Teleport+Smite Toplane and the Future of LoL

I Was Bamboozled·4/28/2015, 5:52:29 PM·1 votes·1,267 views

Alright so I have known myself to be not so good at Shyvanna...

But i saw a guy go garen with TP/smite and asked him wtf he was doing... Now i am not a pro player but i have played two games as shyvanna and fed with 0/5 the first game and 0/3 the second and suddenly with jungle item cinderhulk i become godlike. near end game i find myself having 5k+ hp and so tanky I am able to 1v5 for a decent amount of time while waiting for my team and still escaping alive with the ace.

Shyvanna is already a lane bully with her %hp damage from E but when you add challenging smite and a BoRK its practically GG. I feel a nerf will probably come from this top lane exploit or we will start seeing it so much more often. (4 times for me not including my 2 games) but i feel LoL is shifting hard and fast toward a tank meta. tank top and jungle at the very least. I think its only a matter of time before we start seeing tankier midlaners such as vlad taking that cinderhulk for 25%hp and turning this game into a 3 smite meta.

I added a few screenshots showing endgame lobby chat also showing build and damage to champion chart. for more in depth viewing i have linked the match history details so further depth can be read about these 2 games i have played.

can we get enough discussion on this and hopefully get a red post? http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1807341943/34228944?tab=overview http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/1807218627/34228944?tab=overview

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami4/28/2015, 5:53:52 PM4 votes

Plenty of red posts about Cinderhulk and the new laning with Smite popularity.

BluePolarizer4/28/2015, 6:58:34 PM1 votes

Lost so many games with a smite TP top in them due to level 3 ganks against them where they can't escape and no combat summoners to fight back or because they lost mid-game before they could ramp up and become relevant.

Its pretty overrated. Garen with smite TP isn't that bad though, due to his slow removing Q. Also gives him late game scaling which he doesn't really have.

The real question is why are people doing garbage like TP smite Mundo or TP smite Nasus.

Commit Sudoku4/28/2015, 7:45:11 PM1 votes

This is literally old news to everyone