Talk:Singed/@comment-5545048-20131106134113/@comment-8506165-20131112155411

"it takes ridiculously little skill to play him right"

Uh... no, not really. Sky Autoattacks (which most people don't even know about), notoriously buggy coding on Fling but high potential on the move itself, spreading the poison in the right places while managing mana, gauging exactly how survivable you are, whether to help your team directly or exert more map pressure... playing Singed is really easy in and of itself but mastering him is surprisingly tricky. A bad Singed is food.

Anyways, speaking of food... people who can deal with Singed... well, anyone who's a strong pusher can deal with the pressure he exerts through taking out minions. That's one of the reasons Swain's a good one - he can eat entire minion waves really quickly with R, and his mechanics work quite well against Singed in and of themselves. If you just want people who are strong against him in lane then possibly his hardest counter is Kayle. Constant ranged harass, a speed-up for herself and a strong slow for him, the ult which gives her a second chance at surviving even if Singed does somehow all-in her and almost kill her...

Nasus deserves special mention because a lot of Singed players will just run past the turret no matter what as soon as they can and leave you in lane with minions. Nasus with effective free-farm for 20 minutes is very scary. Wither also shuts Singed up fairly conclusively - even if he doesn't run past your turret, freeze the lane just outside your turret range, deny Singed any creeps without entering turret range, then just Wither him and watch him take free hits. Singed doesn't really like sustain lanes either, which you might have noticed my previous two suggestions also have.

Ideally, you just need one person who can deal with Singed so they can shove waves back if he goes splitpushing, without making it necessary to take two people and leave the rest of your team in a 3v4. Map pressure is what Singed excels at - don't play into his game. I had a Singed game once where I got hard-countered in lane and their other lanes got fed to boot, and yet we won because the enemy team decided that always sending three people up to kill the Singed who was worth no gold while he relentlessly pushed top was a good idea.