Unpopular Opinion: Lethality isn't the damage problem

Runes that turn non damage into damage is

• Move speed into damage (Celerity)
• CCed target takes more damage (Cheap Shot). An ally landed CC! Well congrats now you have damage amp on that target for free!
• Dash/TP even Flash now adds more damage (Sudden Impact). Pure utility movement abilities which are valuable to gap close, dodge, escape... now do damage
• As if vision wasnt enough, lets make it hurt too. All of precision row 3 - vision control into damage!
• Kill stats into more damage (all the hunter runes & Dark Harvest, Alacrity). Getting a kill isn't enough, makes you even stronger for the next round
• Time into damage. Spend a minute in the fountain, well not only did they get the CS, exp, gold and level advantage, now they scale even harder (Gathering Storm, Chrysalis, Transcendence, Dark Harvest, all runes that scale up w level) to do more damage

Utility amplifiers turn into damage amplifiers

• Predator, nimbus, waterwalking, to help with movement + Celerity, even more damage!
• Hail of blade + Celerity on Jhin even more excessive AD from crit, attack speed and now super move speed!

Utility alone is super valuable but now ultra boosted when all utility adds damage. Anything non damage related now adds damage. That's the major problem. What makes lethality users look so ultra damage broken is when stuff like Talon Q with Dash and R (+ghostblade active move speed into damage, and nimbus cloak move speed into damage) into a super move speed damage amped nuke, or Zed shadow swaps into damage amps. Even champs who don't use lethality are seeing this super bonus.

Graves smokescreen is now a damage amp for CCed targets, or his dash isnt just for another shot but also a damage amp. Hell, even his R which pushes him back counts as a "dash" for a damage amp after with Sudden Impact, you think his R is just damage? Nope it also gives lethality on cast for a few seconds lul. I love playing Graves (most played M7 but even before these runes), but it's not his kit that's the issue but moreso the runes that would overbuff him

Same w Khazix. I'm M7 on him too, but feel like he's a bit much. Landing W to slow helps immensely to land more damage after, but hey that slow on target or leap onto target amps damage even more! Go R invis to gank a target, wooo free bonus sudden impact lethality as well!

Don't blame the items and champs, blame the runes