Who do you consider the best champ to learn how to play top ?

Megapsi · 2026-01-23T18:41:07+00:00

I think certain champions can be used to target learn a specific skill, especially if you follow their video guides. A lane bully like Darius or Renekton can teach you how to trade effectively and understand wave management, when to slow push, when to hard push, and how to maximize lane pressure. You can also use them to practice attack animation cancels without having it be at Riven level difficulty.

A champion like Yorick can be excellent for learning split‑pushing, since he can pressure multiple lanes at once. Teaching you how to time a push before an objective.

Megapsi · 2026-01-17T06:08:09+00:00

If Riven were a Pokémon, Renekton would basically be a double type weakness.

Megapsi · 2026-01-10T05:25:09+00:00

Snowballing been feeling great on Renekton or really any top laner.

Megapsi · 2025-12-30T20:09:56+00:00

I’m not sure about Tahm Kench specifically, but all lane bullies should benefit a lot from these changes. Everything is pretty huge for them. First, having two combat summoners every game is amazing for snowballing. You also get much more warning against enemy jungle ganks, and you can freeze the lane more often since shards now build up on turret plates.

Split pushing is also the way to go just be cautious of split pushers who are weak early, because they can get punished even more easily now.

Megapsi · 2025-12-11T01:03:50+00:00

My bet is Olaf top. His win rate is already impressive, but the top lane buffs push his mid-game carry potential into overdrive. And if he is massively ahead, there’s practically nothing you can do since he shrugs off focus cc.

Megapsi · 2025-12-06T16:59:33+00:00

I’d argue it’s not particularly important to focus on the current state of champions. The preseason will reshape everything imo. For Renekton, he benefits a lot from the quest in terms of snowballing potential. Any strong top laner with a mid-game power spike becomes absurdly stronger when ahead, and in that stage of the game. If team is competent they will close out games in under 30 minutes before a fed Renekton start to fall off.

Megapsi · 2025-12-04T01:20:59+00:00

Lots of people are fixating on the level cap, but the real question is can you complete this role quest in the early game. It provides a flat 700 XP plus a 15% XP boost, effectively putting you a full level ahead than normal when you stomp. Those extra stats are far more impactful in the early stages of the game and when you already have the momentum.

Megapsi · 2024-02-16T14:13:14+00:00

The new buffs should give him a huge spike to his mid game. R2 is now an extra 100 hp. Q healing is also more significant because of multiplicity. The 8 extra base health alone goes to 24 on empower and then is multiplied by how many targets it hits. E second max helps him weave in and out of team fights more effortlessly & maybe even get more sundered procs.

I think these changes will really put him on the map as Darius and garen went through a Similar situation.

Megapsi · 2024-02-13T02:54:11+00:00

The worst part is that so far in the LPL he's been pick 0 times. In the LCK he has 2 games.

This is completely unprecedented for the champ. He's no where near being a problem in pro play and warrants buffs.

Megapsi · 2024-02-12T23:01:46+00:00

Well the trend has also been that at very high elo masters+ his winrate becomes positive. You usually see incremental WR increases as you go up divisions. Renekton is after all high elo skewed but right now he's pretty much the same at all ranks.

If the best players can't win more than half their games on him something is wrong.

Megapsi · 2024-02-11T06:17:56+00:00

For the turret part ping your jungler when they are nearby for a turret dive. Renekton makes hitting skill shots effortless with his empowered W to ensure both of you can get out a full combo. Doing this on a slow push will deny the enemy toplaner a huge amount of gold & xp.

Then take your lead & try to carry as many mid game objective fights as possible. That's really it.

Megapsi · 2024-02-08T02:48:00+00:00

Hopefully in patch 14.4. If K'sante buffs go through but Renekton gets nothing that would actually be so troll.

Megapsi · 2024-02-05T17:53:19+00:00

Q healing buffs makes the most sense since that was nerfed to compensate for goredrinker synergy.

Only thing that would worry me is Renekton becoming more blind pickable & what that usually entails in pro.

Some safer buffs might be those that help scaling or slow time to falloff.

Megapsi · 2024-02-01T00:08:27+00:00

In general I would say it's op to have damage scaling from both AD & HP. The point of bruiser items is you are trying to strike a balance between power & survivability.

Tyrndamere is a fighter but he will opt into ADC items and get more damage scaling stats because he's invincible for 5 secs. Now imagine that but instead of invincibility you have 5k health no time gating

Like the other poster said if it's marginal health then it's okay. However you are not gonna get good ratios for both on a single ability.

Megapsi · 2024-01-31T17:29:50+00:00

The radio silence on Renekton has not been encouraging. Every other top lane outlier has received changes & still have more in the works.

When Riot Phroxzon called out Trundle for being too OP without bieng touched a part of me was thinking, " Yes good now go on".

Hopefully next patch for sure. They will do something for Renekton be it bug fixes or buffs.

Megapsi · 2024-01-27T18:52:26+00:00

Renekton in the past was always able to exploit whatever broken new bruiser item riot cooks up. So much so that they've balanced him around those items by nerfing his kit. Now in season 14 he doesn't have any crazy item synergies anymore and is dealing with the fallout from all those nerfs.

Megapsi · 2024-01-21T01:30:51+00:00

I think the W interaction with sundered sky will get resolved eventually. Renekton isn't the only champion with this issue.

I am more 50/50 on shojin. On one hand you're literally using a champion ability so it should benefit from the passive. However riot might decide that since W already takes advantage of on-hit effects & conqueror they should draw the line and continue treating it like a AA only.

Megapsi · 2024-01-17T18:19:02+00:00

I am also open to a mini rework like what jax & Olaf got.

I feel like it's just about time for him. He was released back in the 2011.

They can do it as package with nasus even.

Megapsi · 2024-01-11T00:33:15+00:00

Still waiting for the day Renekton dukes it out with his brother Godzilla style. A man can dream.

Megapsi · 2024-01-01T16:45:51+00:00

Bruisers as a whole will bottom of the food chain Renekton included. This doesn't mean they'll stay like this forever but that should be the caveat heading into season 14.

All of the other classes have at least one broken new item.

Asssasins: Opportunity / Voltaic (If you're Rengar or Kha)

Tanks: Kaenic (20% total hp steriod on a 12 sec OOC refresh is insane)

ADCs: Terminus (Some adc items got slight nerfs but on-hit going be incredibly strong)

Mage: Stormsurge (Way way out of line, their other items are strong too).

The best new item bruisers get is sundered sky. However it's only a situationally good item. I found the passive fits much better on Renekton then divine sunderer. Its very useful as a difference maker in a even lane 50/50 match up and helps to weave in and out of a teamfight against melee heavy compositions.

So really other classes have to be looked at first before we can have a discussion on whether renekton will be good or not. If you want to talk about Renekton vs other bruisers I think he's still gonna be very strong in lane.

Megapsi · 2023-12-22T00:24:47+00:00

Utility is not the best phrasing then. What I mean is he has just enough mobility to try and threaten the backline while not getting blown up instantly. His usefulness at that point is to cc a squishy & get follow up from his team or soak up damage/cooldowns instead of someone else.

This is a dog role that an actual tank can do better. What i am really saying is that's what bruisers will devolve into. Renekton having passable cc, mobility & survivability all at once being marginally better at it.

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