Top lane. The land of AFK farming, manly dueling and beefy champions and the one that gets quite a lot of hate during the ban phase. Although there is an abundance of champions that can be played on top, the ones that fit into current meta and will see play during the Season 2 Championship are a chosen few.
An excerpt from "And a cherry on top"
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Shen
With 94,3% contested rating across all regional matches (and banned in almost 75% of them), Shen is clearly balanced and will see a lot of play these next few days and only his rarely used ultimate and the popularity of Teemos in top lane can make him warm the bench instead of making it to the field. The ease with which he can double kill under tower and farm untouched in 1v2 are only somewhat valuable and he’s mostly picked because he looks like Sub Zero or Scorpion.
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Yorick
To explain the phenomenon called perma-banned Yorick, we go all the way back to the first paragraph of the article and then follow every paragraph before this one. For the TL;DR of the readers who’ve just clicked on the anchor in the Table of Contents let me summarize:
Yorick has no weakness and counters everybody. Shens, Jayces, Rumbles and Olafs are all the same to him. He will hold a 1v2 lane with ease and will then beat them once he has his Tear of the Goddess. He can push a lane, hold a lane, take towers down or protect them most efficiently. He will make your carry live twice as long and he will have more HP than the abhorrent child of Nashor and the Nexus.
A highly contested pick and even a more contested ban, the “Most Wanted” percentages of Yorick in the World Championship are likely to be pushing 80% and above.
Shen
With 94,3% contested rating across all regional matches (and banned in almost 75% of them), Shen is clearly balanced and will see a lot of play these next few days and only his rarely used ultimate and the popularity of Teemos in top lane can make him warm the bench instead of making it to the field. The ease with which he can double kill under tower and farm untouched in 1v2 are only somewhat valuable and he’s mostly picked because he looks like Sub Zero or Scorpion.
Yorick
To explain the phenomenon called perma-banned Yorick, we go all the way back to the first paragraph of the article and then follow every paragraph before this one. For the TL;DR of the readers who’ve just clicked on the anchor in the Table of Contents let me summarize:
Yorick has no weakness and counters everybody. Shens, Jayces, Rumbles and Olafs are all the same to him. He will hold a 1v2 lane with ease and will then beat them once he has his Tear of the Goddess. He can push a lane, hold a lane, take towers down or protect them most efficiently. He will make your carry live twice as long and he will have more HP than the abhorrent child of Nashor and the Nexus.
A highly contested pick and even a more contested ban, the “Most Wanted” percentages of Yorick in the World Championship are likely to be pushing 80% and above.
