User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/I Wanna Find More Gaps In My Playing/@comment-217.121.187.123-20130207101226

No idea if I'm talking sense here, but I hope so...

In order to win, you need to succesfully carry the game. Let's have a look at all roles. Supports and tanks don't have the damage to carry. Mids (whether AP or AD) can normally kill only one or two enemies, and then they have to wait for cooldown. Therefore, they often can't carry games on their own either. Junglers simply don't have the gold to carry, except if they have a lot of ganks with kills, which does not happen often either. Bruisers have a nice amount of tankyness and damage. However, when alone, they die fast, which means they cannot carry on their own. AD Carries can, as the name says, carry well. They have the highest damage in the game and they have range. However, if they are alone, the enemy bruisers or mids will jump on them and tear them apart. Therefore, even they cannot carry.

The conclusion is this. No matter how good you are, you NEED a team to win. If there is no team, you cannot win in any way. This, in turn, means it takes a long time to reach the tier/division where you belong, and by the time you reach it, you maybe belong higher, as in a neverending journey.

The only way to get your tier/division faster than this, is by champions that can carry alone. Because, in those roles I mentioned, they DO exist. Normally, they have strong mechanics that either allow them to escape while the other champions in their "group" would be caught and die, or they for example have cooldown resets where the others have to wait until those are ready, or something like that.

This means, that it comes down to a few champions that, when played well, can win you a lot of games. You do not, however, get in a tier higher than the tier you belong, as those champions are not stronger than others, but just make more difference if there is a skill gap.

The ones that I think belong to this group are the following: Cassiopeia, Ezreal (for as long as IBG is not nerfed, afterwards he'll just be one of those AD carries that might die if caught out again, just like Corki, Tristana, etc), Karthus, Katarina, Master Yi (and don't start talking sh!t, I'm talking about AP Yi of course), Orianna and Rumble.

Note that, except for Ezreal (who has insane synergy with IBG) they are all either dps casters (Cassiopeia, Karthus, Orianna and Rumble) or cooldown reset reliant casters (Katarina and Master Yi). I think that in those champions lies the secret to getting to your true tier and division the fastest.

~Leyrann