Melee fighter matchups are a thing of the past.

SUBMIT OBEY·Nov 11, 2014·2 votes·830 views

With so many oppressive top lane ranged champions in the meta your not going to get a cool melee fighter matchup anymore. Used to be cool to be a melee, tanky bruiser vs the same. Now though your facing off against Nidalee top (which is broken as f*uck) or dumb ass Gnar, the safest and easiest poke ever. No mana for his permaslow boomerang?! WTF! And catching it isn't hard. It comes right for him! Why not just remove ever melee bruiser in the game and make it all ranged poke champions? You cant pick garen without the enemy picking teemo. You like melee matchup? Too bad. Those are history

8 Comments

IsIsGankedParisNov 11, 20144 votes

Ranged champs require skill to use unlike those melee slap fighters.

-Ghostcrawler

Sailor MintNov 11, 20141 votes

Agreed.

Nerf Irelia.

insaiyanbaccaNov 11, 20141 votes

i lol'd rip nearly every melee top laner

redniwediSNov 11, 20141 votes

Squishy melee top laners are in a very, very bad spot, but tanky melee top laners can still make surviving the lane their goal. You play toward team fight strength when picking a melee top laner now instead of split pushing or solo carrying.

Fed by Snu SnuNov 11, 20141 votes

The problem is that said ranged top laners will also have big teamfight presesence, while also getting a free road to their farm.

Setting your goal to be useful in a teamfight won't be a successful goal when they have a farmed gnar controlling a fight 2-3 times more than any other melee champ currently does.

redniwediSNov 12, 20141 votes

Personally I never have a problem fighting a Gnar early on. Just pick a tanky sustain champ and force a few favorable fights early on. You won't be able to kill him, but Gnar will have to choose between running and dieing quite often. My main picks against him are Garen and Irelia.

No matter who they use you cannot let them get an advantage. Being melee against a ranged opponent is a very difficult thing, but it is something that can be learned and mastered. You have to know your opponent's strengths and weaknesses (the player, though knowing their champ is good too) and have some idea of how to play around them. Make sure you only use your gap closing abilities (if you have any) defensively unless they blow theirs, in which case you can and should immediately apply pressure.

All melee vs range is about is learning when to apply pressure and when to concede farm. Learn this and anyone can do well in this type of matchup. If you can manage to come out of the laning phase on par with your ranged enemy you will likely be more useful in team fights by default due to itemization differences.