So what exactly do people want from Top Lane?

Eedat··3 votes·1,945 views

From what I gather, this is what Top Lane should be:

  • Ranged champions are banned. If you take a ranged champion top lane, you immediately lose half your base stats and your base movement speed is reduced to 150 just so you know just how awesome muh Darius is. Lane bullies that autowin trades are fine as long as they're melee with an exception made for Camille.

  • If you want to play a Tank top, you must first get approval from your lane opponent in champion select. If they agree, they automatically get the opportunity to select a different champ if they have already picked theirs.

  • Junglers must submit the proper paperwork before ganking. These forms must be submitted and agreed upon by all parties involved at least 10 minutes in advance of the gank. The enemy has the right to refuse the gank attempt at any time.

  • If I 1v1 the enemy Top Laner 3 times, the enemy Nexus instantly explodes. Everyone should know how fucking amazing my mechanics are. Nobody can 1v1 me m8.

  • Despite Top Lane now being a 1v1 island where only the most elite players can hold their own, It should still have as much impact on the 5v5 as everyone else. If a Top Laner is split pushing when a team fight breaks out, the game is paused and the Top Laners are automatically placed into the enemy backline. Everyone is forbidden to use CC for 2 seconds after the unpause.

  • Top Laners are now the only ones who can last hit Baron and Dragon. If Top Laners want to split without TP up, the enemy team can no longer threaten with a cross map objective.

  • No other position can rotate to the top lane for the first 30 minutes of a match. After 30minutes, a fee of 500 gold per minute must be payed to the Top Laner for being in his/her lane.

Seriously this is what it feels people want. And yes, I play Top myself

10 Comments

Tager2 votes

First of all its obvious you don't play top lane. Top lane is such a mess right now its actually ridiculous how riot is just ignoring the fact that tanks beats bruisers in lane and in almost everything. You cannot play around their abilities because of the nature of their kits unlike a bruiser vs bruiser lane. Lets say Jax main vs Darius main, its totally skill matchup where Jax can play around Darius abilities and Darius can also play around Jax's abilites. But a Jax vs Maokai? what can you do as Jax to hurt Maokai? Maokai will just spam Q off cooldown and walk away and also Mao can AA Jax to death thanks to his passive and Grasp. So Mao can beat Jax in lane and out teamfight him? thats kinda stupidly unfair.

Also they stonewall the lane and you cant do anything about that which forces a 50/50 bot lane leaving you no impact in the game. Same goes with range top laners like Gnar, Jayce and teemo, they force you to play safe or poke you to death. Its not really fun to play against tanks for bruisers or even for anyone, almost every role dislike playing vs tanks, they are lame and they are easiest class to play which is another problem that autofilled tank can beat top lane mains.

If you dont play top lane then dont spit nonsense and think the lane is fine.

Eedat1 votes

I do play top lane lol. Its not hard to check. Takes like 30 seconds sheesh

PopcornBunni1 votes

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First of all its obvious you don't play top lane. Top lane is such a mess right now its actually ridiculous how riot is just ignoring the fact that tanks beats bruisers in lane and in almost everything.

[sg-lux-2] [sg-lux-2] [sg-lux-2]

You mean that class of characters that can buy a singe item item 3071 and invalidate a tank's entire 6 item build? And beat every single tank bar Sion before that item gets rushed when the tanks have no remotely decent items? That class?

Tager1 votes

Yeah my bad I should buy BC at lvl1. Should I buy BC on Jax too? Please guide me totally smart low elo guy

nelogis2 votes

of course!

You too low elo to understand a real jax build I'm bronze 2 with 50.2% winrate, me smurf master look here and learn.

Jax item 3071 item 3036 item 3091 item 3146 item 3135 item 3056

Also I made good guide named "road to bronze 1" on how to beat tanks so I know what I'm talkin about aight?

Big Lincoln2 votes

black cleaver is trash

Quiet Dude2 votes

Top lane being successful should mean something. Currently if I win/lose top lane, it doesn’t matter, because how my bottom lane performs determines everything.

I could crush a teemo into a fiery paste and take the turret, but there is no way I can do anything against a fed bot/mid lane by mid game.

haaaaaaalp2 votes

if that is what you are gather from the discussion, you should probably take a break. You have become so jaded that you lost sight of the balance discussion.

Torgal1 votes

If the bot lane stay like this (since 2 seasons lol), Top will never shine. Just nerf ADC.

Aptest1 votes

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From what I gather, this is what Top Lane should be... ...Seriously this is what it feels people want. And yes, I play Top myself

Let me try and answer this:

1 To play champions that do a lot of damage and are good at killing their lane opponent. (and playing these champions should not set your team up to lose because "you do not have a tank") 2 To have the victory in top lane mean, that the other team must constantly send **multiple ** champions to guard their inmer and inhib towers, and in that mechanism to have victory over your direct opponent in top lane open up a win condition for the game that is centered around the top lane player's performance in lane and subsequent play, and is NOT "join up with the team and front line/team fight for the ADC". 3 To have other champions of the other lanes to be generally weaker at fighting than the top lane champions. I.E. the top lane champion should be able to beat mages, assassins, and ADC/support combos.

1 seems to be a reasonable request. 2 I have a lot of caveats with, but it SHOULD be something that top lane players can unlock during the game (but not the primary mode of making winning lane win the game for the top lane, IMHO).

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