History of top lane and why it is indeed the worst state its ever been.

I've been playing top lane since around season 2, so i'm pretty educated on the role. It's either been "We're taking ignite to kill my lane opponent" until patch 4.4 where TP got buffed, then we started seeing the TP meta that we see today, or some stupid shit like Atmaw's where you had 8000 Health with 18% crit and 500 AD. Here's what I don't like though, when around season 5, we stopped seeing bruisers and fighters completely, and started getting introduced with the tank meta, aka, "Me maokai me do the most damage because of high base stats but take the most damage". It completely drove bruisers out of the game completely, because A: You can't kill tanks in the early game because they have a shit ton of sustain and high base damage, B: Can't really take ignite unless you're gold elo or under because TP is literally required, C: Early game damage isn't in the game anymore (RIP EOF), D: Bruisers don't have a fucking keystone, and the list goes on.

Now, I'm not saying we should go back to the days where you could kill your lane opponent level 1 with EOF and ignite, however what I am saying is that top lane's biggest issue is not only tanks being a nuisance, but it's champions like Gnar, Jayce, Vlad, etc, where you just cannot duel them and are forced to farm under tower, which completely derives any form of competitive aspect of the lane. 90% of top laners play the role to out play your opponent, killing them over and over again. It's like how Hashinshin stated "Winning the game isn't a top laners priority, it's to kill your lane opponent over and over and over again to the point where they just want to quit the game". Not only do tanks and ranged bullshit champions ruin this for fighters/bruisers/ whatever you wanna call them, but junglers are now a huge issue.

I cannot tell you how many times where I've been ganked before the 2:20 mark, even when I'm letting the enemy push the lane. It's fucking miserable and I cannot play champions who are literally designed to kill your opponent early because the threat of the enemy jungler is ALWAYS there. Yes, I can ward, but the introduction of the blast plant makes warding 100x more difficult. There's just so many ways of being ganked as a top laner right now, especially if you're playing a fighter, it's fucking insane. I'm not saying that other roles don't get ganked, I'm aware of the "lets 5 man bot lane at 5 minutes" last season, but that doesn't address the issue of YOU MUST AFK FARM THE LANE OR YOU WILL GET GANKED issue. Don't believe me? Play 10 games of top lane in mid gold elo and up and tell me how many times of those 10 games did you get camped.

As a lover of top lane, please fix this. Stop neglecting the role and stop giving bruisers every excuse to not want to be played. Stop forcing bruisers to be better in the jungle. Stop allowing tanks to outdamage a damage role.