If 2018 has taught me anything about the game so far

warpenguin555·Mar 4, 2018·7 votes·698 views

It's that Top laners are incredibly easy to tilt. It's no wonder they keep getting ganked at 2:30 with double buffs.

6 Comments

hoganftwMar 4, 201810 votes

It's a horribly volatile lane. One gank is usually a death sentence without jungler assistance.

My Waifu VanillaMar 4, 20183 votes

And yet they never learn to idk......use that thing on their 4 button that they almost have TWO OF by that point in the game. Nah gotta int push as an immobile champion and complain "THEIR JUNGLER IS HERE FOR THE 107TH GAME IN A ROW WHY IS IT ME EVERY TIME?!" People always complain that they will miss cs if they zone themselves off the wave when the jungler sits in the bush or whatever, but you know what else causes you to miss cs? Dying to ganks you know are coming except the second tends to cost you both your summoner spells and potentially MULTIPLE waves. But that is too much cost analysis for the Darius that HARD SHOVES the first 3 waves with Q and gets caught under the enemy tower.

HügöMar 4, 20183 votes

Not only easy to tilt but realy stupid. I died I better directly tp in the middle of the lane.

ModCaliCoastReplayMar 4, 20182 votes

Indeed, the lane was quite a bit easier before junglers got the dedicated health off summoner 11 and were able to gank at 2:30 with double buffs.

I wouldn't get too cocky about it all. I'm not sure I feel the game is better now for it - early ganks used to be the hallmark of a truly superior jungler, but now they're almost the standard. Toplaners have been calling for awhile to reduce the power of the early full-health jungle gank, and it may end up being one of the more justified balance changes people are calling for - though for now I still feel the lane is pretty okay if you know what you're doing.

Personally, I feel a rune that gives movespeed when walking back towards one's nexus may be just what the game needs to mitigate what the jungle-specific changes over the last few seasons ended up doing to top.

SangheliosMar 4, 20182 votes

GUYS JUST WARD YOU WILL NEVER GET GANKED ITS SO EASY until you realize that toplaners want to have as much (little) impact on games as possible so they are required to push lanes for a chance to win lane, roam or tp.

You don't even need to successfully gank toplane to win toplane, just hovering around toplane means that you're taking away from the fraction of time a toplaner has to play the game. Which apart from not being near botlane, isn't as punishing as it used to be(S6), since camps VIRTUALLY NEVER respawn anymore.

Play toplane for 5 games and I'll guarantee you will become the most tilted you have ever been in your life. (Unless you're playing Riot's favorite, - a tank that automatically wins every stage of the game). You can't even queue as Top secondary anymore because there's such a position shortage for the role that you're never getting your primary. It's for this reason that, even though I never play ADC, I queue for Mid/Adc just to get Mid 80% of the time as opposed to ~20%.

Toplane is an atrocious, unrewarding mess.

Phoenix RalMar 4, 20181 votes

When one gank basically ends the lane and you know that you'll have to spend the next 20 mins doing nothing but tower hugging, yeah it is pretty tilting. And no, you can't just ward, top lane is way too easy to gank and has way too many ways for a jungler to get into the lane so that you literally can't cover the entrances with 1 ward. Can't wait for them to nerf junglers and put a stop to that garbage.