# Miss Fortune Counters, Matchups & Tips | Baron Buff
See Miss Fortune counters, hardest matchups, and tips to play against or draft around Miss Fortune in League of Legends.
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Marksman · Backline Carry · Bot

Prepare for battle with Miss Fortune — master their strengths and exploit their weaknesses before the game starts.

## Playstyle Profile

Miss Fortune is a backline carry — deals massive sustained damage from a safe position

Teamfight Role Backline Carry

Power Spike Early game

Split Threat None

Backline Access Low

## Miss Fortune's Strengths

- Massive sustained damage from safety — Miss Fortune melts frontlines while positioned behind their team

- Dominates early fights — Miss Fortune's base stats and kit spike early, punishing passive opponents

- Unmatched damage output — Miss Fortune's raw DPS is devastating when positioned safely behind their team

## How to Play Miss Fortune

Champion-specific pre-match tips

### Lane Phase

Cast Q on a low health minion when an enemy stands directly behind it to guarantee the critical bounce damage.

### Lane Phase

Alternate your basic attacks between an enemy champion and a nearby minion during short trades to repeatedly trigger your passive bonus damage.

### Lane Phase

Activate W immediately after taking damage to instantly restore your passive movement speed for dodging retaliatory skillshots.

### Mid Game

Force skirmishes around narrow jungle choke points where you can channel your ult across the entire enemy team.

### Mid Game

Cast E into unwarded brushes before establishing river vision to safely check for waiting enemies without dropping your W movement speed.

### Mid Game

Push the mid wave arriving 30 seconds before a neutral objective using your E and Q, then use your W movement speed to rotate to the river first.

### Late Game

Hold your ult until the enemy team commits their mobility spells or your front line lands hard crowd control to guarantee maximum channel duration.

### Late Game

Switch your basic attacks between multiple frontline targets during an extended teamfight to repeatedly trigger your passive and maximize overall DPS.

### Late Game

Position out of enemy vision near a wall before a Baron or Elder Dragon fight erupts to channel your ult safely without being immediately interrupted by flanks.

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## Core Build

Ranked from real ranked-match itemization

We look at ranked games after each item was bought. If the player or team gained ground in gold, we rate that item higher.

- Infinity Edge — 3,500

- Berserker's Greaves (Boots) — 1,100

- Lord Dominik's Regards — 3,300

- The Collector — 3,000

- Bloodthirster — 3,400

- Youmuu's Ghostblade — 2,800

total: 17,100

## How to Counter Miss Fortune

Counter strategies and draft context

dive the backline, deny farm early, or outpace their scaling with early aggression

- Folds to direct pressure — Miss Fortune relies on frontline protection and collapses when dived

- Falls off significantly after 25 minutes — Miss Fortune's early dominance doesn't translate to late game

- Assassins that bypass the frontline

- Hard-engage compositions that force fights early

### Miss Fortune's Weaknesses

- Dive-heavy enemy compositions — Miss Fortune gets collapsed on without allied peel or frontline protection

- Safe, scaling enemy compositions — Miss Fortune's early advantage fades when opponents survive lane without falling behind

- Dive and assassination threats — Miss Fortune has no mobility to escape and relies entirely on allied peel to survive

## Best Synergies with Miss Fortune

Team synergies and draft context

- Peel supports and frontline tanks that protect Miss Fortune — safe positioning unlocks their full damage potential

- Aggressive junglers and roaming supports that snowball leads alongside Miss Fortune's early power spike

- Peel supports that keep assassins and divers away from you

- Engage tanks that create space for safe DPS positioning

### Draft Context

- Lacks a frontline or peel — Miss Fortune gets dove with no protection between them and the enemy

- Pairs Miss Fortune's early power with other early-game picks that all fall off together after 25 minutes

- Skips peel and shields — Miss Fortune has no mobility and gets erased by assassins or divers

## Learning Curve

[Based on 1.2M+ matches](https://baronbuff.com/blog/mastery_by_tier/) across all ranked elos, showing how Miss Fortune's win rate changes with mastery level

Miss Fortune has exceptional depth — there is always something new to learn, but getting results takes patience. Expect lower win rates early while building the experience to unlock this champion's potential.

Skill Cap Very High

Cost of Learning High

Win Rate Delta by Mastery

Mastery Level | Win Rate |

1-2 | 39.7% |

3-4 | 49.5% |

5-6 | 52.2% |

7-8 | 52.2% |

9-12 | 52.2% |

13-16 * | 53.5% |

17+ | 53.5% |

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