@Riot: Bruisers in Top Lane?

Corriandr·11/28/2017, 2:59:10 AM·3 votes·425 views

Just asking a question here, attempting to transfer my own thoughts as well as what appears to be a decent portion of the reddit in hopes of getting a word from Riot.

Playing a fighter in top lane - Bruiser or Skirmisher - feels really bad right now. There's really no rune that greatly suits us, and due to the changes Tanks deal more damage while being more durable, or ranged champions utterly demolish them while the melee champions are unable to fight back. Due to the lack of armor and/or mr runes usually used to help alleviate the damage we'd take from harass, and combined with the even higher damage dealt now due to Press the Attack (as one of the greater contributors to the situation), the ability to try to hold on and play safe is near non existent. Finally, attempting to build traditional fighter builds ends poorly - if you build bruiser you dont have enough damage to kill an opponent nor enough defense to survive getting to them.

And now the Sunfire PVP buff, too, making Tanks deal even more damage...

I'm assuming - hoping - you are aware, but is there anything coming down the line for Bruisers?

3 Comments

EternalShock11/28/2017, 3:07:15 AM1 votes

if they gave a fuck they wouldn't have released these runes after removing fervor.

its so blatantly obvious that fervor is the only thing that bruisers have against tanks top but they didnt care whatsoever.