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Today we're excited to be sharing with you the 3 best solo carry champions for every
single role in patch 11.7.
Our analysts have picked out these champions based on there raw carry power and potential
to influence games more so than others for the current meta.
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What's up everyone and welcome back to a brand new skillcapped video!
Today we're excited to be sharing with you the 3 best solo carry champions for every
single role in patch 11.7.
Our analysts have picked out these champions based on there raw carry power and potential
to influence games more so than others for the current meta.
Alright, lets get started.
A champion about to breakout and start taking over the meta is wukong so we've got him as
a top 3 solo carry pickup.
With trinity force buffs this patch wukong becomes indirectly stronger.
A few meta top laners like fiora and riven are being hit with the essence reaver nerfs
which indirectly boosts wukong up in priority.
It really just comes down to how broken the champ is against all the meta top laners.
Gnar, Darius and Fiora are Wukongs most common matchups at the moment and he smashes all
of them holding a 53 percent win rate against each.
Wu's passive is just so strong against any ad top lane pick as he gains bonus armor which
is amplified when fighting his opponent.
This coupled with the fact that wukongs mobility allows him to outplay abilities like darius
or aatrox q and negate a ton of there damage makes him so amazing.
Lets not forget his teamfight power is some of the best for any top laner as well which
makes him such a consistent carry threat.
The only meta champ you really need to worry about is malphite so just ban him out and
its smoothing sailing.
Definitely try out trinity force rush on your Wu for this patch.
Divine sunderer will still remain a great option against tankier matchups but the trinity
force buffs are going to really bolster your ability to melt towers and snowball out of
control.
There's really nothing better than conqueror for wukongs keystone combined with triumph,
tenacity and last stand.
Grab free boots and biscuits for secondaries.
Another hard carry top laner who's exploded in strength as of recent is urgot.
Like Wukong, urgot is a really great blind pickable top laner as his strength in meta
matchups is top notch.
He can destroy Riven, do very well into gnar and has a positive win rate against all of
his 10 most common matchups.
What ultimately pushed urgot over the top a few patches back was the finding of his
new OP build consisting of titanic hydra rush into stridebreaker second.
Titanic hydra has crazy good synergy with urgots w while the stridebreaker active gives
him that much needed mobility to reach and stick onto his targets.
Once you complete this two item spike, urgot becomes a juggernaut as hes so difficult to
kill with all the HP but can still unload mass amounts of damage.
The complete build is titanic hydra into stridebreaker and then black cleaver third.
Press the attack is disgustingly strong on urgot as his w can instantly proc it to give
you that damage amplification.
follow with triumph, tenacity and last stand opting for bone plating and overgrowth for
secondaries.
Despite riot's numerous attempts to bring down the dunkmaster, darius remains a powerhouse
pickup for patch 11.7.
His early to mid game is hard to match for most top laners giving him the ability to
quite literally run away with any sort of advantage.
By taking ghost and flash you have the opportunity to relentlessly hunt down your opponents sending
them to the fountain time and time again.
Unless riot really hits stridebreaker with a meaningful nerf or directly nerfs darius
himself we'll likely be seeing him for many patches to come.
Its actually kinda crazy to think that darius has been an OP top lane pick for the entirety
of season 11.
The only matchup darius tends to struggle with at the moment is against wukong which
we touched on earlier so look to ban him out and you're all set.
After completing stridebreaker go into sterak's second and then deadman's plate third.
Conqueror will be your keystone with triumph, tenacity and last stand.
Look the way of resolve for secondaries running bone plating and unflinching.
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If you're in the mood to clown on some junglers for 11.7 then shaco is the obvious pickup.
First was Udyr and now its Shaco, these traditionally mediocre jungle picks are on the rise in season
11 and shaco is now a god tier champ for solo queue.
So many junglers have been nerfed in recent patches while shaco has been one of the few
actually buffed and this is leading to his rise in power.
W buffs from 11.5 combined with the passive buffs back in 11.2 have quietly shifted shaco
into a monster pickup.
Shaco's ability to impact the map early on is really great and with any sort of advantage
he can just start one shotting from stealth with 0 counterplay.
There's so much versatility build wise for shaco right now which makes him an even more
reliable pickup.
AD and AP are both completely viable for 11.7 so building whatever fits best for your comp
is often the way to go.
The top performing build is a stridebreaker rush into sanguine blade second and essence
reaver third.
If you're looking to play AP its a liandry's into cosmic drive and zhonyas.
Take hail of blades for the keystone when playing AD with sudden impact, eyeball collector
and relentless hunter.
grab free boots and approach velocity for secondaries.
When playing AP take dark harvest with cheap shot, eyeball collector and ultimate hunter.
Secondaries will be transcendence and gathering storm.
Unless riot actually hits hecarim with a meaningful nerf, the horse will continue to run rampant
around the rift.
Hecarim has the ability to effect games with a much higher success rate than other junglers
due to his strong gank power and simplicity.
With ghost popped and e charged, there is very little the enemy can do besides flash
away when you gank early on.
After burning the enemies flash, since ghost is on a much shorter cooldown, you can just
rinse and repeat once ghost is back up and grab yourself some guaranteed free kills.
Even though chemtank was nerfed this patch, the item will remain super broken and even
if you don't build chemtank, buffed trinity force is another great option now in 11.7.
What makes hecarim so frustrating and imbalanced to play against is just how much move speed
he can obtain to mow you down without any counterplay.
Sure his E move speed was nerfed slightly this patch but it was giga broken before and
will now just remain broken.
Build wise on Hec, chemtank into deadmans and force of nature will still be a solid
pickup but don't sleep on trinity force especially since it was buffed and chemtank was nerfed.
If you want to go the route of the more carry oriented build follow the trinity force rush
with a sterak's second and deaths dance third.
Abuse phase rush to stack even more move speed with nimbus cloak, celerity and waterwalking.
Domination secondary has fallen off in priority after the ravenous hunter nerfs last patch
so take precision with triumph and tenacity.
Our 3rd solo carry jungle pickup for 11.7 is one of the premier AP options in fiddlesticks.
Fiddle is such a strong jungler for solo queue as his gank power post 6 and teamfight potential
Is second to none.
The ability to execute gank plays from so many angles gives fiddle this element of surprise
that the enemy has to respect and play further back in lane because of it.
If they dont its free kills all day long.
As you transition into the mid game you've always got the ability to flip a game around
or extend a lead with that one good multi man ult.
If you can control vision around objectives and force the enemy to facecheck into you,
that's when fiddles at his best.
Let the enemy team walk into you and while they're grouped up in a choke, strike with
that huge game changing ult play.
Don't make the rookie mistake of starting the game off with a refillable potion.
Since fiddles clear is quite healthy, grab a control ward instead and provide your team
with some vision early on.
For the build rush a rocket belt into zhonyas and void staff.
Take electrocute with cheapshot, eyeball collector and ultimate hunter for primaries.
perfect timing and cosmic insight work great for secondary runes.
Moving onto mid lane now the first champion we need to address is katarina.
There are very few mid laners in the game with the same amount of snowball potential
and raw carry power that katarina possesses.
Early laning can be a little rough in certain matchups but once you get the ball rolling
there's no turning back.
The crazy mobility and consistent damage thanks to the resets from katarina's passive allows
her to remain a threat all throughout a teamfight and can clean up kills better than any other
mid.
The new season 11 summoner spell setup of ignite and teleport allows kat to maintain
solid kill threat early on but also gives her the ability to get a base in without losing
anything if poked out.
The only matchup kat has some issues with at the moment is against galio so using your
ban on him is a great idea.
Our analysts rate katarina really highly at the moment and a big factor for it is due
to her extremely adaptable build paths.
Just like the shaco pick we mentioned earlier, katarina can opt for either an AD or AP build
depending on the game.
This makes her a very reliable pickup as you'll never run into scenarios where your team is
overloaded with one damage type.
The best AP katarina build is a nashor's rush into rocket belt second and then zhonyas third.
For the korean AD build, rush a divine sunderer into blade of the ruined king and titanic
hydra.
The AP rune setup is electrocute to burst super hard with sudden impact, eyeball collector
and relentless hunter.
Relentless is really great now due to ravenous being nerfed in 11.5.
Secondary runes are triumph and coup de grace.
The AD rune setup is conqueror with triumph, tenacity and coup de grace.
Grab sudden impact and relentless hunter for secondaries.
For our second solo carry mid laner, he's a pick you can use to shut down so many of
the meta mids and its galio.
Galio has indirectly become even stronger over the past few patches due in part to akali
and sylas receiving buffs which has shot up there play rates.
Galios a great counter to both those champions alongside other meta picks like katarina,
fizz, diana, really any melee AP assassin.
Since longer ranged AP mages are played very rarely in the meta, galio just doesn't get
punished very often at all.
Galio can struggle a little against AD mids like talon or lucian so banning one of them
out will alleviate counter potential.
All in all though galio is a highly dependable mid laner whos always going to be useful and
has insanely good map impact with ult at level 6.
If you're just looking for an easy mid laner to pickup and grab some freelo with in 11.7
there's no better option than the colossus.
Build wise you can rush a rocketbelt or shurelya's depending on your playstyle.
Rocketbelt offers more damage but shurelya's is cheaper and provides better engage.
pickup zhonyas second and void staff third.
Take aftershock as the keystone with shield bash, bone plating and unflinching.
Grab sorcery for secondary running nimbus cloak and transcendence.
If you want more roaming power then rolling with predator can work great as well.
follow with taste of blood, eyeball collector and ingenious hunter.
Zed's already been in a really great spot over the past few patches but he gets even
better now due to the serylda's grudge buffs.
With Seeker's armguard nerfed quite heavily in 11.5 it makes these AD assassins like zed
even better too.
there's just no easy way to negate a ton of zed's burst now which leads to him being able
to find early kills way easier and snowball a lead alot faster.
Sylas is one of the few matchups that can give you some difficulties so its a good idea
to ban him out.
With the new prowlers claw build really starting to emerge the past few patches it gives zed
even more sticking power and outplay potential.
If you use the prowlers claw active before your full combo, all abilities will deal an
extra 15 percent damage for the next 3 seconds which lets you burst even harder.
Eclipse can also work really well if you're in need of some more tank shredding.
Take electrocute with taste of blood, eyeball collector and ultimate hunter for primary
runes.
Roll with transcendence and scorch for secondaries.
Alright its time we breakdown the 3 best solo carries in the bot lane and lets start off
with jinx.
The loose cannon has suddenly found herself on top of the ADC meta thanks to direct buffs
a few patches back and many other adc's on the receiving end of nerfs.
That range buff to fishbones gives jinx great bully power in lane as most traditional adc's
cant match the range.
Jinx is one of the best adc's at capitalizing on a good engage from there support as her
flame chompers can be used to chain CC while her W and Ult can follow with lots of burst.
This allows jinx to grab early advantages much more often than other adc's and hit her
item spikes way faster.
Thresh and Leona are both played at extremely high rates right now and you could argue those
are the 2 best synergies for jinx.
There's a couple different build options you can experiment with.
Kraken slayer into hurricane and infinity edge is the teamfight oriented tank shredding
setup.
For more single target burst and play making potential try out galeforce with stormrazor
and rapid firecannon.
This build is becoming popular over in korea.
Many pros have been leaning the way of lethal tempo for the keystone over the past patch
with presence of mind, bloodline and coup de grace.
With domination nerfs from 11.6 many pros are now running inspiration secondary with
free boots and biscuits.
It was as if she was never in the gutter at all as samira is back and although not as
busted as before still a top 3 solo carry pick for 11.7.
After a short lived hiatus in C tier, riot buffs samira back up and combined with the
shieldbow changes from last patch, she's performing extremely well again.
With kai'sa nerfed for 11.7 we wouldn't be surprised to see samira's priority rise even
further and have her break back into the 20 percent play rate level.
The champion just has solo carry written all over her as samira's mobility combined with
strong dueling power and crazy teamfight potential gives her a consistent way to always make
an impact.
There's nothing better than shieldbow as a rush item so pick it up every single game
followed by the collector and infinity edge.
Runes are pretty set and stone as well as nothing beats conqueror with presence of mind,
bloodline and last stand.
Ravenous hunter and taste of blood are still the go to secondary runes.
Thanks to kai'sa and tristana nerfs, vayne will be sitting in a really great spot as
a top carry force.
Vayne's been hanging just slightly below them in previous patches so watch out for her to
really shine alongside samira for 11.7.
Vayne's really been liking the way the meta has been shaping out as of recent since we
see very few lane bully adc's being played.
Draven just isn't the same champ he once was and is being played so much less, lucian isn't
picked a ton and MF has really fallen off in popularity.
With tristana nerfed in 11.7 we'll be seeing less of her and that just leaves caitlyn as
one of vaynes more difficult meta matchups.
Whenever lulu's in meta it makes vayne an even better pickup and not only lulu but seraphine
and morgana are also great synergies and being picked a lot.
The full build for vayne is kraken slayer into phantom dancer and infinity edge.
You can replace kraken for shieldbow if you want a little more survivability.
Run press the attack combined with triumph, alacrity and coup de grace for primary runes.
Domination secondary is still outperforming everything else despite the nerfs so continue
to grab taste of blood and ravenous hunter.
Lets now finish off by shining light on the 3 best solo carry supports of 11.7 beginning
with blitzcrank.
The pick power from blitz hook combined with his strong roaming potential on mobis completion
allows for really great authority as to how games play out.
With the press of a single button you can flip a game on a dime and be the sole reason
for that victory screen.
Play making has becomes even easier now thanks to the shurelya's buffs from 11.6 as you'll
be able to capitalize on the enemies mis positioning way more often.
Thresh, Rell and Alistar have all been nerfed in 11.7 too which opens things up for blitz
to really push through as that top tier playmaking support.
After picking up shurelya's go into zeke's second and knights vow third.
Guardian is really underrated as the keystone for blitz with demolish, bone plating and
overgrowth.
Take inspiration for secondary running hexflash and biscuits.
In spite of the nerfs to his W this patch, thresh will still make the cut as a top 3
solo carry pickup.
After all, the nerf is to his w shield at the later ranks and even though W max thresh
was a really broken strategy he's just a slightly less broken champ with a Q max.
Similar to blitzcrank thresh has loads of play making potential in his kit so there's
always going to be opportunities for you to have the ball in your hands.
The level 2 all in power from thresh with flay into hook is so deadly and can give you
an early advantage right off the hop.
Lantern is one of the most powerful basic abilities in the entire game as you can not
only relay your teammate in for a crazy engage but also instantly save your carries from
harm's way.
Many high elo thresh players are finally starting to abuse shurelya's and with its buffs from
last patch its an even better purchase now.
Zekes and knights vow are really standard second and third purchases.
Take guardian for the keystone with font of life, bone plating and unflinching.
Grab biscuits and cosmic insight from the inspiration tree.
And last but definitely not least to conclude, the final support recommendation our analyst's
have in store is leona.
Alongside thresh, leona has been a go to carry option for a few months now and continues
to rise above as a really dependable option.
The amount of damage leona can deal means you can still succeed even with those baboon
adc's you may be cursed with from time to time.
Im sure you've all played against that leona who's solo'd out your adc at level 3 and whacked
away at them to win out and pickup first blood all by herself.
The fact leona takes no damage and also can output so much is what really makes her so
broken.
The resists from leona w, combined with the defensive power from aftershock allows leona
to play so aggressive and strike for those early kills whenever she sees an opening.
Leona's roam strength with mobis is really amazing too and the effectiveness of those
roam plays are so great at level 6 when you have all that chain CC to work with.
Rush a locket into zekes and then knights vow for the build.
Aftershock with font of life, bone plating and unflinching will be your primary runes.
Take hex flash and biscuits for secondaries.
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start dominating with these picks, and we hope to see you back soon!