Honestly? The state of some champions in this game right now is disgusting

Fair warning, this is a rant.

You have Fiddlesticks, a ridiculously niche pick who has steadily lost both his itemization and his usefulness in the jungle for the past 2 seasons, sitting at a less than 44% winrate and a less than 1% pickrate, and has been like this for multiple patches with no word from Riot.

On the other side of the spectrum you have Jhin still boasting a 50% pickrate and winrate as an ADC. This is in a meta where full lethality assassins and divers, his supposed counter, are running rampant. Statistically he has been the #1 ADC in all respects practically since release, even in metas where crit ADCs are strong (although he somehow is allowed to be both a pen AND a crit ADC). Jhin literally wins 25% of all League games. But that's right, Jhin is fun to play and fair to play against.

We've got my main man Dr. Mundo sitting at a 45% winrate and less than 1% pickrate, Shen at 46% with barely a 5% pickrate, and a plethora of D-tier top laners all bunched together, but Darius with his 54% winrate, 10% pickrate ass is balanced because he can be kited. People seem to forget you can apply that same logic to literally every melee character without a dash, coincidentally the champions struggling the most right now.

You've got Cho still being complete garbage in pretty much all his roles, and since Riot just dumped their miracle plan on him, don't expect any more meaningful work until 2022 when they finally get around to his VGU, after Ryze's 8th rework. Meanwhile, Lee, Vi, Ivern, Graves etc. all continue to be jungle gods that Riot seems to have no plans to touch them. Certain champions can languish in the gutter for years but as soon as stuff starts to get picked in the LCS not named Lee fucking Sin he gets some arbitray buff to his shield strength or his E slow or his Q range that puts him on top again.

We have the mid lane where LeBlanc still has a massive ban, win, and pick rate.....Ahri can sit on a 54% winrate and 13% pickrate for years and never get touched, same goes for Annie but with less pick rate, or Fizz who for some reason was buffed despite having a great winrate and pickrate for an AP assassin not named LeBlanc or Katarina, both of whom disallow anyone ~~melee ~~to play the game or win a lane.

You've got champions like Camille and Graves and Rengar and Kha'Zix (hey, notice any similarities? Melee AD casters with obnoxious mobility) with >50% banrates (almost forgot LB with her 60%), Talon, Jhin, Quinn, Jayce, Varus, Zed all abusing the fuck out of lethality and determing the meta of their respective lanes. Lethality is so OP it dragged Zed out of the grave, I am NOT going to do another year of Zed every other game. I don't care how much skill people like to pretend he takes to play (hint, he's not even that difficult thanks to his free out), I simply don't like being gapclosed on from 1400 range by a guy with a spellshield, Lifeline, GA, 160 mr and 500 AD. I'm sorry if I offended some edgelord who likes to remove agency from their opponents.

But yes, continue to release more problem champions like Camille instead of fixing Azir, Kalista, Kindred, etc. that you deem too problematic to exist in a viable form but throw away in the dumpster because you don't have any way of fixing them. But yes, by all means, ignore the monstrosities named Graves and Kha'Zix and Rengar that tear everyone that gets too close a new one, or Fiora or Yasuo or Riven who cannot lose top lane if they are skilled enough. Fuck skill creep and fuck mastery entitlement. The goal of a champion is not to see how much you can break them past a certain skill curve, it's to fill a niche and tell a story. Generalists are and have always been a bad idea - every champion should be a niche champion that fulfills a certain goal, not - 'I'm just good at everything and am fun to play".

Melee supports not named Blitzcrank and maybe Braum are still garbage, yet Janna with her 53% winrate 20% pickrate isn't the problem - oh no, that's Tahm Kench, the melee immobile fuck who needs three autos to be useful. It certainly isn't Thresh, with a 50% winrate 24% pickrate and who has determined the support meta for years and who takes all of TK's utility as well as Nautilus's engage and peel in one kit, or Zyra, who outdamages everyone else on her team put together - oh, no, it's probably Malzahar, who can't even mid now. Thank you Riot!

We've got Nunu who is so fucking useless you have to break the meta to play him and then get banned, or other junglers like Udyr and Gragas who have dropped off the face of the earth. We've got Heimerdinger who has been nerfed indirectly by basically every change in the game since the ADC rework. We have all the roles Riot has taken away over the years, like Tahm Kench and Trundle jungle and Malzahar support and Aurelion Sol or Fiddlesticks anywhere and Shyvana / Volibear top and Kog'maw mid, but they will arbitrarily decide Zyra/Brand/MISS FORTUNE support and Ziggs ADC and Quinn top and GRAVES FUCKING JUNGLE is fine and dandy.

/rant