The only reason top lane is a nightmare to play is because of runes.

Literally they give too much power in the early game for most top lane champions to be able to do anything. In fact in a video i originally used to get to platnum back in season 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TmT9HJ6U8 It perfectly outlines this issue.

For example lets say you are a melee into a range. You should automatically outscale them because melees have more inherent power in their kit. Hide in bushes and wait til level 4. Well when runes are basically as useful as items then you cant really use inherent power because the enemy has already equalized with an item as items are more powerful than inherent kits.

Every single trading thing about when to trade is about how to equalize trades or make uncounterable trades. Yeah now its called hit them til you proc all your damage. (electrocute lethal tempo or your cooldowns are down). If you get into a good matchup this means your damage is more and you win. From now on they can never fight you because your item is stronger than theirs.

Basically because of runes now everyone has no reason to not permanently all in. If you cant permanently all in your champion either has to be ranged, overly mobile or hes useless.

I'm actually not trying to get out of plat anymore. Ive seen what high elo is like. Fuck that i want people to troll in my game so i dont have the same stale matchup of 5 meta champions with the people that are forced to play the nonmetas part of his champion pool autoloseing. Also melees are actually useable in toplane.

Also it might have something to do with the fact that toplane cant carry and if it can i suck at it but i like to ignore that fact.