Worst Top Lane Champs to Climb 13.4

Date: 02/28/2023

In a recent post, We talked about some of the champions that I play or hope to start playing more of in SoloQ to climb. You can find that post for free here. 

Now it is time to do the opposite of this. Auto-locking any of these champions as of patch 13.4 will essentially be GG.

Riven

Yasuo

Renekton(This hurts)

Gragas

Gnar

Now you can probably tell why a decent number of these champions are on this list. Their skill ceiling is TOO high for a lot of low elo players. Riven and Yasuo are especially notorious for fitting the “wanna be” highlight gods of Bronze. But, I wanna specifically talk about the other three. Renekton, Yone, Gnar.

Renketon - I talked about why the croc is just terrible in this season in a previous post which you can find here. But Ill say it again. There are ZERO good builds for Renekton, he synergizes terribly with most of the mythic items in the game right now and desperately needs buffed. I don't care how much people say Prowlers Claw is good on him, I hate that build so much. He needs cooldown reduction on his E by at least one to one and a half seconds at max rank, AND we need buffs for Goredrinker, whether its cooldown on the active, or more healing against champions(or allow reduced healing from minions) it just needs to be something.

Gragas - Now we have seen only a slight amount of Gragas not in the jungle ever since his notorious Season 3 nerf YEARS ago, and since the removal of DFG(Deathfire Grasp) in Season 4 and you would only ever see him in lane being played by Gragas mains/one-tricks. Recently he has been seeing SOME action in the Top lane for whatever reason but he has never even come close to seeing his potential as a brawler mage like he was forever ago. DONT pick him, it is propaganda from Gragas mains.

Gnar - Finally we have Gnar, who has at times been the BEST Top laner in the game. Hes tanky, and can build some attack speed so his “Mini-Gnar” form is not completely useless, and it gets you to “Mega-Gnar” faster. There is also a high enough skill floor for Gnar in managing his rage for him to not be a completely auto-pilot pick and a few of his hardest matchups are really good right now - K’Sante, Volibear and Zac. And with those champions having fairly normal pick rates, you should expect to be countered often.

There it is, the list of champions that, if you pick them, will make you and your team want to FF at 15 in patch 13.4

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