Hello everyone my name is Berzerk. I am a lvl 30 League of Legends player on the NA server. I play a lot Ranked 5s, I soloQ mostly just to stop elo decay. The purpose of the guide I am writing today, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO TOP LANE IN LEAGUE OF LEGENDS!
So now you may ask what was the PURPOSE OF WRITING A 100 and something PAGE GUIDE? GOOD QUESTION IT'S STORY TIME! So like everyone I once was a noob. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW LEAGUE OF LEGENDS WAS FREE WHEN I STARTED! One day I was walking around gamestop with sone money to burn and something to play for the week. I saw a case for a game called League of Legends, I had seen the adds and the way the box describe the game made it seem fun enough. So I went home installed (it asked me to make my account, which is about when I started realizing it was a free game xD). I went on and skipped the basic controls tutorial (those are always boring) and jumped straight into the gameplay tutorial. I want around as Garen screaming Demacia having no clue what it meant. So I went into a real game after and picked Olaf (free week when I started). This was before coop vs Ai or Draft pick normals. I thought I was a genious and would go do the "wolf" quest for some gold (which doesn't actually exist). During the whole game my team was yelling at a guy named "Olaf" I had no clue who they were talking about. We ended up winning the game (no thanks to me xD) and I decided I liked the champ. I played Kayle once because I had her silver skin and it looked boss for a recolor, I just hated being magical (I liked whacking stuff with weapons at the time). Skip 2 weeks I buy this newer champ called Irelia and LOVED HER KIT. From there I mained her to 25 where I found Akali, and when I went to find guides on her I found Westrice. From there I started watching his stream until the big day came of season 1 championships. In that tourny I saw Irelia and Akali getting played in 1 lane, Top. I started practicing and practicing to learn that lane as that is where my favorite champs all went. Skip about a year I'm random locking every game (because I found top very versatile) and just playing whoever I got up there. It was around that time I realized no one had any guides on a lot of these champions. I started concepting the idea of mini guides and I wrote a few of them down in my notebook (which was empty because I never actually take notes). One day I got that mobafire blog email and I had the idea of posting some of my "Facts" in a blog. From there I started posting everyday (for the most part) and while doing that became a member of the mobafire community. From there it was just a hop skip and a jump to the guide you are now currently reading now. My goal for this guide is that it be one complete resource to top lane for everyone's viewing pleasure. I will be constantly updating and striving to improve this guide. Whenever a patch comes I will come and change anything in my facts that it effected (changes to top laners/ if the new champion IS a top laner he or she will be added). So saying that I hope you enjoy the guide :P

Wanna help?

I may play all top lane, but I still am 1 person. I can Guarantee that I do not know each champion individually to the skill levels of some of the people who wrote guides for/ main the champions. If anyone sees anything in a champion section that you think is non factual or could be done better ask about it in the comments below, I happy receive all feedback and am willing to discuss anything you think could be done better. I am also willing to answer why I have some things as they are if you just ask. :P

Notice: Though this is the "Complete" guide to top lane there are still a few things I want to add to make it better that will be put in over time. There will eventually be a video for every champion when I get around to playing as them in a comp that works or a game that demonstrates their mechanics well. Also some of the early facts I typed use less coding/missing a section I will fix that ASAP. Thank you and I hope you enjoy the guide.


8/8/2012 - Added Diana
8/24/2012- Added Katarina and Rengar
10/31/2012- Added Everyone since Rengar

Why is that one guy by himself and why is it always top lane?

Have you ever seen that one guy going up to the top lane by himself and wondered why is he going up there? Well he is going up there because he is your teams solo top player. Your team has a solo top player because the other player who WOULD be going top lane decided to be your teams jungler. Having a jungler gives your team buff control, aid all over the map, and end game the security of barons/dragons with smite. For these reasons it is well worth it to have one player go in the jungle and one player go to the top lane. 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.

Top Lane Champion Types

So you typically see casters go mid, ranged carry and supports go bot, and champions that can survive and clear in the jungle go there, do you wonder what kind of champions should go top? Well 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 counterpicked, losing your lane and being ineffective.

Top Lanes Game involvement

Top does not get involved into the game until it is a fairly decent time period into the game. Meaning if your team is doing badly the best way you can help is to carry the game. While other roles like mid and jungler can gank and aid the team, you will (For the most part) be farming to fill in the role your team needs for late game. Somethimes though such as when you are behind in lane or if you are an early game champion you SHOULD be going out to help your team relativly early.

Top Lane Carry Ability

I would say top lane (If your very good at it) only has a 60%-70% chance to let you carry enough to win the game. This is not as high as AP mid or AD carry, but you will gain Elo over time if you play well.
Lower elos this may not be true as if you win lane hard enough you can carry the game.

Extra Section to just think about, Skip if you are just interested in Top Lane. xD

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 categories I will list below

NOTE: PLAYERS CAN FIT INTO MANY DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, YOU SHOULD LEARN TO ADJUST YOUR PLAY STYLE TO FIT YOUR CHAMPIONS. DO NOT USE CONFLICTING PLAYSTYLE/CHAMPIONS OR YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED.

Farmer:

A player who is a farm focuses their goals on farming over trading or harassing the enemy champion, these players are typically very passive and want to farm up and be able to carry the game later on.

Farmers will typically have a bad early game and will have a strong latye game. EX: Nasus

Zoner:

These players will try and establish who is Boss, they will give up some creeps if need be to make sure the enemy does not get them. They will play very aggressive in lane as if they have a gank coming even if their jungler is nowhere nearby.

This person will typically play someone who has a strong laning phase and can control top early game. EX: Garen

Splitpusher:

These Players will continue to push as the game progresses, even if it means there team is in 4v5. They will get turrets in exchange for their team have a weaker fighting force. Alternatively they can use this to pull an enemy away from a high priortiy target like baron and use it to gain an advantage.

This person will typically be someone who has a lot of attack speed and mobility who can push and escape if needed. Ex Nidalee

Push-Ganker:

This person will push the lane and then go gank another lane for his team to aid them

This person will typically play someone with a very fast clear who can roam and gank after. Ex: Singed

Standard Player:

This person is pretty standard does a little bit of everything, will generally just lane and then go help his team.

This person will typically either be playing a champion for the first time (He would have another kind of attribute he has just not fell into it yet), or be playing a jack-of-all trades champion like Wukong.

Player Behavior:

How you conduct yourself in top lane is very important to the game.
How you want to be:

Be nice to your team, Do not yell at them, call them feeders, or scrubs or anything of that degree. If they start trying to trash talk you ignore/mute them and go on with the game, Do not distract yourself on such menial things. People will listen to someone who is playing well and is not acting like a douche, if you know what you are doing in the game you can make plays to win the game and carry your team. Be humble, there is no use winning if you said mean things to the enemy team and get banned, do not even risk it. If you would not want something said to you in their position do not say it to them, everyone has bad games you have to understand this, Your team will not want to follow someone that is being a **** to the other team. Do not yell at your team for playing a champion or saying things about a champion you have different beliefs in your beliefs are yours and theirs are theirs, everyone has their own opinions that you probably cannot change, You can tell them your beliefs but do not try and force them upon someone else. Do not blame junglers or mid laners or anyone else in the game for your deaths or mistakes. They were yours, YOU made the call to go into those situations and even if you did not you accepted it and went along with it. Treat this as a game and treat others as you want to be treated respect others or you yourself deserve no respect. If you want to win be a GOOD player, and a role model for others. A game won as a douche is a game won for no one, as you gained nothing out of it but possibly making another person feel bad about himself.

So Your going top, where does the other guy that was supposed to be in my lane go?

Well the other person who was supposed to be going top is your teams jungler, a jungler is a player who clears out all of those monsters in the jungle for his xp and gold. Having a jungler allows the player top lane to level faster (As he is not sharing Xp) As well as giving your team Buff control.

Jungler and You

So now that you know what a jungler is, it is time to explain what he DOES. Well while the jungler is supposed to be keeping the jungle clear and the buffs secure he DOES have another job. Ganking. A jungle will go around the map ganking lanes and aiding them in whatever ways they need it, that includes YOU! If you are in a bad matchup or fall behind in some way, the jungler is someone who can help you get back in the game. The jungler can also be used to tip a balanced lane in your favor or keep an advantage you have. The jungler has the power to change the lane, and thus change the game.
Below is a video showing a jungler's power to change the lane.

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This section covers everything that involves working with the jungler. There is a video for every one. =D

Ganking Types:

Note: Mid lane can come up and gank from one of these ways too, it is not just the jungler.

Waterway

A standard gank typically is a flank or simply a jump on the enemy. These ganks will be done from the waterway and are the simplest and most common ganks. This gank happens if the lane is in middle or the laner is overextended.

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Ambush/From Behind Gank

An ambush gank or a come from behind gank is what you do when your minions are at the enemy tower, and you and your jungler know you can burst him down very fast and get out alive.

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Through the Brush Gank

This kind of gank happens when your lane is pushed and your jungler wants to come gank for you. The jungler comes from your turret and runs up into the brush avoiding creep line of sight (The second bush if possible). When the lane begins to push back or you feel like you have a good positioning jump on the enemy.

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Other jungler activities

Counterganks

This is when both junglers come to gank Top at the same time and turn the fight into a 2v2.

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Leashing

When you are top lane in certain cases, you will need to help your jungler at his starting camps.

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This is a basic video guide of warding

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Warding is an important part in all of league of legends, But it is a VERY important part of top lane. In top lane, one death can mean game over. If you are unprepared and get ganked, the enemy team can snowball off your lane and you end up hurting your teams chances of winning.

Here is a map of the top region. We will be talking about where you should ward, at what time, and for what purpose.

Colored in blue for blue team and purple for purple team.

Sight Wards

Ward 1

Gives you sight of invasions on your blue from that ramp. Lets you see an enemy coming to gank you from the waterway. Importance on this team 2/5.

Gives you sight into the enemy jungle and forces them to come gank by sneaking through the tri brush. Importance to this team 4/5.

Ward 2

Gives you sight into the enemy jungle, makes it so the only way to gank you is to sneak around through the waterway and wall hug into the brush or gank through lane. Importance to this team 4/5.

Gives you sight into your own jungle, preventing the enemy from sneaking around and ganking you from behind, it also does a decent job at defending ganks from the waterway. Importance to this team 5/5.

Ward 3

Good to look in and see when the enemy jungler is getting red buff or getting golems, allows you to keep track of his position. Becomes much more important when you take down the enemy top laners turret and are pushed up. Importance to this team 4/5.

This ward is useful to watch for ganks from enemies coming through your jungle and to watch your red buff. Importance of this ward 3/5.

Ward 4

This ward warns you of all approaching ganks that are not through lane. Importance of this ward 5/5.

This ward will warn you about all approaching ganks except ones throught the tribrush and ones through the lane. Importance of this ward 4/5.

Ward 5

This ward allows you to watch your blue buff and lets you make sure the enemy mid laner is not coming to gank you. Importance of this ward 3/5.

This ward allows ypu to see if the enemy team is doing their blue or if (once you have the turret down)the enemies are coming to gank you. Importance of this ward 5/5.

Counterwards

Counterward 1

This ward allows you jungler to come and gank from the waterway. (Useful to both teams but more useful to purple.)

Counterward 2

This ward is to stop tri brush vision and allow ganks through the tri brush (Mostly useful for blue team).

In top lane your summoner spells are an important choice to affect your gameplay, below are my thoughts on when and why you would certain take 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: Nidalee

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

Revive- Shen and Pantheon only.

Smite- This spell can be brought SPECIAL CASE to top lane, though it is still not recommended. The champions you can do this on are Olaf, Lee Sin, and Udyr. All of them has a move that grants them sustain, while this sustain buff is on you can smite and HEAL off the smite. Running smite on these champions allows it to be used as a source of sustain as well as giving you 10 extra gold a minute and allowing you easier barons/dragons.

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)

Clarity-not that useful of a spell. (NOT RECOMMENDED)

Ignite- Allows you to burst enemys down without them expecting it, also lets you pick up the kill after they flash xD.

Clairvoyance- Not really needed on you.

Surge- Jax, Kayle, and Fizz and still then even not that great

Flash- Good for champions that need placement INSTANTLY, stronger spell on burst champions who ,with that distance, can kill you.

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 this section

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 Trinity Force and do tons of damage, or Your Allies on the fields of justice. Whatever this answer may be if you want to know how to be a good top lane player you first need to learn how to be good at controlling the flow of minions. Ill list the principles important to lane management below:

Wave Mechanics How to Move the Minion Battlefront:

Auto attack pushing the lane:

This will move the lane to the enemy turret, it is more commonly seen at lower levels of play as you will miss out on minion gold, it will allow the enemy to easily freeze the lane, and it opens yourself up for ganks.

Note:

There are a few occasions on which it is acceptable to simply attack the minions, examples being: Your lane ganked mid or is at dragon. Push the minions to the tower and penalize DO NOT let the enemy go down and get free kills for nothing. If you do not get anything done on your end when this happens everything that happens was your fault not your teams. Another time it is acceptable to push the lane is after the death of the enemy top laner. When they fall you want to send as many of your minions to suicide on their tower as possible to deny them xp and gold. You can bait your lane opponent to pushing the lane by starting recalling making your enemy think he can push the lane and make you miss xp, but then you stop your recall and farm freely.

Last Hitting:

This has a minimal effect on the movement of the lane and will move it slowly if at all. And the way it will typically move is towards the player missing the CS very slightly.( The one extra auto a minion would get to do).

Note: Someone who is good at last hitting will know how to "milk" the enemy minions, that is save last hitting them until the last second actually needed (IE:J4 vs GP top GPs parrley can kill minions at 1/4 hp If he does this the enemy minions will not get in 2 auto attacks they could have gotten and will make it push towards Jarvan's turret slightly as there is less damage on GPs minions so they can live and push longer.)Knowing how to do this can be the difference between you trying to last hit on enemy tower an dieing and the enemy getting ganked trying to farm on your tower.

Farming In-Between enemy Towers:

The daring and effective way to CS and keep your lane pushed. Farm this way if youre someone who is tanky enough to kill the minions(and survive your opponent if he gives up on CS to try and come kill you), Also note while you are here you are VERY susceptible to ganks. You should do this method in lane if you kill your opponent and you are still 60% or more hp and can survive a gank if it happens or if you want to dive him and are waiting for CDs.

Visual example:

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This is a basic video to show that when you kill your lane opponent how you should handle farming the lane if your safe from the jungler.

Harassing your enemy with autos.

A very easy way to get the lane pushed from an unsuspecting opponent. Get in range for cs let them auto you but do not fight back, your minions trade back for you and on top of it while they are hitting the enemy they are being killed causing the minion front line to move closer to your tower.

NOTE: If a jungler comes and ganks with autos it will push your lane.

Unintentionally pushing the lane:

When playing someone such as Kayle or Mordekaiser remember your skills are AoE and will push the minions if you farm even if you do not directly attack them (Ie: Kayle harasses an enemy with righteous fury, it hits minions to an will push the lane as a result.)

Video Example:

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In this video I harass the teemo and unintentionally push the lane and get ganked and am forced to flash to live.

Forcing the enemies minions to push:

If you push the enemy minions to the tower, to the point where it is shooting the caster minions (you can recall at this time) caster minions will usually horde up for the enemy at his tower and begin pushing the lane back to your side.

Freezing The Lane-What is it when do you do it etc.

Process:

Csing the lane is the process of tanking the enemy minions so they do not have access to your greedy tower which wants to simply kill those minions take the gold and send it to Phreak's factory of triforces (Where he is secretly amassing them to take over Valoran). Notes to remember about this are: Do not try and freeze if the enemy is very strong and can poke hard, when you are trying to tank the minions he will wreck you. Champions that are strong lane freezers are ones who have a good poke or strong sustain (Both is even better, Yorick king of lane freeze) and is able to survive minions. You do not however want to tank the minions with a champion such as Teemo who will get wrecked by them.

Note:The easy way to get the lane into a freezable position is to push your minions to the enemy tower this will usually clump us 2 waves of casters plus a wave of melees which will push to your side.

Pros/Cons:

Pros:

-Unless the enemy is able to farm minions far away safely they will get gimped when you freeze the lane.
-If you are stronger then the enemy you can freeze the minions at your tower and completely zone them away from cs and xp.
-You are safe from ganks (unless they dive) and the enemy is in a bad position if they stay.)
-This will skyrocket your CS score above your enemies if done correctly however there are cons to this as well

Cons:

-Enemy gets to roam meaning they can go aid in dragons, kills, and do other things with their team putting your team as a whole behind.(always warn your team you are going to freeze)
-Enemies can dive you since minions are at your tower if you get low enough.
-Enemies with range can still farm and they have free reign to go B and heal whenever they want.

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Visual process of "How you Freeze a lane"

This is a video to show how to freeze the lane. I know my CSing here is bad, I know I had no opponent in lane(I was udyr though which can shield their harass and if they would come near me,God help them, they would get wrecked by my superior trade and as long as I could tank their damage the lane would not have moved, actually it wouldve stayed even more frozen if their was another person as if he would try and poke me to stop it it would result in my minions getting pushed XD) . The purpose of this video is to show you the basic steps of HOW to freeze a lane and hold it at your tower. Note I hold the lane at my tower for 5 minutes before I decide to push it off.

Tower Control:

Towers are key figures in top lane your tower is one of your greatest allies in lane while your enemies tower may very well be your greatest enemy. But when in top lane do you want to take your tower? I have had allies take tower at 8 mins into the game and lost the game because of this. When you blow up your enemies tower they have free reign to freeze the lane. If you are in the lead in a lane you typically will want to keep the enemy tower alive as long as possible (the enemy will feel responsible and stay in the lane to protect it even if you are much stronger and can easily dive him) and zone your enemies away from minions keeping them behind in the game. If the enemy goes to other lanes you should simply push down the tower and kill it, or if you feel you are stronger then the enemy and anything he and his team can through at you if you continue to try and farm and get xp go ahead and do so. If you kill the enemy on his tower typically you can follow it up with a farming session in between the enemy towers allowing your minions to chip away at theirs and making sure you get every CS as well.

Zoning:

A key part of top lane... of any lane actually is zoning, the act of making your enemy miss out on xp and gold and fall behind. When you get a lead on your opponent, such that you can go and kill him with little to no trouble you should zone him. Stay in between him and your minions not allowing him to get the xp or gold especially the cannon minion,(worth about as much xp as a wave of minions). When your minions reach his tower you can deny him with a dive. By killing him he will not get any xp or gold from the minions as they will simply run out into lane and die to the tower. Putting you even farther ahead.

Visual Aid:

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A video of me zoning a tryndamere to show the basic concept of zoning. Yes I know im the Worst CSer in the world I have not practiced it in a custom game in forever, Yes that helps your CSing. Note when your zoning an opponent have a ward out, I did not and almost perished as result.

Below is a video of me using all the laning concepts to fight a Warwick.

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In this section I will show some of the rune pages I use and some other useful ones that you can use.

Note for rune pages, I run Raw MR runes, these allow me to participate in fights early vs enemy APs and they give me a good advantage against early magic damage users. In any of these rune pages you can shuffle to MR/lvl if you think you can handle going without the early MR, So if you use MR/lvl runes and they work for you that is fine, just ignore the raw MR runes. Armor pen/AD runes are the same case as this either will work fine, AD runes provide better last hitting and Arp provide a slightly better late, though the in all the difference is negligible which is why I say they are rotatable.

These runes are standard for top lane. They give you defense and offence. You can run this page on any AD top laner and do fine.

These runes are a variation of the Standard page, sacrificing damage (On last hits and trades), for the ability to outmaneuver your enemy. You can use these on less mobile top laners to keep up with your enemies or you can run it on fast top laners to make them even more maneuverable. This page makes you safer from ganks and allows a poke champion to completely outmaneuver the enemy.

This page is nice to keep you in lane while you last hit. It is a variation of the standard page offering some damage for some sustain. This page is nice on champions who can use range to safely heal up with last hits as well as champions who trade often and auto while the skills are on CD. This allows for a Doran's Blade start and with proper masteries allows you to have the lifesteal of a vamp scepter, allowing you to make up for the AD and have a stronger early laning phase.

This page should be used in draft where you KNOW you are fighting an all attack damage champion (Such as Renekton), this page allows you to survive their trade and deal some damage back in response to them.

Pick this page if the enemy takes an ap champion top that you want to survive and crush. (Ie: Vladimir or Rumble).

I run this page on Olaf and rarely Irelia, As they deal true damage thus do not need the AD runes as much. This page keeps them tanky, letting the true damage sub in for the damage runes and using the gold/10 runes to give you 5 gold extra every 10 seconds right from the start. Since this does not penalize these champions much it makes a great rune page choice.

I run this page on champions like Irelia or Kayle as their "Standard Page". They utilize attack speed, making this a very good choice on them.
(You can run Attack Speed Quints as Well to get a full effect)

These are like the standard attack speed page except they offer you mobility. If you are fighting against a champion with a lot of mobility, you might want to use these.

These are more of a rarity "For Fun" Page. They Work well on Trynadmere with his passive supplying the crit chance, the effect these runes give is like another infinity edge passive, making it very nice. These runes are amazing for the late game the issue is simply making it there.

These are the base runes to use on an AP bruiser champions such as Rumble, Vladimir, or Mordekaiser. These runes provide damage, mobility, and defence.

These runes work on champions with a resource system. They allow the champion to heal a decent amount off of their spells. Champions like Kennen, Vladimir, and Rumble Like these runes.

This page works on AP top laners that use the mana resource such as Swain, Karma, or Cho'Gath. It allows them to have mana regen until they can afford their catalyst. It does however give up runes to do this, but on some mages you need the mana bad enough.

In this section I will be giving you an example of some of the mastery pages I use and some other useful pages you can use.

Note:Masteries are something you should be editing as you face different enemies, you typically should not hold the same mastery page every game. Your masteries need to be flexable and fit your play style if you want to be successful.

This is my standard mastery page to run on a tanky DPS champion (That is a champion who is tanky but does physical damage) IE: Jarvan IV, Wukong, or Renekton.

This is my first Attack Damage top page. This page makes the top laner deadly while also being a bit durable.

This page focuses on killing the enemy. This page only gives you the durability needed to fight and kill.

This page is for mana champions who spam a lot of spells to harass the enemy in lane. IE: Gangplank or Pantheon.

This is a special case mastery page for true damage users like Olaf. Since their damage is true they can just get tanky masteries and utilty masteries for increased gold gain. One point is in wealth so as you can start boots + 4 pots without having to wait and can thus help your jungler. The tanky masteries allow you to be durable while dealing out the true damage and the offensive mastery point is so you can run ghost and ignite with enhanced effects.

This page lets Mana dependent casters not have to worry as much about mana until they get their catalyst. IE Swain or Karma.

This is a champion that runs on a resource, and deals out magic damage. IE: Rumble, Kennen or Vladimir.

This page favors hybrid champions, or champions that scale hard but do not have the use for the AP as much early on. IE Poppy or Jax.

As a top laner you will get a HARD counter picked by a enemy (especially a counter that scales better into late game)? Well a 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.

Below will be a list of a variety champions you should encounter/play in top lane. In them is a basic introduction to the champion and a basic explanation of what to do and how you could play them.

• Champion Overview: A general introduction to the champion

  
  

• Skills Overview: An explanation of a champions skills and their uses to top lane.

  
  

• Combos/Skill Order: In this section I tell you the maxing order I feel you could use and the way I combo my skills as that champion.

  
  

• Matchups: Here I write about the general matchups for the champion AS I SEE THEM. There are no "Free Wins" you can always be out played top lane.

  
  

• Playing AS/VS: general Tips on playing as the champion or playing against them.

  
  

• Big Item Choices: Kind of like my "recommended Items". This section will tell what items I feel you could buy that would be be strong on certain champions. I do not list boots in this section as I feel players should decide on boots themselves based on the situation.

  
  

• Gametypes: Here I state how champions can be useful to your team when you know your team or when you are playing with randoms.

  
  

• Pros/Cons: Here I explain the benefits and the downfalls of picking any of these champions as a top laner.

If you think there is a champion that is not in here should be message me and I can go add a section on them =D.

These sections are all more of mini guides, mainly used to give you an introduction to the champion and a brief intro to them (Like the cheat sheets on the guide, but with a little more info) I do not give direct item builds and instead give suggestions on items that are useful on the champion to allow players to experiment with there items and develop their own styles of play for that champion (This is also the reason I will not say what boots to build, as I want players to experiment and find out themselves). These should give players suggestions/ideas on champions they can play top lane, and what roles they can do for their teams with them.

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 despite popular belief is not an EZ win champion, as she requires strategy and timing to play. Skill is what separates the mindless killers from the mastermind assassins here.
TO BE USED TO HER FULL EFFECTIVENESS AKALI REQUIRES VERY SPECIFIC SETS OF RUNES . YOU WILL NEED TO COMBINE YOUR RUNES AND MASTERIES TO GET HER PASSIVES UP TO BE EFFECTIVE.

Passive: Twin Disciplines- Upon obtaining 20 additional ability power, Akali's hits deal 8% bonus magic damage, increasing by 1% for every 6 ability power gained thereafter. Upon obtaining 10 additional attack damage, Akali gains 8% Spell Vamp, increasing by an additional 1% for every 6 attack damage gained thereafter.
This passive is very nice as it gives you a good amount of bonus damage on your auto attks when you build AP (Which makes building AP make your Autos stronger) and Gives you Spell Vamp when you build AD (Sustain off your Magic Damage spells by building AD.) Utilizing these passives with runes, masteries, and in the items you build will be an important part for any good Akali player.

Q: Mark of the Assassin- Akali spins her kama at a target enemy to deal 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and mark the target for 6 seconds. Akali's melee attacks against a marked target will trigger and consume the mark to cause 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 / 145 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and restore 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 energy. Cost 60 energy. Range 600.
This is your first skill, and the mastery of this skill is going to be where the majority of your burst comes from. The throw damage on this skill is ok but if that was it it would leave you VERY underwhelmed. The true power of this skill lies in the fact you can detonate it to deal TONS OF DAMAGE!
Note:The way you can maximize your burst is to Q, and back off. Once your Q comes back off CD, you should dash in (Your auto after your dash will detonate the first Q) then instantly fire off your second Q (The one that just had came off CD) and detonate that one too. This combo if done right can catch enemies by surprise and burst out enemies not expecting it. NINJAD!

W: Twilight Shroud- Akali throws down a cover of smoke that lasts for 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 seconds. While inside the area, Akali gains 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 armor and magic resist and becomes stealthed. Attacking or using abilities will briefly reveal her. Enemies inside the smoke have their movement speed reduced by 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 / 30%. Cost 80 / 75 / 70 / 65 / 60 energy. Range 700.
This is the skill that makes you a Ninja, forget kamas, spinning, or flying kicks. This is your stealth, your veil of night, your greatest weapon! You lay a circle of awesomeness, making you God of all non AoE champions standing in your circle, free to come and go with damage as you please. Be the judge and executioner of anyone in your circle. This skill allows you to play aggressive and stay safe as it gives you a mini brush that only you can use and enemies can never enter AS WELL AS giving you armor/MR while in it. Even if they buy an oracles or a vision ward the bonus stats still make it worth it to fight in your circle if you are going to fight.y
Note:Attack this skill to brushes if possible, it gives you plenty of ways to outmaneuver and juke the enemy.

E: Crescent Slash- Akali flourishes her kamas, hitting nearby units for 30 / 55 / 80 / 105 / 130 physical damage (+30% of ability power) + 60% Attack Damage. Cost 60 energy. Range 325.
You Spin, Weeee. Mostly a waste of energy in an actual fight as it is high cost and low damage. Your main use for this skill will simply be farming.

R: Shadow Dance- Akali moves through shadows to quickly strike her target, dealing 100 / 175 / 250 (+50% of ability power) magic damage. Akali stores an Essence of Shadow on kills and assists as well as every 25 / 20 / 15 seconds up to 3 total. Cost 1 Essence of Shadow. Range 800.

STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWS. This skill is the number 1 assassination move in the game. Good damage, snowbally refresh, low CD, 3 stacks, and long range. No matter what champion they are they cannot escape 3 gap closers longer then flash im sorry. Ahri? NOPE. Ezreal? NOPE.
Teemo? WTF! This skills primary use will be the detonation of your Q marks. Remember if you are getting chased by enemies or become a center of attention you can dash to a different enemy or minion and be safe before coming back in to clean house!


Skill Sequence:
Combo:

Q-(wait for Q to be up again)-R-Q-auto-(W when they turn to focus or for the slow)-
Q-R in sucession for the kill- (E only to kill the enemy or in a really close engagement.)


Teemo (Though considered a counter by many it is only really pre-6, after which you should destroy him, use your first Q to bait out his blind and back off which you would do anyway. When Q comes back up destroy him.),
Nidalee (You burst her to hard, she cant sustain and she cant escape),
Vladimir (Weak lower levels as well, you will love this lane. Wreck him at 6),
Gangplank (pre-6 his pistol is annoying post 6 blow him up),
Irelia (You have the advantage early on if you do not use it this will snowball out of control, but if you do it is pretty easy.),
Nasus (yea, free kills and he gets no farm),
Olaf (cant burst what he cant see, wreck him before he buys an oracles, because HE WILL buy an oracles lol),
Jarvan IV (ye he cant auto through your shroud and if he dunks himself in it so be.)

Udyr (Yea, Udyr...),
Lee Sin (hes blind, so he sees you. This matchup is not really hard to lane against as you can burst him if he makes you visible with E and just dodge his Qs. It gets hard when his whole team can see you in teamfights because a free oracles is always nice.),
Garen (Spins like a boss in your circle, silences you when you come out.),
Renekton (Wins like Garen, except hes an interior crocodile alligator),
Wukong (Hes a monkey, Hes king, And he has a really big stick. Get owned.),
Riven (A good riven will block your Qs with her shield, stun you when you try to detonate, and just wreck you with ult when you try to live),
Sion (shield explosion=pain, stun=your death)
Mordekaiser (Numero uno Hue).

Gameplay Example Akali vs Darius:

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Me as akali top lane vs a Darius. I play this matchup decently. This matchup involves alot of skill. The CS missing is not the skill I mean in this video,just uh... Don't look at that. xD.

• Use your shroud for jukes and other cool things. Remember it also has a slowing component so if you go on the opposite side as your enemy you get a distance lead.
• Murder the person with oracles. MURDER!!!!!!
• Throw your Q then wait for its Cd to come back before engaging if possible.

• You see that circle, don't stand in it!
• Buying a vision ward or an oracles can be a good investment if you know you win in a straight up fight.
• Do not let an Akali reach your squishes or you will not have carrys for the fight.

REMEMBER AKALI'S PASSIVE AS YOU BUY FOR HER IT GIVES YOU ALOT OF GOLD VALUE IF YOU ITEMIZE RIGHT.

Mejai's Soulstealer- Good if you pull ahead in your lane and are just stomping your enemy, turn your amp tome for your revolver to this.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter- Slow, Tankyness, and damage. CORE!

Hextech Gunblade- Gives you a slow, more damage, and sustain. The stats give bonuses in both your passives making this item give you ALOT.

Zhonya's Hourglass- Good if they see you in your shroud and you start to get focused. Gives your team time to react and change the enemy aggro.

Guardian Angel- Im taking you down with me. x2.

Void Staff-OMG they actually bought items to counter me! Better counter them back xD.

Assassins typically will shine in soloQ. There will typically not be enough focus to stop them and take them out, especially Akali with her shroud. If you get ahead in lane you can decimate the enemy carries like it is nobody's buisness. Akali shines on a team with a lot of CC and initiation power.

Akali can Work here, but you need to have a comp centered on the fact you have an Akali. People will be more organized with visions oracles ETC, and will just generally shut you down. You can do well here however if your team has the hard initiate and the coordination to prevent that. Akali is a good pick if the enemy team picks up alot of squishy hard carries like a Vayne or an Ahri (The latter you can chase down all day long).

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.

Mana Barrier- 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 skill goes off CURRENT MANA. If you are low on hp and low on mana do not be expecting a reliable bait from your passive.

Rocket Grab- Blitzcrank fires his right hand at a straight line to the target area. If his hand encounters an enemy unit it will stun them, deal 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+100% of ability power) magic damage, and pull the enemy unit to him.
This skill is INSANE. This is one of THE BIGGEST game changing moves in the ENTIRE game. This skill allows you to initiate a fight by pulling a squishy in you team, pull back a fleeing enemy after they flash or ghost, or just lock down an enemy with CC. In lane you should make attempts to pull your opponent under tower to get a bunch of free harass (and if played well enough) probably a kill.

Overdrive- Blitzcrank super charges himself to increase Movement Speed by 16 / 20 / 24 / 28 / 32 % and attack speed by 30 / 38 / 46 / 54 / 62 % for 8 seconds.
This skill is your main mobility skill, the use of this for you will mostly be to gain ground so you can fire off a good hook with your Q, however the AS is nice when you have some AD or when you are trying to last hit under tower in your lane.

Power Fist- Blitzcrank charges up his fist to make his next attack deal double his total attack damage and pop his target up in the air.
This attack is basically a sheen hit on your next basic attacks with a knockup added on for good measure. Once you get your sheen this skill will be doing TONS OF DAMAGE. This skill is a very good followup to your Q to lock enemies in place and allow your team/jungler more attacking time.
Note: This skill can be used on towers, allowing blitz to push very well.

Static Field- Passive: Lightning arcs off of Blitzcrank to hit a random nearby enemy for 100 / 200 / 300 (+25% of ability power) magic damage every 2.5 seconds (not affected by cooldown reduction). This will not damage enemies in stealth.mActive: Deals 250 / 375 / 500 (+100% of ability power) magic damage and silences surrounding enemy units for 0.5 seconds. The passive is not in effect during the cooldown.
This skill is the greatest love and hate of blitz top lane, You will love this skill as it allows you to push the lane at will, provides good CC, AND does a VERY good amount of damage to enemies with the active. All while having a very low 30 second cooldown. This skill is dislikable due to the fact the passive will push your lane without you wanting it to AND hit the minions to screw up your CSing on tower.

Skill Order:
Combos:

(W for the positioning)-Q-E-R

Akali (Pull her out of her circle, combo her if she attack you)

Cho'Gath (Farm off early, bully him at 6.)

Skarner (Bully him in lane.)

Draven and all other squishy AD carries top (Pull in and combo 2 win.)

Shen (Farm all day.)

Lee Sin (To mobile)

Yorick (Ghouls block your pull)

Olaf (Spams True damage all day.)

Jayce (has a very strong melee trade.)

• Use your ultimate before walking in the baron pit if you have an oracles or a vision to clear a ward, as the lightning will pull them on you.
• Play passive until 6 as that is when you gain most of your burst damage.
• If possible try and use your knockup followed by your Q as it is a safer way to be guaranteeing the pull damage.
• Invade the enemies jungle and pull the buff you think they are starting at over the wall to hurt their jungle time.

• Do not stand near walls and let blitz pull you.
• Do not underestimate a low hp blitz, you may find yourself dead on the ground while hes laughing with a mana shield on.
• Use your ultimate to harass the enemy whenever possible as it will prevent your passive from making you miss CS as well as dealing decent damage and letting the cooldown start ticking again.

Nomad's Medallion, Heart of Gold, and kage's Lucky Pick - Keeps your gold amount healthy as well as giving you useful stats. Also upgrading them makes them useful items.

Trinity Force- All the stats are very useful to you, and the utility it provides is just AMAZING.

Frozen Heart- Gives you a big mana shield as well as hurting the enemy ADs.

Abyssal Mask- Makes enemies weaker to your ultimate as well as your AP carry.

Will of the Ancients- Well if you want to run a double Wota comp.

Banshee's Veil- Makes you strong against CC and vs mages.

Blitz is strong in soloQ as 1 good pull can win the game.

Blitz is a strong pick in ranked 5s as enemies will not expect him top, and you can coordinate invades and such so much better.

Pros:

-Amazing CC
-Good pull
-High burst
-Low cooldown ult.
-Safe

Cons:

-Ultimate has negatives
-High mana costs
-Weak early on.

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.

Passive: Carnivore- 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: Rupture- 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 clustered together. The CD is decently long, but you will typically get 2-3 of these in in a teamfight.

W: Feral Scream- Cho'Gath screams in a cone in front of him, silencing enemies for 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 seconds and causing 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+70% of ability power) magic damage. Cooldown 16 seconds. Cost 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 mana. Range 300.
Quick, Nice Damage, and A 3 SECOND SILENCE! QUIEEEEETTTTTTTTT! This skill is nice as it has no delay after cast, does nice damage, and applys the 3 second silence to everyone it hits. A 3 second silence on the enemy team can win a fight for your team easily.

E: Vorpal Spikes- Toggle: Cho'gath's physical attacks launch spikes which deal 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+30% of ability power) magic damage to a line in front of him. Range 40.
This ability is essential if you are playing attack speed cho. It is like your Hiten Style or Righteous Fury. On Tanky Ap cho maxing this skill is not as important as the damage will mostly be coming from the ratio and your other skills.

R: Feast- Deals 300 / 475 / 650 (+70% of ability power) damage to target champion, or 1000 damage to target minion (ignores resists). If the target is killed by Feast, Cho'Gath grows, gaining 90 / 120 / 150 maximum health (maximum 6 stacks). Cho'Gath loses up to half (rounded up) stacks upon death. Cooldown 60 seconds. Cost 100 mana. Range 100.
True damage with a nice scaling. This skill is the most important tool to mastering Cho. Your ultimate does 1k true damage to minions, which allows you to beat any jungler's smite with this spell; The skill has a .7 AP RATIO, making you do tons of damage if you get some AP; and This skill gives you free stats for last hitting with it (Up to 6 times). End game if you have this stacked you gain 900 hp (As well as being really big)!
Note: You gain more size / stack every time you level the skill. At lvl 16 Cho will be at his biggest with 6 stacks.

Skill Order:

Tanky Ap cho, You will be tanky, and you will deal alot of damage with your feast.

Atk speed cho, with a wits end you deal alot of damage and are tanky from your ult.
Combos:

Q-W-(R when you want to kill, or for alot of damage if you have 6 stacks)

Yorick (Sustain off his ghouls, use them as a snack if needed)
Malphite (Both are tanky, you can do an AoE knockup multiple times in a fight though, while he only has his to initiate.)
Jax (Farm to 6, you will get very tanky. Your ultimate can kill him in his)
Fizz (Ignore and farm),
Galio (Both farm all day long).

Vayne (Wont touch her, and she will scale hard into late game)
Olaf (He will spam true damage),
Warwick (To tanky/sustainy to kill),
Rumble (Hes a bully),
Teemo (Pokes you all day),
Lee Sin (To much mobility and sustain)
Irelia (You cant stop her from becoming a monster).

• Balance out your harass with your passive so you do not run out of mana.
• If you hit a squishy with your Q, you may be able to flash R-W for a quick kill.
• Do not try and kill enemies in one go, wear them out over time then go in for the kill with your ultimate.

• Do not underestimate Cho's burst with his feast spell.
• Cho may be big but do not focus him.
• Cho has long CDs, if he blows them in lane commit on him for a fight and do some damage.

AP tanky

Rod of Ages- Tanky, mana, and Ap.

Rabadon's Deathcap- Makes your ult do alot of damage

Abyssal Mask- Gives you MR and Ap

Frozen Heart- Gives you CDR, armor, and mana.

Randuin's Omen- Tanky, lets you kill enemy ADs

Shurelya's Battlesong- Gives your team mobility in fights.

Deathfire Grasp- Gives you a burst.

Atk speed

Atma's Impaler- Gets you free AD on autos and some armor

Madred's Bloodrazer- Atk speed, good vs tanky teams.

Ionic Spark- Makes you push better, and do more AoE damage.

Malady- Lowers resistances, more AS, more magic damage on every hit.

Wit's End- More damage on hits, MR, and atk speed.

Nashor's Tooth- Ap, CDR, and Atk Speed.

Black Cleaver-More Damage on your attacks, and you help your AD carry.

Frozen Mallet- Allows you to stick to a target.

Cho is decent in soloQ as if he wins his lane he can be a pretty big factor in the late game.

Cho is good for a ranked team that is running a CC/Quick burst comp. He can silence the enemy team making them helpless for 3 seconds while your comp does its magic.

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.

Passive: Hemorrhage- 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 centerpiece of your whole kit as 2 of your moves REVOLVE around this skill.

Q: Decimate- Darius swings his axe in a wide circle. Enemies struck by the blade take more damage than those struck by the shaft, taking 50% additional damage. Physical Damage: 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210) (+0.7 per bonus attack damage). Cooldown: 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 seconds. Cost: 40 mana. Range: 425.
A good source of damage, the key to utilizing this skill is knowing which part of this moves radius is for the blade, and being able to land harassment hits on the enemy with this whenever possible.

W: Crippling Strike- Darius' next basic attack deals 120 / 140 / 160 / 180 / 200% additional damage and slows the target's movement and attack speed by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% for 2 seconds. Crippling strike's base cooldown is reduced by 1 second for each stack of Hemorrhage on the target. Cooldown: 8 seconds. Cost: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 mana. Range: 300.
This skill is nice, its like a single target Malphite ground pound, except it does alot more damage, and this skill resets auto timer and is spammable with bleed. Overall great skill and an amazing part of your kit.

E: Apprehend- Darius hones his axe, granting him 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25% passive armor penetration. When activated, Darius sweeps up his enemies with his axe's hook and pulls them to him. Cooldown: 24 / 21 / 18 / 15 / 12 seconds. Cost: 45s. Range: 550.
Blitzcrank pull aimed via a cone. This skill is mainly used to get enemy's BACK to you after you engage them and they flash or use their escape, you can use it as an initiate if you have no other choice but it is not as powerful. This skill also gives you REALLY good armor pen making people trying to stack armor get wrecked.

R: Noxian Guillotine- Darius leaps to target enemy champion and strikes a lethal blow, dealing 160 / 250 / 340 (+0.75 per bonus attack damage) true damage. For each stack of Hemorrhage on the target, Noxian Guillotine deals an additional 20% damage up to 320 / 500 / 680 (+1.5 per bonus attack damage). The cooldown is refreshed if Noxian Guillotine kills the target. Cooldown: 100 / 90 / 80 seconds. Cost: 100 mana. Range: 475.
Its like giving chogath an ultimate with an instant refresh. This skill does tons of damage and can secure you alot of kills. It refreshes on skill so go buck wild in a fight and get some pentas.

Skill Order:
Combos:

from close range:
Q-auto-W-(E when they run)-(R when you can kill)

From long range:
E-Q-auto-W-(R if it can kill)

Shyvana (She has to get in melee range, when she does she gets owned)
Udyr (Wreck him if he comes in close),
Renekton (Do not let him sustain, keep up the pressure and you win.),
Irelia (ez lane),
Cho'Gath (He wont get any farm here),
Fiora (She wins in trades earlier, but as the fight goes on you win hard),
Hecarim (Lol free farm all day),
Jarvan IV (If he trys to combo you you wreck him),
Lee Sin (he can avoid you and try and farm, thats about it),
Rumble (He wont come near you with his toy if he dosn't want it broken),
Warwick (Can't sustain if hes mauled everytime he tries.)

Malphite (You will get wrecked if you try and fight him)
Yorick (He will take full zone control of this lane very fast once he hits 3, at which point he will poke and zone the hell out of you.)
Teemo , Kennen, Kayle, Sivir, Vayne, Graves, Urgot, Draven(Ranged>Darius. Teemo is easier then the rest due to his lower range),
Nidalee (Wrecks you),
Olaf (He will true damage you whenever you try and come in),
Garen (Copy cant beat the real deal),
Vladimir (Ranged poke and sustain)
Shen (Poke, wont die, and more useful later on).

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• Remember your ult will only refresh on killing blows, so do not waste it unless you really need to.
• Try and poke your enemy with the outer edge of your Q this allows for a good flow of damage.
• When fighting a ranged champion juke into the brush, if they come in to try and kill you wreck them.

• Try and bait his skills and jump in on him if they are down.
• If a Darius misses his ult (refresh), you can almost ignore him, as his damage output just took a major drop.
• Try and poke Darius from ranged as much as possible. he will have no way to react but to try and pull which you can easily avoid.

Build Options

Last Whisper- Armor Pen for when they stack armor

Bloodthirster - Sustain and damage

Force of Nature- MS and MR is nice.

Frozen Mallet- Allows you to stick to targets and makes you do more damage.

Wit's End- Gives you good damage and tanky stats.

Aegis of the Legion- Helps your team alot and makes you tankier

Randuin's Omen- Good tanky stats, lets you shutdown AD lanes.

Maw of Malmortius- Allows you to have good resistance vs mages AND makes you need to be focused if you get lower on hp.
People in SoloQ won't know what to do when they see the KDA. When people don't know what to do they look for the surrender button. I would not fp Darius here as he can be easily counter picked.
Darius can work here, but its harder to fit him in. You need to get a team that can get an engage for you, or let you get close to them. Darius is really weak to a poke comp team as he cant really do much to counter or stop it.

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 ( Akali or Talon) nor is she as Tanky as other tanky Dps champions ( Jarvan IV or Renekton) she is a mix of the two types. The champion I would most attribute this field to would be Fizz. 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 category of a push ganker, as she can push the lane and go gank other lanes very well.

(Passive) Moonsilver Blade- Diana gains 20% Attack Speed. Every third strike cleaves nearby enemies for (20 / 25 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 / 110 / 125 / 140 / 155 / 175 / 195 / 215 / 240 / 265 / 290) + (+0.6 per ability power)additional magic damage.

This passive is both loved and hated by diana in the top. It is loved as it is just like Jax's R passive in that it offers you another way to harass the enemy free of mana cost every few attacks. This attack has a decently high base damage and ratio making it like a skill that gets ranked for you. The reason that this skill is easily dislikable is due to its PUSH power. Your 3rd auto will do an AoE attack which will push the lane most of the time. However you can counter this negative by SPACING OUT your autos. The passive has a time limit during which you need to auto to stack/use the passive. If you are able to last hit minions one at a time with a decent 1-2 second delay in between last hits you will refrain from using this passive and pushing the lane.

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Q Crescent Strike- Unleashes a bolt of lunar energy in an arc dealing 80/125/170/215/260 (+0.8) magic damage. Afflicts enemies struck with Moonlight, revealing them for 3seconds. Cost: 55 Mana. Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6 Seconds.

This skill is Diana's main source of harass and initiation. This skill is aimed in a crescent shape from your right so remember it will shoot differently based on which base you are facing (As the shot perspective will have changed.) This type of skillshot is unique to Diana and CORE to any players who are looking in to mastering her. This skill will apply "moonlight" to the targets hit which will give you sight of them and will have a unique reaction with your ultimate.
Note: In Top Lane Diana's Q works better ON PURPLE TEAM. When you are purple your Q can be thrown through the majority of the brush to check for foes, however while you are on blue team you can only throw it into a certain area of the bush as a guess.

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W Pale Cascade- Creates three orbiting spheres that explode on contact with enemies dealing 20/36/52/68/84 (+0.2) magic damage. Lasts 4 seconds. Also gains a temporary shield that absorbs 55/80/105/130/155 (+0.45) damage. This shield is refreshed if the third sphere detonates. Cost: 60/70/80/90/100 Mana. Range:750. Cooldown: 10/10/10/10/10 Seconds.

This skill is AMAZING for trading and fighting. If you use this as you go in for a trade, you can block their counter-trade with the initial shield AND use the secondary shield you got from damaging them to back out. This skill will push the lane if you use it to recklessly.

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E Moonfall- Draws in all nearby enemies and slows them by 35/40/45/50/55% for 2seconds.
Cost: 70 Mana. Range: 450. Cooldown: 26/24/22/20/18 Seconds.

This skill is very good for roaming to gank, receiving ganks, and pulling in an enemy who tries to quickly poke you under your tower. This is like a Darius pull in a circle around you. This move is AMAZING in combination with AOE team comps, as if you catch enough enemies in the general range of each other you can pull them in and let your AoE team-comp go wild.

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R (Ultimate) Lunar Rush- Becomes the living embodiment of the vengeful moon, teleporting to an enemy and dealing 100/160/220(+0.6) magic damage. Lunar Rush has no cooldown when used to teleport to an enemy afflicted with Moonlight. Cost: 50/65/80 Mana. Range: 900. Cooldown: 20/16/12 Seconds.

This skill is like Akali's ultimate, but it does not need stacks to be used more then once, it needs moonlight. This skill is best used as a followup to your Q as you can dash in and quickly get the reset. The main decision that needs to be made with Diana players is when to use the ultimate on a target without moonlight. If you use this skill for damage, or to catch someone without moonlight and they are able to flash away, chances are they will get away from you.

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Skill Order:
Combos:

Q-R-W-E-Q-R-R (Autoing whenever possible)

Main burst damage combo.

Q+R (Wall hopping)

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Q+R (Quick Draw dash) -Ignore the Fact I say Zyra in the video-

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Teemo (Land Q, hop on him and Kill.)
Vladimir (Outdps his sustain.)
Gangplank (Q when he does, dash in and kill.)
Nasus (Zone him from farm.)

Olaf (True damage spam.)
Garen (Demaciiiaaaaaa)
Renekton (High damage and sustain early on.)
Riven (Riven has alot more power early.)

Will Be added to as I play them and get video footage.

Singed 6/10

• If you know your Q will hit use R, as it will refresh as you get there.
• If your team has AoE, look for the best way to use your E to get as many members of the enemy team as possible into their AoE.
• Use your shield to run as you are getting ganked, it will offer a threat of damage and another shield if the enemies get close enough to you.

• Avoid Dianas Q, avoid a big chunk of her damage. As she does not get the Qs damage and if she decideds to R to you, she will not get a second Rs worth of damage.
• Try and bait her shield, if you do not let her refesh it you can go in and fight hr relatively easy.
• Diana has no real escapes, gank her whenever possible to shut her down.

Rod of Ages- Makes you tankier and makes you do more damage.

Lich Bane- Good with your passive.

Deathfire Grasp- Makes you have a good assassin burst.

Rabadon's Deathcap- Makes your damage skyrocket.

Void Staff- Build if they stacked MR

Abyssal Mask- This item is nice as when you jump in their team they all lose MR, you gain MR vs your enemies, and you get more damage.

Guardian Angel- Allows you to stay in the fight and tank-assassin more.

Diana is strong in SoloQ as she is an assassin and has the ability to get kills and snowball very well.

Diana is good in ranked 5s as her E is an AMAZING setup for AoE comps.

Pros:

-High Damage
-AoE burst
-Good gap-closing abilities.
-Good trades
-Recieves ganks well
-Good at roaming.

Cons:

-No escapes
-Pushes
-Hard skillshot

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

Wicked Blades- Draven's critical strikes deal 30 + (4 × level) bonus physical damage over 4 seconds. Spinning Axe also causes this effect even if it does not critically strike.
This passive is good for all points of the game. In lane this passive will do that extra damage you need to last hit a minion when you misjudge the amount as well as offering more damage on your Qs to enemies. Late game this passive is still very helpful, but you will be relying on it more from plain crits then your Q.

Q: Spinning Axe- Draven's next attack will deal an extra 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 / 85% of his attack damage as bonus damage. This axe will ricochet off the target high up into the air. If Draven catches it, he automatically readies another Spinning Axe. Draven can have two Spinning Axes at once.
THIS MOVE IS SOOOOO FUNNNNNNN. This is a game to play while you CS. This skill costs a single mana cost to start up and as long as you are catching the axe, your mana will stay high. If you are running out of mana, that means you are spamming W too much or you are missing too many Qs. This skill makes your early lane damage really strong.
Notes about this skill:
-Where the Q lands is determined by an invisible cone in front of you as illustrated below. In lane I find the best way to use this knowledge is to throw your Q then turn around as it hits to be able to catch your Q backwards to avoid most enemy retaliation (The bleed will do even more harass, .

Your Q goes by a different landing range when you are standing still and is more of a cricle around you like below.

-Your Q does not bounce off towers, however the period the buff (Of having the Q stack/s) stays on you, meaning while attacking a tower you can easily reach 2 stacks of your Q without ever having to catch it.
-If you are in position to catch your Q (In the circle) and it is still in the air, throw and auto attk for extra damage, you are wasting time waiting for a Q as an AD carry.
-You should always try and keep 2 stacks of your Q up if there is a possible engage, when you have 2x Q stacks on and you have another one off CD ready, you can avoid having to worry about catching one if it goes to a bad positioning and just activate a new Q effect instead.
-In teamfights later in the game you should not be trying to catch your axe if it will put you out of position, a common mistake I see Draven's make is they forget they are an AD carry and go for there axes like they NEED to catch it to do damage, instead of just throwing autos. (The note above this tells you how you can try and avoid this problem.)
- When using this move while blinded (And probably against a target who can dodge/block it) the blade WILL still bounce off the target and apply your passive, you Auto attk damage will not go off though.

W: Blood Rush- Draven gains 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% increased Movement Speed for 1.5 seconds and 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% Attack Speed for 3 seconds. The Movement Speed bonus decreases rapidly over its duration. Catching a Spinning Axe will refresh the cooldown of Blood Rush.
This skill (In my opinion) is one of the harder things to do when playing Draven. Being able to manage catching your Qs while renewing blood rush constantly will separate the good Draven's from the pros. With 2 Qs up you can keep this skill permanently on IF you are able to catch you axes and keep this skill up, all while auto attking for your damage as an AD carry.
Note: Remember this skill DOES give you attk speed as well as movespeed, a pro Draven will be able to be using auto attacks with the Attack Speed while catching axes.

E: Stand Aside- Draven throws his axes and deals 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+ .5 per bonus attack damage) physical damage by throwing his axes. Enemies hit are knocked aside and slowed by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40% for 2 seconds.
This skill amazing and is highly underrated. This skill is a nice CC, people do not realize that aiming it in different ways makes the enemies fly in different directions. The image below shows the path enemies take when they get hit by either of the blades, if they get hit in the center it is more of a knockup that will either bring them closer or further away from you.

Note: This skill can knock enemies with "Fly-Time" gap closers such as Irelia, Wukong, or Akali out of the air and not let them make it you, learning how to use this component of the skill is ESSENTIAL to being able to play draven against top lane Bruisers.

R: Whirling Death- Draven hurls two massive axes dealing 175 / 275 / 375 (+ 1.1 per bonus attack damage) physical damage to each unit struck. Deals 8% less damage per unit hit, down to a minimum of 40%. This resets when Whirling Death changes direction. Whirling Death slowly reverses direction and returns to Draven after striking an enemy champion, or upon reactivation, or upon reaching the boundaries of the map. 110/100/90 second cool-down and costs 120 mana at all levels.
This ultimate is useful for damage, stealing buffs, dragon, and baron, and securing kills globally. This skill is one of the hardest to aim and master in the game due to all the details you have to factor in for its use (I will say them in the notes). Below is a video showing a good use of his ultimate.

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Notes on this skill:
-This skill has 2 parts, a going there and a coming back. The coming back can happen one of 3 ways: Hitting an enemy champion, reaching the end of the map, or being manually clicked off. When aiming this remember DO NOT hit any champions before you reach your intended target, if you end up hitting a full hp champion on the way to your target the ult will begin to return to you making little effect, this part of the ult is both a curse and a blessing (More often a curse), it can be helpful if you do not notice it hit and enemy or are trying to kite and enemy and do not have time to activate it a second time (Which is still not really worth the forced come back, but that just adds more skill requirements to this skill.
-This skill can essentially be used as a double hawkshot, if you use this skill, and it does not hit an enemy champion you can reangle it so that on the way back it can give sight of a key area.
-Make use of a missed ultimate, if you miss your ult and your enemy is in lane try and get between them and your coming back ultimate so that it can at least do some damage to them on the way back and offer some harass (WTF!!! NINJA ULT WHERE DID IT COME FROM)!
-Ward an enemies jungle buffs so that you can use this skill to steal them from the jungler, a Draven with good timing can EASILY deal enough damage with his ultimate to steal alway a jungler's buffs (Especially blue buff when he is trying to donate it to mid).
-You need to learn the timing of this ultimate. You need to have a feel of how long it will take to get to a location, and how much the locations of allies and enemies will have changed by the time it gets there.

Skill Order:
Combos:

Q (And all the mechanics with it)- W(use again whenever you catch a Q)- (E to peel off the enemy or slow them down)- R(to burst for damage/ want to kill enemy).

Cho'Gath (Bully him in lane all day long)
Darius (The Little brother is stronger then the older brother Hue.)
Fiddlesticks (You can burst him down so fast, save your stand aside for his drain)
Fizz (You can E him out of his dash)
Galio (Poke him out,note that he can sustain off your passive with his shield, when he looks like he is going to ult E
Garen (Kite all day long)
Hecarim (You have stronger early damage and can E him out of his charge, Still need to test if you can E him out of his ultimate)
Irelia (You have higher early damage, and can E her out of her dash. This lane quickly becomes hard if you do not abuse your early advantage)
Katarina (You have a better trade, and you can E to cancel her ultimate)
Nasus (Zone him from farm)
Nidalee (You do more damage pre 6 and your E and W can keep her away in cat form)
Olaf (Out range all day long)
Riven (You can poke her with range and E-W to escape. Once you get a Phage you gain a considerable advantage)
Rumble (Poke from a distance, E him when he tries to shield at you with his Q on)
Shen (Need to test if you can E his taunt off, You get free farm when he ports, and you have range to poke him down well when he is there)
Shyvana (You can kite her all day)
Singed (Destroy him early on, dont let him get in the game)
Skarner (Kite him all day)
Swain (Out range him and poke him out of lane)
Teemo (Even with his blind factored in you win trades.)
Udyr (Kite him all day)
Tryndamere (Avoid his shout, kite him, E him out of his spin)
Vladimir (beat him out earlier)
Volibear (E when he Qs at you, kite him all day)
Warwick (Poke him out of lane, you out damage his sustain. Care after lvl 6 if he gets a phage OR if you ever get low).
Wukong (E him out of his dash, avoid him after that).


Akali (You can hardcore beat her pre 6, if she is able to safely make it this lane is hell.)
Fiora You can't peel her off of you. NOTE: Your E has the ability to END HER ULTIMATE if you hit her right)
Jarvan IV (You have range advantage and can E him out of his flag-Q combo, BUT you have no escape from his ultimate aside from your flash, which is a longer CD then his ult)
Jax (He can dodge most of your damage, he scales well into late game, Still need to test if you can E him out of his Q.)
Kayle (Your best bet here is to play safe and wait until he uses her E to farm and then go in for some trade, if you confront her head on she will win)
Kennen (He has a longer range, and his burst damage is really high)
Lee Sin (Has mobility, His cripple wrecks you, you can knock him out of his Q at you AND you can knock him out of the air as he is flying to shield an ally, both still get the shield)
Malphite (To tanky, he receives ganks to well)
Nautilus (He can ignore you and farm, he does more damage then you in the early game, he can CC lock you in a fight or for a gank)
Pantheon (He wins in trade offs)
Poppy (Has alot of armor and will destroy you late game
Renekton (He can 1 shot you early game if he gets close enough)
Sion (AP sions combo hits yo to hard to fight)
Talon (Bursts you down hard)
Yorick (Poke and sustain all day long)

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An ok game showing off Draven's abilities top lane.

• Keep up your Q as long as possible in lane, it helps with harass and last hitting.
• Do not go after a Q that puts you in a bad position.
• Use your E to knock enemies out of their dashes.

• Gank Draven with CC as he does not have good escapes vs 2 people.
• Do not let Draven pick up his axes, it greatly lowers his combat power.
• Always be ready to burst down buffs as Draven may try and steal them with his ultimate.

Trinity Force- This item is really good on Draven as your W procs the sheen component for your Q throws, The slow allows you the mobility to easily kite enemies, and the movespeed helps you for catching axes.

Phantom Dancer- More AS, crit, and Ms.

Infinity Edge- Crit, Damage, AND CRIT DAMAGE INCREASE. NICE!

Bloodthirster- Sustain and Damage

Guardian Angel- Revive is helpful.

Last Whisper-Armor Pen for late game.

Draven is strong in SoloQ (after you make it through champion select), he has good lane matchups AND he scales into late game really hard.

Draven (Like all other ranged carries top) allows your team to run a kill lane bot or an early game AD carry bot such as Urgot.

Pros:

-2 AD carries on your team
-Fun to play
-Laning phase FLYS by.
-Nice Poke
-Has very good matchups
-Global Ultimate
-Enemies will think he is AD carry and try and counterpick.

Cons:

-Certain bruisers will get tankyness fast a make you lose your early kill potential.
-Draven is easy to gank.
-If your ultimate hits any target other then the intended on it will not serve is main use.

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.

Spider Queen (passive): When Elise's Human Form spells hit an enemy, she readies a Spiderling. When Elise transforms, she summons Spiderlings to attack nearby foes. The maximum number of spiderlings increases with Spider Form's level.

Elise's passive is the move that gave her appeal to me. This skill stores up a spiderling every time you use a skill in human form (Note the skill must hit an enemy to get the charge). When you morph into a spider you release all of your spiderlings you have to fight alongside you. These spiderlings do not do much damage individually, but when they all come together as a collective force they can do a good deal of damage.
Notes: When you die you will respawn with full spiderling charges.
The spiderlings will stay at the health they were at when you were in spider form even if you morph to human and redeploy them.
Spiderlings gain MS with your boots

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Human Q Neurotoxin / Venomous Bite- Deals magic damage equal to a base amount (50 / 95 / 140 / 185 / 230) plus a percentage (8% (+2% per 100 AP)) of the target's current health. Damage is capped against monsters (60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300).COOLDOWN: 6 seconds COST: 60 mana.

Elise's Q ability in human form is absolutely AMAZING in the bruiser filled top lane. This skill will allow you to safely ware down you enemy laners health and in most cases it will be a FREE TRADE, meaning you will take no damage in return.

Spider Q Neurotoxin / Venomous Bite- Elise lunges to a target with a poisonous bite that deals magic damage equal to a base amount (50 / 95 / 140 / 185 / 230) plus a percentage of the target's missing health(8% +2% per 100 AP). Damage is capped against monsters (60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300). COOLDOWN: 6 seconds

Elise's spider form Q is AMAZING its just like Nidalee's cougar form Q in that it does damage based on targets missing health (Making it have an amazing synergy with your human Q) it also does not have the weakness of being an on-hit move (that is a strength and a weakness, it resets auto attack timer BUT damage can be reduced by ninja tabi OR blocked by moves like fiora's riposte.) The other strength this move brings is it's manaless (all spider form skills take no mana) AND it's a gap closer for you and your spiders.

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Human W Volatile Spiderling / Skittering Frenzy -Summons a venom-gorged Spiderling that moves to target location and explodes, dealing 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+80% AP) magic damage to nearby enemies when it nears an enemy unit or after 3 seconds. The Spiderling will chase down enemy Champions, if it does not hit an enemy at target location.COOLDOWN: 12 seconds COST: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 mana.

This move is Elise's main poking ability late game as well as her wave clearing ability. This ability is like a maokai sapling. It will move towards the target location then chase after any nearby enemies, this skill will detonate if it hits anything before it reaches the target location.
Note: This skill does give sight as it moves so it is a VERY GOOD scouting tool.

Spider W Volatile Spiderling / Skittering Frenzy-
PASSIVE: Spiderlings gain (5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25%) bonus attack speed.
ACTIVE: Increases the attack speed of Elise and her Spiderlings (by 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 140%) for 3 seconds. While active, Elise is healed for a small amount (4 per attack (+2% AP)) when she or her spiderlings attack. COOLDOWN: 12 seconds.

This skill is your AS steroid and sustain, pop it in a duel or when you need to get some hp back in lane. This skill also makes you an insanely good pusher endgame.

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Human E Cocoon / Rappel- Elise fires a web that stuns the first enemy hit for 1.5 seconds. RANGE: 975 COOLDOWN: 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 seconds COST: 65 mana.

This skill is a ranged skillshot stun, this skill is very strong for receiving ganks and catching off enemies, the main thing to remember for this skill is it does 0 damage, it is a utility skill 100%.

Spider E Cocoon / Rappel- ACTIVE (ON ENEMY CAST): Elise reveals nearby enemy targets, while she and her Spiderlings lift up into the air, and then descend upon the target enemy.
ACTIVE (ON GROUND CAST): Elise reveals nearby enemy targets while she and her Spiderlings lift up into the air, becoming untargetable for 2 seconds. During that time she can cast Rappel again to descend upon a nearby enemy. RANGE: 975 COOLDOWN: 26 / 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 seconds COST: No cost.

THIS SKILL IS AMAZING. This skill is an insanely fun Zhonya's style gap closing move that can also be used as you escape. You rise into the air gaining sight of every enemy in the circle and you can chose one to come down on with your spiders. Using this skill to an enemy minion will be your main method of escaping enemies.
Note: You can hop to enemy wards you have sight of with this skill.

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Human R Spider Form / Human Form: ACTIVE: Elise transforms into a menacing spider, granting access to arachnid abilities. While in Spider Form, Elise deals 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 (+20% AP) bonus magic damage with her autoattacks and gains 10 movement speed as well as 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 bonus armor and magic resistance.While in spider form Elise gains spiderlings. Spiderlings deal (10 / 20 / 30 / 40 (+10% AP)) physical damage and take 10 / 20 / 30 / 40% reduced damage from multi-target abilities. The maximum number of spiderlings is increased with Spider Form's level (2 / 3 / 4 / 5). COOLDOWN: 4 seconds.

This skill is your transform. Remember this skill gives you armor and MR as well as movespeed, so when you are moving around the map you should be in this form.

Spider R Spider Form / Human Form- Elise transforms into her human form, granting access to regular abilities. COOLDOWN: 4 seconds.

Nothing much to say, morphs you back to a human.

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Lower the enemies health with human Q and W then.

Q-W-E-R-Q-W-(E when they try and run or use a big skill)

Skill Order:

Standard Lane

Sustain/Farm Lane
Combos:

Strong Vs

Garen- You Poke him out, just kite. If he gets in a brush throw your human W in and smoke him out.

Darius- You Poke him out, just avoid his pull.

Olaf- You Poke him out, use your rappel away if he tries to ult and fight you.

Cho'Gath- You Poke him out, your Q continues to counter him all game.

Gangplank- You outtrade him.

Weak Vs

Fiora- She has to much burst for you to handle if she jumps on you.

Akali- She has burst, sustain, and 3 gap closers.

Yorick- To much sustain and poke.

Jax- You will win early on, but post 6 he should crush you.

Riven- She has burst and a LOT of gap closing.

Gangplank 4/10

• Always make sure to have something to rappel to if you get ganked.
• If possible let another ally use their stun before you use your cocoon so you can reliably stun the enemy as a follow up.
• You can use rappel to dodge moves with fly time if used right.

• Elise can instantly kill anyone below 25% health, watch out and make sure you are not with range of her rappel.
• If Elise rappels and their are no nearby ally units just treat it like she zhonyas and kill her when she comes down.

Rod of Ages- Grants you needed sustain and tankyness.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter- Gives you tankiness and a slow.

Abyssal Mask- Gives you tankiness as well as makes you stronger vs enemies.

Zhonya's Hourglass- Gives you armor as well as a really good active to let you get your cooldowns back.

Lich Bane- gives you a DPS increase with all your AP

Rabadon's Deathcap- Increases your damage... By alot.

Elise is a decent champion for soloQ as she brings burst and poke and can fit into a team with all kinds of players. Elise also is very strong in lane although she does not snowball very hard.

Elise is strong when put with teams that can engage and hold enemy aggro so she doesnt get instantly focused and CCed down. She also can work well with poke comps as she has her poke spider and a skillshot stun.

Pros:

-2 forms
-Has minions
-Sustained
-Good pusher
-Versatile

Cons:

-Escape is situational
-Meh scalings

Do You 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.

Passive: Rising Spell Force- 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.

Q: Mystic Shot- Ezreal fires a bolt of energy that deals 35 / 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 (+1.0 per attack damage) (+20% of ability power) physical damage and applies on-hit effects. If it strikes an enemy unit it reduces all of Ezreal's cooldowns by 1 second.
This skill is AD ezreals min move as it gives you CDR, has high damage, and procs on hit life steal etc. For Ap ezreal this skill will proc your Lich Bane making this skill have a 1.2 AP ratio once you get that.

W: Essence Flux- Ezreal fires a fluctuating wave of energy at a targeted area. Any enemy champions it passes through take 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+70% of ability power) magic damage and have their attack speed slowed by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 % for 5 seconds, while any allied champions it travels through have their attack speed increased by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 % for 5 seconds.
On AD Ezreal, many players VASTTLLY underrate this skill, The AS decrease is so strong against enemy carries, and in top lane, champions who rely on their auto attacks to do alot of their damage. On Ap Ezreal this skill will be your major damage source as it has a good base and a decent ratio.

E: Arcane Shift- Ezreal teleports to a target nearby location and fires a homing arrow at the nearest enemy unit dealing 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275 (+75% of ability power) magic damage.
This skill is useful as an escape/mobility tool on both Ezreals, however on AP Ezreal this skill will also be a good damage move as well with essentially the same damage as your W.

R: Trueshot Barrage- Ezreal channels for 1 second to fire a powerful barrage of energy missiles, which deal 350 / 500 / 650 (+1.0 per bonus attack damage) (+90% of ability power) magic damage to each enemy unit they pass through. However, it deals 8% less damage for each additional unit it hits (30% minimum damage).
This skill is your snipe, Initiate, and buff steal move. This skill is key on both Ezreals though AP Ezreal NEEDS to hit this move as it is a big part of his damage. The best way to use this skill is to ult into the enemy team at the start of the fight to give you full passive stacks and do a lot of damage to the enemies. Also if you use your ult at the start of a fight you can start using your Q in the fight to get the CD down. On Ezreal if you ward the enemy Red/Blue there is a good chance you can steal it with a well timed ultimate (Especially if your AP).

Skill Order:
AD Ezreal
Ap Ezreal
Combos:

Q-W-(E for mobility)- (R for kill/burst damage)

Cho'Gath (Poke him down do not get caught)
Darius (Out range him completly, you can E his apprehend)
Garen (He can't reach you)
Jarvan IV (E out of his flag combo and away from his demacia range)
Olaf (E from his axes if need be, Poke him with Q and autos)
Nasus (Zone him early with your range)
Singed (Beat him out early or you will fall behind)
Udyr (Can't touch you)
Volibear (You can keep him away with your E until you get a phage, then you can kite him).

Akali (You will zone her pre 6, but then 6 your dead)
Fiora (She has a double dash to keep with you)
Fizz (To many gap closers)
Pantheon (He can Q harass you to death, and his shield blocks your harass)
Lee Sin (If he touches you, you are dead. His cripple hurts you hard.)
Jax (He will dodge and hop)
Malphite (At 6 be ready to dodge his ult, never let him ground slam you)
Nidalee (She has range AND at 6 she gets the melee to kill you)
Riven (To many gap closers)
Yorick (He will poke you to death)

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Still practicing Ezreal skill shots xD

• Try and hit as many members of your team and the enemy team with your W as you can.
• DO NOT MISS!
• Your Arcane shift is your escape, be careful if you use it to engage on your enemies.

• Force Ezreals blink before you try and kill him.
• Ezreal can be played 2 different ways watch and see what he builds.
• Deny Ezreal early and he wont make it to the late game.

AD Ezreal

Trinity Force- This item is nice on top Ezreal as it makes you tankier, and all the procs on this item work off you Q.

Phantom Dancer- More AS, crit, and Ms.

Infinity Edge- Crit, Damage, AND CRIT DAMAGE INCREASE. NICE!

Bloodthirster- Sustain and Damage

Guardian Angel- Revive is helpful.

Last Whisper-Armor Pen for late game.

AP Ezreal

Rod of Ages- If the enemy has some burst and you need to be tankier.

Rabadon's Deathcap- Makes you do alot of damage

Lich Bane- Core for your Q, gives it an extra 1 ratio.

Deathfire Grasp- More burst

Void Staff- Screw MR

Will of the Ancients- Good if your mid has it, in teamfights you will heal alot from your W.

Ezreal is decently strong in soloQ. Ezreal has a strong early game and most players will get raged at by their team if they lose to an Ezreal top.

Ezreal can fit into team comps very well. His use in team games depends on your teams organization and making sure that Ezreal fits into the comp.

(Ad Ezreal)
Pros:
-Team gets another AD carry late game
-Ezreal can counter champions without a gap closer and a strong burst.
- Ezreal has a global ultimate that can help other lanes.
-Good escape mechanics from ganks.
-Enemies will think he is AD carry and try and counterpick.
-PULSEFIRE EZ
-Dance

Cons:
-Does no scale as hard as other top laners
-Certain bruisers will get tankyness fast a make you lose your early kill potential.
- Horrible at responding to ganks from his jungler.

(AP Ezreal)
Pros:
-Nice Poke
-Has very good mtchups
-Global Ultimate
-Good escape mechanics from ganks.
-Enemies will think he is AD carry and try and counterpick.
-PULSEFIRE EZ
-Dance
-Kite

Cons:
-Falloff
-No CC
-Your only AP skill you can use on minions is your ultimate,
-Does no scale as hard as other top laners
-Certain bruisers will get tankyness fast a make you lose your early kill potential.
- Horrible at responding to ganks from his jungler.

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 Riposte 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: Duelist- 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: Lunge- Fiora dashes forward to strike her target, dealing physical damage. Fiora can perform the dash a second time within a couple seconds at no mana cost.
Fiora dashes forward to strike her target, dealing 40/65/90/115/140 (+60% attack damage) physical damage. Fiora can perform the dash a second time within 4 seconds at no mana cost. Cost 60 Mana. Range 600

The double dash is very useful, many fioras I see use this completely wrong and will just double tap the skill for damage. I CAN NOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT USING BOTH DASHES EFFECTIVELY IS. Your first one will close the gap allowing you to damage and fight only use the second one when the stack for a second use is about to run out, or the enemy burns their escape. The damage on this skill is not high enough to make it an effective double tap, think of it as a utility gap closer.
Note: You can use this skill on a target and then dash to another target farther away effectively giving you a 1200 range dash, this is the only time you should double tap the skill.

W: Riposte-Fiora's Attack Damage is increased. When activated, Fiora parries the next basic attack and reflects magic damage back to the attacker. Works against champions, monsters, and large minions. Passive: Fiora's Attack Damage is increased by 15/20/25/30/35. Active: Fiora parries the next basic attack within 1.5 seconds and reflects 60/110/160/210/260 (+100% ability power) magic damage back to the attacker. Works against champions, monsters, and large minions. Cost 45. Mana Range 20

Passive AD is nice, and the effect is strong at all points in the game. You can block an enemy's auto trade in lane when they want to harass and reflect damage back at them. You can also block on next hit abilities (Damage, not the CC or bonus effect component.)
NOTE: With this you can block Gangplank's Q and Ezreal's mystic shot since they apply on hit effects.

E: Burst of Speed- Fiora temporarily gains additional Attack Speed. Each basic attack or Lunge she lands during this time increases her Movement Speed. Killing a champion refreshes the cooldown on Burst of Speed. Fiora gains 60/75/90/105/120% additional Attack Speed for 3 seconds. Each basic attack or Lunge she lands during this time increases her Movement Speed by 7/9/11/13/15% for 3 seconds, stacking up to 3 times. Killing a champion refreshes the cooldown on Burst of Speed. (Assists reduce the cooldown by half of the base amount.) Cost 55 Mana. Range 500

This skill is strong. It is a mini yi ultimate with a refresh effect and everything. And whats even better is that if you get a kill its a fully refreshed cooldown and with an assist its a half cooldown so in essence, you don't need to have the buff on to get the refresh. Also turn this on when you push an enemy tower it will drop FAST.

R: Blade Waltz- Fiora dashes around the battlefield to deal physical damage to enemy champions. Successive strikes against the same target deal less damage.
Fiora dashes around the battlefield striking random champions 5 times for 160/330/500 (+120% attack damage) physical damage. Successive strikes against the same target deal 25% damage. The first and last attack will be against the same target. Each strike applies on-hit effects.
Cost 100 Mana. Range 400

AMAZING ultimate. Does a lee sin kick damage to the target the first time they are hit, and will do the damage to them again over a few seconds if they are alone. You life steal while in this and since you also have a 1.2 AD ratio a bloodthirster gives you 2 good stats that work with your ult.In a team fight you will wreck the enemy squishy line with this if you can catch them away from tankier champions.
NOTE:
-You are untargettable while you are in this ultimate use it when the enemies look like they are going to focus you or when you can gib a squishy.
- you end up on the person who you target.
- If a champion goes stealth and there are no other targets around your ultimate is canceled.
-When getting dove under tower let the enemy champion hit you then ult, they will take damage from tower shots and your ult.


Combos:

Harass/Dps
Q-E-Q (W whenever they hit you)
Your damage comes from auto attks mainly so there is no real skill combos.

(Ult after you do your initial harass combo if you wish to try and kill)

Matchups:

You win against most champions with oh hit effects but will lose to ranged poke champions (That are survivable).

Easy:

Nasus (Block his Q and you are strong enough to deny him farm all day early on if you do not deny him he will grow stronger and wreck you.),
Gangplank (Block his Q and destroy oranges dont make it K.),
Garen (You wont kill him but you can farm and block all of his Qs and scare harder.), Irelia (Can block her Q and do more in an auto fight early, mid game she can beat you, but late you should be able to do your job in a team fight and win),
Wukong (Block his Q beat his ***, note that you can ult when he does to negate his damage but he can decoy when you ult to cancel your ult.),
Jarvan IV (Block his auto attk harassment and you are stronger in fights earlier on, zone him and avoid his skill shot harass and you win)
Riven (Block her Passive and you out trade her in Autos give her hell when her skills are on CD.)

Hard:

Jax (He can block everything with his dodge even your ult.),
Malphite (Atk speed and slow to hard, he wins trades and can poke you),
Olaf (axe poke and true damage),
Singed (All your moves force you to chase him -.-),
Pantheon (Poke all day has a shield to block autos),
Shen (hes shen),
Yorick (Poke all day evry day),
Teemo (pokes all day blind stops AAs),
Poppy (Most poppys have massive armor and can out trade you, her Q is an on hit yes but it does magic damage meaning it wont be blocked)

Play Video
Playing As/Vs

As:
-Try and trade off frequently early on and last hit to sustain with your passive.
-Punish enemies who try and CS your passive will heal off the damage the minions will do.
-Play smart in teamfights, you are not the tank do not initiate go in when the ranged carry does.
-Learn to time your Ws that will be key in teamfights knowing which champions auto is coming and when to W to block it (Always want to block enemy AD carry autos)
-Do not use an ult that will put you in a bad spot( IE enemy flashes you under the turret and has CC)

Vs:
-Get ninja tabi the 10% damage off all autos is a worth it investment.
-Lane as if your against an irelia, watch that she has nothing to double jump to you from, letting her last hit will result in sustain for her, and avoid her when her burst of speed is on
- If you deny her farm and prevent her from getting kills she wont scale into late game well.
-Try and bait her riposte and when its down hit her with your on hits typically the on next hit effect lasts longer then riposte does.

Big Item Choices:

- Bloodthirster- Works with your kit so well

- Last Whisper- Armor pen because with a fiora and an AD carry they will stack armor if their smart.

- Trinity Force- Good final item slow speed boost and an "artificial crit" after a skill.

- Maw of malmortious- Get this vs a team with more than 1 magic damage source save your ult until your about 20% then use it. Apocalypse.

- Infinity Edge- All your critting needs.

- Guardian Angel- 2 lives <3. good finisher if your high priority (fed or farmed)

Special case: Stacking Tiamats- This works if you have an AoE CC/bust team allowing fiora to be part of the AoE meta your ult will deal insane damage with this and make you rofl.

Solo Q:
Stomp you lane hard, carry to win the game. If you pick fiora, shes better picked later on as her role is very obvious. Vs squishy teams or teams that lack CC she will CLEAN HOUSE.

Ranked 5s:
Tell your team to play strong guard, buff, or lockdown champions. You can also tell you AD carry he does not need to be a late game AD he can be something like Urgot or Ezreal who win lane, and dont get typical builds.

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.

Passive: Nimble Fighter- 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: Urchin Strike- 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 will go its full length regardless of where the enemy is. This skill applys on hits so it can trigger your W passive. This makes sheen/lich bane amazing items on fizz.

W: Seastone Trident- Passive: Fizz's attacks rend his enemies, dealing 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 (+35% of ability power) plus 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 % of the target's missing health as magic damage over 3 seconds. Max 300 vs. minions. Active: For 5 seconds, Fizz's attacks deal an additional 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 (+35% of ability power) magic damage on hit and apply Grevious Wounds to his target, reducing incoming healing by 50%. Cost: 40 mana. Cooldown: 10 seconds.
This passive is what makes fizz.... fizz. This skill gives you bonus damage passively on your autos and if you active the ability the damage increases AND you apply a healing reduction debuff on your hits. This skill does more damage the lower our targets hp, so using this on a low hp enemy is like igniting them if you get enough AP.

E: Playful / Trickster- Fizz hops toward your cursor onto his spear, becoming untargetable, and then slams the ground dealing 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 +(75% of ability power) magic damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% for 2 seconds. Reactiving this ability while Fizz is on top of his spear, causes Fizz to jump again towards your cursor and deal 70 / 120 / 170 / 220 / 270 +(0.75 of ability power) magic damage in a smaller area to enemies nearby, instead of slamming the ground. Cost: 90/100/110/120/130 mana. Cooldown: 18/16/12/10/8 seconds.
This skill is AMAZING, scratch the trident making fizz, fizz. It is this skill. Fizz gets to hop (Becoming invulnerable while in the air) and for a brief period gets to chose whether to land or to hop again.This skill gives fizz great mobility and allows him to be very safe from ganks.

R: Chum the Waters- Fizz releases a magical fish toward a location that can bind itself onto enemy champions, slowing their movement by 50 / 60 / 70%. If the fish misses an enemy champion, it will remain on the ground for a brief time, binding to any enemy champion walking over it. After 1.5 seconds, a shark erupts from the earth, dealing 200 / 325 / 450 (+100% of ability power) magic damage in a large area, knocking up the target the fish is attached to, knocking other enemies aside and reducing the movement speed of all enemies hit by 50 / 60 / 70% for 1.5 seconds. Cost: 100 mana. Cooldown: 100/85/75 seconds.
This is Fizz's CC. Think of it like an olaf axe when throwing, So many Fizz's undershoot this. If you hit your target in lane you can lay down some MASSIVE hurt and usually pick up a kill.

Skill Order:
Combos:

(R if going in for the kill)-W-Q-E

Vladimir (You can dash up and lower his healing while you fight)
Warwick (You can poke him out of lane and he cant sustain it)
Teemo (You have the mobility needed to keep up and destroy him)
Nasus (Can heavily deny)
Cho'Gath (deny him before he gets tanky, dodge everything he has)
Swain (You can burst him before he sustains)

Ryze (Halts your mobility)
Riven (Shields skills stuns you in your Q)
Gangplank (Pokes you all day, you cannot instaburst him)
Yorick (Spams all day and zones you)
Kennen (Has the mobility to escape/kite you)

• Remember you have 2 jumps, you can use this skill to scout by hopping over a wall and then quickly hopping back.
• If you jump as a projectile is flying to you, you can block the damage and save yourself.
• If an enemy is catching up you you can Q through him and run in the other direction, when your Q is up do it again if needed.

• Keep something in between fizz and you to block the fish.
• Keep a fair distance from fizz if missing hp, fizz has insane mobility
• Try and avoid using moves that have travel time through the air while fizz has playful/trickster up.

Rod of Ages- Makes you tankier and makes you do more damage.

Lich Bane- Adds to your Q damage, the sheen helps you early.

Deathfire Grasp- Good burst

Rabadon's Deathcap- Makes your ultimate pentakill

Void Staff- They built MR?

Abyssal Mask- If your team has a decent amount of magic damage this item is nice for your Mpen.

Guardian Angel- Allows you to stay in the fight

Fizz can also be build as a tanky-Dps with a tri-force. He does less damage with abilities but will do more with his Q and basic attacks.

Fizz is an assassin and is naturally good in soloq. Teams are not typically organized enough/or ready to guard there carry from a fizz assassination.

Fizz works well in set team comps where the enemy picked a champion like Kog or Varus that can be brout down fast and does not have much escapability.

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.

Passive: Runic Skin- 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: Resolute Smite- 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.

W: Bulwark- Galio shields a friendly champion for 3.5 seconds, increasing their Armor and Magic Resistance by 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90. Each time the unit suffers damage, Galio is healed for 25/40/55/70/85 (+30% of ability power) (-20% healing for each consecutive hit). Cost 60mana. Range 800. Cooldown 13 seconds.
Basically puts Rammus's defensive curl ball on target of your choice, and whenever they take damage you get healed.
Note:The MR you get from this gets you AP.

E: Righteous Gust- Galio unleashes a gust of concussive wind that deals 60/105/150/195/240 (+80% of ability power) magic damage to all enemies in its path. A directional draft remains for 5 seconds, increasing the movement speed of allies passing through it by 20/28/36/44/52%. Cost 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 mana. Range 10000. Cooldown 12 seconds.
Good for poking and farming. In teamfights it is like a mini shurelya's.

R: Idol of Durand- Galio channels for 2.5 seconds, taunting nearby foes and blocking 50% of incoming damage. After channeling, Galio deals 220 / 330 / 440 (+85% of ability power) magic damage to surrounding enemies, plus an additional 10% damage for each attack he suffered while channeling. Max 80% bonus damage. Cost 100 / 145 / 190 mana. Range 550. Cooldown 170 / 150 / 130 seconds.
Using this makes you pull the whole team off your allies, this move is GAME CHANGING. W before you go into this and you will be healing for the first 1/2 of your ult and the pain you will feel from your enemies will be reduced.
Note: I recommend taking flash on galio as flash is very good for the placement of this skill.

Skill Order:
Combos:

Initiation
W-(Flash)-R-Q-E

Poke
Q-E

Yorick (Heal off his ghouls and outscale him into late game)
Vladimir (Can't do anything to you)
Rumble (You can shield his flamethrower damage and counterpoke harder)
Akali (You are to tanky and outtrade her)
Malphite (You both serve the same roles, you just serve it better)

Olaf (True Damage> your shield)
Udyr (Bear stance>your ult),
Garen (Beats you up early),
Nautilus (To much CC and sustain),
Mordekaiser (Blocks your trades and pushes harder).

• Tell your team the timings on your ultimate and when you want to initiate.
• If you are down on health, you can shield an ally before they run into minions or jungle creeps so you heal off of it.
• To farm, run past the melee minions and make them follow you into the ranged minions, then Q-E and you will get the whole wave.

• Make sure you are not in ranged for Galio's flash ult combo.
• Do not hit him with small damage moves when his shield is up.
• Save a stun (Oh-hit is best) to stop galios ultimate.

Rod of Ages- Makes you tanky, solves mana issues

Frozen Heart- CDR ,armor, a build in debuff aura, and mana if you get this in lane GG autoattkers. <3. rush this vs AD champions

Abyssal Mask- A good source of MR a strong amplifier for your teams AP and gives you decent damage.

Banshee's Veil- Makes your ult harder to stop and gives you nice stats.

Thornmail- More damage off your ultimate

Abyssal Mask- Alot More ultimate damage, Ap MR and the enemy MR drop all help your ult.

Rylai's Crystal Scepter- Good vs tanky team comps, or comps where mobility is key to fight.

Will of the Ancients- Gives you and your team sustain, get this if you have a mid who it works well with.

Force of Nature- Movespeed and magic resist.

Ok here. If you are able to win your lane you can do decently to carry your tem, however they need to know how to fight off your engages.

Galio shines here. He is a strong counterpick and every single move in his kit works well with a coordinated team. He can be picked early as enemies will think he is mid and will not try and counterpick him.

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.

Grog Soaked Blade- 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.

Parrrley- 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 deals a killing blow. This ability can critically strike and applies on-hit effects, including his passive.
This skill allows gangplank to poke, farm, and be overall much more useful of a champion. This skill can crit, meaning critplank is a relatively popular build due to this skill.

Remove Scurvy- Gangplank consumes a large quantity of citrus fruit which removes any crowd control effects on him and heals him for 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+100% of ability power).
This skill is GPs safety. Its a cleanse AND sustain. This is really nice in duels for the effects it offers.

Raise Morale- (Passive): Permanently increases Gangplank's attack damage by 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 and his movement speed by 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 %. (Active): Gangplank fires into the air, disabling his passive boost but inspiring himself to gain an additional 12 / 19 / 26 / 33 / 40 attack damage and 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20 % movement speed, with nearby allied champions receiving half that amount for 7 seconds. He regains the passive when the buff ends.
This skill is a good buff for your team, the passive component is really good for gp as the free stats are all good for top lane.

Cannon Barrage- Gangplank signals his ship to fire 25 cannonballs upon target area for 7 seconds. Each cannonball deals 75 / 120 / 165 (+20% of ability power) magic damage to all enemies hit. Enemies caught in the area of this ability are slowed by 25% for 1.25 seconds, with the duration refreshing if one stays in the area.
This skill is a global ultimate that provides a slow and some damage. This skill is really nice for gangplank as it allows him to help his team from top lane AND get some gold doing it to make his laning easier.

Skill Order:
Combos:

(R to start a fight)-E-Q-(W when you get CCed)

Skarner (Parley all day)

Renekton (Pistol to farm, eat oranges if he stuns you, sit and wait for lategame.)

Darius (Your pistol outranges his apprehend. Never let him get you)

Nasus (Kick back Farm minions and bully him)

Pantheon (Blocks parlay with passive)

Poppy (To much armor)

Jax (Dodge parlay and kills)

Malphite (Hes rock solid)

Irelia (Stacks armor, better nerf irelia)

• Farm as much as possible with your Q.
• Always watch the map for your ultimate.
• Raise moral has a long range, use it at the start of a teamfight and get alot of assists.

• Get early armor to survive his harass
• Do not plan on having any CC used when yo fight him as he is always running cleanse.
• Remember to have your jungler smite anything that is of value so GPs ult cannot steal it.

Bloodthirster- sustain off your Qs

Last Whisper- If they stack armor

Trinity Force- This item is useful for you in every way

Maw of malmortious- Good to build if the enemy has a strong A

Infinity Edge- Makes your Q hit really hard

Phantom Dancer- More AS, crit, and movespeed.


Gangplank is strong in soloQ as he can get farmed and carry games. He also has an ultimate to apply global pressure.

Gangplanks major use in ranked 5s will be aiding his team with his ultimate and raise morale.

Pros:

-Free gold for Q lasthit
-Global ultimate
-Good damage
-Decent poke
-Free sustain/Cleanse

Cons:

-No cc
-No escapes
-No Big impact aside from ultimate in teamfights

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.

Perseverance- 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. Come up and try a trade with you to turn it off, or C.Let you sustain your hp back.

Decisive Strike- Garen gains 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 % movement speed for 4 seconds. His next melee attack within 6 seconds will deal 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 / 90 (+1.4 per attack damage) physical damage and silence his target for 2.5 seconds.
An on next hit silence that does decent damage, the primary use of this skill is to use before you spin so that enemies cannot use their blink/escape ability to get away from you.

Courage- (Passive): Garen's armor and magic resistance are permanently increased by 0.5 every time he kills an enemy unit (maximum 25 additional armor and magic resist).(Active): Garen places a defensive shield on himself, decreasing all damage taken by 20 / 24 / 28 / 32 / 36 % for 3 seconds.
The passive on this skill is REALLY strong, it allows you to get 2 rune pages of flat armor and MRs worth of runes after just 50 cs. The active on this ability allows you to be able to build some damage items and still be extremely tanky in endgame teamfights.

Judgment- Garen rapidly spins his sword around his body for 3 seconds, removing all existing slows and reducing the duration of new slows by 50%, and dealing 25 / 45 / 65 / 85 / 105 (+0.7 per bonus Attack Damage) physical damage to nearby enemies every half second. Garen can deactivate Judgement early by activating the ability again after 0.5 seconds. Garen cannot use Decisive Strike or Demacian Justice while Judgement is in effect. Damage to minions and neutral monsters is reduced by 50%. Judgment's damage can critically strike, in which case, only the bonus damage will be multiplied.
SPIN 2 WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This skill is your main damage source, it acts as a cleanse from slows as well as your main damage tool. This skill can crit too, you will know when it does as you will hear a sound and a small sword will appear on the enemy.

Demacian Justice- Garen brings down Demacian Justice on his opponent, dealing 175 / 350 / 525 magic damage plus 1 additional damage per 3.5 / 3 / 2.5 health his opponent is missing.
This skill is your KO move. When an enemy gets below 40% hp use this and you will probably kill them. This skill does MORE DAMAGE based on the enemies hp missing so building hp DOES NOT counter this skill. It also does magic damage, so the enemy will not be able to build against it or they will be destroyed by your physical damage.

Skill Order:

Max vs standard enemies.

Max vs enemies who you will not be able to spin on and will only have time for 1 hit.
Combos:

Q-E-(W when you start taking damage)-(R to K.O.)

Akali (Sit in her circle and spin -Puts on shades- to win)

Nasus (Zone him hard)

Riven (She can't beat you in an upfront fight in lane.)

Renekton (Your spin keeps going his stops. Hue)

Darius (DEMACIA SHALL PREVAIL!)

Irelia (better nerf irelia, she gets zoned by Garen.)

Wukong (Spin when he decoys, yours is low cooldown his is not =D)

Rumble (If he gets close hes dead.)

Skarner (Just spin b4 he trie to pull you, he will kill himself.)

Xin Zhao (You stop his early snowball and screw him over.)

Teemo (Ranged)

Yorick (Poke and sustain all day.)

Kennen (Ranged)

Udyr (Tiger out trades you.)

Nidalee (Ranged and safe.)

Jayce (Ranged, if you make it close he kncoks you back.)

Olaf (True damage spam)

Malphite (Rock solid, takes no damage. YOU WILL LOSE!)

Kayle (Ranged and can kite)

Janna (A good janna will poke and kite you ALL DAY EVRY DAY)

• If you cast ult while you in your spin and do not click anything afterwards, you will ult the target you clicked.
• Building crit gives you a decent damage increase.
• the brush is your best friend.

• Avoid brushes.
• Stack armor to live in lane.
• Do not underestimate garens burst with his ult.
• The best time to fight Garen is when his spin is down.

Trinity Force- Despite none of the sheen stats helping you this items overall utility is AMAZING.

Phantom Dancer- More AS, crit, and Ms. Makes your spin good for chasing and critting.

Infinity Edge- Crit, Damage, as well as a damage increase on your crits.

Bloodthirster- More Sustain and Damage.

Last Whisper-Armor Pen if the enemies stack armor.

Maw of Malmortius- Strong item vs an ap laner.

Yomuu's Ghostblade- The bruta gives you CDR in lane. The full item gives you crit for your spin and an active for chasing and fighting.

Garen is a good pub stomper in soloQ games as he can deny and zone alot of early game champions.

Garen is not as strong in ranked 5s as he does not really fit into any of the current meta team comps.

Pros:

-Tanky
-High early damage
-Spin 2 Win
-sustained
-Can shut down champions with weak early games and keep them out of the game.
-No mana

Cons:

-Weak to kite
-Doesn't scale insanely hard
-Hard to place on a team
-No hard CC

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.

(Passive) True Grit- 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: Buckshot- Graves fires three bullets in a cone, dealing 60 / 95 / 130 / 165 / 200 (+0.8 per bonus attack damage) physical damage to all enemies in their path. Enemies at close range can be hit by multiple projectiles, but each bullet beyond the first will deal only 35% damage up to a maximum of 109 / 173 / 237 / 301 / 364.5 (+1.5 per bonus attack damage) physical damage.
The damage on this skill insane early on. This is mostly just a part of your burst, early game this skill +Your smokescreen can clear a minion wave.

W: Smoke Screen- Graves fires a smoke canister at the target area, dealing 60 / 110 / 160 / 210 / 260 (+60% of ability power) magic damage upon landing and creating a cloud of smoke for 4 seconds. Enemies inside the smoke cloud will be slowed by 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 % and will have their vision reduced to only what is inside the smoke cloud and enemies attacking them, everything else will look like it is in the Fog of War.
This skill is strong in teamfights, duels, and for juking. The overall utility this spell provides is just amazing. You can use it on your enemy so your jungler to pass by the enemy's wards.

E: Quickdraw- Graves dashes forward, gaining a 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 % attack speed boost for 4 seconds. Attacking enemy units with autoattacks lowers the cooldown of Quickdraw by 1 second each attack.
A mini blink with an AS steroid, use it to avoid enemy skillshots and counter-trade.

R: Collateral Damage-Graves fires an explosive shell in a straight line, dealing 250 / 350 / 450 (+1.4 per bonus attack damage) physical damage to the first target it hits. After hitting a champion or reaching the end of its range, the shell explodes dealing 140 / 250 / 360 (+1.2 per bonus attack damage) physical damage in a cone behind the target.
A giant chunk of burst damage. Q-R can easily dominate most enemies health bars.

Skill Order:
Combos:

W-E-Q-R

Cho'Gath (Poke him down do not get caught),
Darius (Out range him completly, youcan E his apprehend),
Garen (He can't reach you),
Jarvan IV (E out of his flag combo and away from his demacia range),
Olaf (E from his axes if need be, Poke him with Q and autos),
Nasus (Zone him early with your range)
Singed (Beat him out early or you will fall behind),
Udyr (Can't touch you)
Volibear (You can keep him away with your E until you get a phage, then you can kite him).

Akali (You will zone her pre 6, but then 6 your dead),
Fiora (She has a double dash to keep with you),
Fizz (To many gap closers),
Pantheon (He can Q harass you to death, and his shield blocks your harass),
Lee Sin (If he touches you, you are dead. His cripple hurts you hard.),
Jax (He will dodge and hop),
Malphite (At 6 be ready to dodge his ult, never let him ground slam you),
Nidalee (She has range AND at 6 she gets the melee to kill you),
Riven (To many gap closers)
Yorick (He will poke you to death).

• When running from enemies: run in a direction, smokescreen, then run in a different direction. JUKED!
• Save your E until the enemy reaches you/ uses their gap closer for the blink effect.
• Do not dash in to buckshot an enemy that has strong close range damage (IE: Darius).

• Try and fight/Poke him if you see his passive goes down.
• Get out of smokescreen ASAP the information you lose in there could cause your death.
• Get early Armor, as all of graves moves (Save smokescreen) deal physical damage.

Heart of Gold + Vampiric Scepter - This is a trend I say some AD carrys beginning to do, It does not work as well on bottom as it does on top lane. This allows you to use your range and farm to late while getting some hp early to survive enemies. Bot lane the enemy has ranged as well so you need the damage, but here you get free trades so it is less needed. This also allows you to scale into late game faster.
I would recommend double doran's instead if you are fighting a weaker early game champion to use your advantage.

Trinity Force- This item is nice on top graves as all of the parts are used (Save the small bit of Ap), this items components allow you to fight other top laners very well

Phantom Dancer- More AS, crit, and Ms.

Infinity Edge- Crit, Damage, AND CRIT DAMAGE INCREASE. NICE!

Bloodthirster- Sustain and Damage

Guardian Angel- Revive is helpful.

Last Whisper-Armor Pen for late game.

Graves top does decently in soloQ as he has decent matchups and you have a strong carry power late game. If your bot lane does well/Wins your team will have 2 strong AD carrys.

Graves works well here as you can run alt bot lanes such as Jarvan-Leona, you can run a strong early AD bot such as Urgot, and you will have a much stronger late game if your jungler is tanky.

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.

Passive: Warpath- 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: Rampage- 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.
This skill is a spammable AoE damage source. You can use this to harass your enemy while staying mobile. This will be a constant source of AoE damage in teamfights.

W: Spirit of Dread- Hecarim surrounds himself with the spirit of dread for 4 seconds, magic damage per second to all enemies within its reach dealing 80 / 125 / 170 / 215 / 260 (+80% of ability power). Additionally, Hecarim is healed for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30% of the damage enemies within the area take from any source. Healing from damage dealt to minions is capped at 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 per cast.
This skill does a small amount of AoE damage to all targets around Hecarim. The main use of this skill is the heal it gives you. You will heal a percentage of all damage done to enemies in this circle, making you deceptively tanky. This skill allows you to engage a fight at low health (And following the initiation bursts) be at almost full again.

E: Devastating Charge- Hecarim gains 75% movement speed over the course of three seconds, ending one second afterward. His next attack knocks the target back, dealing physical damage based on how far Hecarim has traveled during Devastating Charge's duration, with a minimum of 40 / 75 / 110 / 145 / 180 (+50% of bonus attack damage) to a maximum of 80 / 150 / 220 / 290 / 360 (+100% of bonus attack damage).
This skill gives you an increasing movespeed boost for a small amount of time (Like a powerball), your next basic attack will give you a slight gap close and knockback on your enemy you hit.

R: Onslaught of Shadows- Hecarim summons spectral riders and charges forward, dealing 100 / 200 / 300 (+80% of ability power) magic damage to anyone they strike.
Hecarim releases a shockwave when he finishes his charge, dealing 50 / 125 / 200 (+40% of ability power) additional magic damage and causing nearby enemies to flee in terror away from Hecarim for 1 second.
This ultimate is your initiation, it does decent damage and applies a "flee" to nearby enemies forcing them to run in a direction away from you. If you use this ultimate in to the enemy team it will scatter and disperse them.

Skill Order:
Use this max order for standard lanes, it allows you to deal some damage early on.
Use this max order if you fall far behind and can do nothing in lane but farm. This order will keep you sustained in lane.
Combos:

(R to initiate)-E-Q-W-Q

Fiora (You can use your mobility and outplay her)
Singed (Ride alongside him, out of poisons range, and kill him with your mobility) Vladimir (Both of you are weak early, you scale better)
Shen (You can sustain and when he ults away you get to farm)

Riven (Kills you)
Darius (Too much damage)
Nasus (he gets to farm and wither wrecks you)
Olaf (True damage spam]]
Kayle (Range and tons of damage)
Udyr (Never get close)
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Me as top lane as hecarim vs kayle. Kayle generally has an advantage in the matchup until teamfight phase (I do not play hecarim as well as some others due to the fact you need to master your Qs timing for CS).

• Use your E to get behind the enmy then auto them to shoot them back.
• Your ult forces enemies to run away fom you, use it in the middle of all the enemies to disperse them and allows your team to pick up kills.
• Keep your Q charged before a teamfight.

• Have good ward coverage at all times, hecarim may do low damage in lane but his ability to recieve ganks is superb.
• Do not allow hecarim to lane safely, if he makes it to late game your team is in trouble.
• Do not allow hecarim to land his ult on your whole team or its game over.

Philosiphers Stone and Heart of Gold- Help you get through early game. Both items that build off these are useful to you

Trinity Force- All useful stats, makes you get strong.

Sunfire Aegis- Ride with your enemies for more damage.

Maw of Malmortius- Makes you stronger at low hp and makes you stronger vs casters.

Frozen Heart- Good debuff for when you ult.

Guardian Angel- Lets you revive, then W to full hp.

Hecarim is meh in soloQ. His matchups are not that good and he needs his team to follow up for his kit to get its full effect.

Hecarim is AMAZING here. If you get a lane you can farm in you get a really good chance at winning. Hecarim receives ganks well and his kit works very well in coordinated teams.

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: Ionian Fervor- 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: Bladesurge- Irelia dashes forward to strike her target for 20/50/80/110/140 (+1 per Attack Damage). If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 Mana. Cooldown 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 seconds. Cost 60/65/70/75/80 mana. Range 650

Strong move, your gap close refreshes the CD and 35 mana if you get a kill. Does strong damage and applies on hits.
Note: To gain ALOT of distance you can lasthit a minion from almost max range and with the refreshed cooldown jump at your enemy champion, good if they are trying to stay back and play passive because you are ahread. this skill resets auto attack timer if your within range of the enemy auto them then Q.

W: Hiten Style-Irelia is skilled in the art of Hiten, passively giving her physical attacks 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 health restoration. Activating Hiten Style adds 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 true damage to her physical attacks for 6 seconds. Cooldown 15second. Cost 40mana

A very nice skill for laning, gives you sustain off your auto attacks, and when you activate you get a very nice little boost of true damage on your auto attacks. This applies to blade surge to when its turned on. Giving it extra damage as well.

E: Equilibrium Strike-Irelia's attack balances the scales, dealing 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+50% of ability power) damage and slowing the target by 60% for 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds. However, if the target has a higher Health % than Irelia, then the blow stuns the target instead. Cooldown 8 seconds. Cost 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 mana

A very nice skill that gives a feel of I can win this fight. The slow is pretty big as well and it has a slightly longer range allowing you to use this on fleeing targets.

R: Transcendent Blades- Irelia summons 4 spirit blades that she can fling to deal 80/120/160 (+60 of attack damage) (+50% of ability power) physical damage to enemies they pass through. She heals for 25% of that damage against champions and 10% against minions. Cooldown 60 / 50 / 40 seconds. Cost 100 mana.

Sustain wave clear, and a little bit of nice extra damage all on a low cd so you can use it for whatever purpose you wish.

Combos/Skillorder:

Skill Order:
Max R>W>Q>E

Combos:
W-Q(Q to minion then Q again to champion for distance Q initate)-E-(Ult for more damage and heal)

Matchups:

Irelia is generally like a riven there is no real "counter" to her, but she does have lanes that are harder.

Easy:

Jarvan IV (You can out damage him past lvl 5 and kill him),
Akali ( do not try and trade with her until ~lvl 4, at which point your combo will out damage hers),
Tryndamere (get cloth 5 engange him at lvl 4 and get lucky and hope he dosn't crit 5x), Poppy (Your true damage ignores your passive allowing you to put ALOT of damage off on her)
Gangplank (when he comes to parley harass you can dash up and kill him)
Shen (You survive him, and when he ports away you get freefarm and carry late)
Sivir (she cannot escape and you can win in a 1v1 committed fight.)

Hard:
Garen (He spins to win and screams demacia how do you beat that?)
Renekton (Has alot of harass and can just generally beat you, also hes an interior crocodile alligator),
Riven (This lane is a match of skill, the better player will come out on top here.), Jax (He is the champ, and will win any direct straight up fight to prove it)
Olaf (True damage to true)
Rumble (Another matchup of complete skill and timing.)
Warwick (can outsustain you and will win in an open fight).
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Playing As/Vs:

As:
-With sheen and your W on you can 1 shot minions with your Q, use this to your advantage.
-At level one you can get a very strong trade off against average trade champions, you let them hit you then as soon as you take damage E them and get in like 2 autos.
-Your job in fights is to zone the enemy carries, but do not get carried away and try and run in multiple people v 1.

Vs:
-Watch your minions in order to prevent her from jumping to you.
-Do not trade when her W is turned on.
-Never underestimate Irelia even at low health she is VERY deadly.

Big Item Choices:

Trinity Force- All the stats help you, and this item makes you a carry monster

Warmog's Armor- Gives you tankyness

Atma's Impailer- Gives you damage off your tankyness

Force of Nature- MS , MR, and hp regen

Wit's End- Strong item for dmg(Magic which they probably wont itemize against, this plus your true damage means a good bit of your damage is almost unaffected by resistance), Atkspeed, and Mr.

Ionic Spark- Good for split pushing

Randuin's Omen- Good item in general for tanky DPS

Gametypes:

SoloQ:
Strong pick here, if you know what your doing you can outplay alot of players and carry yourself. If you can get an advantage early you will become a monster late and wreck thier team. Irelia can be picked early on in the draft although she is good to be picked later on in.

Ranked 5s:
If you coordinate with your team Irelia can be a GREAT pick. Your team will know your strengths and your weaknesses and fill them in. They can let you farm to late where you become a beast and pick comps that synergize around your fighting style.

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.

Passive: Tailwind- 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: Howling Gale- 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 distance traveled by the whirlwind also increases for each second it channels to a maximum of 3.
This skill is your CC and main farming ability. A fully charged gale can easily clear a minion wave with some AP. When your jungler comes to gank lock the enemy laner down with this spell.

W: Zephyr- Passive: Increases Janna's movement speed by 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 %, and allows her to move through units. Active: Janna launches her elemental at the target dealing 60 / 115 / 170 / 225 / 280 (+80% of ability power) magic damage, and slowing their movement speed by 24 / 30 / 36 / 42 / 48 % for 4 seconds. Janna loses the passive benefit while Zephyr is on cooldown.
This skill makes you VERY SAFE and makes you VERY STRONG vs champions with no gap closer. This skill does insane poke and the slow is enough to let you back off after the harass, or chase the enemy down with your shielded autos.

E: Eye Of The Storm- Janna shields her target, absorbing 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+90% of ability power) damage and buffs them, increasing their attack damage by 14 / 23 / 32 / 41 / 50 for 5 seconds (can target Turrets) or until the shield is broken.
This skill is nice as it gives a shield as well as giving AD. You can use this on your jungler as he comes in to gank for more damage. This skill will allow you to trade really well in lane with your autos as well.

R: Monsoon- Janna knocks surrounding enemies back 875 units and channels healing winds, restoring 70 / 110 / 150 (+35% of ability power) health to nearby allies each second for 4 seconds.
This ultimate is AMAZING. This skill can sustain you, push enemies away, AND it has a high ratio to heal your team with later on.

Skill Order:
Farm Janna (Max shield when teamfights start to happen)
Kill Janna (When you want to kill people)
Combos:

W-E-Q-(R whenever needed)

Kennen (You win in lane, and you prevent his ult in teamfights)
Galio (Blow away from his ultimate)
Udyr (Kite and poke all day)
Garen (You have to much mobility)
Darius (Ranged slows, knockback and mobility
Olaf (Dodge axes, poke him down)
Riven (You have mobility control)
Skarner (Cant reach you)

Yorick (Sustains your poke, and he pokes back hard)
Akali (Cant stop her at 6)
Poppy (Can farm safely to late game)
Nasus (peacefully farms)
Cho'Gath (Gets big)
Pantheon (Spear spam)

• When you receive ganks it is your job to lock down targets and your junglers job to do damage.
• get in front of an enemy trying to run and use your ultimate to shoot him back.
• Even without many items you are still very useful to your team, if you fall behind just get gp/10s and wait until late game.
• Use your ultimate as sustain if your team needs it on a push, you will get more out of the heal out of a fight then in it.

• Remember where she sets up her Q the knockup will be coming from that area not where she is.
• Wait to use an AoE ult until janna's ultimate is down.
• Janna's CDs are low, just because you see her use a skill it does not mean it is safe to jump on her.
• The best thing to do vs janna in lane is to buy gp/10s and farm

Philosiphers Stone, Kage's lucky pick and Heart of Gold- Your safe in lane so these items are nice on you. They also build into useful items later on.

Rod of Ages- Makes you tanky, solves mana issues

Rabadon's Deathcap- Makes you get soooo much AP, especially with your passive when your low hp.

Deathfire Grasp- Cdr and with your burst combo amazing damage. If you rush this you can leblanc assassinate people.

Lichbane - A finisher Item, makes your autos strong low on HP.


Janna top can do ok in SoloQ but it does not have much carry potential so it is not that good there.

Janna excells here. Janna top allows you to run a protect the kogmaw comp or run a bot top switch.

Pros:

-Always scales into late
-Good utility
-Safe Pick
-Strong passive or the team

Cons:

-Low kill potential
-Lower damage then some other tops.
-Ultimate needs to be mastered in order to be effective.

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.

Passive: Martial Cadence- 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 able to as it gives you a good amount of poke and fighting ability.


Q: Dragon Strike- Jarvan IV extends his lance, dealing 70/115/160/205/250 (+110% of attack damage) physical damage and lowering the Armor of all enemies in its path by 10/14/18/22/26% for 3 seconds. If it contacts his standard it will pull Jarvan IV to its location, knocking up enemies in his path. Cooldown 10/9/8/7/6 seconds. Cost 45/50/55/60/65 mana. Range 500.

A very good move to poke with in lane. Auto+Q does a TON of damage. If you connect it to your standard it is a knockup AND a gap closer/Escape.

W: Golden Aegis- Jarvan IV forges a 50/90/130/170/210 (+20/25/30/35/40 health for each nearby enemy champion) health shield for 5 seconds, which slows surrounding enemies by 15/20/25/30/35% for 2 seconds. Cooldown 20/18/16/14/12 seconds. Cost 75 mana.

This skill is nice, Just not really in lane. This skill has a decent mana cost, and the shield value is not high enough with 1 enemy to really matter. The slow is decent but again on one person feels wasted.

E: Demacian Standard-Passive: Grants Jarvan a bonus 10/13/16/19/22% attack speed and 10/13/16/19/22 armor. Active: Jarvan IV throws a Demacian flag to a nearby area, dealing 60/105/150/195/240 magic damage to enemies in the area and granting his passive benefits to nearby allies and again to himself for 8 seconds. Cooldown 13 seconds. Cost 60 mana.
NOTE:IF AN ALLY HAS TELEPORT, THEY CAN PORT IN ON YOUR FLAG. OP!!

VERY NICE SKILL. Gives armor and attack speed for learning, and if you throw it out it gives you the bonus again AND gives it to your team. Its like a mini Aegis for team fights. This is the intiation to your knockup combo so position it behind your enemy. This skill also acts as a ward to where it is thrown, so if you are scared of going in a brush or want to check a position over the wall give it a throw.

R: Cataclysm- Jarvan IV heroically leaps at an enemy champion, dealing 200/325/450 (+150 of attack damage) physical damage and creating an arena of impassable terrain around them for 3.5. Activate again to collapse the Cooldown 120/105/90 seconds. Cost 100/125/150 mana. Range 600.

GET DUNNNKKKEEEDDDDDDDD. This skill is your main initiator, a good source of damage, sounds cool, and is just all around awesome. DEMACIIIIAAAAAA.

Skill Sequence:

Max R>Q>E>W

Combos:

E-Q-Auto-W-(R if you want to kill)

Gangplank (When he pistols you combo and rape),
Kennen (You can jump at him and trap him in your ultimate. Proceed to rape)
Renekton (Big spear kill crocodile)
Mordekaiser (Fight him away from your minions, make him choose to fight you or get shield.)
Rumble (Combo-Dead, beware of him ulting in your circle),
Singed (Abuse early game, win lane)
Vladimir (He cant outsustain your pain.).

Yorick (Zombie apocalypse),
Udyr (Oh deer, Its Udyr),
Shen (He will poke and sustain all day long, just like a yorick),
Olaf (TRUEEEE DAMMMMAGEEEEE),
Pantheon (Where does he get all the spears -.-),
Nidalee (SPEAR HEAL SPEAR HEAL SPEAR HEAL, CAT!)
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• Use your flag for scouting.
• Do not lock your teams high priority targets in your ultimate, if you do let them out ASAP.
• Do not dunk enemies for fun, no matter how tempting it may be.

• Do not let Jarvan abuse his early game damage on you.
• Take Flash against a Jarvan, Getting locked in a wall can be very problematic.
• If you see Jarvans flag go down RUN he will probably try and kncok you up or get in range of his ult.

The Brutalizer - Good damage early, allows you to hold lane advantage.

Trinity Force- All around good item for a tanky DPS, J4 is no exception.

Last Whisper- Good pen if you are needed for damage

Frozen Mallet- Good if you fall behind and need to be tanky

Maw of Malmortius - Strong item for carrying allows you to be stronger at lower HP.

Atma's Impailer - Converts tankyness to damage, and your very tanky.

Sunfire Aegis -Tanky item gives you health and defence, more damage from atmas, gives you a nice extra bit of damage in fights.

Bloodthirster - More damage, alot of lifesteal I tend to buy this if we have a tanky team and need more dps.

Infinity Edge -More damage, helps your crit rate, makes more crit dmg, pretty good item if you are going DPS.

Thornmail - good for fighting heavily dps warriors like trynda,xin,and GP returns 30% of their damage to them.

Banshee's Veil - good for M def more, more hp, more mana, more dmg off atmas, Gives u immunity to one hostile spell.

Force of Nature - good for magic defence more run spd and hp regen.

Aegis of the Legion - gives you team a nice boost while your around which you should be tanky enough to be.

Frozen Heart- A good item if the enemy team has a few auto-Attk ADs.
Jarvan is strong in soloQ, He can pick up slack for another lane if he is doing well. You can pick him early in as most people will not think he is going top lane. Most teams will not know how to react to your ultimate causing them to split or be confused.
Jarvan is also a very strong champion in ranked 5s. He works AMAZINGLY with AoE team comps as his ultimate forces enemies to stay in the AoE. Jarvan also works very well with coordinated ganks being able to respond much better than many top lane champions.

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: Relentless Assault- 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: Leap Strike- 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 damage. Cooldown 10/9/8/7/6 seconds. Cost 65 mana. Range 700.

Your Gap closer AND escape move as you can use on enemies or allies.
Note: You can hop to a ward with this move.

W: Empower- Jax charges his weapon with energy, causing his next attack to deal 40/85/130/175/220 (+60% ap) bonus magic damage. Cooldown 7/6/5/4/3 seconds. Cost 30 mana.

A very nice damaging move, its on a low CD and it resets the auto attk timer.

E: Counter Strike- Jax enters a defensive stance, dodging all incoming basic attacks for 2.0 seconds, and reducing the damage of AoE attacks by 25%. At the end of the effect, Jax deals 50/75/100/125/150 (+0.5 bonus attack damage) physical damage and stuns nearby enemies for 1 second. This spell deals an additional 20% damage (up to 100%) for each attack dodged. This attack can now be ended early to deal the instant stun. Cooldown 18/16/14/12/10. Cost 100 mana. Range 400

The Original Esports titl.... Oh wait Jax's counter strike. This move gives you auto attack immunity for a set period of time AND after a few seconds or when you cancel it, this skill will stun nearby enemies.
Note: Your E dodges all moves that would apply on hit effects while spinning such as Fiora or Warwicks ultimates.

R: Master-At-Arms- Passive: Every third consecutive attack deals an additional 100/160/220 (+0.7 ability power) magic damage.
Active: Jax Strengthens his Resolve, Gaining 25/35/45 Armor (+30% of your AD) and 25/35/45 Magic Resist(+20% of your Ability Power) For 8 seconds. Cooldown 80 seconds. Cost 80 mana. Range 100

The passive of this skill makes your auto attacks deal a good amount of damage, this will be a good part of your damage output do not underestimate this passive. The active component of this skill makes you very durable while it is on, so remember to use it when you go into a fight.
Passive Note: When your passive attack speed stacks wear off, your consecutive attack count resets.

Combos/Skillorder:

Skillorder:

Max R>W>Q>E

Combos:

E-Q-Auto-(Keep E on if they try and fight, E instantly if they try and run)-W-(R if a full fight starts)

Matchups:

Easy:

Tryndamere (all autos, hes gonna miss them all and die)
Fiora (Same as tryndamere AND you dodge her ultimate and stun her after lol)
Irelia (The majority of her damage is autos and you out trade her)
Renekton (Dodge his stun damage component, which is a big portion of his damage)
Riven (She needs to auto to deal a good portion of her damage)
Gangplank(Dodge his pistol hop to trade back stun and DPS- Profit.)
Master Yi (See tryndamere and Fiora)
Jarvan IV dodge his auto harass and once you get your skills you will be able to out trade him.

Hard:

Lee Sin (Sustain all Day HUEHUEHUE), Yorick (Your Death Will only be the beginning), Warwick (Yea, Try hurting him its not fun.), Mordekaiser (Numero Uno, beg for ganks), Teemo (He will blind you making you miss your autos, and he will lay a mushroom for if you want to fight him).

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Playing As/Vs:

As:
-Count your ultimate passive. When its at 2 you can be aggressive with your Hop-Auto-E Which will deal ALOT of quick burst damage.
-Time your dodge use so it will be up when their skills are down and they want to auto you.'
- Remember to use W as an Auto attack reset.
-Having a ward at all times in essence gives you another flash resource.

Vs:
-Avoid fighting Jax until his dodge time is over
-Do not underestimate a Jax's burst damage he can wreck you very fast.
-DO NOT DIVE A JAX IF HIS STUN IS UP, HE WILL DODGE YOUR ATTACKS AND STUN YOU UNDER TOWER.

Big Item Choices:

Trinity Force- All the stats help you, and this item makes you a carry monster

Hextech Gunblade- Sustain, Damage (In both types to benefit your ultimate), and a slow damaging active effect.

Wit's End- Strong item for dmg(Magic which they probably wont itemize against, this plus your true damage means a good bit of your damage is almost unaffected by resistance), Atkspeed, and Mr.

Ionic Spark- Good for split pushing.

Maw of Malmortius- Gives you durability against mages and warriors at the same time.

Guinsoo's Rageblade- Good gold value item, use it if the enemy team has an up close fighting comp that will allow you to auto.

Gametypes:

SoloQ:
Who wants a piece of the champ? In soloQ you can use Jax's snowbally nature very well, he snowballs and can effect games in the exact same way as a riven. He has very good matchups and on top of that can transition very well into late game, making him a VERY strong pick to carry people in SoloQ.

Ranked 5s:
Hes been in the tournament scene alot recently, His ability to get one good gank and be a very beneficial carry for his game is amazing. He also has the ability to recover from a bad laning phase if your team helps you by letting you farm, trading, or ganking form you when your down.