Please don't ban Shen and Malphite. Honestly, these are such wasted bans. A little piece of me dies when someone bans Malphite, Shen, or Master Yi.
You can put Blitzcrank in the same "wasted ban" group as well; too many other genuine threats to dispose of rather than a feast-or-famine squishy melee support.
Granted, anything works in lower levels of play, but Blitzcrank is pretty easy to deal with much like those other two.
That's a good topic tho. What do you ban (in solo Q)?
Kassadin is my only must ban.
Otherwise a pool of Shyvanna, Nasus, Jax, Evelynn, Fizz, Blitzcrank (if I play with friends who QQ about him constantly), Jinx (dat objective rush), Riven and others that can easily snowball if fed.
Atm I go for Kassadin, Shyvanna, Nasus as my preset ban set.
Susan. Either your top laner has the wrong idea how to lane against the dog, or even if he's behind he'll eventually become impossible to ignore with him taking down towers after 3 Q's or being able to 1 vs 1 almost everyone. And what I mean with the former is... champions like Renekton (despite his strong early presence) are not good against him at all since their late game is nowhere near comparable and neither are farm champs like Singed, yet oddly enough these are usually the go-to picks against Susan. Either he's perfectly content on being strictly defensive with Frozen Heart / Spirit Visage rushing, or the enemy is playing right into his hands by believing proxy / dirty farming is effective against him.
Vayne, because she'll either do incredibly poor during the early laning phase (especially when it's a blind first-pick) with a chance of still being a menace late game (% true damage not the problem, nope) or in the off-chance they
do end up getting kills in lane, they'll become so absurdly cocky that they'll throw the game sooner or later. Typical "Vayne mechanics" in other words.
Third ban changes depending on what I feel like playing, though in all likelihood I'll choose between Evelynn - Sivir - Nidalee - Lucian if I get one of my mains. They can deal with Jax, Riven, Zed, Fizz, et cetera (the typical bans) if I 'baited' the enemy captain into insta-locking one of them. I'd consider Taric, but I like playing him top and far too many tend to build Sunfire Cape over useful items anyway.
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and i knew it
the adc whining has begun
supports too strong and tanky they can duel me wtf adc suck mid game now pls nerf everything
Maybe if they whine long enough we'll get another Blade of the Ruined King.
Must be so rough playing the easiest role in the game. Those sacred cows have my sympathy.