All this discussion about Balance.

Been seeing lots of complaint regarding balance. These discussions have been going on for a long time.

People are upset about the current state of the game, they have been for a long time.

But I personally think Riot has done well with the massive job of balancing the game that they've created.

We have hundreds of champions, hundreds of items and another million things in game, each of which have an interaction and each of which need to be tuned. I believe that in such a complex game, involving ten players actively participating in those interactions, maintaining a 'perfect balance' is just impossible.

Every change that is made to any one thing in game will affect another. You nerf Vayne for example, now all the tanks are stronger because less percentage true health shred. You nerf Janna and Nami for example, now assassins are stronger because less peel. Nerfing an overpowered champion isn't always the solution, and we as players, often do not understand all the implications that changing a single aspect of the game can bring. The balance team gets paid to consider all these things and we can't expect to be able to do what they do. I'd say its a pretty tough job.

So I'd like to congratulate Riot, because I think LoL is still very much a playable game. Of course there will be meta, of course there will be champions in the dump. But we are not seeing any champion with a 75% winrate on average. We are not seeing champions being completely useless even if you are good at it.

For these Overpowered champions, there are counters. There are ways to deal with them. RIght now Vayne is really strong, but Vayne is hardly invincible. We all know how to deal with Vayne, punish her early game, get Randuins, end games early before she pops off. It's not impossible, just hard. Hard is normal. Hard is good! It makes you improve.

And that's part of the fun isn't it? To understand that there is a meta, that there are stronger champions, but finding ways to deal with them and win regardless.

So please, give Riot some credit. They could be doing better but they've done a pretty good job.

Thanks all.