First pick top feels like a death sentence

GiraffeFactory·10/15/2019, 2:45:05 AM·2 votes·1,633 views

Getting first pick top, or any case where you pick top before your opponent does just feels like you've already lost before either of you have even picked a champion. Because odd are if when you pick your champion first, your opponent is just gonna pick a hard counter (god forbid you want to play a melee champion without knowing exactly what your opponent is picking). It feels like people aren't picking the top laner they want to play, they're just picking the top laner that counters the other persons because you pretty much just win your lane in champ select. This wouldn't be so bad if top lane counters didn't feel so disgustingly oppressive.

But this has been top for a while now. I really don't expect it to change.

7 Comments

Umbra Z10/15/2019, 2:59:06 AM2 votes

thats just how it is, to change that they'd have to rework the whole toplane, and i think they're too busy making skins to do that.

MrFawknSunshine10/15/2019, 3:07:33 AM1 votes

yes i agree.

this is more of an issue in SOLO QUEUE compared to pro play.

pro play teams pick and swap champs but they also pick champs for a lane to fill a need in a team comp sometimes despite the 1 vs 1 match up. were in solo queue this isnt the case for about 90% of games.

last game i played i was top and i was 4th pick but enemy didnt pick top lane yet, i saw my team comp and what the enemy had to that point and i saw we needed tank/cc/engage so i picked maokai knowing damn well im gonna get hard counter picked let alone as a whole how bad tanks are.

i got matched vs a darius ... i got ass raped in lane 0-5-1 down 30 cs lost both outer turrets. i just kept on keeping on... built for the team and played the team fight/mid game i go from 0-5-1 to 2-8-14 so a swing of 2-3-13 and we end up winning game.

Lost R10/15/2019, 3:35:34 AM1 votes

Is that why all the top laners keep picking an ADC and then just wandering under the enemy turret until they can surrender?

Goopy Amethyst10/15/2019, 3:53:03 AM1 votes

I stopped playing toplane more and more because is the most counter-heavy lane and it honestly feels... Boring and unfair. If an adc gets a counterpick, the support can get a support that counters the adc, or that has great synergy with the adc to compensate for loses. If the midlaner gets counterpicked, the jungler can easily just, gank and help balance it. But top has nothing, most junglers (as a jungler player myself, I admit this) don't play around top because on the majority of the lane phase, all the heavy priority objectives are on bot, bot can destroy turrets faster, botside has the dragons, top only has the rift herald that many times people don't even botter doing it, and when baron is up the lane phase is already over. Top is just screwed over, particularly if you dare play a tank.

The thigh guy10/15/2019, 3:58:53 AM1 votes

Adc is the same way for the past 5 years sooooooooo why is it suddenly a problem because top has to deal with it?