I don't mean to be overly critical, but releasing a patch like 6.9 in midseason

is borderline retarded.

This massively changes or skews the way this game is played and it being in the middle of season not only changes the way the entire rest of LCS can potentially play out, but just the 'feel' of a season.

No other 'sport' changes something so drastically in the middle of a timeline. Even in past seasons you considered it to be a 'preseason', and now a few months in the changes to the mages, and even later down the road with assassins can potentially just make "season 6" a mess, and something that no one can even attempt to relate to because you threw not only balance out the window, but the entire scheme of 'mages' which are a massive class of their own smack dab in the season.

Here we are playing on patch 6.9, and soon to be 6.10 because you didn't bother to look at Swain or Cass during the PBE, and what is LCS going to be played on? 6.8? Earlier? Who the fuck knows, you guys release a new patch every few weeks.