A reponse.

Every day on the forums, there's a thread like "I feel like ADC controls the game" or "Top and mid irrelevant because of jg?!?", and although i'm not exactly a top-tier player, in my ranked climb from bronze 4 to almost hitting silver 4 last night I've never seen a game myself where the other laners have no agency over the game. Either they hard-feed, they stay even, or they go positive.

I'll admit, several games i got carried by a random Caitlyn or Tristana, and that's because both of them are Attack-Damage Carries in the real sense of the word, but equally so I've won games where bot sucked donkey ass and were only good for sending fodder to the bot or top lane to pull a threat away from teamfights to make it 4v4 or 4v3

What's going on here isn't quite a lack of agency. If one role, like top lets say, fails hard enough then it can cost the game, but equally so I've seen, at toplane, bruisers like Fiora and Camille and juggernauts like Darius and Kled go 18/2 and proceed to penta-dunk us while spamming the "Does not compute" emote or mastery flash. Therein lies the problem though. Currently there are a lot fewer INFLUENTIAL toplanes. A lot of tanks, not many good carries. All the meta picks seem to be either tanks or juggernauts, with bruisers coming into play next(?) patch

Regardless, a skillful enough player can pull off whatever crazy off-meta wizardry is required to play shit like AD-Crit Soraka Jungle and still win with it, but the players that want to are few and far between

Essentially, it's come to mind that the problem isnt a lack of agency very much with most of the lanes, (Though i do agree, bottom lane gets a noticable favoritism from riot), it's that the current meta swings in an unfun way where the few champs that get as much agency as people want aren't viable.

The solution to bruisers and divers being unviable SHOULD be fixed when the next precision rune launches live. Then we'll see how things play out. Ok?