Best Top Lane ADCs

jannit0r·12/30/2017, 6:15:38 AM·2 votes·4,331 views

My secondary role is ADC, but I play super passive and half of my supports don't care so they decide to feed bot lane. I really enjoy playing ADCs and don't want to give them up, so I was wondering which ADCs (preferebly Twitch or other hypercarries) are good at top lane. Someone I can afk on for half the game without an 0/5 support flaming me, yet still proceed to scale into a damage monster. I also want it to be actually viable instead of some super cheese strat so I can climb with it.

4 Comments

Anonagon12/30/2017, 6:52:22 AM2 votes

Really only Quinn. She's the only ADC (or ADC-like champion, if you would insist she isn't one) who consistently functions well in top lane on a long term basis. This is because Quinn functions well enough as a assassin or splitpusher that taking her top lane doesn't cripple a teamcomp the way taking a traditional ADC top would. Her bullying is also strong enough that she can also overcome a bad teamcomp by sheer snowballing force.

Your other options, realistically, are playing Teemo or Kayle, or, if you are willing to put in the effort, learning someone like Jayce or Gnar who are more loosely similar to ADCs.

The fantasy of sitting as a ranged top laner and farming for half the game to scale into lategame may sound appealing, but it doesn't work in practice because lategame is where teamcomp actually matters, and having a top lane carry who can't win 1v1s cripples your teamcomp. Ranged characters only win in toplane if they can win lane consistently and convincingly the way a Heimerdinger can.

Pieceofcandy12/30/2017, 6:26:04 AM1 votes

Lucian and maybe Corki are the usual ADC's that tend to float into other lanes depending on the meta.

D4M2X012/30/2017, 6:37:34 AM1 votes

obvious choices would be vayne/lucian however im suprised no one plays tris/ezreal top

Baron Barian12/30/2017, 8:33:00 AM1 votes

None. No ADCS are good in top lane. . .. ... .... .....

You're not buying that, are you?