The Complete History Of Top Lane And The Top Lane META

[@Rafaelito1991]

Dude... This took a bunch of time and effort to make, didn't it? Much respect. Great content.

[@Exil22]

Rafael Ito thank you!!! Yeah it took about 10 days of research and editing etc

[@Dragonslayer-hs8lq]

#UnMuteExil

[@666Kaca]

Great video but in season 3 it wasnt just the champions who could abuse cleaver, EVERYONE stacked cleavers. Example: forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/attachment.php?attachmentid=858864 Lulu support 4 cleavers

[@rosenkolev5211]

Turned out as a great history lesson tho :D really interesting to hear about all that since I've only played from the end of S6

[@VtWildabeast]

Great work. I hope you get 10 days of ad revenue. 26 minutes, watched the entire thing. Great Video

[@thegoodgamerguy3387]

respect for actually taking time to make some great content. not just daily clips of basic kills. bless you kellen

[@Exil22]

thank you man!!

[@tezzar08567]

Great video, I think you should add Juggernaut meta in the video, it was the time where bruisers ( Darius,Garen,Morde and Skarner) were insanely OP and nothing could really stop them but 100% ban rate of almost every single of them) Peace.

[@p8nting]

He should do this for every lane/role

[@dontsp12me]

Exil im new to your channel, but this is way more entertaining and informative than the lol highlight channels that have somuch view. You do deserve all the view and sub.

[@thegoodgamerguy3387]

kellen is exil and i think he might have played some runescape im not sure.

[@lsbevo9]

The history is easy: Top lane is an forgotten place, then Renekton appears, then Renekton dominates the island with iron fangs and bloodthirsty, then, he suddenly leaves, and the island is again forgotten...

[@joshuaaberle9980]

as a top main idk s8 is was pretty good like, sterraks increasing tri force proc dmg, geez what was riot thinking. Inc 900 dmg camille q's at lvl 13

[@brotmitknoblauch5699]

@@joshuaaberle9980 played Camille a lot and it's very frustrating for EVERY champion if u get a 1k true Dmg Bruce Lee kick in ur face every 3-4 seconds

[@N1hockeyfan]

The good old season 3 Sunfire Cape rush double kill Renekton.

[@bbotch5026]

Lmao toplane has the most cancer champs ever

[@PabloMartinez-lp6ly]

The intro sounded almost exactly like the Speedrun Series from Summoning Salt.

[@Zlysium]

There's a reason for that.

[@josephbaughman6772]

Yea, I'm curious about that too. He even talked about speedrunning in this lol.

[@Swantetant]

Those videos are like drugs I swear xD

[@tyson4529]

What is the song?

[@sashagames3160]

It is the same song...

[@the_dindon]

I love how this is a time capsule, I wonder if anyone could have planed that in 2021 toplane would be the place where tanks deal 1000+ raw damage with a regular spell to each others

[@altricad5358]

Now tanks are basically a meme class LOL Why ever pick any tank when you can CC more, effectively tank more ( by healing) as Aatrox/Morde etc I find it sad that there were so many content creators that pleaded for tank nerfs, bruiser buffs, but now that tanks are unplayable there's only 1 person with a voice ( TheBauffs)

[@LoobTV]

As a league player since season 1, i gotta say this video was very well made and brought back some good memories.

[@theodorlinch8316]

I saw the old graves and I died, because i miss him so much.

[@Smakaaaz]

Oh how I miss old graves... RIP

[@LuizZ1233]

i miss season 4 so much

[@koreannidalee15]

Good video, i think im not the only one who want a video like this for other roles! great work!

[@Exil22]

haha maybe i will for the future!

[@incroyablisime]

I agree

[@mattiaskollnitz9794]

Korean Nidalee weeb

[@mangalover0149]

That would be amazing

[@eren8161]

Jungle would be cool

[@davidtortallini281]

Ummm why didn’t you go over season 4-7 top lane meta? You just went through a list of the most picks of those seasons. You didn’t talk about the sun fire cape meta, the juggernaut meta or even when hecarim was the best top laner with homeguards at one point. It seems like you rushed it at the end :/

[@SteveGamesOnline]

David Tortallini you are right, I was just thinking the same thing.

[@rey6708]

26 minutes is long enough. if you want everything in a video you would need probably 10 hours.

[@hare5179]

More like around 40 minutes, since it's just the meta of top lane. There was not much else to discuss than the juggernauts and the Sunfire Cape- meta.

[@davidtortallini281]

Jimi Nakari then why title it "The Complete History of Top Lane Meta" lol

[@hare5179]

David Tortallini why are you asking me, it's not like I'm the creator of this video?

[@anihroxxor]

no talk about philosopher's stone and heart of gold??

[@Banshee636]

Pretty accurate and well made video but you skipped over a lot of historical items that impacted how and why changes were made. Old Ninja tabi and dodge meta, Base crit chance (which is why gangplank was top) Heart of gold, Starks fervor, Executioners calling when it gave you 100% attack speed for 4 seconds, Sunfire Stacking, Boot enchantments, And one that is still in the meta today, corrupting potion which basically started the cancer of top that was Brand

[@slimakovamamam]

nice old day when u just buy 6x Sunfire and burn enemy to ash with perma invis as Evelin , oh ... but u have point , this video really miss important stuf like dodge and other shit u say .

[@yoyo-tj4xi]

Fking hated old gangplank with crit runes. He almost 1 shots lv 1

[@thomaspereira1545]

Wasn't that sword of the devine

[@jadegrace1312]

Also Juggernaut update completely changed every aspect of the meta in every lane.

[@daschachtelei7199]

Imagine, there are currently people playing lol, who are younger than the game it's self.

[@suibun2369]

Many people still play the original counter-strike which came out 9 years before league, it's not that uncommon

[@JohnSmith-ty2he]

I have a kid that plays that was born a couple months after launch. :P

[@whatsmyageagain91]

like I do, don't get me wrong, I have a pretty good PC (i7 7700k + gtx 1070, 16GB RAM etc), but I just cant stop playing CS1.6, I've been playing it since 2002...

[@Oddigan]

Were his first words "Better jungler wins ggez"?

[@impossibru7259]

50% of the playerbase actually lul

[@thanosdadasios7733]

This brought a tear to my eye... amazing video that hits early season players right in the feels.... i will never forget my awesome times in the top lane before my bruisers got gutted and left to rot away from the rest of the game.... but there is a bright side to this, we got to play other stuff too and we were tasked to deal with something completely different from last season, and it was a great way to get a better understanding of all the champion classes in the game, and the game’s “parts” themselves. From the early game aggression and lane sustain, to the late game, team focused gameplay, we have an opinion for everything, since we have played through all the metas and all these seasons. TOP LANE MAINS, UNITE!!!! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[@xbico9118]

AMEN

[@PHILLYMEDIC69]

lol u can still play bruisers in solo queue. If you're playing against like elite players you'll be punished but it should be fine for the most part.

[@Freedomunites]

#United! I found the light Tryndamere maining top lane. Still get to kill, still get to sustain, have great cs. but fails in an even skill match vs range.

[@tanigod4235]

Quit top went jungle and camp top= freelo biblethumb give athmog back😓

[@youngballzi95w69]

Oh man.. #demgoodolddays

[@conord6123]

This really took me on a nostalgia trip. I hadn't really thought about how long ago I played this game, I remember getting wrecked by elixir of fortitude like it was yesterday. The game was so much fun back in season 2-4, on the old map, with ranked 3v3, dominion, and a huge variety of builds and strats that I haven't seen for years.

[@franciscovegavargas3694]

Damn dude, as a pre season one player this really hit the mark. I've been through most of these metas, I remember the atmogs (we used to do a full 5 man team with atmogs or metagolem with trinity just to troll around), the black cleaver meta (had a lot of fun with pantheon and renekton there), the awful yorick top (which I did play sometime), the "build everything tank" (tank akali, for example), the dreaded elixir of fortitude (as a nasus player, that was awful to play against), the sunfire stacking (both garen, and evelyinn for trolling), the TP, the 2 v 1 sustain top (used to take vlad then, and renekton). Hell, I remember a time when Lee's E was bugged for us south americans, it allowed us to cast it twice due to lag issues, and it did double damage. It was fun to have an edge on something lol. It all reminds me how much the game has changed, in visuals, meta, balance, items, everything. I appreciate how much effort you put on your videos, I now this is an older one now since it's 2021 but it's still a good look to the past. Good job.

[@ThankYou2NE1]

All the top laners is becoming jungle nidalee,shyvanna,camille jax ect

[@Lorcar12]

Shayehvana*

[@Brqinstorm]

Shyvana was always a jungle. Diamondprox actually revolutionized jungle with it and shown the power of counter jungling

[@laxus96]

All midlane become support

[@jonahmordhaim2705]

But rek'sai became top lane.

[@SyberyjskiPoganiacz]

What about olaf and volibear? 1st one on season 4 was playing on top MOSTLY, 2nd one i see often on jung than on top

[@Gudi]

15:20 I HEAR THAT AUTUMN VOYAGE IN THE BACKGROUND

[@Gudi]

and great video btw really enjoyed it

[@sebasje32]

dude, the second that was on, i was like OMG NOSTALGIA

[@kirillpolyanskiy886]

yeah uhhh same

[@kirillpolyanskiy886]

WAIT GUDI !@@@@@@@@@!!!!@@ ITS GUDI!!!

[@xDavix120]

AND NO FLUTE SALAD AND SEA SHANTY 2

[@AIIu_]

That Runescape background music

[@evananderson-navarro6142]

I KNEW IT, I KNEW I WOULD FIND THIS COMMENT. Everybody who's anybody knows, so I knew at least 1 person would leave this comment. Ohhhh yes. That RS music will never get old. Stopped playing it regularly like 5 years ago. STILL GREAT.

[@BrianMoco]

why did u stop playing runescape? guessing you guys are dead by now though

[@RichardGray353]

Rito pls bring back 15 health pot garen Potion Master Garen was the most balanced

[@blue5272]

Bruh the music and the start reminded me of summoning salt

[@philipp5756]

ye that's quite cheap

[@josephbaughman6772]

Yea I didn't like that

[@Betty-no3gw]

almost because it is

[@YuriyoSA]

Do you guys know the name of the first song? It seems really familiar but I can't find it on YT

[@qbito10pl94]

this video is made with the formula established by ss imo

[@sergiosoares1247]

Nice video! Also runescape music being used is always neat.

[@AwesomeCrackDealer]

This's been a trip down memory lane. I remember having so much fun with singed stacking warmogs and force of natures.

[@ElliottJohnsonXX]

ah the annie top days

[@zfjjk]

lol i got to plat with annie top last season, what are u talkin about

[@opgroundzero2.0]

@@zfjjk Plat isn't even high elo

[@bro_was_here_jr6912]

@@opgroundzero2.0 and you are?

[@opgroundzero2.0]

@@bro_was_here_jr6912 Even if I'm not Plat doesn't mean Plat is high elo.

[@arthurfranklin9315]

OP Ground Zero is wrong. I hear this all the time and it's just not true. Platinum players are in the 87th to 96th percentile (give or take). Therefore Platinum is high ELO. Gold cannot make that claim because a good 30% of the community is in Gold. Diamond is like the top 3% of players right before the pros, so that is "very high" ELO. Master and Challengers are of course the elite, but I don't see how that should diminish the achievement of plat players.

[@cks2020693]

Nowadays all I see is renekton, riven, irelia, Jax with nothing but conqueror

[@user-dc5hx9qm1w]

Jax is trash in low elo, too many counterpicks now. I play him jungle

[@lynxen2848]

tyttus imagine thinking counterpicks is a thing in low elo lol

[@bobdickens3674]

It’s because conqueror was a busted Keystone and everyone could abuse it.

[@Noobie2k7]

I'm pretty much an Illaoi one trick now. Though i still pick Heimerdinger top on occasion if i feel like bullying some thicc bois. .

[@Zlysium]

@@bobdickens3674 Conqueror was never a busted keystone so many people just didn't understand the math. It dealt FAR less damage than any other damage keystone options like Electrocute. And most of its damage was tied to the AD that it gave. The true damage conversion added (and adds) so little damage as to be negligible. But try explaining to people that it only converts some of your damage to true, that it doesn't add any new damage and their fuckin eyes glaze over like "but true damage." But you don't even have to understand how it works to fucking verify how shit the keystone was and is. Just take it and look at its damage dealt throughout the game, then take Electrocute or even fucking Arcane Comet and see how the numbers will be multiples higher. Honestly Conqueror tilts me so fucking much because it literally only had 1 patch where it was even really good. And that was because it gave a lot of AD early game. The only use the keystone has now is for that 8% pre-mitigation healing. But even then it's trash because you only get that after its fully stacked, which to do so you'll have already blown most if not all of your kit and several basic attacks to do. Its completely trash now on all but a few champions that stack it really quickly without having to burn 90% of their damage to do so, like Riven. And even then it's trash because the converted true damage is so low, and the healing is win-harder since you cannot use it to sustain the lane but it only works in all-ins. Should just be freakin removed at this point. Even best case scenario for it right now is when enemies have a lot of armor. At 140 armor it increases your damage by 11.2% at 200 armor it increases your damage by 16%. At 50 armor its only increasing your damage by 4%. 100 Armor is the point where it increases your damage by 8%. That is to say that after you've already burned most of your kit just to get this increased damage against high armor targets its effect is to increase your damage by relatively very little, consider that against 200 armor champions your damage is reduced heavily. You're only increasing what's left over by 16% The fight is already decided by the time you've stacked Conqueror, you're either gonna win, or you're going to lose, conqueror isn't powerful enough to make a difference. And it hasn't been for a very very long time.

[@AzuraeJades]

17:45 When Shen was a dwarf, good old times.

[@Queeb]

Aatrox was really good when zephyr was an item.

[@BlizzardWind99]

it basically gave everything that he needs

[@Med31lalofa]

Irelia too

[@shaggyblanco9898]

Godyr

[@LinardsZ]

Aatrox before rework was top3 toplaner RIP Aatrox who got replaced by Riven

[@akiraabesamis4226]

I wiuldnt agree more i miss Full attack speed aatrox plus zyphyr

[@collamus6901]

This is a really good video, i swear to god you deserve more subs. Your content is always such high quality

[@zKode]

high quality lol youtuber.

[@Exil22]

Zach McCann thank you so much. I appreciate it ;:;

[@toot1231]

ahhh season 2 the memories!!!! i stopped playing this game in late 2013 due to getting older and getting a job and other personal reasons but man my drive to play again has been sky high but everyone says the game is shit now and all my friends are obviously the same age as me and have families and things now i just dont think it'd be the same

[@GravityGamingz]

What age may i ask that your friends are having families?

[@toot1231]

24

[@LordAmandus]

@toot I started playing in Season 1 and still come back from time to time to league. Sure some changes suck and the game got somehow more complex, but it's still hella fun. Of course I dont play like 8hours per day any more, have no 5v5ranked team, nor am I Diamond again, but the game still fulfills its purpose to me. Having fun, playing with different champs (no endless grind with the same champion), 1v1 and team game ... I'm 26 now and say you should just try it out again :D

[@arthurfranklin9315]

Play casual. You shouldn't need to devote your life to a game to enjoy it! I've been playing recently with a bunch of NYPD guys that are twice your age and brand new to the game. Sure, they ain't playing ranked but there is laughter, which is what counts.

[@blueWolfYuno]

Why all youtubers have same voice; i remember this voice from other channels.

[@friman1213]

Mobalytics

[@TheodoreVoisard]

Because people with weird voices aren't successful on YT because nobody wants to listen to them

[@jayjaygolden5123]

@@TheodoreVoisard tobias fate lol

[@avgvstvs7]

Lan yuno

[@yatosan9217]

@@TheodoreVoisard Chills.

[@danielIoking]

Legit content, original and informative, not the basic 101 youtube video "look I did stream here is the best game I had all stream long". Keep doing that and you'll make it to the top.

[@aussiematezoran7897]

when you brought up hotshot at the start, I was expecting for you to play the "HE'S TOO TANKY!" clip.

[@iagolacerda22]

Oh man, i remember, i was really fun to build 5 warmogs 1 atma's impaller and be unkillable. Now i'm feeling nostalgic about all these metas, and been happy that i was since season 2.

[@ArcticxSeal]

Exil, the quality of your content always blows me away. I can't even imagine how many hours of research and content gathering you had to do to make this video. Keep up the good work!! P.S. where the hell are your deserved subs??? KZbin is whack man

[@Exil22]

thank you Lucas!!! means a lot to me :D

[@babahazed1515]

Wow man awesome video! First ever LoL video over 10 minutes i actually sit through with my hands locked under my chin lol, awesome vid man cant say it enough keep up the good work, looking forward to some more awesomeness and gonna scroll through your channel, actually made an account just to write this cus u deserve some recognision

[@Exil22]

Thank you so much man that's awesome to hear. Thanks!!

[@lordderppington4694]

I love all the time and effort you put into this video. I joined league in march 2018 because a friend recommended it. As someone who not just studies current items and metas but also past metas and histories or teams items and gameplay I really appreciate it. While it seems a bit spotty in coverage (especially in the later half of the video) I appreciate you putting this video together and understand the time constraints. I would love a follow up vid and keep up the good work my dude. See you on the rift

[@zephyric6943]

I had flashbacks, when he mentioned Season3 and saw that "attemting to reconnect"... Man was EUW Servers a massive shithole. Thank god these days are over.

[@guilhermewhite7274]

MORE LEAGUE HISTORY

[@jwhite6824]

Great vid. I started playing at the end of season 3 and I wish I knew enough about the game to abuse that pot lol.

[@Exil22]

thank you :D

[@Raiwin]

I started first week of s3 and it was so fucking fun, Riven, Jax, Akali, Lee Sin, Olaf and TF were my favs to use it on.

[@AndrexKnight]

Yeah i started playing on Yorick release day back in 2011, that little clip got me right in the feels, sent me back to being a 16 y/o Ashe main all over again. but as soon as season 2 kicked in i became a top laner/almost full time support. i went through all these meta's and i prefer the TP tank metas makes the game a true team game, tanks can solo kill these days aswell they bridged a gap but maybe too much. RIP solo lane Wukong after that black cleaver fix in season 3. will he ever return?

[@fausto7394]

My exactly thoughts

[@dakk3]

I think the solocarry potential is much lower than for example in season 4, i mean its still possible but different, now its more team based, back in s4 if u got fed u could carry the game alone easier. Now its much more complicated to carry alone.

[@Matbart]

19:35 that runescape music thoooo

[@xxdeadxx]

Could you tell the name of that one? It'd be much obliged.

[@Matbart]

Hexis Runescape 3 Autumn Voyage - probably the only GOOD thing about runescape 3

[@blackwiza24]

man the lumbridge song nostalgia. hit me fking hard.

[@dillonroy2064]

it starts @ around 15:30

[@blackwiza24]

dillon roy this fucking video is the reason why I started osrs back looool after 4yrs off without even thinking a sec about rs.

[@TEJR69]

For some reason through all the nostalgia and memories, there was one stronger nostalgic feeling. And that was hearing a melody of "Autumn Voyage" whilst you were talking

[@TheAfker]

i sometimes feel like im the only person who misses the old tank meta. I've always been a sucker for tanks

[@Kazutoromaji]

Great video but I think you forgot to include a huge point, the shift to tanks during season 6 was heavily impacted by the Juggernaut update Riot did towards tanks and them redisgning many champions.

[@no-uh2dm]

This is an amazing video. Hope you can do more like it. Exil God

[@Exil22]

Zigmas Alisauskas thank you :)!!

[@Fabritox5]

There weren't ever better but the times of Heart of Gold.

[@knuppelgast]

Fabricio Clavel that and atma’s

[@Rebellions]

Fabricio Clavel good meme, those were also the days of sword of divine draven. AKA everyone can be Tyler1

[@TMartialarts1]

Jack Ream damn, sword of the divine with Draven, I remember when I was a noob and a Smurf fully stacked that item and we got one shotted lmao. Rip

[@Rebellions]

Sword of Divine wasn't a stack item...

[@TMartialarts1]

Jack Ream my bad Hahahahaha I confused with sword of the occult.

[@optimusSnail]

that 1v1 between renekton and nasus brought back memories, i remember when 1v1's between tanks would last at least 10 minutes.

[@yamiben64]

This is how well made documentations should look like. Awesome work!

[@Derploop]

25:57 that's because for some reason ADC players and Riot think that the job of countering tanks should be in bot lane not top lane

[@brunowiekus7934]

It is, for lategame teamfights. But beating a tank in lane really requires you to play 110% on most bruisers.

[@playlistnor]

Not really, you just have to poke them to no end. There are champs that can do it. :)

[@mastermindmax790]

Great vid amazing how much you could find out!

[@Exil22]

glad to hear it :)

[@seanhughes1927]

Is it bad that all I could notice was Runescape music during the video?

[@WaageAarau]

so did I .... and i haven't played RS for ... about 10 years xD

[@H41030v3rki110ny0u]

Same dude hahaha... couldn't not focus on it once I caught the tunes xd

[@williamthompson1554]

Please make one of these videos for other roles. This has got to be one of my favourite videos of all time, I love seeing the history of league, and analysing individual roles is so interesting to me.

[@bloodcraver9183]

Thank you! Very well researched and informational. Be sure to post it on Reddit, forums, and other outlets.

[@terrol3164]

"ranged champions are too good." Well thanks a lot Exil now bruisers are played bot lane. xP

[@rickvangils100]

Meh, he's biased because he's a toplaner. In the end of the day, every player complains about it's counter. ADC's/mages complain about assasins, bruisers/tanks complain about ADC's, assasins complain about tanks/bruisers etc.

[@handyman8051]

@@rickvangils100 nah its more like top lane is an island so if you get hard countered by a pick with no weaknesses he stonewalls and neither can play the game to win

[@architectsxiii5379]

@@rickvangils100 you literally couldn't be more wrong mate

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

@Gunner_kek Please try not to generalize everything. Many assassin mains complain about other assassins that have better burst than them, ADC mains complain about ADCs that have either a better laning or a stronger scaling.

[@OhNoMaPinkWard]

runescape music :D

[@ミニシュ]

Zudokus Selling friendship

[@briancho5169]

Elven Sunlight in the Season 2 section of the video?

[@tygonmaster]

MinishLIVE Buying gf.

[@Fabritox5]

OMG My heart litteraly poped out of my chest when he said "HotShot GG and his nedalee top" Till today when I hear top I remember that shit, never better times than those man...

[@omgjlmiub]

I miss top. It was my first main back since 2012 and boy was it the best out of all the roles. You just didn’t get the intimacy you felt against your opponent in any other lane. I’m getting all these ptsd flashbacks to black cleaver and elixir. But the honest truth was that if you were patient enough and knew when to attack it was nearly impossible to lose top lane no matter the comp. that’s what I love about it. If you get beat or go against a riven just afk farm and come back (unless you were the riven, then just solo baron). Sadly after a while it would become harder and harder to avoid the tank meta. And when the game and player base forced me to choose between fun and team comp it really grated on my enjoyment and I eventually switched to mid then stopped playing all together around 2016-17. LoL imo was the best game ever up until 2015-ish and I’ve never gotten the same competitive drive I got out of league since. League was cancer but it was my cancer.

[@DArkaisGaming]

Would love to have a video like this of the Complete History of the Jungle Meta. Me being a Jungle Main and only having played for about 2 years now, would love to see it!

[@fabianastor5297]

Remember back in the days when Jax could dodge with his abilities and Tabis and Dodge-Runes still existed? All together he had 33% dodge chance!!!!!! And he could stun after every dodge! Conclusion: He was a fcking MONSTER XD i loved it

[@maseywat]

Ap Warwick healing 600 hp off 1 q and chunking you for shitloads

[@slyya]

Evelyn 5s stun and 60s stealth

[@dislikebot1526]

In the beta, Jax had more than 90 percent dodge chance and he could 1v5 under fountain.

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

@Dislike Bot 15 Remembered one video about a Jax farming in the enemy fountain for nearly 5 minutes, only backing to use his gold.

[@justhereee]

"Talon silence was removed" HE HAD A GODDAMN SILENCE ?????

[@yukitakaoni007]

justhereee cuttthroat E. silence the target for one second and appears behind your target.

[@Rebellions]

Lots of people used to have a silence

[@BroccoliWaffle]

You think Talon Silence is Broken? What if I tell Kassadin had silence too

[@jasong6501]

@@BroccoliWaffle he still does... it's just been nerfed hard to just a very very short silence that's really only good for breaking channels

[@BroccoliWaffle]

@@jasong6501 its back? I don't play against Kassadin much and never noticed it

[@whatsmyageagain91]

I remember everything since S3, dude, I almost started crying

[@taigness]

This is some great research :D I've played the game in S1 but quickly turned to just watching the professional scene, whatever it was worth pre-LCS

[@bonongrandson3283]

Great video man! Well done (Loved the runescape soudrack)

[@reasonover9100]

I know you got a lot of things covered in the meta. Did you mean to skip over smite tp cinderhulk top?

[@xsmoelf]

Best video i have seen in a long time. Wp m8

[@Exil22]

[@fayekwache9807]

Top lane meta 2018: sion Sion SION

[@LOLZ329]

Jesus I nearly cried at 14:05 when you said: "...and armor penetration, the OLD version of lethality..." Man makes me feel old, I still know it as armor pen :(

[@smallpiper2]

I was a top laner back in Season 3. I was mostly a Renekon player, but I remember playing lots of different champions. (To be fair, i wasn't the best at league back then).

[@Jalda0]

I am/used to be a kennen main, i loved playing him with my blood moon skin before the new runes... Now hes barely playable.. Not because he was nerfed... Because of the new runes and meta, i used to be able to, if i played my cards right, bully the top laner and outplay etc... Now i do like negative damage cuz its only tanks top/ no good ap assassin runes... Makes me sad man

[@PrincessGlaceon.]

I miss the old Yorick :( My favorite champ

[@Lindyn773]

i loved playing him, but clicking on those ghouls was the most aggravating thing when versing him

[@salak750]

yea l feel you bro. Yorick was my main and just with that hero l climb bronze to dia 1. Now l never play him.Just doesnt feel like old yorick

[@yoyo-tj4xi]

Nooooooo old yorick was more cancer than renekton and darius. Then again i was a pantheon player :p.

[@zextina8643]

Engages on tank at 1 hp *WTF MAN TANK META OP*

[@localneo-graphic4647]

Well if you're laning against a tank, chances are if anyone is 1hp, it's not the tank.

[@zextina8643]

Thats so fucking true tbh its not fair

[@GuildWars4Ever98]

sounds like hashinshin towerdiving someone with hourglass and then complaining how that item is broken (not saying it isnt but you probably shouldnt dive someone who has it)

[@zextina8643]

AxelKunHueHue True its mainly to asist tower diving or denie tower dives

[@jeltje50]

AxelKunHueHue hashinshin is mentally insane. This guy only whines and whines even if it his dumb mistake

[@geniumme2502]

amazing to see this from the perspective of a low diamond top laner who stopped in S5 with league, thanks for the video!

[@sombrego2260]

I remember mostly midlane as I was mostly midlaner back in beta and launch of the game. Ashe and TF were always picked mid because of her ability to gank because of their ultimate. Toplane was mostly picks that could be good on their own but weren't as good for ganking if placed mid. I genuinely miss the time when there was only 30 champs, it was so much fun and so diverse. Ashe mid in particular was such a simple but fun matchup.

[@tpat90]

Udyr Meta missing ^^' (Beta Player here) A bunch of really important items are missing, like Gold per 5 meta or Innervating Locket Udyr. Also Warmogs was strong way before and without Atmas. Force of Nature or FoN was the reason, massive regen with Warmogs.

[@1kotouba]

Patrick Abraham rip FoN and heart of gold

[@ArchinaGM]

FoN was insane. I remember using a tank build on Singed and Cho that took Warmogs and FoN and unless you ran under the spawn turret, you just could not die at all.

[@observationdialectic8896]

"Less and less about 1v1" I have been playing league since 2010 late December and I can tell you it's half true due to the fact that top lane was 2 players before riot started encouraging jungle with those epic jungle items I am not sure but if I recall correctly hunter machete was the only jg item back then

[@Knuffeldraak]

Lol, I got caught off-guard when I suddenly heard Runescape music being played.

[@Penwingz]

That was an extremely well made video. Kudos man

[@olivierdamacena4450]

17:52 Nice vídeo my guy, keep up the good work

[@ratio1037]

its 2019 and where did my ability to play a tank go?

[@angiegamez8600]

You most certainly can play a tank top, but it requires your teammates to be competent in order to win as you cant carry as hard as you could when playing a tank champion

[@AdmiraHax]

AngieGamez Unless you are a 10/0/0 Tahm Kench. Then you kill the enemy adc with 6 autos.

[@jhinabuser8184]

I see you snuck in a remix of Runescape’s “autumn voyage” for background music

[@dhut10]

Its not a remix, is the new edition

[@elefes.]

Well I mean Lucian, Fiora, Camille, Jayce, Yasuo, Quinn, Kennen - are they all suddenly not counted? Yeah some champions were forgotten but at least we got some diversity in top lane. Back in season 3-4 if I remember correctly there were just Renektons Rumbles Shens everywhere + maybe a couple more champs. Like, you literally could not pick most champs into Rene.

[@GrantMeWings]

I started playing league in season 5 - preseason 6. Really fun to see what the game used to be like. Great video

[@lolitsBilly]

Man you brought so many memories back to me. I used to main top back in season 2 and 3 bc people like fiora, irelia, and udyr it makes me miss how fun the game used to be back then. If I could play that state of the game today I would definately say yes.

[@BlueDawnXD]

i wish that siv hd would come back

[@sotiriskatsaras3030]

Then i have good news for you . He very recently announced on Reddit that he will be shortly getting back on streaming league again , like the good old days !

[@francocoscarelli4712]

he uploaded some vids this week

[@Iliketoeatcheezits]

yo

[@lordogakor4383]

Sweet old days when I played Gangplank with atmogs, got me to platinum for the first time #BibleThump

[@revelred]

Lord Ogakor he was the real money maker

[@revelred]

Xd

[@Homochild]

You guys also remember fratmogs?

[@LordAmandus]

back then when Gankplank could kill his own minions for moral boost. Good old times

[@kesasilbzy2479]

I was a very prolific attack speed adc gnar back in season 5 hard stuck plat 4 but it was the shit nonetheless

[@kylewilmath6201]

This video made me sub. This is the first video I've seen of yours. Very well made.

[@koreandino1474]

Wait reng and kha was disabled? I thought they just always ended up permabanned

[@BuhhoBuhho]

This feels like a bootleg Summoning Salt video

[@treybryant3197]

Was thinking the same thing. It is literally a copy of a summoning salt video.

[@TheGaijinGamer]

I feel he should be credited for inspiration or something since its a direct rip of his style

[@derptron3920]

Not going to watch the video for this reason. Even using the same song in the beginning.

[@Shadow.w]

Does feel like it lmfao

[@Risotis]

These criticisms are kind of dumb. Using a similar template for something doesn't immediately make it bad, or even a ripoff. Tons of people do Let's Plays or ASMR or Makeup Tutorials or whatever else you can think of on KZbin, but is there any single best person in every category, and all others who make similar content should be discarded? Almost every book/movie follows the format of hook, body, and conclusion. This guy has obviously done his research and has put the video together in such a way as to provide the information in an entertaining way. I've been subbed to Summoning Salt for a while, and I'm glad that he's influenced others to make informative, entertaining videos about the history of some games, regardless of what aspect.

[@neoxblackgold]

season 9: towers deal a lot more damage. so now that divers are dead and pretty much most divers are bruiser and assassins, we're back to square one where the sustain and heavy push will be the meta

[@soulsemblance3163]

Pretty much because of the changes bruisers and assassins get to lane a lot longer and get stronger which makes tanks redundant.

[@neoxblackgold]

@@soulsemblance3163 what? what lane? what strengh? if there's one thing that I learned from playing the game is that armor is anti-fun, you rush an armor component and no one can kill you also, bruisers and assassins gets demolished by tanks 1v1, tanks have higher base AD, high armor, and the CC to to put you in place to keep on hitting you.

[@tymtrppr3]

Towers should deal more damage tho. It’s a dumb concept that with a small amount of armor and hp you can tank 7 tower shots at level 6-7

[@neoxblackgold]

@@tymtrppr3 I agree, but many people forget that tower damage increases every couple of minutes, it's not early game damage that should get buffed, it's mid to late game that you need it, so it's the increase. fun fact, the increase starts by the outer tower only, until it's 20 minutes, and then goes to the inner ones, which means the inner towers are in fact weaker than te outer ones. pretty dumb concept

[@neoxblackgold]

@@ikeu6433 small window = dead. getting super fed very early in the game JUST to be relevant, means that the champion is dead. a champion that doesn't need to be fed to be relevant is a playable champion. and a champion that destroy everyone even if he's not fed is broken.

[@kihyonii]

Damn wish there was a vid like this for all roles. Good job on this video :D Thanks for all the info

[@qap7]

I loved the visuals of the map at 8:37 ... Looks so magical.

[@ganjaraucher4203]

2:50 Oh holy shit i miss the old Taric ❤❤👌

[@kylewilmath6201]

Tobias Schäfer honestly I was a bit of a taric main before his rework but I don't remember much from him. I've been playing since season 2 but I just don't remember much of the early seasons. My memory is trash and I feel like I missed out on a lot of good memories.

[@dovahkiin5902]

I was a beta tester for LoL. It had issues for the start. Jax could go into 5v1 fights an win back during beta and they didn't fix it until after launch. But I loved the game even still... until the meta formed. I came from DOTA where you picked counters and had a wide variety of lane strategies. There was no bruser top every time, jungler every time, mid caster every time, carry/support bottom every time. I HATE being locked into one set strategy. It's not fun. They are so set on the meta that you will get reported and banned for trolling if you don't do what the other players demand you do. For a while I would just keep making alts to play at low levels where the meta wasn't enforced but that wasn't fun.

[@milelemi5151]

dont make up that bs please, i agree with you on the first part but please XD "you will get reported and banned for trolling if you don't do what the other players deamnd you do." 1st, you can get reported by anybody, for no reason at all. 2nd if u get reported for no reason at all you will not be punished, report will vanish. 3rd "banned for trolling" yes if u run it down, go 0/15 or some shit, if you play zilean top, or whatever the fucking champion you want, you can't get banned for that, you won't be punished as long as you don't intentionally feed. you can pick sona top, get reported by 9 people in ur match, you wont get punished as long as u didn't int so dont make up so much bullshit please.

[@ianalan]

i heard runescape music

[@xoYamo]

respect for all the efford it took you to make this video.🙏🏻

[@williamthompson1554]

Please do this type of video for the other roles. I find this type of video to be extremely educational and entertaining.

[@dennisgrammenos1232]

WoW I had forgotten all of these cheesy metas and strats tnx for reminding us and for taking time to make this but ur right the impact of bruisers like riven fiora Jayce etc aren't that good... I got a 16 winstreak with yorick in ranked! Yorick is a tank that 1shots with Q and it was a lot of fun for me. At the end of the day bruiser players must go out of Rito HQ and have a sign that says : MAKE TOP LANE GREAT AGAIN! (and bruisers)

[@javierrivera5834]

jayce isn't really a bruiser he's more of a pseudo assassin with poke and yorick isn't a tank he's a bruiser

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

Sounds like Nasus. Push, 1shot towers and anything else. Tank for days.

[@patomania101]

everytime i see a riven/pant/ and that cyborh chick top, they end the game like 10+/2/10+ every single time. players that know how to play bruisers, eat tanks alive.

[@localneo-graphic4647]

Not so sure about that. I'm playing a lot of Riven, and generally, if you are against a tank, you either win early or lose the matchup for a long time. You lack good roams because you really need flash to gap close, so your impact on the rest of the map is limited while towers are still up. Then once you get to late game, the comp and the performance of the rest of your lanes is going to have a better impact late game. It can be difficult to burst through carries, with stopwatches/GAs/lockets/knight's vows/exhaust/shields/heals/etc. And this is if I can get fed on Riven. I'm good enough that I can say I will win the 1v1 against almost any champion, but that doesn't matter if I get ganked. If a gank results in even a small HP advantage against someone like Nasus, he can safely farm to 6 and my lane is now unwinnable. If I die the lane is completely lost and my team will have to deal with a fed Nasus. It sucks playing in a meta that is entirely decided by the jungler, and playing carry top lane is essentially a dice roll if you don't duo with a jungler.

[@AzurFenix]

Yorick isn't a tank, he is a Juggernaut

[@MrVictor555]

Wow, good job.

[@Exil22]

thank you man :D

[@YurMommy]

"Why it a tank versus tank every game?" Riot: were nerfing soraka top next patch Me: idk you tell me why.

[@vforvayne1438]

Subscribed and liked.When someone puts so much time and effort into something it means they love what they are doing. And there's nothing better than that. :)

[@crazypo0d0g]

I haven't played league since 2013 but this piqued my interest and I'm glad in watched it. Great content!

[@azimoert]

I want my season 2 Soraka. Or as I call her "any role possible" Soraka