10 years later, top still isn't melee.

Radiant Wukong·1/30/2020, 11:41:18 PM·3 votes·1,831 views

At least in DotA2 the damage, mobility and crowd control difference between melee/ranged champions is big enough to make picking a ranged champ top lane a bad decision. Even with a gank and death (loss of gold and xp) the melee champ is still a huge threat and thr ranged champ still needs to play mistake free.

Edit: There is no hard engaging Vlad, Kaisa, Quinn, Senna, Vayne, Ahri, Lissandra, LeBlanc, Ezreal, Morgana, Ryze, Kennen, Tristana, Xayah.

It's also boring being forced to use thr same pool of 5 champs Renny, Yorick, Fizz, Irelia, Illaoi, Pantheon, Lee to stand a chance and that'd hoping they're not running Glacia or Phase.

24 Comments

Arcade Lulu1/30/2020, 11:52:02 PM7 votes

So what should riot do then?

Anime Fizz1/31/2020, 1:39:41 AM5 votes

Problem is that theres too many darius players around here that want to be able to win every lane and have 0 counterpicks.

Theres already good melee champs against ranged, like irelia or camille for example.

GFREEMEN1/31/2020, 3:08:00 AM3 votes

10 Years and mid lane is still only assassins. Give assassins a +4s CD to all abilities and -30% damage

Thats what you sound like

Chembaron Yamada1/31/2020, 12:24:06 AM3 votes

I really don't get that ranged hate.

Eedat1/31/2020, 1:31:06 AM2 votes

When did they ever say it was going to be?

Ragnaveil1/30/2020, 11:52:24 PM2 votes

Cant do that apparently. Nope, gotta keep it the wild west for absolutely no reason.

2gudaiya1/31/2020, 12:14:04 AM2 votes

just play irelia.

PhearBunny1/31/2020, 4:58:52 PM1 votes

whats wrong with a little diversity in the top lane? Ranged top laners have never pushed melee top laners out. Just because there are viable ranged top laners doesnt mean your typical melee toplaners arent still just as strong and also better suited towards team composition.

i have never encountered any ranged top laner in any patch that has been more oppressive than Tahm top(Even now, in his nerfed into irrelevance state).

Bijeesny1/31/2020, 6:44:08 PM1 votes

Ahh, another "ranged tops OP" post...

If they're so strong, why is there barely any ranged champ with over 50% wr on top? Like, can we stop with this nonsense? For multiple patches champs like Darius, Morde, Kled, garen and recently Sett are S or S+ tier picks all these ranged tops are either barely breaking 50% winrate or are below 50%.

Like srsly, stop copying hashinshin.