melee champions are a joke. melee range is a bad joke.

laning against a viktor as cho gath and having a 40 minions behind viktor (40 minions. 40. let me spell it again for you: F O U R T Y) outtrading the cho gath in melee range and immediately running away is an absolute, utter joke.

having a kai'sa one and an half item behind the cho gath missposition, get engaged on with glory while still having a fully unstacked rageblade, yet winning the duel in melee range is absurd.

having a teemo overextend in lane against singed on lvl5 equal farm and singed coming out of the bush, fling skyauto q him and get killed by a non kiting, full melee range teemo is completely absurd.

solokilling a gnar or a teemo in lane as singed and being ahead in cs just to be outdueled and straight up killed the moment frozen mallet gets completed is way too irritating and stupid. rylai has nowhere the same slowing effectiveness and just 700 hps means they can chase singed forever, while still having the damage to win, appalling.

having a jhin overextended in a sidelane against a singed with glory, sunfire, rylais and lyandris, having the singed engage on him with glory and still get kited to death despite having closed the gap and all the subsequent slows feels like balance team has been on vacation for way too long.

i've seen a couple of times a lucian killing kha zix in full melee range (medium to high plat elo, because i have high mmr. lol.)

the leeway ranged champions have is currently gargantuan. ranged kiting is way too powerful in this game right now, and yet it doesnt even feel necessary when ranged champions are winning melee duels anyway, and while being behind, too. uhm... hello?

laning against ranged opponents is garbage as a melee toplaner and everybody with minimal honesty recognizes that. in teamfights ranged champions are the one outputting the highest amount of damage, they are the ones ending the game with the pretty kdas, and now they have sidelane domination, too? can i outscale at least in some respects the gnar or viktor or lucian that gets picked toplane to deny me any fun during the laning phase? because i cannot really understand why karma or viktor are allowed to tank more than a normal melee tank while outdueling anyone without kiting AND providing absurd ranged cc in teamfights without even having to sacrifice part of their health bars to land it, something a nautilus or singed is required to do.