A Quick Note to Riot's Balance Team

I know we've all been seeing a lot of these lately, but I just wanted to quickly say thank you to the balance team. Alistar and Tristana were probably the first two champions I came to own (because of the free skins unlocking them for me), and while Tristana has been an on-and-off again main of mine, Alistar has long been one of my favorite champions that I never played. This was, in large part, owing to the fact that I am a pretty bad Alistar Support (and not great at Leona either, tbh).

Changes to itemization, buffs, and meta shifts have caused Tristana to catapult to fame, and have also carved out a home for Alistar in the top lane. Though I've only played a single game with Alistar top, I can fairly safely say that it was the most fun I've had in the game in a while (and not because we won. Honestly it was a pretty back and forth game, not the best display of skill). There's something so joyous about the "Howdydoody" Headbutt + Sheen-proc-auto, especially when blind-siding a low-health Master-Yi in his own jungle for a kill. I don't actually know if these Alistar changes were intentionally made to increase his viability outside of support, but I can only wish that they are, for the most part, here to stay.

"Knock-knock" "Who's there?" "Interrupting Cow "

Cheers MrBuffington