REMINDER:::: TOP LANE BEST LANE

Big Lincoln··53 votes·4,536 views

MOST DIVERSE LANE, HEALTHIEST LANE

Tanks, Juggernauts, Mages, Melee ADCs, Marksmen, Divers, Assassins all viable top, the most inclusive and progressive lane in the game. top lane meta constantly shuffling to counter the newest top tiers, so even if a champ or class is weak they'll still be valuable counterpicks

Mid lane only mages and assassins with the occasional corki, constantly jumps between one of them being way too good and the other never getting picked (unless you're ahri xd)

jungle sucks now because riot won't leave it alone, you're either one of the 3 OP bruisers Warwick Vi Graves or an AD assassin Khazix Rengar Graves or you can fuck off. AP jungles get dodges from their own team and tanks can't keep up

Bot Lane farm spot is** M A R K S M E N O N L Y**, only 2 champs have ever broken the mold in recent years Mordekaiser Ziggs and the melee one got nerfed into the dirt for it, would be strong in soloQ again if Riot ever fixed his bugs but guess what HE'S STILL GOOD TOP BABBYYYYYYYYYYY. marksmen are even bigger stat checks than riot likes to circlejerk about bruisers and tanks but we just have to deal I guess :^)

support is just the enchanters or w/e and whatever failed mage rework riot gives up on balancing for mid, tanks come and go depending on when riot has the common sense to nerf mage supports. support mains have yet to open their doors to the glory of the fighter master race though so we can only give them a C+ grade

top lane is the only lane with constant interaction. marksmen are happy to live in their little baby bubble with their training wheel supports and hit minions for 20 minutes, and mages just throw shit at you from across the lane.

FUCK RANGED SCUM mages and marksmen can go top but they will be rightfully reviled for disgracing our glorious u-TOP-ia with their untermensch presence.

No BS objectives like elemental dragons to worry about so you can further express superiority in your lane, herald is just the spicy BM when you win hard early and want to win harder

TL;DR top lane is objectively the best and healthiest lane in the game, all other lanes should be modeled after the golden standard of diversity and progression that we have set, and remove range scum ty bless you riot

88 Comments

Nechronia6 votes

Theres even been some supports top lane!TahmKench Nunu Lulu

Big Lincoln2 votes

WE ARE PROGRESSIVE

Handy Sandy 5 votes

Tanks, Juggernauts, Mages, Melee ADCs, Marksmen, Divers, Assassins all viable top, the most inclusive and progressive lane in the game.

Actually mages aren't. I do it sometimes but like 99% of the time you're facing a tank and they rush item 3211 and all of a sudden you do 0 damage to them but they still manage to beat you in an under tower all in. Yea you can push the lane but that gives them more room to chase since mages usually have low movement speed. It's even worse when you're facing a top Warwick.

But now that you point some things out I kinda agree with you as it being the healthiest lane.

Big Lincoln17 votes

Swain Rumble are doing well right now, if you count Gangplank as an AD mage he is too

Kennen Vladimir Chogath are okay at the moment, and Karthus top occasionally becomes sort-of popular relative to Karthus's usual pick rate

Kennen Ryze Cassiopeia Heimerdinger Lulu Lissandra have all gotten nerfed out of being top lane power picks but they've historically been very powerful, but Ryze Lissandra were trashed for top AND mid

mages have taken a dip recently for sure, though, but they've also completely dominated the top meta in the past. when riot gets around to fixing Ryze for real and buffing Lissandra I expect they'll start to return

Penns5 votes
Big Lincoln10 votes

ya i'm conflicted about it too

on one hand lissandra is a giant frozen piece of shit that makes me hate life whenever she's good and goes top lane

on the other hand is it rly okay to leave champs unviable??? ;;////////////////////////

Penns6 votes

Ill just build item 3111 item 3065 and feel nothing.. bring it on xd

Big Lincoln16 votes

surprise

Lissandra item 3153 item 3156 item 3146

Penns3 votes

Then... I.. go bot and never walk in a lane where she might be anymore item 3070

Divewing4 votes

Just for summoner 13 , by bot you mean the bottom part of fountain right?

Penns1 votes

Exactly, I always stay as far away from her as possible. So when she leaves top and goes bot, I walk over to the opposite part of my fountain.

ExcusemeFellows1 votes

{quoted}

Exactly, I always stay as far away from her as possible. So when she leaves top and goes bot, I walk over to the opposite part of my fountain.

What happens when she goes mid?

notice me Sin pi4 votes

is it just me? i've never heard of anyone complaining about Warwick so far until now

Papa Andrei3 votes

Its more cause he is less OP and more a fucking pain in the ass if in capable hands. Especially TT.... that is some grade A horror film stuff there.

Irelia Bot4 votes

It is easy to have diversity when you lane is the least impactful one in the game.

Incarceration3 votes

League of Isolation

All is fine except... fuck you illaoi.

dakota saturn2 votes

Leblanc is an extremely and more than fair champion who has lots of counterplay. If you sit there picking your nose or AFK'ing when the sigil cooks, don't cry when she kills you.

https://s21.postimg.org/b8pe1ay93/face_pressed_up_to_the_glass.jpg

Terozu3 votes

Yeah, I've fought tons of Leblans, good and bad, even a diamond one once, while annoyingly hard to kill, I've yet to understand why ppl say shes op...

Bisaknosp2 votes

i see Renekton there most of the time does this champ even fall off nowadays feels like he is tankier as nasus and deals more damage without the need to stay top the first 30 minutes

Arcyyy2 votes

Ivern is the only AP Jungle I can think of I'd seen in awhile if you can even call him that.

LankPants5 votes

Elise ? One of the most common junglers in the game? 5th most popular jungle right now with about a 10% pick rate?

Big Lincoln3 votes

hahahahahah mage filth

AhmCha2 votes

I was a top laner who left top lane because I was sick of feeding ADC's. I have since learned the error of my ways, but if I ever falter again, I will have the post to remind me of the truth. Thank you, Large Washington, praise be to top lane. Amen.

Big Lincoln5 votes

one day we will purge the marksmen scum from our lands

and the top laners shall spill into the other lanes, and usher in a new golden age

AhmCha2 votes

We start with Quinn, I will eat her bird.

JJI7442 votes

I can never tell if people are serious about this. The only ADC that sees play top is Quinn, and that is because she doesn't really lane top so much as goes there in-between roams. ADC in general is aweful top. They are easily ganked, easily killed solo by a lot of top-laners, and generally mess up your teamcomp.

ltmetal2 votes

spicy BM

Works whether you mean bad manner or bowel movement.

McFatal2 votes

Quinn Jayce Irelia Camille Illaoi

"healthiest lane"

4Head

Big Lincoln3 votes

>complaining about Illaoi in 2k17

McFatal1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Big Lincoln,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=KtNsVAW1,comment-id=00110000,timestamp=2017-03-19T13:18:09.798+0000)

>complaining about Illaoi in 2k17

maining illaoi and desperately trying to make it as if you're a good player instead of your champ being a cancer fest of a laner.

Big Lincoln1 votes

renekton is your most played this season lmao, don't talk to me about lane cancer

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

Well, I mean, she sucks to fight if you're Teemo. But that's honestly about it.

Troll for Trump2 votes

TBH Top lane meta is just a battle between stat sticks.

A lightsaber duel of raw stats.

Big Lincoln1 votes

u mean like "i finished my crit items time to smash w/ rightclick" marksmen?

top lane's way more interesting desu

Wyrmblade1 votes

I am simply to intelligent for other plebeian lanes.

Divewing1 votes

"to intelligent"

Buddy...

Big Lincoln3 votes

>getting meme'd on this hard

Papa Andrei1 votes

Lol I agree with the post, but you gotta admit, most, keyword most, mages and to a lesser extent, assassins and marksmen, require more mechanical and game knowledge than most Juggernauts and Tanks. Not fighters though, fucking glorious bastards

Examples for mages AurelionSol Azir Xerath Examples for assassins Zed Shaco (More game specific knowledge and reading a team fight and pro/con)Jhin Examples for ADC Kalista Draven Urgot

No tanks require an extreme amount of skill involved, same with Juggernauts. Thats mostly just hoping you can cc/get ontop of the right target

Fighters go from Brain dead Olaf Nasus To requiring precise timing Fiora Riven

Big Lincoln2 votes

also you have to understand that juggernauts are simple mechanically because nobody wants to play a champion who can only walk up slowly to people and then perform a fuckin 20-button combo or something with the 4 seconds they have before they get disengaged (well, I do, actually, but you know what i mean). the class lends itself to being easy; they usually have no range and no mobility to get on people, so most of their skill curve comes from knowing how to play around enemy comps and what to do to get in their range

i won't lie that I wish some of them were a little more complex though Garen DrMundo Trundle Shyvana Skarner

Papa Andrei1 votes

I would love the living shit outa someone woth combos like Ryze but who was a juggernaut

Big Lincoln1 votes

I've been working on a champ design that does a lot of combos and different button presses yield different results ( I have a lot of different concepts for new juggernauts xd)

my drawing ability is shit though so it's going to be a while before I post any of them

Papa Andrei1 votes

Well I will be keeping an eye out for it then :D

paisy1 votes

I remember people saying top was shit because of Quinn Kennen Jayce

Big Lincoln2 votes

they were indeed the dark ages

specter4241 votes

Top lane is where the reject mids go because their range is shit. Please keep top lane melee only, you aren't good when the person you harass can't retaliate.

Aeszarck2 votes

{quoted}

Top lane is where the reject mids go because their range is shit. Please keep top lane melee only, you aren't good when the person you harass can't retaliate.

Nah, Viktor, Karthus, and Morgana are examples of mages who can go top lane and have decent ranges.

Top lane is where the mages with survivability can go. They generally have short ranges, but not always.

ExcusemeFellows1 votes

{quoted}

Karthus

Top lane is where the mages with survivability can go. They generally have short ranges, but not always.

Say what?

Aeszarck1 votes

{quoted}

Say what?

He can really do well farming at long range, he's decent at deterring slow melee Champions (not assassins), and his normal build path can make him somewhat tanky. However, Karthus top more often than not builds the tank Karthus build, which is very tanky.

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