Tell me Rito...Shen gets nerfed/buffed around LCS...what about Lee?
There hasnt been a single season where your favorite champion wasn't viable, not a single one where he wasn't USED, ALOT, in pro play.
Champ favoritism never looks good.
Edit: this is not to say that you guys changing champions that millions of player use, around events that involve only a few hundred. These patch policies are toxic to the game to a major degree, but sadly, we have become accustomed to that.