Top lane is the most unfun it's ever been

HateDaddy··1 votes·650 views

The ability to outplay your opponent is gone.

The ability to pick anything that isn't a tank or swain/vlad/Irelia/fizz is begging to lose the game

Junglers gank you at any point of aggression because everyone just sits back and tries to farm. And because they're playing tanks, wave management and the likes don't matter because they can setup ganks easily and still do an enormous amount of damage.

You're still forced to take teleport if you want to be relevant

Damage dealing top laners aren't good, you can't build damage because you just get insta cc'd and die because tenacity is still garbage and chain CCING is too easy now because everything gets 40% CDR.

Top lane has always had questionable diversity but this is so bad right now that playing anything non meta gets you an instant loss. Outplaying and out thinking/outlasting your opponent isn't a thing because of corrupting potion/grasp/TP. Lane aggression isn't a thing because it's pointless.

I'm glad Irelia is happy about these trinity changes but even Jax is still complete garbage because he doesnt have a "you can't cc me"passive. Carry tops are dead, tanks and mages are the only things you're allowed to play now.

Tenacity needs to be better, tanks need to do less damage. Grasp needs to be reworked. Cc stacking needs to be remade somehow, everything has hard CC now and because every class basically can buy 40% CDR now in their core items, that problem is worse since spells are more spammable than ever.

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Ralanr1 votes

Grasp is getting reworked. It has weaker sustain and I think only procs if you actually hit the enemy champion throughout 4 seconds.

I feel it's going to hurt top lane tanks without sustain, but it'll probably help every fighter who excels in 1v1 fights.

HateDaddy1 votes

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Grasp is getting reworked. It has weaker sustain and I think only procs if you actually hit the enemy champion throughout 4 seconds.

I feel it's going to hurt top lane tanks without sustain, but it'll probably help every fighter who excels in 1v1 fights.

Where did you see this at? Do you mind showing me?

And if so, good. top lane tanks need to be brought down a ton in power.

Ralanr1 votes

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2016/06/66-pbe-update.html?m=1

The latest update didn't change much I believe.

Crazy Chatter1 votes

Dude, it is possible to build damage if your team works really well together and can snowball. Also, what's so bad about building a bit tanky? Anyone can do it and it's a choice you have to make. Do you want survivability or increased burst dmg?

Blåbæret1 votes

I've been playing a bit of Lissandra top, and mostly after the first back when some tank gets MR, it turns into a farm lane. I can't kill them, they can't kill me. Kayle is the only champ that can melt a tank or one of these OP fighters.

There's so much sustain going on it's ridiculous. Tanks need to be nerfed.

MISTAFUNKTASTIC1 votes

IMO DrMundo is always fun. :)

To add something legitimate to the conversation, keystone masteries are way to powerful in general. I hope keystones are removed for S7.

I am Pacman1 votes

Well I do admit top lane this season had a rocky start with every assassin you could think of trying out their brand new tank builds (looking at you akali, ekko, fiora, yasou, fizz). Now we only have two problems (IMO), vladimir and swain. Unfortunately neither of their reworks gave them meaningful weaknesses and we are left with horrible laning phases for the opponent.

On the other hand once I ban those two them im usually set to have a good time top lane. All of the champs I play (Darius, Renekton, Illaoi, jax, Irelia) have all recently come back in strengh (woot my boy jax is back and is for once balanced, shame irelia got overtuned).

I like the aspect of how trading and wave management currently works in top lane and with the new dragons and rift herald I feel way more as a member of the team helping to win while still holding that feeling of 1v1 skill on an island alone splitpushing.

I am Pacman1 votes

As a side note, grasp is probably the worst thing to happen to top lane IMO. Sure I like using it but it clearly needs to be either drastically changed or removed as it messes with too many champions power levels especially in the early/mid game where sustain can be kind in lane.

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