So...... Bruiser Neeko?
K..... I'm just spamming Neeko in all roles as "Fill," and I just had a really ..... interesting game.
Disclaimer... teammates are low elo...
But yeah... got filled Top..... so ofc..... I chose these runes:
Grasp of the Undying Demolish Conditioning Overgrowth
Triumph Bloodline
I was expecting something I could regularly poke... and ended up getting an
top. In fact, they had this team:

My team had an int feeding Kalista who was actually telling us in chat she was feeding because people wouldn't let her CS.
Anywho..... I decided to follow the path of the Grasp, and get tanky first. I built a
build path...... and omfg....
Neither of those items are actually Neeko items, but omfg..... as the game went on..... I grabbed
..... and pretty much 1v5'd the game.
Every fight that was set up: I popped the Yi with my Gunblade proc +W proc + E + Q.... and then I just ripped apart the team around him.
And even though I wasn't all that tanky.... I'd end almost every fight at 80% + HP.
Was just fun as hell.
In a normal build..... Neeko would get slaughtered by these guys. Instead I pulled a 19/3/17 and solo pushed their mid (my team died every fight) to victory at 40 min. Took inhib, 2 turrets, and nexus in 40 seconds.
I know it seems troll, but try it. Neeko does NOT need her ult to actually carry.
I think Neeko is the new
from pre rework: Hybrid potential with Bruiser like survivability.