I'm thinking about using Urgot in low elo ranked (~1200).

Background
I've noticed that if I Tristana, my team normally keeps dying, and I don't output enough damage mid-game, so they end up surrendering before we get to late game. This kind of pisses me off because I always win my lane (20 more CS than enemy carry, and a kill or two) and output close to max damage (given my champs' limitations) in team fights.

I've had more success with Ryze because he's at least somewhat viable in mid-game.

Why Urgot?
I haven't tried this yet, but my theory is that by dominating early game hard, I can demoralize the enemy team into doing the exact same thing- surrendering early on before Urgot falls off.

1) Is my observation that low elo games end quickly correct?

2) And if I decide to choose Urgot mid, will I be able to carry bad teammates? Urgot mid is nearly a guaranteed stomping, so I'm thinking that I would roam as much as I can to turn the top/bot lanes in our favor. Also, we'll just skip having an AP carry, since in low ELO people don't seem to itemize properly (they don't build armor even if we're pure AD). In midgame team fights, I should output close to the same damage as the enemy AP carry because of his horrid laning phase. And because I'm not on bot, we'll have an AD carry to pick up my slack should the game extend a little longer than I hope for.

Also, I'm pretty experienced with Urgot, used him a lot in normal, am good at landing E's and getting the 4 Q's, however I use the ult wrongly sometimes.

heres what i say, don't go mid with him. roll him bot lane and use him to shut down the enemy carry, im talking brutalizer, frozen heart, all that counter carry stuff, late game you will not keep up with the damage, but the point in urgot is making sure they have a bad early game, postponing the late game carry time. atleast thats how it works with me, out of the 3 games i've played i lost 1 because mid could not keep his **** together and 4 man ganks are close to impossible to escape from.

RoERedemption, do you find you can end the game FAST (At 30 mins you're right in front of their nexus turrets)?

And normally are you your team's primary source of damage, or do you count on teammates to be high damage and build tankier?

bumo

i wouldn't say the game ended fast, but it didn't last longer than 40 minutes, and the thing about urgot is that you can't really carry too hard but by being tanky, you can kind of single the AD on the enemy team out. atleast thats how i play him, i try to kill the AD cause thats what i build for.

urgot is a solo top champion - you cant ad with him properly, compared to graves or vayne.. because he cant rely on last hits, his source of damage comes from his Q..

go top with him.. most champions cant deal with his harass

i usually build meki pendant > tear > boots
then brutalizer, cdr boots, manamune and last whiper - this guarantees ur mid/end game..
urgot only falls off if you dont build armor pen

gl

breuz, you can take him bot as counter carry, thats what they did at MLG and gesl a plenty. but yes you can also take him solo top.

Does he really work on solo top? I tried him vs Garen, Panth, and a couple other common solo tops, and found that his harass doesn't shine (solo tops are completely fine with stacking armor early on, since that's their job anyways). On the other hand in mid and bot his harass melts

I've had luck taking him solo top against a Fiora, but thats the only time I've ever taken him top. Usually I bot lane with him and I feel like he is a good champion to solo queue or duo queue with. Heck I even won a 4v5 with me 2v1 bot lane with him. It wasn't pretty but we managed to do it.

I find myself getting the brutalizer, frozen heart combo almost every game and sometimes a manamune. I dont get a tear if I have good lane sustain with say a Soraka. But I also like to build a BT/LW and a GA. So pretty much I shut down their AD carry and then start to build kind of AD carry myself.

He's becoming one of my favorite champions after watching yellowpete destroy with him. If you lane with a Soraka its usually gg.

But out of curiosity, what runes do you run on him? I've read a bunch of different things and still kinda experimenting.