League of Legends 2019: The Age of Entitlement

Has anyone else noticed that as the times have changed, so to has League of Legends. We went from an age at the games conception where kits were simplistic and designed to be more specialised in function (For example, if you wanted MR, you would pick old etc and he was weaker against AD champs) to the current age which includes champions being redesigned to do pretty much everything.

Recent champions have this in spades, ever since the successful release of , what some people wanted and others did not. It seems that every champion these days has to have some kind of gimmick that breaks the game rather then being designed around a core strength.

Lets compare to as an example.

Both are mages. Annie was always taken for her stun and powerful CC and Burst but the trade off is that you cannot really do anything else. She has no mobility and can easily be collapsed on when her stun is down.

On the other hand, Zoe has no real clear focus or period of weakness. She is provided with mobility, a CC that is not a "charge" to balance it but one skillshot and a Q with a massive burst potential. Her "stealing summoner spells" ability feels very tacked on and does not seem to flow from her core identity.

The same can be said for and .

I do not think the designs are a problem, I just think they are an example of the age that we current live in. The Entitlement Generation (as some people call it) flows through these champions as you do not need to really give up anything to play these. With Annie, you need to accept that you will have no mobility and their is a clear core weakness in her kit.

Champions don't seem to be built with weaknesses in mind these days.