Sad state of bot lane
Bot lane is just a long range caster lane now. The core skill of moving and auto-attacking (call it orb walking, kiting, attack move, whatever you want) is practically not even a part of the game anymore. There is not a single auto attack based ad carry in League of Legends that is viable anymore.
I've been a vayne main in the past and played hundreds of matches on her in gold-diamond, she can't win a trade against any of the top 4 ad carries anymore. I mean I'll play with my low elo friends and a silver 5 ashe will out trade even though her mechanics are absolute shit. Like she will just stand still doing nothing, and still win any trade. Unless she manages to shoot her massive AOE harass spell in the complete wrong direction or something, you will not out trade ashe on vayne period.
In bot lane you have a huge divide between the few ad carries that are just mages that do attack damage and all of the traditional ad carries that have to auto attack their opponents to do damage. Those 4 or so main ad carries pretty much can't lose against the others. Like the skill disparity has to be immense because you can't bully them or trade with them. You simply are forced to acknowledge the fact that even though your opponent can barely move their champion around, you're not gonna win a trade with them. So you just get to sit and farm and wait for someone else on your team to make play which is extremely boring.
What are you designers thinking? I personally think they're a bunch of idiots and likely not a single one of them has ever had decent mechanics at this game. They keep adding more and more ridiculous champions with absurd abilities that really can't be outplayed in a physical way very easily. You guys talk a lot about having clear strengths and weaknesses in champs, having trade offs and what not, but you've taken that so far to the point where the champion match up is more important than the players physical ability to control their champion. And also, the strengths and weaknesses thing doesn't exist in bot lane. It's not like you have to play every ad carry and then you choose to play twitch to counter some other specific champion and have to know how to play twitch to execute, you just pick ashe every game and you win against all but 2 or 3 other ad carries where it might be a 'skill match up'. But what is that skill anyway? Farming well? Auto attack mechanics certainly aren't important to playing ashe successfully.
Please just fucking stop with your stupid ass ideas and desperate attempts to keep the game new and fresh. People liked the game more when you weren't doing that. You're pandering to an audience that isn't ever going to play League anyway. If you're not willing to put in a lot of time to learn how to play this game, you're probably gonna have a better time playing some mainstream noob shit like Heroes of the Storm. You should literally fire you're entire game balance and champion design team because they're fucking stupid. There are 130 champs in this game and it's only new champs or newly reworked champs being played. They keep adding more and more ridiculous champs with absurd abilities to the point where the core competencies from a few season ago are barely a part of the game at all anymore. You have so many stupid ass champions where making the right decision is the main requirement for success. You can't really mechanically outplay their abilities, you just have to know "oh that jihn is missing and I could be hit from 3000 range anytime now so I better stop playing my lane and hide under my turret instead". That is not what made league of legends popular. Your core players likely enjoyed the simplicity of "whoever's landing their spells better wins the lane" or in the bot lane case "whoever can trade/deny better in lane wins". Now that isn't part of the game. If you pick the wrong champ you have no real chance of out trading.
A few seasons ago I could play Vayne in low elo into any match up and almost always still outplay my opponent and win lane simply because my core auto attacking/trading/farming skills were much better. Even when these unskilled players played something like Cait I would often bully them simply because they're not good enough at auto attacking to leverage her range advantage. Now that's simply not the case. For a lot the match ups all your opponent needs to do is make the choice to trade rather than run and hide and they will win. It's just pitiful.
