Virtually every ranged champion that goes to top lane is forced there because they aren't viable in mid or bottom lane, and bullying melee champions is the only way they can actually function.
If we're now going to be intentionally balancing the game so that ranged top laners are weak, then champions like Quinn and Kennen should be reworked so that they can fit into another lane.
7thHeaven8 votesWhen was top lane intended to be 'melee vs. melee,' ??????????????
Yenn2 votesWhen was top lane intended to be 'melee vs. melee,' ??????????????
The pre-season is receiving changes to deter ranged champions from top lane.
Primarily we want to make sure that we have mechanics to safeguard from ranged champions taking over top lane, which is the primary place where we get melee 1v1 matchups
7thHeaven2 votesThey only change doran's shield, nothing else.
SithesisLord1 votesDid you even actually read and understand the changes?
They're not trying to stop ranged champions from going top lane. They're trying to stop melee vs. ranged matchups from being 200% in favor of ranged.
Chembaron Yamada3 votesTop lane is not supposed to be melee vs melee. I think Riot has shown this pretty clearly, because they actively created ranged champions in the past with top lane as their intended primary position:
CaptainAntiHeroz2 votesTop lane isn't Melee vs melee, otherwise it'd be called the melee lane with bot lane being the ranged lane and mid being a flex lane, however its not like that anything can go anywhere
boricCentaur12 votesRange top lanes have always been a thing and WILL always been a thing so stop complaining or don't play top.
Need Gold 4 Tent2 votesOne of these:
Increased minion damage to ranged champs Increased tether range to ranged champs for minion aggro
That way they can poke smart but not braindead spamming abilities/aa on melees
WoonStruck2 votesIdk why people are downvoting. He's right. Why let certain champions exist for the sole purpose
of ruining someones experience top lane? 
FFS I play a ranged top laner 
and I agree. The only difference is that Vlad is super weak early, and only wins early if people are horrible at spacing or build extremely poorly without pressuring him. On most top laners you can build boots+phage or MR and right click him to death.
Vlad at least allows you to interact with him, and loses 20% of his hp if he doesn't on a 30 CD, making it easy to punish him.
7thHeaven1 votesIdk why people are downvoting.
You kick them from top and rework them, then they will return to top with new cancer kits.
WoonStruck1 votesThat's only if Riot decides to keep their current play patterns...and since the point of the reworks is to change that, it shouldn't be considered the issue.
Minimac20001 votesI agree, anything really to get them out of top lane, corki and quinn and even graves on release for example used to be primarily adcs and not the roles they are now
CaptainAntiHeroz1 votesI agree, anything really to get them out of top lane, corki and quinn and even graves on release for example used to be primarily adcs and not the roles they are now
yup now graves is a jungler
Moody P1 votesMelee fighters who are so binary that they just flop and die if somebody picks Gnar are the ones who should get worked on, imo
Jonesybones1 votestechnically didnt ranged top always exist it just wasn't meta because meta really means popular pick.