The Boards Hipocrasy irks me.

Remember the term "sejuani'd"? When a champion grows too powerful from a change, be it item or mastery, and is then nerfed? Only to have the offending item/mastery nerfed as well?

Remember how we've campaigned against that? How we constantly ask Riot to focus on the change and NOT what made the champion powerful?

And yet, despite all that, there are numerous people clamoring for Vi nerfs. You know when's the last time Vi got buffed? 6.17. Yes. Several patches before the changes to the mastery tree. For the curious:

>V6.17 ** Blast Shield** Cooldown reduced to 16 - 8 (based on level) seconds from 18 - 8 (based on level). ** Vault Breaker** Cooldown reduced to 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 seconds from 18 / 15.5 / 13 / 10.5 / 8. Knockback duration changed to 0.7 seconds from 0.5 - 0.75. ** Excessive Force** Upon first level up, Vi immediately gains two charges of Excessive Force.

These buffs didn't suddenly make Vi good. She was still outclassed. She could dive better early but she wasn't exactly a powerhouse. So what -did- change around her?

• The change of buffs: More single-target means Vi can clear even faster. Despite what you might think with excessive force, Vi is a great single-clear champion above all else. The focus on the buffs being single-clear gives Vi a bit more speed when it comes to clearing.
• Plants: Honeyfruit helps circumvent Vi taking a lot of damage in the jungle, considering her only mitigation tool early was a long CD shield...which also got slightly buffed. Go figure right? Not to mention blast-cone lets her clear walls without wasting her Q, meaning her ganks can come even faster from more angles.
• CotC: By far the biggest offender, Vi with CotC gives her a fuckton more survivability. Double this with the fact that she's often diving past a TON of other champions, Vi is getting a fat shield in almost every team fight.

But let's be real, there's a clear reason why people call Vi out for nerfs but think Sejuani was a crime against humanity:

Sejuani was a tank Vi is a diver.

The boards have a massive tank-bias and think that tanks should be the metric by which other classes are judged. Don't believe me? Ever consider how people thought that the tank meta in the cinderhulk patch was the best time in the game ever? Ever consider how Sion is repeatedly said to be the best rework? How about how Poppy or Maokai being out-of-line is ignored while Yasuo, Fiora, Gangplank and others are more demanded for the nerf chopping block?

The boards doesn't want balance. The boards wants to reinforce the meta THEY think is good.