I feel like the balance team missed the entire meta with this patch....

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I feel the entire meta of the game was missed with this patch. Sure, you nerfed 's W attack speed and 's Q to champs to lower their damage hoping it'll bring different ADCs' to the scene... but you entirely missed why none of the others were picked anyway. They aren't being picked in high elo or competitive because their damage is broken, it's because of the meta of the game everywhere else. For example:

Top lane picks :

---See the trend? It's all damage champs bar Ornn. Why? Because tanks are so under tuned and useless, that it isn't even worth playing one unless it's Ornn who can buff the items.

Let's move to mid lane

Mid lane picks : Honorable mentions being Orianna and Ezreal

--All of these are high burst damage champs with "flashy" moves. Where are the control mages? In the dumpster because why pick a control mage when you can pick an assassin that can two-shot a bot laner due to level disadvantage, which you are expanding even more next season with the bot lane XP nerfs, and lack of survivability.

Let's move onto the bot lane

Bot lane picks : --That's it. Ashe has the highest win rate of an ADC in the entire game! You just buffed her passive slow and gave her an auto reset, yet she still isn't on this list. Why? The answer isn't in the damage, it's in the kits.

• : Featherstorm (R) gives free reposition and dodge of a chunking ability from an assassin.
• : Killer Instinct (R) gives a free reposition and dodge of a chunking ability from an assassin. Along with invisibility on her Supercharge once she gets to 3 items.
• : Burst mage than can delete a carry with a single button along with the ability to buy to prevent from getting one shot.
• : Burst carry with hyper mobility using Sweeping Blade (E) along with Way of the Wanderer (Passive) to prevent from being one-shot without hard lock down CC. Only problem is, look at the rest of the lane metas. There is no lock down CC. Lastly,
• + : Lane sustain beyond measures with the ability to poke from a distance and the lack of ability to trade back because isn't targetable nor does she share damage absorbed by the person she is sitting on.

Do you see the trend here? It's all either burst or ability to avoid being one shot. Runes give absurd amounts of damage both early and late. Defensive items have been destroyed to the point that only one tank in the entire game is viable that isn't in the support position. The entire skill of outplaying your opponent using the micro skills you have while pushing the kit of your champ to it's limits have been entirely removed because it isn't flashy and entertaining to watch due to the fact that it takes a chunk of time to get there. So instead you've shifted the meta slowly to be the opposite, give everyone so much damage early that you don't have to wait for that scaling period to end.

TL;DR : The solution for this lack of diverse meta in the bot lane that everyone is complaining about isn't to nerf what's strong in that lane, it's to either nerf what's strong elsewhere or to buff what's weak so that they have the ability to compete with the burst.