05-12-2012, 07:18 PM
As junglers, Jax is way more consistent to his team. Yi can jungle just fine and is an absolute beast when he's fed, but if he doesn't get the gold, or is against a CC-heavy team, he just doesn't do anything.
Being useful to the team has less to do with the champion you play and more with how you play them. Jax and Nasus are solo-lane champions and the team is going to rely on them to be coming out of their lanes and being serious threats. Doing that requires farming well, staying safe, and knowing when it's time to make shit happen. (side note: it's interesting that you refer to Nasus as a tank; he transitions through roles, but think of him as a carry first and foremost. Get farmed, walk into a fight, and ruin everyone's shit. Yeah, he can tank, but he's there to bash people's faces in.)
My advice to you is to pick whatever champion you're comfortable with and focus on your laning and awareness. Avoid ganks, ping when you see a jungler approaching someone else's lanes, keep wards up, win damage exchanges with whoever you're laning against, and focus on improving your individual laning skills. If the team can count on you to be an island in the top lane, they can focus on making plays happen everywhere else and if you've been farming correctly, you can walk into team fights and just be a baws.
Played a few games as top lane yesterday with some people for Ranked 5s and if Tryg recorded any of them there are a couple good examples of what I was talking about. A game where I played as Yorick was just silly (Yorick, to be fair, is not a hard champion to be silly with). I completely crushed the Olaf I was laning against, pushed to their inhibitor tower and could easily continue to push in a 2v1 situation. With one of their teammates distracted dealing with me, the rest of my team could run around doing whatever they wanted 4v3 (the rest of the team was already doing well, though, distracting that person was just icing on the cake, but it still works as an example). There was also a moment where I was Nidalee and my team went to get Dragon or Red buff or something, so I went to mid-lane and my team knew I could stall 1v5 for as long as it took them to finish what they were doing and get into position to make our next play.
Better examples of this can be seen if you watch top-laners stream. Dyrus and Hotshot are easy examples. People call Hotshot "FarmshotGG" because he sits in lane and just farms and pushes. The important thing to note, though, is that he's not ignoring the rest of the game, he's making conscious decisions about whether his team will be better off if, say, he goes to contest dragon or stays top to take a tower and steal some jungle camps.
Like I said, make a conscious effort to sharpen your individual skills (harassing, farming, and awareness) and you'll be able to contribute.
Being useful to the team has less to do with the champion you play and more with how you play them. Jax and Nasus are solo-lane champions and the team is going to rely on them to be coming out of their lanes and being serious threats. Doing that requires farming well, staying safe, and knowing when it's time to make shit happen. (side note: it's interesting that you refer to Nasus as a tank; he transitions through roles, but think of him as a carry first and foremost. Get farmed, walk into a fight, and ruin everyone's shit. Yeah, he can tank, but he's there to bash people's faces in.)
My advice to you is to pick whatever champion you're comfortable with and focus on your laning and awareness. Avoid ganks, ping when you see a jungler approaching someone else's lanes, keep wards up, win damage exchanges with whoever you're laning against, and focus on improving your individual laning skills. If the team can count on you to be an island in the top lane, they can focus on making plays happen everywhere else and if you've been farming correctly, you can walk into team fights and just be a baws.
Played a few games as top lane yesterday with some people for Ranked 5s and if Tryg recorded any of them there are a couple good examples of what I was talking about. A game where I played as Yorick was just silly (Yorick, to be fair, is not a hard champion to be silly with). I completely crushed the Olaf I was laning against, pushed to their inhibitor tower and could easily continue to push in a 2v1 situation. With one of their teammates distracted dealing with me, the rest of my team could run around doing whatever they wanted 4v3 (the rest of the team was already doing well, though, distracting that person was just icing on the cake, but it still works as an example). There was also a moment where I was Nidalee and my team went to get Dragon or Red buff or something, so I went to mid-lane and my team knew I could stall 1v5 for as long as it took them to finish what they were doing and get into position to make our next play.
Better examples of this can be seen if you watch top-laners stream. Dyrus and Hotshot are easy examples. People call Hotshot "FarmshotGG" because he sits in lane and just farms and pushes. The important thing to note, though, is that he's not ignoring the rest of the game, he's making conscious decisions about whether his team will be better off if, say, he goes to contest dragon or stays top to take a tower and steal some jungle camps.
Like I said, make a conscious effort to sharpen your individual skills (harassing, farming, and awareness) and you'll be able to contribute.
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