Leauge of Legends: The Top Lane of Summoner's Rift

Top lane (Top) is one of the three lanes in Summoner's Rift, while the other two are middle lane (Mid) and bottom lane (Bot). Top lane is usually a solo lane, which means there is only ONE champion that appears on top lane. Thus, top lane champions, who are able to be in charge of the top lane, are approximately tanks, assassins, and even AP carries.

In laning phase*, a top champion should keep farming* as much as possible like the other two laners. What's more important is that a top champion has to survive form enemy's ganking by JG, so wards* are needed to put in bushes in order to see enemy JG who may hide in them. On the contrary, a top champion can also call his/her teammate JG to gank the enemy for economic advantage.

(*Laning phase: an early period of a game that all the champions without junglers are staying at the three lanes, killing enemy minions and champions to become wealthy for items and get experience for level up, and trying to destroy enemy's first turrets as well)

(*Farming: To get gold from enemy minions, a champion should get the last hit of each minion; that is to say, farming is an action for laners to earn gold from enemy minions.)

(*Ward: an item that has the ability to make its surrounding area visible for all the allies, usually put in bushes or jungle area)

Best Top Lane Champions

Actually, there are too many choices of champions for top lane, almost all in LoL as long as you are very skillful, but here are some representative champions recommended by people and appeared in some professional games.

(The following data are from http://gameinfo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/game-info/champions/)

Akali the Fist of Shadow