Riots problem is that they have the what i like to call "popular champions". ahri, darius, lux garen zed you get the idea. so what they do is they buff what is "popular" cough cough irelia even though she didnt need a buff same as lucian. you can even see it biased in their videos and community videos and the tutorial for new players. darius ahri yi mf and the others . lucian gets a skin. buff him so people buy the skin. rengar gets a revert. give him a skin(i main rengar). which is why the statement that the game is decided in pick phase because the team with the op team wins 90% of the time while you try to play off meta actually fun champions like corki or anyone who isnt pop. Another one of leagues problems is that they try to give players freedom in which you can play anyone any role any lane any build. it is in their ticket page that they will not punish people for 'bad games' or 'trying new builds or roles' so that when your soraka mid feeds she doesnt get punished whatsoever. the problem with them letting people do whatever they want creates imbalance because there is no CONTROL. GAREN IS A TANK. GAREN ALMOST ALWAYS TAKES IGNITE DUSKBLADE STORM RAZOR AND KILLS YOUR ENTIRE TEAM BECAUSE HE IS STILL TANKY DESPITE ONE TANK ITEM.
darius is a tank that gets up 4K health with moderate defenses. darius also gets the base AD of around 6 when he maxes his stats... close to or more then an assassin... darius makes you bleed and his E at max gives him 35% ARMOR PEN. so we have a 'Tank' that heals from Q. Slows with W and E. GAINS SHREDDING STATS THAT BELONG TO ASSASSINS. GAINS DAMAGE FOR HITTING YOU. and has an execution. and thats not even bring up the true damage he gets from conq which is also imbalanced.
AP items have to high stats that people who are mostly Full AD take AP simply because it scales higher. such as AP rengar one shotting entire teams when it was still good including tanks.
Riot needs to control stats and not give us the ability to be a darius who cant die but does the damage of a 50/0/1000 zed.
simply put. you dont see actual fun champions because of the clearly easier more op choices. why play fun ryze when you can be leblanc and w and one shot someone and go back and never take damage.
why play skarner and have fun dragging victims under tower when you can just play volibear and never die because of passive but still do loads of damage
why play rengar when you can be zed and do a un-avoidable combo and escape with 75% health then go right back in
why play corki when you can play MF and 100 to 0 someone with a Q auto
you can see what im getting at
im just as pissed as you are. i dont know if RIot cares or if they even listen. i dont even think they will learn that they have to CONTROL stats so we dont have garens running around tanking 5v1 and getting a penta simply because he has base tank stats ignoring his scaling abilities.
despite the hundreds of things they have to balance i think they just slack. im sure balancing is pretty easy especially when you construct the game.
Regardless, they spend so much MORE time on skins for champs who dont need them and waste time on small patches that give some champions slight buffs that change nothing or make them OP.
With 140 champions in the game and more to come, there will always be champs who drift into higher viability, but when all of those champions fill the same role in the same way, the game becomes dull with matches coming down to who was able to get their 3 hits within half a second.
