Originally Posted by MrJingles

Karthus top doesn't sound like a terrible idea as long as you can farm from a distance and just KS kills with your r. Especially in soloqueue since teams aren't competent enough to dive you until like diamond.

Keep in mind you gotta be a better than average Karthus I'd think

Originally Posted by TyZi

When u main adc but everyone wants to do dmg in this game so they pick assassins top lane/jg instead of tanks in their respective role while tanks have been meta for almost 3 years leaving u in a position where u cant flex pick a tank as adc

Originally Posted by Bodhisattva

TyZi's point is his kit isn't meant for Top lane so it'd be wiser to use champions like J4, Maokai, Shen, etc. People with substantially higher play and ban rates.

While I'm doing fine enough now, I may be asking to run into problems moving forward.

Originally Posted by MrJingles

Karthus wasn't meant for jungle either but azingy made it work, sticking with the meta is quite boring

Originally Posted by Bodhisattva

Probably the exception and not the rule! Can't say. As TyZi no so delicately pointed out, he's a lot better than I am.

I'm trying to learn some meta picks to make me a more valuable player. I purchased Gnar this evening. So I'm doing my best to play J4/Gnar top. Obviously it all comes with time but I do feel pretty idiotic on Gnar so far. Very weird moveset and skill set. Haven't done much use on him yet. J4 feels far more intuitive with his kit.

Still climbing though which is nice. I don't think meta or not meta picks matter much at my ELO since we do literally everything wrong, but if a champion is just better than most, provides good team utility, and is also fun - that's a slam dunk.

https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=A%20Lost%20Prophet

I've been working on dying less lately. Once that is done, I want to have a much higher CS at the end of my games. If I can get those two things I should be a much better player.