I had a pretty stellar game this afternoon as Kog’Maw. Granted, that’s not so tough these days, but I was rocking a significantly positive K/D/A ratio (22/7/7) in spite of a team of four negative K/D/As. I was playing with a friend who actually said over Skype, “You are the sole reason we are winning this game.” That’s a pretty great feeling, and it doesn’t happen very often.
More often my “carry” games are more subtle, and tell a small part of what can only be considered a team victory. I have been trying to pick champions that allow me to contribute in a big way, lately, and I think it has helped my rating. The key, to me anyway, is to pick someone that can really dish out the love. I am great at ganking, so playing gank toons allows me to maximize that part of my playstyle. I really like Vlad because he farms minions well for the entire game and his ultimate is a boon to any team. Kog’Maw is great if you have the space to farm (i.e. not laning against good harassment/stuns) and a team to distract people. Ezreal is an amazing comeback toon if your team starts down. I also like to play characters like Xin Zhao and Shaco, who can close the gap without risking too much in the process. As you all know, I’ve also been playing a lot of Master Yi recently, though I rarely feel like I carry with him. He’s often more like an annoying swarm of hornets – it hurts like hell and you can never pin them down enough to stop the pain.
So who do you use when you want to carry? I know a couple of mean Udyr players who really seem to turn games, and it’s always fun to have a pro Zilean or Morgana on your team. Drop your best carries in the comments (with a fun story if you have one)!
PS – Thanks for the pic, Miku! Front page of Google Images for Kog’maw so I linked back to your post.
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Tags: best champion, carry, carry champion, ezreal, garen, kog'maw, op champions, op champs, op toons, vladimir
Haha, thanks for the link. ^_^ Took me forever to find that image when he first came out. >_<
I like Ashe, just because she's my 2nd best champ. Her frost shot can really handicap the enemy team, and her Crystal Arrow is great for ganking. I'm one of those players who does damage from the back then goes in for the kill (unless I'm playing a tank, of course).
I carried a lot of games,but there was this one time with gangplank in a premade,when i went something like 24/2/ and we were winning,but i made a mistake and died.At that point everyone on skype started yelling
Hm,my last comment seems to be cut.I was gonna say everyone started yelling “Void is dead,run for your lives!” And it was so,without me they almost got aced
Malzahar! This guy is so underrated.
I play Morgana for AP carry and it works. I play Trist when we need an AD carry but that only works with solid CC up front and she requires significantly more farm to become viable. If I had the IP I would pick up Kog because he is so OP right now.
Well, last night I carried with… Amu? Yeah. I went like 10/3/? and the rest of my team topped out around 4 kills. *sigh* I don’t even want to know what my unranked elo is anymore, caught in a spiral.
In general though, I like Kog & Mal. I’m still trying to learn Yi. Good old Ashe or Trist works in a pinch. I do quite well with Plank, but I don’t think he should be the carry in a “good” game… when I’m stuck with a bunch of newbs I tend to carry with him… but usually those are the games where I lose with a 24/5/x score. Sigh.
I’ve carried with Amumu before, but only when I jungle. When you don’t get ganked at blue or dragon at 6 minutes you can be level 6 have both buffs (if no one took the buffs on their side) have a dragon kill under your belt and go gank a lane. If they do ward or (successfully) gank blue golem (a good team will guard you) I find that jungling is much slower and I’ll gank at 3 with the red buff.
Back when I was still new, i’d use Katarina. Unfortunately, once I hit 30 people started stunning me.
Now I usually play Udyr, Xin Zhao, or Ashe to carry.
Hm,my last comment seems to be cut.I was gonna say everyone started yelling “Void is dead,run for your lives!” And it was so,without me they almost got aced
On quite a few occasions, I have AP carried with Katarina. My best game was over an hour long and I carried with a K/D spread of 29/13/7