What if riot put vilemaw in the toplane, so jungle and mid would have a reason to play around top?
Maybe in that new little alcove toplane you could put vilemaw or something there that when taken would give your toplaner bonus damage to objectives or give them a bit more waveclear or something along those lines just to help them splitpush or have a bigger presence in the game by having threat to go bot and solo dragons/push towers quickly giving toplaners amore impactful role rather than afk farm until tp for fight.
I just feel like giving them more exp to make the role more impactful is going to make the counter picking problem more exacerbated no?
Like now if you play a tank top against kennen or something and he keeps pushing you out of lane you will be like 2 levels down. Maybe give the top lane tower the same shield as mid lane or remove turret plating from top and give the towers a bit more armor so they can survive getting beaten on when the enemy just so happens to pick after you. I dunno just throwing random ideas out there.