If you want to play top lane STOP expecting ganks

Trash MammaI·Feb 27, 2015·4 votes·762 views

Chances are you will rarely get them, if any at all. Dragon is more important than some silly tank/bruiser stomp fest. After I about level 4 you're on your own. This is coming from a top lane main too. Especially if you're a tank. There's 0 reason for junglers to gank for you. With the way the game is now you're useless outside of your CC anyway. Not to mention the game is basically run by adcs when there isn't an assassin to put them in their place.

This goes double for you Tryndamere %%%s. You can go 0/8 the first 10 minutes and still be the most annoying person ever

9 Comments

Daedalus871Feb 27, 20153 votes

Sometimes ganking for your Riven top means she can carry your team.

redniwediSFeb 27, 20152 votes

As a top lane main I couldn't agree more. Your goal up there is to distract the enemy jungler, not distract your own.

Trash MammaIFeb 28, 20152 votes

Finally someone gets it. I hate it when i'm getting camped but if it means I get free dragons then by all means. Camp me

OhOkYeahFeb 27, 20151 votes

top is feeding report jungler please

Mecha MaIphiteFeb 27, 20151 votes

Every time I go top it's because I want to have a relaxing lane with little pressure.

Slamurai JackFeb 27, 20151 votes

I will stop expecting ganks from my jungler when I can stop expecting the enemy jungler to gank me. I'm getting 100-0 tower dove by their top, jungle, and mid at lvl 9. You may think there's 0 reason to gank for me, but I have a feeling you'll think differently when you have a Fed Fiora to deal with because the enemy jungler doesn't buy into your hypothesis.

Trash MammaIFeb 28, 20151 votes

Thanks to you getting tower dove we just took dragon giving the entire team a buff. Possibly stop his wolves and gromp as well. Then head bot for a gank. All that got done because the enemy jungler was too busy with you. Which is more worth?

Slamurai JackFeb 28, 20151 votes

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Thanks to you getting tower dove we just took dragon giving the entire team a buff. Possibly stop his wolves and gromp as well. Then head bot for a gank. All that got done because the enemy jungler was too busy with you. Which is more worth?

With how often I've seen teams in LCS with a massive dragon lead still lose the game, I'm going to question this logic. With the old dragon, I would absolutely agree. But, their snowbally top laner Jax just got a free kill, their mid and jungler both got an assist, and I just lost my tower, as well as total control over the top half of the map, since I have no hope of 1v1ing the enemy top laner anymore. Is having your top laner completely neutered and the enemy top laner doing whatever they want really worth a drag and a gank attempt on bot? Maybe, if you can manage to snowball bot lane off that specific gank. Otherwise, it's very not worth.