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Arms race in top lane has left bottom in the dust.

IH8U2D34TH·12/30/2019, 8:05:03 PM·1 votes·729 views

I've been having a LOT of games decided soley by top. I play support, and lately I've had many games where we dominate bot lane hard (like 16/4 between sup and adc) and the top laners are just a bit ahead (like 3/2). They start roaming after laning phase and we can't even contest objectives against them. Champs like Cho'gath, Nasus, Darius, Mordekeiser, come out of top a little ahead and just out dmg, out CC, and out tank us hard. They take stupid fights 1v3 and we cant do anything, by the time they get low their team has arrived and we lose the fight. They often go bot and just murder us under tower, we are typically forced to abandon bot tower (full health) and dragons vs them. Then their carriers who got destroyed in lane phase get bigger and bigger fighting behind them and the game quickly gets out of control.

There has been this crazy arms race top of tanks with CC who outdmg carries, and it's very frustrating to lose games like this. Feels very helpless, especially from support point of view. Does anyone else agree with my assessment? Any advice to deal with it?

3 Comments

Rewt12/30/2019, 8:29:20 PM2 votes

Top laners say Bot lane has too much influence. Bot laners say Top has too much influence.

I tend to agree with the top laners. Generally speaking As a jungler I just keep that fed monster off my ADC and let them right click until we win the fight.

Elite4Runner12/30/2019, 8:17:20 PM1 votes

I think people have a tendency to underestimate top lane. The phrase "Top is an island" is sort of a double-edged sword. While nobody is working to influence top, nobody is worried about top coming to influence them. That is when you get roamed on by this monster that you didn't even know was in the game.

What's worse is when your top laner decides to farm jungle while the enemy laner is roaming.

AT LEAST GET SOME DAMAGE ON THE TOWER [sg-janna]

Ragnaveil12/30/2019, 8:50:38 PM1 votes

"tanks" Either they do damage or they die to you in two seconds (Darius Mord Nasus). Its usually the lather since ADCs that are popular for the most part have either good range or good kiting. Even then, you could probably chunk them to half health before they have flash range on you.