Winrate and Champion Balance Rarely Correlate!

I am sick and tired of witnessing players who claim a champion is underpowered/overpowered by using winrate to back up their claim.

Example: "Ryze is obviously not strong. He only has a 44% winrate" (We know this claim is not true because Riot is reworking Ryze because they feel he is overpowered)

Believe it or not, all League champions are not the same. Some require little knowledge (Garen) while others (Riven) require experience. Just because Garen has a much higher win rate (52% vs 47%) than Riven does NOT mean Garen is a much better champ.

I understand some champions specifically Graves are blatantly overpowered and their winrate shows it however: winrates rarely are an indication of a champion's balanced state.

List of STRONG champions under 48% winrate: Thresh (47%) Riven (47%) Tristana (47%) Kindred (47%) Rek Sai (47%) Gnar (47%) Ilaoi (47%) Nidalee (47%) Jayce (47%) Veigar (46%) Kassadin (46%) Lee Sin (46%) LeBlanc (45%) Rumble (45%) Ryze (44%) Azir (44%) Gragas (44%)

Notice how all these champions take skill. Notice how a lot of these champs are played in the LCS. Notice how low skilled players try to copy LCS players and play what is "Viable". Maybe the reason these strong champions have such a low win rate is because low elo summoners try to take on difficult champions and ruin the winrates...

Winrate and Champion Balance Rarely Correlate!