This game just isn't fun anymore

I tried to be objective about it, I really tried. I gave it my all to be open minded and not super dismissive about the idea that this game just sucks right now. But it does and I'm convinced there's no way around that. I was really excited about dynamic queue and being able to play with friends. I still do enjoy it and I'm glad it's there, though I wish solo queue would also be launched already even though it was promised back in January. Whatever.

But that's not even what bugs me. This games balance is just disgusting right now. It's absolutely repulsive and despite my greater efforts to adjust and try to enjoy it, I've given up because I can't. I'm not having fun anymore. And that sucks because win or lose, up until recently for the last 5 years, I've always had fun playing league of legends. And I'm not. This game has become so dumbed down in terms of what you can pick that unless you play tanks or ADCs, you're not going to have fun because that role is so outclassed it's not even funny.

Oh sure there's outliers that are strong like Zed, Lissandra, Lulu, Kayle and Fiora. But I don't like playing any of those champions and I don't in particular enjoy playing against them because they're just as frustrating to fight as what's currently meta. That's the biggest thing, the game just feels like it's frustration levels are at an all time high for me. I'm not enjoying it, I'm not enjoying it at all.

I'm not enjoying tanks being unkillable while being able to solo everything I'm not enjoying being forced to play a tank or ADC top lane if I want to win unless it's fiora, Lissandra or Kayle. And when I play a tank, I have to use the most generic boring non interactive build of zzrot, sunfire and ice born and I'm forced to build the first two because the other tank will. I'm not enjoying being forced to play ADCs mid or utility mages to amplify the power of tanks or ADCs and the outliers here being a few assassins and Lissandra. I'm not enjoying the ADC meta bot lane either and instead of nerfing down obnoxiously overpowered ADCs like Lucian, you're buffing everything up and power creeping ADCs even harder!! I'm not enjoying the jungle where I have to play some bland gank bot and build cinderhulk or play some afk farmer. I'm not even enjoying team fights or interactive aspects of the game because of how weak towers are now, a teamfight at 25 minutes can basically end the game. And even then, it feels like games are decided at champ select now more so than ever. And that sucks.

It sucks indeed. It all sucks because I tried to hard to grit my teeth and bare it and get through this rough phase of balancing but it's not getting better. It's getting worse because some of the answers to the problems in this game are so simple. Many of these new champions or reworked champions like fiora and poppy just need mana cost increases and slight damage nerfs. Instead you nerf them in ambiguous random ways that don't alter their power in any meaningful away and what's abusive about them still remains. Fighters are absolute shit because you've nerfed their items into the ground when ADCs are the one abusing them and you refuse to nerf those abusive interactions like I don't know? BEING RANGED. Mages are getting an update mid season and I'm terrified about how that will further throw this games balance into chaos but hey let's cross that bridge when we come to it because I don't know if I'll make it that far.

It's just devastating to me in some ways. I love this game and at first I was convinced I wasn't having fun because I was on a losing streak but that wasn't the case. I started winning and still wasn't having fun. I just hate the balance now and back at the end of last season, minus a few outliers, it seemed you guys finally got it right and then this preseason happened and the game is just awful and for really, the first time ever, I'm considering quitting this game because I just don't like what I'm playing anymore.

And that sucks. It fucking sucks. I loved this game and still do but I can't force myself to keep playing something I don't enjoy when the balance level in this game is so awful and the gap of power between many of these champions is so large, I don't think riot can actually fix what they've started with these retarded concepts (more max %hp true damage yay).

I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm just frustrated because I'm not having fun playing the game I love. And I'm just at a crossroads here and I feel like it won't get better. Because I feel like riot doesn't even identify the current balance state as a problem, they think its actually ok.

Sorry for the long rant and thanks for reading if you did