@Riot; Hear me out Please....
I sincerely hope to hear from Riot as well as everyone else who read's the board's as I do. I've been playing since open beta. I've gotten to bare witness to many change's threw out the years.And I know you guy's are trying your best to make this game fair and balanced. But for me this game was at it best during those first few year's. Now I'm really searching for my word's carefully to actually sound my correct age right now instead of flaming like a child but here goes. To me in a nut shell... League was a game of skill and strategy.About who you picked and how you played them. And before anyone starts to complain about how some champs are just "Feed or Fed" , You all never had to deal with a Jax or Sivi with Dodge runes.. TBH that was fun.. My point is.. This game took off after that..More an more ppl started to play, so naturally more an more ppl spoke up and started to complain about the basic nature of this game.. It's PVP.. Let me say that again.. It's a Team based Pvp game. And no matter what you say or do at the very core of this, It will always cause frustration an angst against anyone who is losing or feel they lost because of a certain champ and not skill play.And like any game some ppl are going to be naturally better then other's.So when you first created these "Champion's" we all use and love they all where designed and suited a purpose. And we had more leeway to build them to our own unique play style's, and not to just look up some site for who is building whom. Now granted most the time when a new champ surface's they can be over power'd and need to be scaled back to fit in the game.But all in all. Champ's have a Skill set to them.Some are easy to learn some are harder. But by doing this you actually increase the "Player's" skill level so they in turn improve their own game play mechanics. And learn the correct champ for their skill level. As well as learning from your own mistakes and to play in a some what civil manner. But in the past few year's it seem's like all of that has been thrown out the window. And your just trying to hard to cater to such an overwhelmingly broad audience.And your starting to lose sight of what your game really is at it's core. It's a Team base'd PvP game, and it will always and forever cause frustration to everyone at one point or another. And since there are so many voice's now to be heard you guy's are starting to rethink and second guess yourselves in your own game design. This game can never and will never be balanced. And the more an more you guy's try to, what end's up happening is you end up decreasing a player's champion pool there by causing what champ are " Meta" and which are not. You end up limiting this expansive champ pool to maybe 15 or so viable character's now.While other's are forced to build in way's they were never designed to be played in the first place, just to be sustainable and stay relevant.And once you started down this slippery slope you've had to constantly make adjustment's along the way for each and every champ out there . So just stop already..OK..Stop it.. It's at the point where it's getting ridiculous.These plant's in the jungle now just seem like some kind of gimmick rather then something that should be there. The rework's and nerf's to champions are starting to get out of hand.You start to listen to the angry mob's crying "Nerf these champ's and you do it. But fail to see that the one's making the majority of these complaints are from ppl playing a champ not in their skill range losing to a champ that's easier to play.That's the way you designed this game in the first place.That's the true balance to this game.By learning the correct champ for Your Skill Level.And no matter how you slice it , there will always be ppl complaining about so an so's champ. And at this point the more and more you try to "Balance" champion's you end up just causing a change in Meta and end up disrupting game play for other's who actually enjoy the game for what it is. Riot, It's not your fault ppl dont pick champ's in their skill range. Each character was pain's stakenly designed with it's own strength's and flaw's. And the more you add these change's , the quality of game play goes down.You are never going to make everyone happy.Specially since this is a PvP game.At this point everything should just been left as is. If you really want to create some new environment for a larger base of player's, then make a new game, stop messing this one up.Or is it now because you sold to Tencent and they own you now and they are the one's forcing you to implement these change's, or do you just have to many cook's and no head chef saying hey don't add that..Either way, I'm sure if you took a poll and asked around from novice to pro everyone is going to want to put their 2 cents in just as I am now. But this was your game and why we all started playing it in the first place.We all knew the risk's and challenge's of it.And now its starting to feel water'd down and diluted.Riot, your losing your sight to the negativity that a pvp game can induce from all this point an counter - point logic. You created this canvas that had such a diverse array of colors, strength's and weaknesses , now its just turning into a black soupy mess.So take from this what you will. But understand why we like playing you game in the first place, and stop second guessing your work, the more you try to balance one thing it creates another problem else were. So ty for your time and any input you have will be gladly heard and reconsidered as your true intentions for making this game better.