Feat or Famine - Why It Is Problematic

The big problem with feast-or-famine assassins is that they take agency away from the other lanes.

For example, I have never mained midlane. When Leblanc or the other asasasins were serious midlane feast-or-famine champions I banned them every time because they took agency away from me.

If LB was on my team and she got behind, the game was a 5v4 and we would lose even if I did quite well in top lane. If she got ahead, we won.

If she was on the enemy team and she got behind, we won. If she was on the enemy team and got ahead, there was very little I could do to stop her team from winning.

Basically, this meant I had very little control over how the game turned out as a top-laner. It wasn't that Leblanc was overpowered per se. It was that she took all of the agency out of all of the other lanes, and basically made the entire game a 1v1.

If I want to climb elo, if I think I am a better top laner than is typical for my elo, then I want the outcome of the game to depend upon me. I don't want the outcome of the game to be determined by a midlane coin flip.

Feast-or-famine champs take agency out of the other lanes. I can understand why people who play feast-or-famine champs would like that -- it means they get all the agency. If they are good, then they can climb elo fast. The game is in their hands. But now you understand why nobody wants to play on the same team as or against a feast-or-famine champ. Unless, of course, you are the one laning against the feast-or-famine champ. Because in this case, winning lane turns the game into a 5v4 in your team's favor, so you do have agency if you are the one laning against a feast-or-famine champ.