FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE FIX TOP LANE

I Go Solo or INT··2 votes·1,169 views

Lets talk about the elephant in the room. Top lane for the past few years was useless to the point where you can not carry at all. Riot keeps buffing tanks ( Which are boring to play so nobody plays them ) or just ignores obvious champions that just break top lane. For example take Viktor. You can't deal damage to him and he remained in god-like state for 2 months now. What does Riot do? Hmmm 20 damage off should do. NO IT ISN'T ENOUGH. Consider this: Viktor shields himself every 2 seconds, He gains permanent moment speed, Gets to build tank items which transforms into bigger shields, Gets to auto attack from range and easily proc kleptomancy, And way more things that i don't want to get into. Look at the community itself. Majority of the top laners have either quit the game or switched role and those who did stay aren't having fun and I'm serious. Majority of top laners play top because they have the courage to tolerate it and they are afraid to switch roles. Since top lane is so different from other roles majority of the community don't know why we are so whinny but trust me... Top lane is in a HORRIBLE state right now. If you still don't understand what I'm trying to say look at Hashinshin - the most '' whinny '' player in the game, yet sadly most of the things he says is true and that's how we feel. If Riot doesn't start making MAJOR changes to top lane me and a lot of top laners will either leave or switch roles. I'm talking not from my own view , but from many, many top laners that I was in touch. They all feel the same way. Thanks for reading.

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MrFawknSunshine3 votes

lol the only tank played in top is SION

so this notion that they keep buffing tanks is bullshit.

and its a top lane meta of bruiser/fighters

I Go Solo or INT1 votes

Yea its a meta of bruisers / fighters who get completely destroyed by any mage champion in top lane. Look at cassio, ryze, kennen, viktor, lissandra. Right now all of them destroy all of the bruisers forcing them to go jungle. Look at Jax, Jarvan, Camille, Hecarim. Those are all top lane bruiser champions that are doing as good if not better in the jungle.

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

NOT TRUE go look at stats

I Go Solo or INT1 votes

I didnt say its a mage lane i said they get dumbstered by mages

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

but they arent

MrFawknSunshine1 votes

here is a list of top laners according to https://lolalytics.com/ranked/worldwide/8.24/platinum/plus/champions/

#1 Jax 51.6% win rate 11.3% pick 27.0% ban #2 Riven 51.1% win rate 12.3% pick 3.4% ban #3 Urgot 51.1% win rate 7.6% pick 13.2% ban

as far as the champs you mention Cassiopeia is only picked for top lane 1.9% of games Ryze is picked 1.4% of games ( is a flex pick top/mid ) Kennen is picked 2.1% of games (has always been a top laner ) Viktor is picked 4.7% of games ( has been pushed out of mid lane due to meta shifts) Lissandra is picked 1.7% of games ( also pushed out of mid )

so out of all the mages you mentioned they have a combined pick % of 11.8% of games where as the top 3 champs for top lane have a combinded pick % of 30.6% of games

Camille has seen better in jungle cuz of top lane meta shift not cuz of mages Jarvan and Hecarim has traditionally been junglers

lets look at most picked top laners Riven 12.3% Jax 11.3% Irelia 9.6% Darius 9.2% Fiora 8.3% Renekton 7.7% Urgot 7.6% Aatrox 7.2% Yasuo 7.0% Teemo 5.5% Sion 5.4% Garen 4.7%

then finally we get to one of the champs you mention Viktor 4.7%

at 13th most picked top laner

so this completely disbunks your entire argument and proves that top lane is a fighter/bruiser lane

Escheton1 votes

And that is why Riot is experimenting with ditching Toplane. Sure, it looks like a feature game mode. But is that not what we are clearly moving towards?

zAntiM81 votes

Imagine an ADC player reading this and wondering whether bruisers have literally 1 DPS as well LUL

Lord Zeta 13131 votes

Dude, most of the champions you mentioned I haven't seen for weeks

Its a Bruiser meta, which means i am in a pretty good state

Mordekaiser, Aatrox, And to some extent Sion, who is the only good tank.

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