I'm tired of the Meta getting ping-ponged between marksmens and assassins
Everysingle year for some time now, there is a moment where either marksmens or assassins become stronger than their counterpart. This almost ALWAYS degenerates into the players of the other group to beg for buffs to be able to keep up with them, which results into them getting stronger and the other group who was initially generally stronger to also beg for buffs in return. This has been like it for years, and the intervals between each changes just get shorter and shorter;
-Pre-Season 6 hits: marksmens get so much damage and sustain (and even CC for some) that Assassins can't keep up at all with their tasks of countering them -results into several patches of tuning who brings marksmens slightly down, but everyone stays at a somehwat manageable level
-Pre-Season 7 hits: the Assassins who gets reworked, like
,
,
and
become completely and utterly unstoppable, and those who didn't get touched have now access to lethality, which has been a major problem for the game ever since. This has caused the "ADC in 2k17 LU" meme, since the marksmens who previously dominated the game are now at the bottom of the food chain.
-results into several huge nerfs to almost every single assassins and several assassin items gets reworked
-marksmens players memed so much about being too weak that slightly after mid-season, they once again rise to the top since their damage is no
longer DPS, but BPS (burst per second). They also get nearly unkillable for most assassins because of the disgusting
meta.
-Slightly before Pre-Season 8:
finally gets nerfed. Marksmen players discover that they can once again get killed by assassins, so they ask for direct compensation buffs
-Pre-Season 8 hits: Most marksmens get compensation buffs along with the raw stats buff that nearly everyone got. The new rune system is so unbalanced that it start off with assassins getting way too strong with dark harvest, then it gets nerfed. Marksmens are then way too strong with press the attack, then it gets nerfed. Assassins are now back at it again, but quickly gets stopped by the botlane meta who now consist only of
and
, who abuses the new runes.
-Marksmens who are now once again dominating are hit yet again in the face by riot with the Crit item rework. Assassins are back on top, now with a freakin assassin support on top of that.
-Marksmens who can't stand bot lane diversity forces Riot to give them back their strengths. This results into them getting back at the point they were before the nerfs, but now they have an even more powerfull tool,
-Assassin players being assassin players, they want to see assassins in the world championship, but marksmens are just way too strong for that to happen. Which results into Riot steadily buffing most assassins months before the worlds happens, which makes literally everyone else suffer.
And now here we are, with marksmen players yet again memeing about their role being useless, wanting to get even stronger to be able to keep up with everyone.
This needs to be stopped. I just enumerated some few examples of marksmen vs assassins and yet there are several other situations who also happened. Mages getting gutted in early season because "assassins weren't going to be popular enought in midseasonals". Bruisers bot who got chased back into toplane, just to get teleport nerfed and nerfed and nerfed until they just become a lane for the jungler to abuse. ADCs wanted to have more %health damage because of the mid-season 7 tank rework because for once they weren't able to kill them in 3 seconds. Leblanc getting reverted into her unbalanced state because her mains were getting sick of not being able to one shot someone like before with a single combo ignite. Assassins who got "compensation buffs" for
who got "nerfed", but who simply got stronger early and slightly weaker late game. Marksmens who got their items prices lowered after their itemisation nerf who got their higher, completely neglecting why those nerfs were made at the first place.
The game always seem to gravitate around those 2 classes only ever since the tank meta was pushed to the side when S5 ended and the reworked juggernauts got nerfed to hell. If a bruiser, tank or mage had the audacity to force his nose into the meta, this only resulted into assassins and marksmens complaining about them and saying they were making their role useless. For them, a tank should die to an assassin as quickly as a carry, a bruiser shouldn't do as much damage as a ranged unit for whatever reason, a mage shouldn't have waveclear and should back every 3 minutes for mana, nobody should scale like an ADC in late game and nobody should be able to keep up with an assassin in laning/early phase. Those kind of behaviors have been very highly annoying and we should stop this hypocritical, powercreeping and never-ending vicious circle who just pushes the game deeper and deeper into a state that a lot of people dislike.