"Vi was meant for top."

So I try maining Vi top and let me tell, it was ugly. And boy was it ugly.

First, let's start off with her animation. Idk exactly her base stats but she's slow, attack slow, but I think her damage is okay. I THINK. Her damage is probably low. So with this in mind, I can't cs worth anything. I'm feel like an ap mage mid struggling to cs with basic attack but the difference is that I'm not range, I move slow, and I don't got my abilities to help me. They need to increase her movement speed and attack speed. Movement speed because I see a low minion and I'm walking towards it, and it's dead before I can get there. And obviously attack speed because she takes like 5 seconds to move her arms. And if I'm wrong, then also increase her attack damage. I'm losing cs to people that I know I can cs better. I only cs better than the melee supports as a top laner.

Now, you're probably going, "what you mean you don't got abilities to help you cs? You got that E." Now let's move on to abilities. All her abilities depends on you hitting something. That E is a joke. It hurts at the start but it's easily avoidable for the enemy. They just walk up to you and you're screwed. You have to force to use your E on them when they walk up to you but now you can't cs. Eventually you'll have to use it against waves. You don't even have to wait for eventually, I'm constantly at my enemies tower 24/7, the E forces me to. It forces you to push, nothing you can do about that, you can't freeze, and trust me I try. So I'm always pushed with my E, so my jungler can't gank for me even though they try, while I always get ganked. Then later on, when the enemy gets tankier, the E is a joke, it only tickles them.

Now her w. Again, it forces you to be hitting, and it has to be the third hit to make it good, which again, forces me to always be hitting and forcing me to push unsafely.

Her Q. Good for jungle because you have to charge it as you're going to gank but terrible for top for running away. Again, Q is good for hitting the enemy and waves, but again, forces me to push unsafely. Now if you want to run away, use your Q right? Wrong. You have to charge it. You look so stupid while charging it in front of the enemies when you're getting ganked. Like, "Hey durr, I'm going to escape now." So the top laner or jungler just body blocks it 24/7. Nothing you can do, you die.

Don't think I forgot about her passive. Her passive is nice and can turn the table, but again, you have to be hitting something, which in turns means you're unsafe forcing you to push. And it's garbage once you're behind because you don't want to hit anyone and even if you do, you're so behind it's nothing.

Her R. Only her ultimate is really nice but it's more of that of a jungler than for top laner as again you have to be aiming for a champion to work than anything else and it forces you into them.

And now her damage. Her damage is physical and only physical. In this day and age where you everyone got improved and better damage, Vi's all ad damage is lackluster. They build a bit of armor and you do no damage to them anymore. Again, her w is okay, but that still doesn't help compare to people that can do true damage. Like Camille, with her ad shield that's 2x bigger than your shield and constantly happening more than yours, you got no chance. I understand they did it because it can be magic shield too so they got to make the shield bigger than a health shield that can counters everything, but when you do ad and only ad, that shield is only going to be ad shield vs your health shield that's half of it. So your shield loses. You have to depend on others and hoping you got an AP jungler and AP mid that will help where as the Camille doesn't and like I said, you're always pushed so they can't even help you if they wanted to.

And her defense stats is a joke. She's so squishy throughout. She always loses trades with the defense department. She needs to get buffed on defense so she doesn't keep dying. Make her laning phase stronger, buff her base stats and adjust her late stats so it's the same and she's not that huge.

The only way to make her a top laner is to change her abilities and buff her stats. Switch her passive and w so we can decide when we want shield. Make it so we can level up her shield. And make denting blow better, than depending on 3 hits. Do something like 2, true damage, and stacks on champions. She needs some true damage and some magic and some defense. Don't make it that her abilities depends on hitting something and make her escape better so it's not getting body blocked and have to charge it.

Other than that, there's no way I'm ever going to go Vi top again.