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Top Lane: Way of the physical off-tank
Top Lane: Way of the physical off-tank
Build Guide By madalin120988
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Choose Champion Build:
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Trinity Force build
![LoL Champion: Xin Zhao]()
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Attack speed build #1
![LoL Champion: Irelia]()
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Black Cleaver build
![LoL Champion: Wukong]()
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Frozen Mallet build
![LoL Champion: Jarvan IV]()
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Sunfire build
![LoL Champion: Renekton]()
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Attack speed build #2
![LoL Champion: Shyvana]()
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Mana build
![LoL Champion: Yorick]()
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Extra tanky build
![LoL Champion: Nasus]()
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Crtical strike build
![LoL Champion: Garen]()
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Health build
![LoL Champion: Riven]()
Recommended Items
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Determination (PASSIVE)
Xin Zhao Passive Ability
Introduction
Warwick and Gangplank). That doesn't mean that those champions play the same as these, but don't worry, I will cover each and every one of them when we get to the strategy chapter. You can understand how this will be a very complex and long guide, so please bare with me. One interesting thing is that there are champions which can use, not just one, but two or more of the builds that I present in the cheat-sheet. This guide will also cover the situations in which each should be used, as well as variants of the builds suited to unusual enemy team composition. This guide will not cover AD melee champions that usually go all offense and neglect defense completely: assassins like Zed, Talon and Kha'Zix or the glass-cannon melee carries: Tryndamere, Fiora and Master Yi.Some say that some of these champions(
Jarvan IV or Renekton, for example) should be built full tanks, but I call bull***t on that since they don't have the specific drawing of focus to them like real tanks, neither do they do good damage when built all defense or have a whole lot of magic damage like most tanks do. Ok, here we go.
Runes
The variation used on
Riven and Garen is the there because, unlike most other champions in solo-top, they live and breath by their spells, so their need for CDR is a rather dire one. The seals have been replaced with Greater Seal of Scaling Health, because since they no longer get magic resistance, they need a global form of protection, seeing how armor just protects against physical damage. These are the best possible choice.
Masteries
Summoner Spells
I used to use
Heal instead of this one, but then I realized that I don't need it since most of the champions I played in solo-top have great sustain, either from life-steal natural( Nasus and Lee Sin) of gained through items, on-hit health restoration( Irelia and Xin Zhao) good health regen( Riven) or some special abilities that restore health like Renekton's Cull the Meek or Garen's passive, Perseverance. So I switched to Ignite because it's much more useful for winning duels or finishing off fleeing opponents with less heath than it's "legal" to escape with.
Absolutely, positively, without a doubt the best summoner spell possible. I take it on EVERY champion I play, no matter what type, role or position. In my opinion, you simply cannot play LoL without it. Its uses are varied and complex and basically everybody uses it, so you'll need it just to keep up with them. Even champions that already have a terrain targeted blink ability built-in, like
Kha'Zix, Ezreal, Corki, LeBlanc, Aatrox, Zac should still use it, because it doesn't hurt to have another one. Even on Nasus, I would never recommend trading in this spell for Ghost. Teleport is a good alternative in summoner spells, but ONLY for replacing Ignite(never Flash). I suppose you could also replace it with Clarity if you have a very mana-hungry champion like Jayce or Irelia and are in no mood to buy mana potions, but I've never actually seen anyone do this. In any case, Ignite and Flash remain the best possible choices for solo-top.
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Top Lane: Way of the physical off-tank
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