  We point out that in the irreducible natural SUSY spectrum, stops have
comparable branching fractions to chargino-bottom and neutralino-top in the
vast bulk of parameter space, provided only that both decay modes are
kinematically accessible. The total stop pair branching fractions into ttbar +
MET can therefore be reduced to O(50%), while b bbar + X branching fractions
are typically much smaller, O(10%), thus limiting the reach of traditional stop
searches. We propose a new stop search targeting the asymmetric final state
\~t\~t* --> t chi^0 b chi^pm, which can restore sensitivity to natural stops in
the 7 and 8 TeV LHC runs. In addition we present a new variable, topness, which
efficiently suppresses the dominant top backgrounds to semi-leptonic top
partner searches. We demonstrate the utility of topness in both our asymmetric
search channel and traditional \~t\~t* --> ttbar + MET searches and show that
it matches or out-performs existing variables.
