Season 7 Horrible Balance

The Balance of the game this season has been the worst it has ever been. The game feels to me (albeit I'm not high elo but a member of the largest tier of players) to have devolved into pick whatever brain dead early champion can abuse whatever is strong at the moment. Playing against Quinn, Pantheon, Darius, Wukong, Jayce, Khazix is unbearable. A player can nearly be AFK and still win lane, then proceed to buy one lethality item to give them the strongest power spike in the game. The Devs balance approach seems to be "buff random shit and make that overly strong so people think about that for a while". Nasus buffs, Kayn base stats, Cho buff, steady Twitch buffs, Ardent censor abusers, DUSKBLADE all add to the unbearable nature of the game. Try play something like tanks or tank supports, have fun never getting to your power spike, play ADCs and get 1 shot by everything that looks at you funny. Is your strategy to Farm hard and play safe, well that's not going to work, because Darius will still powerspike harder with 1 kill at 15mins than you will with your mid-late game champ.

Maybe I just don't see things "right," but the game seems to support a much narrower range of playstyles now than a few season ago. I think what proves it the most is the lack of One Tricks at the highest levels. The highest elo's only seem to have Meta abusers, milk Lethality, Chogath, Ardent censor, whatever the flavor of the week is, to climb because someone who does not play to that style has an unbelievably harder time climbing, winning, or even just enjoying the game.

I really do want to play the game and enjoy it. I have been trying to make my playstyle work and be enjoyable, but it is so frustrating. Sure I like to play tanky champs with good cc and frontline ability; and I know they aren't in the strongest spot right now, but I should be able to at least play them without putting myself at an immense disadvantage.