Getting really tired of how cheesy top lane feels at the moment.

melior sum··1 votes·1,302 views

Urgot Kennen Jayce Tryndamere Renekton Garen

These champions right here, are the bane of top lane. whatever you pick, it's countered by one of those. You won't be able to fight them 1 on 1 unless they don't have a keyboard. You don't win 2v2s with your jungler against them, and then they do better late game with split pushing or team fighting (arguably garen does nothing later, but I beg to differ a bit when he's running around with 3500 health and 200+ armor with that stupid W passive that lets him take no damage and break CC, killing the squishies on my team.)

Seriously, fine, I don't care that you're buffing darius/fiora and all that, THATS GOOD, they have counterplay. These champions? They counterplay is so narrow. I just don't even feel like playing the game when I'm playing against these champions. It's annoying, it's not fun.

Urgot: Marks you with Ult, you lose 2v2/1v1 because you can't out damage or out do his durability in a trade

Kennen: Always has the ability of playing safe while dealing damage to you, while also stunning you two times in succession and then being a team fight menace

Jayce: A good jayce, you won't get more than 30 farm in 10 minutes (bad one, yeah okay, not much of an issue)

Trynd: Oh look, he's running ghost and flash, I didn't want this lane anyway, or my nexus

Renekton: Out sustains you, out trades you with W, out damages you in a 1v1 because of his ultimate constant damage and health increase, then for some reason, he's not being balanced around his second item power spike (Essence Reaver) which let's him spam the shit out of his abilities for the duration of his ult.

Garen: Endlessly Qs you with grasp for 150 damage, your silenced, can't do anything back, you lose in sustain eventually, he dives you under tower, takes 10 turret shots but he has W up so he takes like 200 damage, walks away with a kill. (The issue with garen wasn't his Q, it was his tankyness and how stupid it is to trade against him)

6 Comments

True Garen4 votes

You have a problem with a third of all of the toplaners in the game, you RIven OTP.

DuskDaUmbreon1 votes

Thank god nobody's seen Jayce or Kennen in ages, at least.

SaltyBoiMalum1 votes

nope lmao

Quiet Dude1 votes

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Alzon1 votes

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La Bello1 votes

this is gonna sound really bronzey but I really preferred top lane before they deliberately added Range bully champs to it.

I feel like ranged vs melee matchups is a scenario Riot should never look to cause because of how poorly handled range vs melee is without turn speeds in this game. The match up does nothing but showcase how excruciating ranged vs melee is without over the top gapclosers or overwhelming stat differences to compensate.

If Riot wanted bullies at top then just make overwhelming melee range champs like Darius or Renekton or at the very least a melee champ with a semi-ranged spell Aatrox Rumble or Akali that way they HAVE to engage you in a melee fight eventually or at least become semi-punishable when they go for CS/try to poke you off of it.

I absolutely despise that Kennen Jayce Lissandra Gnar Quinn Teemo ended up being functional tops. It really sucks the fun out of the lane when you have no choice but to play afk under tower and miss 80% of CS until level 7.

I would really love if somewhere in the future these champs got reworks removing them from top and placing them mid instead somehow so the sanctity of top returns and it once again becomes just a grueling gladiator pit that feels "honest" to a degree instead of this cheese or be cheesed pray you dont have first pick mess it currently is..

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