Experimenting with Cinderhulk top

ponkzy··1 votes·341 views

As we all know, champions like Hecarim Fizz Shyvana are all good with cinderhulk and played competitively (there maybe more but this is all i've seen so far)

So, what makes a good cinderhulk top? First having some sort of empowered auto, or ability to stick to the target. Second, having an escape because you're not going to be using flash (smite/tele). Third, the ability to do a jungle camp before going to lane quickly. Fourth, having an attack speed boost helps a lot. Last, building tanky doesn't necessarily mean you're doing no damage (percent damage helps).

Champions I'm interested in doing cinderhulk top:

Rammus Skarner Rengar Shen XinZhao Olaf Nunu Ekko Aatrox DrMundo Zac

Will experiment different build paths and see how it works. So far, it's complete domination in lane usually if there's a duel 1v1, even sometimes I win 2v1 (with olaf it's pretty easy). I feel like a lot of these would be pretty decent and with some practice quite lethal. Of course anything works in solo q, so there's always that

4 Comments

Provengreil2 votes

I think your issue is going to highlight the difference between functional and useful, rather than useful and optimal. Everyone on that list can build cinderhulk and work well, we know that because we've already seen it happen (aatrox and olaf aside, I've seen each of these at least once in game). The real question for toplane is whether it's worth the opportunity cost of a non-smite summoner and the 800 or so gold you spend on a no-stats item before you even get cinder.

ponkzy1 votes

so, i just did mundo top with smite tele, managed to do as much damage as my whole team combined

pretty decent i'd say

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1862962616/209778500?tab=overview

Provengreil2 votes

I didn't say it was bad of you to experiment: by all means do so. When i get back home I'll be trying a couple VERY unconventional jungles with runeglaive. I'm just saying you don't have to test whether it "works", you want to test whether it's "worth", or optimal. Apparently with mundo it is, not that that's surprising.

Angelofchaos16x1 votes

Singed Top smite and Tp is fucking metal. He does not use flash ( Ghost or Ignite is what we used to do), so its not much of a miss. The Cinderhulk passive added to your passive gives you a RETARDED amount of health. Do cinderhulk, Roa and Frozen Heart. Its really good.

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