I know that you need to be able to play multiple champions for each role if you want to have a chance at ranked. Could you tell me what champions/type of champions to learn to round out my skill sets?


Champions I have/play:

Mid
Have
LeBlanc
Annie
Cass
*Zyra
*Akali

Play (i.e. I've learned them, but haven't purchased yet
Eve
Ahri

Top
Have
Akali
Nidalee

Jungle
Have
Amumu
Shaco

Play
Sejuani
Eve

ADC
Whoever is free. They're all basically the same (no offense anyone who plays them).

Support
Zyra
Sona
Nidalee

Okay, so it's pretty obvious I need more tanky/brusier-type champions.

Any recommendations?

"They're all basically the same (no offense anyone who plays them)."

This is so wrong I'm not even going to bother trying to explain.

lol ues all adc have the same purpose, but are nithing the same.

anyways should have
Shen
Malphite
amumu
Blitzcrank
Evelynn
Shaco

those are the big ones in ranked and even if you dont play them you should have them for trades for your team incase you are first pick

Obviously the more champions the better. It allows you to champ trade and counter pick your enemy, but honestly you could get buy with just buying a champion pack. Sadly you can't use a free champ in ranked if you don't own them, but a champion pack from the store will give you enough to atleast play whatever role you need. It isn't optimal and your elo will suffer, but I feel it is a misconception that you must be highly skilled with a huge champ/rune bank to play in ranked. You will be matched with people of the same elo, and having to few champs/runes will push you significantly down the elo ladder, but that doesn't mean you can't play it if that's what you enjoy. You just may have to play at 500 elo until you build your account up.

You need to unlock some of the heavily banned champions like Malphite or Blitzcrank etc.

Whether or not you ever pick these champions up and play them is irrelevant. You need to be able to first pick them and trade to a teammate if a teammate wants one of these champions.


Also, you need to pick up and learn Jax.

EDIT: Also, you have no bruisers.

That still isn't true. I can play Ashe, Caitlyn, Draven and Sivir just fine, but I'm a horrible Ezreal player. They don't play the same and, while their job in teamfights is roughly the same, their execution in teamfights and their role outside of teamfights are very different.

My honest suggestion is to own all the champs you are comfortable with, as well as the flavor-of-the-month "OP" bans, so that you can trade them to those who might need them. Malphite, Amumu and Blitzcrank being the most obvious. Some will tell you Shen and Alistar.

Shen, in my opinion, is terribly easy to counter until you get to extremely high Elos, where various strategies beyond "teamfight after first turret falls" are more well understood. His global presence is what makes him dangerous in low Elo play, but it's easily avoidable if you just stay aware that he can show up at any time except when his ult is on CD.

Alistar, on the other hand, is inexplicably still banned. He was being banned in Season 2 because of his incredible ganks, but he can hardly make it out of the jungle alive in Pre-Season 3. As far as Support Alistar goes, he's not much different in lane presence than Taric or Leona.