Generalists are bad for the game. When will Riot ever learn?

Ya know, this seems to be a common pattern, be it in the jungle (Lee Sin) or a solo lane (Zed).

Let's take a look at Lee first. Sure, champs like Shyvanna can clear faster than him. Champs like Naut can gank harder than he does. And then there are champs with a lot more sustain than Lee. But Lee has just ENOUGH of all those aspects to be a viable pick, completly crowding out those "specialistsquot;& whenever the meta favours him a little (and if not Riot buffs him for no reason).

However, one can take this problem to a whole new level, if you take a generalist champ and then buff one of their aspects so it might be a reason alone to pick them. This would be Zed. With Duskblade being introduced he got an item that works really well with his ult and assassination pattern. That alone wouldn'd be so bad, if he wasn't already good enough with poking, waveclear and splitpushing potential. As always, there are champs who do these single aspects better, but none of them does all of them WELL enough.

And with Zed being now one of the strongest assassins on top of his generalistic design... well, he might be one of league's best champs by now. Maximal Reward with Maximal Safety. Not really a good designing principle.

Seriously Riot, you have to make up your mind what your champ is supposed to specialize in. Ya can't just say "muh everything" and then wonder why they completly dominate play for several seasons.

"But these champs are fun, so people play them! We don't want to take fun out of our game!"

Wrong. Winning is fun. That's it. When Skarner was completly broken on the Juggernaut release, suddenly everywhere self proclaimed "Skarner Mains" popped up and his playrate completly skyrocketed. Now Skarner was brough back in line and suddenly he barely sees any play. Can't even remember when I last had a Skarner in my team...

People will play what wins them games, so playrate alone is by far no indicator to a champ being "fun to play", so stop with that bullshit excuse to protect your favourite champs.