Bruisers in the top lane /will/ need drastic nerfs

If you aren't playing a Bruiser or an obnoxious lane bully like , you are going to lose lane, plain and simple.

Tanks are absolute dogshit and have been since the """"tank"""" update that made ADCs so busted

resistances got completely gutted, granting only about 81% of their effective health as before the update. and , even with their reduced armor shred, still lowered the effective armor of tanks even more than before since tanks have less health and more armor to shred.

Then runes reforged came along giving offensive characters more than 500 gold worth of AD, AP, or AS as set bonuses while tanks got a measly 380 gold of health.

An entire rune slot on the """"LIVE FOREVER"""" has absolutely survivability to offer: Unflinching gives tenacity but no resistances, Demolish is a purely offensive rune that makes towers even more of a joke, and Font of Life only procs for allies, even then giving a paltry amount of health.

The next rune slot down is a joke too, offering 5 armor or 6 MR in the early game when quints and red runes gave up to 18 of it previously.

Nothing exists in place of Fearless's protection against burst and poke, with the closest being a keystone that only characters with hard CC can proc, and which is arguably weaker than the previous Courage of the Clossus, merely granting extra resistances to block some damage instead of the shield that blocked damage entirely.

Nothing exists in place of Siegemaster to protect from dives and farm under tower more safely in a hard matchup (Read: Against bruisers that remove a quarter of a tank's health before the tank has 4-5 items)

Nothing exists in place of Legendary Guardian (The worse of its slot compared to the extra tenacity), which granted 3 bonus resistacnes outright for solo laners, 6 when ganked or in duo lanes, and 9 when ganked IN a duo lane.

Tanks are fine in the jungle and support role, because they're either playing PvE or have support items to act as human shield for the ADC all game, but are absolute shit up top, with only one tank spotted in the top 5 of several different league analytic sites at several different levels of play -- .

Even the most obnoxious tanks right now- -- barely perform in the top, and only one of them performs well at all, being Rammus Jungle.

Meanwhile not only are bruisers and juggernauts the ones winning overall more games top, they also nearly ALWAYS win lane because tanks are absolutely fucking worthless until a late game that never arrives

All in the top ten top laners, so remind me how fighters are getting the short straw?

Oh, no, I get it, fighters in the jungle are doing pretty fucking poor right now. "Divers" specifically, the ones that should be making plays and ganks getting lanes ahead.

Well, they're struggling in the jungle as long as you ignore and making up the top half of junglers. But still, that IS only 10 out of the 19 junglers that make up that upper half. The other 9 being tanks -- -- assassins -- -- and these two jokers --

The only time tanks are winning toplane is when the enemy team doesn't have a tank jungle or support. That is, tanks only do well top when they have no competition that's doing their job better by not being ass blasted by setting them behind all game.

As soon as you add a tank in the jungle that can PvE farm when behind, or a tank support being the ADC's bitch; as soon as you add either of these to the enemy team, a Tank up top is literally just a liability for the team at the moment.

Stop buffing fighters when they're already dominating lane. The only reason they have a RELATIVELY deflated winrate is because teams are going full damage without anything to soak or cc the opponent in preseason. If fighters keep getting this special treatment, things are going to look very, very bad once s8 starts. If you thought Top was a volatile whiny lane before, wait until it revolves around single mistakes leading to towers falling at 7 minutes in while no one on the team cares because it's so far away from the rest of the group.