Top lane isn't fun anymore and Riot has no plans to fix it.

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This is what top lane should look like. A display of the skill of two players fighting it out to the death. Unfortunately, this is not our reality. Reality is where tanks and lane bullies always win. A tank will outtrade a bruiser, have lower item costs than bruisers, and outscale a bruiser. Splitpushing is terrible and almost irrelevant with how easy it is to stop someone from splitpushing and how powerful teamfighting is comparatively.

Despite all of these issues. Riot has no intention to fix them. You all saw Meddler's post today. You know what it basically said? "This is what top lane is supposed to and it's shitty right now, but we'll fix it soon." Notice how he gave no dates and no real plans on how to fix top lane. Similarly, there's been supposed to have been a bruiser update for the past 4 years, but there hasn't been. Instead, bruisers got their 4 years of waiting wasted and replaced with a 'rune update'; an update that did absolutely nothing to benefit the group of champions who lost their update, their spotlight, and their time.

Season 8 was meant to be the year of the bruiser, but instead, the update that replaced bruisers' update completely skipped over their class entirely leaving almost 20% of champions to have no viable rune page. You would think that something so obvious and highly concerning as to one-fifth of the roster being unviable would be a red light and there would be a great concern. There isn't. Its been two months and there has been not a single change to fix the issue that almost 30 champions cannot be played at a decently competitive level because their update failed. This should be the first thing addressed every single day and there should be changes almost every single day to fix this, but there isn't.

Rioters say they are working on making a bruiser keystone, but have still yet to reveal it. What is one, single keystone going to do when they have absolutely no viable rune page? Precision, despite already being the weakest rune tree, was nerfed once again this patch. Many bruisers would like to go Precision to gain attack speed. Most top laners took a mix of AS or AD reds in the previous version of runes. When Runes Reforge launched, bruisers didn't get any compensation for their attack speed and/or AD from their reds because their rune tree bonus would supply that. However, Maokai received 15% bonus attack speed at level 1 to compensate for his loss of AS reds despite the fact he could still get the bonus health from Resolve. Why is Maokai, the top lane behemoth who has been consistently meta for years now and needs a significant nerf of his insanely high base stats, getting compensation buffs while bruisers are being left to dry? Why is Maokai getting infinitely more attention in terms of receiving help? Let's not forget the fact Maokai has access to Aftershock and Grasp of the Undying, some of the strongest keystones. What do bruisers have for keystones? They had Kleptomancy and hoped to rack up gold by hitting tanks like a pinata. Now that Kleptomancy is nerfed, what do bruisers have? Press the Attack was nerfed; Fleet Footwork requires Crit to be viable; Lethal Tempo is a joke that most bruisers can't even use.

Multiple champions who were balanced around Fervor of Battle now have no place because they don't have a suitable placement. Top lane is the lowest queued role in high diamond+ MMR. High elo top laners are quitting over how shitty it is.

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This isn't the first time, but Meddler's thoughts have proven to be meaningless. Ask any critical question about the state of the game and your question will be ignored. Someone complained about Meddler's thoughts being downvoted, so now they don't even appear on the front page of the boards anymore. Personally, I don't think Rioters should be immune to the vote system. Pin a message if it's important, but you should be held accountable for everything you say, just like everyone else.

Similarly, I'm starting today by holding myself accountable. There is nothing on these boards that try to promote discussion, give interesting opinions, and promote high-level discussion. I'm changing that. I, first, must apologize. I was caught up in a movement that was unorganized, leaderless, and doomed to fail. I do not apologize on behave of all people against tired of the balance team, nor do all people tired of them need to apologize. I speak for myself that I was apart of an unchanged movement of circlejerking that was almost never put in check. The reason we're failing isn't a mystery. We're unorganized. Some people want mages buffed, some people want ADC nerfed, but can't keep seem to find a good way how to, some people want more champions viable bot lane, but can't seem to find a way for that to not be unhealthy for either side, and some people just want top lane fixed. There's a bunch of people talking and if Riot wanted to meet with us, they would have no sole person to have a conversation with. Today I'm quitting that.

From now on, I shall bring you stories that I think are important to be heard. The stories that promote critical thinking, bring forth a high level of discussion, and explore important topics that would otherwise be ignored. I'm choosing to lead where no one else dares to try.