Shifts in the meta on Patch 8.4 and 8.5 (and even earlier in the split) have made it less than ideal to play around top lane, but when this happens, community criticism often falls to the top laners themselves. ‘He cannot be play tanks’ is a sentiment that has long followed Heo “Huni” Seunghoon and is now echoed by fans in the Cloud9 camp for Eric “Licorice” Ritchie.
In this 2018 Spring Split, both Echo Fox and Cloud9, at the top for the regular season, experienced unexpected losses after a switch to Patch 8.