Why this CHALLENGER is playing BARD TOP
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Today we have a really impressive player - a Challenger + Pro player who climbed to all the way with Off meta Bard Top. I talk about why he is playing Bard Top, his New Smite Strategy and decide - is the pick good?
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00:00 Bard Top
00:38 A New Surprise
01:38 Challenger Bard Top
01:57 Why Bard Top?
02:29 Infinite Free Scaling
02:40 NEW LVL 1 Strat
03:09 Ignore Top
03:17 Special LVL 1 Leash
03:28 LANE FOR 1 MINUTE ONLY
03:48 Counter Jungle FAST
03:57 Countering ENEMY TOP
04:14 Leave Top
04:25 Tower Dive Immediatly
04:43 Constant 5v4
04:57 Futures Market Strat
05:06 What A CHALLENGER does Next
05:35 Nothing to do? No Problem
05:47 7 Minute Play
06:12 You are not a Champion
06:44 Fast Dragon Boost
06:58 Special PORTAL Ganks
07:12 Stopwatch Strat
7:57 LVL 6 - NEW PLAY UNLOCKED
08:10 MID GAME
08:40 DENY enemy play
09:05 Solo Invade Kills
09:33 Magic Chime Number
10:06 Objective Bounties are Broken
10:28 Pick Time
10:57 POWERSPIKE
11:03 Teamfights
11:50 Bard Top BUILD + RUNES + SKILLS
12:34 Should Riot Remove Roaming Tops?
13:29 A new Chapter of LoL History
13:45 Watch PRO Bard Top
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NO MORE TOP LANE OFF-META PLEASE!!! SOMETHING NEW!!! It's always roaming top with smite. Please give me something with no smite.
It's not even off-meta anymore.
@@kevinlee2606 his last smite top vid was a month ago it was a the Janna top right when it was starting.
it let players be truly creative and it gave riot a huge balanced headache your best joke so far XD🤣
i want one, but i live in peru :c
@HappyChimeNoises, please can you made a video about zed jg (bruiser). There’s a LPL jungler (SOFM) who came from Vietnam and he create zed jungler from Vietnamese sever while in world 2021. After that, he play zed bruiser so effectively in LPL that even in the match between v5 vs WBG, they ban zed. Oh, and OMG tried using zed lethality jg but it failed hard.
Guys… it’s finally happened.. THE HAPPY CHIME NOISES CHAMPION HAS FINALLY MADE IT ONTO A VIDEO!… at the expense of my Elo 😭😭
@@gio7469 agreed
Hi Vars.
They took why top lane is the most useless lane too personally
@@youtubegoose7021 nah we need video on this smite shit
I started watching both Vars and HCN at the same time, I’m starting to believe they’re the same person doing an accent at this point. What a good CZcams duo queue pair.
Oh no...
I thought we would stop with Smite Janna Top...
At this point, both teams should just stop sending people to Toplane at all and just play with double jungler, would be kinda the same xD
LoL but midlane is replaced with more jungle
@@Shiodiodia imagine having a team of 3 smites and it's actually called "viable"
well at the very very beginning of league of legends people played a support in top and bot lanes so it actually make sense that if you play a support with smite top and a big carry in jungle you are more efficient but yeah honestly they should put 1 to 3 more minions in the top waves if they want to make it a separate part of the map ...
or hell why not just remove the tier 1 top tower ? so it becomes a mess and top lane is actually a brawling area again where your aim is to smash your opponent and deny the jungler afterwards like the good old days :D
idk if you played way back, but double jungling was a thing for a bit, it was insane.
There were double jungler, smite mid and actual smite support before.
This time, smite top works because it literally is hacking the bounty system.
"Its giving Riot a balancing headache, so its a complete success"
One of my favriote lines now.
worst case scenario: riot will ban ability to take 2+ smites. (like it were in nexus war mode).
also they're nerfing the 2+ support items in 1 team strategy in one of next patches...
they cant ban double smite it will literally nerf spellbook or just make anyone get smite first for troll
riot should be proud people making new strategies instead of get angry like gragas jungle and graves jungle was called trolling until riot fucking aprove was an amazing idea
@@viket8316 well..technically they can do it.
and they were always very-very meta-headed. (i even remember when they gave a warning on some tournament to a player for picking annie on adc role).
ps:iirc graves were released as a jungler. wdym he has considered troll pick? on the other hand carthus was a troll pick before season 4 or 5 (when someone on pro scene took him and then suddenly it became normal)
@@koxacbka wasn't graves a bot laner on release?
@@theokayguy360 well...maybe you're right. it was 10 years ago abd he didn't even had a reload mechanics then.
i definitely remember that everyone played him as top or jungle after rework though.
IT'S CHIME TIME
LETS GOOOOO CHIME POG
IT'S BARD'S CHIME TO SHINE!!
Happy Chime Noises ;)
GO POLY!
make a video about it
This is probably THE play style Riot wanted Bard to have when they decided to create him
I‘m sure riot thought „hey, let‘s make a champion for speedrunning the game“
I see what u done did there...
true
Top mains have been complaining that the role has no impact for years. Finally this is proof. You’re literally more likely to win by having no one in top......
This could be the meta the new age of smite top lane lol 😆
It's called a team game lol
What do you mean? The team that has the Smite Janna Top has the higher chance of winning. That's the highest impact they've had in years!
@@Baba_Lemonade exactly what hes saying, smite janna top doesnt stay toplane, she roams! he's saying that you have a better chance of winning if nobody goes toplane
@@Baba_Lemonade at that point, u r not playing top, u r playing a second jgl
the main problem for Riot about this strategy is that exposes some of their more questionable desing choices since it was made to fix them.
Toplane has no agency in the game, and most times doesn't even feel like tops are playing league;
Supports are way too much gold efficient because the game was designed for them to win no gold at all;
Inversly to Top, Jungle has way too much agency and it's the role that calls for the most ammount of plays in a game (specially in pro play);
And finally Objective Bounties and Unleashed Teleport were stupid ass deicisions made to try and slow down thee game they've been pushing to be faster for the last 5~6 years.
So of course that a strategy that uses all of the above broke the game, it was designed like so.
exactly, Riot tried using too many bandaids to fix a broken building, but it still crumbled down.
Obviously objective bounties are in a bad place rn, but the teleport change was a necessary and healthy change imo. It simply is the most powerful spell in the game and giving access to unleashed tp in the early game made any kind of early playmaking a total guessing game since one random ward nearby can ruin any plan. The lack of counterplay made tp change long overdue.
That's the third year Riot's been slowing the game down though. The difference in season 9 to season 12 is like day and light. 4 of the last 5 jungle releases (including reworks) are powerfarming scaling junglers, enchanters have never been that dominant since Ardent Censer meta and Riot's been doing everything in their reach to make the game more forgiving and disencourage playmaking.
Mobi Boots was murdered cold blooded years ago and was left to rot. From great for supports, good for junglers and viable for mid laners, its now trolling outside hook champs. Riot made changes to how mid lane minion waves work to make roaming weaker. Riot has reduced the experience from kills and given free homeguard for players who died, so plays are less rewarding for players doing it and less punishing for the players caught out.
Objective Bounties and Unleashed Teleport were stupid ass decisions and support itens are way too gold efficient. Just want to reiterate that.
@@kijan97 Unleashed Teleport was a overall good decision in a world where top has agency, but now with no tele, top lost its last piece of agency
The objective bounties mainly happen because of CS.
Who knows how much it would change if that specific part was removed.
The issue with the strategy is that it shows how useless toplane is following the tp nerf. It is more effective to nearly ignore top and give free farm than it is to lane on an island
Thanks for the Manscaped ad, but I'm trying an off-meta full bush. Scales well into the late game when you don't get laid anymore.
Bro that build is obsolete now that league players passively get the incel buff at lvl 11
@@jaygged6472 im dying
smite top changed my life this is the funnest strat i've ever played
So the off-metas are becoming...... metas. Great.
Good, the meta was boring before.
@@colddorito this is the most unskilled meta for toplane there is
@@dankmemer258 as if counter pick meta fun at least enemies get to feel the power but take the responsibility of carry the game or they themselves chose to follow the roamer to counter it.
@@dankmemer258 despite the fact that all of the happy chime noises videos on these strategies have been in depth on why they take skill and why these players are where they are? The role got fucked up by riot so don't blame the playerbase for coming up with this. At least people have map awareness now
The meta slaves saying that the game boring.. oh the irony..
Whenever i saw support toplaners getting popular i wondered where bard was, hes THE roaming champion
I LOVE IT. FINALLY, AFTER MONTHS OF MENTAL ABUSE FROM MY TEAM, BECAUSE I PLAYED IVERN TOP WITH SMITE, NOW IS MY TIME TO SHINE. SMITE TOP RULES AND SUPPORT SMITE TOO. I LOVE IT CHIME
I LOVE YOU.
Riot next patch: "We saw that you guys hate this strat - and so do we. We nerf..."
Yeah hahaha it's disappearing next patch so...F
i mean, it did deserve a nerf though
This strat won't dissapear anytime soon, knowing riot's balance team they will fuk up like usually.
It will be either azir/aureriol nerf out of nowhere or they somehow buff 4 waifus of top lane while nerfing bruiser items yet again, so yea don't stop learning this strat because it is more common than you can imagine.
The nerfs have already been confirmed and it is rip to the strat
Seems to me that even after Riot nerfs roaming supports Bard might still remain solid w/ this playstyle. Good vid!
one way of "nerfing" the roaming top strategies would be to actually make standard top lane impactful. nerfed teleport does not really help this case either...
Last smite top video for now friends. Next week back to crazy never seen before off meta.
I saved a good one trust me
Riot : "How about we rework Teleport so top laners don't have too much agency who wins bot ?"
The players : "Oh no... Anyway."
I am a Bard Support Main and i started playing him top after I saw your Janna Top Video because i thought his kit would have great synergy with that playstyle. I actually had great success with that strategy and i am happy that there is an actual guide for runes etc. now.
ey mate good luck on your games
enjoy :>
Same here. After have heard of Janna top I wondered which other champ could do that and Bard came to my mind because is a roaming champ by definition!
I just hope this don't get him nerfed
@@antoanmerkov6058 I dont think He gets nerfed. The Roaming top strat will probabaly get nerfed, but Not Bard as a champ
@@pulswolf3365 true but in the worst case they'll nerf his passive again
Has there been a high elo game with two smite roaming top laners? If a game like that exists I'd actually love to see a game analysis
The GP main, the most famous one had video how to counter it lately, dont remember his name but if you search otp GP itsbsurely top one channel :)
I believe Lourlo uploaded one of those
"It broke toplane, it broke botlane, and even broke jungle"
Midlane has always been jungle and support diff. Now its top diff too? That's something.
people saying [role] diff / gap was the worst thing to happen to league
not sure what popularized it, but I came back from a long break and its just normalized toxicity
we used to say gg, ggwp, etc.
@@JamFlexx everyone can already see the kda, we can tell when someone had a bad game. So not only is it pointless to say it but it's like they say it just to make somebody feel bad.
Sylas support has been fun, and now you're taking Bard support--one of my core bois--and giving it new life. Hell yeah, Chime. Hell yeah.
Lourlo's a beast, his decision making really is next level
Just few hours before, bard top is picked in PCS region DCG vs JT and they won.
Sick production quality :O
Awesome vid, we love HappyChimeNoises
I think one of the coolest thing about these strats it shows how many people just auto pilot and dont think. They just play the same shit for 8 years and don't wanna deal with some new weird strat but it makes sense, its fun to play and team fights happen waaaay earlier which is also much more fun.
Finally. The video what I’ve been waiting for
“Bard now leaves top lane and never return”
Ah yes just like my father buying milk
Sad that this is getting nerfed patch, was a lot of fun to try all of these out.
Its funny how you litterly made this so popular that its just one of the best picks (any smite support top)
nah this gameplay strat won't dissapear anytime soon if you have known riot's balance team.
They will somehow fuk it again and top lane will more deserted than ever, it will be either azir/aureriol nerf out of nowhere or they somehow buff 4 waifus of top lane
If you watch through the video you will learn that this nerf will not stop smite top laners
@@HappyChimeNoises exactly, we will see new form of roaming top laners real soon
I still remember back when people complain that Riot force player to play only specific way/role or else it counts as a troll and then get ban
Now we don't even have top lane anymore lmao
I like the way you put ramon el ruedas in Spain, very fitting.
I like how Riot encourages us to try and find our style of playing the game, with different runes, items, strategies, but then once one finds something they nerf it. Cool company.
You forgot to add "/s"
welcome to season 12 where top laners are going mid lane and supports are going top with smite
It’s somewhat hilarious watching this as a 4 month twitch sub to lourlo since I followed him back in 2020
HAPPY CHIMES NOISES INTENSIFIES
Truly, a "Happy Chime Nioses" moment
bard is one of the best champs, hands down, his kit allows him to do everything in the game with any play style
Been thinking about the roaming smite top. I feel like lane swapping would help a lot with this. It seems like creating a gap between the bot lane is a big factor, and the top diff doesn't make as big a difference. This would force the roaming top laner to leave the swapped botlane top to freefarm. Interested to see how this would play out
yes!! an actual example of something i've wanted to play since janna top started!
Since the Janna top video I was thinking about playing Bard top but didn't really try it. Now this happens. Guess I have to play it!
11:29 the true bard experience
The counterplay is small but important:
If you are top take demolish to push fast, also pick a hard scaling champion.
If you are jungle, also start topside so you can countergank the botside plays
I already knew it, i was just waiting
You need to make a guide then which champion fits better against/with specific teams :)
not what i wanted to see before bed. nightmare fuel
I always remember Lourlo as the guy who lost to a singed who did nothing
My boy Lourlo making it
This "thing" existing and some people still have the nerve to say bruisers are op, and the worse is riot keeps nerfing the living shit of their items. Like why the fuck are bruiser items losing hp to give more damage? They are supposed to take sustained fights not 1 shot burst or be bursted.
My moment finally has come
This intro is so PERFECT xd
Literally the first game of the new PCS (Southeast Asia Pro League) season and DCG's mid-laner played Bard top with guardian keystone and smite, and won with a score of 3/1/9. With a 300g bounty, no less.
As a Dota fan, I have to say that the presence of a committed roaming support is something that the game is very much designed around. There are certainly ways to balance this play style in mobas although adapting the role as the top lane, which should ideally have the second largest exp and presence next to mid is an awkward spot
Is there a match where Janna top meets yuumii top? I would love to see that
and here it is my favorite lane with my favorite champion
The entire Riot balance team shivers the moment you drop a new video.
Time to run it down with bard top ty so much
Riot Nerfs TP
Smite top players: Fine i'll walk myself.
Support items broke the game, AGAIN. Remember the midlane Runic echo + Frostqueen? Damn That powerspike was unbeatable.
THE LO IS BACK AT IT AGAIN
HappySmiteNoises
Thanks for the videos as always, Chime
I knew someone would have done this with bard
as a yorick main i love this meta at around 15 min got there inhib most of the time i can solo end it
That's because you're not master+
can't wait for the karma rop smite video :D
Please do more vids . I’ve been curbstomping every single support toplaners with yi and udyr.
I don't know if the analytics suggest a change needs to be made, but I'll just say that when I saw the thumbnail/title I thought "oh it's just the same as Janna top, no need to watch"
30 seconds in I'm glad I clicked anyway because this description of a pro player perfecting the roaming top strat is something super interesting to me
As a Bard main, denying rift herald love bumps always feels satisfying
any chance you could do a video on bruise graves jg. seen goredrinker deaths dance black cleaver been built by a few pros in solo q and wondered what makes it better than just going say a xin or lee with the same build
Hi ! Have you ever tryed a Vi lethality mid ? I find it oustandingly powerful as an assassin and ganks are easy to set up. Does it have potential at high elo ? I play in low plat
I'll be sad when they kill this next week, but I am hopeful we adapt. Even with the nerfs, you're losing out on a lot of passive gold but still gain a roaming Bard for play making. At least Twitch Top will still be valuable. Spell thief is nice on him, but he can definitely function without it.
Twitch top will still work because most of the time you are so ahea din kills that the top laner never gets a bounty anyways, and you just win purley off you and your bot snowballing too fast
The ad segment proves that he refers to his "package" as chime.
great video as were used to! who knows though maybe smite top will become meta ,id like to see it in enemy team even if ill lose, itll be fun to play against a smite top
so happy chime nosises is no accident
In this rate off meta gonna become meta's itself
HappyChimeNoises I just want to say that these guides are really fun but are these off meta picks can be used in low elo players as well?
I would not recommend bard top for low elo. The non smite tops can all be played low elo, I recommend it!
@@HappyChimeNoises ooooh i see aight aight thanks a lot! The akshan jungle really helped me climbed tho so yeah thanks for that
I'm surprised this wasn't first video on roaming top laners. I made a video about jungle bard on my first channel and jungle bard is SURPRISINGLY really strong.
I Once played bard jungle it was quite fun
Hey Chime Noises!
Not sure if you're still doing smite-top videos, but I found a challenger player playing AP Nunu in toplane with Smite in one of King Nidhogg's games.
His name is Gojo Wakana on NA server, and I think he's pretty neat!
The legend, the Lo.
I wonder if he has yet to perma freeze 100 to 10 cs with this strat....
Riot nerfs tp to keep players top lane, so players just stop going top entirely
Knew it was Lourlo before I clicked haha
4:11 this part is great hahahha
I do wonder whether roaming top will be viable in 12.4 since it's being nerfed.
The only thing that can complete this now
Is if polypuff actually use this on ladder
The thing that needs to be fixed is Toplane. There is simply no objective. The teleport changes limited the impact even more, so it became more efficient to just gank and group.
It's such a tricky problem, having 2 players bot and ofc dragon makes it a priority since you can cash in on doubles/triples with jungler.
Even if you decide to put the stronger objective top you'd just have the duo lane go there instead.
@@slippers8000 I think it would be interesting though if after so many years of having the duo lane bot it became reversed and the duo lane was top.
@@manflutewarrior it'd just be the same thing really, the duo lane will always have priority close to the strongest objective. Meaning bot would just turn into the low prio solo lane.
I'd say roaming top is more interesting, you can see how the devs have been pushing it to this point with tankier early towers and ofc the tp change.
I wonder how they'll combat it, it's funny how they whip top laners into such low early macro potential they end up leaving it.
Man, remember nubrac? That was a thing that happened
At this point it‘s basically a League of Legends speedrun
I thought of this when I heard the smite janna top
Next week we will have bard top in competitive
Toplaners can do so little without teleport now. I like the idea of making the game less reliant on botlane, but riot probably has to revert the teleport change.
Best, advertisement, ever
Riot: okay, no more early tp. Too many people camping bot.
Top Laners: fine, I'll _walk_ down and buy a condo.
Riot: *surprised pikachu face
Polypuff gonna love this
You need to do the guy that runs Kayn top with smite in EUW.
the real miracle of this strat is that at least one toplaner is having fun and actually play the game and not an isolation chamber simulation
My question about this strategy is always what if both of the tops start roaming?
I feel like the support changes will not really affect Bard because of the chimes. More everyone else. The bounties being weaker will affect everyone though, so you actually have to play near to perfect otherwise you remain even for too long. And the enemy will just split push.
Too many people are not realising that riot has not balanced Hull breaker for ranged champions. If you give that item to a Vayne, who can really stop her? She won't get bursted by assassins, (especially if she builds a randuins for ad or wits end for AP) tanks will get kited and not deal enough damage to bypass her healing from immortal shield bow, and fighters like Yone have to play perfect or she can turn it around.
I built it 4th item on xayah once, due to all the splitpushing I was 2 levels up on the enemy mid talon, and survived Talon's R, Caitlyn's R and Vel'koz's full combo all with just hullbreaker and guardian angel. And I didn't save my R for Caitlyn's either, I tanked all physical damage and only used my own ultimate to dodge a bit of Vel'koz's R damage as he hit his knock back ability on me.
Cant wait to lathyrus to try this!
The fact that I used Bard top HoB with smite without having even the slightest idea that this guy exists is funny. Bard HoB is really good, works even in Jungle
"Just in time for him" chime looked like something from the amazing world of gumball
This playstyle is in PCS, which being picked by a team called Deep Cross Gaming and they actually won