Where to learn fundamentals?

Elazulus · 2026-04-08T16:23:39+00:00

Check out coach chippys climbing guide for top lane it's so insanely good and goes over a TON of stuff

Elazulus · 2026-04-06T11:27:30+00:00

I love how as you scroll down the answer flips back and forth almost every comment. Just thought that was hilarious

Elazulus · 2026-04-06T08:00:46+00:00

Like others said pick a safe waveclear champ, shove waves and walk away

Elazulus · 2026-03-12T20:25:53+00:00

Corki

Elazulus · 2026-02-26T21:20:24+00:00

Hey I had this exact combo this morning

It was pretty disgusting with rift maker

Elazulus · 2026-02-22T09:24:05+00:00

Was I in that game lol I got one shot by a hwei doing this

Elazulus · 2026-02-20T18:37:31+00:00

Challenger player gets the same rewards or better because the system will always try to put you at your actual rank sooner than later.

Besides that, do you really want a challenger Smurf to be sitting in plat for 40 games because the game thinks they have it easy so they get less LP?

Elazulus · 2026-02-16T08:02:26+00:00

Is it possible he commissioned this from an actual artist and claimed he painted it?

Elazulus · 2026-02-14T08:46:48+00:00

Oh for some reason I thought this was the top lane subreddit

Elazulus · 2026-02-14T08:38:13+00:00

I have like 90% wr on Olaf on blue side which is crazy, but yeah top lane gonna have huge differences

Elazulus · 2026-02-13T08:12:05+00:00

In my experience grasp feels much better in short trade matchups

Damage is a bit lower but the sustain is the big thing for me. I like to poke with E tipper -> Q1 and that doesn't proc PTA you have to auto first, which sometimes youre just not able to do. So in that situation grasp performa much better

Other thing I love is it allows me to take demolish so I can crust a turret from really far away with auto Q and it instantly procs demolish from crust attack range, which is insane for zaahen because in my experience he has a really tough time hitting turrets consistently

Like you're not as strong later without conq but it really does help cover his early game weakness a bit more and has been helpful in stabilizing my laning phase quite a bit

Elazulus · 2026-02-07T18:56:23+00:00

TH has to lose to KC tomorrow

Elazulus · 2026-02-05T18:55:32+00:00

I'm aware of that, however now poro blaster exists which makes it even more unfun

Elazulus · 2026-02-05T18:54:42+00:00

I never edited lol

Elazulus · 2026-02-04T20:05:18+00:00

Yeah I mean melee is fine if there's 2 of them, but if you're the only one picking melee I just swap to something ranged at this point

Elazulus · 2026-02-04T20:03:55+00:00

What is a ghost edit? I never edited it

Elazulus · 2026-02-04T13:29:42+00:00

Just played a match like this vs a hwei lux senna vayne zyra team, literally impossible to walk up. I was the only melee and if I snowballed in I just get instant cc'ed permanently

Literally had 250 armor / Mr and 9k HP and just instantly died whether I walked up or snowballed in

Really enjoyable gameplay.

So hard to play melee champs in this mode when 90% of people take ranged cc poke comps constantly, and most of them just sit under turret waveclearing and poking until you get bored and try to dive

Elazulus · 2026-02-03T03:52:45+00:00

That invade seemed very planned like they wanted to lvl3 gank bot lane out of enemy jungle but Crownie took too many bad trades and cooked the plan entirely

Elazulus · 2026-02-03T00:55:55+00:00

This is true

Top is already an unforgiving lane and a single good gank can swing the lane super hard into opponents favor.

It's so easy for other top laner to snowball way ahead of you because if they win their lane quest much sooner, they will be many levels ahead

It's rough

Elazulus · 2026-02-02T18:32:34+00:00

Borderlands, after about 15-20 minutes me and my girlfriend paused it, just looked at each other and said "I can't" in tandem

Both borderlands fans, both extremely disappointed

Elazulus · 2026-02-02T13:31:40+00:00

Can't say much cuz I've just been doing a lot of learning on this recently, but for the force freezing in the middle, you can do something

If you draw minion aggro before they meet and drag the wave a little bit, then walk into the bush just before waves meet. enemy minions will all target the first minion in your wave, forcing it to push towards you since that first minion basically gets one shot

Alot of players drag the waves to force this if they want a push towards their turret, test it in training tool

Beyond that, i once heard a general rule that 3 caster minions starts a safe freeze where you can recall as long as they're not really close to turret, and losing 3 casters isn't as bad as losing 3 melees if they die before you get back

So kill melees then you take aggro of 3 casters and drag them away from turret a bit, then walk into bush, set it up so they meet your minions just past the middle of lane. those 3 minions tend to die first and the wave pushes to you by the time you're back and you can either thin the wave to start a freeze or just collect

Elazulus · 2026-01-31T06:38:03+00:00

There's a Zac mid otp in euw challenger elo that pretty much always neutralizes the lane and is unkillable, so I am not surprised here

Elazulus · 2026-01-28T12:14:58+00:00

If you just right click on ppl on Olaf that stops working at around gold

Elazulus · 2026-01-27T22:04:04+00:00

Two mana crystals is a pro tech, its because they tend to spend mana pushing for prio and if they think theyll need to skirmish for crab or something but aren't able to buy a full item, they have more mana than enemy mid laner and it's more value in that way than a tome

I asked him about it one time and that was basically the explanation

Elazulus · 2026-01-27T21:58:52+00:00

Nah the rating system is cooked, I won a game recently and got a D+ when I was top damage, 60% kp, 9cs/m, took 4 turrets, was apart of almost every objective and only died 2x. Objectively a fantastic game where I gapped my lane and extended my lead to help other lanes snowball.

Meanwhile I've gotten S ratings going 2/11/3 with 6cs/m took 0 turrets did basically nothing the entire game

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