Thoughts on current League
TL:DR League of Legends in my opinion has become boring, and to centered around Esports.
After playing this game for 7 years, I must say the game has improved overall when it comes to trying to balance everything around everything. However, to me(and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one feeling this) League of Legends isn't the same to me like it use to be. I use to enjoy the game with every match, for it added something new with the ideas and creativity each summoner brought with them when playing their champion.
Masteries) I don't mind the new masteries, quite frankly some are fun, while others just ruin the feel of the game (Thunderlord's). The old masteries, however, made for some interesting builds, that I thoroughly enjoyed finding out, such as a 9/12/9 build for Vladimir. Not only did I get spellvamp, I also was able to build enough points for defenses, while getting some movement speed and CDR in utility. With the new masteries, there is no unique build paths, I went from having 20 different mastery pages, to now 6 for that's all I need, and I don't like that. The new builds are too cookie cutter, and sadly everyone either builds to Thunderlord's or Deathfire now a days.
Champions) I personally don't like the approach Riot is taking with champions. Riot is trying to feed the competitive scene, while ruining some of the fun champion kits. I miss the old Taric, Poppy, gangplank, shen. Their old kits, were simple, but fun at the same time(sometimes simple is fun). I for one miss Gangplank's Raise Morale. It was easy and added a simple buff for the rest of his team that could impact a teamfight at the right moment. Shen's old kit in general, was fun and made me felt like a tanky ninja, that could jungle and have plenty of sustain(new one doesn't feel that way)
Tournaments) Now as someone who has been around since after beta ended, and now seeing how big League has become, I can respect those who like or love the tournament scene. In my opinion the game itself feels as if it's becoming to competitive. Everyone wants to be number 1, and I can understand that want, but at the same time games to me are suppose to be fun and should be an escape from stress and anger from the real world, not amplify the stress and anger, which the current state of the game does. Back then you would have 1 maybe 2 trolls out of every 10-20 games, currently you have 1-2 in the same match every game, and that's not fun to me. When a game makes me feel anxiety and pissed off, you ruin the purpose of what a game is suppose to do.
Current patch) I have noticed that with the Riot has been about season 6, every game is a snowball fest. Literally one mistake and the entire game is fucked for you, and that allows for no comeback story, or intense, yet rewarding feeling of taking a risk, instead now everyone wants to farm and be passive. Top lane is is basically whoever gets first blood in that lane or whoever hits level 6 first wins the lane. Jungle focused around just dragon and ward control. Mid lane is which ever team gets Zed. Bot lane is boring and to centered around farming, while the supports just pick wards off waiting for their ADC to fuck up and start bitching.
In closing, I still follow League when it comes to champions, and patches, but I went from playing around 10-20 matches a day, to only playing 1 match a day. The current state of the game is boring, and focuses to hard on the Esport scene. Every champion now has to have outrageous and crazy kits that combo off each other, and have ridiculous formula's to their damage outputs, which causes multiple champions to have the same abilities from previous champions, which destroys the pick rates of those older champions. In my honest opinion, the only thing that will kill this game is Riot and their choices to continue the path of choosing esports over fun.