Ranged cancer top hurts creative playstyles and nothing will be done about it?

ryona··3 votes·291 views

I was admittedly having fun with playtesting and experimenting with a variety of styles on Singed in normals deviating from what is expected until some disgusting retards crept up with Gnar and Kennen, but this was a good educational experience because it's what I deal with in Ranked anytime I play.

While I fucked these idiots up because they were low Platinum, it just really disheartens me that, early on, if you are not forced into Resolve one way or another, you will lose half your life or more just for CSing or daring to trade because most previous defensive optimization doesn't exist anymore.

So more or less, it's pretty apparent I am forced to play the same setup all the time unless I happen to run into now seldom seen tanks and bruisers. If the new runes were supposed to express more creativity (through stuff like the Inspiration tree), I don't get why ranged top still exists. They should at least not have been compensated with stat upgrades for missing runes.

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Metleon1 votes

Singed has pretty much always been harassed in lane, which is why you proxy farm. Have you noticed if it's more difficult to lane as other champs vs ranged?

ryona1 votes

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Singed has pretty much always been harassed in lane, which is why you proxy farm. Have you noticed if it's more difficult to lane as other champs vs ranged?

Tanks and bruisers no longer exist in top lane so it should be pretty obvious to you if it's more difficult to them, exacerbated by pre-season.

Singed has the proxy card which is nice, but it's disappointing and depressing that card is the only thing you can do now because there's little choice in the matter. Before you could just all-in these ranged kids or shrug off damage through excess runes.

FireDrizzle1 votes

item 1054 helps a lot because it is op against harass(not all ins probly) level 1 and 2 but if you have massive mana costs it feels bad to buy it. I dont like that playing melee vs ranged forces you into building tank unless you can manage with tabi.

Ranged champs are basically all too strong in the early levels, ramged champs should have less base ad early. That would also make most ranged laners bad on its own, because often the melee has a big advantage with enough of the appropiate resistance.

Like if Teemo is top, he puts his laner out of the game early or gets shit on when they get specters cowl or SV. But the popular ranged bulllies are too mobile to punish after you build resistances, you're just counting on them not respecting their mobility being put on cooldown. I found playing Swain vs Renekton easy just because I was ranged.

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