Create tons of champions

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Different mechanics. The easier played champions will be picked more.

This is true if the game is actually balanced. The problem is that it's not, so most of the popular champs in this game are the ""high skill"" champs, because apparently being more versatile by definition is not enough for those players, they also need more power for their ego.

This creates the situation that ""high skill"" champs are in reality easier to play in League, and are also more powerful. And imagine my surprise to know that the high elo and pro scene is mostly dominated by those champs with an exception of a couple accidental balance hiccups.

cough Last International cough Sorry, I forgot to take my cough medicine

what is the point of having over 100 champions if only 20-25 are ever picked?

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That's how it is for most competitive games. Especially if there are as many as we have in league. As long as the meta changes and new champs become meta and others fall out of meta, it's perfectly fine.

It's nothing to do with the reality or the realistic boundary of competitive games that only a minority of champs/picks are viable there. It just means the game is very unbalanced.

Any reasonably balanced game will feature at least a majority of the roster being picked somewhere in the tournaments.

And that is why they keep having to buff and nerf champions. to keep them viable.

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I think the next champion Ornn is going to be a top pick for a long while judging by the teaser video and what he can actually do.

Especially in competitive play unless the meta shifts to like a carry top meta, but for that to happen, we'll need more hard carry champions made.

its just a matter of time before Riot says they when over board and nerf him. this champ has 2 knock ups and a a knock back. No other champ has that much hard cc.

This argument doesn't even make sense. Dota characters were developed much, much, much more slowly than league champions are first of all. They were also always released too weak intentionally so that people wouldn't fight over them and pick them every single game. This also allowed for a much larger sampling of games as well as allowing people to become comfortable on the champion BEFORE balancing it. (this is a crucial distinction)

Balancing a champion before people are comfortable on it is not only impossible, but it will always lead to the champion being much more powerful than it needs to be. It also leads to everyone wanting to pick it, and everyone also wanting to ban it. In general it creates an unhealthy environment. If half the people in the game want to play the champion, but only one person gets to, how is that fun for the other people who want to play the new champion?

There aren't really hard counters in Dota. There are weak matchups sure. But there is always a way to beat a champion with any other champion in Dota, usually due to superior itemization and a much larger variety of items. League is much closer to hard counters than Dota has ever been. The balance in Dota isn't perfect, and you are right, it is impossible to perfectly balance any game that doesn't involve everyone playing the same character. You can get really close to perfect balance though, if you try.

That being said, League of legends doesn't even try to come close. There are champions that have a power level that is easily more than twice that of another champion, and they are left this way for years, some of them will probably never be viable again.