Can someone point out the weakness of a ranged champion TOP when playing vs a non-mobile melee?
I can't find any weakness anymore. They just own the lane, unless your jungler is camping 24/7
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They die once you get to them.
Immobile melees do this through CC or just running at them and murdering them.
Ranged champs generally have inferior stats to melee ones. If you get in range, you should be able to take the 1v1, even after taking a few hits.
Ranged top laners are usually squishy and immobile. They aren't strong laners otherwise. That's why they're top, bullying you, instead of in another lane where they'd have more impact. They are easy to gank. Let them push the wave to bait in your jungler. Even if they don't come, you can turn and chase them all the way back to their tower.
they break their team composition and cant function or do anything when late game come around.
Because there isnt a melee top laner to initiate, tank, or peel for them.
Obv there are some exceptions like Gnar, and Urgot who function more as a melee tank than they do a ranged champion. But i think what youre talking about is Quinn, Vayne, Lucian, etc etc. All of which make their teams suffer with bad composition. Not a very good trade for being a bully from lvl 1-5 if you ask me.
The fact that they die immediately without question as soon as a melee get on them isn’t a weakness? -.-
There are lanes you're not supposed to win, period. But this is a team-game, and you have an opportunity to fight for the win in mid/late game.
Ranged laners have an advantage in the 1v1 vs an immobile melee, but it comes at the price of usually worse team-comp and scaling.
Engage.
If you play Darius, you're fucked. If you play Camille, THEY'RE fucked.
Also late game relevance. As long as you don't feed kills and cs moderately well under tower you should be worth more after lane is over.
The weakness is that the game doesn't end with your lane, especially top.
Don't give up an early kill, get what CS you can, and after you start getting some levels, take advantage of your stronger base stats and either make a teleport play or have your jungler come to assist you.