We are all the B@#ches of mid and adc now
I feel that overall throughout the course of the evolution of LOL top jungle and supports have been pushed harder and harder into a cycle of picking and building not to carry the game and win lanes but instead to tank and support the rest of the team. I understand that this was how it was before, but new items and meta changes have basically forced us to be the servants of mid and ADC and the success of these lanes becomes most paramount.
Many of the tank items are weak compared to what they once were and top laners/ junglers simply cant 1v1 people who are on equal footing. Maybe this is due to the heroes that are popular. There is less lee sin and jax, less tryn, less shyvana. THe jungle being made more and more difficult means the jungler now just has to go around feeding other people. Supports are ditching gold runes to simply win their lane faster (which is fine). Other lanes who used to farm certain camps to stay ahead, mid and top, can't do so as economically as before because of the new strength of jungle minions.
At the end of the game, we just end up with 3 fat people, a mid and an adc, and if their mid/adc are better, they will probably win. Back in the day before the barriers, blades of the ruined king, and god forbid that motherf#$%ing ludens echo, a tank could actually scare people. If you don't lock out the right heroes perfectly, they can just sit in your face even when you have tons of armor and auto you to death.
And any time a bruiser shows carry potential they usually get nerfed to the ground. What happend to the days of voyboy lee sin 20 kills top lane or darius running the show. It kinda just sux now for anyone who isn't mid or bot in this meta.
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can easily dump on squishes and can blow them up if they are ahead.