Does Riot balance for LCS?

Many seem to assume that Riot makes many balance decisions based on LCS. And really what they mean is that they balance to make LCS fun to watch. But Riot...............watch those telecasts please. Any time someone hovers over one of the 70%+ of champions who almost never see any play, the crowd goes wild.

So, if you do balance for LCS, learn what the people want to see.......................................variety. Think about kids at school talking about Urgot/Voli bot in a game the day before. That creates interest and things to talk about. It is exciting, just ask your casters.........pretty sure they would say the same, they always talk about someone who is playing something different in soloq and how they hope to see them play it in LCS.

Small hint, the people who just play a lot and never watch LCS, those people want the same thing. And I don't mean more champs, there are plenty of champs............I mean more who are able to play competitively. To me a goal (even if not really possible) is to make every single champ viable in a competitive game. It seems right now you are happy with 20 or so and would rather spend time on new champs and new skins then fixing the champions who are broken (meaning not playable in a competitive environment).