Crimson Eye

Ok, so the first LoL season will be coming in a little while, and I'd like to have a stable of champions with which I feel comfortable using.

I'd like to be able to fulfill any role needed with at least one champ. Obviously, the more champs you have to learn, the less well you learn each individual champ. So, I'd like to have 1 or 2 champs per role, but not more (at least, not for a while).

Leaguecraft has a lot of different tags for champs, some of which aren't exactly roles, but more things they can do (ie. "Flee"). So, what are the general consensus roles that I'd be looking to fill with my champs?

Here's a first-draft list off the top of my head:

Tank
Mage/RDPS
Carry
Support
Melee DPS

There are also some tags that might or might not warrant a full "role" designation:

Stealth
Scout
Pusher
Disable/Stun

What say you guys? If I'd like to learn at least 1 champ per role, whats the fewest I would need, so as to keep as focused as possible, while still being versatile?

Well with that first set up I can kinda say what I'd play...

Amumu
Malthazar
...Dont really havea carry
Soraka
Pantheon


Notsure this is what you're gong for, >.> But yeah lol

well yeah...

I was mostly wanting to talk about the categories first, and then champs after that.

But same diff.

LoL season?

there is going to be a lol season?

here's some verbal diarrhea for you to ingest.

id' say the categories are maybe more along the lines of:

Primary roles:
tank
healing
dps

categories:

crowd control - characters containing silence, stun, slow, knockback, fear
mobility - consisting of short range teleports or dashes (shaco, kassadin, shen, gragas, tristana)
map control chars - (long range teleport) - TF, pantheon, possibly stealthers (if not laning) or teemo due to his mushrooms
dps consisting of ranged physical, melee, physical, or ranged magic
healing - soraka (pure) and other than that, lots of hybrids
tanking - consisting of hybrid or pure tanks
initiators - ashe, malphite, alistar (using blink), amumu,
artillery - characters that have super long casting ranges that can safely harass in team standoffs - eg: nidalee (spear), janna (whirlwind), possibly ezreal (though he could get punished with flash,stun) etc.

Each character will fill one primary role and one or more categories. Categories are duplicated because some characters skew so heavily towards a primary role that thats basically all they do. (soraka for example). Team building can aim to overload specific categories (such as map control/backdooring, mobility, etc) or roles (all tanks)..

if i'm going to theorycraft i'd say, it would be ideal to have
-2-3 chars with CC
-at least one strong initiator OR several artillery OR healing
-at least one magic dps hero (so they cant simply stack armor)
-at least one healer
-at least one map control character
-at least one tank, or ashe and 2 mdps
-lots of ranged dps, with cc/burst

Thats very much what i'm looking for, bud thanks.

I'm going to suggest any team comp with 5 stuns

Blake, is everyone in the guild aloud to participate in the lol season?

Its an official League of Legends thing, man, not something I'm organizing.

In a little while, the devs of LoL will start a season of play up, with like some prizes or some crap. You can also see your ranking, I think, and some other stuff.