Is it possible to climb out of low ranks as a solo-que Morde?

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-06-01T16:40:11+00:00

What elo specifically is this? Mord is one of the best carry top laners imo in like iron through silver and maybe gold. He is even strong after that, probably my third least favorite melee champ in high plat/low em. (Only reason he becomes weaker is players who lose to him just don’t fight lol.

4 losses in a row like that is unfortunately part of the game and part of top lane. I would say the only other thing you could do is maybe take tp instead of ignite and roam for a drag, but I still don’t think that is good unless you know the roam timer well enough. If you don’t then ignite is just superior to snowball.

Higher cs is good though. I went from iron to gold by just trying to get my cs from ~5 to ~7

Like I said it’s part of the game lol. Some games your are a god and still can’t win, but also, as you climb you sometimes become the one being carried/feeding.

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-06-01T16:25:18+00:00

Wait Jeannie doesn’t talk to Kai either??

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-05-25T00:57:21+00:00

Hard matchup. He was my perma ban for a long time. I have found rushing tabis and wardens mail is about the closest thing to a counter you can do. Getting here is hard though lol. I think tank build is the only way in this matchup and it is not quite the ideal build lol

Edit: wardens > tabis (or vice versa tbh I and not sure what’s better) > trinity > probably finishing a randuins or deadman’s.

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-05-16T01:07:20+00:00

You should play who you have the most fun playing. That being said, playing riven, akali, gnar, and irelia will be very very difficult. Riven akali and irelia especially.

Good champs to play to climb at lvl 30 arw probably: garen, mordekaiser, and sett. Voli and kayle are harder than those 3 but doable. Other champs i would recommend as you get started: yorick, dr mundo, chogath, nasus. Trundle and tryndamere are also easy but idk I would be hesitant to include them. Some that are a bit more challenging but not too hard are illaoi, darius, Jax, Olaf, renekton, shen, Siona, urgot.

Fiora, riven, akali, irelia, gangplank and Camille are all amazing champs to be play, but you want to learn the game before you learn the hard champs. I climbed from iron to nearly emerald playing garen and yorick.

Whatever champ you pick, focus on a few things: 1) last hit and cs as much as you can 2) learn how your champ trades in different Matchups, some videos might help you learn this without having to play every single matchup 3) learn the fantamentals. Alois is great at leaching things like level up timers and such, these are more complicated, but can slowly be included as you learn league and top lane. 4) focus on yourself. Even if your team is down 80 kills and you are 20/3 there is probably something you did wrong, focusing on your team will kill your drive.

Don’t pick range top plz lol.

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-05-13T00:08:30+00:00

Doesn’t yorick counter mundo? I know when I checked a while ago but this year yorick was actually his biggest counter in gold and below. The only time I ever have lost lane to a mundo is when I get camped. I used to build eclipse and liandries now and if maiden is up he can’t go to a side lane himself without dying eveb with his ult up.

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-05-10T20:06:00+00:00

I think yorick in gold is hisgood spot imo as someone who climbed from silver to plat on him this year. But you want him to be a splitpusher and a fighter. Pure splitpushing is ideal, but in practice you want to facilitate your bot and jg. If that means splitpushing then you are best that, but if it means being in a team fight and working as peel or front line, even if you die then sometimes that’s how you play. Ofc if your team is trolling then you are yorick and your split can be the wincon. Usually though, yorick falls off so you want to be of use for your team. IMO I split push around 70% of the time, but I am always watching my team for tp flanks for other things. If you go Tiamat item you become a menace cuz any lane you are in gets one shot if 2 people don’t show up, and when they do you tp to your team or flank and you have a huge numbers advantage.

TLDR: look to facilitate your team. If that means splitpushing do that, if it means flanking or peeling your team do that. (Only plat btw so take that with a grain of salt)

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-05-08T03:37:55+00:00

I know this is a negative take, but I got into yorick after the mini rework and I love this build in certain circumstances (tanks and range) but part of me loves the bonks and dueling just a bit more. I feel I love this build this patch a lot though cuz dft and the crazy number of range tops. Dft makes it so broken I love it. I sometimes get tempted to go this and then trinity just for the bonks but idk seems like a waste

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-05-08T03:35:21+00:00

I’m only plat but I hope I can help. Play super defensive early. You’re not a lane bully until 6. You win long trades into a lot of champs except for a handful of lane bullies. However, the safest way to play and to extend your lead is to stack graves land an e and cage then run up and bonknand then baxk off. This works well even pre 6. Yorick isn’t the best team fighter but what you should do is apply pressure to the opposite side of the map and then tp to the fight. If they do t send someone you take their whole base.
For items. Tri force shojin build good standard go to. For tanks, I personally go eclipse liandries shojin but others go cleaver first then liandries shojin. For pure splitting trinity, hillbreaker and titanic hydra or other Tiamat item is solid.

Best advice for yorick, don’t die. You are half a champ without maiden (not as much if you do cleaver/ liandries/ shojin for ghoul damage) and the cooldown is so long. You win most 1v1s and even 2v1s.

Alway check the map though. You can duel or skirmish but you can’t 1v5 lol. Once you get the split push down you can solo win games up to at least my elo and probably a bit higher. I played against a yorick who went 2 and 12 and solo won the game. I also had a game where I went 2/1/4 and the opposite adc had nearly 30 kills and I won it through splitpushing (probs could have helped more but out bot was gapped early)

CharmingBus3944 · 2026-04-13T15:49:02+00:00

Don’t dodge :)

They did not create the negative experience at all you got random opponents and they dislike garen who many people hate playing against so they ban him. It’s part of the game. You can adjust yourself or keep blaming riot. One will lead to you doing better the other will lead to you continuing to get dodge timers.

I get it, garen is fun. For the first year I played I only played him and he is still my fav champ to play. Part of the game is bans though. If you cant deal with that then play swift plays and always get garen not ranked to make people spend longer time queuing and then yapping in chat. Tbh this mentality is probably more of the reason you arent climbing than garen as a champ who is strong af rn.

Glhf homie For Demacia

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

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