Melee toplaners weigh in: Who's the most tilting ranged champion to face top?

CrimsonDawn77·6/5/2019, 5:41:22 PM·11 votes·10,480 views

Teemo Quinn are notorious for being exceptionally annoying, but with all the changes over the past few years I am wondering what champion(s) truly deserves the title(s) of most tilting ranged top laner(s).

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FSRER6/5/2019, 6:13:58 PM24 votes

Kennen I don't care if I get in lane at all but him being so useful in mid and late game while being so strong in laning phase as well makes me to want to pull my hair out whenever I face him.

Tahminatrix 6/5/2019, 6:08:03 PM22 votes

Vayne

Her q means she can ignore my slows and dodge my skillshots, her W invalidates my ability to tank, her E is a point and click knockback which I have no counterplay to aside from making sure I collide with a wall so I take the stun instead of the knockback. (stun is reduced by tenacity)

Crispy0Snake6/5/2019, 8:05:50 PM14 votes

When I play top I really hate Vladimir

Just the fact that he's not really interactive at all, you can't kill him, good players that know his damage will just kill you out of nowhere, his core item is 2500 gold, he's hard to gank but follows up on ganks well, completely abuses phase rush to sneak Q's and kite

When going against Vlad I just play to cs and hope that I can be more useful late, but then he hits a 3 player ult and is unkillable while dealing stupid dmg

Sire Hippington6/5/2019, 7:17:20 PM8 votes

depends a bit on the matchup, but Kennen is overall the worst. Vs others, you usually can play save early and scale into superior midgame teamfights/skirmishes. However, kennen just neesds 6, and on top of bullying you from range in lane he also is a teamfight monster, so you don't really have much going for you ever in the game.

Smurfraka6/5/2019, 8:05:11 PM6 votes

I honestly don't understand how Kennen gets to be both a lane bully and then teamfight well. I'm so glad he's not picked often, because he's absolute cancer.

Kelg6/6/2019, 12:39:52 AM5 votes

this PoS with glacial: Neeko

Darkdemon6536/5/2019, 5:58:07 PM5 votes

As Nasus:

Lissandra used to be my least favorite ranged to fight, but I haven't gone against her in top since she lost her innate. Other than Lissandra, I'd have to go with Neeko. Even if she isn't that great overall, her E is ridiculous in the laning phase and poorly designed in general.

Infernape6/5/2019, 8:16:52 PM4 votes

Too many to just choose one.

Vayne

Strong against you if you're immobile. Scales ridiculously hard. Nullifies your ability to build tank because %HP true damage, and can cuck you if you engage because her E is a knockback which isn't affected by Tenacity.

If not Vayne then Kennen

Resourceless poke, abuses Klepto (which means he can outscale you in gold just by hitting you). Has an easy escape with his E and is super useful in teamfights because his ultimate is an AoE stun that isn't a channel, does plenty damage, is instantly cast with no cast times and continues even if he uses Zhonyas.

And finally Heimerdinger

YOU DO NOT GET TO PLAY THE GAME. You can't CS because he'd poke you out of lane, you can't call for a gank because he sets up three turrets around himself and if he hits his E it's game over. Unless you're E max Sion you probably aren't going to have a good time against one.

Akali is SO HOT6/5/2019, 8:07:03 PM3 votes

Vlad and Teemo

Mecha Incognito6/5/2019, 11:13:04 PM3 votes

1: Kennen 2: Gnar 3:Jayce

Kennen feels borderline impossible to play against top. It's all because of his E, too. It gives him far too much safety and lets him shove well as soon as you have to back from all the poke. And then mid-late game rolls around and he wipes your team. Jayce isn't as bad because he drops off, and for him to have real kill potential he's gotta go all in so he at least puts him self in harm's way. But he still will obliterate you at any chance so it's not fun. His melee E seems unfair to me still. Gnar does what kennen does essentially but has an actual drawback with his E cd early (22 seconds, compared to Kennen's 10 second cooldown). Still pure evil whenever he is strong.

Vayne Lucian Vayne and Lucian are honorable mentions. They're really not fun to lane against, but they are more easily ganked and usually don't help their team comp - usually sacrificing front line for more damage which is rarely worth it considering how much damage there is already.

delete shaco6/7/2019, 3:13:50 AM2 votes

All ranged top laners are annoying and played by garbage players, but if you play gangplank top you legit are a drooling vegetable.

Judge Steven6/5/2019, 7:51:21 PM2 votes

Kennen Quinn are the two that make me want to dodge every time I see them locked in top.

PopcornBunni6/5/2019, 8:13:16 PM2 votes

Teemo is the most annoying but only because he makes you pay a item 3194 2800g tax to invalidate him.

Heimerdinger is genuinely oppressive and dictates the entire laning phase around him so he gets my vote by a country mile. It isn't like teemo where you can at least get some farm slowly and build up to Helm to catch up after. Heimer straight denies 90% of farm in its entirety because going for a singe minion chunks you for a fourth of your health bar.

I don't see anyone else nearly often enough to make a judgement call, but Vladimir is the only runnerup that comes to mind. He isn't like Kennen or Quinn where he has to get close at any point and just sustains through the entire game in the (second) most uninteractive manner of any champion.

Spicy Rice6/5/2019, 9:07:33 PM2 votes

I'd say vlad.

I can deal with kennen, even if he's poking me, because at least I have a chance to all in him.

Vlad on the other hand wins when he pokes, and wins when I get into range to all in.

It's just a lane that feels impossible

NTrumpWeTrust6/5/2019, 10:03:24 PM2 votes

Tahm

Chembaron Yamada6/5/2019, 10:41:26 PM2 votes

My vote goes to Vladimir. As an melee, he is really annoying. If you have a ranged skill to poke, it still doesn't help, since he heals any poke you throw at him. If you manage to close the gap to him, he will pool away. Bonus points if he is running Phase Rush to be even safer at pooling away with bonus speed. Vladimir


Also, no one mentions my boy Urgot, this pleases me. Urgot

Daddy Ants6/6/2019, 11:05:49 AM2 votes

Top 3 would be -

Kennen Teemo Karma / Gnar / Cassiopeia / Vladimir (These are all tied for 3rd)

In that order.

Pierce The Veal6/6/2019, 4:08:18 PM2 votes

Quinn and Teemo are unholy annoying Jayce if played well and Ryze back when he was good was the WORST But god forbid you face a Vayne that plays aggressively. You’re going to hate your life if you face a vayne as almost any melee champion.

Let me just say that as a sort of ranged champion, there’s a special place in hell for Gangplank mains.

By far out of all of these I hated ryze the most when he was strong. He would do a ton of damage, be tanky and fast as heck, and also scale into lategame while denying you early game with a single well timed point and click.

Star PlatinumELO6/7/2019, 12:38:32 AM2 votes

As much as I want to say Vladimir or Kennen , this piece of shit Neeko makes top a living nightmare for any champ that's weak to ranged early (most tanks, and around half of the fighters found in top), and heaven forbid if you don't have a jungler who shows top-side presence.

She stacks her near 100 magic damage on-hit on the minions, hits YOU with it, it gives her a SPEED BOOST (she then takes glacial and it also slows you), and if she's in danger she can make a decoy, be invisible, or snare you through your own minions. It's too much for a teamfight burst mage to be able to do early, it's like Kennen on crack.

Póppy Chulo6/6/2019, 7:00:47 AM1 votes

For me its Pantheon ...... What? Hes melee? Then why is he auto attacking me from far away every 3 seconds and critting?

BeatzBoyFTW6/6/2019, 7:18:49 AM1 votes

Darius Vayne Cassiopeia

I'm here to play a game called League, not hugging the tower game.

FioraWillCarry6/6/2019, 7:23:35 AM1 votes

Gnar I hate this little shit more than any other ranged top laner.

Draven Actually the most legit busted nonsense I've ever seen in top lane. Thank the gods I only see it once a year.

0 Hogapu6/6/2019, 10:52:52 AM1 votes

Urgot Jayce

Sanghelios6/6/2019, 10:58:28 PM1 votes

Every.

Jerry SeinfeId6/6/2019, 12:30:48 PM1 votes

Ryze

his "stop" button pisses me off so much.

Vladimir fuck vlad, even in mid. just fuck this champion in general.

Tychusfindlay9186/6/2019, 1:10:52 PM1 votes

Teemo is actually easy Quinn is fairly easy Kennen is supremely fucking annoying

And god forbid if gnar ever becomes meta again that would suck.

Void Kaiju6/6/2019, 2:19:00 PM1 votes

Kennen, Teemo, Quinn are annoying but you can often turtle vs them. Of the three Kennen is the worst because of his massive self-peel so he's harder to punish when he tries to poke you. However, skill expression on those champs is pretty limited so once you figure out how to endure vs them in lane you can do it pretty consistently. For me the tilt comes from weird picks or things that a skill player can abuse to be an absolute monstrosity.

Gangplank 95% of the time Gangplank is not tilting at all to face. I'd never say he's an OP toplaner. But sometimes you get unlucky and face one who is actually a god at the champion. Effectively unavoidable barrels, can't interact with him in lane, and a kit that is designed to net him a bunch of extra gold from smacking you, ulting your dying allies on the other side of the map, and killing your minions. He just gets a big sack of gold and beats your teeth in with it. If the GP player is good, it is very difficult to stop them from become extremely useful by 25 minutes.

Jayce The definition of faceroll. You pretty much can only interact with this guy on his terms, and his terms are that you die unless you're strong enough to just statcheck him. If you can survive lane he's pretty fine but if he gets ahead in lane you don't get to play at all.

Rumble Haven't faced an actually good Rumble in ages but he also denies you the ability to do much. High uptime damage combined with massive teamfight presence means you have to overcome the hurdle of laning vs him in order to stop him from just crushing your team with Equalizer every fight. The tilt comes from the fact that you need to put a stop to him because he'll take his lead and roll over your whole team, but his kit makes it very very difficult to interact with him.

Viktor Poke with a free shield and movement speed bonus and he scales really well. Like Jayce you pretty much need to get a lead and just keep jumping on him and statchecking him or he will poke you out of the game. At least he's pretty vulnerable to ganks though.

Karma (Dis)honorable mention: She just exists to annoy you. Pretty much untouchable and with a generous hitbox on her poke. You can survive the lane but it will NEVER be a pleasant experience. Pretty much the same annoyances as Viktor except she does less damage in exchange for being nearly unkillable.

Big Diglet6/6/2019, 3:07:46 PM1 votes

Vayne by far. Quinn and Teemo have points in the lane that you can punish them with a pick like Renekton.

Another ranged top that I'd consider cancerous would be Trist. She doesn't get recognition for going top, but with her W she's extremely safe from ganks and naturally just pushes down towers.

Daedric Etwahl6/6/2019, 3:18:13 PM1 votes

Despite maining Sona, I like to dabble aplenty in Sion, Urgot, and Yorick toplane. The champions that make me absolutely wanna tear my hair out would be...

Gnar Vayne Gnar especially has just made me hate everything every time he gets picked. I honestly don't understand what the counterplay to him would be, even if I did pick another champion.

HommeGoujon6/6/2019, 3:30:22 PM1 votes

Depending on which melee champ:

Fiora Kennen Teemo Gangplank Rumble

ArcticDragons6/5/2019, 7:24:23 PM1 votes

Kennen Is by far the worst (Unless your playing Olaf )

I memba balance 6/6/2019, 4:22:32 PM1 votes

Most tilting ranged champ would have to be Neeko or Jayce. Jayce when the person knows how to pilot them extremely well and their spacing is excellent to avoid tower shots but keep up consistent poke/pressure while you try to farm.

Wild Geese6/6/2019, 9:49:21 PM1 votes

Urgot because of conq and his dumb new chaingun, as once it kicks in you're a champion with a dash or you're dead.

Also Vlad for #1, it's either impossible or way too hard to kill him, then he outscales everybody on the map and 1v9's.

ps: i do play teemo actually, and those two are nearly impossible to beat as Teemo, so lol...

ESeTyRC6/6/2019, 12:44:33 AM1 votes

Vayne I don't like having a champion that gets to invalidate my team's frontliner(s) from range. Esp. if I'm the frontliner.

General Esdeath 6/6/2019, 1:02:58 AM1 votes

Teemo because people don't understand what buying a sweeper is

Pandemic Punch6/6/2019, 2:00:48 AM1 votes

Teemo Vayne

Vayne especially makes the lane unplayable. Get auto'd 3 times and you have less than half health. This state of the lane never changes unless you have significant help.

Too bad bot lane never swaps. It is easier to 1v2 than to sit under tower vs a vayne.