Ladder is fucked, the game is unbalanced, runes are garbage, and i've stopped having fun entirely
I'm not really one the complain a whole lot, but the only thing keeping me playing this game right now is i don't want to quit as a Gold 5.
The ladder, as it is at the start of every new season, is completely fucked. The difference between this season and all the other seasons is that in previous seasons you could just carry yourself out of a rut, because if you're low diamond and get placed, idk, silver 1, it takes a day to get yourself close to plat.
This season, it feels like the ladder is so fucking messed up, i have a S7 mid-plat mid laner and a S5 Silver 5 top laner, against all plat players, and the poor silver player gets FUCKED UP and the only people enjoying it is the enemy team getting a free win because my top doesn't know how to properly macro and is 0/10, to no fault of his own, he was just matched with someone 2 full tiers above him.
So if i really am that good, i should be able to carry myself out right? Yes, but it's either A) Sacrifice my fun to play a tank and let my items carry me, or B) play something thats middle tier, have fun straining my mechanics, but then ultimately lose even if i crush lane because cho'gath can one shot our ADC because he gets free 1000 true damage by building tank anyway.
Last season i was around top 20000 in NA, and mostly 1 tricked gangplank. I can't even touch gp now because i feel disgusted with how broken klepto makes him (to the point where he is now viable in LCS again). and if i'm not playing something that benefits from klepto, grasp, or some other stupid garbage like unsealed spellbook, it doesn't matter if i leave lane 4/0/0 and also had time to get my bot lane ahead, if the scaling on lets say
to name a couple, is so out of fucking tune that they get free scaling off shit they're supposed to be building anyway. In seasons 1-7 if you wanted your Cho'gath to dish out some damage, you build a fucking AP-Bruiser item like RoA or Rylais. Now you just build righteous glory and pop your gargoyle plate and one shot anyone below 1500 health. That isn't healthy, that isn't balanced, that's just pure toxic.
Not to mention the bruisers are the worst class in the game right now, with no reliable keystone, because we all know press the attack and lethal tempo(already a garbage rune) are mean't for ADC's, and i'm sorry but if i want to play a bruiser top, i don't want to have to either pick grasp, or rely on jungler ganks to be fucking relevant for 10 minutes until the TANK outscales me again.
Season 3 or 4 (i can't remember) Nidalee got changed because she basically did what Zoe does now, 1 shot from out of vision, not balanced, probably fun to play, cancerous to play against.
is probably the most "build to win" against any bruiser right now, with attack speed reduction, heal reduction, heavy armor, health, and fucking rebound damage. That's a toxic ass item and idk how it's been this long and it still hasn't been fixed.
I could go on and on and on, but i'm wasting my fucking time and the only thing that's going to cause real change is the community coming together to get shit done. I'm tired of tanks running top and jg, i'm tired of point and click mages running mid, and i'm tired of ADC's like vayne being god tier, when Imaqtpie said himself when she was god tier last season "if vayne is ever god tier the balance team seriously fucked up". You already have a lot of streamers and pro's complaining and either quit/wanting to quit because you wont fucking address anything or fix anything, and many of my friends that have played for years and i've enjoyed watching climb to plat/diamond/masters too think that this is too fucking out of hand. I don't have fun anymore, if i'm forced to play a tank i'm not having fun, if my Gangplank is god tier and unbalanced i'm not having fun, why don't you bring this game back to a playable state