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Board Poll: Current Most Influential Lane in SoloQ

UpDownLeftRightAB·11/4/2018, 2:18:21 PM·3 votes·1,851 views

Just so Riot can see the boards general opinion on SoloQ, I felt a poll was needed.

So SoloQ is a game of solo carrying, but normally each season, one lane seems to take over and define the meta or just generally destroys all other lanes if even a minor amount ahead. This is through champions and items that one role seems to just be able to snuff out even a much more fed opponent from another lane with little difficulty.

Currently, I believe this to be Top lane in soloQ. I say this because most top lanes get massive XP advantages, making them tanky one-shotting monsters to the opposing squishies, allowing the better top laner to carry a bad mid laner, a feeding adc, or a useless jungle. Combined with Top lanes isolation, there isn't really anything the opposing team can do to stop a snowball from going out of control given the current pace of the game, by the time your botlaner pushes his tower, even killing the enemy bot lane 2 or 3 times, Top lane can have almost double the kills and be almost impossible to stop due to their tankier itemization, their just more inherent gap closing abilities, and their innate damage being boosted by being several levels ahead due to solo XP.

It'd be nice to hear other's thoughts on the current soloQ juggernaut, so what lane do you think has the most influence at the moment in a games decision? I encourage you to post what you voted with a small reason like above, so there can a little discussion if people want that, besides maybe if Riot actually reads this it will cause them to consider the question themselves. But that is highly doubtful.

20 Comments

Quil Evrything11/4/2018, 4:00:31 PM2 votes

Problem is, you contradict yourself. One line is "most influential lane". other is "the carry position". these are not neccessarily the same thing.

ie: the carry goes over to help win the most influential lane.

vgamedude11/4/2018, 2:26:49 PM1 votes

Bot lane. Always bot lane. It's the lane not only yielding two players but also the lane that has maintained the only monopoly on class / role combo in the entire game, that speaks to how important adc is.

Lauchmelder11/4/2018, 2:33:45 PM1 votes

{quoted} making them tanky one-shotting monsters to the opposing squishies

Pick one. Both at the same time is not true.

5050BS11/4/2018, 5:11:57 PM1 votes

If enemy team has the better jungler they win.

I play top often and useally win my lane sometime very hard. This does not mean we win because often the enemy jungler is snowballing mid and or bot and my junlger sucks so we lose.

Salron11/6/2018, 3:45:30 AM1 votes

jg>mid>top>=support>adc