Riot Can You Make Toplane Intresting?

Rainfall··14 votes·728 views

im tired of toplaners whose sole purpose is to tp gank or ult gank botlane or midlane,Shen Galio the tank rework only made things worse with tanks building item 3190 item 3109 . I am not saying that toplaners should not rely on their teams,i am just saying that the role is becoming less and less attractive to good players and personal performance is being ignored.

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Baron Von Bangin19 votes

What about... a FOURTH bush?

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

Jhin Heavy breathing Time to become a top laner!

Big Lincoln6 votes

if you don't like it then don't play top

GayFluffyUnicorn6 votes

I wish toplane becomes an island again. It is so frickin sad i have more succes in being a tp gank bot than actually playing my lane. Toplane is in 100% of times decided by the jungler and it IS very fucking frustrating especially when you play snowball champs like camille. And don't give me the shit with HURR DURR JUST WARD LMAO or that i am "overextended" when i'm exactly in the middle of the lane. If you don't have some sick mobility even flash won't safe you thanks to redbuff and the mobility of lee, elise, kha etc. If you play passively and get pushed in as a squishy without hard CC you get towerdived at around lvl 3/4. I want toplane to be an actual 1v1 lane again and not some glorified support. I want toplane to be a lane from where i can actually carry games with CARRY champs again.

DeathBurst4 votes

And don't give me the shit with HURR DURR JUST WARD LMAO or that i am "overextended" when i'm exactly in the middle of the lane.

There isn't a fixed line beyond which you're overextended, it all depends on context. Having Flash up or not, having seen the enemy jungler recently, having your TP ready, all of that changes what overextended means.

Do note that in MOST contexts, though, being "exactly in the middle of the lane" without ward is squarely in overextended territory, especially on right side.

Hammermancer1 votes

pffft riiight

and now you're telling me I should expect the yi to come up for the 7th time? why? that makes no sense, who would gank a 7th time?

oh

well at least he wont gank an 8th time

DeathBurst4 votes

If you think that "personal performance is being ignored", you don't understand that it takes skills to play even the kind of Tanks you're complaining about. Not the SAME skills as a duelist like Trundle or Renek, but skills nonetheless.

As for "interesting", I'll take laning against a Shen or Galio every day, compared to a Vlad or a Gnar or some other ranged bullshit. But my point is, "interesting" is more a matter of personal taste than anything.

Fuh Queue4 votes

Top lane is literally the most diverse lane in league, what exactly are we complaining about?

Hammermancer2 votes

I think it's a symptom of damage creep, which riot isn't curbing enough

the issue with damage creep is that a she ult+dash when properly executed will always result in any competent assassin or marksman getting a kill.

there was a period in time when adcs didn't do damage like they do today, and they weren't quite as squishy either

and quite frankly tanks did more damage and were squishier

too much specialization and it turns into popping bubbles

AwesomeGuyDj2 votes

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Hammermancer1 votes

Brand

lel

AwesomeGuyDj1 votes

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Brand

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Hammermancer1 votes

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If you haven't encountered brand yet in top lane, have fun the first time you lock in your juggernaut and then brand... it's certainly interesting

Danjeng1 votes

I haven't seen Brand top but that seems like such a nasty pick for the majority of the top lane roster. Imagine the horror once he gets rylai's.

undesirable team1 votes

just give every champion %true dmg toplane

Rainfall1 votes

kappa

Handy Sandy 1 votes

PantheonYorick win lane

Rainfall2 votes

you know how people complain about malphite top because he can spam his q on you all the time? pantheon is just that,but he is ad so you cant build item 3211 to counter him,and the lethality buffs aint helping either.

Clutch Thompson1 votes

IMO top lane is better than it has been with towers being paper and rift herald getting an update.

You have options now

Wanna make plays in other lanes? Do it Wanna push waves and farm scuttle and jungle? Do it Enemy leaves lane? Take rift and or shove the turret

And with the plants you can dip into the river jungle for quick scryer vision

I imagine in high elo, the galio/shen style of gangbanging a lane is the way to go because they're more opportunistic on pushing an advantage

But as long as your gold or below you have choices

Shadow Hazard1 votes

they did fix it remember. they gave almost every tank % health damage so they wouldn't have wet noodle fights and be more encouraged to be aggro, there may have been some unfortunate crowding out effects though.

Mira Arya Enthe1 votes

Make top lane interesting = remove most top lane tanks. Any champion whose purpose is simply to slowly not die will not be fun to fight.

PB4UAME2 votes

You clearly do not understand what tanks are, or their role, at all.

Additionally, look up some military strategy, particularly the term "pinning force," because that's what tanks are. They are the pinning force of league, and they are essential to proper tactical play as such.

Karn Bishop1 votes

Top lanes problem has always been the ability to permanently freeze a wave near tower where as it is almost impossible to do that bot lane and mid lane is short enough that you can easily prevent that with a few long range spell casts.

To be clear freezing is an acceptable mechanic i just don't think it should be possible to permanently freeze the wave so long as you manage your CSing perfectly, after a small period of time the wave should just unfreeze itself even with a champion actively managing to maintain the freeze.

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