You managed to label every horseman wrong in the picture at 0:11 (It would be from left to right: Famine, War, Conquest and Death)

Ah yes the four horsewomen and gwen

There is an unspoken rule that if you are a toplaner, you absolutely despise at least one of them

there's something genetic in camille players that convince them they're not part of this group and their champion is completely normal

gwen is kept from being on the same level as the other four due to her reliance on late game scaling, since you're not guaranteed even getting to the late game. whereas she has to work towards being able to 1v1 others by building at least two full items given how low her ap scaling starts, the other four only need 1-2 components of a full item to win duels consistently. not saying she's weak by any means of course, but riven, fiora, irelia, and camille can all do "gwen stuff" far earlier in the game.

One thing i think that also contributes to having ONE of the horsewomen viable at any given time is how different each one plays to one another, hence odds are the meta will support ONE of their playstyles. Lethality and flat AD strong? Riven can make use of that hard thanks to her raw AD ratios on abilities. Attackspeed and on hit strong? Irelia can abuse it with her Q and passive. Oneshot dive meta? Camille is the definetion of nuked from the other side of your screen. Splitpushing bruisers are busted? Fiora smashes most champs in a 1 v 1 and abuses those items really well like hullbreaker or goredrinker. Unless we end up in a meta thats EXCLUSIVELY mages and enchanters i can't think of any AD/tank meta that one of them can't abuse with their collective kits. (Maybe crit items? But fiora abused essence reaver and I.E and i could see irelia with Navori Shieldbow.)

funnily enough, those 4 are countered by olaf which possess a good matchup in all 4 of them, as well as malphite who can outlane them and "solo" teamfights with proper engage and pealing (but it does require one fed member in your team so not absolutely solo)

The thing with Gwen is I feel like she only feels like a Horsewoman if she lanes against a tank, or once she hits late game. Playing Gwen against most things in lane is such a humbling experience Lol

I just realized this but the 4 horsewomen have a really nice pair of walking apparatuses.

My guy played the bo2 Multiplayer menu music and made me have so much nostalgia of the good old days.

Vars, you make great league analysis and observation videos that I look forward to watching everyday while I eat my breakfast. I always walk away from your videos nodding my head and going “hm yeah that’s a good point” or “ooh I hadn’t thought of or realized that!”. Just wanted to show my support

the name sake of their character is amazing! The four horsewomen of toplane sounds so cool! Riot should make a skin set for this!

HOT TAKE as someone who plays Wukong top a lot. I get super excited when I lane against a irelia riven camille and fiora (well except grasp fiora), and it's mostly because of how fun it is. You see, in the top lane, there are a lot of matches that feel too oneside with champs that have ver simple kits that can lead to boring gameplay. Like when I lane against a Garen or illaoi that are overtly aggressive with their damage, tankiness, healing, and resistances meaning a lot of time, I have to play passive and pray for some jg ganks. When it's champs like kayle and nasus that are very weak in the early game but since they know this, they play EXTREMELY passive using their abilities like nasus and kalye's w and prevent any engagement until late game, where they become units of destruction. Or just tanks like malphite and sion where they really don't care if they die in the early game they can just keep pushing and scale with their tank items becoming unkillable in team fights. They're very boring and unfun to play against. But with champs like irelia, riven camille, and fiora, when I play wukong against them its soo fun because I know I can kill them but they also know they can kill me so it's not like it's one-sided but rather unpredictable on who can outplay who given how skill express these champs are compare to wukong passive and abilities. Even when i die, I don't go oh "oh no I died this sucks" I go "damn that was soo close but this time I'll kill them for sure" and it's just soo fun. There's something so fun where you're in a match and you both know you can kill each other and just brawl out till one is fed.

As a Poppy main, I’m so happy my W exists. Also, last lunch break video with Vars for 2023! 🎉

What I also noticed is that, aside from Riven, all of them have an arena-esque ability on their ult where they have total control of the area and have a significant buff when in it. Camille with her ult which is the forces the enemy in a single area and she also has % current hp magic damage per auto. Fiora with her ult where she gets extra movement speed when in it and gets immense amount of healing in an area for her and her allies when she procs all of the vitals. Then Irelia's ult makes it so that if they pass through the walls, they'll get damaged and she can get extra procs for her Q.

What you described w/ Trynd vs K’Sante is exactly how I played Nasus in top lane. I make sure it’s never a 5v5 but 1v2 and 4v3

I thought I remembered seeing this in my sub list weeks ago but it must have been an announcement post with the thumbnail. I searched it and skimmed his video list like 3 times, gave up, refreshed the home menu and there it was "uploaded 1 minute ago" 🤣🤣🤣

2:24 As a certain fundamentals enthusiast would say, top-lane is usually won and lost in the first four minion waves.

the black ops 2 lobby music in the background was the real mvp

I find Gwen to be impressive at 2 items. Nashor’s + Riftmaker is full build and can 1v1 anyone. Add a Cosmic Drive and can 1v2 even 1v.

Riven’s strength is heavily dependent on the lack of clarity her champ has. Even if you know her moves and all her basic combos she has so many unique interactions that playing against her can become a guessing game as to how much damage you’re about to take. Even if you know how all of her moves, combos, and interactions work you have to be on your toes at all times because she can do everything. Basically Riven has more options as of what to do in non-neutral than any other champ in the game, and that makes her incredibly hard to play against.

I'm sure you had lots of fun making this video, Vars, especially the section about Riven...

Thank you for your videos vars, trust me when i say that they do save my nights❤

Riven and irelia are tolerable compared to the true damage twins.

Gwen kind of feels like an honorary 5th Horsewoman. She does lack the mobility of the rest but she has the true damage and 1v1 potential of one

one thing i love about these four is the fact that they come from some of the strongest regions in runeterra, Camille- Piltover (The best tech) Fiora- Demacia (The best anti magic people) and Irelia Ionia- (the best synergy with magic) Its quite cool to see imo

I remember b4 mythic items the meta were camilles and fiora were the most dominamt champions of toplane, trinity force, ravenous hydra and sterak, if theu got to those 3 items, not matter how far behind they were it was a instant lose for the enemy team

They all have some form of: CC/Counterplay/Dash/Sustain or damage prevention

Gwen is more like the four horsewomen's child prodigy rather than an actual member. Also would be kinda cool if they could have a skinline band of their own with Gwen as their manager 😆

You're a man of culture, this Black Ops 2 Background music makes me nostalgic while viewing this video.

I feel like Lillia does well or at least okay against all four of them, due to her consistent high movementspeed, which kind of counters most of their abilities - and starting midgame, it‘s not even *that* bad, if she gets caught, because she just ramps up her speed like no one else and probably also has Rylais by then

You're right, I had a feeling they would really get along with horses. I mean look at them

4 women of top lane 4 carries of top lane 4 champions choosable in top lane

ok LESGOOOOOOOO !!! finally GJ vars great vid

When BO2 Adreanaline kicken in i knew how serious this vid will be Also max health true damage has two counters - sustain as well as shields

Here's my suggestion if you really want to balance Fiora in particular: Make it so her vitals only deal true damage when she has her ult on someone; THOSE vitals deal true damage, all others deal physical damage. This would still give her the tankbusting capabilities she has now without her being an effective counter against a FREAKING MOUNTAIN or an ARMADILLO COVERED IN DEADLY SPIKES THAT RETALIATE AGAINST ANYTHING

These are the 4 AD horsewoman. Don't forget the 4 AP horsewoman: Lillia, Akali, Kayle, and Gwen (though you did mention the last). Also: no Vayne? *_Megamind face_*

Love the BO 2 music at the beginning

i see what u did there w/ the Black ops 2 mp menu music

The black ops 2 menu music’s got me feeling some kinda way.

The black ops ost in the background made me smile.

Love the black ops 2 menu music playing in the video 😂

Absolutely vibing to the Black ops 2 multiplayer music, brings me back to when I no lifed that game back in middle school 😅

I hate playing against Fiora and Riven. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS VARS!❤

Man that bo2 music brings back so many memories

I like the BO2 music on the video, Adrenaline is such a good soundtrack.

Damn upload on both Vars and Vars II at the same time?

The Black Ops II main menu music goes HARD

you know its the main event when the black ops 2 music kicks in

Funny how this exact four champs is my entire champion pool and I dont play any other champs.

Bladewomen is officially a champion subclass in League of legends and you cannot convince me otherwise

that black ops 2 music in the background is so fire

Love the music at the start. Ah, I miss those days playing black ops 2

The black ops 2 music in the background is gas btw

I got really excited when he said mythics would be gone by the time I saw this video

Just here to add a few unmentioned points for each horsewoman: - Fiora = She's usually squishy enough early-mid game and can be taken down in one rotation if immobilized... Exceeeept, she also can actively punish anything telegraphed w/ her W (and not a lot of crowd control abilities in the game are exempt to that). - Camille = When Vars said she has the lowest consistent damage because her Q is the bulk of her damage, don't forget that her R's duration also gives her bonus 20/40/80+4/6/8% of target's current HP as magic damage on hit. And oh, did I mention she gets bonus attack speed if she lands her E on an enemy champion? - Riven = Her passive used to only work vs. organic enemy units (champs/minions/monsters), but after they allowed 50% of it to work against structures, she's become more than capable of taking turrets in 2-3 minion waves at two items. - Irelia = Skilled users have the option of hiding her initial cast and animation of E (fog of war/walls/brushes) and then recasting once she's already within striking range (through Q/Flash), effectively removing any telegraphed counter-play. Also, she has the option to build AP (fringe cases like Baus, but it can more than work if you're good enough). - All of them love the Conqueror rune keystone, which gives them more damage and sustain the longer a fight goes- and oh boy, do these four have the means to be in a fight for more than 20 seconds.

We just appreciate that my man used call of duty: Black ops 2 multiplayer music as his background track. Brings back some good memories. 👍

Damn that Black Ops theme really just made me pause the video and relive old memories...

Irelia is a bad splitpusher LOL, the most important thing when applying presure on sidelane is escape which she doesnt have(u get picked its gg), only aggressive mobility kindla like yasuo, and 1v1 she is actually quite strong especially with bork

why is the first thing I notice in this video the black ops 2 multiplayer menu music, man my brain is beyond saving

I LOVE AT START THE BACKGROUND MUSIC BEING ADRENALINE FROM BLACK OPS 2

The thumbnail confused me since I don't play any of these, thought there was 3 irelias and 1 camille

11:50 As a Yorick main, I find it offensive that you could possibly put down his spike as Trinity force, an item he usually doesn't even build in high elo! He spikes at 4th item, which costs around a total of 12,000 gold, which is why he is so shit. That is, unless he has a good teamcomp matchup, where he spikes 3rd item (hullbreaker), but he needs grudge to catch and duskblade to kill. That, or you could just build Iceborn like a true memer and spike 1st item

thanks for the BO2 music

The intro music reminded was nostalgic, i was in a COD game.

Black Ops 2 multiplayer music pog. Now there's a memory.

Every time I looked away from this video for a moment I temporarily forgot that I'm not watching a FalseSwipeGaming video

The use of the Black Ops 2 Multiplayer music is nostalgic.

Very well said about top lanes job is to prevent the enemy from winning not usually carry the game themselves. Clicked for me when you said that since I play Shen lol

Hey vars i don't know if you know the Channel story of dota his concept would be great and fit your Channel a full story of a champion in the pro scene

As a top laner I far prefer to fight these champions and other skill expressive fighters than some drooling tank or adc. These champs are what top lane is all about, high pressure skill matchups between primarily melee fighters, thats what makes it my favourite role.

love that black ops 2 multiplayer theme man

Did he think he was going to get away with the call of duty background music haha

Have been learning all of these champs partially so I can play against them better (aatrox main) and partially to prove a point to myself and holy it’s a change going from aatrox the most mobile juggernaut to these 4. Cammile is quite funny in my pisslow because no one ever respects your gap close and then whines when you kick them in the head for 2k true dmg

8:50 Camille also deals % max hp true dmg on hit to her ult target iirc.

Nice video. Kinda want to approach the toplane, which of the 4 (5) has the easiest barrier of entry (not expecting to be pick up and play)?

Ah, the Black Ops 2 MP background music. Memories! And now I am a toplaner!

id like to see a video on why malphite is so good but isn't mained by a lot of players or a general video of champions who have high winrates but low main population

All of my 4 Mains getting featured? Let's go!

the black ops 2 music as a memorial for raul menendez?

7:03 Warwick and Rammus ults would like a word with you😅

Digging the black ops 2 theme!

btw for some reason i play all of them for me at least they are ranked irelia>riven>fiora>camille but honestly i play irelia mostly in mid

I wouldnt add gwen there as well. She is strong especially after 2 items she becomes a beast BUT... I dont know I dont see her that often

The black ops 2 music at the background 💀

The tierzoo music nailed it

Maybe it's just below Diamond, but I find it funny Warwick lanes well enough into all of them. Volibear too but Cam can be problematic if they know what they're doing.

i think Gwen's issue is that she is in pro jail while the others arent

Did anyone else hear the BO2 Multiplayer theme playing in the background?

I feel like this topic was talked about like 10 times already

Vars: " The 4 Horsewoman" My Brain: "Horse? Hecarim."

This bo2 soundtrack is really throwing me off. My mind keeps going back to the good ol days playing the game

Ngl these are the 4 champs i like playing against the most, just because i have so much more experience against them

you reallly thought you could put the BO2 lobby music and i wouldnt realize huh? dman i miss that game so much also i learned that if you can somewhat contain the fourhorsewomen while banning darius you will have a slightly better time top lane

Gwen's the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse: "No Signal".

I see what all these horsewoman have in particular is that they- HAVE MY HATRED

as an aatrox main, thanks for the nightmares

BO2 MULTIPLAYER MUSIC GOES HARD

I like that these 4 Exist. Having a matchup with 2 of them is always a fun lane

riven: infinitive dmg and dashes fiora:infinitive dashes and literally counters cc irelia:gets full build after blade of the ruined king and nifinitive dashes camille: counters attack damage and ability damage and true damage you cant run away infinitive range dash and 1k dmg 2 sec cooldown Q