Is Riot okay with GP being the statistically best top lane to play in solo queue for months now

FalconPawwwwnch·Jun 21, 2016·2 votes·777 views

http://champion.gg/

He's been in the top 3 top laners for legit the entire season

Now he's 1 again

5 Comments

MarshbouyJun 21, 20161 votes

Since they haven't nerfed him. They must think tis fine.

67chromeJun 21, 20161 votes

Wish they'd add a projectile speed/birth animation to his barrels.

Getting within Caitlyn AA range of a barrel only to see another one instantly pop up and explode via barrel chain is pretty derppy. If GP manages to get 1 barrel to last long enough to cast Barrel again GP gets a huge advantage in regards to zonning and tradding.

HotChillyJun 21, 20161 votes

Champion.gg puts a lot of weight on gold generated when calculating "Overall best champ" scores, which heavily biases it in GP's favor, meaning that if his winrate ever happens to bump up on any given patch he will easily be the "Best overall champ" even though many other champs are better at winning the actual game. I have seen him have "best over all champ" for top even when there were around 20 better champions at actually winning the game, winrate wise.

Gold generation is nice, but his kit is balanced around having it also, otherwise he would be winning more than all the other champs, and he doesnt. Winrates are a better way to see what champions impact the game hardest to get an actual win. If you only play LoL to see if you can end the game with more gold than everyone else though then I agree GP is the best champ in the game for that, but he isnt the best for winning the game. He is an ok pick if you have played him a good number of times to win a game, but still there are a lot of superior picks to GP even if you have played him a lot.