Top lane ignite is viable

AquariusGine·10/31/2017, 12:19:31 PM·2 votes·559 views

At least in lower elos,

Taking ignite can really prevent you from being a sitting duck, only waiting for the enemy jungler to camp the shit out of you, and losing 50 CS before laning phase is over because the enemy is

Champions that can snowball off ignite really well:

And champions that do not rely too much on teleport for map pressure/ splitpushing:

Ignite becomes less useful around mid-late game when objectives become increasingly more significant, but hopefully you've snowballed enough/ managed not to fall off too hard

Have fun on the rift!

1 Comments

AFK Push11/1/2017, 9:45:15 AM1 votes

The guy that takes ignite top lane gives the jungler even more reason to camp him, because if they die with ignite and can't tp back to lane then not only does the enemy laner get exp off them but they push the wave in and they lose all those minions to tower. They will be over a level down in exp if that happens. Taking TP into something like renekton is much better, because everything you listed outscales and can reset, get items, and not lose too many minions (exp matters more than gold) if they get behind. I win lanes against most laners in low elo that take ignite, and I never do because it is extremely abusable in lane.