Which top champion has the best burst damage?

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What Top champion do you think has the best burst? I know assassins and mages are typically the bursters but I like to play a tankier roll, I do however like to be able to hit hard and do good chunk damage.

so which top champ would you suggest?

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Malicious Metal2 votes

Mordekaiser

CancerMage2 votes

Pantheon with thunderlord's and ignite. You pretty much steamroll leaning phase through constant Q poke, and you can punish the enemy super hard if they overextend even a little bit with your QWEQ. Earlygame you shred even tanks, and you can one shot if you're a bit ahead. You build a bit of damage and lethality, as well as some offensive items with tank stats like Iceborn, Maw, etc. Lategame you can ult into teamfights and burst their adc down, though you'll lose in lategame 1v1s vs sustain heavy characters like Darius, etc. unless you play well or get lucky.

420 grams1 votes

Kennen doesn't have the best burst, but he can poke melees out of lane early, has high mobility, and does well in team fights with ult.

Ralanr1 votes

Riven is very bursty. Though not very tanky.

KuroCaliber1 votes

Renekton I think

Big Lincoln1 votes

garen

Luxana Crowngard1 votes

So let me get this straight, you want to play a burst damager but be a tank?

Your best bet is Poppy.

Meep Man1 votes

Illaoi

L Rayquaza1 votes

He isn't exactly bursts, but once you get Trinity Force, Yorick can deal a surprising amount of damage

Akenero1 votes

Renekton is a good bruiser with surprising burst.

Critmaster Garen1 votes

out of the bruisers, Renekton imo.

otherwise Riven Pantheon

if you want to do some whacky shit, top lane XinZhao full ad JarvanIV and assassin MonkeyKing can burst quite well.

lolipopevelynn1 votes

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What Top champion do you think has the best burst? I know assassins and mages are typically the bursters but I like to play a tankier roll, I do however like to be able to hit hard and do good chunk damage.

so which top champ would you suggest?

Camille end of story

but assuming she isn't banned Illaoi is by far the best top lane burster that can also build pretty much full tank. Doubt there is any top lane that can actually out dmg illoai once she gets her items.

Doozku1 votes

Best options that are also viable IMO are Illaoi, Darius, Pantheon, and Renekton. Illaoi Has the highest burst out of the 3, but is also the most immobile. She has to rely on her opponents being dumb and not knowing how to counter her (stay away from the tentacles). Low elo she's insane but the higher up you get the weaker she becomes Darius Has less burst but his cooldowns are insanely low and can get resets. He can also make plays on his own unlike illaoi and is much more high elo proof. Renekton Is a much more mobile choice than the other two. Don't play much renek so I can't speak for him, but his early game is insane. Late game though if you don't get snowballing you become almost completely useless. Pantheon Same as renek but less mobility and more global roaming.

jaméss1 votes

Riven I did the shy combo on my new build for Riven. After using all her leftover qs after the combo, on the 100 armor and 100 mr dummy did 4100 damage.

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But in actually game it is rare that you would hit all of the combo+3 (q+aa)

I'm not a master with Riven but know quite few stuff.. She takes quite a bit of time to micromanage, since can bully or be bullied. Recommend watching streams such as BoxBox, GTT, etc

Frightning1 votes

If you want to be tanky and yet have good burst, then Renekton is pretty much exactly what you're looking for. His E-W-Q-E trading combo does a pretty obscene amount of damage in a short timeframe, and scales really well with bonus AD too (protip: get W at level 1 and max E first).

Kryptıc1 votes

Heimerdinger!!!!

Ralanr1 votes

A full charged Sion Q is the best burst ever.

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