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May 17, 2012

Top Facts -1- Yorick

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Hello this is Berzerk and I will be writing something I will call Top Facts, these will be facts about when to pick certain champions how to play them and what uses they can serve in your soloQ or Ranked teams. This will be my first Top Facts.

Overview:
Yorick is a Tanky-DPS champion who fights by summoning ghouls on his skills which deals Hybrid damage, magic damage on the initial skill cast and physical damage from the ghouls that follow. Yorick has little to no "counterpicks" that can shut him down in lane, and as most top lane players can tell you he is probably their least favorite matchup to fight. He has massive sustain and once he gets some mana regen is almost impossible to move out of lane. he has a slight falloff into the late game which is easily overlooked due to his ability to zone opponents and ultimate a ranged carry for a clone and a revive.

Skills:

Unholy Covenant (Passive): Yorick’s attacks deal more and he takes reduced damage for each summon that is active. M…
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May 18, 2012

Top Facts -2- Nautilus

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Champion Overview:
Nautilus is a Tank/Tanky Ap top lane. Nautilus top lane revolves around his allowing him to trade,DPS, Sustain, and Farm. Nautilus can receive ganks better than most champions in the game with a clicked knock up, a root, and a pullback. He is strong vs many lanes and can actually BEAT many popular FOTM top lane champions right now.

Skills Overview:

Passive:

Nautilus's first basic attack against a target deals bonus physical damage and immobilizes the opponent briefly. Staggering Blow cannot trigger on the same target more than once every 12 seconds.

Very good skill makes last hitting very easy once you learn the animation, and gives bonus damage in trades. The root is very nice in teamfights for locking down targets as you can root multiple enemies if you manage your passive on the enemy team.

Q:

Nautilus hurls his anchor forward. If it hits an enemy unit, Nautilus drags himself and the target together dealing 80/…
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May 19, 2012

Top Facts -3- Fiora

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Champion Overview:
Fiora is a melle DPS champion capable of DPSing like an assassin in team fights if she can get a lead. She has strong early game thanks to her and can use that skill to beat out certain champions very hard. She loses to some of the FOTM champions in pure 1v1 fights in lane but if you have a strong CC jungler gank you can get a kill and snowball very hard. One of the scariest parts of Fiora is if she is allowed to farm or get kills she can CARRY a game hard if their carrys did not invest into a good amount HP.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Fiora regenerates health over 6 seconds each time she deals damage. Striking champions will cause this effect to stack up to 4 times.

This passive will give you slight sustain in lane, you may not notice it but over the laning phase it could save you some pots. This passive will also heal a decent amount if you force a short trade (Which Fiora is good at)

Q: - Fiora dashes forward to strike her target, dea…
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May 20, 2012

Top facts -4- Poppy

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Champion Overview:

Poopy, err I mean Poppy is a melle Dps, Ap DPS tanky burst assassin. She is one of the funnest champions to play in the league as well as having probably THE STRONGEST late game presence of any champion in the league. She can hold her own against most top lane champions, and can beat many popular "Win top Lane" champions like . Her laning phase is her biggest "weakness" (if you want to try and debate shes weak there), and once she gets a couple of items and makes it to late game she can rip enemy teams apart. She is 1000000% capable of taking a game on her shoulders and completely carrying it, however be warned she has a pretty decent skillcap and will take time to get used to.

I got addicted to poppy for awhile I loved being able to hard carry :D

Skills Overview:

Passive: -Any damage dealt to Poppy that exceeds 10% of her current health is reduced by 50%. This does not reduce damage from structures.

OP PASSIVE. Really hard to kill, and at…
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May 21, 2012

Top Facts -5- Riven

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This is probably the first top facts for a "popular" top lane pick. I have been trying to get mostly fun unusually seen champions (I rarely see Yorick or Fiora, and Nautilus is mostly played as a jungler). However I will see Rivens top as my opponents in a good percentage of my games.

Champion Overview:
Riven is a melee carry (like Fiora), but is more along the lines of an AD caster (who autos in between her spells) she is manaless (meaning she only relies on cooldowns. Riven like Fiora and Poppy (No one carries as well as Poopy) is capable of carrying the game in her favor. She uses all physical damage has a really strong early as well as a really strong late. She can lane vs any champion in the game with her kit, having champions that are strong against her but they are not exactly "counters". Her skills have a weird feel to them the first time and will take a little getting used to.

Skills Overview:

Passive: -Riven's abilities charge her blade, causing her basic atta…
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May 22, 2012

Top Facts -6- Kayle

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Champion Overview:

Kayle is a VERY UNDERESTIMATED top lane champion. She has been reincarnated over and over again with different passives. I believe as she is right now she is a very strong champion both in lane and throughout the game. As a champion with support abilities even if you do not do well in lane you can still be very useful to your team through your utility. Kayle can beat most of the FOTM champions right now and in the right hands can snowball and carry games.

Skills Overview:

Passive: -Kayle's basic attacks against enemy champions now reduce their armor and magic resistance by 3% for 5 seconds (stacks up to 5 times)

Gives slight amount of pen. Main use of this passive will not come until the late game comes.And then its just like a malady or cleaver effect of reducing stats.

Q: -Blasts a target, dealing 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 (+100% of bonus attack damage and +100% of ability power) magic damage and slowing its movement speed by 35% for 4…
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May 23, 2012

Top Facts -Special 1- Lane Mechanics: Lane Control

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Todays top facts will be helping us with our mechanics And with bad quality (visual and sound) videos too =D.

Champions are a very important factor in the top lane but do have you ever looked at the rift around you in top lane, the nice trees, the brush, the waterway where people come from to try and murder you. Yes, the glory of the top lane. But have you ever stopped and thought of how important minions were to your lane, they are the life blood and soul of your early game. Knowing how to control the wave flow is a VERY important part of top lane and will be the topic of today's top facts.

Main Concepts:
-How your creep scoring effects the lane.
-How to Zone your opponents from experience and gold.
-How to be able to move the lane any which way you want.

THE LANE AND YOU!

What are minions to you? Your cuddly friends, things you kill for gold to rush your and do tons of damage, or Your Allies on the fields of justice. Whatever this answer may be if you want to know…
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May 23, 2012

Berzerk YouTube channel up :D

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Berzerk | now | on | YouTube | more | top | laning | for | my | addiction

Berzerk here, author of the top facts series. As of today (since school just ended)I have decide to make top lane videos for YouTube. These will be random matchups and may be featured in the top facts series. My name is LolBerzerk on YouTube subscribe of you like to lane gameplay :D (eventually I probably will do commentaries this was just a test video to kinda dip my foot in the water.

Decent game on my part, kinda was just a stomp everywhere though. This was one of the only games I could get Darius in due to it being his instalock day. My enemy is another Darius, I cs decently this game, and freeze the lane for abit, I get a lead and roll with it.

May 24, 2012

Top Facts -7- Sivir

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I dislike most AD carrys (AD bots my most hated role), but I do like some of them (sivir, urgot, vayne, graves) and thats because they can go top lane :D. Also Yey for a VERY underused unpopular top laner. Best sivir skin below (Maybe pax, MAYBE), sad thing is it costs 3.9k rp, lol.

Overview:
Sivir is an AD carry that can push like a boss and help your team immensely in team fights. Sivir's primary use on a team is a ranged carry, yes. But she is very strong against and top lane champion who does not have a strong gap closer (so mostly pick as a counterpick). She has a spell shield to block poke and she can counter trade very hard with he burst. The general concept is a lot like Kayle top, stay back poke and farm as you will outscale 90% of top laners into late game.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Sivir's basic attacks against enemy champions grant her 50 Movement Speed for 2 seconds

Keeps you mobile in lane after a trade, this skill will almost completely prevent a cou…
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May 24, 2012

Top Facts -7- Sivir

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I dislike most AD carrys (AD bots my most hated role), but I do like some of them (sivir, urgot, vayne, graves) and thats because they can go top lane :D. Also Yey for a VERY underused unpopular top laner. Best sivir skin below (Maybe pax, MAYBE), sad thing is it costs 3.9k rp, lol.

Overview:
Sivir is an AD carry that can push like a boss and help your team immensely in team fights. Sivir's primary use on a team is a ranged carry, yes. But she is very strong against and top lane champion who does not have a strong gap closer (so mostly pick as a counterpick). She has a spell shield to block poke and she can counter trade very hard with he burst. The general concept is a lot like Kayle top, stay back poke and farm as you will outscale 90% of top laners into late game.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Sivir's basic attacks against enemy champions grant her 50 Movement Speed for 2 seconds

Keeps you mobile in lane after a trade, this skill will almost completely prevent a cou…
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May 25, 2012

Top Facts -8- Maokai

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No real chinese art :( WHY MAOKAI WHYYYYYYYY.This not a very common lane to see I found out about it one day when I was playing rumble (Maybe my second game) and I topped against one. He destroyed me, I had no clue how he could do that much damage and sustain that well. Afterwards I went and played as him completely wrecking a in lane, From then on I saw his potential as a top laner and have picked him up every once in awhile .
PS:Read tags at the top if you havent. xD

Champion Overview:
Maokai is a very tanky champion that is strong and scales into late game very well. He is very adept at fighting AoE comps and he is a strong laner vs most Energy/Alternate resource champions. Maokai can be played as a full tank or if your doing well an AP tanky DPS. Maokai is very good at recieving ganks as well so junglers will LOVE to have you at top lane.

Champion Skills:

Passive: - Each time a champion near Maokai casts a spell, he gains a charge of Magical Sap. When he has 5…
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May 26, 2012

Top Facts -9- Irelia

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Top | Facts | 9 | better | nerf | irelia | morello | es | numero | uno | hue | hue | hue | hue

The next few guides will be on more popular champions stuff like: , (decent grounds to write from after some games), , , and . was one of my first "mains" (along with and .).

Champion Overview:
Irelia is a very strong champion that can ,come late game, carry a game on her back. She is a Mobile Tanky-Dps Assassin champion capable of destroying the enemies back lines in team fights. She exerts a very strong presence in a game and is hard to keep down, she can sustain in lane and has a very fun way to last hit. BETTER NERF IRELIA!

Skill Overview:

Passive: - Each nearby enemy champion (to a maximum of three) reduces the effectiveness of Crowd Control on Irelia. 1Champion: 10% 2Champions: 25% 3Champions: 40%

VEERYY Nice passive for when your getting ganked or teamfights, its just an overall great passive like free merc treads not much more to say.

Q: - Irelia dashes forward to strike her targ…
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May 27, 2012

Top Facts -10- Nidalee

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Champion Overview:
Nidalee is an EXTREMLY moblile champion that can be built in 2 diverse ways: A. AP Nidalee or B.) Tanky AD Nidalee. The first of which does well in poke comps, but is weaker in more direct fights and thus takes more of a support role to the team. The latter of the 2 jumps right into the heat of the fight being very tanky and hard to kill. Both builds are completly viable but they serve 2 different purposes to the team. Nidalee in top lane has all of the needs from the shop a top laner could need free wards and hp heals (In toned down spell versions). Nidalee is capable of fighting a great moajority of top laners in the game and coming out ahead. At 6 Nidalee gets a whole new set of skills and becomes a different champion, the mastering of both forms is the key to mastering Nidalee.
NOTE:You must play 10 hour nyan cat while playing Nidalee no exceptions.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Moving through brush increases Nidalee's movement speed by 15% for 2 seconds…
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May 28, 2012

Top Facts -11- Jax

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League | of | legends | top | facts | who | wants | a | piece | of | the | champ | jax | top | facts | 11

Champion Overview:
Jax is a Mobile sustained burst assassin. Jax excels at farming into late game and can carry his team like a Riven or an Irelia. Jax is the only champion in the game that is capable of "Dodge". Meaning basic attacks will not be able to hit him when his E is on. Jax deals hybrid damage and is thus very hard to itemize against. Jax can also build to counter his opponents with his ultimate, meaning if the enemy team has a lot of magic damage he should build Ap, and if they have alot of physical damage he should build AD.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Jax's consecutive basic attacks continuously increase his Attack Speed. (4-10% attk speed per stack depending on his level.)

Ok passive, is ok for getting last hits and it gets to be a decently sizable amount late game.

Q: - Jax leaps towards a target. If it's an enemy, he attacks it and deals an additional 70/110/150/190/230 (+100% of Bonus attack damage) (+70% of ability power) magic dama…
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May 28, 2012

Top Facts -11- Jax

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Champion Overview:
Jax is a Mobile sustained burst assassin. Jax excels at farming into late game and can carry his team like a Riven or an Irelia. Jax is the only champion in the game that is capable of "Dodge". Meaning basic attacks will not be able to hit him when his E is on. Jax deals hybrid damage and is thus very hard to itemize against. Jax can also build to counter his opponents with his ultimate, meaning if the enemy team has a lot of magic damage he should build Ap, and if they have alot of physical damage he should build AD.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Jax's consecutive basic attacks continuously increase his Attack Speed. (4-10% attk speed per stack depending on his level.)

Ok passive, is ok for getting last hits and it gets to be a decently sizable amount late game.

Q: - Jax leaps towards a target. If it's an enemy, he attacks it and deals an additional 70/110/150/190/230 (+100% of Bonus attack damage) (+70% of ability power) magic dama…
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May 28, 2012

Top Lane Mechanics -2- Playstyle and Player Behavior

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Time for another post working on our mechanics: This one is about mind games and other fun stuff :D. This is a supplement to help you get better at top lane and it in itself is not a top facts (though it is useful and helps you in top lane). I will release some of these mini gameplay facts on the same day as an actual top facts as these are short, easy to produce, and has messages the whole community needs to know.

Have you ever felt like you were winning the lane, then suddenly the enemy just jumps on you when you go to harass them and just blows you up? You thought you were ahead due to the fact they had either been not playing aggressive or looked as if they did not do much damage and were weaker. Todays top facts is talking about those mind games and also the attitude YOU the player need to have to be successful in Top Lane.

Playstyles:
There are many differeent and diverse ways to play the top lane that almost no 2 player will do the exact same, although many will fit the sub ca…
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May 29, 2012

Top Facts -12- Wukong

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Top | Facts | 12 | he | is | a | monkey | wtf | OP

Wukong is my Main champion in league of legends so this is a special top facts for me =D. Included in this is my first Video commentary tell me what you think (Besides that my voice sucks, because I have a cold-.-)

I have a wukong guide for top,mid, and jungle. I have learned a few more things since then though. The guide remains mostly my thoughts and opinions though.
http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/its-over-9000-wukong-guide-for-top-jungle-and-mid-193984

Champion Overview:

Wukong is a mobile tricky tanky DPS champion adept at juking, bursting, and team fighting. Wukong is a very strategic champion in lane whos power is only as strong as the person playing him. Wukong is a very capable pick in every game type due to his diverse and fun skillset ,and his team capabilities. He is also a monkey, which are innately fun. He has very adaptable build paths that allow him to carry or tank for his team depending on how he does in the laning phase and what his team needs h…
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May 30, 2012

Top Facts -13- Renekton

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Champion Overview:

Renekton is a tanky DPS champion who does very high damage in the early to mid game but will have a damage drop as it goes later in the game. Renekton wants the game to end as early as possible or get his team to an advantage point by the time the drop begins to happen. Renekton uses no mana and can sustain very well in lane making him a good top lane choice.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Renekton gains 5 Fury per autoattack. Having sufficient fury empowers Renekton's abilities with bonus effects, but this drains Fury. Out of combat, Renekton loses 5 Fury per second.
Gives Renekton a fury gauge as opposed to mana, this skill explains what that is, and gives you reason to auto as much as possible.

Q: - Renekton swings his blade, dealing 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+80% Attack Damage) physical damage to nearby enemies and gains 5% of the damage dealt as Health, up to 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150. Each hit grants 5 Fury, up to 25. Enemy…
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May 31, 2012

Top Facts -14- Jarvan IV

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Top | facts | 14 | jarvan | 4 | IV | DEMACIA | Dude | your | car | just | got | dunked

Champion Overview:

Jarvan IV is a tanky DPS champion that can initiate fights with a strong burst, followed up by good DPS throughout the fight. He excells at disrupting the enemy team, and destroying enemy squishies all while guarding your support line. Making the best use of Jarvan comes from taking advantage of his amazing early laning phase and using it to propel you into an amazing position for the rest of the game. Jarvan is one of those champions who can pick up the slack for his team and is a kind of Do-Everything in the fight kind of guy.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Jarvan IV exploits his target's opening, dealing 6/8/10% of the target's current HP as magic damage. This effect cannot occur on the same target for 6 seconds.
This skill gives Jarvan a stronger low level than alot of other champions due to how much of a damage boost this is for you at the lower levels. This skill is worth using on your enemy in lane whenever it is up and you are safely abl…
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June 01, 2012

Top Facts -15- Akali

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Top | Facts | 15 | Akali | Flipping | Ninja | do | a | flip | kicha | !

I mained Akali all the way through my 20s, she was the first champion I got a rune page for (Which is funny because Akali needed a special rune page that worked on no other champions lol). I had at a time started writing a full guide for Akali awhile back, but I did not in the end as I did not feel I was experienced enough as I was low ELO and Still was really learning the game. She is still very fun to play and strong even after the nerfs. She is a strong champion for anyone who wants to spend the time learning a "main".

Champion Overview:

Akali is an assassin champion, who can instakill enemy carrys, cause confusion, and sustain like a boss and she does all this from the safety of her stealth. Akali has no CC and would much rather fight in small skirmishes over large teamfights, She has the capability to kamikaze and take 1-2 of the enemy carries with her in fights. She is an energy champion with a low CD burst damage ultimate that is a gap closer with an insane range. Akali des…
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June 02, 2012

Top Facts Series Update

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Top | Facts | Series | Update | Yey

So currently I have done 15 top facts. But how many facts will there be in all? These are the champions I plan on releasing top facts for, tell me if there are any you think should be on here or want to add. This list currently adds up to 64 top laners, by the time im done there will probably be ~66 with riots love for bruisers, Meaning im about 1/4 done the top facts series.
Below is the list of champions I can do:

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Cho’Gath

Dr.Mundo

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June 02, 2012

Top Facts -16- Shen

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Top | Facts | 16 | Shen | Flipping | Ninja | do | a | flip | kicha | ! | Ninja Squad | GO

Champion Overview:

Shen is a tank, he brings alot of utility to the team as well as being able to soak up good amounts of damage as well as deal ok damage himself. Shen provides the team sustain, Defense via an AoE taunt, and A shield that allows him to aid allies anywhere on the map. Shen is very durable in the top lane, and with his sustain and early game damage he can WIN vs most matchups right now.
Shen uses the energy resource which is like having alot of blue buffs on at once in your regen but you cannot build any more of it so you have to use your skills in moderation.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Every 8 seconds, Shen's next attack will deal bonus magic damage equal to 4 + (6 × level) + (10% of his bonus health). Whenever Shen hits an enemy unit with a basic attack, the cooldown is reduced by 1.5 seconds. Shen restores 10 / 20 / 30 energy when he Ki Strikes.
Pretty simple skill, but even though it is simple in meaning it does ALOT in gameplay. This skill is …
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June 03, 2012

TOP LANE MECHANICS -3- JUNGLER GANKS!

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Busy today,so this will be the only blog for today.

Overview:

So in top lane a very controversial thing I see is jungler's don't know when to gank and top laners do not even know when they NEED them. So in todays mechanics we will be talking about the jungler.

This will be done in a different fashion, a Q and A.

When should I ask for ganks?
Do not waste your junglers time, if you are ahead in lane you will not need ganks aside from maybe making sure a dive goes safely. During a mid- Disadvanatged lane for you the jungler should also gank. DO NOT BLAME A JUNGLER FOR YOUR LOSSES IF HE WAS NOT THERE.

My jungler is behind, what should I do.
Well this can be an issue, but there are a few things you can do to help him if you are doing well. You can let your jungler hold your lane for farm and xp while YOU roam around and gank. If you are ahead at top lane this allows you to spread your influence where you normally would not. You can also help him by LETTING HIM gank your lane that your …
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June 04, 2012

Top Facts -17- Kennen

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Top | Facts | | 17 | kennen | actually | I | do | not | care | what | riot | says | you | are | pikachu

Needed to do all 3 ninjas O.o.

Champion Overview:

Kennen is a very strong and fun champion. He is the only ninja to fight from a distance, he is VERY mobile and can be used either as AP or AD (like Nidalee). He brings a large amount of stuns as well as having the lane poke of a teemo. Kennen is picked mid alot, so people will not know whether he is top or mid.
You have energy as your resource.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Kennen's abilities add Marks of the Storm to opponents. Upon receiving 3 Marks of Storm, an opponent is stunned for 1 second and Kennen receives 25 energy. This stun is subject to diminishing returns on subsequent occurrences in a short time frame. Marks of storm last 8 seconds on the target.
This passive gives you your CC. Watch this passive and manage your stun marks well.

Q: - Throws a shuriken that damages the first enemy it hits for 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 (+66% of ability power) magic damage and adds a Mark of th…
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June 05, 2012

Top Facts -18- Karma

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Top | Facts | 18 | Karma | Shes | not | weak | 1000 | hp | exploding | shields | OP

Karma is one of my main champions, I have a smurf dedicated solely to karma (though its only lvl 10), I believe she is a very strong and underrated champion.

Champion Overview:

I think karma is a sleeping giant of a champion that people have just yet to realize her true power , she can carry a game hard early on and then fall into a support role for her team. People have thought of this as a bad thing as they think champion does no damage=bad champion. They also say her lack of CC is a very hard downfall. These two flaws can be easily overcome by having karma in any solo role. When you play karma top you can take 1 point in tether vs most melee champs and out maneuver them hard, your goal in top will be to deny farm to the enemy champion while hard farming yourself. Karma has the ability of SAFETY in lane which is her greatest asset. Karma can support your team better than most other champions in the game however to do this support she is required to have farm, however with farm…
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June 06, 2012

Top Facts -19- Volibear

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Top | Facts | 19 | Volibear | im | an | armored | bear | rawr

Champion Overview:

Volibear is a tanky DPS champion, capable of dishing out decent damage and securing kills. He is alot like Garen in the fact he has a strong early, but a weak later game. Volibear has sustain through his passive. A gap closer and singed fling, a slow, and an execution that is based off of his Hp.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Heals volibear for 30% of his Maximum Health over 6 seconds when he drops below 30% Health. 120 second cooldown.
Very Strong passive, is essentially a Mundo ult but weaker. (And no MS).

Q: - Volibear gains 45% Movement Speed while moving toward enemy champions. Lasts 4 seconds. Volibear's next attack deals an additional 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 physical damage and flings the target behind him. 12/11/10/9/8 second Cooldown. Costs 40 Mana.
Initiate, disruption, and escape move. This skill is better for chasing then running due to how the skill works, the next on hit you have will do a mini singed fling =…
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June 07, 2012

Top Facts -20- Darius

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I had originally delayed this as I wanted to see how they nerfed him, turns out they barely tapped him so here this is!

Champion Overview:

Darius is an "all in" type AD caster champion, who excels at running into fights and chopping off a bunch of peoples heads. Darius's kit revolves around his bleed making his harass and trades deal extra damage over time, comparable to the actual damage you received in the trade. He is a very strong duelist, but will go down very quickly when focused in a team fight. Remember that even though your damage may make you feel like it, you are not a god.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Darius' basic attacks and damaging abilities cause enemies to bleed for 12 / 15 / 18 / 21 / 24 / 27 / 30 / 33 / 36 (+0.4 per bonus attack damage) magic damage over 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Darius gains 5% movement speed for each bleeding enemy champion.
A nice move to make your trade, harass,and overall DPS even stronger. This move is the centerpie…
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June 08, 2012

Top Lane Mechanics -4- What is top lane?

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Top | Lane | mechanics | 4 | what | is | top | lane

I probably should have done this first but whatever.

Have yo ever asked yourself why you have a jungler and not just 2 people top? Have you ever asked yourself what kind of champions BELONG up in top lane? Well thats the purpose of todays Blog =D

Why is it SOLO top:

The top lane is solo as your team wants 1 player to play the jungler, be able to aid the team across the map and secure jungle control. The reason it is the top lane that is the lane that gets the solo, is the fact that the early game revolves more around dragon which is closer to bot lane. Meaning that you would rather have 2 laners bottom rather then 1 to contest for dragon.

What kind of champions should go top:

While there are many factors in determining the viability of a top laner such as skills and such, what YOU should be picking as a top laner is a "fill in". If your team needs a tank you pick a tank, If your team needs more AD/AP you pick an AD/AP carry. The challenge is to do this all while not getting count…
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June 08, 2012

Top Lane Mechanics -4- What is top lane?

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Top | Lane | mechanics | 4 | what | is | top | lane

I probably should have done this first but whatever.

Have yo ever asked yourself why you have a jungler and not just 2 people top? Have you ever asked yourself what kind of champions BELONG up in top lane? Well thats the purpose of todays Blog =D

Why is it SOLO top:

The top lane is solo as your team wants 1 player to play the jungler, be able to aid the team across the map and secure jungle control. The reason it is the top lane that is the lane that gets the solo, is the fact that the early game revolves more around dragon which is closer to bot lane. Meaning that you would rather have 2 laners bottom rather then 1 to contest for dragon.

What kind of champions should go top:

While there are many factors in determining the viability of a top laner such as skills and such, what YOU should be picking as a top laner is a "fill in". If your team needs a tank you pick a tank, If your team needs more AD/AP you pick an AD/AP carry. The challenge is to do this all while not getting count…
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June 09, 2012

Top Lane Strategies -1- Bot Top Switch

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Still getting used to my new computer wont be making top facts for a few days.

:Top Lane Strategies -1- Bot Top Switch:

Has your top laner every got HARD counter picked by a champion (especially one that scales well into late game)? Wella good strategy to counter this is have you take a champion that is strong without items (A support-like champion) or champions who are survivable and have useful abilities.

Example: If the enemy is able to first pick a champion with a strong late such as a poppy, and you are someone like a janna who cannot stop her from getting there, you can go bot and let your AD carry and support go top. The 2v1 should win the lane and deny the carry hard. Even if you fall behind bot lane, you have support abilities and will still be useful to your team.

Penalties:
If you do this strat, you give up control on dragon, and will lose out on farm and kill potential in your lane.

June 09, 2012

Top Lane Strategies -1- Bot Top Switch

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Still getting used to my new computer wont be making top facts for a few days.

:Top Lane Strategies -1- Bot Top Switch:

Has your top laner every got HARD counter picked by a champion (especially one that scales well into late game)? Wella good strategy to counter this is have you take a champion that is strong without items (A support-like champion) or champions who are survivable and have useful abilities.

Example: If the enemy is able to first pick a champion with a strong late such as a poppy, and you are someone like a janna who cannot stop her from getting there, you can go bot and let your AD carry and support go top. The 2v1 should win the lane and deny the carry hard. Even if you fall behind bot lane, you have support abilities and will still be useful to your team.

Penalties:
If you do this strat, you give up control on dragon, and will lose out on farm and kill potential in your lane.

June 10, 2012

Top Lane Mechanics -5- Summoner Spells

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Summoner Spells:

Exhaust- Useful in matchups vs AD champions who have bursts with decent CDs. If you do this when theytry and burst, their damage is dropped greatly and you gain a HUGE advantage in a fight.

Ghost-Good vs fast champions (Ones you will need to chase for an extended period) IE:

Heal- Useful for baiting your enemy into moves, allows you to aid your team in teamfights.

Revive- and only.

Smite- Just no.

Teleport- Good spell if you are ORGANIZED with your team. You can use this spell to coordinate plays, go back and buy without missing any xp, or to split push and still aplly pressure on the enemy team.

Cleanse- You wont really need this spell 99% of the time, nice vs a CC heavy enemy team for the tenacity it gives.

Promote- Only for karma (She can support the super minion with all her spells xD)

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June 12, 2012

Top Facts -21- Singed

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Top | Facts | 21 | Singed | learn | to | spam | /l | pls

Champion Overview:

Singed is a tank/ Tanky Dps champion, who excels at disruption and the ability to just not die. Singed is the best kite champion in the game, the majority of your damage comes from running. Singed has the mobility to keep up with most champions in the game and fling them into bad positions. Singed is overall a very fun and strong pick, though he does have a rough start to the game he picks up very fast and becomes the troll we all know and want to murder xD,
Dyrus's Singed Tip: Spam /L all day every day.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Increases Singed's health by .25 for each mana point he has.
Strong passive that allows Singed to get more health then he should off items that give mana and health and allows him to get tankier off items that give mana such as a frozen heart.

Q: (Toggle): Singed lays a poisonous trail which deals 22 / 34 / 46 / 58 / 70 (+30% of ability power) magic damage per second. Cost 13 mana per second. Range…
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June 13, 2012

Top Facts -22- Nasus

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Top | Facts | 21 | Nasus | Who | Let | The | Dogs | Out | Woof

Champion Overview:

Nasus is a Tanky Dps late game carry, who revolves around being a farmer for 75% of the game and harvesting the crops for the rest =D. Nasus has a weaker early game then many champions, but has the potential for the most late game damage on one skill in the game.
Nasus also has a bad *** voice which makes him 30$ more awesome.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Nasus drains his foe's spiritual energy, giving him a natural 14/17/20% lifesteal. The lifesteal value increments at levels 1, 6, and 11.
Passive lifesteal, Nice as it keeps you in lane as you farm. Late game if you farmed your Q alot this gives you VERY HIGH sustain.

Q: -Nasus's next attack will deal an additional 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 damage. Siphoning Strike permanently gains 3 damage whenever it kills an enemy. Cooldown 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 seconds. Cost 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 mana.
FARM ALL DAY, GET SHEEN, PROFIT!

W: - Nasus ages his target, slowing their movement a…
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June 14, 2012

Top Facts -23- Galio

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Top | Facts | 23 | Galio | Im | a | Statue | Hue

Champion Overview:

Galio is a tank champion excelling at Disruption and increasing his team abilities. Galio has a very strong initiation and has the goal of ending the fight with just that. Galio can lane vs most champions in the game and the best part is that he does it SAFELY. Galio late game is a monster that can win the game for his team with just 1 skill.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Galio converts 50% of his total Magic Resistance into Ability Power.
Makes you really strong against enemies who have magic damage. Free gold for building tanky, even if you do not itemize for the MR you will still get AP when you use your shield. =D

Q: - Galio fires a concussive blast from his eyes, dealing 80/135/190/245/300 (+70% of ability power) magic damage to enemies near the impact location, and reducing their movement speed by 24 / 28 / 32 / 36 / 40% for 2.5 seconds. Cost 60/65/70/75/80 mana. Range 900. Cooldown 7 seconds.
Good harassment and farming tool.

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June 15, 2012

Top Facts -24- Lee Sin

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Top | Facts | 24 | Lee | Sin | The | Blind | Monk | Sees | Via | Smell

Champion Overview:

Lee Sin is a mobile champion that can either be built as a tanky-DPS or an assassin. He runs on energy and can have a very dangerous (Kill Lane) laning phase or a very safe laning phase. Lee sin has 2 parts to all his moves and thus takes alot of time and effort to master.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - After Lee Sin uses an ability, his next 2 basic attacks gain 50% Attack Speed and return 10 energy each.
Your "energy management" skill. Mastery of this skill allows for more DPS and the ability to not run out of energy easily.

Q: - Sonic Wave: Lee Sin projects a discordant wave of sound to locate his enemies, dealing 50/80/110/140/170 (+90% of bonus Attack Damage) physical damage to the first enemy it encounters. If Sonic Wave hits, Lee Sin can cast Resonating Strike for the next 3 seconds. Resonating Strike: Lee Sin dashes to the enemy hit by Sonic Wave, dealing 50/80/110/140/170 (+90% of bonus Attack Damage) physical da…
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June 16, 2012

Top Facts -25- Pantheon

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Top | Facts | 25 | pantheon | you | should | be | honored | to | die | at | my | feet

Champion Overview:

Pantheon is a melee assassin, that is essentially the solo-top twisted fate. Pantheon is strong due to the fact he can reach his team quickly through any positioning. Pantheon has a strong early game capable of winning most lanes. Pantheon is a pub-stomper, he is meant to win his lane and try and use the snowball to win his team the game.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - After attacking or casting spells 4 times, Pantheon will block the next normal attack that deals more than 40 damage to him.
VERY STRONG PASSIVE for top lane. This is a Fiora riposte after every 4 attacks/skills. This skill can even block tower shots. So good in top where autos are a lot of the harass/Dps.

Q: - Pantheon hurls his spear at an opponent, dealing 65/105/145/185/225 + 140% of his bonus attack damage in physical damage. Certain Death causes Spear Shot to critically strike for 1.5x damage. Cooldown 4 seconds. Cost 45 mana. Range 600.
Spammable ranged poke. A…
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June 17, 2012

Top Facts -26- Teemo

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Top | Facts | 26 | teemo | screw | teemo | and | everything | he | stands | for

I despise teemo with a great passion -.-. I used to main him at a point, but then realized I hated him so yea.... Delete Teemo, Global taunt OP. Teemo is also stealing volibears panda skin zzz.

Champion Overview:

Teemo is an annoying scout specializing in annoyance from afar and a global taunt. Teemos moves apply a poison wearing the enemy's body down in lane while their spirits get worn down by teemos joke, laugh, and taunt. Teemo needs to be built tanky to face the bursts of most of the popular top laners right now, but once he does he is very hard to kill and with the global taunt is really strong.
Be honest have you ever seen a teemo and NOT wanted to just kill him :P?

Skills Overview:

Passive: -If Teemo stands still and takes no actions for 3 seconds, he becomes stealthed indefinitely. After leaving stealth, Teemo gains the Element of Surprise, increasing his attack speed by 40% for 3 seconds.
Teemo has the unique ability of becoming a ! This passive…
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June 18, 2012

Top Facts -27- Nunu

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Top | Facts | 27 | Nunu | omg | it | is | a | yeti

Nunu is a very strong and very underrated solo top.

Champion Overview:

Nunu is a tank/ tanky DPS champion capable of EMPIRE!. Nunu can slaughter teams and burn down nexuses if left unchecked. Many people have been underestimating him recently as he has only been used as a support. As a top laner Nunu has strength to fight most lanes, as well as the ability to be useful to his team through his utility regardless of his score.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Nunu can cast a spell for free after 7 attacks.
Gives you free harass after you last hit enough. This skill is nice in top lane where most of the lane phase you will be auto attacking.

Q: - Takes a bite out of target minion, dealing 400/525/650/775/900 damage and restoring 125 / 200 / 275 / 350 / 425 (+100% of ability power) health. Cooldown 35 / 30 / 25 / 20 / 15 seconds. Cost 60 mana. Range 125.
Gives you sustain in lane, this skill also will help your team later in the game as you will have another smite. T…
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June 19, 2012

Top Facts -28- Udyr

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Top | Facts | 28 | udyr | rawr | this | fur | is | fake

Champion Overview:

Udyr is a tanky DPS champion With no ultimate capable of morhping into different animals at will to gain different bonuses on his auto attacks. Udyr is very strong in top lane where many champions rely on auto attacks or getting in auto range to do a good amount of their damage.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Entering a stance grants Udyr 10% attack speed for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up to 3 times.
This passive gives udyr the ability to land autos faster in committed fights as the fight goes on. It is essentially the same as 's passive except with skills to get the stacks.

Q: - Activation: On his next attack, Udyr swipes at his target, dealing normal attack and dealing 150% of his attack damage + 30 / 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 extra damage over 2 seconds as magic damage. In addition, It increases attack speed 5% less than passive for 5 seconds. Persistent Effect: Udyr's attack speed is increased by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%. …
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June 20, 2012

Top Facts -29- Trundle

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Top | Facts | 29 | trundle | time | to | troll

Wait a second....

Champion Overview:

Trundle is a tanky Dps champion who provides amazing zone control and has a various assortment of ways to buff himself and debuff the enemy. Trundle has a very strong disengage and works VERY WELL in poke comps. In lane trundle is strong against most champions who have to come within auto range.

Skills Overview:

Passive: Passive: Decompose: Whenever an enemy unit near Trundle dies, he heals for 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6% of their maximum health. Range: 1000.
This skill is very strong for dives, baron, and sustaining in lane. Never underestimate the heal this skill brings to the table.

Q: - Trundle bites his opponent, dealing 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 + (80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120% of attack damage) damage and sapping 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 of their attack damage. Cost: 40 mana. Cooldown: 4 seconds.
This skill is often underestimated, it is an instant auto refresh AND it STEALS AD from the enemy and gives it to you. This is a strong skill i…
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June 22, 2012

Top Facts -30- Fizz

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Sorry this is late, have been playing pokemon conquest. First game where people are smart enough to use pokemon to try and take over the region. xD

Champion Overview:

Fizz is a mobile magic damage assassin. Fizz employs a high array of darting and dashing to weave around the battle field doing good damage. Fizz is strong top lane as he is safe, has decent matchups, and scales well into late game.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Fizz's dexterity allows him to ignore unit collision and take 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 less physical damage from basic attacks.
This passive is nice for weaving around the lane, and trading off against the ememy.

Q: - Fizz dashes through his target, dealing normal attack damage plus 10 / 40 / 70 / 100 / 130 (+70% of ability power) as magic damage. This ability can trigger on-hit effects. Cost: 50/55/60/65/70 mana. Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6 seconds.
This is a very nice skill, it is INSANELY important to remember that this skill wi…
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June 21, 2012

Top Facts 30 Delayed

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Top facts 30 will be delayed until tomorrow due to me being glued to the new pokemon game and letting time fly by xD. I will be releasing a double top facts post soon to make up for it. Have a good day everyone :P

June 23, 2012

Top Facts -31- Mordekaiser

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Top | Facts | 31 | Mordekaiser | es | numero | uno | hue | hue | hue

Champion Overview:

Mordekaiser es Numero uno. Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue Hue. Mordekaiser is an AP Tanky-Dps champion. Mordekaiser is probably the best farmer in the game and has the ability to carry his team very hard even if they are behind. Mordekaiser is one of the only champions in the game, who has the ability to turn a fed enemy carry into his ultimate weapon. Mordekaiser has very good matchups but his nature causes him to push and he has no escapes to get away from ganks. This can be played to your advantage however if you have your jungler counter-gank.
Mordekaiser does not have a mana gauge and instead his spells run on health, and give him a shield for the damage he does.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - 30% of the damage dealt from abilities is converted into a temporary shield, absorbing incoming damage. Shield regeneration is half effec…
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June 24, 2012

Top Facts -32- Olaf

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Top | Facts | 32 | Olaf | Hey | dude | I | am | kind | of | a | big | deal

First champion I ever played in league of legends Ftw.

Champion Overview:

BROMMAACCCCIIIIAAAAAAAA.

Olaf is a tanky-Dps Anticarry. His goal on a team is to Rambo into the enemy team and kill their carries. He has amazing laning abilities capable of wrecking most solo tops. Olaf has the ability to spam true damage in lane essentially Ulting you every-time you come close to him (If you like playing darius, I think you would like olaf). Olaf has the power to kill even the most fed of enemy squishies with his ultimate.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - For each 1% of health missing, Olaf's attack speed is increased by 1%.
This passive allows you to last hit better, win closer fights, and kill that squishie your ramboing at when the enemy team trys to kill you off.

Q: - Olaf throws an axe to a target location, dealing 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 physical damage plus 50% of his attack damage to units it passes through and slowing them by 16 / 22 / 28 / 34 …
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June 25, 2012

Top Facts -33- Vayne

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Top | Facts | 33 | Vayne | Do | a | barrel | roll

Champion Overview:

Vayne is a ranged carry that scales VERY HARD into late game. Vayne is more of a counter-pick then a generic top lane pick, but if you are able to use her as a counter you will be able to use her scaling from the lane to carry late game. Vayne has abilities needed to keep champions off of her and chase after enemies she needs to. She is like poppy in the regard of make it through laning phase doing well and have a good advantage for the rest of the game.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Vayne ruthlessly hunts evil-doers. She gains 30 Movement Speed when moving toward nearby enemy champions.
This skill allows you to chase down enemies really well.

Q: - Vayne tumbles a short distance and her next basic attack within 6 seconds deals bonus physical damage. The bonus is equal to 30/35/40/45/50% of her total Attack Damage. Cooldown 6/5/4/3/2 seconds. Cost 40 mana.
This skill gives you a slight bit of mobility to dodge skillshots and to counter hara…
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June 26, 2012

Top Facts -34- Vladimir

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Top | Facts | 34 | Vladimir | troll | pool | op

Champion Overview:

Vladimir is a manaless Tanky-Dps mage, who runs on health. His kit is build around sustain and Teamfight Damage. Vlad is a strong late game champion, he is strong top as he has the range and sustain to survive much of what top lane will throw at him and make it to the late game he is strong in. Vladimir is hard to gank for as he does not offer much CC, nor does he have a very good burst early on.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Every 40 points of bonus health gives Vladimir 1 ability power and every 1 point of ability power gives Vladimir 1.4 bonus health (does not stack with itself).
A really good passive. Building AP makes you tankier and building HP makes you more damaging. Typically you will be building mostly for the Ap-HP as you will need the damage to be useful for your team, and you will get tankier from building the damage.

Q: - Vladimir drains the lifeforce of his target, dealing 90/125/160/195/230 (+60% of ability power) magi…
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June 27, 2012

Top Facts -35- Cho' Gath

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Top | facts | 35 | cho | gath | nom | nom | nom

Champion Overview:

Cho'Gath (Will be called Cho from here on) is a Tanky DPS champion, with strong disruption and tanking abilities. Cho is the biggest champion in the league at lvl 16 with full 6 stacks. Cho has a slightly weak early game, but he picks up and scales well into late game.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Whenever Cho'Gath kills a unit, he recovers 34 - 68 (+2.5 each level) health and 3.5-7.75 mana (+0.25 each level).
This passive is very nice as it provides you sustain for both your mana and your health, like a mini catalyst every time you last hit.

Q: - Ruptures the ground at target location. After a short delay, enemies are launched into the air for 1 second, dealt 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 305 (+100% of ability power) magic damage, and have their movement speed slowed by 60% for 3 seconds. Cooldown 10 seconds. Cost 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 mana. Range 950.
This skill is an AoE knockup after a delay, It is useful in teamfights where everyone is cl…
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June 27, 2012

Top Facts -36- Viktor

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Promised a double release for skipping to play Pokemon.

Champion Overview:

Viktor is an AP carry that has the ability to adapt to situations and be a part of different comps. Viktor Automatically has a "Power Core" in his inventory which is a strong item for his early game, but late game it is not as strong as some of the other items he could buy. Viktor brings 2 AoE CCs to his team as well as strong burst. Viktor's main weakness is how close range he needs to be to fire off his spells, but this is remedied in top lane, where most of the champions are melee range which is even shorter then Viktor. Here he is able to farm with a range advantage, and in team fight phase the team will have a long range AP as well as Viktor for even more magic damage.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Viktor starts with a Hex Core that provides him with stats and can be upgraded in the store to augment one of his abilities. The Hex Core can only be upgraded once, and cannot be sold b…
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June 28, 2012

Top Facts -37- Hecarim

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Top | facts | 37 | Hecarim | death | is | magic

Champion Overview:

Hecarim is a mobile tanky dps. He leads the charge into battle, all of his moves allow him to stay mobile while dealing out damage or providing CC and utility.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Hecarim ignores unit collision and gains attack damage equal to 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20 / 22.5 / 25% of his bonus movement speed.
This passive gives you some AD for your move speed. This skill also gives you the ability to ignore unit collision, which allows you to weave around minions to harass with your Q.
Note: Do not build movespeed to try to make use of this passive, just benefit from it as you build.

Q: - Hecarim cleaves nearby enemies, dealing 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 / 190 (+60% of bonus attack damage) physical damage. (66% damage to minions and monsters)
If Hecarim damages at least one enemy unit with this attack, he gains a stack of mpage, reducing the base cooldown of this skill by 1 second for a short duration. This effect can stack up to 2 times…
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June 29, 2012

Top Facts -38- Graves

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Top | Facts | 38 | Graves | dead | man | walking

Champion Overview:

Graves is a ranged AD carry that has free Armor/MR as well as being decently tanky. Graves has a very strong early game as well as scaling into the late game as ranged carry. Taking graves top allows your teams to have 2 AD carries and allows graves to build decently tanky instead of going the standard AD carry build. Graves has good matchups and is a strong early pick due to the fact he is a popular AD carry. Graves is the best AD carry to use to learn how to play a ranged carry top, as he is safe with a strong kit.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - Graves gains 1 / 2 / 3 bonus armor and magic resistance every second he remains in combat. This bonus stacks up to 10 times. Graves is considered in combat if he has dealt or received damage in the last 3 seconds.
This passive is nice for top lane as it gives you more armor/magic resist to help you in the early game.

Q: - Graves fires three bullets in a cone, dealing 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+0.…
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June 29, 2012

Top Facts -39- Malphite

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Top | Facts | 39 | Malphite | stuck | between | a | rock | and | a | hard | place

Had to get done the one I had started so I can get to Top Facts 40 PULSEFIRE EZ!!!!!!

Champion Overview:

Malphite is a tanky champion with one of the best burst initiates in the game. Malphite has very good lane matchups as well as having a strong lategame. Malphite has the ability to lockdown and debuff enemies and allow your team to kill them.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Malphite is shielded by a layer of rock which absorbs damage up to 10% of his maximum health. If he has not been hit for 10 seconds, this effect recharges.
This passive sort of acts like your "sustain". If you balance out your trading (Which keeps your mana pool high as well) with your shield, you will keep a pretty high hp gauge though the laning phase.

Q: - Malphite sends a shard of the earth through the ground at his target, dealing 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 (+60% of ability power) magic damage upon impact and steals 14 / 17 / 20 / 23 / 26 % movement speed for 4 seconds.
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June 30, 2012

Top Facts -40- Ezreal

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Top | Facts | 40 | Ezreal | Do | you | require | a | map | ? | No | .

Did I wait all this time for PFE to do the facts? Yep. Do I regret it? NOPE! Ezreal was my birthday champion (Sort of) coming out one day after my birthday (March 14, he was released on the 15th).

Champion Overview:

Do Your Require a Map? No.

Ezreal is a versatile champion that can either be played as an AD ranged carry OR as an AP carry. Each version has different uses and fits differently into team comps. There are times when you will need to be one Ezreal and times you will need to be another. Ezreal is very fun to play and has a very high skill cap. As of the 29th of June Ezreal also has the best skin in the League.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Hitting a target with any of Ezreal's abilities increases his attack speed by 10% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
This passive is nice for AD Ezreal, as the attk speed you get counts s your "Steroid". This passive is ok for AP ez early game, end game it will mostly be used to get lickbane procs off faster.

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July 01, 2012

Top Facts -41- Janna

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Top | Facts | 41 | janna | I | will | make | you | breathless

Champion Overview:

Janna is a supporty-Ap champion, Janna is fun to play and grants her team amazing utility. Janna has a strong lane phase as well as unconditionally will scale into late game. janna is strong as she can be run in many comps and brings alot to her team. She NEEDS a jungler who can deal out alot of physical damage when they gank to be effective.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Increases the movement speed of all allied champions by 3%. The bonus is lost when Janna is dead.
This passive is nice as it gives your team a movement speed boost (Which makes you constantly helping other lanes from top lane).

Q: - Janna summons a mighty whirlwind, which she can release to deal 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+75% of ability power) + 25 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 (for each second it charges) magic damage to all targets in it's path, in addition to knocking them into the air for 0.8 seconds and an extra .1 second for each second charged. The damage done and distanc…
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July 02, 2012

Top Facts -42- Draven

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Top | Facts | 42 | draven | no | not | draven | DRAVEEEEENNNNNNNNNNN |

Probably the hardest and funnest person I play top lane.This is a more In-Depth facts with more pictures and videos then usual, tell me what you think about it =D.
I really can't do this champion justice in explaining everything needed to be a good Draven here, so please bear with me as I try my best xD.

Champion Overview:

Welcome to the League of Draven!

Draven's a one man show, he goes top lane because he doesn't want to share the show with a support.

Draven is a ranged AD champion. Draven has good lane matchups as well as an amazing scaling into late game as an AD carry. His kit is very strong to counter many of the popular top laners, and does it all with style. Draven has hands down THE FUNNEST laning phase in the game =D. When you play Draven top lane and last hit with your Q, it feels like a completely different game.

Draven's early laning phase power, allowing me to easily pick up FB on a Teemo.

Skills Overview:

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July 05, 2012

Top Facts -43- Skarner

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Not feeling double release today xD

Champion Overview:

Skarner is a tanky DPS champion capable of disrupting the enemy team and locking down an enemies key players. Skarner is fun to play and has a kit revolved around spamming skills while autoing the enemy. Skarner does magical and physical damage so he is hard to itemize against. Skarner's ultimate gives you one of the best feeling in the game as you drag an enemy to their death =3.

Skills Overview:

- Basic attacks lower the cooldowns of Skarner's abilities by 1 second against champions and 0.5 seconds against non-champions.
This passive is nice for sticking to a target as the more you auto the more you can use skills.

- Skarner lashes out with his claws, dealing 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 (+0.8 per bonus attack damage) physical damage to all nearby enemies and charging himself with Crystal Energy for 5 seconds if a unit is struck. If he casts Crystal Slash again while empowered by Crystal Energy, he deal…
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July 14, 2012

Top Facts -44- Sion

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IM BACK!

Champion Overview:

Sion is a tanky DPS champion. Sion is very versatile in his build pathings capable of building AD or AP. If built AD, Sion is a wrecking machine capable of demolishing enemy teams if he is capable of getting in range. If built Ap, Sion is EASILY capable of bursting down members of the enemy team, all whole staying safe under the cover of his massive shield. Sion's versatility allows him to have very good matchups as he is able to adapt to the enemies he faces.

Skills Overview:

- Sion has a 40% chance to ignore up to 30 / 40 / 50 damage each time he is attacked. The damage reduction is calculated before armor and percentage damage reduction benefits are taken into account.
This passive will go unnoticed for the most part, but it does help to mitigate some damage from the minions/ enemy champion in a fight.

- Blasts a single enemy, dealing 70 / 125 / 180 / 240 / 300 (+90% of ability power) magic damage and stunning for 1.5…
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July 15, 2012

Top Facts -45- Xin Zhao (Reworked)

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This is a facts on the NEW XIN ZHAO, that is on the PBE, not the Xin on actual servers. I am doing this as riot will probably not change Xin, and if they do then I will make changes accordingly. Xin was not orginially going to get a facts, due to how weak he was. The buffs actually made him a viable top lane so I decided I would make his after a few games experience on the PBE.The matchups section may not be fully accurate as I will be going (Mostly) with his old pre-nerfed matchups.

Champion Overview:

Xin Zhao is an AD champion that relies on enhancing his auto attacks to do most of his damage. Xin needs to "Chain" his abilities in the best possible way for every situation to make the most of his CC, his abilities, and his cooldowns. All of Xin's skills (Aside from his steroid W) inflict some sort of CC on the enemy.Playing Xin to his best efficiency is all about managing all of your skills and timings.

Skills Overview:

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July 16, 2012

Top Facts -46- Rumble

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Champion Overview:

Rumble is an AP Tanky-Dps. Rumble relies on proper management of a unique system, heat. Rumble is capable on unleashing HUGE amounts of damage and zoning enemies out of lane. He is a good source of magic damage and his ultimate is a complete game changer.

Skills Overview:

- When Rumble reaches 100 heat he overheats, silencing himself for 6 seconds to cooldown completely and causing his physical attacks to deal an additional 20 + (5 x level) + (30% of ability power) magic damage for the duration.
Management of this passive is NECESSARY to mastering rumble. Correctly managing your heat is the difference between subpar damage, and insane rumble damage.

- Rumble begins torching the area in front of him with his flamethrower, dealing 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+45% of ability power) magic damage per half second to all units in a cone in front of him for 3 seconds. Flamespitter only deals half damage to minions. He can move, attack and …
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July 17, 2012

Top Facts -47- Jayce

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Actually decided to play ranked all day today, went from 1400-1496 elo. =P

Champion Overview:

Jayce is a ranged AD carry/Melee Dps champion capable to dealing TONS of damage, both from afar and close and personal. Jayce has the ability to adapt to many team comps, lane opponents, and roles for the team. Jayce has his ultimate at level 1 like karma, however unlike karma he still can RANK his ultimate at the normal levels giving him nice little bonuses. Jayce has amazing harass in lane and is capable of killing many enemies in just 2 combos of his harass.

Skills Overview:

- Jayce gains 40 movement speed and ignores unit collision for 1.25 seconds each time Transform is cast.
This passive is nice to jump into your combos, or keep up in the fight as your switching your weapons around. In lane the ignore unit collision part is VERY helpful as you can switch weapons and run straight at them or switch weapons, run through them, and hammer them abck.

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July 18, 2012

Top Facts -48- Tryndamere

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Champion Overview:

Tryndamere is a strong AD melee champion who uses the rage system. He has sustain as well as the ability to wreck enemies if he is at low hp. Tryndamere has a very good carry ability in unorganized games and can hard carry a team.

Skills Overview:

- Tryndamere gains 5 Fury for striking a unit or 10 Fury for a critical strike, and 10 extra Fury for killing a unit. Each point of Fury grants +.35% Critical Chance.
This passive makes Tryndamere VERY STRONG with a full fury gauge. I will forgoe using my heal to keep this passive up at times,

- Passive: Tryndamere thirsts for blood, gaining 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 Attack Damage plus 0.15 / 0.2 / 0.25 / 0.3 / 0.35 per 1% Health missing. Active: Tryndamere consumes his Fury, restoring 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 Health (+150% of ability power), plus 0.5 / 0.95 / 1.4 / 1.85 / 2.3 Health per Fury consumed.
The passive on this ability makes you VERY SCARY at low hp, while the active acts as your sustai…
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July 19, 2012

Top Facts -49- Garen

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Champion Overview:

Garen is a tanky Dps champion with a dominant early game that can completely shut out some champions. Garen is the original champions to possess Spin 2 Win which is his trademark skill. Garen likes brushes as if he is in them and the enemy walks in he can typically burst them down and kill them. Garen does have a falloff lategame, but the falloff can be somewhat mitigated IF Garen builds right. Garen is relatively low skill cap and can deliver good results (Even without runes) so he is the champion I would recommend for new players trying to learn top lane.

Skills Overview:

- Garen regenerates 0.5% of his maximum health per second after not receiving damage for 7 seconds. The regenerative state will stop if Garen receives damage.
This will act as you sustain in lane. This passive is a threat of sorts as it states "Come in range and stop this or I will heal". This will force the enemy to either: A. Use a ranged move on you to knock it out, B. Com…
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July 19, 2012

Top Facts -50- Blitzcrank

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Champion Overview:

Blitzcrank (Blitz as I will call him from here on) is a tanky Dps top laner capable of locking down and disrupting enemy teams as well as initiating fights. Blitz is very powerful at receiving ganks as well as bullying enemies with low sustain out of lane. Blitz has a rough start, but once he gets into the swing of things he is capable of easily cleaning up the enemy team and winning games for his team. Blitz top also brings a pull to the table for endgame allowing even games that should be lost to be won with just a good pull.

Skills Overview:

- When Blitzcrank's life is brought below 20% health, he creates a Mana Barrier, a shield with 50% of his current mana, which lasts 10 seconds. The activation doesn't consume any mana. This effect has a one minute cooldown.
This passive is so strong. Its like a heal bait in a passive. Late game when you have alot of mana this skill will act like another hp bar for you. The one thing to note is that this s…
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July 29, 2012

Top Facts -52- Lulu

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Champion Overview:

Lulu is a supporty Ap top laner OR she can be played as an Onhit/ Ad type of champion. The reason she is so diverse is due to her skillset. Her passive is a free bonus magic damage BASED ON HER LEVEL, this is the main reason people will build AD/AS lulu top, as you do not need AP for the passives scaling. Lulu's other skills are very nice support abilities with decent ratios (Ap top lulu) BUT with good base amounts as well (Ad/As Lulu). Lulu is a very diverse high skillcap champion who's kit can offer a lot to her team both offensively an defensively. One of the main aspects of Lulu that takes learning is when to use your abilities offensively and when to use them defensively (As most of her abilities have 2 abilities that differ when used on an ally or an enemy.) She brings a good amount of CC to the team and can help her jungler in ganks by turning the enemy into a fluffy creature and slowing them. She also has a knock up on her ultimate that turns her ally bi…
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July 28, 2012

Top Facts -51- Shyvana

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TIME TO FINISH THE FACTS SERIES! On Wednesday I shall release my ~170 page long top facts guide =D. Also give me credit for this facts because I did it all via IPhone hue

Champion Overview:

Shyvana is a tanky-Dps champion who deals both physical and magical damage. Shyvana has no gap closer or CC aside from her ultimate. She brings VERY HIGH burst damage early and will scale into an unkillable raidboss monster late game. Shyvana does not use mana and instead uses a "rage" system starting at level 6 when she gets her ultimate. Her ultimate can only be used when she has a full rage bar and will morph her into a dragon gaining new effects on all her abilities (For the most part making them AoE.)

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - Shyvana's melee attacks enhance her abilities. Twin Bite - Reduces the cooldown by 0.5 seconds. Burnout - Extends the duration by 1 second to a maximum of 6 seconds. Flame Breath - Deals 15% of the ability's damage to debuffed targ…
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July 30, 2012

Top Facts -53- Urgot

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Champion Overview:

Urgot is a Tanky-DPS Ranged ad champion. Urgot excels at poking his targets as well as setting up for ganks. Urgot has the ability to go 2 paths based on his enemy: The first path is maxing his acid hunter and poking his enemies down (Poke Urgot) while the second path is maxing his shield gaining the ability to sustain enemy trade as well as kite them. Urgot overall is a very versatile and strong AD champion that is VERY strong in the top lane due to his ability to win lane and be tanky. He also has very good matchups and has a relatively easy time in lane.

Skills Overview:

- Urgot's attacks reduce all damage that his target deals by 15% for 2.5 seconds.
This passive is amazing in duels and the amount of damage it reduces can actually save your life.

- Urgot fires a missile towards the cursor dealing 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170 (+1.2 per bonus Attack Damage) physical damage and applying his passive (does not apply other…
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July 31, 2012

Top Facts -54- Zyra

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Champion Overview:

Zyra is an AP caster who's kit revolves around quick burst and the summoning of plants. Zyra had good zoning potential and AMAZING combos with her seeds. The has a high skill ceiling meaning that for someone who spends the time to learn her she will do very well. She is relatively safe from ganks due to the free warding her seeds giving her sight.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - Upon death, Zyra returns to her plant form. After 2 seconds, she can press any ability to fire a Vengeful Thorn towards her cursor, dealing 99 + (25 × current level) true damage to each enemy it strikes.
Zyras passive is a nice revenge passive (Like Kog'Maw's but 1 less damage and a skillshot). This passive allows you to get those kills from really close fights and actually makes you feel SATISFIED when your dead.

- Zyra grows a bud at target location. After a brief delay it explodes, launching damaging thorns at all nearby enemies dealing 75 / 115 / 1…
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August 01, 2012

Top Facts -55- Gangplank

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Champion Overview:

Gangplank is a physcial DPS champion that is typically build with some tanky items and some crit. He has a pistol shot that applies on-hit effects and can crit (Essentially giving him 1 fed ranged carry auto whenever its up). Gangplanks ultimate can apply global pressure as well as gangplank having safety himself from most ganks and enemies with some oranges.

Skills Overview:

- Gangplank's basic attacks apply a poison debuff for 3 seconds that can stack up to 3 times. Each stack deals 3 + (1 x level) magic damage per second and slows the target by 7%.
This is a nice passive for duels and just overall utility. It has a slow which is nice for early lane fights, and it has a poison effect which I have gotten kills with before.

- Gangplank shoots an enemy with his pistol, dealing 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+1.0 per attack damage) physical damage. Gangplank refunds half the mana used and gains 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 extra gold if Parrrley dea…
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August 07, 2012

Top Facts V2 -1- Diana

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The coding should work as soon as Diana is added to moba database.
Making this to add to my complete top lane guide. Recently I just finished making my Jayce guide so will now focus more on my Top Lane Guide.

Champion Overview:

Diana is a tanky-dps assassin. Though this term may seem like it would be really strong and broken it is in fact not. Diana does not do the damage standard of an assassin champion ( or ) nor is she as Tanky as other tanky Dps champions ( or ) she is a mix of the two types. The champion I would most attribute this field to would be . She brings alot of potential to the table with her ability to combo skills as well as her initiation, defender, and anti-carry abilities. She does not have any escapes and she is forced to all in having very little invested in the escape department. Due to her lack of escapes and love of pushing Diana is very easy to gank, and she should play as safe as possible. Diana best fits in the catego…
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August 10, 2012

Berzerk's Top Tier List

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Berzerk | Tier | List | Top | Lane

Bored in a long car ride, needed something to do. Made this. These are just my general opinions on tiers as seen by me.

This tier list is my rating on top lane champions AS SEEN BY ME! Everyone sees lanes and such different so everyone will have their own different tier lists. This is just mine. Their is no specific order within the tiers on the champions, it is just a general categorization.

* means they are on borderline to going down and I'm on the edge with them.
^ Means I'm on the edge and could easily cave in on moving them up a tier.

Some strong common picks. They can usually do pretty well no matter who they fight. They typically can do well at all points in the game.

Tier 1: Nidalee, Riven, Irelia, Nautilus, Kennen, Udyr, Yorick, Malphite, Jax, Lee Sin, Kayle, Olaf, Rumble

Some picks that can be picked early on, but should not be first picks. They are typically centeralized around 1 point of time in the game.

Tier 2: Shen, Jayce^, Lulu*, Poppy, Drave…
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August 22, 2012

Top Facts V2 -3- Rengar

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Making this to add to my complete top lane guide.

Champion Overview:

Rengar is a Semi Tanky Assassin champion. Rengar has a very strong burst when setup well, he has good damage and if allowed to reach the enemy carry he can burst them down instantly. Rengar snowballs very well and he is one of the few top laners that can go reliably gank mid lane with his ultimate. Rengar has no mana cost and instead uses a ferocity system (Essentially Rage). Rengar's kit is very versatile and he can max different skills to fit his enemies and situations. Rengar has a very strong low level burst and it is not uncommon for him to easily pick up first blood.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - While in brush or stealth Rengar will leap at the target when using his basic attack. Also Rengar builds 1 point of Ferocity with each ability he uses on enemies. When reaching 5 points of Ferocity, Rengar's next ability becomes …
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August 10, 2012

Top Lane First Look: Rengar

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Champion Overview:

Rengar is a tanky DPS champion. He is alot like Renekton in the fact you build up a rage bar to unleash a Wombo Combo on your enemies. His gameplay is fun and unique and actually gives the feel of being on the hunt. His item is INSANELY good, for 1k gold it gives you stacking abilities AS WELL AS a good amount of AD. He is very versatile boasting damage with his Q, sustain with his W, the ability to receive ganks with his E AND The ability to escape almost any gank with his ultimate's stealth. He has a decently high skill ceiling and I can expect players who put the effort into learning him to do EXTREMELY well.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - While in brush or stealth Rengar will leap at the target (600 radius default, 750 radius with his item stacked) when using his basic attack. Also Rengar builds 1 point of Ferocity with each ability he uses on enemies. When reaching 5 points of Ferocity, Rengar's next ability becomes empowered, granting it …
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August 11, 2012

Top Lane Re-looked: Garen

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Changes

Courage now passively increases Armor and Magic Resist by 20% instead of increasing it by 0.5 every time he kills an enemy unit.

This is actually more of a nerf then a buff. You wont be able to reach the old amount of Armor and MR you would get from farming until you get 120 armor and mr. It does help tank garen later in the game though.

Courage defensive shield now lasts 2/3/4/5/6 seconds instead of 3 seconds. Now reduces incoming damage by 30% at all ranks instead of 20/24/28/32/36%. Now also grants 30% Crowd Control Reduction. Cooldown changed to 24 seconds instead of 30/27/24/21/18 Seconds.

I like this skills active alot more now. You can get 2x the time of the old skill end game once this is max rank. It also now gives some tenacity. When combined with the passive bonus late game you get very durable with just a few defensive items.

Decisive Strike now also breaks all slows affecting Garen. 35% Speed bonus now lasts 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 seconds instead of 3 seconds…
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August 16, 2012

Top Facts V2 -2- Katarina

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Top | Facts | V2 | Katarina | if | you | run | you | wont | see | me | stab | you

GOT RIOT SQUAD NASUS AND GRAVES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Been wanting that Nasus skin for so long =3

Coding will work as soon as it is added tho the moba database.

This is an article which will be put in my top lane guide which can be found here.

Champion Overview:

Katarina is a mobile assassin champion. Katarina is not limited by a resource and can bring a big chunk of damage to the table. The trade off she brings with this damage is a lack of CC. Katarina is very safe in lane and in the hands of a skilled player can bring alot of diverse combos to the table.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - Scoring a kill or assist will refresh the cooldowns of Katarina's basic abilities and reduce the cooldown of her ultimate by 10 seconds.
This passive is very nice, as it allows katarina to stay very mobile and keep a damage threat in teamfights if she is not focused.

Q - Katarina throws a dagger that bounces quickly from enemy to enemy, dealing 50 / 85 / 120 / 155 /…
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September 22, 2012

Top Lane First Look: Kha'Zix

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Champion Overview:

Kha'zix (who from this point on will be referred to as Kha) is a high sustained DPS Assassin. Kha is capable of doing decent damage very rapidly with his low cooldown Q making him a good duelist. He also have the option of poking enemies from a range with his skillshot W and being very mobile with his tristana-esq jump. To put the icing on the cake here he can go into a short burst of stealth. Up to 3 times when fully upgraded. While all of these qualities make him a good top laner his best quality is his ability to EVOLVE, at rank 6 Kha gains an evolution point which can be used to enhance his looks and abilities based on the situation. All of these traits come together make him a very adaptable strong top laner.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) Unseen Threat- When Kha'Zix is not visible to the enemy team, he gains Unseen Threat. Unseen Threat causes his next basic attack against an enemy champion or Evolved Void Spike to deal 15 / 20 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 /…
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September 29, 2012

Top Facts V2 -4- Kha'Zix

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The coding should work as soon as Kha'zix is added to moba database.
Making this to add to my complete top lane guide.

Champion Overview:

Kha'zix (who from this point on will be referred to as Kha) is a high sustained DPS Assassin. Kha is capable of doing decent damage very rapidly with his low cooldown Q making him a good duelist. He also have the option of poking enemies from a range with his skillshot W and being very mobile with his tristana-esq jump. To put the icing on the cake here he can go into a short burst of stealth. Up to 3 times when fully upgraded. While all of these qualities make him a good top laner his best quality is his ability to EVOLVE, at rank 6 Kha gains an evolution point which can be used to enhance his looks and abilities based on the situation. All of these traits come together make him a very adaptable strong top laner.

Skills Overview:

(Passive) - When Kha'Zix is not visible to the enemy team, he gains Unseen Threat. Unseen Threat…
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October 27, 2012

Top Facts V2 -5- Elise

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The coding should work as soon as Elise is added to moba database.
Making this to add to my complete top lane guide.

something to listen to while you read

Champion Overview:

Elise is a semi tanky AP semi assassin champion. The reason I have the semis in there is due to the fact that she does not excel at either, BUT she does both. Just because I say semi, that does not mean she cannot make them work BUT it takes a decent deal of knowledge of knowing when to be in each mode. The versatility of her kil allows her to excel in the top lane as she has poking abilities as well as the ability to dual enemies 1v1 as well. Her matchups are very good as well in laning phase BUT her lategame does require you to have a team that can engage for you.

Skills Overview:

(passive): When Elise's Human Form spells hit an enemy, she readies a …
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November 04, 2012

Top Facts -52- Twitch

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Making this to add to my complete top lane guide.

I've been play alot of random stuff recently and had some fun playing twitch top, so I figured what the heck I will make a facts for it.

Champion Overview:

Twitch is an AD ranged carry capable of dealing sick AoE damage. Twitch is a good top laner as he is ranged, can use stealth as an escape, and will scale very well. Twitch is not strong against champions who can gap close and burst on low cooldown, he will be at a disadvantage against these types of matchups. Twitch is very good at pushing and roaming however and I find this more than makes up for his weakness.

Skills Overview:

- Twitch's basic attacks infect the target, dealing 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 true damage every second for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times.
This passive is very nice for adding some extra damage to your auto attacks and making your harass as a ranged carry in top lane even better.

- After 1.25 seconds, Twitch becomes invisible for 4 / 5…
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November 12, 2012

Top Lane First Look (Top Facts Preview): Zed

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These are just a few of my thoughts and impressions of Zed as a top Laner after a few games as him on the PBE.

Champion Overview:

Zed is an assassin type champion who utilizes hardcore juking and clones for his damage and survivability. Zed comes to top lane packing the ability to safely harass and clear waves even if the enemy is attempting to zone him. Zed does mostly sustained damage early on (Which I honestly feel is what an energy champion should do) and scales his damage into burst as the game progresses. All in all Zed is a high skill-cap, high risk/reward champion who rewards players who learn to play him very well.

Skills Overview:

Skills from league Wiki's Zed page

Zed's passive is a bonus amount of % magic damage when the target is below 50% hp. This ability is really good for finishing off targets and adding damage to your ultimate. The main time you will notice this skill in top lane will be last hitting as the passive applies to minions making last …
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November 17, 2012

Top Facts V2 -6- Zed

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Making this to add to my complete top lane guide.

Champion Overview:

Zed is an assassin type champion who utilizes hardcore juking and clones for his damage and survivability. Zed comes to top lane packing the ability to safely harass and clear waves even if the enemy is attempting to zone him. Zed does mostly sustained damage early on (Which I honestly feel is what an energy champion should do) and scales his damage into burst as the game progresses. All in all Zed is a high skill-cap, high risk/reward champion who rewards players who learn to play him very well.

Skills Overview:

Skills from league Wiki's Zed page

Zed's passive is a bonus amount of % magic damage when the target is below 50% hp. This ability is really good for finishing off targets and adding damage to your ultimate. The main time you will notice this skill in top lane will be last hitting as the passive applies to minions making last hitting a breeze.

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December 11, 2012

Top Lane First Look: Vi

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These are just a few of my thoughts and impressions of Vi as a top Laner after a few games as her on the PBE.

Champion Overview:

Vi is an AD bruiser/caster style of champion. She is EXTREMELY fun to play and relies on bashing enemies to kingdom come. She is very good at short quick trades before proceeding to burst down an enemy, but she is also a capable fighter in an auto attack fight due to her W steroid and debuff. Vi has no sustain so she does not do well against champions who poke her; however, her passive does give her a shield which can allow her to come out ahead of most enemies on trades. This shield does have the cooldown of a skill (around the same to get both her E stacks), which is why she is good at short quick trades. She has good killing power at 6 essentially having a Malphite and Warwick ult combined. Vi does scale decently well into late game if she is built somewhat tanky for her team and can initiate fights and burst down an enemy carry if she gets ah…
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January 03, 2013

Top Lane Guides Review Shop

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So as part of making mobafire a better place for guides I want to help by helping other top laners with any guides they may have/ want to improve on. My review shop is now open in This thread. If you have any top lane guides you want some feedback/review on come check it out.

January 06, 2013

Season 3 Top Facts Guide Split

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So with my Top Facts guide I've actually started to dislike the lag as I feel it can inhibit people from fully getting the content I want them to receive and they want to learn. So I have decided that I will split my top facts guide into 2. 1 guide will be about mechanics and such while the other guide will be about the champions. A big reason I am doing this is that my champions section needs a major rehaul anyway so I figure it might as well be a new guide. When I do this I will actually spoiler the videos and some of the pictures to reduce the amount of lag. With all of this done the readers can read through both guides simply having to click a link at the bottom if they want to switch. I hope this will help reduce the lag and will allow me to add more content to each individual guide.

March 02, 2013

Want Opinions on Top Facts Rehaul

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So I am splitting my top lane guide into 2 parts seeing as I cant even go to update it any more as it lags the **** out of my computer. The first guide I will be reposting will be my mechanics guide, then I will be reposting a different one with all of the champions for S3.

So I want peoples opinions, what do you think is important that I make mention of when I am trying to teach top lane outside of what I have here.

May 01, 2013

Top Facts: Sejuani

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These Blogs are back. Im going to be reworking my top guide over the summer into 2 seperate guides one for champs and one for mechanics. As such I will be blogging about champs again (pretty much the ones since I stopped blogging/reworks). I figured I would start with Sej since she just got reworked and Ive seen alot of potential with her.

Champion Overview:

Sejuani is an tank/AP bruiser type of champion. She excels at CCing foes as well as initiating fights. She also rides on a boar =3. In the top lane She has the ability to deal a decent amount of trade damage to the enemies. Sejuani will scale as a tank for your team with a good initiate from a long range while still being able to peel for your carry at the same time if needed. Sejuani is strongest against champions who are in close range and use physical attacks due to the nature of her kit.

Skills Overview:

Passive: - Damaging an enemy with an ability or basic attack grants Sejuani 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 bonus armo…
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May 02, 2013

Top facts: Trundle

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Champion Overview:

Trundle is a tanky Dps champion who provides amazing zone control and has a various assortment of ways to buff himself and debuff the enemy. Trundle has a very strong disengage and works VERY WELL in poke comps. In lane trundle is strong against most champions who have to come within auto range.

Skills Overview:

(passive)- Whenever an enemy unit near Trundle dies, he heals for 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 % of their maximum health.

This passive acts as a free source of sustain at all times while you are in lane by creeps dieing.

- Trundle enhances his next basic attack, dealing 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+ 100 / 105 / 110 / 115 / 120 % of total AD) physical damage and slowing its target by 75% for 0.1 seconds. This attack increases Trundle's attack damage by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 for 8 seconds, with his opponent losing half of this amount for the same duration.

This skill is an AMAZING onhit. This skill will debuff the enemies AD as well as lend …
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May 03, 2013

Top Facts: Lissandra

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I may be doing a new blog series on random things in league like teamfight mechanics and such if anyone is interested.

Champion Overview:

LIssandra is a CC caster type of champion. She offers a good amount of poke in the top lane and can respond to ganks very well. Lissandra's passive allows her to cast a no cost spell every 15 seconds which allows her to keep a consistant harass on the enemy. Lissandra benefits a lot from stats such as CDR or health. This is due to the fact her scalings are nothing really good and you want to be able to survive and spam your CC in a teamfight.

Skills Overview:

(Passive)- Every 18 seconds, Lissandra's next ability costs no mana. Cooldown reduction does not affect Iceborn, but the cooldown is reduced by 1 second whenever Lissandra impairs an enemy's movement with an ability (does not apply to movement-impairing effects from items).

Lissandra's passive is a free spell cast every 15 or so seconds. This cooldown is reduced by a second whe…
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May 13, 2013

Top Facts: Quinn

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Champion Overview:

Quinn is an early game ranged carry champion. Quinn is a decently strong pick in the top lane due to her early damage, and range abilities as a top laner, as well as her mobility at level 6. Quinn as a top laner can be used if your team has a good frontline. Quinn has a strong ability to zone out most top laners early and try and snowball off the lane. Quinn also has an AMAZING kit when it comes to denying an enemy champion CS. With the combined use of denial and early strength Quinn can help put her team in the position to win the game.

Skills Overview:

(Passive)-Valor marks a nearby enemy with Vulnerability for 4.5 seconds. If Quinn attacks a vulnerable enemy, she deals 15 + (10 * level) + (50% bonus AD) bonus physical damage. This cannot occur again for 10 seconds, or 3 seconds if Quinn triggers the vulnerability. Valor will first prioritize Quinn's most recent attack target. If Quinn has not attacked anyone recently, Valor will target nearby low …
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May 22, 2013

Top Lane First Look: Aatrox

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Champion:

Aatrox is a close range melee carry that has a playstyle comparable to Jax or Xin Zhao. Aatrox has good AD scalings with a massive amount of sustain. Aatrox can play as an assassin or as a sustained bruiser. In lane Aatrox has a weak waveclear but a strong sustain. His Q is both his engage and disengage so that should be baited out when looking to gank him. He relies on AS for alot of his effects therefore a frozen heart or randuins is a good counterbuild item for him.

Skills:

(Passive)Blood Well- Aatrox's abilities cost health to cast. When using an ability, Aatrox stores 70% of the health cost into a blood well. Upon taking fatal damage, Aatrox becomes invulnerable for 1.5 seconds as he recovers all the health in his blood well.
Aatrox's Blood Well has a base amount equal to 35% of the maximum. When out of combat, the well will deplete at a rate of 3% per second down to the base amount.
While Blood Well is on cooldown, Aatrox will not accumulate blood.

This passiv…
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