Cassiopeia

Cassie just seems my style, powerful, potentially game changing ult, good mobility (I love utility masteries plus MS Quints on her) and a challenging spammy kit. The pattern noted last post is my tendency to gravitate towards the 'difficult' champions. Ahri, Anivia, Orianna, Syndra and now Cassiopeia. Actually I tend to struggle with simple ones, my Katarina, for example, is dreadful.

So how do I do with her? My laning is probably my weakest area at the moment, which is a pity, Cassie has such nice strength at level 4. That said, my laning... Read More

Anivia

I actually completed this one aaaaaages ago, my decision made after one match (although I'd played several relatively recently). The TL:DR version of this is that I just don't enjoy Anivia enough to main her. On paper, she's incredibly interesting; when I'm not playing her, I want to play her. In-game... Well, she can be very rewarding to play in team-fights, but so can all the other champions I enjoy, and Anivia just feels not fluid enough. I put it down to the relatively short-ranged Frostbite and generally low mobility. That said, she brings a lot to the table.... Read More

Syndra

I fell in love with Syndra the moment she was announced, yet found her disappointing on release. A big part of this was because she felt so unintuitive to me, unlike, say, Orianna. But I persevered, and would often start to get a feel for her. However, with me constantly flitting between champions I would lose any grasp of how to play her and have to begin pretty much from square one. It was my experiences with Syndra which made me start focusing on one champ at a time, and it payed off. I took my experiences in each game and brought it forwards to the next,... Read More

So, this is the start of a little blog series I am making. It's not written to inform, and I'm not holding out on entertaining (although perhaps it will be somewhat interesting). I'm just blogging my thoughts, and maybe, just maybe, I'll learn something.

So what is it? There are over fourteen champions which appeal to me in mid-lane, but it is not remotely practical to keep flitting between them. As soon as I start to get a feel for Syndra, for example, I immediately lose it because I play another five champions before I get back to her. And that's not counting jungling and... Read More