What top lane characters can build tank items without giving up cs or dying in 2 seconds under tower

PopcornBunni·1/11/2020, 3:50:13 AM·1 votes·1,990 views

Trying to find a good tank pick to scale into late game team fights while surviving laning phase, but not having any luck. Every time I ask my team they give troll answers like Garen, Darius, Urgot, Aatrox who build damage and scale horribly if they build tank items, and it's honestly getting irritating losing in pregame because my team decided it would be funny to troll the top laner trying to learn the new meta.

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Skia Asteri1/11/2020, 6:59:57 AM2 votes

I see you were in Iron last season (and finished Iron 1 with 100 LP, so almost Bronze 4). The champions you play are not the issue, but how you play them (which includes what you build on them). In your most recent game you played Aatrox , and built item 3047 item 3065 item 3075 item 3068 in that order. And you were laning vs Nasus . So you you likely play in a very defensive, passive style and have a strong preference to building defense.

My advice is to play one champion every game in top lane, in ranked SoloQ, until you get good at them. So either play something you like in general so you do not get tired of playing it quickly. Or if you don't know or feel you can manage to stick with whatever champion, then play Malphite who does very well while building defensive items when played properly. And keep playing that one champion, whoever you settle on, for a few hundred games at least.

You can look at lolalytics.com if you are not sure what items, runes, and/or summoner spells are good for the particular champion you chose to play.

I also see you play lots of games versus the intermediate bots. And you consistently smash them. The biggest difference between them and going against players is after playing large numbers of bot game, you have got good at predicting what they will do. But you are not as good at predicting players of a similar level to yourself or players that are above your level. At this point to improve you need to play against players, and playing against the bots is at best a waste of time in terms of getting better.

When you play, focus especially on playing the laning phase well. Don't worry about the later parts of the game until you can do well in lane in the vast majority of your games. Once you can do that then you can learn how to press your lead to get your team into a game state where you are most likely going to win. Then once you consistently well at that transition you can start focusing on how the close out games you should win without throwing.

Do also look for game play videos or streams to see how other people play. Speaking of, I have recently been up loading recordings of some of my ranked games to Youtube. Most of the current videos are mid lane (which I played a lot of in pre-season), but I primarily play top lane and will be uploading more top lane videos soon as I finish preparing them for up loading. I know I don't have any comentary in the videos, but if there is anything in them you would like an explanation about leave a comment on the video(s) and I will try to get around to answering any questions.

Malix Farwin1/11/2020, 7:24:14 AM2 votes

Any tank?

Woodakoodashooda1/11/2020, 4:07:27 AM1 votes

Shen is also a good choice for a top lane tank right now. Deals quite a bit of damage thanks tohis Q. Needs only Titanic Hydra for additional damage then goes straight tank. And he's an energy champion; so, he's able to use his abilities liberally n lane, enabling him to out sustain many champions.

Technically he does struggle against Illaoi and Mordekaiser. Banning Morde is a safe bet when picking Shen because of his current popularity.

Kuponya1/11/2020, 5:54:35 AM1 votes

Chogath

RyzeRework1/11/2020, 8:56:42 AM1 votes

Chogath and ornn have been seeing some play. My personal go to tank is and always will be sion. Nothing like the pain train crashing into the enemy team

Mid Summoner1/11/2020, 9:06:54 AM1 votes

Poppy is very strong especially into most melee matchups.

PhearBunny1/11/2020, 3:06:25 PM1 votes

Poppy and Ornn are probably the only ones that could reliably get away with it.

Minimac20001/11/2020, 5:28:00 PM1 votes

Yep, assuming you aren't behind ornn and poppy. I also really am a fan of illaoi going balck cleaver into a full transcendance build, but if you get behind early doing that you are going to have a bad time, plus while tanky she doesn't have the cc to really be a tank

Celebrimborr1/12/2020, 9:01:07 AM1 votes

Chogath cant lose lane and scales really hard into the late game. Just get 40 cdr and build full hp and u good

Infernape1/11/2020, 3:51:37 AM1 votes

Ornn Malphite Maokai

hazerddex1/13/2020, 5:25:29 AM1 votes

Poppy Ornn

Dr Endeavor1/11/2020, 3:55:03 AM1 votes

There is a lot of room to debate what is a “tank”. I’m not a top laner, but Ornn and Mundo were the first champs to come to mind.