Pick Countering is EXTREMELY important for anyone wanting to get better at League of Legends.
It is a skill ALL professional players know, and use every single game.


What is Countering?

Countering is when you pick a champion in order to expose the other champions weaknesses, and ultimately win the lane.

Example..

Katarina is a champion, that to use her full kit or even most of her damage, has to be directly on top of you. Right there you can identify a weakness of hers. The fact that she has to be in close range to do well against you. Also, she her ult (main source of damage) is a channel. This means her ult can be disrupted by most forms of cc, like stuns, silences and suppression.

We now have found two weaknesses of Katarina..

1. She must be in close range to maximize her damage
2. Her main source of damage can be canceled

Now what champion can capitalize off of those weaknesses?

Orianna?
?NO
You would think that Orianna could push Katarina, a close range damage dealer, out of lane but she cannot. While Orianna's slow ball moves either to farm, or damage Katarina, Katarina could jump onto Orianna, and before her ball can even come back to act as a shield, Katarina has already used most of her kit to inflict heavy harass.

Lux?
?NO
Again, same concept as Orianna. Lux is a very ranged AP mid, rarely getting into close range in most of the time spent in lane. The moment Lux throws a bind or ball of light, Katarina can simply jump over it onto Lux and deal some very heavy damage.

Annie?
?YES
Annie is Katarina's perfect counter. Annie specializes in close range burst and an extremely dynamic and powerful stun. If Katarina were to jump too close and try to inflict damage on Annie, she can ult Katarina with her ultimate, W, ignite then finish her off with a Q. With AP runes, this is easily 600+ damage in 1.5 seconds.

For more Information on Counter Picks

You can visit www.lolcounter.com to get a list of counters against each and every champion. It will also provide you with what mechanics each champion is weak against, as well as what items do well counter them.

I hope this helps anyone wanting to get better at league of legends, as it is a concept ALL players should understand.

should be in the tips and strategy zone...

but man good thought out post... care to write for my blog ahha?

Oh, sorry about its location. All I ever knew was there is a LoL section for posts and that's it aha. I could rewrite it for your blog if you like, I wouldn't mind. Eventually I want to make "Countering 101" into a 400x750 image, make it nice with good fonts, diagrams and such. A lot more concise and attractive as an image than just text.

DO IT! then send it to me and i'll toss it on the bloggity blog.

Turning it into an image will take most likely a week from today. For making it into a nice blog post, probably around Tuesday.. I will be gone this weekend and wont be on my computer at all.

Ah well there's no rush man haha, take your time and just send to me in a Personal Message whenever you find the time necessary to do it.

Guess I should study this as the 2nd Lieu. Hehe.
Just so I can come up with On-the-Spot answers for countering.

Pretty good information. Those starting out may not know where to start, this gives a pretty good idea.

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Guess I should study this as the 2nd Lieu. Hehe.
Just so I can come up with On-the-Spot answers for countering.
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You don't even have to memorize who counters who. It's more of just understanding on the fly what that champion is good at, what it needs to do to be good, and how to stop it from doing it aha :P .

It's more about seeing what a specific champions skills cater to. For example, a hard counter to ahri is stuns. This is due to the extreme mobility of her ultimate which allows 3 "dash's". The stuns shut down her mobility, I.E. a counter. Melee champions in a solo lane without a gap closer can be very weak against ranged units because they can be kited. It's all about the base mechanics of the specific character.