Good Morning. Nerf LeBlanc.

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The majority of players are in silver/bronze, so it's like, the people who prefer not playing against annoying people control the ban rate. People in diamond/masters make up a VERY small percentage of the league population.

You didn't circle the relevant information, you're circling what you think is relevant.

http://imgur.com/a/Uma8E

Win Rate for ALL ranks is 52%. Win rate for platinum + is 51%. The BEST LEBLANCS have a win rate of 63%. The best of a champion better have a high win rate with that champion. You trying to argue about high level play being the balancing point around a game where the majority of players are at a low level of play is invalid when lower level leblancs have a higher win rate than higher level leblancs.

And you're level 18.

Riot has said time and time again they balance the game for the highest ranks of players. The reason being - lower level players don't use champions anywhere near their full potential.

If they were to balance around low level players, Yi and Tryn would have been gutted a long time ago, along with other easy to play champions like Annie - these are the champions that many silver/bronze players complain about, despite rarely being seen in higher ranks.

Yes, you absolutely should balance around what the best players can do with a champion - reason being, that as time goes by, the strategies that higher players use eventually get picked up by lower level players by watching streams and whatnot. Riot generally balances around LCS and tournaments, hence why a lot of the nerfs/buffs they do don't tend to make sense to the average player.

But in every single elo, her winrate has increased substantially, she has become easier to carry with, easier to roam with, and easier to just simply win games with. She was a champion rarely seen before the rework, except by onetricks, or people specifically counterpicking one champion.

New LB does well against almost every single champion, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to shut her down in lane because of her multitude of options to either push the enemy out of lane or just shove them to turret while she roams.

Yes, I would argue that the opinion of diamond+ players should be taken into account for balancing, rather than listening to silver/bronze people complaining about how a champion is 'toxic' or 'unfun'. The lower level players don't know how to coordinate to shut down Yi/Tryn, while they're braindead easy to counter amongst teams that know what they are doing.

Low level players won't complain about LB because she is a high skillcap champion, but Orianna was out of control a few seasons ago. Low level players didn't understand why she was so complained about because they weren't using her anywhere near her full potential. LB is the same - a high skillcap champion that takes a lot of practice and game mechanics to do well with - but once a player masters her, she is just statistically better than almost every other champion in her role.