hello summoners and welcome to another
episode of pro counters where we go over
picks to help you counter the current
meta patch 9.14 is a great patch with
tons of changes so the pics that we're
gonna go over today will give you a
competitive edge in stand victorious
with so many changes on this patch it's
no surprise that we need to look at
every single role as always feel free to
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let's get started one of the more
significant changes to this patch was to
poppy after stopping an enemy - or
movement ability with your W Poppy's
foes will now be grounded and slowed for
two additional seconds while this might
seem minor at first this is actually a
huge buff because while grounded
you cannot flash on top of the fact that
you already had one mobility spell
cancelled you won't be able to use flash
almost certainly means that you will die
this gives puppy more time to angle
herself for either a stun and can also
make it so she punishes mistakes much
harder specifically this will counter
champions who rely on a lot of mobility
spells such as irelia Yasuo and Riven or
against champions who heavily rely on
one gap closing abilities such as
Camille or Jax poppy is going to have a
lot more kill pressure as a result of
these buffs while she typically had a
pretty good matchup against Renekton he
also received a buff this patch that'll
make it a skill matchup as poppy you
want to use your passive auto attacks to
poke out your opponents as much as you
can combining that with grasp of the
undying you'll have an easy time getting
free damage and making it difficult for
your opponents to farm space yourself
out carefully and poke with your Q until
your opponents are low enough for you to
start playing more aggressively in the
mid to late game focus on strong
flanking in engages when your team wants
to be more proactive if the enemy team
is trying to make plays you can do the
opposite and use
w and your ultimate to throw away any
attempts by your enemies to force fights
our next pick for the top lane are not
necessarily traditional bruisers but
actually marksmen and that's Vayne and
Lucian and there's two reasons why we
chose these champions Jayce Kennan and
Nico all received nerfs to their base ad
this patch while it makes these
champions oppressive range picks weaker
in the top lane Vayne and Lucian go
untouched so they'll still be able to
bully out their lane opponents and win
most matchups range champions being
nerfed opens up more opportunities for
bruisers in tanks to pull back into the
meta Vayne and Lucian have good matchups
into several bruisers notably
mordekaiser aatrox Renekton Colette and
Darius for this patch it's definitely
possible that we'll see more tanks and
if not we'll at least see more poppy in
farming matchups Vayne and Lucian can
run klepto mansi for increased income
and accelerated power spikes when
playing with press the attack on either
champion look to use your range
advantage to build an advantageous wave
or slow push anytime your opponent tries
to farm trade with them and punish them
for it if they look for an all-in kite
back and trade back as much damage as
you possibly can when they back off you
should be able to create health
advantages and either zone your enemies
by freezing or pressuring kills under
turret with kleptomania you should look
to instead earn free gold off of it
whenever you can if your opponent is
playing pretty poorly you can look to
push and poke them hard and pressure
them but what matters more is ensuring
that you're getting every last hit and
earning klepto gold in-between farming
minions all right let's move on to our
jungle counter picks now first up in the
jungle is the 450 blue essence legend
himself warwick price doesn't always
equate to performance and warwick stats
speak for him and he's an excellent
counter to some champions Warwick's a
provides him with damage reductions so
he's actually able to survive the
initial burst from champions like Jarvan
Evelyn or Elise and then follow up with
his strong all-in unfortunately for
warwick though his drawn-out duels
aren't strong enough to match the likes
of hecarim jax or oh dear but he's got
an advantage against champions who have
longer cooldowns although he does lack
the title for strongest engage or
dueling warwick is still a strong
champion when used as a counter pick
because he's still okay at both he s
favorable matchups vs. many met a
champions and he can still create leads
and have a stronger impact than his
opponent in the jungle through his power
spike advantage alone
our second jungle pick is reksai and you
want to pick her up alongside Warwick
for the brawler bonus
oh wait that's the wrong game alright
that's way too many tf2 jokes let's get
serious
rek'sai is just generally a really
strong blind pick the nerf Saskatchewan
II on the previous patch swung the match
up from being in her favor to being
heavily in rek sai's favor she also
happens to be a great counter pick to
evelyn as she's able to echolocate
evelyn with tremor sense while she's
still stealth she's also able to create
solo leads versus tankier junglers as a
result of her quick jungle clear and
ability to create tunnels throughout her
jungle wrecks I can pick up a farm
advantage or a tempo advantage versus
slower paced junglers and then out
pressure them if she creates a lead
things that make Rex life so strong is
that she's able to at least go even in
almost any jungle matchup and she can
sniff out counter ganks with her tremor
sense a pretty safe pick in most cases
and also a very strong situational
counter pick while playing Rex I take
advantage of your strong dueling and
unique ganking angles with your tunnels
you have a lot of different approaches
that you can take so you should use this
to avoid wards and catch the enemy bot
or top laners by surprise and pick up
some free kills with those leads you'll
want to constantly duel as you're
exceptionally strong during the early to
mid game next up let's run a down mid
with Katarina cat receives some small
buffs to the grievous wounds on her
ultimate problem is she's already a very
strong counter to popular picks such as
Yasuo Zed and oreonna and these buffs
will make her an even strong counter
pick outside of her own lane as well
with the abundance of healing from
support as well as self-healing in other
roles it should come as no surprise that
Katarina will thrive after this buff to
learn more about Katarina you can check
out our Opie picker band video for patch
9.12 Silas seems to make the patch notes
every single time now and he's received
change after change over the last couple
of weeks finally though this patch
should solidify his role as a counter to
AP champions one of Silas's strengths is
that he's already acting as a counter to
specific champions not exclusive to his
own lane tarek horn and gnar are all
countered by Silas since he's easily
able to counter their engages with the
same game-changing ultimate in the
he's now going to be a strong or at the
worst in okay pick into any AP champion
vs. champion like a collie Rumble and
mordekaiser who have key Ultimates for
him to steal Silas will now have a
winning matchup as well as great options
for himself later on in the game during
the laning phase you'll need to adjust
your trade patterns based on matchup
against mid-range champions you'll want
to focus on landing q poke and then
forcing all Inns once they're low
against melee champions poke with Q and
look for drawn-out trades if your
opponent tries to trade back your W will
deal more damage if your opponent is low
and it will heal you more if you are low
holding it until you've traded some more
damage makes it more effective in the
mid to late gameplay like a split pusher
if you can beat your opponent in the
side lane or play like a mage by only
clearing waves if you can't prioritize
taking key Ultimates and team fighting
with them and then make sure to assess
which ones are most important for
engaging or disengaging and then try to
choose accordingly all right time for
the bot lane while Vayne is definitely a
strong bot laner she's once again a
strong counter to the meta outside of
her own lane while she can't bully out
melee opponents like in the top lane
bottom lane Vayne is still a decent
marksman pick who can scale into the
late game within the context of bottom
lane veins going to have more
opportunities to outplay skill shot
dependent supports champions like Leona
and Nautilus can have difficulty landing
their abilities on Vayne so you'll be
able to capitalize on opponents anytime
they waste crucial cooldowns as for
twitch he's the hyper scaling rat that
has arisen as a counter pick to utility
carries and certain hyper carries as
well champions like Sivir Ashe enviros
have difficulty shutting down twitch and
often fall victim to his ambush after he
manages to finish some items utility
carries want to neutralize their
opponents and pressure them however
twitch is strong all in style and
stealth makes it easy for him to force
them into unfavorable fights especially
given their lack of mobility when
playing twitch you don't need to force
anything time is your friend wait for
item power spikes notably Cutlass and
blade of the ruined King which will aid
you in your all ends afterwards you can
play aggressively if it's safe to or
continue to farm and confidently know
that you'll out scale your opponent
twitch is probably the best roaming
marksman as a result of his stealth so
after pushing in a couple of waves
bottom feel free to look for roams mid
with or without your support to snowball
more advantages and open your
up to the mid laner as a direct counter
to some of the strongest supports in the
game brand definitely deserves some time
in the spotlight he's a good range an
excellent poke allow him to chip away at
enemies such as Thresh Nautilus and
Morgana and then forced them out of lane
after poking them out his opponents
won't be in a position to look for an
all-in since they've already likely lost
a lot of their health at that point
instead they'll have to sit under the
turret and look for resets slowly
allowing brand to build some leads
during the laning phase pay close
attention to your spacing as brand
what's most important is to make sure
that you land some poke before you start
playing aggressively from full health
aggressive supports can force all ins
and punish you since you're already
squishy yourself once your enemies are
lower health however you can start
playing more aggressively and simply
kill your opponents if they try to
engage on you look to transition
yourself into a secondary carry for the
team while you'll still be providing
good vision control you need to be in a
position as if you're a carry in
teamfights because your damage is very
comparable to one quite often brain will
do the most damage in the entire game
focus on stacking up your passive on a
target stunning whoever is a priority
and look for clump enemies to land big
Ultimates finally Leona receive some
changes this patch which lowers her
damage taken by a flat amount while her
W is active this means that dots or
attacks that are rapid will be
significantly weaker against her Leona
is already a great counter to squishy
non aggressive supports as well as
tankier ones like Nautilus these buffs
make her stronger in blind pick
scenarios and Zyra and brains damage
versus her won't be as menacing anymore
in lane you should look for
opportunities to engage when you have a
minion wave advantage and then roam when
more opportunities arise if you gain
early bottom Lane use wave management
either freeze so you can call for your
jungler force a fight and then look for
an objective or slow push to set up a
dive Leona does a couple of things very
well one of them is tanking the turret
and locking down opponents and the other
one is taking great advantage of jungler
ganks due to your setup in teamfights
you want to use your ultimate to engage
or peel for your carries depending on
what your team needs in the mid game
you'll act as a pseudo frontliner since
you'll still be very tanky with your
aftershock in the late game you won't be
as tanky as a real top lane tank so
you'll instead focus on landing as many
stuns as possible to maximize your crowd
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