Current State of League from Silver & Fan perspective

There are 4 big reasons league isn't in a good spot right now.

1: The sense of balance is super poor. 'nuff said. Even LCS players have said their strategy is now to not ban the OP's (C9 team 2 weeks ago said this live) because maybe they will get more than the enemy on red side and basically automatically win.

2: This meta is mostly unfun but meta's shift so that is a matter of opinion , but the IMPORTANT factor is that there are no where near enough bans since the balance is poor. (A lot of it is okay, and Riot has stated that its intentional and their reasoning does make sense, but even for that its currently a bit ridiculous). If there are so many champions and the balance is meant to be the way it is, then at least give us more bans.

3: A lot of stupid stuff get through to Ranked play. In Dota when a new champion is released they make it OverPowered on purpose in a similar but more distract way than riot does, but they do it to bug test properly and don't let it in ranked queues until the bugs are gone. At which point they nerf it so it is closer to balanced. Meanwhile Jhin may have a decent learning curve, and isn't doing so hot but we all remeber the potential for 8000 AD. Seriously? Not to how horrible the Skarner rework was for a couple patches. Lord help your lp if you forgot to ban it that one patch or were the first sorry person to get completely screwed.

4: There are plenty of counter play options, but there is a huge tenancy for the strongest champions to have the least counter play. Fiora for example. You can't itemize against her, and you can't kite very well and she can chase endlessly if she has mana (which is rare for her to run out). It's entirely a skill match up for her to mess up, but there is low counter play aside from that. Fiora wins or not, its 100% up to the Fiora to mess up. Otherwise she is mostly a free win. (Exceptions to things that are worse like Graves and Quinn if you are Huni)

As much as I love league, I feel like it is heading in a horrible horrible direction. At the very least give us more bans while you work on balance [it doesn't need to be perfect, but it feels virtually impossible to deal with right now]. 8-10 total bans is less than a 1/10th of the champions so maybe 1 per person in dynamic queue would be reasonable. This would also help Riot notice which champions are actually the worst among all the ones that are banned a lot. Maybe some are banned cus they are popular ( ), while others like Graves are legitimately to strong. The ones that are actually OP would stand out more from the crowd while also being less likely to destroy games.

Maybe I discredit myself a little bit for not having a complete understaning, but if I feel it it there is at least a few others who do to, and it doesn't mean I'm completely wrong either. FIX PLEASE

> TL;DR > >1: wtf is up with Balance right now. >2: NEED MOAR BANS 1 per person? >3: Bugs in ranked, new champs kept in game, but off ranked for an additional patch or 2; This might help, especially with the tendency to be op on release >4: Some champs have significantly less counter play and weaknesses than they should. High risk / High Reward ( ) Vs. Low/Moderate Risk / High Reward ( ) Diana has other aspects that are stronger, but I can't be the only one who see's Ekko as basically a more versatile Diana with more of basically everything.

Some-one told me that most of these are casual players problems [Isn't balance actually more important to competitive players?]. To that I say why should an awesome game be ruined for 70+% of players just because they aren't as competitive or just want to have fun with friends? Its also really boring to see the same champions and bans in EVERY LCS game. That's not fair competition. There is a huge element of strategy that just gets completely cut out. Immortals are a great team, but maybe if the game was more balanced other teams might actually have a chance. Look at TSM v. Renegades. TSM played horribly and still won because underneath it all they still have the strategy to win games once in a while.