Over the last few years most balance changes were directed in favor of the Chinese playerbase. However, most of the west currently is very dissatisfied with the balance state of the game.
I don't want to go into why the balance is bad. I'm just proposing the idea that is in the title. discuss
It really was nothing but an excuse to not nerf champions who are selling skins. Riot is relying on the fact that most western players do not have a good way to access data from the chinese servers to push forth their own agenda. You see the same champions being banned on high elo douyu streams as you do on twitch streams. The "regional" differences occur when riot quotes gold+ stats which isn't even an mmr bracket that they should be balancing around.
