Helping out your top laner.

What i'v noticed a lot of lately is that Jungler's really don't like to help their top laner out. Doesn't matter how much you ping for assistance, doesn't matter how much you ask nicely for it or how much you flame someone for it, it's rare to get help.

First things first, yes i know that there are many factor's that dictate whether a jungler can gank your lane or not. Being pushed into the enemy tower, really far behind ect. But in many cases that's just not the case, i play top lane A LOT, i play mid lane as well but top is my main. I don't often ask for ganks because i play champions that don't want them, for the crucial fact that i really don't expect gank's anymore.

Every so often though i get a bad match up, or i get into a match up where the enemy can play super safe(Gangplank). In those cases, like say i'm playing RIven, riven has a pretty considerable amount of counter's, Ranged counter's such as Jayce, Kennen and Teemo are something she really just can't deal with without help from her jungler. Counter's like Malphite, Galio and Maokai(though tanks are pretty weak right now this is an example.) are too tanky for her to kill and can farm really well, meaning she can't do anything against them. With riven she doesn't NEED to get ahead but she needs to be able to do something, she can't split push against all of the champions i just listed and she can't sit there and 1v1 them for 20 minutes because it's a waist of her time. This means that as the jungler you should attempt to help her, many riven player's know how to play against these match ups, they know how to not die but because of how hard some of these champions counter her, she can't kill them alone and can't take their tower to go and do things somewhere else such as teamfight, it might also be very difficult to push against them to roam, something she needs to do.

If your top laner isn't losing and is pushed in pretty far, it's nice to help them out, one gank is all it takes sometimes in top lane to turn the lane in your allies favor but in many cases jungler's just don't want to.

You can carry from more than just Mid and Bot, top lane has plenty of carries and snowballer's too they just need help sometimes. You literally can't expect some champions to win some match up's in top lane, Pantheon is the best example because if your top laner is against pantheon, he's not going to win lane 65% of the time, Pantheon has a massive winrate before the 25 minute mark, it's actually about 65% meaning that lane phase is MASSIVELY in his favor.

Now, it's understandable not to gank top lane if it's literally just two tanks, you get nothing from it but if your top laner is a Juggernaut, Fighter or Carry top laner, it's nice to gank them because they have a very high chance of carrying the game off of one or two kills.

Like, have you ever had a yorick with one kill walk out of your own top lane, take 3 tower's and help win a teamfight? Cause i have, one gank, one that's all it took for me to snowball a game out of control with Yorick, he's incredibly good at taking objectives, meaning helping him take his first tower or giving him one kill can turn into something HUGE. All juggernauts, fighter's and carry tops can do this, i just know yorick does it really well cause i main him.

TLDR: Jungler's, i know top lane doesn't look that appealing sometimes, but one gank up top when they ask nicely for it could mean the difference between winning and losing a game.