A rant thread.

I don't normally do this kind of thing, because I don't think it helps anything. Just yelling about a champion's broken qualities without giving advice on how to help them is ridiculous. That being said, I'm going to be a complete fucking hypocrite here because I am at my mental limit.

Why the fuck is Lee Sin allowed to exist in his current state? Literally nobody else in the game is allowed to have high burst, CC, tankiness, sustain, a long range gap closer, escapes, and mobility without SOMETHING to balance them out. Lee Sin is allowed to have all of these WITH NO FUCKING DOWNSIDES TO HIM. Is he hard to play? Not really no, but is he hard to master? Yes. That being said, a champion who is easy to pick up yet difficult to master like Malzahar has apparently strengths and apparent weaknesses. No real gap closers or escape, but good damage and reasonable CC with his ultimate. Lee Sin is allowed to not only deal high damage, have mobility and escapes, and have good CC at the same time, BUT IS CONTINUOUSLY PUSHED BY RIOT TO DO SO. He is a champion who was doing poorly at the lower levels of play, so he was given fucking buffs to allow him to do well again. Despite the fact that he was doing just peachy at a higher level of play. Why is this allowed? Why is this mentality about Lee Sin in any way, shape, or form considered okay to game balance? The character is a DISEASE on this game. Yasuo may be annoying, but even he has some weaknesses that you can exploit to win. Lee Sin's exploit to win is hoping to a non-existent God that the person playing him has a major brain hemorrhage or something. And while we're on the subject of immense bullshit, I want to bring up another character I despise with every fiber of my being: Vayne.

Vayne, and those who play her, are the scum of the Earth. Never before have I seen an ADC with the ability to fight, escape, and close the gap against enemy fighters like her. The only two people who I can deem even close to her level of mobility are Ezreal and Kalista. I'm okay with Ezreal, as you can potentially avoid a lot of his damage by dodging those well displayed skill shots of his. And Kalista's whole thing is her mobility. Without her jumping, she is just a mediocre ADC with below average stats. But Vayne is allowed to have true damage on her auto attacks, a relatively short cooldown dash, an ability that will pin an enemy to the wall for 1.5 seconds at ALL RANKS, and ultimate that gives her a shit ton of movement speed. Why? Why is this a thing that is allowed? How is this good for balance? How is this good for the game? Is the player them-self not accounted for when champions are created and nerfs and buffs are put into play? But, once again, her major weakness to capitalize on is hoping that the person playing her sucks and has never actually used a keyboard and mouse in their lives.

And on the subject of true damage, let's talk Fiora. Why why why why why WHY does her Riposte give her COMPLETE spell immunity? Why? What is the point in this? Was this implemented to torment me specifically? And once again, she has fucking percent health true damage. I cannot see her dealing a lot of damage and say "Oh well I should just build some health and armor to help ease her damage." AHAHAHAHAHAHA! No I can't, can I? Instead I just have to sit and let her fuck me repeatedly because we needed Fiora to be relevant again in the worst possible way.

I will now talk about towers too, because I'm breaking my own rules about only targeting champions. Who's decision was it to make towers useless? Yes Riot, towers DO in fact help deter enemies from attacking you. Until the enemy Xin hits level three, then you may as well kiss your ass goodbye because he's going to tower dive you and get an easy kill with the enemy laner. And the tower will either sit there with a thumb up its rocky, moss covered, grime smeared ass and attack the much more threatening minions instead of the angry bastard with the fucking spear stabbing your dead corpse and spamming his laugh animation at you, or attack him so slowly as to make the snails on the Rift LAUGH at how much faster they are than the tower projectiles. And I bet those fucking snails deal more damage to Xin by him being a clumsy asshole and tripping over them by accident and fracturing his old ass hip than the towers ever could or would.

And while I'm talking about Xin Zhao, I might as well talk about the Devourer and Rageblade interaction. Riot's design philosophy seems to be target the champions over and over again, and not the items causing the fucking problems in the first place. And if (and that is a very large IF) Riot actually pulls their heads out of their asses and sees that a item is broken and fix it, they leave the champions they gutted with a rusty fish hook to rot and REFUSE to admit their mistakes. Xin, in the normal meta, is fine. A bit over oppressive, but nothing a few number changes can't handle. But now with the Devourer Rageblade item combo, he has become an immense problem that plagues the fields of the Rift like an inoperable cancer. Please, please, please Riot. I'm begging you on my hands and knees, change items. Admit mistakes. NERF THESE FUCKING CHAMPIONS. I understand that you are trying to do good by the community, but recently it seems like the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF THAT. YOU ARE BLATANTLY IGNORING SERIOUS ISSUES WHILE PUSHING YOUR DISEASE RIDDEN IDEA OF A NEW "META" DOWN OUR THROATS WHILE WE KICK AND BEG YOU TO STOP. But no. You sit there, telling us that you know best and that we're going to eat our fucking food and like it, because we have nowhere else to go for a game like theirs. And they know that if we decide to leave, we'll eventually come back to them, because we are a community besieged by Stockholm Syndrome and no matter how bad Riot fucks up and refuses to believe they did, we'll always come crawling back to them on our hands and knees like the dirty animals we are.

Now that it has been an hour or two since beginning to write this post, I see that I'm being over the top and offensive here but I don't really care right now. At the time of writing it is 11:52 at night and I've had a large line of shitty games that I needed to vent about. If you haven't downvoted me to oblivion like a sensible person yet, feel free to write any rants you have in the comments below. See you the next time I get angry enough to write a post like this, which will probably be never.