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Items
Ability Order
Perseverance (PASSIVE)
Garen Passive Ability

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- Doesn't Use Mana, this is a HUGE advantage in the laning phase; as you can spam abilities as soon as they are ready
Perseverance offers infinite lane sustain, as well as not having to worry nearly as much about taking damage, as you can simply fall back and regenerate all lost health
- Great escapes, even if heavily slowed
- One of the easiest champions in the game to use, and not very hard to master either
- Consistently strong throughout the whole game if built correctly
- Ultimate has a long cooldown
- Susceptible to stuns and traps, as all his escapes rely on using abilities or summoner spells
- Will get no respect from raging enemies you have killed, as
Garen is quite easy to use, and they will often bring that up when your destroying them
Runes




Standard AD Champion runes, gives



Your three most important items. After the new Season 3 changes,







My favourite boots on








Although it isn't one of your three Core Items, I would still consider it something of a must buy on




An excellent final item to complete your build with is






















With the exciting new Twisted Treeling map re-haul. I thought it appropriate to add a 3v3 specific build into this guide. I strongly disliked the old 3v3 mode and map, and almost never played it. But the new map caught my interest, and I tried it, deciding I quite liked it. I'm still definitaly a 5v5 person, but I now have a second mode I can occasionally play, which is always good. However, there are a few things you need to change in your item build; your runes, masteries, and skill sequence stays the same, but the items need a bit of an adjustment:
1. You now have enough starting gold to buy boots AND a

2. With Season 3, it is again a good idea to include



3. Same boots,





This one of THE BEST passives in the game in my opinion, this and the fact that you don't use mana of any sort means you have literally infinite lane sustain, which is really helpful for a solo top champion. This passive completely counters champions made to poke and harass, as when you take damage, you simply fall back and quickly regenerate all lost health.

This ability is really strong as it gives you some nice damage, a silence, and is your main escape tool. I have survived countless near-death experiences with ridiculously low amounts of health by using this to remove slows, paired with your






This is your only defensive ability, and it is quite good. This ability can help you walk into a group of enemies without dying; its also great for escaping with very low health and is just generally useful for all things defensive.

This is your main ability, and it is one of the most fun abilities in the game to use. With a high Attack Damge build, the damage will become extremely large at full rank, a ways into your build, it should deal well over 1000 damage in total. This ability is great for whittling down enemies for a huge portion of their health, and then finishing them with



This is a great ultimate. It is an extremely useful way to take out enemy tanks, as it does more damage depending on how much health the target is missing. Therefore it is incredibly lethal to a champion like




You will find that this is the almost unanimous sequence for all


I take these two spells on pretty much every champion that I play. In my opinion they are the two best spells in the game by far. HOWEVER, with












Pre level six she has absolutely no chance, as



trouble.
Rarely seen as a solo top, but still comes up from time to time;


Another champion who is not often seen solo top, but occasionally will. If you are up against a




This guy can potentially be a tough challenge, but the majority of the time he will just be moderately difficult. The main thing to remember is to always dodge his



I'm going to start by outright saying that this laning phase could suck, however you do still have a chance to win. He is quite similar to you in a lot of ways. You both are melee AD champions who rely on ability combos for damage. At level 1, it starts out quite heavily in his favour, his








Two very strong passives, yours offers great lane sustain and therefore a prominent advantage over your opponent; on the other hand,















Two ultimates that a lot of people would consider OP. However, this is a rather easy decision; although

Both




The final category, and the only one where








Will be seen in the jungle more than solo top, but a solo top





If left unchecked, he can become a problem, however if you play relatively smart he won't give you much trouble at all. 100% of his ability to harass you comes from his









I don't know about you guys, but for me, playing against yourself is the WORST thing in League of Legends, one of the things I love about ranked is that there can only be one of each champion. But anyways, if your against another



Truth be told, I don't have a ton of experience in solo top versus



This is quite an easy lane for






Not an overly difficult opponent, capable of some nice damage; but he is very mana hungry early game and you should be able to significantly out-farm him if he has to keep going back to base for mana. Play aggresively so he can't farm, and also try to make him use abilities to escape or defend himself, as this will cause him to run out of mana faster and have to retreat to base.
I really hate this guy. He is hands down one of the toughest opponents in the game, whether he is against you solo top or roaming the jungle, he is a thorn in the opposing teams side, a large thorn. He is capable of dishing out some pretty good punishment, can absorb a ridiculous amount of damage without dying, and he renders all forms of stealth utterly uselss with his




In this category, it is relatively close; however, the massive sustain



Both champions have a nice set of abilities that offer advantages in both defense and offense, but in the end; its that devastating



Two strong ultimates from two strong champions.





The ability to farm is quite important, especially to a solo lane champion. In this category, it is for the most part


The final category, and it is probably the biggest toss up between



















A fellow veteran of the Fields of Justice, and a very tough one at that.








Two really good passives. But I have to say, as a fairly good









Again, two incredibly strong ability combos from both champions.






In this category,







This is a very important category for a solo top laner, as it is a lane that will be almost completely determined by who has more last hits, especially in more competitive games.















Despite being extremely underplayed, and although he has been HARD nerfed in the past couple years,





I rated this match-up a 6.5 because although it could be quite hard, it could also be very easy.






This could be a tough lane.


Not too hard, but not too easy either. Only attack when he is low on his heat from his


He can fling you backwards, which is annoying; but other than that










Normally one of the most infuriating champions to lane against; he's fast, has a blinding ability, and


He can be a pain, and his















A potentially VERY difficult opponent in solo top,






Certainly one of the more annoying champions to face in lane. When it comes down to it, your better than he is, however this doesn't stop him from being annoying as hell with the near-infinite harass his ghouls grant him.

In short,


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