Noob Stompers: Why They Suck In High Elo But Are Overpowered In Low Elo | League of Legends

Some champions in League perennially find incredible performance and success in lower ranked games but tend to perform worse in higher ranked games. Today I want to talk about them to go over the reasons why!

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[justendmenow]

As a yorick main, i can confirm that it is harder to shovel the higher you climb

[slytherynx]

As a low Elo player I am way more concerned about pro stompers, characters like zeri, twisted Fate, old ASOL. Characters who were op at high Elo but trash at low Elo but that my team would still pick and solo lose the game for us.

[Asasin-cksn]

As a mundo main, i can confirm that it is harder to go where you please the higher you climb

[kittypig]

2:22 Samira is the definition of a time check noobstomper, the Yi of adc. Super simple combos that can give pentas but not so effective in higher elos because they know how to play around her W cooldown, abuse her weak early game, and prevent her combos with cc and proper kiting.

[kevingriffith]

I think you kinda missed one of the biggest contributors to pubstompers: It all comes down to certain assumed skills that are underdeveloped in low elo play, and the disconnect between the skill required to pilot a character and the skill required to counter them.

A character's lack of mobility doesn't really matter as much if the enemy has gold-level teamfight positioning. A jungler with bad ganks can still get value in a game where the enemy team has gold-level map awareness and pushes too hard. A character with strong, long range skillshot pokes can thrive in a league where players don't know how to protect themselves from them. (Imagine playing Blitz or Thresh and your opponent doesn't even know to use minions for cover against your hook)

That's not even mentioning the champions whose main counter is "Just use wards".

These are all pretty universal skills that develop with experience, but there are a lot of champions in this game that thrive when the opponent doesn't have them.

[hurriflame]

Noticed something interesting, for the first few minutes there’s clips and videos of master yi while he’s explaining the terms, but he doesn’t actually consider Yi a pubstomber.

[arandomgamer]

I was a Nasus main for a very long time, I found him to be very relaxing to play and he even improved my macro, farming and freezing skills. However the more I climbed in rank the more stressed I was getting in games. In higher elos you not only have to depend more on your teammates but the enemy team also gets better at exploiting your weaknesses.
Now I just play with him outside ranked ocasionally.
In the end I think such picks are just too demanding to play in higher elos compared to other more estabilished picks. Its not that they're unplayable, its that they become niche and need a LOT more investment to do good there.

[GNCD]

Ivern is the only noobstomper for both the enemy and your team. They have no idea what he does.

[Billy_Agnes]

This video's pretty accurate. However, Malzahar is viable High Elo.
With "Future's Market" and "Sapphire + Refill" start, he only has to survive until 590g for Last Chapter.
His Q forces neutral play while shoving with E W. He won't run out of mana, and he'll scale safely.

[alejohp]

Noob stompers in low elo are terrifying. If as little as one person in the team lacks game knowledge, everything becomes a huge issue.

[FlemetAeton]

One of the big factors that makes many of these champions so good is because they are anti-smurf as well. It's much harder to solo carry as a smurf when malz presses R exclusively on you, nasus wither, mundo tankiness, stalling for the Avenger squad to come (since lower elos love to run around the map in groups of 5. They get away with it too since no one punishes anything, likely due to low confidence that you suggested.)

[kadeskie]

I love this style of league content because I have not been around league till recently and I just love having informational content whether it can help me or not.

[Kilesfactor]

As an iron 2 player, this entire video went right over my head. I can play low tier broken champs and lose and I can play high tier broken champs and still lose.🙃

[jakiii]

nasus w brings everyone joy not just low elo

[bernardgarrett]

Can you make an anti-noobstomp series plz? There are certain champs I see over and over in low elo (gold-plat) that I do not know how to beat. I'm sure that since most of the community is silver to plat, this would be useful for everyone.

[pinstripe]

This was actually very insightful as a new LoL player. Particularly about why some junglers aren’t as good in low elo because they’re more invade-oriented. I mostly play top lane, but I do jungle as a secondary and being invaded is such an anxiety for me. I don’t take those risks because I don’t trust that I know how to play well enough to kill the enemy jg early on.

[-sorta]

As a %65 wr emerald yorick main that got placed in bronze II, he is so easy to just go full lethality on and stomp in gold and below. Once you get into high plat, your build and runes chang drastically depending on the matchup if you want to have the highest chances of winning, and matchups get way harder.(My wr dropped from %80 at plat 4 to now %67 at emerald 4)

[zandromex]

I´m curious to know why you would not consider Veigar and Yi pubstompers. Veigar ticks all the boxes and does pretty good in low elo while yi is like, the quintessential noob stomper.

[baxle_b]

Great timing. I was recently showing a friend how to play the game and we had an adc player (approx silver) who could not stop complaining about how the Nasus was fed now and there was nothing we could do. I set up a textbook shut down of a nasus with the support and the adc was terrified to even be in max AA range to dps them down. Its only been a year since I was hard stuck silver and I cant believe how ridiculous being on the outside looking in feels now that I've started to improve (all be it slowly).

[Jayynoz.]

before aatrox got reworked, i played him all the way from bronze to plat. it’s amazing how many ppl didn’t know to build executioners early lol