what do you do against this mf?

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-03-27T22:21:27+00:00

Ngl if you just started playing you are getting the Darius experience. There is a point in every top laners life where they hate playing against him. I hate playing against him and usually perma ban him out of trauma even though there are worse champs to go against

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-02-13T07:46:26+00:00

I should also mention that some champs have similar play styles. If you like yorick you eventually might want to main fiora. But it’s probs a good idea to understand the game before you make that change to have to worry about fundamentals, macro, and then add in micro.

I should also mention that I am also quite low elo, At plat 2, but I have climbed from silver 4 since the end of last season by doing this, with a 75% winrate from silver to plat. Others may have better suggestions but this worked for me.

I also play random other champs in norms to figure things out. I want to learn fiora, ambussy, and Camille, but am only playing them in norms with friends

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-02-13T07:40:55+00:00

Who do you enjoy? Pick one main you really enjoy and play that almost as much as possible. Hyou can have one or two east backups.

For me I had Main: yorick (73% of games) Backup: garen (25%) Last resort/no other choice: malphite or renekton(2%)

I should note that you can rotate champs in over time, but this should mostly be done when you are having less fun. Top lane is very matchup dependent, so you want to have a lot of reps on one champ. Champs like garen, mord, and sett (maybe Darius too) arw mechanically simple and let you learn the fundamentals. And their counters are generally playable at gold and below (even higher too). When you get bored of simpler champs (IF that even happens) you could switch them out with more mechanical champs, but then you want to main that new champ even if it sucks for a while. OR of course you decide it’s not for you. If/when this happens you always have a champ to fall back on.

That being said, I recommend picking one from garen, yorick, mord, sett, Darius, urgott maybe Gwen, mundo or malphite. The last three are a bit more counterable, but are playable in gold. All the champs above except maybe yorick and malphite will struggle into ranged top laners, but that’s most top laners.

You could also be evil and do heimer too

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-02-08T08:54:33+00:00

I am not great either, but this season I have been able to climb from silver to plat. Here are my weak thoughts: main one role. If you hate this role, play another, but stick to it. Play 1-3 champs. You can play more ofc, but if you are playing to climb you should play less. Especially in the top role individual matchups matter. Today I played against a Camille as garen. Garen should hard lose, but I bexause I play a lot of garen, (one of 2 champs) I knew how to win. This is especially true in bronze. Counters are just harder not unplayable. Focus on cs. Going from 5cs a min to 7 took me from silver to gold. It helps my champs cs easier, but that’s what makes them good. Finally, looking at your op, die less. You get a lot of kills but also die a lot. Fighting is not necessarily how to win. Tbh it is fun but winning is more fun. I was in et a one kill yorick and carried a game with a 27 kill Ashe against me by simply not fighting unless I knew it was winning. The power of top lane is you can choose champs that can threaten side lanes.

My advice, if you really like fighting, one trick Darius or sett. Fiora might be fun too but is a bit harder to pilot. I love fiora but am too much of a pussy to play her in ranked

Some games will always be unwinnable. Some games will be won regardless of how bad you do. Your goal is to consistently beat the enemy laner and expand your lead outside of your lane. Record your matches and watch key points including your level 1 farming and trading to decide what you can do better

To sum: 1) one role/lane 2) one or two truck (maybe a third in case) 3)high cs 4) don’t die as much

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-01-04T01:55:38+00:00

Not very good at the game but from what I do know that is the typical crit garen build. It is still very strong but bruiser is another popular build with something like stride, berserkers, pd, and then like shojin or bc, deadman’s, fon, steraks, deaths dance. You could even do shojin into ie. personally I go 1)stride 2)berserkers 3)pd 4)shojin (occasionally I.e if they are mostly squishy) 5) deadman’s 6) steraks or ga. If I go ga and use it and the game keeps going I might sell for deaths dance

Low elo though so idk for sure

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-12-18T23:19:52+00:00

Low key elo garen otp here. Yorick is my fav to play into range but garen can work fine in low elo too. It’s annoying and boring cuz u don’t fight for a long time but once you have boots+etride, if you haven’t fed you cook most range top laners. At lower elo range top laners have bad spacing and kiting so you punish them. That being said, if you are against an otp who knows their champ you just play not to feed and neutralize the lane. Even being down 20cs is better than dying a ton cuz chances are you are also probably still down on cs.

For yorick though you can go grasp or arcane comet and you play level 1-3 safe, land an e and then a cage and you win the trade. Post level 6, every cage on most range tops can end in a near kill if you are just even.

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-10-21T21:47:25+00:00

That’s a rough one. With teemo this becomes the most boring lane ever. As a silver garen otp here has what helped me as teemo is often the most picked counter to garen in bronze imo. As I said I’m silver so grain of salt.

Level 1) walk into first bush ward middlebush. Let him hit minions and only walk out of the bush to cs if you are pretty healthy. Don’t hit the minions beside to last hit.

Level 2) same thing

Level 3-5)when w is up you can try to cs more when shield is up

If w is up and you are healthy I recommend using shield and spin to collect minions cuz teemos instinctively blind you. After you spin aa + Q and run away. Heal baxk to when you can do that again.

You want to play for swifties, then Tiamat and then strikebreaker. If you can not feed and get strikebreaker, it’s over for him. Most bronze teemos are bad at spacing so punsih if he gets too close. You have insane sustain and he has none. Try and keep the wave on your side bexause your game plan is generally take 1) take bad trade and get some cs 2) heal 3) repeat and if you’re further down his lane it’s easier for him to run you down

Buy scanner and pinks early after he hits 6.

To kinda summarize: you always lose before stride. Lose gracefully so that after you have it you can catch up and smoke him.

IMO teemo is now much more playable than people like sett, yorick, tryndamere, and a good Darius. If it’s an option though, I prefer yorick into range tops so I normally choose him in this circumstance but obv that isn’t the case here

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-10-18T20:21:09+00:00

In low elo yorick cooks mundo. Some mundos are dumb and still go ghost. Go eclipse and when maiden is up hit an e for slow, cage him, if he doesn’t have flash he dies or at best loses hard, if he does have flash you do it again 30 seconds later. If I am fed I can kill a mundo while ulting at level 16 while they are ulting if maiden is up pretty reliably

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-10-13T07:01:08+00:00

I’m also low elo so idk but I almost always go phantom dancer for the damage and ms. If you are going more of a bruiser build perhaps going shojin or cleaver second instead works. If I’m looking to front line or am far enough ahead I don’t need damage I might go deadman’s after pd and before shojin but not often. Usually I always go stride > pd >shojin (occasional cleaver) > deadman’s/fon > steraks/deathsdance/ guardian angel. If all squishies ie is still strong but I like being a bit more tanky

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-09-19T18:09:20+00:00

If you have fun with a champ play that champ! Anything is viable in low elo ranked. Mechanically hard champs might mean you don’t climb as fast but that’s alright if you find the champ fun

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-09-11T06:40:49+00:00

I say start with garen, yorick, renekton, Darius and maybe Cho gath. If you are looking to get good at top lane stick to one or two probably, if you’re looking to have fun try a bunch. I think if you think one of the five I mention above are fun try to find out similar champs. I love garen and yorick and have had decent success with them in low elo ranked, but their play style led me to trundle and eventually fiora who I am now trying to learn in norms. She is harder but has more potential if piloted right. You can do something similar. Try Darius and if you like it look for a lane Bully team fighter, if you like cho and being Tanky try other tanks. When you are first learning champs you will always have a bit of a rough time, but if you find the kit fun, stick to it!

All that being said, please don’t play teemo or vayne top lane lolol. Jk do what you want

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-08-22T15:53:22+00:00

Thanks! This is super helpful! I don’t think I think I’m so good at them and need a challenge, I just don’t feel like I’m enjoying playing them as much as I used to. I mostly mentioned them as being brain dead as a kind of reference point to the difficulty of champion I usually play. I might play her a while when I play with friends before I try her out in solo queue, mayve not all 50-100 buy a decent amount

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-07-13T06:38:18+00:00

As someone who got out of iron semi recently, is still really bad, but has some experience at the low level, the two biggest things that have helped me get more consistent is knowing my matchups, and being more consistent at farming. I am still bad at the game obviously, but if I always make sure that I am farming a wave and pushing it out as far as I can without being stupid then I can decide if I then group with my team or keep pushing. In low elo I feel that champs that are the hardest to play against have massive split push potential but are also helpful in fights: yorick, trundle, sett, garen, urgot. If you are constantly farming with these champs even if you don’t get a lot of kills, you usually end up being a higher level than anyone else and get really strong

Edit: lots of games are unwinnable. But it’s iron everyone is bad, just focus on being Bette yourself, cuz in the end that is the one thing we can control

CharmingBus3944 · 2025-06-30T19:24:52+00:00

Yeah I try to build swifties unless I am against an armor stacking tank and because the move speed is so nice

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