It's a new year and pre-season 9. It will now be officially season 9 in a few weeks and my main is still stomping champions in the top lane. I have 700 000 Mastery points under my belt and still learning new stuff about him.
I am currently Plat 3 and if you realized, I changed my name to "vleimn". It is an anagram of my name "Melvin". I always wanted to put my name as my character but now is the only chance I thought of a decent code name.
I kind of switched from ignite to Teleport and changed my playstyle to more of a roaming top rather than a heavy stomping split pusher. If I take ignite, I can dominate top easily and can even do 2v1 at level 4 HOWEVER, there are games that I got a 9/1 or 13/2 standing but bot, mid, and jungle are feeding hard. If I have a duo jungler, I take ignite so he can focus ganking mid and bot. If I'm solo, I use TP. I can still 1v1 anyone (except for vayne and quinn if I have TP, I can if I have ignite) and go to a roaming top lane.
My favorite route is after killing top lane, slow push the wave then immediately recall then TP bot. After Teleporting on bot, I use my ultimate to cut mid roam then walk top towards my tower. By the time I gank both lanes, the wave is pushing under my tower which goes to a lane reset.
Another adjustment is that I rush deadman's plate after white boots (the atk spd is just insane, 3 stacks then Q is OP) for roaming capability and zzrot portal for the point runner buff. Also I am trying to go the TP route since I had games when I was stomping top (0/5 early) and he managed to get back to game by TP, bot or mid whichever is feeded, which would then result in a loss. Tahm Kench had a lot of nerfs this past year (rune changes is the worst) and I hope he buff him soon. I am still wishing for a miracle that rito would allow the Q>W combo for champs in which he can pull the champions at 3 stacks. This is only possible for creeps and not champions.
Good start, all in all, and my goal this year is Masters and hopefully, Challenger.
