Alright so i get that the LCS has a tendency to pick champions that are considered good for that time but that leads them to first pick champions that they arent even very comfortable one i wanna watch an LCS game where both teams pick the champions they are most comfortable on rather than picking champs that the competitive stage deems acceptable to be played for the current state of the game
RiotRiot Sotere4 votesAgreed. Although I found this more annoying back in the day when I knew most of the professionals' best champions. Nowadays they have really huge champion pools.
It's kind of neat to see Cruzer on Lee Sin but I don't know many other pro players' mains.
Limakoko8081 votesEvery split there should be like a couple of days where the top 4 teams play Urf games where everybody can only play their favorite champions. Make it happen Riot
Kyleman1431 votesLike i would love to see C9's balls on rumble and man would i die to watch bjergsen play more zed but these picks just arent "viable" in the new meta makes me sad
ShinRaigeki2 votesPersonally speaking, most champions don't get any LCS spotlight because the top champs are fairly defined... so it gets sad Q_Q.
Labcown2 votesPersonally speaking, most champions don't get any LCS spotlight because the top champs are fairly defined... so it gets sad Q_Q.
There are only a few champions left that haven't been played in any professional manner this season, I think the number is somewhere around 15.
While I'll agree not every champion has it's fair share of LCS spotlight, this season has seen more variety in champs I believe than any other season (except maybe season 1 percentage wise).
ShinRaigeki1 votesPersonally I'd rather if every champ had a more common chance of play rather than "here's the standards!"
Sure, some champs MIGHT see play, but uh, to quote the Veigar/Lulu story in the main forums:
Ashe: "[To Veigar] Weren't you only chosen twice? And the one time you were chosen as a mage, none of the enemy team were mages"
Tl;Dr: most champs that DO see pick are troll picks and not to be competitive in the least. While they COULD be competitive, they just don't stand up versus any of the high priorities. It makes for a boring game when "Niche" is the excuse for "Competitively unviable".
Those niche picks won't be chosen when they won't be effective versus the competitives unless troll/random picks that even the users themselves can't explain WHY they went for them. Morde won't hold vs Renekton, Veigar won't hold vs Ziggs, Graves won't hold versus a Caitlyn (usually), and Jungle Maokai won't hold vs Lee Sin.
Menneskelig1 votesEven the devil himself saw play. The champion meta in LCS at the moment is a lot more versatile than people realize, at least now. I was getting pretty sick of Mundo vs Shyvana for a while, but champions like Soraka mid, I wouldn't mind seeing in every game. As long as the games are interesting and the strategies keep changing, (cough4v0cough) I'll keep watching.
Edit: That said, I've never seen Viktor played even once even in soloqueue and I don't know why that is.
Jingerbeardman2 votesI feel the same way. It is hard to sit down and enjoy LCS matches for me right now because it is repetitive in picks. I realize it is difficult to keep all champions balanced with each other and viable. Hopefully the up-incoming patches will help balance out the picks and open up more variety.
wOy JhonnyBamBam1 votesIf it wasn't their job totry and win those games i would agree that it would be nice to see them on their comfort picks. The only thing that stands in their way is that no matter how good you are on your comfort pick the enemy will always win if thdey have the "better" champion. that's why they don't play their comfort picks.
Menneskelig1 votesCompetition is the spirit of change and adaptation, if they did that more than once we wouldn't have even the small variation of champions that occur now. Not to mention some players (reaching example: Oddone on 
) would be outplayed just because someone else happens to like a champion that is also in meta.
The meta is constantly shifting every patch and I rarely see a game that ends up with the same 10 champions in them every single game, and when one team picks the same team as before, they usually lose. (Unless you are c9 season 3)
While it would be fun, it won't lead to a constructive competitive game, that is essentially what they did on the U.R.F. exhibition game and it was entertaining until you realized that c9 had stronger picks and won by a mile.
blindasleep1 votesI'm kind of tired of seeing 4 ADCs in almost every game because their itemization makes almost everyone else look sad and snowballs games out of control.
Kal Vas Flam1 votesZil was played today in the NA LCS, and as an up and coming Zil main I found it to be awesome.