Best Solotops? Unlikely Solotops that work?

[quote=ianxplosion]Title. My buddies want me to solotop GP, I want to try some unlikely characters in the spot. What makes a good solotop, and what do you think some wonky, yet workable solotop charbuilds would be?[/quote]

[quote=Wintermond]Olaf is the king of frostbitten north lane. A good solo top champ needs at least three of those: -sustainability -strong base stats -good damage -chasing/escaping tools -farming tools -mobility dunno, cant think of more right off the bat and im in a hurry. Counterbuilding is OP top.[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]GP is actually not an uncommon solo top. He does it pretty well. A good solo top generally requires a few basic elements. I will list those important elements here. 1; Survivability~ How do we obtain this survivability? Shielding skills, like UDyr turtle and Sion W. Sustain skills like Irelia W, Olaf W, Sion Ult, Cho passive, etc. 2; A tanky DPS, bruiser, or Offtank archtype champion. But why is that really so important? The kind of match ups you find in the solo lane are really rather straightforward. Most of them are AD match ups, but you have the occasional Rumble or Skarner or Akali or something like that. As a solo lane, building resistances to counter your opponent is paramount to your success. It's probably the single most under rated attribute to solo laning, and simultaneously one of the most important. I think it's more important as a solo to counter what your opposition is doing than it is to build into your own strengths. Example; Garen/Riven/Renekton. SO EASY. Warden's Mail. GG. Lane is over, they can't do anything. 3; Lots and lots and lots of good rune pages. Out of my 20 pages, a good 15 are just dedicated solo top pages :P I have a page for just about every scenario or opponent I could face. Those are your keys to success! IMO the best solo's are; Cho, Sion, Olaf. But there are a lot of good ones after them as well if you know how to use them ^_^[/quote]

[quote=Wintermond]most ad's can go top because they kite like bausses(needs some practice tho), just throwing this in here. tankyness is not errything. :P CAN they still belong bottom in regular matches. best solo tops from my pov: Olaf, Irelia, Riven, Cho, GP. Why? Because they can win their lane against everyone(In the right hands) except for hard counters.[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]Riven gets shit on so hard Winter... :3 Sorry to say. Also AD carries eat a big dick top lane. Sooooo easy to beat AD carries. That's why the meta shifted to tanky DPS and bruisers in solo lanes to begin with. Because AD carries suck at it >:P[/quote]

[quote=Nighthawk]Riven, GP, & Irelia win top no matter wat? Wait....what.[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]Irelia is a thing in EU Night, Wickd refuses to be bad with her xD And Winter loves Riven :3[/quote]

[quote=Nighthawk]Yeah, there are just like zero good people on NA who can play irelia... x.x GP can't really WIN the lane always...but he can survive in the lane and just farm all day. And Riven...well Winter is good with her so wat do I know :P[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]I'm trying to learn. Irelia doesn't win all lanes though is the thing, she wins lots of lanes. I'm trying to learn her to figure out which ones. Her W is so strong... >_>[/quote]

[quote=Wintermond]With the proper knowledge of the champ, it's very hard to outlane the ones i named and even against hard matchups they can still farm well. I didn't say they always win their lane. :P And yea, Riven is kind of a nightmare to lane against if you can play her. I guess US just doesn't know how to use her. :<[/quote]