Honestly for me personally it’s the ranged top. They’re so annoying for how hard they scale, especially Akshan. If akshan gets a lead the game is over and you wish your lo goodbye.

Champs with actual interaction is what I like. Even if it’s a counterpick, I’ll take a champ I can actually DO something against over like a Quinn top type thing.

I play Darius so whenever I get a melee matchup, I’m already sort of happy because we’ll at least be doing something in lane. Once I see the Singed, Vayne, Quinn, Akshan, Gnar, etc locked in I audibly groan and just think about dodging more than playing.

Top lane is such a weird lane where matchup determines so much as opposed to skill. I wish it weren’t as brutal in terms of counter picking. Camille is my favourite top laner but sometimes you kneecap yourself by picking it first. Losing lane in champ select is very poor game design.

I just play gangplank every game and I don’t care what I’m up against.

I ban briar 100% of the time as well

Wrong. If you play top and you play melee you dislike the following: Range cancer champs (eg. Quinn) which is just not really fun to play against as 99% of melee champs. Hurr hurr I don’t want to play league I want to farm champs. Like nasus you say? No. Nasus is fine. Sion on the other hand, hehe proxy take farm and run away all game then hehe take tower.

Are these champs/strats op? No. Are they boring to play vs? Yes.

Anything else is more of a “id rather not play as X vs Y since they are favoured” where you are going to have a hard time winning or you need to adapt your platstyle/build and it makes things awkward but often is playable and will not produce cancer.

I don’t dislike tanks/brusiers/skrimishers cuz they are toplaners, - on contrary that’s their place - no my issue is with them going 0/10 and then wiping your team

Yeah i play teemo, so I like all the champions except for pure cheese stuff aimed at countering me toplane, like senna, who just wins every trade because of equal or better range and a heal and slow on q which prevents me from just extending the trade to win it.

​

Most people hate vayne because she’s an absurdly strong champ in a 1v1. She has an old yas complex where how well you do against her tends to be tied to how good she is, and not how good you are. Akshan is similar. Both champs can also be very behind and then all of a sudden just pop off. Akshan in particular has a situation come up where his team loses a fight, then he sweeps in and gets two kills and then his whole team is back up, removing most of the reward for getting kills lategame - having time to push objectives. Quinn isn’t really a problem but when she gets fed she’s just oppressive. Ranged gets hate because it gets seen as “cheap” and is unfun for some melees. However, most melees besides garen have ways to positively interact with ranged champs.

The tanks you mentioned are just overtuned. People don’t mind going against or having a malphite or mao kai, for instance.

The skirmishers you mentioneed aren’t even that bad. Fiora is just problematic for some champs with telegraphed cc because she parries it and then shits on them. Cam is unfun to play against because if she holds her e she is literally unkillable. And into certain matchups jax can just steamroll, which is problematic because he also scales very hard and that scaling is kind of multiplied by him having a very easy time dealing with adcs.

For juggernauts, people don’t mind darius and garen on the enemy team. They sometimes don’t like them on their team because they don’t offer as much as other tanks, namely hard cc. People don’t like illaoi because if she gets a good ult off she can just 1v5 despite not even being fed, which a lot of people see as bullshit.

Irellia is more a skirmisher than a diver, but she does dive the backline. She has a playstyle a little more in line with cam, fiora and riven, but she also has good backline access, so she dives as much as she skirmishes. Olaf is also more of a skirmisher type. Divers, true divers, tend to be more like assassins or people with a 1 way dash to get them to the backline like xin xhao, nocturne or rengar. Olaf just kind of hits q on a backline, goes cc immune, and runs at the backline. Mundo is kind of similar to this. Divers aren’t liked because they aren’t frontline.

Basically, people want a toplaner who is good frontline and who can also 1v1 anyone and who can also splitpush really well. Ranged champs generally don’t frontline. Tanks usually can’t 1v1 juggernauts, bruisers and fighters in extended fights, divers are basically more beefy assassins, Skirmishers can split and 1v1 but they aren’t the greatest frontline. People want it all.

I enjoy a lot of top laners from typical bruisers like Renekton and Aatrox to skirmishers like Camille and Jax. I typically dislike brainless champs such as Garen and Illaoi that typically make the game unfun to play. Illaoi being a raid boss no matter how behind once she gets IBG and Hull, and Garen with Stride, Zeal, and hull. I think juggernauts like them would be much less annoying to vs if hull was removed or nerfed.

most ranged toplaners are just asking “is your jungler gonna punish me taking all your plates and poking you for every last hit or will you slowly die?”

I don’t dislike playing against tanks.It is based on what picks but generally tanks are pretty boring. When I play Jayce, I hate Irelia but she is manageable because she is kinda dog shit these days. When I play Gangplank I raw dog every single one in lane and scale better so I don’t really care. Don’t play tanks, don’t get abused, it’s very easy. Oh yeah, and Rumble, fuck that guy.