A small discussion about viewpoints on certain champion types.

Hey everyone, Dain here. Okay so with quite a few tanks reigning supreme, I noticed more and more that people are saying "Oh, tanks are stupid, we need a different meta", but this also applies to things like ADCs where people are saying "Lucian is not OP, he's just fun to play and he is one of the only viable ADCs". Trying to fit groups of champions into boxes like this is not really the right way of going about with things in my opinion. I wanna discuss this a little bit, and explain why certain metas favoring certain groups of champions are not all bad. My favourite champs include Sion, Gnar and Morgana so I may end up being a bit biased here, but whatever.

Whenever the tank meta is discussed, there are always people who say "Tanks are braindead easy and are extreme issues to game health as a whole." And this, to me, is a bit wrong since there are only a few tanks who are issues at the time, and even then, sometimes not that much. However, this groups up other tank-like champs who are not big issues, so that's sorta unfortunate. This extends to things like assassins, too. There are only a few assassins who are considered issues, like Zed, LeBlanc, Fizz, however, people are often direct in saying that the specific champions are causing major issues for game health, compared to tanks who are all grouped up into a box of "they're big problems and they're all braindead easy please gut them", including champs like, as I mentioned before, Sion and Gnar (although I do know that both of these champs were problems before).

However, ADC seems to be somewhat opposite to assassins. Currently people are often complaining (and can be seen as, perhaps, bitching too much) about the nerfs to Lucian and how it will ruin ADCs because "he's the only viable one". Thing is though, he is very much a problem, and you cannot simply disprove that with your own anecdotes. His playrate is through the roof, and has been crowding out more and more ADCs by the week. The nerfs, in my opinion, are absolutely necessary, and will allow more ADCs like Sivir, perhaps Twitch and Jhin to come out again. ADCs also happen to complain quite a lot about the state of tanks, but there are several reasons for that, some to do with incompetence and some to do with the meta that happens to shift a bit every patch.

So overall (TL;DR), tanks are grouped up into one box despite not all of them being issues, just some of them. Assassins like the 3 mentioned are specifically pinpointed as being specific issues and people clamour for nerfs over them, whereas ADCs like Lucian and Ezreal are apparently not to be nerfed else "ADCs won't become viable".

Tell me what you think about these differing viewpoints and why they may have come to be, I guess. See y'all around!