@Riot On the subject of reksais nerfs and why they will change nothing.
Did it ever occur to you, that perhaps the whole reason behind why rek sai is such a desireable pick, is because of the vision changes you made? Green wards, pink upgrade, oracles elixir all scrapped. Then ah, a champion with sonar and a vision granting projectile becomes a must pick, who would've thought?
The most commom junglers that the pros pick currently have some tool that can offer vision. Rek needs no intro. Gragas q Elise human w spider e Nid qw
Damaging her mobility, her damage, her utility. It doesn't matter what you do because they will find a champion to replace her, and you'd have crushed a champion into dust for nothing. Suitable replacements? Diana, maokai, mundo, kog. One makes temp wards, mundo has his q for face checks and kog is simply a less reliable reksai as long as he has mana to spam that ult, while diana is a meh version of kog in this situation.
Not enough? Just about every pro game has the jungler build a sightstone as well as the support for more vision. They could simply pick zac or sej for beef and buy a sightstone.
Stop applying horrid bandaid fixes instead of repairing the source of the problem. Because no matter what you do, pros will find a way around it.
You wanted the game to be faster paced so you made changes which unfortunately caused this snowbally crap earlier this season. Pros picked compositions with plenty of engage and disengage to dictate exactly when fights would happen to minimize the influence of these changes.
Vision makes the game too safe and boring to watch in your opinion, so you remove some of it? Pros pick champions who can provide their team additional vision and start incorporating multiple sightstones into their plans.
You could remove EVERY SINGLE CHAMPION THAT CAN GRANT A TINY BIT OF VISION from this game and it still wouldn't change anything. Pros would simply buy more sightstones, junglers would only ever buy the green smite and tadaaahh, the pros would have forced the way THEY are currently playing down your throats as if nothing had ever happened. Still a game of "slow and steady wins the race" as teams dance around vision and objective control.
Stop trying to control not only the meta, but the style of play. If you're sick of seeing a specific class that's fine, as most of the community probably is as well.
But don't bother trying to dictate the manner in which we use our champions and items in-game or the way WE want to play your game. If I want to rule the game by vision then I bloody dam will. If I want to split all day then I sure darn can. And if I want to play ap xin or ap lucian, it's not your place to crush it because you don't like it. Yes it's your game, but how would anyone like it if I skinned your new tattoo because I didn't like it?
Unless you completely scrap vision from the game with a hell load of your playerbase, we will always find a way around it. Just like pros will find a replacement for rek sai and her niche.
That is all, /endrant
