Just an observation

Is it just me or is Riot more concerned with Enforcing a meta, rather then letting the players themselves create one.

After doing some soul searching i relized the reasons the game is losing it's luster. The only things that are really all that Viable are whatever riot wants to be viable + a few darkhorses. and even the darkhorses are popular because they just so happen to have some strong countermeasure against whatever meta they're enforcing.

Whenever a champion becomes viable somewhere by accident, riot's response is a nerfhammer. While i can understand why you would a nerf a champion who is too good, this NEVER applies to really popular picks for whatever reason. that actually ARE too good,

meanwhile other champions get a million nerfs for almost no reason with nothing to compensate for their lost stats until a rework happens or something gets released (like an item rework or buff) that brings them back. But then whenever that happens the chamnpion gets nerfed, the item gets nerfed and the shamp is just SOL ( )

This just feels bad to play with. Instead of putting champions on a somewhat even playingfield and letting players decide the best of teams, riot is enforcing the meta. You know what meta were in now with all the snowbally ADCs (this includes melee ad champions), AP nerfs, leaving all of 3 AP mid-laners really viable in play . Nerfs to vision, and making towers hit with the force of a gentle breeze on a warm spring day. and death timers that take a year past the 20 minute mark (making any team whos ahead just snoball their way to victory - or lose thanks to one mistake by one player......... somehow) it's clear riot wants a super snowbally meta, and are currently doing horrible things to the tanks that counter them.

Basically, is it really too much to ask to balance the game around the concept of balance rather than whatever riot thinks will make LCS more interesting to newcomers (and even thats gotten boring as a result of season 6).

and a couple of other things that would help 1: Start creating mechanically simple champions again. Not every champion needs 20 passives, hidden passives, 3 hit mechanics, and an impossible to grasp minigame. Much like how it's ok to have some champs be more complicated to play than others some should be mechanically simple.

2: Increase turret health. It's downright bullshit that a single backing or gank 9 minutes in can cost a team a tower, and frankly these things dont defend jack shit.

3: We need more bans. it's really not that difficult, and would encourage diversity as governed by the players

4: BRING BACK SOLOQUE! seriously it's not fun to be the only guy in a 4 man team in ranked. the entire point of solo ranked was to test your individual skills with random people. now you can get bunched againsted 5 man teams with godly coordination while the best you get is MAYBE a duo. that is in NO way shape or form fair. would you put a single pro basketball player and a makeshift team of others against a full pro team? no. cause it's not fair.