Title sums it up pretty much. I’m just wondering how many champions ( especially in Mid/top, can be any role/champ tho ) there are that can just unexpectedly either kill you or just beat you to a pulp very early on if you’re not careful.
My best and only examples are Pantheon and GP. Spear shot literally solokilled one of the best Korean toplaners at lvl1, and solarbacca is sometimes able to just completely destroy lane starting lvl 1/2. Almost nobody expects these champs to be able to get a solo kill so early on, and it’s usually too late when the enemy realizes that they’re dead.
Do you guys know any other champs that can do this? can’t think of any other ones myself
Lvl 1 Kalista top. Good Luck winning the game though
Zoe :D
Urgot works surprisingly well for me
My mid laners everytime they fight talon
I don’t know what it is, but they never understand talon’s level 2 powerspike and not respect it at all
I played Poppy support in flex queue (solo) a lot and even made it to diamond with it one season. Basically the enire point of the build is to cheese an early lead and snowball because you become completely useless after 1-2 item.
What you need to make this work is offensive runes, electrocute, cheap shot, secondary runes can be whatever but cut down or whatever the low life damage rune was helps too. You also need ignite to counter heal.
You can go in for a nasty trade lvl 1 (starting E) if you get a good opportunity, but your bread and butter cheese wants to get lvl 2. If you land a wall stun anywhere without the support healing or shielding the ADC (or you get one on a non-tank support), E ->Q ->Ignite ->AA (->Q2) can instantly kill a squishy character especially if they’re not lvl 2 yet somehow (rough because you have no real pressure on the first wave).
If your adc isn’t completely asleep at the wheel they can also easily get an assist in on this or take the kill themselves. Even if the enemy survives they almost definitely need to back or play extremely carefully so an adc who knows how to handle their wave can take it from there.
Itemization is rough, I’ve tried a bunch of different things my conclusion has been that going tanky is a waste of time because you’re so starved for resources that you’ll never not feel squishy, even if you build tank while massively ahead. Building damage is the play and I liked Umbral Glaive a lot for the utility, however with a Cleaver we’re going a little more supportive and in my experience your team flames your item choice a lot less when there’s some HP on your first major item.
With a Cleaver you can still oneshot people who aren’t building a defensive item first assuming you’re on roughly even footing. After that dead man’s is neat for speed and burst, a defensive item that makes sense to grab.
Biggest issue with this pick is that your enemy can very easily figure out what you’re up to if they pay at least a little attention and if neither enemy laner ever walks close enough to a wall to stun them you’re fucking useless. Roams aren’t the greatest since finding stuns in mid is hard but it’s doable, encounters with the jungler are also a very mixed bag since you can also just oneshot a jungler early on (if you know jungle routes and stuff you should 100% try to invade) and this is in fact one way to avoid a gank, just engage the jungler who’s hugging a wall because 90% of the time they’re just setting themselves up to die for free there so the gank has to be called off. If you can’t delete the jungler while trying to roam though chances are you’re screwed since outside of your burst you’re super squishy
Darius, Caitlyn
Lucian has the strongest Lv2 of all ADCs, and Olaf has the strongest Lv2 in the game
Brand mid OP
Definitely Kayle.
Her 2-5 is ass, easily the worst of any solo laner and amongst the worst in the game. Her Level 1 however, is extremely strong. The Darius matchup is a good example. If you take E level 1, and the Darius fights you, you can quite capably kill him unless he plays extremely well with his bleed stacks. From that point on till Level 11 though, it’s relatively even if not in Darius’ favour, then goes back to Kayle.
Now of course there’s some champs Kayle can just outright defeat regardless of level, such as Yorick and Gangplank, but many champions that on paper should make Kayle’s lane phase or even whole game hell can fall to her at level 1.
why no one mention Darius or Olaf tho
Bel’Veth. A 150 dmg Q x4, auto weaving, 40% dmg reduction and execute, 100 dmg W, conqueror and maybe sudden impact.
It’s the most insane lvl 3 that falls off a cliff until she’s basically 5-6 items in.
Akshan with Ignite.
Warwick is the king of cheese because people see the low health bar and think they can kill him.
Lissandra against melee champs, if you get people low enough with q then flash w q ignite proccing electrocute can defo suprise
Besides the ones mentioned, Singed is another one. Today on the Super Server has a video about it and it is pretty fun to play.