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How the top lane is playing these days

Creator: ExamplePrime January 22, 2012 4:58pm
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Personally I take or ban GP so that wouldn't happen to me :P

If that did happen, I'd have probably taken something like Kennen or Udyr and either one would probably be okay against a WW tbh.
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ohh.. duff playing kennen, i'm listening.. :D

U ban/pick GP? Pretty darn sure he isn't that strong but what do i know :p
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He can jungle or top.

He almost can't be countered and doesn't lose most lanes.

He counters like 3/4 of the solo top champions.

He's hard to gank.

He's great at participating in ganks (Speed boost/slow from passive)

He is strong in lane, he is strong late game.

Should I go on?
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DuffTime wrote:

Personally I take or ban GP so that wouldn't happen to me :P

If that did happen, I'd have probably taken something like Kennen or Udyr and either one would probably be okay against a WW tbh.

...Gangplank was a bad example. But ye, you get what I mean anyway.

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He can jungle or top.

He almost can't be countered and doesn't lose most lanes.

He counters like 3/4 of the solo top champions.

He's hard to gank.

He's great at participating in ganks (Speed boost/slow from passive)

He is strong in lane, he is strong late game.

Should I go on?

You should add that critplank's Q hits you for more than 1k damage each time late-game.
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Eh, I think he's very strong but not really ban-worthy strong.
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DuffTime wrote:

He can jungle or top.

He almost can't be countered and doesn't lose most lanes.

He counters like 3/4 of the solo top champions.

He's hard to gank.

He's great at participating in ganks (Speed boost/slow from passive)

He is strong in lane, he is strong late game.

Should I go on?

How does GP do this... if Maokai does it better?
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Lugignaf wrote:


How does GP do this... if Maokai does it better?

But does Maokai have a 1k damage nuke on a 3 second cooldown?
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But does Maokai have a 1k damage nuke on a 3 second cooldown?

Countered by armor, which Maokai builds in Frozen heart/Glacial shroud and draws aggro. Not 100% the best skill.
Also, Mao gets free wards that can kill!
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Countered by armor, which Maokai builds in Frozen heart/Glacial shroud and draws aggro. Not 100% the best skill.
Also, Mao gets free wards that can kill!

GP has a free quicksilver sash/cleanse...

GP gets assists/kills from the other side of the map...

GP pushes lanes from his summoner platform...

And Maokai can also be countered with MR. :S
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GP is first pick or ban worthy because his hardest counter is a **** champion, and nothing else really shuts him down.

That's why Dyrus plays him in every tournament match, he just won't tell people why.

Also he shuts down most solo lane champs. I can't stress how strong it is that almost nothing counters him and he beats almost everything.

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