5 Best LoL Bully Bot Laners to Dominante the Laning Phase

the 5 best League of Legends bot lane bullies: Caitlyn, Draven, Kalista, Karthus, and Tristana, highlighting how each excels in dominating the laning phase.

Updated on Mar 05, 2024
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5 Best LoL Bully Bot Laners to Dominante the Laning Phase

League of Legends lane bully champions are the ones that are designed to hit their powerspikes early, in a way that it's inevitable or have a definite advantage over others from the start. For the bot laners, that can be manifested in a variety of ways!


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Caitlyn

The first bot lane bully on our list is the League of Legends champion with the longest range in the game. And seeing as the bot lane is a matchup between two marksmen, you can see why she is a bully.

Trading in the bot lane, usually comes down to spacing and trying to hit the enemy ADC before they can fire back. With Caitlyn's range, and her headshot, winning trades is incredibly easy to achieve!


LoL - Caitlyn Splash Art

In addition to this, however, Caitlyn's ultimate is the perfect sniping tool, that forces the enemy to back off from pressing their advantage, if the enemy won a skirmish in the mid lane, for example.

This way, Caitlyn as a bot laner bullies even mid laners, forcing them to stay out of vision and back, so Caitlyn can't cash in on a free kill.


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Draven

There is a reason Draven's passive is called League of Draven, and that is because Draven is the most dominant LoL champion of bot lane bully champions.

While someone like Caitlyn can win trades against Draven, one wrong move leads to Draven's all-in. And due to his early-game scaling, especially with juggling two axes, there is not a single LoL marksman that can take a skilled Draven on one versus one, during the early game!


LoL - Draven Splash Art

Additionally, with every minion killed Draven gets Adoration stacks that he cashes in as gold with a champion takedown. So, even going one for one against a Draven, means you're on the losing side of things!


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Kalista

Bot lane is the lane where, to bully the enemy, you must be capable of bullying both the enemy ADC and their support, even if the are one of the best LoL support bullies at the same time.

Caitlyn does it via range, Draven via oppressiveness, and Kalista does it through skill. Kalista is the bot lane bully with the highest skill floor on our list, and for good reason!


LoL - Kalista Splash Art

Kalista jumps around the lane even more that Lucian, due to her pasive which allows her to move while winding up her auto-attacks or abilities.

By doing this, she can easily dodge enemy skill-shots, ensuring that the enemy support cannot stop her from dishing out her incredible early-game damage onto their ADC. And due to her high movement, there is no escape!


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Karthus

Breaking off from the various LoL marksmen, we have Karthus, the bot lane bully with an unorthodox strategy. He bullies the enemy bot lane by forcing them to kill him!

This may sound ridiculous, but due to his passive, Karthus can continue to dish out damage to the enemy even after death, taking at the very least one enemy bot lane champion with him!


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Due to his incredible AP scaling and his capability to deal immense damage even after death, Karthus will always outscale the enemy, as he is easily one of the best scaling champions and deal far more damage during the late game than any ADC.

Add to that the fact that his ultimate targets all enemy champions on the map, and Karthus gets the epithet of not just a mere bot lane bully, but that of a global bully!


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Tristana

Unlike the other champions on our list, Tristana is the bot lane bully champion that does not wait for opportunities to arise for her to collect them. She makes them herself! And then stat-checks the enemy until they die.

Due to her explosive charge, her pushing power is unmatched, and winning the level 2 race is incredibly easy. From there on, it's only the matter of jumping on the head of the enemy ADC, forcing them to flash away, at the very least.

And, unlike the other marksmen on our list, she is the easiest LoL champion for beginners to learn to play, at least on the basic level.


LoL - tristana Splash Art

When paired with the best support champions for Tristana, her lane dominance becomes even worse. The enemy can then either try to farm under turret while Tristana can easily gank other lanes with her jump that can cross walls, or even worse, be forced out of lane.

Tristana's explosive charge can be placed on turrets, and, should the enemy leave the lane at a time other than backing when Tristana does, she can cut through turrets like a hot knife through asser!

When maining the bot lane role in League of Legends, the largest gripes are getting paired with a bad support, or not matching the solo lanes in scaling.

These champions, due to their unique abilities, can solo win lanes and solo carry games, if you master all aspects of their gameplay, and abuse the advantages inherent to their kit!

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