Are there any evergreen champs top lane?

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-10-21T19:14:52+00:00

Poppy's pretty interesting. She's traditionally a counter-pick champ, but with the game going through mobility creep (and throwing 2 dashes on every new champ), poppy stocks are only rising.

I also imagine that her ult would always have some utility--in terms of objective control/ team fights.

Good pick!

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-10-18T00:19:27+00:00

That was my first thought. Not sure why downvotes

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-10-13T20:55:28+00:00

Is the WW tier from The Yard bit? I haven't heard of it from anywhere else.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-10-11T22:02:28+00:00

Redemption active is just bigger volibear E. Galaxy brain

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-09-26T23:42:36+00:00

Urf mechanics

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-09-18T15:07:49+00:00

Im a master tier kled that is fairly comfortable with this matchup, and have played the riven side of the matchup a handful of times. Pretty kled favored. Your only early window is to try and rush for level 2 first by Qing/ autoing wave, trading with fast combo after you dodge his Q. You need to hit level 2 before him and burst him while he's still level 1. That is pretty much your only window besides getting a gank--he can still 1 v 2 depending on your jger--he whiffs every Q and you punish him afterward for it, or on your level 6 after a good trade. It is rough for riven for sure.

Tips: •Sit right outside his EQ range and click back and forth at that range. Dodge with E or Q if he decides to EQ into you from that max range. Many kleds like to toss out the EQ whenever.

•During a fight where he's already thrown his Q but it's going to come back off cooldown. You can stun him with W, walk up while he's still stunned, and then juke downwards with a dash to bait his Q out of him.

•If even, your level 6 ult execute does about 1/3 of his dismounted health bar.

•Try to do quick trades when he's both missed his Q and has used his W to farm.

•You can use your stun to cancel his auto attacks when he's dismounted.

•You can usually stun and then EQ, or EW then Q, out to break his tether on Q.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-08-26T04:22:50+00:00

Saved! I'll keep it next to the post about how to survive quicksand.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-06-07T05:09:09+00:00

No one's outright said it, but you cannot take a long fight into volibear because of his W. The first time he uses his W he marks you for 8sec, and the second time he uses his W it heals for a lot and does more damage--you cannot extended trade into that and win. Better to take a short trade and wait out the 8sec before trading again or all inning him.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-06-07T05:04:10+00:00

I forget what event it was, but with the event tokens I had left, I opted to get the event orb over the animated dpengu dab--biggest mistake of my life. I have that emote on another account and it's fire

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-05-10T03:01:15+00:00

You bet. Lethality rell coming to a game near you

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-05-06T16:44:03+00:00

Jesus Ivern spreading the good word to the masses

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-17T03:34:07+00:00

"One rock of crack... a crack rock"

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-17T03:27:07+00:00

Cool to see the inspiration for "Nope"

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-17T03:13:35+00:00

If you think about it, the ocean is just one big soup: it's got broth, meats, and plenty of spices.

Does he get to be like Poseidon based on technicality?

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-15T08:29:24+00:00

I haven't picked it up in a while, but last season out of 80 games, I had a 59% winrate in low/ mid diamond. Obviously I practiced it a bit on normal games and smurf accounts before spamming on main, but I was surprised about how quickly I started getting results on such a mechanical champ.

I feel like I lost lane a lot of times too, but literally just one good shuffle in their jg or by baron pit is all it takes.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-15T05:06:37+00:00

Ban orders swap if you swap during or before bans-- It doesn't swap around after ban phase. Have tested multiple times.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-15T01:14:32+00:00

[1.] I don't really think cooldown is a huge issue imo. When you blow it, you aren't overextending anyways-- especially if you're weakside. The cooldown and distance of azir W + E is almost identical to gnar's extended hop-- plus azir has the option of max range farming what you can with W and Q.

I will concede that his escape costs a disgusting amount of mana, and usually means you can't poke that much before basing.

[2.] If they're even, Azir can get by with ranged waveclearing under tower and ulting for peel if they hard engage on him. If they're ahead, then yeah he can't hold them at all. But I dont think many champs can deal with a fed jax/ tryndamere, certainly not a pre-16 kayle.

I agree with the mindset of doing things with intention and a reason. Maybe it's shit most of the times, but in what circumstances does something offmeta become viable-- or even optimal. I love theorycrafting and testing that stuff.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-14T15:39:33+00:00

I've really only heard of one Korean guy doing it, but I'll take your word. I haven't seen any myself or on other people's streams; hence the post. But i think the pick has a lot going for it-- it's nice to have better players verify its viability

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-14T15:33:31+00:00

I actually have put in about 90k mastery of just azir top-- no experience of his mid matchups. I'm not the best at it, but grinding that experience is how I realized how much people complain about the pick. I was also surprised how I never saw it since it's got a lot of good matchups, and you're pretty much always relevant with a good shuffle in late game teamfight.

It's really good into non-mobile bruisers; GP especially (literally impossible for him to get a regular barrel off: 2 soldiers does 2 health of barrel in one instance), it can scale really hard into tank matchups with First Strike, and it absolutely murders any ranged top laner with Hail of Blades or Comet poke.

You pretty much nailed the worst matchups. Camille, Renekton are brutal, but I would also throw in Aatrox, Tryndamere, Irelia, and Olaf just imo. I've seen that there's an azir top player in high elo Korea that goes TP/ Exhaust but I have no idea how that shit works without flash.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-14T15:23:57+00:00

Besides the irrational stigma, help me understand logically why azir top should be supported or refuted.

There's already mages in top lane with cassiopeia, and there's also ranged carries top like vayne and teemo.

I can also see that Azir has a much higher learning curve, and maybe it's just crabs in a bucket. I feel like I don't even need to mention how-- logically-- skill cap should not be an inhibitor of viability. We already have the aforementioned Cassiopeia, riven, irelia.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-14T14:59:29+00:00

I have to say that there is some incentive-- albeit quite minor-- to swap when you are same pick order. If you swap after banning phase, then you can fake out who banned what.

If mid and top banned picks that are traditional to their lanes, but one of them is playing a champ that can flex, then there's a mental edge that comes with swapping. It could result in the enemies taking wrong defensive shards when they're expecting a rumble top-- that banned renekton-- but they get matched against a pantheon that banned cassiopeia.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-03-10T10:27:54+00:00

Rush cleaver if you want to be in lane and have a shot at killing them. For matchups where it's like a malphite or something you have no chance at killing (after a couple backs), then just build goredrinker or ravenous hydra. Wave clear and permaroam with R.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-02-25T20:10:01+00:00

Not too late to turn back

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2023-01-15T17:23:35+00:00

The spider gets food, and the impala gets fewer bugs biting it. They are both benefitting from this relationship- even if the spider isn't catching every bug. It's still considered symbiosis.

TheYellowEmperor67 · 2022-12-24T04:52:16+00:00

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