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League of Legends’ new mode lets you pick your opponent’s champs for them, so who can troll hardest?
The Public Beta Environment (PBE) on League of Legends has been awash with terrible champions this week. This isn’t a new meta, though, just a new game mode. The Nemesis Draft, as Riot has dubbed it, is an otherwise normal game of Summoner’s Rift but for the fact that you choose the other team’s champions. Though there’s no confirmation the mode will make it into the non-test client, you can try it out yourself right now, if you’re into that.
As you might expect from a mode that turns the concepts of teamwork and competition on their heads, this has resulted in some... unorthodox matches. It turns out when you give people a chance to ruin someone else’s fun, they really run with it. And despite your complete control over the other team’s composition, there are plenty of ways to give them the upper hand. So here are a few tricks to ensure you are achieving maximum trollishness.
Team Support Melee (The Other TSM)
The standard first thought to any mischievous miscreants on their introduction to Nemesis Draft is to give the enemy team the weakest characters they can lump together. The little leaguers of the roster. And what would be a worse team comp than nothing but support melee champions? Perhaps they won’t notice what’s happening as you dump Braum, Galio and Taric in their laps. Top it off with a Nunu and Alistar and if they’ve been kind enough to leave you with literally any ranged champions, laugh all the way to the Nexus.
Nothing but damage
The more cocky theorycrafters among you might opt for the exact opposite strategy, betting against the opponent’s own power. Perhaps you’re worried that Nunu might actually jungle well enough to start putting out some damage and all that crowd control from the rest of the supports scares you. Well, why not give them all AD Carries and watch them fight each other in lane for last hits? Bonus marks for putting armour items on your entire team and letting them bounce off you teamfight after teamfight.
The reverse troll
A game mode like Nemesis Draft is always going to bring out the worst in people if they go in hoping to get a hero they’ll be good with. This has been a bit of a problem already as entire lobbies just dodge as soon as they see their horrendous line-up. But if you’re a true masochist, don’t leave your team a man down to struggle against a mediocre draft. Stick it out with them... against a pubstomper of a team.
Yep. Break the rules entirely. Throw your allies to the dogs by handing the opposition a Zac, or a Jax, or some other hellish incarnation of the coming 30-60 minutes of sorrow you’ve just inflicted. Bathe in the salty tears of your team-mates as they caps lock at you in all chat. It’s good to be a troll, but only if you stick around on the sinking ship to watch the fireworks.
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