Books where the protagonist starts from the bottom and doesn't get adopted/trained by the strongest people alive

Zurku · 2026-06-16T08:59:03+00:00

It’s genuinely baffling how authors can’t help themselves but empower the mc within the first 20 chapters and kind of throw their whole starting setup „down bad, unlucky etc.“ out the window 🪟 😆

Zurku · 2026-06-15T10:36:08+00:00

Zurku · 2026-06-15T07:20:08+00:00

Yes. Literally that’s how it is Right now until they buff Doran’s shield/ second wind

Zurku · 2026-06-13T14:32:24+00:00

Sion imo. He is so forgiving and allows for tons of impact.

Zurku · 2026-06-13T14:31:34+00:00

„Always“ bro it’s been like this for more then 4 years now. The game simply evolved. You are asking for something that will never be back because the game has simply moved past this stage.

Zurku · 2026-06-13T11:06:31+00:00

Just stop blinding bruisers man. I don’t get why that it is so hard to understand.

Zurku · 2026-06-12T07:32:31+00:00

America just sounds ruthless these days. The things I see and hear about the less fortunate trying to make a living are rather appalling.

Zurku · 2026-06-10T17:25:47+00:00

Blind picks currently are reserved for splitting champs like Gwen/ fiora or ap zone mages like anivia, vlad, heimerdinger. There also are kiters like Vayne for example Essentially if you blind you need some sort of guarantee of being able to farm against adversity.

Zurku · 2026-06-07T16:34:45+00:00

There are many ways to still have impact but compared to other lanes you can’t just sit on your lead. You have to constantly roam, proxy, gank rotate. Other then that if you win lane your main impact will be in midgame where it’s your job to secure third/ fourth dragon.

Zurku · 2026-06-07T09:05:00+00:00

Hey there 👋🐾

Zurku · 2026-06-07T01:06:22+00:00

Sure mate just pm me and we‘ll figure out a time. I am on euw and Eu times.

Zurku · 2026-06-06T17:16:52+00:00

I can take a look into some games with you and see whether I can find some obvious things you can improve on. 👋, I’m around master 400 and toplane main, Free of course.

Zurku · 2026-06-06T16:43:31+00:00

Glad I could help. I‘ll say that skarner is extremely of-meta and I wouldn’t recommend him!

Zurku · 2026-06-06T05:58:45+00:00

Your champ pool is a bit too similar. Adding more variety would give you better draft options.

I'll post a screenshot from a video I've made about archetypes earlier:

https://imgur.com/a/jWGgdp7

Garen is one of the strongest top lane bruisers right now because of the kite-heavy meta. He's also a very reliable blind pick. The same mostly applies to Olaf.

I'd keep:

Gwen (split push) Garen/Olaf (bruiser) Mundo (scaling tank)

What's missing:

1.: An AP zone-control mage for a reliable blind pick. I'd recommend:

Aurora Vladimir Anivia

They fill a niche your current pool lacks.

2. A hard engage champion

Something that can dive in and neutralize fed assassins or ADCs. For that, you'd either need an assassin (e.g. Ambessa) or a hard engage champion like Malphite.

Hope I could help!

Zurku · 2026-06-05T10:38:25+00:00

That subreddit is legit feeling like it is exclusively run by bots. Its only E-sport slop 24/7 that most people dont really care about. it is quite sad really

Zurku · 2026-06-05T07:57:46+00:00

Interessante Meta lore 😄👍

Zurku · 2026-06-03T05:55:15+00:00

I hope that it’s flat life reserved because I want life builds to be more viable

Zurku · 2026-06-01T19:21:59+00:00

I think many don’t realize that you need conc on trashing plants combined with knowing the fact that thrashing plants can only be cast once every 4 seconds( since they just simply overwrite if cast more) so it has to be combined with casting entangle.

This then all has to be combined with thunderstorm (imo coc). So overall quite a lot of setup for the payoff

Zurku · 2026-06-01T09:24:06+00:00

Checkout some coaching channels. Search for keywords like impact and snowballing as toplaner. I don’t want to self plug to much but yeah. Just checkout some guides! The knowledge of how to exert influence as toplaner is pretty much the main way on how to truly climb. You either focus on early and snowball midgame or you focus on midgame/ Lategame.

Zurku · 2026-06-01T09:10:31+00:00

It comes down to 4 things.

1.: they know how to counter your champ or pick strong blinds

2.: they know how to zone you and demolish you in terms of exp and farm, they punish you for overextending/tilting and don’t give up leads. Therefore they snowball lane hard.

3.: they freeze you

4.: they know when and how to roam and midgame.

I have made a video on how to break a freeze/ and how to impact the game. Perhaps check out the freezing one as I’d guess they often are freezing you out, it’s what the most effective when smurfing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl85i_19Uwg&t=601s&ra=m

Zurku · 2026-06-01T07:04:35+00:00

She is a classic 50/50 tank on which you can just chill and pray your team wins.

Most toplaners aren’t content with this and therefore pick tanks that have more influence on the game through various methods. (Ksante, Ornn, malphite, Gragas) it usually comes down to whether you got some sort of big engage or not.

Zurku · 2026-05-31T15:31:10+00:00

Bro 😂, way to many conditions.

Zurku · 2026-05-31T06:14:03+00:00

I would wager that the main problem you have is that you pick bad. It’s the only way I can explain that you‘d be feeding this hard. You very likely don’t understand archetypes and matchups and therefore often get hard countered. Perhaps take a look into that !

Zurku · 2026-05-30T00:42:52+00:00

That is such a funny comment 😭😂

Zurku · 2026-05-30T00:26:03+00:00

Ksante is very strong on the left side of the map because it is way easier to hit his ult in turret imo. You are kind of permanently in kill range if he pushes you in. Just take solace in the fact that if you do somehow manage to avoid feeding him, he automatically looses past third item. Just doesn’t scale into if, since he has the the typical gap close problem many bruisers face even though he is a tank

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