Even if they were to be pay to win, they are far shallow to the disgusting monstrosity called Elsword. Not only that, but Star Wars Battlefront 2, FIFA, all every other pay to win game that has such cheesy absurd monitization. Elsword's was bad enough it forced me to quit.
They made the game so dungeon grindy (and mind you, I took a good year away from the game cuz the content was lackluster for that year, came back to dungeon hell. My already hard grinded pain in the ass gear got not only succeeded massively, but also made completely inferior in dungeons with its once great stats) that you have to load up on currency and try and trade with someone who did that pain in the ass dungeon to buy the gear that would give you the most success in any dungeon and Arena (I was an arena player, and that shit warped Arena forever (on top of lag)).
League has its fair share of issues, but they dwarf compared to those games.