I'm starting to think that top and bot (hell, every lane but jungle) has the same problem.

In that the champions designed for those lanes cannot really function anywhere else as remotely viable.

Now we all know that champions like Darius are great in top. But where else can Darius be played?

Not in mid. Gets poked down too hard from ranged champions. Same problem in bot and he lacks ganking power to jungle (and sustain I guess).

He can only work in top lane and only really lanes well against melee champions. Give him a ranged top laner and you've basically made him unable to function.

Now let's look at bot. Marksmen are squishy and don't scale well with levels. They want gold so they can get their stats to shred people. It's so important to the game that a marksman gets their gear that we seem so focused on denying that as much as possible with 4-5 man ganks early in the game. Course because no one was better than marksmen at their job, it was pretty much accepted as normal (really frustrating, but if you don't expect to get ganked often as the main source of damage, then you're honestly an idiot).

Except now they do have someone, Ziggs. And because of the mad bomber, bot lane is experiencing something that every top and midlaner hates in league.

Being made irrelevant by another class.

Fighters hate it when tanks start kicking them out of top. Mages hate it when assassins kick them from mid. Tanks hate it when fighters make Top impossible for them. Assassins hate losing their spot in mid to mages. Both tanks and fighters hate ranged top laners with the kind of fury that makes friendships of mutual hatred.

Marksmen just hate other marksmen. And supports but they never felt threatened by supports replacing them.

Ziggs is giving that threat. That realization that someone can do your job better. Usually you just move to the jungle for a while, try to pick up your life or get used to your new environment. Mages (like Karthus) are pretty much extinct in the jungle and move to top when mid is unkind, leaving our tanks and fighters tilted again. Especially those who gank jungle to the level of viability or "not shit" (Darius, Garen, Gnar).

But what about marksmen? Where can they go? Not jungle (baring some exceptions). Possibly mid, but just ask mages what it's like to lane against your counter for three seasons.

So what point am I trying to make? It's simple really.

LANE DIVERSITY IS PURE GARBAGE

And it's going to stay garbage until we can make it so a fighter or a marksman can go into any lane and reasonably work there outside of heavy counters.

That's just my thoughts on the whole thing.