Let's talk about the current state of Season 6

To put it nicely, Season 6 is a mess of under powered champs and entirely broken champs. I finished last 5 season as gold-low plat how ever this season I'm struggling to win more then one game in a row with my favorite champs. I'm being constantly told conflicting messages. "Learn someone in the meta' "Play your best no matter who that is"

If i followed the message of "Learn someone in the meta" I have to learn champs like this All of these champs share one similar characteristic. "An enormously large burst of damage or some unnatural amount of a stat"

If i followed the message of "Play your best no matter who that is" I have to play these These champs in earlier seasons, all had a gimmick that if left alone would be absolutely devastating in the right hands. Immense life steal Infinite scaling from his Q A tank who as the game goes on longer and kills more minions gained more and more health. The highest auto attack damage from Q than an any of the other ADC's An extremely powerful single target execute and AOE burst. Unparalleled Movement Speed and overall disruption in team fights. The ability to combo with thorn mail and W to make all auto attacking champions defeat themselves.

Now these champs have lost most of their "Gimmick" that made me them unique to other champions and lost through nerfs. Nasus,Sion and Rammus have lost their gimmick of being "Super tanks" through the very essence of there is so much damage in this game and ability to ignore the lankiness of said champs with ease. On the other hand, Darius,Draven, Aatrox and Hecarim suffer the problem of being stuck in a limbo where they can't go full damage and die in seconds and they can't go full tank and end up being kited to stupidity.

I'm probably very biased but I do think, that balance should be your main issue first before releasing reworks and new champions who in essence share the same "Balance stat" Your last 3 Major reworks in Poppy,Shen and Fiora have all shared one fact. The ability to deal hp% damage which keeps them in the "Meta". Understandably some champions needed this such as Shen. However I feel that more then 50% of your current champion total are being unused due to very fact. "Their gimmicks are easily on a much more stronger champion despise being a unique gimmick"

What happened bewteen the end of Season 5 and now to cause such an imbalanced power spike between certain champions?