Why do people constantly complain about mages being dominated mid by adcs and Zed?
When everyone apparently is fine with the fact that all the ADC and AP champs toplane have completely invalidated the class of bruisers?
Quinn goes top and wins the lane by just rightclicking on you whenever you go to cs while also outscaling you into lategame jsut because she is an ranged adc. Graves goes top and wins the lane by just rightclicking you whenever you go to cs while also being tankier than any bruiser. Also outscales you. Lissandra goes top and wins lane by Q spamming and autoattacking you out of lane while also being 10 times more useful than you in teamfights. Lulu goes top and wins lane by Q spamming and autoattacking you out of lane while being even more useful than Lissandra in teamfights.
These 4 champions are best toplaners in the game both in soloqueue and in competitive play, bruisers like Garen, Darius, Jax, Irelia, Olaf, Aatrox, etc... cannot survive the laning phase vs them while also getting outscaled by them. And I know that half of the people on the boards live under the impression that Jax and Irelia are supreme late game champions (which is bullshit for Irelia anyway since she is a midgame champ) but they bring not half as much to a team as Lulu or Lissandra while also not being able to build adc items just because they are melee. ADC items scale by far the best.
So because of the dominance of these champs toplane, people go pick tanks like Rammus, Malphite, Nautilus or Poppy toplane because these are the only champions who can survive lanes like Quinn or Lissandra and then tank the adcs later in the game. ADC mains are still delusional to the fact that there atleast 3 adcs every game, often 4 or 5, and believe we live in a "tank meta" when the only reason tanks are being played is because right now you either have to be an adc or you have to be able to tank/cc an adc. Malphite, Rammus, Naut and Poppy are excellent at the latter which is why they have ridiculous winrates if oyu look at how little games their playerbase averages on them. This also explains Trundle's high winrate toplane since he is naturally good vs tanks.
So adc mains cry about tank meta while the only reason tanks are so good right now is the fact that their natural counters (BRUISERS) are not playable right now. If you pick Darius, Garen, Renekton or Jax first you will get that Lulu, Quinn, Graves or Lissandra in your face and be useless all game. Bruisers destroy tanks in lane, no one dared to bring Rammus or Nautilus toplane couple seasons ago because Renekton, Darius, etc... would just murder them. Grasp of Undying made alot of matchups easier for tanks but they still lose to bruisers (save for counterpicks like Malphite vs Jax or Irelia).
To sum it up: Riot has to do something that prevents ranged ADCs like Quinn or Graves (goes for Vayne or Lucian top too but those are not played very often) and "utility" mages like Lulu and Lissandra (or Karma) from autowinning toplane vs every bruser in the game. That would allow people to pick something other than tanks toplane. That wouldn't solve the fact that you still need tanks to survive and cc the enemy adcSSSS!! in teamfights but atleast it would bring back a whole class of champions who once used to own top lane and HAVE NO OTHER LANE TO GO TO unlike Quinn or Graves or Lulu or Lissandra who are also very viable in other lanes.
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