The Complete History Of Top Lane And The Top Lane META 

Rafael Ito thank you!!! Yeah it took about 10 days of research and editing etc

#UnMuteExil

Great video but in season 3 it wasnt just the champions who could abuse cleaver, EVERYONE stacked cleavers. Example: forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=858864 Lulu support 4 cleavers

Turned out as a great history lesson tho :D really interesting to hear about all that since I've only played from the end of S6

Great work. I hope you get 10 days of ad revenue. 26 minutes, watched the entire thing. Great Video

thank you man!!

Great video, I think you should add Juggernaut meta in the video, it was the time where bruisers ( Darius,Garen,Morde and Skarner) were insanely OP and nothing could really stop them but 100% ban rate of almost every single of them) Peace.

He should do this for every lane/role

Exil im new to your channel, but this is way more entertaining and informative than the lol highlight channels that have somuch view. You do deserve all the view and sub.

kellen is exil and i think he might have played some runescape im not sure.

There's a reason for that.

Yea, I'm curious about that too. He even talked about speedrunning in this lol.

Those videos are like drugs I swear xD

What is the song?

It is the same song...

as a top main idk s8 is was pretty good like, sterraks increasing tri force proc dmg, geez what was riot thinking. Inc 900 dmg camille q's at lvl 13

@@joshuaaberle9980 played Camille a lot and it's very frustrating for EVERY champion if u get a 1k true Dmg Bruce Lee kick in ur face every 3-4 seconds

The good old season 3 Sunfire Cape rush double kill Renekton.

Lmao toplane has the most cancer champs ever

haha maybe i will for the future!

I agree

Korean Nidalee weeb

That would be amazing

Jungle would be cool

I saw the old graves and I died, because i miss him so much.

Oh how I miss old graves... RIP

i miss season 4 so much

Now tanks are basically a meme class LOL Why ever pick any tank when you can CC more, effectively tank more ( by healing) as Aatrox/Morde etc I find it sad that there were so many content creators that pleaded for tank nerfs, bruiser buffs, but now that tanks are unplayable there's only 1 person with a voice ( TheBauffs)

AMEN

lol u can still play bruisers in solo queue. If you're playing against like elite players you'll be punished but it should be fine for the most part.

#United! I found the light Tryndamere maining top lane. Still get to kill, still get to sustain, have great cs. but fails in an even skill match vs range.

Quit top went jungle and camp top= freelo biblethumb give athmog back😓

Oh man.. #demgoodolddays

and great video btw really enjoyed it

dude, the second that was on, i was like OMG NOSTALGIA

yeah uhhh same

WAIT GUDI !@@@@@@@@@!!!!@@ ITS GUDI!!!

AND NO FLUTE SALAD AND SEA SHANTY 2

nice old day when u just buy 6x Sunfire and burn enemy to ash with perma invis as Evelin , oh ... but u have point , this video really miss important stuf like dodge and other shit u say .

Fking hated old gangplank with crit runes. He almost 1 shots lv 1

Wasn't that sword of the devine

Also Juggernaut update completely changed every aspect of the meta in every lane.

David Tortallini you are right, I was just thinking the same thing.

26 minutes is long enough. if you want everything in a video you would need probably 10 hours.

More like around 40 minutes, since it's just the meta of top lane. There was not much else to discuss than the juggernauts and the Sunfire Cape- meta.

Jimi Nakari then why title it "The Complete History of Top Lane Meta" lol

David Tortallini why are you asking me, it's not like I'm the creator of this video?

Many people still play the original counter-strike which came out 9 years before league, it's not that uncommon

I have a kid that plays that was born a couple months after launch. :P

like I do, don't get me wrong, I have a pretty good PC (i7 7700k + gtx 1070, 16GB RAM etc), but I just cant stop playing CS1.6, I've been playing it since 2002...

Were his first words "Better jungler wins ggez"?

50% of the playerbase actually lul

I KNEW IT, I KNEW I WOULD FIND THIS COMMENT. Everybody who's anybody knows, so I knew at least 1 person would leave this comment. Ohhhh yes. That RS music will never get old. Stopped playing it regularly like 5 years ago. STILL GREAT.

why did u stop playing runescape? guessing you guys are dead by now though

ye that's quite cheap

Yea I didn't like that

almost because it is

Do you guys know the name of the first song? It seems really familiar but I can't find it on YT

this video is made with the formula established by ss imo

Shayehvana*

Shyvana was always a jungle. Diamondprox actually revolutionized jungle with it and shown the power of counter jungling

All midlane become support

But rek'sai became top lane.

What about olaf and volibear? 1st one on season 4 was playing on top MOSTLY, 2nd one i see often on jung than on top

thank you Lucas!!! means a lot to me :D

season 1-4 was amazing i agree

2-4 was a blast. I quit right before they got rid of runes. Can't seem to find a moba that scratches the same spot the way league did.

Basically stopped playing after seson 4, played like once a year since then, now came back for season 8 to get one shotted by literally every assassin, gj riot

My old days were when dodge was a thing, you could use cheat engine on the masteries to get 100% spell cd, stacking sunfire, global ultis, twitch 1 minute stealth etc

Same here, I enjoyed league the most in season 2-4 and then played just for fun with friends.

Thank you so much man that's awesome to hear. Thanks!!

high quality lol youtuber.

Zach McCann thank you so much. I appreciate it ;:;

What age may i ask that your friends are having families?

24

@toot I started playing in Season 1 and still come back from time to time to league. Sure some changes suck and the game got somehow more complex, but it's still hella fun. Of course I dont play like 8hours per day any more, have no 5v5ranked team, nor am I Diamond again, but the game still fulfills its purpose to me. Having fun, playing with different champs (no endless grind with the same champion), 1v1 and team game ... I'm 26 now and say you should just try it out again :D

Play casual. You shouldn't need to devote your life to a game to enjoy it! I've been playing recently with a bunch of NYPD guys that are twice your age and brand new to the game. Sure, they ain't playing ranked but there is laughter, which is what counts.

lol i got to plat with annie top last season, what are u talkin about

@@zfjjk Plat isn't even high elo

@@opgroundzero2.0 and you are?

@@bro_was_here_jr6912 Even if I'm not Plat doesn't mean Plat is high elo.

OP Ground Zero is wrong. I hear this all the time and it's just not true. Platinum players are in the 87th to 96th percentile (give or take). Therefore Platinum is high ELO. Gold cannot make that claim because a good 30% of the community is in Gold. Diamond is like the top 3% of players right before the pros, so that is "very high" ELO. Master and Challengers are of course the elite, but I don't see how that should diminish the achievement of plat players.

Could you tell the name of that one? It'd be much obliged.

Hexis Runescape 3 Autumn Voyage - probably the only GOOD thing about runescape 3

man the lumbridge song nostalgia. hit me fking hard.

it starts @ around 15:30

dillon roy this fucking video is the reason why I started osrs back looool after 4yrs off without even thinking a sec about rs.

Zigmas Alisauskas thank you :)!!

thank you :D

I started first week of s3 and it was so fucking fun, Riven, Jax, Akali, Lee Sin, Olaf and TF were my favs to use it on.

Yeah i started playing on Yorick release day back in 2011, that little clip got me right in the feels, sent me back to being a 16 y/o Ashe main all over again. but as soon as season 2 kicked in i became a top laner/almost full time support. i went through all these meta's and i prefer the TP tank metas makes the game a true team game, tanks can solo kill these days aswell they bridged a gap but maybe too much. RIP solo lane Wukong after that black cleaver fix in season 3. will he ever return?

My exactly thoughts

I think the solocarry potential is much lower than for example in season 4, i mean its still possible but different, now its more team based, back in s4 if u got fed u could carry the game alone easier. Now its much more complicated to carry alone.

Jax is trash in low elo, too many counterpicks now. I play him jungle

tyttus imagine thinking counterpicks is a thing in low elo lol

It’s because conqueror was a busted Keystone and everyone could abuse it.

I'm pretty much an Illaoi one trick now. Though i still pick Heimerdinger top on occasion if i feel like bullying some thicc bois. .

@@bobdickens3674 Conqueror was never a busted keystone so many people just didn't understand the math. It dealt FAR less damage than any other damage keystone options like Electrocute. And most of its damage was tied to the AD that it gave. The true damage conversion added (and adds) so little damage as to be negligible. But try explaining to people that it only converts some of your damage to true, that it doesn't add any new damage and their fuckin eyes glaze over like "but true damage." But you don't even have to understand how it works to fucking verify how shit the keystone was and is. Just take it and look at its damage dealt throughout the game, then take Electrocute or even fucking Arcane Comet and see how the numbers will be multiples higher. Honestly Conqueror tilts me so fucking much because it literally only had 1 patch where it was even really good. And that was because it gave a lot of AD early game. The only use the keystone has now is for that 8% pre-mitigation healing. But even then it's trash because you only get that after its fully stacked, which to do so you'll have already blown most if not all of your kit and several basic attacks to do. Its completely trash now on all but a few champions that stack it really quickly without having to burn 90% of their damage to do so, like Riven. And even then it's trash because the converted true damage is so low, and the healing is win-harder since you cannot use it to sustain the lane but it only works in all-ins. Should just be freakin removed at this point. Even best case scenario for it right now is when enemies have a lot of armor. At 140 armor it increases your damage by 11.2% at 200 armor it increases your damage by 16%. At 50 armor its only increasing your damage by 4%. 100 Armor is the point where it increases your damage by 8%. That is to say that after you've already burned most of your kit just to get this increased damage against high armor targets its effect is to increase your damage by relatively very little, consider that against 200 armor champions your damage is reduced heavily. You're only increasing what's left over by 16% The fight is already decided by the time you've stacked Conqueror, you're either gonna win, or you're going to lose, conqueror isn't powerful enough to make a difference. And it hasn't been for a very very long time.

it basically gave everything that he needs

Irelia too

Godyr

Aatrox before rework was top3 toplaner RIP Aatrox who got replaced by Riven

I wiuldnt agree more i miss Full attack speed aatrox plus zyphyr

glad to hear it :)

True

@@Noobie2k7 AP malphite

@@vemundberget3432 Oops i accidently deleted my comment when i meant to edit it LUL. Yeah, i play full AP Malphite sometimes but i'm too nice tbh in soloq and i will build tank if my team needs me too. Ryze was probably my favourite toplaner of all time though, i say was because he's not even the same champion anymore really. I built him super tanky like Archangels being my only real pure damage item, Archangels, RoA, Frozen heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, Banshee's veil etc.

The rough reality of soloq

Mightydark7427 o the reality is that some people wouldn’t even take a free win if the build or champ is so anti meta. eg I played a game a week ago which had me play ahri (yes I know it isn’t meta breaking) and the kaisa I had just sat doing nothing. I reached a 17/3 KD and yet the kaisa asked me if I wanted to lose because and I quote “ahri isn’t meta” and “I don’t feel like winning today”

Mobalytics

Because people with weird voices aren't successful on YT because nobody wants to listen to them

@@TheodoreVoisard tobias fate lol

Lan yuno

@@TheodoreVoisard Chills.

Ap Warwick healing 600 hp off 1 q and chunking you for shitloads

Evelyn 5s stun and 60s stealth

In the beta, Jax had more than 90 percent dodge chance and he could 1v5 under fountain.

@Dislike Bot 15 Remembered one video about a Jax farming in the enemy fountain for nearly 5 minutes, only backing to use his gold.

Zudokus Selling friendship

Elven Sunlight in the Season 2 section of the video?

MinishLIVE Buying gf.

Riven always wins in damage, it's just she hops away too soon. Meowkai will fight you 10times longer then fight the next guy who comes to save you, then the next guy as he finally walks away in a controlled retreat.

creeping became too easy, especially for non damage builders. Imagine if creeps had 3x HP, then your riven damage build would actually be useful at clearing creeps and a champ like maokai would sit under tower for a very long time each wave rather than one shotting it

I get your point, but it became the other way around now. While back in the day tanks beat you outscaling you in teamfiggts, nowadays in order to beat tanks you need to outscale their damage. Good champs to do that are Jax, Fiora, Camille, etc. Thing is Riot put SO much % max health damage on tanks that the "tankiness" of bruisers (which was never stacking resistances, it always was stacking hp) its no longer there. A 1v1 between a 6 item Jax and a 6 item Ornn can really go either way (also building full lifesteal like Fiora barely works thanks to Bramblevest being so cheap and effective, so her "tankiness" is denied as well). Not to mention early game champs like Renekton or Pantheon who are esencially useless since they barely beat tanks in lane and they never outscale them since its not their job. Also, what made bruisers good was the fact that if Irelia got on top of your adc, your adc was dead, straight up. Now there is so much cc, peel, sustain, adc steroids (fuck you, Janna) that you dont have the damage to kill the adc and you dont have the tankiness to deal with him until your team arrives.

Juan Pablo Artese also the adc can kill you with two autos but doesn t have to risk anything

"what made bruisers good was the fact that if Irelia got on top of your adc" all hte good adcs now have like 2 CC abilities and an escape on top of a support doing this. they have over loaded all the modern champs kits to be both ranged and escape and Cc. if ranged champs had to keep range or die then then bruisers would be a thing again

justhereee cuttthroat E. silence the target for one second and appears behind your target.

Lots of people used to have a silence

You think Talon Silence is Broken? What if I tell Kassadin had silence too

@@BroccoliWaffle he still does... it's just been nerfed hard to just a very very short silence that's really only good for breaking channels

@@jasong6501 its back? I don't play against Kassadin much and never noticed it

Well if you're laning against a tank, chances are if anyone is 1hp, it's not the tank.

Thats so fucking true tbh its not fair

sounds like hashinshin towerdiving someone with hourglass and then complaining how that item is broken (not saying it isnt but you probably shouldnt dive someone who has it)

AxelKunHueHue True its mainly to asist tower diving or denie tower dives

AxelKunHueHue hashinshin is mentally insane. This guy only whines and whines even if it his dumb mistake

It is, for lategame teamfights. But beating a tank in lane really requires you to play 110% on most bruisers.

Not really, you just have to poke them to no end. There are champs that can do it. :)

Its not a remix, is the new edition

Meh, he's biased because he's a toplaner. In the end of the day, every player complains about it's counter. ADC's/mages complain about assasins, bruisers/tanks complain about ADC's, assasins complain about tanks/bruisers etc.

@@rickvangils100 nah its more like top lane is an island so if you get hard countered by a pick with no weaknesses he stonewalls and neither can play the game to win

@@rickvangils100 you literally couldn't be more wrong mate

@Gunner_kek Please try not to generalize everything. Many assassin mains complain about other assassins that have better burst than them, ADC mains complain about ADCs that have either a better laning or a stronger scaling.

Fabricio Clavel that and atma’s

Fabricio Clavel good meme, those were also the days of sword of divine draven. AKA everyone can be Tyler1

Jack Ream damn, sword of the divine with Draven, I remember when I was a noob and a Smurf fully stacked that item and we got one shotted lmao. Rip

Sword of Divine wasn't a stack item...

Jack Ream my bad Hahahahaha I confused with sword of the occult.

did he really say that ?

@@ayylmao5447 sounds like something he would say, every champ is busted until he plays them, but once he plays them they need 100 buffs and the opponent needs to be deleted from the game

@@dungeoner2356 "NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED NERF SINGED"

@@dungeoner2356 That's why he askef for nerfs on jax. Or Renekton. Or Camille. Or current Darius... Do you even watch his streams?

@@Ersilay The comments are 5 months ago m8, meta changed a bit, and we got new items and runes

so did I .... and i haven't played RS for ... about 10 years xD

Same dude hahaha... couldn't not focus on it once I caught the tunes xd

i loved playing him, but clicking on those ghouls was the most aggravating thing when versing him

yea l feel you bro. Yorick was my main and just with that hero l climb bronze to dia 1. Now l never play him.Just doesnt feel like old yorick

Nooooooo old yorick was more cancer than renekton and darius. Then again i was a pantheon player :p.

Tobias Schäfer honestly I was a bit of a taric main before his rework but I don't remember much from him. I've been playing since season 2 but I just don't remember much of the early seasons. My memory is trash and I feel like I missed out on a lot of good memories.

thank you man :D