Gameplay: Except it is not. Riot Attention: Please stop Reworking Champions

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I post this as a huge fan of the revolution of gaming that Riot has created. The community of League of Legends is unique and sacred. In the event that this opinion has gone unspoken, I will share it. If it is redundant, I apologize, but there is far too much gaming to be done to peruse the forums for those that agree with the next request.

Please stop reworking our favorite champions. That being said, I feel the need to state that a great many of us understand the need to balance the champions according to new developments. I greatly appreciate your attentiveness to a common issue with so many games on the market. You strive to constantly keep this game balanced and competitive. Which is totally awesome btw. However, you are constantly robbing us of our hard earned enjoyment.

Champion selection is clearly a complex situation that you are well versed in and give a great deal of attention to, respectively. I would like to point out that our personal commitment to each champion plays a major role during champion selection. I ask that you pay a little more attention to that aspect of your game. We, as gamers, do develop a personal connection to the champions that we tend to select. While at the riot office it may seem that certain champions are over played; and others respectively underplayed, I ask you to consider that the underplayed champions may still have the same affect on your audience as the most played.

I feel that each champion has a personality (play style if rendered down to the core) that chimes with a personality of the gamer. When you rework a champion because you want to see more mainstream selection (if you will), you actually destroy an amazing connection to a portion of your audience that doesn't get as much of a chance to express themselves as the mainstream.

I would really appreciate, as a fan, if you would consider tuning the balance of champions over the complete destruction of the amazing idols you have given us. I will cite the rework of Yorick here, as it is the most recent. The complete overhaul of Yorick has made and amazing champion (that with a smidge of creativity could have resulted in a sincere and righteous addition to the League storyline). Unfortunately, the effect has be the desecration of an idol the likes of which just simply does not exist in gaming. The original Yorick will forever go down as a hero, completely unique and horrifically disfigured into this monster that has been "gifted" to all of those that spent a great deal of time (and in some cases, money) in a grand gesture of learning and enjoying a rarely played wonder.

I personally feel that Riot's understanding of creativity has been somewhat limited since the removal of dodge years ago (take this with the context that I completely enjoyed the rarely used Udyr for his niche role in the dodge enterprise). Honestly, it is shocking to see the misuse of creativity when comparing the evolution of the champions to the evolution of the game. It seems that existing champions should not need a content/playstyle rejuvenation for the game to be a hit. You really do make awesome new champions and have them balanced in short order. So why ruin the gold oldies, instead of adjusting their fitment into the new image of league?

In conclusion, the game has evolved into an unprecedented phenomena with a history that will forever fade into obscurity because of the unwillingness to preserve the sacred champions we have come to love. Please forego your personal dreams of what a champion is in today's League of Legends. Let them be the idols we have come to love (if possible, give our lost favorites back to use in a "retro" mode--balanced for the new patches of course(let's see how talented you all at Riot are)--so that we can hold on to this awesome history. We won't begrudge you the introduction of all of the skills and play styles in the forms of new champions (I promise on behalf of all gamers). I have nearly been robbed of my faith of League. I beseech you, do not allow this to happen.

--Exilist

-P.S. The above Concept being: creat new champs with your awesome ideas and leave the original champions (some of which may be obscure and underplayed) alone (alone meaning balanced respective to the patch in all skills, damage, and immunes) so that those of us that greatly enjoy these champions can continue to enjoy them-- many thanks, Exilist