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Originally Posted by Avizura
Playing too many champs is better IMO than sticking to one champ for top and one champ for mid, what if you get countered, or someone picked a counter before you? It's always to have alternatives. Sticking to your one-trick-pony's is OKAY, aslong you have alternatives. So keep playing "too many" champs, kudos!
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Strongly disagree. Better to be a one trick pony and be really good at a particular champion than branch out too much and don't learn any role or champion properly. Counterpicks are extremely overrated in lower levels - most players aren't even going to be capable of exploiting a favorable matchup.
Additionally, within Rebel's five champion pool he has a backup for every role. Let's say he focuses on trying to get top or support every game, as he said he gets those 90% of the time. He makes Darius and Thresh (or Alistar) as his two main champions. He's likely going to get top or support and get to play Darius or Thresh the majority of the time (likely >60%, possibly as much as 85%).
The times he doesn't get his preferred champions will be the minority but let's review his options.
If he gets top and Darius gets picked or banned or he gets a particularly terrible matchup, he can attempt to negotiate for support. If still forced to top, he can play Kayle or Twitch top as his emergency options.
If he gets support and Thresh is unavailable, he can play Alistar or attempt to negotiate for top. Additionally, he can play Kayle support as an emergency option.
If he's unable to secure top or support, he can play one of his primary champions (Darius) in the jungle. If forced to jungle and Darius is unavailable (which is unlikely btw because Darius is not a common pick or ban), he can jungle Kayle, Twitch, or even Alistar.
If he's forced to mid, he can play Kayle or Twitch in an emergency situation.
If he's forced to ADC, he can play Twitch or AD Kayle in an emergency situation.
Obviously some of these scenarios are suboptimal but it should be noted that they are going to be extremely rare situations. I mean, what % of the time is he going to be forced to ADC and then not have Twitch available? Likely less than 0.5% of the time. It's unlikely he's going to have to play ADC more than 5% of the time to begin with. Additionally, he can easily just dodge in any of his emergency situations because the penalty for dodging is extremely minimal.
It is not only quite easy to get away with playing primarily only two champions and having a pool of only five - I'd argue that it is significantly preferable to the alternative of playing more than ten. You will get much better faster through repetition and will learn your preferred roles much better than someone that tries to cover all five.
PM me if you have questions because I don't want to derail Avizura's thread further.
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