Hello guys, it is time for me to pen one of these threads again.
Today I plan talking about some different team compositions and giving the basics on them.

So, if you have a top, mid, adc, jungle and support and everyone is playing what they want you are likely to go well, right? Well, things are not so simple: The five champions of your team are bound to be more successful if they have some kind of synergy with each other. Today I plan to list the most common team comps and talk briefly about them.


-AOE Comp:
One of the most well known types of comp. The goal here is to have the largest number of AOE spells that can be chained together easily and having huge teamfight impact. Getting old of lane phase quickly and having 5x5 teamfights on your objectives is going to be your main goal. AOE comps are usually countered by preventing the chaining of the AOE skills, picking a kill on a isolated target and by hard disengages.
Example of a AOE comp:
Top- Wukong, Rumble, Malphite
Mid- Orianna, Karthus, Morgana
Jungle- Amumu, Jarvan IV,
Adc- Graves, Ezreal, Miss Fortune
Support- Fiddlesticks, Taric, Zyra, Sona

-Poke comp:
This comp is all about pressuring objectives. Especially effective on low elo (where people are afraid to engage), you are all about eating your opponent's HP at a distance and force them to back away from an objective (towers, dragon, baron, etc). The biggest counter for poke comps are hard engages and fights outside objectives, where you can't siege that well
Example of a Poke comp:
Top- Jayce, Gragas
Mid- Nidalee (AP), Lux, Kha'Zix, AP Kog, Gragas
Jungle- Kha'Zix, Mundo
Adc- Ezreal (Blue or not), Corki, Caitlyn, Varus
Support- Blitzcrank, Lulu, Janna

-Dive comp:
A comp focused on reaching through the tank line to find the squishy valuable targets. The goal here is to go avoid the peeling and gib the carries. Countered by smart counter initiation and disengages.
Example of a dive comp:
Top- Olaf, Jax, Irelia, Elise
Mid- Diana, Lissandra
Jungle- Nocturne, Xin Zhao, Vi
ADC- Varus, Caitlyn, Draven
Support- Sona (Ult allows the front line to be locked long enough for the carries to be reached), Taric

-Push comp:
The goal here is to take towers and inhibitors as early as possible. We would have a lane inversion here and the jungler would camp any lane that was already winning so it could push even faster. Smart warding is required and so are champions with good escapes. Champions difficult to outpush really counter this comp.
Example of a push comp:
Top- Ezreal/Corki/Graves and Leona/Blitzcrank/Sona, Caitlyn and Nunu
Mid- Anivia, Morgana, Ahri
Jungle- Cho'Gath, Jarvan IV
Bot- Olaf, Singed, AD Nidalee, Jayce

-Global comp:
Champions that have global presence are a must here. The key is to influence the game anywhere in the map, opening a lot of split push strategies. Global presence is huge, and that is why most of the global ultimates have been nerfed hard.
Example of a global comp:
Top-Shen, Pantheon
Mid- Twisted Fate, Karthus, Pantheon
Jungle- Shen, Nocturne
Adc- Draven, Ashe, Ezreal
Support- Soraka (or whatever. Soraka is really weak)

-Initiation comp:
Similar to AOE teams, but does not require chaining, just lots and lots of CC. Very good against poke comps, weak against strong disengage. Care not to get behind, initiation comps struggle in case they do.
Example of initiation comp:
Top- Malphite
Mid- Orianna, Lux, Zyra
Jungle- Amumu, Sejuania, Nautilus, Nocturne
Adc- Ashe (Varus can work out too, but he can't initiate from anywhere in the map)
Support- Leona, Thresh, Zyra, Taric

-Disengage comp:
Comp to counter hard engages, with lots and lots of mobility and disengage. Not so great against poke though.
Example of disengage comp:
Top- Jayce, Nidalee
Mid- Kassadin, Ahri, Gragas
Jungle- Dr. Mundo, Jarvan IV
Adc- Ezreal
Support- Janna

-Protect the Kog comp:
Kog is a hyper carry, but he lacks mobility and escapes, making him highly dependant of peel. His W gives him the biggest range in the game (save for twitch when he ults) and makes him deal % maximum HP as magic damage. The protect the Kog comp aims to give him the biggest amount of protection and peel so he can decimate an enemy team.
Example of protect the Kog comp:
Top- Malphite, Jarvan, Yorick
Mid- Zilean, Kayle, Orihanna
Jungle- Nautilus, Lee Sin
Adc- Kog'Maw
Support- Nunu, Thresh, Janna

-Double WOTA
Once very popular, this one has fallen out of flavour due to various reasons. It is basically to run an AP mid and Top and benefit from the 40% spellvamp and 60 AP from two WOTA's when close to each other. Vlad, Kennen and Rumble are very strong picks for this type of comp because of their ults.
Double WOTA comp example:
Top- Vlad, Rumble
Mid- Vlad, Kennen, Orianna, Morgana
Jungle- Fiddlesticks, Elise
Adc- Miss Fortune, Graves, Ezreal
Support- Lulu, Taric, Zyra

-Shred comp
Taking advantage on the changes on penetration from this season, this comp aims to debuff and remove armor and MR from the enemy team. Anyone that can benefit from Black Cleaver is useful for this
Examples of a shred comp:
Top- Xin Zhao, Nidalee, Jayce
Mid- Kayle, Karthus, Kha'ziz, Morgana
Jungle- Vi, Amumu, Fiddlesticks
Adc- Corki
Support- Soraka

-Split-push comp
Comp that focus on split pushing. People with good waveclear and that have good escapes are a must for this.
Example of a split-push comp:
Top- Shen, Nidalee, Zed, Jayce
Mid- Twisted Fate, AP YI
Jungle- Master Yi, Shaco, Rengar
Adc- Sivir, Ezreal
Support- Janna

-Stall comp
This comp is focus on stalling the game for enough time for champions that are really strong late game have a big impact. It focuses on good defenders and people that can clear minion waves very fast to stall the game as much as possible
Example of a stall comp:
Top- Jayce, Gragas, Shen
Mid- Anivia, Karthus, Ryze
Jungle- Alistar, Nocturne, Malphite
Adc- Vayne, Kog, Tristana
Support- Zyra, Alistar, Taric


Well, hope you guys like this post, and that it helps you guys out next time you are going to play with a full team!
Until next time guys!

Oh, and as always, let me know what you think

awesome idea to list these! Though I'd say not every champ has to follow the theme. like in the AOE comp, a support who can efficiently haste wukong or fid or karth or just some other aoe DD who moves with the ability. someone like zilean or Galio would work. Galio in particular because his abilities work so well with the theme as an added bonus, if youre feeling adventurous enough to play galio support. Galio could work well as a pokelane including ezreal imo,
just my random thoughts

This post cured my cancer. It is amazing. I might sticky this.

I almost had a seizure...

This would be a good sticky james

dive comp supports could be leona or alistar or something cuz they can jump in there and cc

Every single starting LOL player should read this post. I used to be so lost when I first started playing. Good job!

anyone do coaching here? like advanced tactics?

I kinda used to, but I moved to the Brazilian server. I will be back(ish) at the NA server this January though

Yargo is coming hooooome.