The bot lane can carry a team no matter how bad the other roles do.
The top lane used to be able to carry a team no matter how bad the other roles did, but that's no longer the case.
PopcornBunni1 votesTop should not be a solo carry lane, but when top, mid, and jungle are all doing well but bot lane is two levels behind their enemies and that means gg, there's a problem.
Top SHOULD be the wildcard in games. It's the role no one else is paying mind to, so it can result in some serious swings in early fights if they TP or Shen/Gangplank/similar ult when they have the 3-4 level advantage over the other lanes.
Or at the least going even top and helping mid dominate their lane while getting the jungler fed should amount to SOMETHING. Even as a lanebully/early game champion like 
or 
, even and especially if games go long, they should have a real impact in their game outside of setting the enemy top laner back for the first few minutes. Because they can get ahead, their level advantage should mean they can hop into the other lanes and extend that lead in those ones. Instead of needing these characters to win the game before 20 minutes, they should be able to take their won lane and use it to get their scaling midlaner or adc on the right foot going into the later stages of the game.
But no, even if you go out of your way as a top laner to help your bot two or three or four times, it won't matter if they are just the worse ADC player, you're team will more often than not lose just because the impact that single role has in the game.
Oxyrotten1 votesTop should not be a solo carry lane, but when top, mid, and jungle are all doing well but bot lane is two levels behind their enemies and that means gg, there's a problem.
Top SHOULD be the wildcard in games. It's the role no one else is paying mind to, so it can result in some serious swings in early fights if they TP or Shen/Gangplank/similar ult when they have the 3-4 level advantage over the other lanes.
Or at the least going even top and helping mid dominate their lane while getting the jungler fed should amount to SOMETHING
But no, even if you go out of your way as a top laner to help your bot two or three or four times, it won't matter if they are just the worse ADC player, you're team will more often than not lose just because the impact that single role has in the game.
Remember that game we used to play called protect the kog? That's what League in its entirety has become. Protect the ADC.
EbonyBladeJ881 votesYeah, our impact has pretty well gone down the toilet.
There were games in past seasons where I would play my faves (
and a few others) and when I stomped my lane, or went about even sometimes, and rotated to mid and so on, I kept that... sense (Not sure if that's the right way to put it, but whatever) of control. I had... oomph, credibility, IMPACT! I could pick up failing team-mates and rally them to victory.
Now? I'm lucky if I can get my tower before the bot-lane (Whether allied or not) is already working on an Inhib.
