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Ranged top laners are absolutely stupid this patch

delete shaco·11/24/2018, 2:28:30 PM·4 votes·3,082 views

Through all my years of playing, I was never a fan of fighting ranged top laners because it was more about surviving than outplaying, and they had an innate advantage.That’s just a personal preference. However, when the new runes came out it gave them extra poke damage, like absolute focus, comet, scorch, etc. I kept my mouth shut though because I had goodies myself like conqueror, and farming under tower was an option if you were cautious. Yes it's much more effort on your part than the spamming opponent, but it felt good to outscale and destroy them later.

Now, after this patch, I can safely say ranged top laners will be out of control if this continues. I’ve really had it with people just spamming right click or q to win while I have to play my ass off just to get 1 minion per wave if I’m melee. Due to the minions getting to the lane faster, ranged top laners can now not only freeze the lane very easily and quickly, but now they can take extra gold from the turret plates, making even out scaling them much harder than it should be. Not to mention resistance rune stats were nerfed across the board compared to the damage rune stats. 6 armor or 6 MR does jack shit against 20 bonus adaptive force. It's really not healthy gameplay to walk towards a minion and get punished for a quarter of my health for fucking existing; now thanks to the amazing rune stat powercreep, I can't even farm under tower because they now significantly out-damage my pots and regen. It's ridiculous that I have to just afk and wait for jungler, and even if he does help me, he puts both mid and bot at risk, and then the lane just resets back to mr. q-rightclick freezing me out of the game, even though I appreciate the jungler giving me some gold.

Again, thanks to both turret plating and just not being able to farm, the one redeemable factor about melee champions against ranged (outscaling) is borderline gutted, as both of them combined puts you so far behind and them so far ahead it's insane. I feel like ranged top is a brainless, easy, and unfun auto win this patch, and I can tell you right now playing a melee top laner against a ranged top laner feels like a racing a sports car using a scooter. Thoughts?

19 Comments

Thefrostyviking11/24/2018, 4:27:14 PM3 votes

League is to a great extent about counterpicks, if they bring in jayce/gnar/quinn/viktor then you are pretty much expected to pick something like jax/irelia/pantheon/camilie or Shen.

You picked Darius and their toplane bought in Viktor?

Counterpick rules are in effect.

Furthermore if enemy side is pushing your tower then you should call for ganks, many junglers can easily screw anyone pushing so far.

OmegaNITRO12/4/2018, 4:00:54 PM2 votes

[Shrugs]

I normally just play Tryndamere and all in Level 1/2 or 6 against pretty much any ranged match up except Teemo or Kennen. Stack fury behind my minion line, wait for them to use their ability, spin on them and that's their ass.

If it works I get back to lane with boots, dagger and level advantage so once I hit 4 they better hug turret or I'm gonna chase that ass down. After that I grab Tiamat and I have enough waveclear to keep my minions aggro on you if you try to poke me. I hit 6 and I'm chasing that ass down again. Lane's over.

I don't know what melee you play, but I guess the point is you can't play those kind of match ups passively, you have to all in them at the earliest opportunity. If you stay back and let them poke and zone it just becomes harder and harder.

As an ADC main I know all too well how fucked most ranged champs are if they get engaged on,so I use that to my advantage when I'm on the other end.

The Aggressor12/5/2018, 9:34:32 AM2 votes

Not just ranged champions, its any champion that has a knockup/stun/snare/taunt in their kit. Because everyone is able to deal 1000 damage in 2 seconds or less, and having one of the cc types I listed allows you to deal damage while the enemy cant. This allows you to win team fights almost every time.

Champions that are good this season and season 8: Aatrox Ahri Alistar BrandCamille DariusEkko Evelynn Fiora Irelia Jax Kaisa Kennen Leblanc Leona Lissandra Pyke Rammus Renekton Rengar Sion Udyr Urgot Veigar Velkoz Vi Viktor Warwick Xayah XinZhao Yasuo Zed

Almost all these champions have some type of CC along with the ability to assassinate you. If they're not assassinating you, then they're either high with mobility or insanely tanky.

Quil Evrything11/24/2018, 3:51:42 PM1 votes

{quoted} I feel like ranged top is a brainless, easy, and unfun auto win this patch, and I can tell you right now playing a melee top laner against a ranged top laner feels like a racing a sports car using a scooter. Thoughts?

thats exactly why i play ranged toplane :)

you should learn nasus. because teams are still too stupid to realize that, reguardless of how poorly nasus does early game, he will win late game if left alone. So nasus team usually wins against me :-/