I play Lux mid. Her CC is sooo helpful in games and she can burst champs down safely from the distance. I also play Zyra mid because a lot of people underestimate her damage. I usually win my lanes easily with her and contribute so much to team fights.

[@martinivanov1817]

For support I'd recommend Janna. ADC - I think adc's with escape are good choice for beginners : Tristana Top: Mundo, Malphite,Garen, Mid : Annie. Stick to champions with simple kit as a beginner and if you learn them well its cool. Not a good idea to jump in champs like zed,yasuo,thresh, azir and so on.

[@Galaick]

Trundle Toplane is one of the most ridiculous 1v1ers that are currently strong in this meta. Being able to duel anyone on his W, trade incredibly well with his Q AD-steal and being unkillable when he ults, in combination with some disgusting passive sustain, he can solo carry if he gets a good position. Another really good carry top that's not popular is Nasus, because he's just incredibly hard to deal with and even before lvl 9 he can win duels with his Wither and Spirit Fire making for strong trades

[@Galaick]

Hopefully that wasn't too wordy to get featured :S

[@LiveHeavy]

God tier support: Rakan the charmer! He is weak from level 1 to 3. But once you hit level 3/4 he kicks right into gear. Huge mobility to keep yourself alive, he builds tanky as well (more survival) and his items give some huge buffs to team. When the mid game hits and you have a few items he can start a team fight, pop his ulty, then shield your allies for attack speed buffs, removing cc, etc. And his initiate is one of the best in the game atm. My proof? He has been out for a week and a half or so? I have 32 ranked games with him and have only lost 3 of those games. He has carried me from. Silver 5 to a silver 2 promo in such a short time. I have never climbed so hard.

[@ohjaybie]

7:10 "It was great!" savage

[@mtspl]

My best pick is Renekton. I play him tank, 0 12 18 with undying, I start with sunfire or banshee, when I have those plus boots I get a Black Cleaver. After that I only build tank. This way you can win ANY matchup if you play it correctly. You get so tanky in late game and with 40% cdr you can stun many times in a teamfight and shred everybody's armor. Besides, since there are no tanks in this meta the BC is all the damage you need. This got me to platinum last season =)

[@zexon9968]

Renekton with fervor of battle is also great for low elo, people never expect the damage from 8 stacked 50 fury w, plus you can go with quite a bit damage items and come out tanky thanks to your ult.

[@TsukiTino]

+Phylol could you do a video on maokai? He is my favorite champion but I am really new on this game. I have learned a lot from your videos and would love to learn some more about maokai. Thanks

[@Zetzteno]

Sion is an amazing pick in the top lane due to his versatility. He's a natural bully when he builds tank. At 6 you can ult down lanes and nearly guarantee kills with your presence alone and raw cc power or continue farming to stack his w passive.Just always let your team know what you're going do.

[@miichika]

Personally I think a good adc pick will be Cait. She isn't really in meta right now but when it comes to Caitlyn, she counters most of the in meta ads at the moment. Her lane phase is very safe or really aggressive depending on what style you need for the game. She's forgiving for new ads since she really teaches you how to safely position in fights, her damage is pretty good, and once you get IE/Runanns you'll be critting like crazy due her passive being proced like crazy.

[@lyrrr.8059]

Shen Toplane with Teleport worked for me. You have a safe lane, easy farming and your teammates will be happy if you save them with ult and turn a fight around. I usually keep splitpushing the whole game, take towers and farm their jungle and when the enemy engages my team, I simply ult or if theyre winning the tf I keep pushing. Its really frustrating for the enemy that they always have to fear me , bc I have either tp or ult up and bc I can splitpush without leaving my team alone.

[@MrDARKKNIGHT1000]

My best picks by far has been both nasus and vladimir top. Especially nasus helped me to climb from bronze to nearly gold ( managed to get to silver 1 on the last week of s5). There are only two things you have to do as far as i know to carry with nasus. 1) Farm the q as much as you can. 2) play really close attention at the pick and bans stage and make sure you dont get yourself counterpicked. (have another decent top laner like vladimir on such case). Do go and give nasus a try. I'm sure you guys will be surprised how much carry potential he has :) .

[@johnvincent5697]

i think vlad is bad for ranked rn because there are alot of good players at low gold nowdays..

[@FazeFingaz]

my go to jungler is udyr. what are your thoughts?

[@v4l4444]

Trick2G. We all were thinking it, so I said it. There. You're welcome.

[@bayasgalantsogtgerel3346]

To be honest I just played Teemo to reach plat. There is a reason why he is so hated, and it's not because his shrooms kill people when they're fleeing with low health. If the teemo knows what to do, no single melee champ can play against him(besides Pant and Jax), due to his massive DoT, which is like an ignite for each auto attack.

[@hasantylou7670]

iv tried to help many friends of mine in their games and i havent found anything remotely similar to annie. in most cases you kill 1 to 2 ppl, leave 2 others stunned having 1/4 of their hp for your team to cleanup. i think shes by far the best pick for low elo, and definately not bad in higher cause as phy said theres not rly sth a carry can do to stop her flash combo

[@lexsmithee652]

TF mid is one of the best in lower ELO, and works even in higher ELO. With your Q, Red Card combo, you can push and waveclear better than most midlaners, and your Gold Card stun sets up easy trades. If you remember to farm and poke with your blue card, you never run out of mana, and you do not need blue buff at all, which makes the jungler's life a bit easier. From Gold and below, nobody expects your ult-ganks and this gives you so many free kills, and puts your other lanes ahead. As long as you match your opponent in farm, you get a gold advantage from your passive, and it lets you buy your items much earlier than most midlaners. The only things that may be a little difficult with TF is picking the right card, and knowing when and where to ult. Honestly, the card problem fixes itself. Once you have a couple of games down with him, its not that hard (i played 10 games, and haven't had a problem with it since. Just make sure you know what you want to do, and which card to pick: -- Blue - Poke, last hitting, mana sustain. Use your blue card whenever this ability is up. -- Red - Waveclear, AOE. People tell you to never use your red card. This is wrong. It gives you tons of waveclear and an AOE slow for multiple running opponents. -- Gold - Kill, trade, zone. You use your gold card to either lock people down and kill them, or in lane to get favorable trades. Also, you can zone your opponents with it, as most people doesn't want to walk close to a TF with Gold Card activated. If you don't know how to utilize your ult, here is some tips: -- Look on the mini-map to see if the enemies are pushed in. If they are, use your ult to teleport into a bush, and surprise them. -- If someone is running, you can place your ult in front of them, so they are forced to either deal with a TF, or to run in another direction. -- Always ping so your allies know you're coming. -- Try to roam every time your ult is up. In my opinion, TF is one of those champions everybody should play, even though you don't really play midlane, because he more or less forces you to have map awareness. For biginners i reccomend starting with your W, then Q, then E. You max W first for more damage, utility, kill potential and waveclear. Then your Q for more damage. E last. Level up your ult whenever you can. For build I'd reccomend rushing Lich Bane (this will be your first power spike). Then you go for Luden's Echo, Deathcap, Morellonomicon, Zhonya's Hourglass and either Luciditi boots, or Sorcerers shoes depending on whether you want CDR or more damage. I hope this helps. ^-^

[@GARCIIIAmonster]

Top&Mid/Jngl: Kayle! Her Kit is just so simple and effective. Always usefull Passive, + CC aka Slow, + Heal with Mvmt-Buff, + Atk-Steroid, + Panicbutton for yourself or any Mate. You can build her offensive, defensive, with onhit-effects, shredding armor or mr. She can make Objectives possible which were not without her and you can get away with her alot of times. Just go for CDR per Level Glyphs and 1 Quint so you have -20%CDR, build Nashors Tooth and the rest is up to the matchup. I love her for being always flexible, always usefull and you can play her at 3 Positions. Funfact: Yasuos Wall does not protect him from her E-Hits.

[@xlChronos]

I just wanted to take the time to thank you for all the great tips in your videos Ever since I subbed to you climbing has become so much easier Thanks, phy!

[@xlChronos]

Another champion, you could have mentioned is Nasus He has great impact on the game, if he has enough stacks and you dont go down that easily if you build tank items Also the enemy team will HAVE to come top and stop you from stacking, which can give your team so much time to push

[@Justin-ny8df]

Brand and Swain (S2), I took a break for a few years and came back and it seems like those two are extremely underrated in mid. Maybe people are use to seeing Brand support and don't realize he's actually a mid? Idk. He treated me well back when I was Gold also. :p

[@AA-je5yn]

When you put zyra in there, i remembered the game you played as vayne with the zyra support & how she did nothing xD . As for a pick maybe jun panth ?

[@ninsaburo14shiratori]

My Main at the Moment is Gangplank. He is Insane in Late game, has a solid Early with Grasp of the Undying, since u can trigger it with Parrrley (it counts as AA). U just need 1-2 Items and can go Tanky (Trinity and Essence Reaver) and you are good to go ^^

[@kinoshkiwa]

Shen jung is insanely good in low elo. The ult can save a life and join in a fight at the same time! Decent ganks too and pretty tanky. He is personally one of the best jung for low elo in my opinion but most people don't seem to realize how good he really is. Very underrated. The global pressure just insane. Need to learn to have map awareness to get his ult in use.

[@Rodathy]

I only did about 30 ranked games at the moment, but it doesn't matter to say that I got a little addicted to Corki. It doesn't matter if i play him as an AD Carry or as a Midlaner. I realy feel save with him due to his W. After i got a Trinity you can realy snowball hard, especially if I am MID thanks to his Passive every now and then. Trade's with his E and Thunderlord are very easy. Got 18 games with him so far and only lost 2 of them. I got demoted to Bronze after my placements, so I think he's realy strong here for the same reason you put Twitch and YI on the List.

[@Ript3r]

Mid - Leblanc and Fizz, Top - Renekton and Rengar, Jungle - Lee Sin and Elise, Support - Blitzcrank and Bard, Adc (dont play it often) Lucian and Draven

[@charlietannous7636]

6:08 wukong goes from level 1 -- > 8 in one kill?

[@tekkon404]

nice video but i'd enjoy the rune pages together with the masteries and the buid

[@soapfoam]

Interestingly, I have a high winrate on Jax jungle. I've been playing him since season 3, and although most people regard him as a below average jungler, I can make him work there. I've also done well on Lucian ADC, and of course I stomp with Udyr jungle. I've also done well with Wukong jungle.

[@glennedit]

I'm a bot main and normally play vayne love her my positioning and kiting I need help with... I can kite and attack move just dodging skillshots I always walk into skillshots like lux q and morg bind I need help... I need EUW gosu