Riot whenever you go on a balancing spree try to keep something in mind

There are certain champs that are just TOO STRONG right now and not many champs that are too weak. So don't go making more talons/yasuos when you due some huge balance patch.

Maokai for example is too strong right now its not other people being too weak, in fact a lot of champs are in pretty good spots right now. Items and Masteries are kinda throwing some in and out of the meta but for the most part things are going well.

Yasuo as another ex is too strong, not because he's OP or some easy noob champ (anybody calling yasuo easy is just salty) the only issue with him right now is that his early game is too strong/safe for his late game to be so godly. So if you nerf him then nerf his early game and let him scale into what he's doing right now. Don't buff his late game just leave it alone and hurt the early game. He's intended to be a late game hyper carry like vayne so he shouldn't be ruined in the late game. In fact he has some very rough matchups and hard counters. People just don't play them.

Pantheon as an opposite example. He's intended to be a stupidly strong early game champ who falls off late game due to armor. Right now he's strong both early and late game due to lethality. Lethality as we know is just an issue in this game, period. Don't gut pantheon because items are causing him to be out of control. Nerf the items that are throwing the entire game out of control.

I won't lie and say the games fully balanced but nobody can deny that it's close. A few champs here and there need reworks badly (Galio, evelynn, aatrox etc.) but some aren't actually that bad the meta is just not favoring them.

aren't entirely meta (you see a few every now and then) but they aren't bad picks. They aren't underpowered. They're perfectly fine. Just clouded out by the current meta champs abusing other aspects of the game. (keystones/items)

Just try to keep that in mind next time you balance something. Nobody wants their champ ruined (Rip shaco was fun before all his damage evaporated)