Riot destroyed top lane with all the poke champions that are strong right now and they don't care
Seriously, what is the point of playing top lane if you are not playing Gank plank, camille, jayce, illaoi, vlad or gnar. They all will poke you and you can do anything against it.
Especially GP. He will start with like 860 Hp. How do you even kill that thing or at least push out of the lane. He will get a lot of gold too from klepto cuz god forbid he is weak in any way. He will outscale you faster than any other champion and there nothing you can't do against him. He doesn't have mana problems either and they are just raising his mana cost by 20 on his q. Like that will do anything with all the mana pots he gets from klepto.
Camille and the rest will poke just like this guy and there is nothing a non meta champion can do against it.
Poke is the greatest enemy of top lane and right now poke is the best thing ever for the current meta champions and they scale better than the rest of the champions.
They are safe too and is hard to kill. Just look at Camille. She will poke with her W and if you try to engage on her, all the damage will be blocked by her shield. Before the preseason was so nice playing against her. Now she is just "me poke".
The rest are the same and they scale too, like really hard.
What is the point to have lane bullies that scale better than the rest. What is the point in playing a top lane where skill is non existent and poke is the only thing that wins the lane. Where is the fun of fighting, of punching your opponent.
Why is Riot so quiet about all of this? There isn't anyone at Riot to actually see the playstyle in higher elo or in pro play, to notice what type of champions are played and what are not. To understand that top lane champions that the rift between meta champions and non meta champions is bigger than ever.
Oh and I forgot to mention. The non meta champions(other thank tanks) lack a proper keystone too. They gave us PTA and other shitty runes that are not even good for them..
How hard is for riot to understand that in top lane you take short trades. You use both your aa and abilities and what did they do? They gave us PTA, a rune so useless that not even ADC are using. That bad is it. They are nerfing the early game of that keystone, like it was super good or something like that.
And why is so much secrecy around the new "bruiser keystone". What happened with transparency. Why can't you talk and move faster and not make us wait 3 more patches for that. You had more than a year to make a proper keystone and what you did is create a rune that is not good on ADC either.
In the past you always cared about top lane, to not create a poke meta, but right now you don't care. You don't even talk about that.
But hey, mages got new items, adc are strong as ever and support are even stronger. Let's not forget about precious jungle where you get a lot gold with little and have so much time to gank, cuz god forbid I stay top without getting ganked over and over.