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PSA to top laners: STOP FEEDING!

StoryDuck··1 votes·2,042 views

My past 8 games top fed their ass off! If you don't believe me check my record. Pre-10 minute they have all been 30+ cs and 4+ kills down. Can a top laner please explain to me why it is so hard to not feed your ass off in top lane? I mean, all of these games I am rocking bot lane and winning (yes past 7 games winning bot lane, one as jungle where I got FB on my top lane!) Then BAM! 10-15 minute mark hits and here comes the hyper fed as fuck enemy top laner that is so powerful they can 1v3 already. Do you know how frustrating it is to play game after game winning lane and getting ready to carry only to have had the top laner lose so hard that it completely negates all hope of winning?

Just back off dammit. You have lost your lane. Now suck it up and accept that you are going to lose CS and probably the tower too. You know what doesn't help? Giving 5-10 more kills to the enemy top laner giving then a 1-2 item advantage over the rest of us.

Top lane should have the least impact on bot lane yet I am constantly getting paired with top laners that cannot understand the concept of "STOP FEEDING". Every other lane could start carrying if all they did was just hang back and keep the top wave managed but NOOOOO you gotta try to 1v1 the enemy top laner at least 5 more times so that you can't even stay under turret with a tank item. I am really sick of games where as a support main I legitimately cannot have any impact on the game due to how much you fed.

If you are so bad at top lane just play a damn tank and sit under turret. I don't care if you get 0 CS that game just as long as you haven't given them 3 levels in experience and 3k gold from killing you over and over. As long as they are on par with another lane then people can deal with them but if you fed them to high hell no one can do anything. You legitimately handed the game to the top laner.

20 Comments

rework trundle6 votes

That's really funny because, as a top lane main, it's always the bot lane.

StoryDuck1 votes

Then lets duo cause I never feed in bot lane and I rarely lose lane. i would give just about anything at this point to just have a half-way competent top laner that doesn't feed his ass off pre-10 minutes.

Mecha MaIphite3 votes

i'm sure if you post really hard, it will never happen again

StoryDuck1 votes

well...I finally won my last game. For a change my top laner got super fed. So...something happened. Apparently all the top mains downvoting me caused me to actually get a good top laner....or well a top laner that won first so he got kills off the other top laner because top laners don't understand how to lose a lane gracefully.

ME UNGA ME SMASH1 votes

Because top lane is probably the most volatile and difficult lane to play in. It's frustrating to lose lane as a top, because you're on an island and you can't expect help from anyone but yourself. More often then not, you try to redeem yourself, fail, and get tilted. Don't sit on your high horse tho my guy. You've fed, mids fed, jg's fed, sups fed, adc's fed, everyone's fed. Quit pretending top is the only lane that fails. The issue with giving up and just afk farming when you've died is that the more you do it, the further you fall behind anyways, because a fed enemy top laner will just zone you off cs, force you keep the wave in their favor, and you'll naturally lose out on experience, farm, and therefore gold and mid game potential.

StoryDuck1 votes

8 games in a row.

let that sink in.

8 games in a row where the top laner fed so much our entire team couldn't deal with his counterpart.

I have played top lane. I'm not good at it and until about a week ago it was my secondary role. You know what? I picked a tank and this amazing thing happened. I didn't feed. Sure I lost lane, but as I didn't feed 10 kills to the enemy top laner my team wasn't as impacted and I stayed relevant due to utility. I didn't create some kind of hyper monster that has enough stats to 1v5 my team and as a result my team was able to help me out later and I eventually scaled back into it.

I do recognize that other lanes occasionally do this...but It is really bad in top lane. 8 games now, their lane is so bad that everything completely breaks apart around them and the rest of the team can do nothing. 8 games now where I could have had a win if only it wasn't over at 15 minutes (with one exception where I somehow miraculously managed to snowball bot harder then top lane could lose).

ME UNGA ME SMASH1 votes

Get over it. People feed. Everyone feeds. I don't get on the boards to bitch about it though. I move on to the next game and learn. That's all anyone can do. Making a "PSA" doesn't do anything.

StoryDuck1 votes

What the fuck do I do then? What option or choice or play or anything in the universe is there to combat the hyper feeding top laner? I've had 8 FUCKING GAMES IN A ROW where top lane fed so much that our ENTIRE TEAM could not kill their counterpart! Tell ya what, find a duo partner, and have him feed 5 kills pre-10 minutes. Let me know how many games you win. One game, sure they happen. hell 2-3 games sure. 8 games in a row isn't a coincidence anymore its an epidemic. It is a failed mentality of top laners. It is a symptom of top laners always thinking they can 1v1 no matter how many times they die. All top laners are idiots as far as I am concerned as they can't even comprehend the very basic fact that a 5/0 enemy will win any fight you give them.

ME UNGA ME SMASH1 votes

I had a game during my plat V promos where my mid fed, tilted, and DC'd. Me and the ADC didn't give a fuck, sucked it up, adjusted to the situation, and won the game. Your own personal state of mind greatly affects how you play, so if you tilt because you have a useless lane, you're far more likely to not win the game, because you don't play as well. I frequently play games where I or a teammate does piss poor. It's the state of the game my guy. You just have to grow past it and try to be a better player. That's all we can do.

StoryDuck1 votes

How? How does my state of mind affect me when I am winning my lane every game but top lane (which I have 0 control over) feeds? Apparently winning lane and doing well is a terrible state of mind to have as apparently that causes the top laner to feed. I won my last game very easily as I won lane again and this time my top lane got super fed. So although I won...I had almost no impact on the game (outside of completely shutting Jhin/Thresh down) as top lane once again decided it all. Even when I win I hate the top lane. This makes 9 games with a super fed top lane....at least now I can say once the fed top laner was on my side.

ME UNGA ME SMASH1 votes

Doing well doesn't matter if you get pissed off. Legit doesn't matter. You'll tilt, and you'll start playing bad. Even if you don't think you are playing worse, if you're mad about something happening in the game, you're gonna start playing bad. Always. Ignore it. Forget about it. Top isn't your concern, playing the game is your concern. If you don't know how to adapt to what's happening in the game, you don't deserve to be diamond.

StoryDuck2 votes

Okay, whatever. Apparently I played poorly. It was my fault that top went 0/10 by 15 minutes despite me being trapped in lane for the first 10 minutes of it. I see now, simply existing in the game makes all errors of all players my fault. The game that ended at 14mins was my fault because mid, top and jungle decided to open mid at 10 because Irelia top was 7/1 at 8 minutes. I just had a poor attitude is all, never mind the fact that I never spoke or harassed anyone, not even the top laner. You are so determined to make this my fault you can't even consider the idea that maybe, just maybe that top laners might have been the cause. I suppose I should have completely abandoned my ADC at minute 5 to bail out the top lane.

You are not understanding anything! This is all, every single bit of it, happening BEFORE I CAN GET OUT OF LANE! Your glorious and perfect top lane has this magical summoner called TP and I have literally watched top laner after top laner TP back into lane after dying only to die again. I play the game as best I can BUT I CANT FUCKING FIX TOP LANE AT MINUTE 5! Guess what, if top didn't feed so much pre-10 minutes I can find time to roam up and try to help relieve pressure and help them get back into it. Hell, how about a lane swap? I CANT DO THAT IF THE TOP LANE ALREADY LOST BOTH TOWERS! What you want me to do let them take inhibitors? What the fuck can I do? I'm a damn support player. I'm not the jungler with options to help. I'm not the mid laner with options to help. I'm the fucking support and for the first part of the game I HAVE TO BE THERE TO HELP THE ADC! Sure I can find rare occasions to roam pre-10 minutes BUT NOT TO TOP.

The reason I am so pissed off is because the game is giving me no options to help! Sure, it might just be horrible luck but every single loss for my past 10 games has been a direct result of a top laner feeding out of his mind. Most of those game I WAS WINING LANE! I was winning, not only that but pressuring mid and trying to help out jungle with deep vision.

If you are so fucking amazing tell me what I can possibly do at 10 minutes as a support to help out top lane when top lane is 0/6 and the enemy top laner is 6/0? What magical way should I have been playing to have made a difference?

What poor choice did I make? Was it trying that last ditch effort to defend top lane's inhibitor with the rest of my team? Was is helping my ADC for the first 10 minutes instead of the top laner? Was it the amazing play I made stunning bot lane duo to score a double on my ADC? Was it itemizing against the enemy fed as fuck top laner? If this is what diamond is? Fuck It. I look forward to leaving the realm of idiot top laners. I can go back to actually enjoying my games and not worrying about whether or not my top laner is intentionally feeding.

ME UNGA ME SMASH1 votes

If you're gonna main support in diamond, you're gonna have to be ready to have games where your laners feed and you can't do anything about it.

ggigotfed1 votes

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Get over it. People feed. Everyone feeds. I don't get on the boards to bitch about it though. I move on to the next game and learn. That's all anyone can do. Making a "PSA" doesn't do anything.

You're that top laner who goes 0/6/1 and says "I'm smurfing" Ranked games are taken seriously you asshole.

obsesse1 votes

Bro you bout to drop out of D5

StoryDuck1 votes

Yeah and look at my record. Do you see the 8 games where top lane fed? I wish i saved the recordings so I could demand to know what I could do in those games. All agency is taken out of my hands and even though the past 8 games I have won lane it didn't matter because top fed so much. Hell, some games we were on the fast track to get FBT but top lost so hard that somehow they lost it first despite top lane towers having a fortification bonus. How the hell does top lane lose that hard pre-10 minutes?

obsesse1 votes

Well, you could try not playing a late game support so you're useful to your team before 20 minutes.

StoryDuck1 votes

so...don't play support then?

here are my supports

Taric Soraka Sona Nami Lulu Leona Janna Karma Braum Bard Zyra

I can play every single one of these support with expertise. Which one would fix the problem of the hyper fed top laner? Seeing as I get a 2-4 kill lead with Taric almost every game (pre-10 minutes) I will assume I need to get 4-8 kills to match the fucked up top laner. So which support has a bigger impact?

Froggerka1 votes

Keep in mind that the person that caused your toplaner to feed was the enemy toplaner. There is no answer for the question "Toplane, stop feeding!" Queue up with a friend that mains top if it's that much of a problem. Top is a lane that gets no help from the rest of the team, except jungle if the enemy toplaner snowballs super hard and the jungler knows.

fotios5671 votes

It's because the junglers don't have to farm so they sit in top lane

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