User blog comment:Sifter66/Picking the Right Champion/@comment-5593561-20150412133729

I cannot be outbanned since I play such a huge variety of champions. My problem is that there is some champions I simply can't win against in lane if I don't hard counter them due to my own limitations.

I refuse to pick adc until I know enemy team hasn't picked Leona, just by her being there I know I won't win the lane and have to go farmville on my tower. Only times I have won lanes against Leona is when she is playing stupidly passive or my support just hard counters her by Morgana (I was really tormented by this when Morgana bans were meta).

As support I also hate when enemy picks her even though I won't care as much because it won't be me that will be dying again and again in the lane. Just kidding, I know how to play against her as support, you just need some beef with runes if you play with likes of Sona. Again, other picks don't matter at all, I can fuck them all up.

In mid I can go even with most of the champions and pretty much always win the lane with my mains, but I still very often end up losing games when im against hyper carries (Kata, Zed, Fizz etc.) when average bot lanes attention span is what it is. It just isn't possible to always follow the likes of Zed into zone without wards as they might just decide to turn back and kill you easily as you don't have anything to retreat to. Changing to TP isn't an option either if you wish to keep the lane even against those monsters.

Top lane is the only lane where I really have to think what to think my picks thru, picking my melee carry mains just ain't gonna work against hard counters like Malphite, Irelia, Pantheon and Jax if they know how to play these champs and if my team didn't picked any tanks it will be a flamefest on my ass if i go yolo with them as last pick.