Why is the issue of ranged vs melee anti-interaction not a priority for Riots balance team?
If Soraka gets played once in a pre-level 30 blind pick normals game in Brazil, Riot divides her ratios in half because she's toxic and anti-interactive.
Meanwhile, if you pick ANY top laner who doesn't sport at least two instant targeted gapclosers and at least one hard cc, you get one of these guys:
Kayle Ryze Quinn Jayce Teemo Lissandra Lulu Nidalee Heimerdinger
And you sit there, staring at the loading screen and knowing for sure a few things.
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Their ranged autoattack means that they will get to free farm and zone you out of creeps. You can count on at least one free kill worth of CS in their advantage by 10 minutes.
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their harass and escape combined cost less than your engage skill. Not that there's a point, because even if you did engage the two free autos they get before and after the trade win it for them.
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even with all that aside, it's almost not worth your jungler coming up. You'll be constantly low, and hey have a thousand escapes. And even if they get killed, you still have no advantage because again, they get to free farm.
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and most important, the game doesn't get to be fun for you, starting at champ select. You are going into a lane that is A) uninteractive in the EXTREME, B) a hard counter, and C) that requires vastly more skill on your part to even approach even than it does on their part to win. Because just by farming, they win lane. These are three things riot has said time and time again they're against...and yet here's the top meta, yet again, with absolute zero interaction and fun allowed.
So tell us again why we get threads just calling people who maybe enjoy melee champions "oh, you're just a bunch of crybabies hit good" or maybe why you're designing a fricking MANALESS RANGED TOP as your next champ, or why there's zero mention of every single champ that doesn't have a gapcloser being completely bullied out of top?
Chogath Garen Rammus Darius Volibear Singed and Udyr want justice, Riot. This is the most toxic matchup in the game and there's nothing done to address it, and defensive items continue to get nerfs patch after patch. I'm sick of it.