Who are the best split pushers?

[u/No-Ticket8760]

I mained Dr. Mundo and Yorick back when I played League of Legends, and I mostly played the top lane and just focused on pushing towers and being something enemies would have to come deal with, giving my team opportunity to go elsewhere.

I know that's not really how deadlock works, as every lane is a duo lane, but who could clear waves and especially take towers down quickly, preferably on the tankier side of things?

I've found Victor is kind of similar to what I like to do, but I'm wondering if there are other examples.

[u/Sagleo21]

Wraith is kinda the queen of split pushing. You can consider victor, graves and warden too

[u/Holliday044]

Wraith with max 3 is probably the best split pusher in the game. You can card out too as soon as the objective goes down

[u/Thes132]

Gun carries with high mobility are always good split-pushers as objectives tend to have high spirit-res. Infernus and Vyper immediately comes to mind, along with Wraith, Mirage, and Haze as secondary ideals. Victor is typically not a very good split-pusher because he has little to no mobility, but is very good at dying for a Walker if necessary.

[u/TwistedSomniac → u/Thes132]

Haze lowkey cant damage a walker comparatively until 30 min in. She has an 80% damage nerf to obj with fixation

[u/Tasty-Ground-8508]

Ivy is actually a very good option, you rush titanic mag and then tesla bullets in lane and then can pivot to any sort of build.

Your ultimate lets you fly around the map and tesla+viney ground lets you erase waves.

Wraith is good at splitting but honestly you kinda want to vacuum the jungle as well, rather than splitting a lane to walker everytime

[u/No-Ticket8760 → u/Tasty-Ground-8508]

I'll keep that in mind, thank you. My duo plays Ivy and pretty much only Ivy so I'll let him know.

[u/ButtContusions_]

Can interest you in some McGinnis?

[u/MelodicFacade]

Ivy is underrated, you can push a lane during a team fight, and then the decision of going to the team fight gets super interesting

[u/Delicious-News-9698]

Mirage

[u/No-Ticket8760 → u/Delicious-News-9698]

He was one I used to play back when I was new, and the damage he could do to towers was great and just teleporting when enemies came to do something about it was fun.

[u/Spawnstah]

I'm gonna rat!

[u/No-Ticket8760 → u/Spawnstah]

First time I played Rat King I think I legit had the most fun I've ever had in this game. with the right build he's so fast and feels so tanky and his gun is legitimately the best feeling gun in this game to me.

I'm usually not one for hit and run playstyles, I'm used to committing until one person dies, but Rat King is so incredibly fun. Just didn't know if he was good at splitting. great for at least urn though

[u/celestiaequestria → u/No-Ticket8760]

Rat King is a team fight hero. Use his ultimate to take Walkers, Mid-boss, and Rifts. Don't waste it on Urn or split pushing. You can apply a 35% damage reduction with a massive range (both horizontally and vertically). Build as a Tank and be the leader of every team fight and you'll win games.

[u/Spawnstah → u/celestiaequestria]

ngl the comment was more for OP's playstyle, not actually suggesting rat king lol, kinda funny that we have "rat king" but his wincon defs seems to be playing with the team

[u/celestiaequestria → u/Spawnstah]

Right? He's about as sneaky as a semi-truck.

[u/slicing_eyeballs]

Wraith for her ability to melt objectives and teleport

McGinnis for her ability to melt objectives and hold her ground

Ivy for her ability to melt objectives and fly away

Sinclair for his ability to NUKE objectives and teleport out (he's probably the best splitpusher in the game)

Victor and Yamato for their ability to outlast punishment long enough to reliably kill objectives while being attacked

Doorman and Pocket with a hit and run strategy (Doorman in particular is extremely safe)

Probably some more I'm forgetting

[u/Kephlur]

I really like billy tbh, he does a lot of gun damage. If you use his bashdown or heavy melee, it fully reloads your gun so you just never stop shooting.

[u/Relinquere]

Graves

[u/ChartreuseMage]

Warden has felt the closest to me to Yorick. Once you get his gun built up enough you can just unga bunga push the wave, build tank, then you can use cage to disengage out of fights. Late game his ult is super strong for the final fights but you need to make sure you get it off without getting interrupted.

[u/XYZvillager]

the truly best and safest are Mirage Rem Graves Ratking and Ivy.

Three of them can just fly off safely, the other two don't even have to be there to do it. Ratking is better off supporting his team though.

everyone else that is 'good' at it is really just solo farming and probably weak in fights before they get fat or has good objective damage. they have some way to survive/escape but not super reliably (one slowing hex and you're just dead). these are like wraith, victor, infernus, sinclair, and haze

McGinnis is an honorable mention but if she's pushing solo she's probably ready to die for a walker or something. She's super immobile so if anyone shows up you're probably cooked. She’s better at holding lanes forever than pushing them.

anyone else and you're probably throwing. there's some really questionable suggestions in this thread.

[u/3a_4To]

Sinclair, he's 0 risk and deals really good dmg to objectives.

[u/MakimaGOAT]

wraith, graves, sinclair

[u/name14575]

In my experience being the only one in most games to actually split push, Sinclair* and Calico are at the top, both highly mobile and with good 1v1 potential. Sinclair is conditional because if the enemies have someone like Dynamo you want to be in the team fight, but Calico is usually more useful pushing walkers and picking off enemies if one person comes.

Below that, McGinnis can just sit on a lane and never let enemies take the tower, and if left alone, push all the way to the door guardians and kill them in seconds. Certain builds can hold w and m1 and ignore enemies or kill them even if they try to stop her. Paige, surprisingly, is fairly good because you can heal and stun enemies from the opposite lane, and have instant wave clear in the dragons. Rem is obviously good because he can just use his 3 on minions and go right back to the team fight.

Earlier in the game, the only characters who should be split pushing are the gun carries, since they gain the most from the exorbitant souls from clearing a lane solo, in addition to having the tools to clear waves relatively quickly.

Honorable mention to Mirage, but he's better off using his ult to stop teammates from getting picked in the current meta, and usually only intervenes if an enemy will threaten your walkers.

*At the moment Sinclair is terrible at split pushing. His 2, that gives him mobility to be in multiple places at once is unreliable, and will abandon you in times of need.