I dont like how rapidly poke in botlane has been gunned down

This has been on my mind lately. At the beggining of a patch where new runes hit live server, a strategy in botlane emerged where you would run things like ashe, mf and jhin all using comet. And that is only one side of the coin, because ocasionally someone would pick a support, a comet user to add up to this. And the thing I liked most there, was that this wasn't the only strat to go. You would still see people running press the attack AD's, and aftershock/aery supports. This variety has changed the second sorcery tree took big hits, and others not so much.

You can make an argument for poke lanes being cancer, and to some degree you would be right, but in my opinion it wasnt all that bad of a cancer, when you look at what we have to put up with today. Pick a hypercarry, engage support, have an all in from time to time, and most importantly - invite other lanes to bot. My impression here is that, with this setup, we have lanes going evenly most of the time, until an intervention from other lanes happen, be it mid/jg/top - whatever. People want to tunnel as many resources as they can into hypercarries, disregard their own influence on the game. At least thats what they are forced to do, not necessarily what they want to do. And dont get me wrong here - I do believe that there is space for hypercarries in the game, but it needs to be tied to a risk. You pick a hypercarry, you put yourself in a spot where you have to face a stronger laning opponent most of the time, and if you survive that phase - that is skill expression. If every single picked adc is a hypercarry, risk of picking it is gone/transferred to other lanes (influence of other players), and that I find extremely unhealthy.