The Complete History Of Top Lane And The Top Lane META

This video will be covering a complete history of top lane, and the META around top lane. Recently, top lane has been the subject of a lot of debate due to hashinshin making the front page of reddit. Bruisers not having a keystone. Wickd, Adrian Riven, Dekar, ICU debate over bruisers and top lane. And I wanted to make a video covering the League of Legends history of the top lane role and the champions.

Thank you all who helped me research this video:
Psyklone, Dekar, Gbay99, Multiple people on twitter, and my discord server.

Source videos and Credit:
Riot Games League of Legends LCS, World Championships, World Cyber Games

Dyrus, Keyori, Hashinshin, Voyboy, Gbay99, Gosu, HotshotGG

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Music:

Music is from Royalty Free Planet, Timecop1983, and Runescape 3 Soundtrack. All credit for the music goes to these sources, I did not make the music.

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[Rafaelito]

Dude... This took a bunch of time and effort to make, didn't it?
Much respect. Great content.

[thegoodgamerguy]

respect for actually taking time to make some great content. not just daily clips of basic kills. bless you kellen <3

[PabloMartinez-lply]

The intro sounded almost exactly like the Speedrun Series from Summoning Salt.

[lsbevo]

The history is easy: Top lane is an forgotten place, then Renekton appears, then Renekton dominates the island with iron fangs and bloodthirsty, then, he suddenly leaves, and the island is again forgotten...

[anihroxxor]

no talk about philosopher's stone and heart of gold??

[LoobTV]

As a league player since season 1, i gotta say this video was very well made and brought back some good memories.

[koreannidalee]

Good video, i think im not the only one who want a video like this for other roles! great work!

[thanosdadasios]

This brought a tear to my eye... amazing video that hits early season players right in the feels.... i will never forget my awesome times in the top lane before my bruisers got gutted and left to rot away from the rest of the game.... but there is a bright side to this, we got to play other stuff too and we were tasked to deal with something completely different from last season, and it was a great way to get a better understanding of all the champion classes in the game, and the game’s “parts” themselves. From the early game aggression and lane sustain, to the late game, team focused gameplay, we have an opinion for everything, since we have played through all the metas and all these seasons. TOP LANE MAINS, UNITE!!!! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[the_dindon]

I love how this is a time capsule, I wonder if anyone could have planed that in 2021 toplane would be the place where tanks deal 1000+ raw damage with a regular spell to each others

[Banshee]

Pretty accurate and well made video but you skipped over a lot of historical items that impacted how and why changes were made. Old Ninja tabi and dodge meta, Base crit chance (which is why gangplank was top) Heart of gold, Starks fervor, Executioners calling when it gave you 100% attack speed for 4 seconds, Sunfire Stacking, Boot enchantments, And one that is still in the meta today, corrupting potion which basically started the cancer of top that was Brand

[davidtortallini]

Ummm why didn’t you go over season 4-7 top lane meta? You just went through a list of the most picks of those seasons. You didn’t talk about the sun fire cape meta, the juggernaut meta or even when hecarim was the best top laner with homeguards at one point. It seems like you rushed it at the end :/

[Gudi]

15:20 I HEAR THAT AUTUMN VOYAGE IN THE BACKGROUND

[blue]

Bruh the music and the start reminded me of summoning salt

[RichardGray]

Rito pls bring back 15 health pot garen
Potion Master Garen was the most balanced

[conord]

This really took me on a nostalgia trip. I hadn't really thought about how long ago I played this game, I remember getting wrecked by elixir of fortitude like it was yesterday. The game was so much fun back in season 2-4, on the old map, with ranked 3v3, dominion, and a huge variety of builds and strats that I haven't seen for years.

[daschachtelei]

Imagine, there are currently people playing lol, who are younger than the game it's self.

[AzuraeJades]

17:45 When Shen was a dwarf, good old times.

[ThankYouNE]

All the top laners is becoming jungle nidalee, shyvanna, camille jax ect

[AwesomeCrackDealer]

This's been a trip down memory lane. I remember having so much fun with singed stacking warmogs and force of natures.

[toot]

ahhh season 2 the memories!!!!
i stopped playing this game in late 2013 due to getting older and getting a job and other personal reasons but man my drive to play again has been sky high but everyone says the game is shit now and all my friends are obviously the same age as me and have families and things now i just dont think it'd be the same