Hai hai. I'm Alyssa, a Gold 3 Belveth top onetrick. I love void mommy but I hate jungling, so when I locked in my autofilled mordekaiser jungle and got stomped by an enemy belveth who forgot to take smite, I realized the power of lane belveth and was instantly converted to the faith.

My OP.GG: AlyssaTennya (NA)

FIRST things first! I put a lot of the info into the hoverable "notes" next to items and runes so if you didn't hover over them make sure you go back up and do. Otherwise you're inting ff15 gg report top.

Level one I quickly buy my items and run top to the middle bush, using my dashes right outside of base. I then sit in the bush and don't leash my jungler unless it's a matchup I lose level 1 (like lethal tempo warwick or something). I wait until the minions are about to die then I go out of the bush and dash a bunch and retreat with my last dash. Depending on how close the enemy goes to you before you dash out of the bush, you may or may not hit them with the first dash. Sometimes you get a good trade, sometimes a bad one, depending on how it goes and the champ they're playing. Try not to lose more health than they do, and also try to not go below half unless you're considerably winning the trade.

Unlike what a bunch of people say, you are actually not weak early. I try to get level 2 first so I can level W or E (depending on their champ, they have different kill potential, you'll figure out which one you want as you play) and kill them or make them have to recall. I'm not afraid to wait for my E cooldown twice, or get level 3, and then dive them at level 3. At level 3, if I think my enemy laner is wasting my time, and I can't kill them, I might roam and try to kill the enemy jungler. Unless it's rammus. Or something icky like warwick or something. Don't waste too much time, if this fails and you're playing against something like kayle you'll have to work overtime to not solo lose the game. And if you misjudge and die you're actually trolling. But bel top isn't that bad from behind because it's super hard to dive you if you know what you're doing.

And this is where I suggest playing a couple games of jungle belveth before you try this pick out in the first place, honestly. It's best to know which camps are easy to clear and how, what junglers you can duel, what walls you go over and stuff. You'll find it out sure in toplane but it'll be so much faster in jungle to get used to how she fights. If you already play belveth ignore this and slap me.

So, what do you do with Rift as a toplaner? I'm sure everyone here has had the pleasure of playing against that belveth who runs the rift or baron down a lane and ends the game solo while being 15 kills on the board. And if you've been that belveth, congrats, it's a wonderful feeling for everyone who is not on the doomed team.

Usually I will crossmap the rift herald if I am stronger than the enemy toplaner. If I am not, then I will wait for my jungle to do it with me. If I've gotten the top tower down to three plates I will ping it - I want that tower to fall. If my jungle gives me the first herald and the enemy toplaner tower has all 5 plates, I might recall with it and lane gank botlane.

The second herald I will actually ask my jungler to leave me. Sometimes I even do this for the first herald, but the second I definitely ask for in text. Some people are nice, some people are not, don't let it tilt you if they don't want to give it to you. You can try to take it (usually I try) but often the jungle gets it. Don't tilt your jungle more than necessary, they will play worse and you will get punished harder for splitpushing because you aren't coordinated.

Also, there's a lot I haven't figured out with how to best use the first rift herald and the passive with laners who can defeat the voidlings. For example, champs like nasus can put a few points into E and kill all my voidlings with a single E. So staying in lane is actually bad, unless I can kill him - and it's not the easiest thing to dive a nasus these days.

When you get baron, always splitpush the opposite lane as your team. You can go crazy with this if you're fed. Don't be afraid to die a dumb death, because you will probably take two people with you and waste the entire enemy team's time. Of course, escaping is always preferred... so it comes with time. With the ability to go over and under walls with ult form, and especially things like hullbreaker if you choose to build that... getting the baron often means flat out winning the game.

Too many times I've just died immediately after baron because my team baited me or I got overconfident. Don't do this, it's really powerful. If you chose a squishier build then definitely be more careful with solo invading after baron. It can be an easy way to get kills and instantly end the game, but if they're expecting it or were already rotating to the baron and you facecheck a bush with 5 people in it, it's a total throw. Because your teammates will not use baron nearly 1/3 as effective as you would have if you didn't int. So yeah. I have inted that way a lot, don't do it. Haha.

Belveth can also actually be played botlane with yuumi and it's stupid OP. You just trade with them then back off and heal and once you get one kill it's just over for them if they walk past the halfway point in the lane. And if they have bad CC you just dive them on repeat. Or take their jungle as the ADC. Unfortunately if yuumi gets banned or picked away and you just queued in for bel adc she isn't the most fun to learn with other supports because you will mostly just die a lot as they can't follow up with you. I think she's playable but I'm too invested in top to test that theory in ranked. Senna and pyke have been okay so far, I thought nami would be okay but eeeeeh, it's whatever.