Talk:Darius/@comment-26859675-20160708075312/@comment-24496127-20160713200735

You "actually" agree with me? Damn, that kind of stung. ;_;

I still feel like, disregarding Quinn and Graves, top lane adc's are more so a gimmick than an actual thing you want. Sure at times they can function, and they even counter some top laners really hard, but they leave a hole in your team, and they can't really function as a thing to draw aggro like a malphite or a Darius can. Firstly because they really lack 2v1 potential, and secondly because if they begin to lose at all, they're useless now. A Malphite doesn't need 6k gold to ult an enemy team. That's why he doesn't get a support.

Kindred top is something I haven't seen for a long time, especially with the changes to make scaling with marks more prominent. It can bully early, but the thing is, with the era of top laners like Riven being long forgotten, top lane is by far the best lane to get crushed by an enemy if I had to pick one. Few top laners really scale hard with the bonus gold, and the top laner isn't useless just because he's 0/5/0 as long as he's playing a tanky/cc heavy champ. Sure their tank is hard to kill, but if I had to pick between dealing with a 5/0 trundle currently and a 5/0 riven in season 3, my answer is easily the trundle.

Yes that was a little redundant. I'm tired, and I don't know how to fix the wording without cutting out my point. In case it was hard to follow and I'm just not seeing it due to fatigue, my point is that when the main advantage to an adc top lane is usually lane pressure, there ends up being little use for adc top laners in a meta where the top laners don't need anything really but exp, which is both extremely hard and risky to deny.