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Just an opinion but I recently started playing solo a lot and whenever I get first pick I usually suffer in the lane because the other team always counters me. Not only the other solo laner but many times, the whole enemy team plays against my champ. Even if I give my best, all I can make sure is I lose the lane without opponent snowballing. Certain times, the opponent is very bad or the jungler makes a mistake and I get 2 kills. That's when I win the lane but otherwise it's always an L.

Edit. I mentioned top accidentally due to some other games I play I meant solo lane which I have fixed

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Originally posted by Murder_o_Crows

Yeah maybe I should start asking for a swap as well. Its just that I never ask it because I dont want my team mates to feel pressured to a swap. But maybe I might start doing it because first picking solo is really troublesome specially because I do not have a core champ that I have mastered so, if someone picks a counter I tend to lose the lane.

No way, you should totally try to swap. Some positions want to pick early, or if someone has an OP champ they want to secure. The whole reason we made the swap position was for these kinds of situations. There are too many variable to predict what is the ideal picking order for a team, and it will vary from game to game. So we made tools that allow players to do this themselves.