Riot's changes made it nearly impossible for an individual players skill to show(long)

For jungle is you had a crappy team and you were good you use to be able to shut down the enemy jungler by countering constantly putting you far ahead and them behind eliminating them from the equation for a good chunk of time. (This especially hurt people like Shaco or Evelynn who were all about walking into the enemy jungle unnoticed and nabbing themselves a kill to get the snowball started early on)

Now you can keep counter jungling but the enemy can catch up in a few camps easily as well as some of the enchants (cinderhulk) being so damn good to keep them up stat wise.

**Top lane if you were good and your team sucked you were able to splitpush and outduel people/tower dive them applying a lot of pressure top. **

Now with the 2nd tower giving a stupid shield and the rest having those retarded lasers it's nearly impossible to dive someone without dying yourself.

**Mid lane when there was the fact that champs like say akali/kassadin were able to efficiently roam to top/bot and assassinate and pick up kills to help them snowball and carry it was more about who out rotated who better now it's about who has the jungler that's camping mid. **

Now you have scuttle crab, pink wards that live forever, free trinket wards, free sweepers to kill wards. You can roam but it's so damn easy to get spoted before you even make it past the river bush.

**For support you had people like leona and alistar who could set up plays and make things happen and get their carry fed. The good and bads supports were easily noticed by the ones who would actually ward who actually built support items that peeled for their carry etc. ** Now there's nothing but mages in the bot lane (annie, morgana,vel'koz, lux) who just combo the carry then leave the scraps for their adc to pick off of. With how Riot changed things to allow "supports" get a better income it's a lot easier for mages to afford things as a support and just build full damage (and maybe a sighstone) then they just run in and blow stuff up without even caring to peel.

Then you have adcs or should I say marksman now..the only thing that hasn't really changed at all. They're still the center of attention. They're still spoon fed everything you could ever need. They still get babied by their team while being toxic as crap. They're still doing way too much is what i'm getting at here.

Riot went in the right direction when it came to someone like Heimerdinger (admittedly I hate him) he wasn't an adc but he still had that pushing power. He had the ability to secure objectives fast. He did what adcs can do but as a ap champ. The only issue is they made him insanely obnoxious to lane against, while I will say im kinda biased on my heimer hate because I mainly play melee champs and ranged vs melee has always been obnoxious. I feel like Riot needs to go the heimer way when it comes to making new champs. I'm not saying that we need to eliminate marksman as a whole but we definitely need some new form of a champion that can make it so you aren't completely reliant on having a marksman (or at least the one that gets IE first)

Back on topic I won't say i've been around for a very long time cause I haven't to know how the game was from the start to now, but I have been around long enough to know that LoL has changed drastically over time and a lot of it hasn't exactly been for the better. They're starting to get good about balancing things coughRivencough but they're not really focusing on the things the game needs.

Which brings me back to my point of this thread. Individual skill and the ability to take charge of a team and lead them to victory thus carrying them has become less required/meaningful not because people are just bad, but because the game is changing so hard forcing things into a one sided meta it's crippling peoples ability to show that they can in fact, carry.

Take Bard for ex, No matter what I do this guy is gonna be a support, maybe in some rare cases you play against someone with half a brain you can manage him somewhere else, but his kit and numbers and playstyle it all screams support. Maybe i'm the best jungler in the world and I really love Bard and want to use him there. I can't play him there because i'm going to die to invades constantly, my clears will be insanely slow etc. etc.

It's not because i'm bad but because the meta is forcing me to play him support which isn't letting me show that I CAN do really good in the jungle and i'm great at the role but my champion isn't allowed by Riot to actually be played there.