Don't stall the balance change the same way as it happened this year ever again please.
Okay, So I actually noticed a few things those last 4 months. Starting patch 7.16 we started a long long long run of of stasis of game balance. Let me explain. It all started with patch 7.16, the first patch preparing worlds. They didn't wanted to change much in this patch, cause they didn't wanted to have an unstable game (read : unknown) for worlds. Patch 7.17 was the same story, and finally even 7.18 contained only a little change to the major issue the game had back then (A small ardent censer nerf)
Then for patch 7.19 we finally started to fix what was broken and do stuff (Azir/Xin/Cait/Janna/Vayne/Ardent/etc... there's really a lot) That's the kind of patch we want.
But hey wait that's too great to be true, now we enter a new patches series that make sure the game is stable before pre-season ... So patch 7.20, almost nothing. Patch 7.21, finally putting ardent in the dirt (5 patches to fix this, should be 3 maximum) patch 7.22 is pre-season, a new whole mess. Basically I'm fine with this.
But hey, now is nearly holidays, we have too little time to work, and we must have a stable game for the start of the new season... So patch 7.23 contain almost nothing. Well, many people are still trying new runes, so we can't really know what to fix right now, okay okay. So now patch 7.24 & 7.24B, finally we have a second patch since 7.16 (remember the first one was patch 7.19) that contain lot of stuff, and that helped a lot. But wait, now we'll wait 1 whole month for next patch, patch 8.1, that will contain almost nothing too, cause they had not time to work on stuff.
So next real patch to fix things will be patch 8.2, probably hitting live the 17th or 24th of January.
So let me sums this up, we have worlds, then pre-season, then holidays slowing down the balance changes and the evolution of the game. This, as a player, have probably been my worst experience of patches since league started, and you absolutely have to not do this next year please, no more of 5 months of few changes (only 3 patches out of 11 (7.16 ---> 8.2) will be heavy of content, excluding pre-season changes)
No more balance stall, next year please reduce it to 3 months or w/e, but not nearly half a year of this, please, never again.
for the second half of 2017. He has out classed most supports in most cases outside of cases of broken balance Riot takes too long to fix.