Mages leaves mid lane and ad assassin dominates.

As a Silver ranked player my opinion might not mean anything or affect anyone in this matter. Especially riot who created the game for highly ranked competitive players and esport. I might not have understood the actual statistics of gameplay in a wide range, but from my experience, I am going to say that most mages such as zigg and kass don't do much in the current meta. It is undeniable that most assassins have one or more type of engage and escape abilities. With ad assassins, they are most likely to be relying on abilities to engage or do some sort of dmg to soften his target up. However, ap mages both sustain and burst mage ( which include ap assassins) relies mainly on abilities to burst or dmg their target. Comparing this to ad assassins who could also provide additional sustain dmg through their auto-attack, mages are simply kicked out of the mid lane. Those champion that had exceptionally long cast range or hard cc are driven toward the top and bot lane where their target is more easily to be kited as many top lane brawlers or tanks are, or as a support to help lock down their opponents for the ad carry.

Going back to the problem with zigg and kass they are two champ that I feel isn't fit for not just the current meta but also game in general. Zigg's w as an escape are simply not able to bring him out of an assassin's range. I do understand that zigg does do an incredible amount of dmg to many squishy champions in the late game, but losing in the early or mid-game is simply enough to lead his team to a defeat before the late game even comes around. Only the most skilled of zigg players are able to pull him off. Kass as the only other anti-mage champ in the game other than galio is doing much worst than galio is. Since kass are mainly played in the mid lane, and the amount of ap champion in each is ging down. It is easy to say that he is basically unplayable, with everyone just bypassing his passive and q's shield, while having less dmg on his auto-attack when trading with zed or any other ad assassins. From these examples, you could see that it does not support the reason why rioter's is creating new champions. Such a huge list of champions should have provided a large amount of team-composition which lead to exciting and fun games with many different variations. However, now the meta especially low ranked game (which does not include normal) are a playing ground of many players who specialized in assassin champions, but main zed and yasuo. Every game you would most likely be facing off zed or yasuo in the mid lane. Bot mostly consist of pyke and lucian, some time cait. Jungle is simply kayn with the top lane being to the lane with the most variation.

Of course, this is all seen through an eye of the most unskilled silver player's eyes, it is simply my opinions which doesn't matter much to many other who might be reading this if anyone reads it at all. And the stuff that I wrote down might have already differed from the title of this discussion. Before going back on track I would tell you a bit of myself. I am not one of those hardcore league of legend gamers whos players this league for most of their time or as their main form of entertainment. I mostly play for fun, but the reward in rank still attracts me which is why I also play rank. As the years go on my rank dropped from gold v in season 4 or 5 to silver iii in the current season which I could admit it is where my skill level is mostly since I play all sort of other games and do not practice any one specific champion. I am now mainly playing morde which get ban most of the time and I have to resolve in by picking some other champ. I am mostly being seen as a troll, but I am simply bad at this game. I miss most of my skill shots and my map awareness isn't that good, combine with my really poor reflex I am simply not built for playing fast pace game like league. So yeah, people reading this might be saying that I shouldn't complain and just be better at the game and I will happily accept that suggestion. But as a game design major/art major I am simply frustrated with the way stuff goes. I understand that balancing such a large game with this many variants is impossible to please everyone and the game isn't showing a huge spike in win rate for many ad assassins in the overall statistic. I know this discussion now looks like a complain letter and it was long and no one wants to read it. I am not a technical player, I don't calculate every number that might be affecting my overall dmg and I surely don't know the overall win-rate of mages right now in the game. Also, this is a team communicating game which requires players to work together I am not saying that teamwork doesn't affect the outcome of each game and it is all about the ad assassin and mages.

I think it is time to wrap it up right here since I don't have much to say. I am just gonna say that balancing a game is hard and I do appreciate each champion and new mechanic that rioters bring to this game. However, I am just here to give feedback base on the perspective of the players, not any other players, but a causal silver ranked player. Knowing this discussion might not have much chance of getting to the top where a rioter would read it I am just gonna say thank you to those that are willing to read this.