Talk:Singed/@comment-115.70.176.196-20130222030101/@comment-115.70.176.196-20130223051552

Agreed, but my post was mainly to add variety for playing against Singed. Often people will pick up Elise for the first or second time  just to hard counter Singed, and don't understand how to micro their harrass and last hitting. As a champion who builds AP but lacks waveclear, she's actually much harder to last hit with under tower than most top laners (High Difficulty).She trades so well that Singed is forced to repeatedly Push and Recall, but often they'll have equally bad cs because of lack of experience. Kayle on the other hand has equally strong ranged harrass, better sustain, easy to last hit/waveclear and is overall a better first-time pick against Singed if you have no one else in your champion pool. I say this because Kayle and Elise have the highest ban rates (70%-60%) '''so there's little point in maining them, but given the option of picking either as purely a counter pick to Singed, as a champion you occassionally play (like running Malphite vs Jax), Kayle is the better choice. '''

Rumble and top lane nidalee are rarer picks and you'll find they're often the player's main champion. They're very versatile champions which can win nearly any match-up or atleast come even. Unquestionably good picks against Singed, and great first picks too, but they also have very high skill caps, so you can't run Rumble against Singed for the first time and expect to win.

Which brings me to Nasus, who admittedly, I mained before Singed became my go-to top lane hero. Nasus' skill cap isn't very high, what he requires is very good lane Mechanics. He's easy to last hit and farm with, but incredibly vunerable to abuse by lane bullies such as Rumble, Riven and Darius. If you can freeze the lane against him he is basically screwed, which is why mechanics (lane control) is so important. This leads me to my point; '''Even if you don't play much Nasus, if you have good lane mechanics and an understanding of the enemy champion, he's much easier to play than Rumble or Nidalee and isn't constantly banned like Kayle and Elise. '''Outside of these 4, there aren't very strong choices for countering Singed (check Invertedcomposer's thoughts on teemo and darius).

''' Nasus is a good alternative pick against Singed if hard counters like Elise and Kayle are banned, and you're unexperienced with difficult champions like Nidalee and Rumble, because he's one of the few champions that can survive the lane and outscale Singed without much difficulty. '''