I feel like I cannot help my team much when I play top. I usually get good k/d/as, but i know that doesn't necessarily help my team. If I could get tips on how to improve on top lane that would be great. I prefer mid or adc but when I top I like playing garen shyvana fiora http://na.op.gg/summoner/champions/userName=Poseidon1813
usul12022 votesSo, you have your main goal on top lane: win lane. It sounds like you do that decently. But what you do with a won lane is what matters. If you force your opponent to back, back off a bit to look like you're recalling, and roam mid for a gank. snowball bot lane with a nice teleport. Make their jungler come top to save that tower or to gank you (and fail!). People say that top lane is an island. They're wrong. You are not alone. That is why teleport is so mandatory on top laners, not just for getting into lane (or adcs would take it) but to move around the map. Gotta have that map pressure.
Godaren1 votesThanks man, I take ignite on fiora depending on the matchup and try to snowball. I roam on her and garen, shyvana I usually stay top and split push since her cc isn't very strong. Good point about snowballing and forcing the jungler. I love Shyvana cause after you get your ult you just waste the other junglers time if they try to gank. Same concept with sion but I didn't like playing him.
BluePolarizer2 votesprotip on pantheon: if you see the enemy jungler or mid coming for a gank and can't escape because you pushed too far to the opponent tower and they flanked you, but they need at least 3 seconds to get to you, just run into a bush and ult a random place on the map that you can see and are in range for (best is the place behind golems or wight). This works against any laner without skillshot cc, which is most tops.
Godaren1 votesThanks man, I am not a big fan of pantheon cause he falls off pretty hard, If I am going for snowball tops I usually play fiora, riven.
LegacyDAP1 votesFiora and Riven fall off harder than Pantheon.
Godaren1 votesI mained Fiora most of last season, Pantheon is cake to peel and his ult telegraphed, Fiora will 100 to 0 your carry at full build with ease while being untargetable through most of it, a 10-2 pantheon doesn't scare me 10-2 fiora if your adc you might as well give up on living. I have also 1v2d or 1v3d on fiora quite a lot if the other team is squishy I have never seen a pantheon do this unless he is cleaning up.
BluePolarizer1 votesRiven falls off harder than Pantheon, she just farms better. Fiora has a better late game than Pantheon only in terms of safety, but Pantheon has way more global pressure even late game since his damage doesn't fall off enough to matter, its his safety in teamfights that falls off. He still bursts any squishy that gets caught 1v1 with him and can't kite him.
Godaren1 votesGlobal pressure yes, damage and team fighting no, he is kinda like shaco snowball early cant team fight late unless the other teams adc is very poor at positioning.
Renaille1 votesRoam and TP gank. situationally pressure the enemy jungler. Build more team fight oriented(aka tankier if you're a melee)
Godaren1 votesYeah tp ganks are good sometime people dont move when you try them bot or something though.
ZergReap1 votesmid-late game with TP try split pushing while watching your team, maybe someone is getting caught but you can tp in to turn it. If your team is fighting and wins a fight while you are split pushing you keep going take towers. If you see the fight might be a loss tp in, but you gotta read it quick because if your late it might not matter and you might as well keep pushing. Ping your team back if you are split and know you can get a free tower so they avoid the 4v5 and free tower. I played a lot of Fiora, she seems like a situational pick to me when your team has good tanks/cc, but lacks damage.
I honestly try to rush the enemy tower down faster than anything top because once that is gone I'm looking to roam and make plays only going back to clear waves.
A way you can make TP ganks easier is tell bot to ward deep in the bush along the wall on the bot side of the map. When the enemy is pushed up to your tower you can get an easy flank.
Godaren1 votesIt is very risky to have your top laner tp in though because say you are the only tank on the team by the time my tp channels half my team is probably dead. They talk about that in lcs some if a fight starts and your tank is not there you will probably lose the fight. I used to play nasus then gave up because teams in silver/gold are very poor at adjusting to having a nasus on their team. I do tp split push with shyvana usually but other tops I stopped doing that.
LegacyDAP1 votesAlways take TP as top then, if you want to make sure other lanes win, and your own. Don't use TP to go top unless it's being shoved super hard. Save it for fights such as Dragon, or the fight of the bot lane.
Godaren1 votesI usually do but on garen or shyvana tp ganks arent the best, maoki and fiora can really well though.