Generic Guide #1 - How to create a good champion pool

Hello everyone, I am RADYTZ and today I want to talk with you about how you can create a good champion pool. In this video I'll use mid lane as an example since it's the one I have the most experience with, however, the idea is the same for any other position. So, before getting to the important part I want you guys to know how important it is to have a good champion pool. A good player isn't the one who can play every single champion of his role decently, but the one who masters 3, 4 or even 5 champions of that one role. To give you an idea on how important it is to learn to play with the right champions I want you to think about a situation were you are against a Kassadin mid and your main champion is something that usually Kassadin does good against, like Brand for example. It will be of no use if the other 3 champions that you're good at also do poorly against him, like Twisted Fate, Ahri or even Nidalee, this is why your champion pool must cover these situations. I heard a lot of people asking questions like how they should choose the champions that they will include on their champion pool and I hope I can answer some of those questions with this video. So first of all, let's assume that you main mid and that you don't know which champions you should focus your time on. It is generally a good idea to pick your best champion and create a champion pool around him. Having this in mind, let's assume that Karthus is your main champion. Even though Karthus is known to be able to farm from a safe distance against most matchups, it is common sense that he does poorly against bursty mages like Veigar or LeBlanc, and assassins like Zed or even Akali. Having this said, it is generally a good idea to have weapons in your arsenal that can keep these threats in check. There are a lot of options here like Galio, Mordekaiser or Morgana, which are champions that can easily endure burst damage and have insane wave clear. However, my personal preference goes to Kayle. Kayle may not be as good as the champions mentioned before at wave clearing, but she is an extremely good fighter and when well timed, her ult can negate the whole burst from most mages and assassins while still pulling out a lot of damage of his own. So, now that we covered Karthus counters by adding Kayle to our champion pool, we need to do the same with champions that Kayle struggles against. Let's think about it for a second. If Kayle is good against high bursters, what is she bad against? The answear is champions that don't rely on big cooldowns or champions who have lots of sustained damage. Champions like Diana, Ryze and Anivia come to mind since they have their ults with a really low cooldown, which means that Kayle ult won't help much against their burst. So, what would be a good pick against these champions? In my honest opinion, Orianna is, by far, the best answer. Beside being a really safe pick in any situation, Orianna has such a complete kit that gives her all the damage, CC, and survavility she needs not only against these champions but also against many others. Even though Orianna can sometimes have a bad time against champions with high mobility, those matchups are usually more about skill than anything else. It's all about not getting behind early game. Now, like I said, Orianna can do very well against basically anything, but there is one champion that I think she can't do much about, which is LeBlanc. Playing against LeBlanc is probably one of the most annoying things in the game, even for Orianna. She has an extremely high burst starting from lvl 2 and most of the times a good LeBlanc won't even give you time to react with your shield before silencing and bursting you, which makes this a very hard lane for Orianna. So, since neither Karthus, Kayle or Orianna do good against LeBlanc, it would be a good idea to add something to your champion pool who can atleast keep LeBlanc in check, like Morgana. Morgana can safely push her lane and keep LeBlanc under tower. Also, her black shield makes her difficult to kill and gives her immunity to CC and in top of that, she has a great ganks and team fight potential, making her very strong even if she's not ahead in the lane. This is why Morgana is a really safe pick against pretty much any AP Carry, even LeBlanc. Okay so, by adding three champions to our champion pool we've covered pretty much the whole meta on mid lane. However, I think that it would be extremely beneficial if you added an extra assassin to the party. something like Kassadin, Fizz or Zed which are champions that can easily carry your way to victory in both solo queue and team games when played well. These champions are less about utility and more about brute force, and they can easily wreck easy matchups and snowball out of control in your favour. That's it guys for this video guide. I hope it was helpful for some of you. If you liked the video please feel free to let me know by leaving feedback on the comment section. Also, if you want to see more please feel free to rate, coment and subscribe. Thanks!