Top Lane is the Hardest
Alright bois before you ADC Mains, roast the hell out of me and downvote, give me a chance here.
Okie Dokie lets get this clear real quick, I have more experience (this is my alt-account)
TRIBUSH Ok so top lane is always revered as the easiest lane, and i've found myself not agreeing whatsoever. Ok so lets just do a clean overview of it all, so u know how each team has a tribush thing, one on the bottom, one on the top. The thing is for botside, is what i've seen is that since there are two of them, they usually have that stuff warded. But if you haven't done you first back yet as a toplaner, and you havent gotten the control ward yet. your dead if that jungler pulls a sneaky one on ya and pops up behind you.
ITEMS Ok so I play a lot of mid, and for someones who's played a lot of mages, getting mage items is pretty gosh darn easy, and super efficient with a bunch of kits. The thing is with toplaners, like bruisers and sometimes tanks the items cost so much. So like the average strong point of a champion is when they have three items (ik ik not all, talon and others have great early games), but the thing is if you want a triforce, a titanic, and idk like a steraks, those things cost more than 3000, mage items cost way less than that. And so like it makes it kinda hard for some toplaners to be that efficient in fights, because even if they have the same amount of gold, they wont be as strong.
OPPONENTS (So this is probably the part where people who just lost a game are going to show up and downvote me). Ok so from what I've seen, toplaners have the most crucial like champion select, because if the enemy is playing urgot and your playing idk someone melee. Its sometimes not even an option to play defensively, a bad match up usually results in one person getting absolutely rekted either in kills or cs. And I don't play all too much of bot, so this is where I need your guy's opinions. You can play almost ADC you want, like sure some do well against others, but it kinda just feels like your gonna do ok even in a bad match up because you have your support to get out of bad scenarios .
POSITIONING Ok so in top lane they have rift/baron, which are both harder obstacles to get because it will most likely take longer if its just the toplaner and jungler. AND both are usually only got once, but the thing is with bot, there's a drag up like every four minutes making it a great place to play around. Because of the easy chance for a four vs four. And if you as a toplaner want to get there you have to tele, but the thing is if the fight goes badly, you just wasted your teleport, and teleports are so crucial to a toplaner. And because there are two people in bot side on either side, if the junglers focus bot they can possibly get double kills/ and overall just get their botside fed, and a fed botside is much more important then a topside, because a toplaner is only one person. If you get your botlane fed, your effectively getting two(support and ADC) bot laners, yourself(jungler), and sometimes even the midlaner all fed. And then once you win the fight you can get the drake.
Ok I kinda ranted there, but as a person who plays a lot of jungle, and have a decent sense of macro, Ive just been seeing myself not really even worrying about topside. and no one else really either. So I thought I would try to speak on the behalf of some toplaners. Tell me what you think in the comment sections.
EDIT 1.): Someone brought up another great point that I forgot about, You can't carry as a toplaner, if you play well as idk like a Maolkai, and I end up getting kills because I set up a good gank, it doesn't matter. The ADC or jungle Yi can and will kill me. The only significance of beating the enemy laner, is solidifying the fact that your stronger than that one person. But sometimes THAT isn't even true because someone like Jax can powerfarm for five minutes and then be stronger than me despite being like two kills behind me
EDIT 2.) Looks like I got my first down vote, wow look no comment explaining why. This is the problem with league people just cant come to terms with certain things, and even when they disagree with it they don't explain it, all I had were for the most part FACTS, when the person who down voted realized they had no facts they just had a sissy fit and left
EDIT 3.) When I say its the hardest, Its a hyperbole, I just wanted to emphasize on the fact that it isn't just farming till your strong
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