Top Lane Needs Some Serious Buffs
Recently I've given up hope on playing Top lane.
There's no game control in that lane anymore because beating your enemy laner doesn't mean anything. The vast majority of games which I've played on this account (it's Bronze), my team feeds. I dominate my lane and fairly often can 1v2 the enemy Top & Jungler, but it doesn't mean anything because my Bot lane is going to feed 15+ deaths in the first 20 minutes of the game and I can't do anything to prevent it. I take teleport hoping that my bot lane will be smart enough to toss some wards, it doesn't happen. Even if I ask these people to ward, they don't do it, or they'll place one and forget that they have more wards for the rest of the game.
In most games, enemy bot lane is shoving on me just as hard as I'm shoving in Top lane. There only one problem with this... Top lane is only 1 champion where Bot lane holds two champions. When bot lane is winning hard, the enemy AD can 1v2 (maybe even 1v3 if it's Caitlyn or Ezreal) because they're so far ahead of the other bot lane. That means they have 1 free champion available to roam the map. Meanwhile, the losing team has two champions committed to a losing lane which are unable to leave without risking even further losses. Trading Top to have a strong Bot lane is always worth it without any exceptions. This also in turn creates more problems, because most Junglers won't help Top lane due to how much better it is snowball Bot.
I keep seeing this pattern just about every single game, it's getting old. Why does Top lane get punished so hard? It's unfair for one champion to be forced into 1v2 / 1v3 (obviously if mid helps you could have 2, but if that's the case it might even turn into a 2v4 since I'm certain the other mid will come that way seeing a fight) all because of one lost lane.
Even if Top leaves to prevent or stall out the Bottom lane snowball, the enemy Top now has a free lane to farm in and tower push. I've seen Junglers come to prevent it, but few Junglers are powerful enough to stop a farmed enemy Top laner 1v1 without dying to them.
Top lane needs to be more impactful in games, right now it feels like grouping is the only option for a Top laner when their team starts losing.. Top lane is a giant shit hole right now where the only way you win out is if the rest of your team is winning. If you can't get the rest of your team back into the game, you lose.
That's not how it should be. I hope something can be done about this meta soon, because it's probably the worst meta for Top lane that we've had yet.
