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Just to prove that Top Lane is an issue.

HongChongDong·1/20/2018, 9:46:43 AM·21 votes·2,946 views

Don't talk balance about much besides when I'm on a rage train about something that's pissing me off at the time and fizz, but this time I'll make an exception.

I don't know what the Live balance team is currently doing, infact I'm actually fairly certain they are taking a look at Top lane and the meta behind it. But under that small chance that they aren't and also to solidify the fact that it isn't the boards going on one of those self contained crusades, I'm going to note something important.

December 7th 2017 Hashinshin organizes a group of 4 top laners including himself, Dekar, Irelia Carries U, and Mike "WickD" Peterson who is a long time professional player. The podcast is about talking about why top lane is in its current state. Good watch so I'd suggest looking it up.

December 13th Hashinshin organizes yet another group of top laners to discuss the on going issues of top lane balance. This time it includes himself, FoggedFTW, Weeknd, and Lyroc. Not going to try and lie, I have no clue who the last guy is.

So in total that's 7 people who have respectable histories and more than enough credibility to give informed and factual opinions. This is when you stay true to your word and listen to the players who know the game, if you aren't already listening that is. Or atleast I'm assuming the last guy has a decent history, again I have no clue who that is so you can count that as 6 credible players for the sake of fairness.

Hashinshin has actually been on a streak of rants and discussion videos for a while, I simply plucked some of the more recent examples. So if you want a voice to listen to then check out his YT channel.

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saltran1/20/2018, 2:02:24 PM5 votes

4 top laner mains: Dekar is a Riven player if I'm not wrong/ Irelia Carries U is obviously a Irelia otp/ Wicked is also a Irelia-Jax player/and Hashinshin almost only play bruisers.

Hey, to be more specific you could say that they are only bruisers toplaners the guys that Hashin called.

TehNACHO1/20/2018, 9:57:30 AM2 votes

Just putting it out there, the discussions may be just a tad loaded. Small handpicked group on an already negative conversation starter doesn't lead to the most unbiased discussion, even if everything they say is supported with evidence.

With that said however, I'm curious exactly what sort of solutions they came up with. It's one thing to point out a problem, it's another to try to fix it. For example, a lot of people who play slow bulky melees complain about ranged champions coming top. The vast majority of the time, these same people don't have exactly...elegant solutions to the issue.

Penns1/20/2018, 10:06:34 AM2 votes

Hashinshin has actually been on a streak of rants and discussion videos for a while

Hashinshins whole life is a rant tho lel

I dont really want to listen to that for almost 2 hours tbh. So far they (he) only complained about "bruisers", but tanks are top laners too. If tanks are op, I wonder why top lane is bad? summoner 1

ZephyrDrake1/20/2018, 4:45:19 PM1 votes

Hashitshit... at least there are 6 other people you mentioned i can actually trust... maybe