Generally speaking it's pretty much always a lucian or kaisa adc, lee sin or khazix (now) jg thanks riot :^) more damage buffs. Like i know there's a meta but id love it if i got to see someone other than busted champions in every game i play ty
HellionX243 votes"were working on taking excess damage out of the game" - darius and khazix buffs
Yours Truly Our Silver Balance Team
Kledy McKledFace26 votesSilver? Theses guys arent even playing the game
Its a fuckfiesta
BLIGHTBRINGER2 votesYou mean Iron Balance team right?
Sacred Math17 votesThere's literally a Yasuo and/or Zed is every single one of my games.
Makes sense, insanely stacked kits with infinite mobility, damage and no mana or resource management.
BLIGHTBRINGER9 votesWhen was the last time you ever saw these champions in your games...
Slim Gragas8 votes[{quoted}](name=Darkin Hybrid,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:10:45.938+0000)
When was the last time you ever saw these champions in your games...
Zilean is a great champion if you aren't trash at landing Qs.
BLIGHTBRINGER3 votesHow is it even possible to miss it, considering the hitbox is quite big enough.
Handy Sandy 2 votes[{quoted}](name=Darkin Hybrid,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=000400000000,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:20:55.092+0000)
How is it even possible to miss it, considering the hitbox is quite big enough.
the cast time is really long
Minimac20004 votes[{quoted}](name=Slim Gragas,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=00040000,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:18:28.549+0000)
Zilean is a great champion if you aren't trash at landing Qs.
Zilean is a great champ if they don't dash 1000 units between the animations of your first and second q with no cd *cough yasuo irelia lol Jk zilean is still fun but mostly just for being speedy mcfast not for actually being useful lol
WeaselRune1 votesI agree with this. I can Land the Qs, landing trick shots is like why Im climbing on 60+ % win rate on Morgana. Zil would be one of my main backups (instead its Bard), but for one thing...
People die so fast I cant even get my R off sometimes. I mean health bars pop like balloons. You WANT to ult the carry, but the only time you can really do that is if theyre ahead and doing the popping, if youre behind you may as well just ult the tank or a bruiser.
Even1 votes[{quoted}](name=Darkin Hybrid,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:10:45.938+0000)
When was the last time you ever saw these champions in your games...
isnt amumu like s tier rn, sivir coming back recently, and shyvana has not been bad at all
MLDzXnRRR2 votes[{quoted}](name=I NEED YOU,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=00040001,timestamp=2018-09-28T02:04:19.256+0000)
isnt amumu like s tier rn, sivir coming back recently, and shyvana has not been bad at all
Shyvana is in top 3 least played champs in the game - all elos + normals. Skarner is also not popular, Zilean - also, you can see only Zilean scripters or one-tricks, Skarner - wow, he is consistently in top unplayed champs of all time unless he is broken tier then nerfed and never see; Rumble - never popular for some reason, but he is kind of boring, idk. You cannot make any "plays" with him aside from landing good R, just faceroll keyboard.Good only in dps metas, hates to get bursted.
Ratpie1 votes[{quoted}](name=Darkin Hybrid,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:10:45.938+0000)
When was the last time you ever saw these champions in your games...
I play Skarner in jungle a lot, so often lol. Skarner is tough to get good at, but he can be really strong. A good ZIl support is annoying as hell, and every time I see Rumble in a game I cry, because they always seem to destroy top, even if I gank top and get my top and early lead.
This season started with a very narrow meta pool. It has widened a bit, but the difference between meta and nonmeta champs is still one of the worst. Pre-Runes reforged I could take a lot of nonmeta champs and still kick butt. Now, it is masochism to pick offmeta. I am seeing more champs be played, but more often than not, they are getting obliterated by the meta champs worse than previous seasons.
AMADEUSdotEXE6 votes[{quoted}](name=Darkin Hybrid,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:10:45.938+0000)
When was the last time you ever saw these champions in your games...
: (Tries to speak but breaks down crying)
LTK KoRo4 votesGood, this champion design mistake doesn't deserve to be played.
BLIGHTBRINGER1 votesI don't understand why everyone hates her design, because of her Passive the rest of her abilities are very limited.
R isn't a damage based ability, W isn't a damage based ability, Q is just a basic skillshot ability, and in order for E to deal damage she needs to apply enough spears on the enemy, which requires a lot of Attack Speed. All of her damage is centered around her E and she's one of the few Marksman who don't crit for a billion damage (Draven, Caitlyn, Jhin, MF, and practically almost any other Marksman).
If the problem is that Melee's can't fight Kalista then you have to deal with it, it's basically the same as being unhappy that you as a Zed can't lane against a Swain for example. There is a thing called counterpicks and it's something that Riot will most likely not going to remove. You can just CC chain her and she becomes as useless as any other Marksman.
Every champion has it's pros and cons. For me as Varus I have to deal with the fact that I can't fight champions like Yasuo, Irelia or any other mobile champion even with all the CC that I have (E Slow, R CC), because they have mobility that helps them get out of tricky situations and better damage than me even if my champion is considered a Carry.
LTK KoRo3 votesYou can cc chain anyone in this game and make them useless.
Kalista is the design mistake due to the: -being a lane bully while having best objective control in the game -being a perfect kiter -being able to save her support after lvl 6 in every situation
Perfect kiting should be impossible. It's just wrong. Also she doesn't crit you to death, but she's Rageblades you to death in very similar time.
Also when Kalista is strong she doesn't have any meaningful weaknesses
Sexy Jack Rabbit3 votesPeople hate her kit BECAUSE of the way it synergizes with her passive.
If she didn't have her passive, or it was at least excessively limited, then she might be a fine champion in a lot of people's eyes.
Alzon1 votesI hate Kalista because I physically cannot play her despite wanting to. My hand freezes up after only fifteen minutes. When I see someone else play her well, I always get so upset.
The Dreamwalker1 votesI saw Sivir in one of my most recent games. I think yesterday (well 2 days ago now because I am writing at midnight). I also had a Skarner too, and a Zilean in one of them as well.
Sacred Math1 votesfucking idiotic rework ruined lane Skarner...and gave him a BS passive that he has to micromanage on top of extreme mana costs.
JohnnyNeverSins1 votes[{quoted}](name=Darkin Hybrid,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=exZRX4eK,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2018-09-28T00:10:45.938+0000)
When was the last time you ever saw these champions in your games...
I believe zilean is kinda meta,personally 5-6 times this week,looked up his playrate,1-2% if I remember correctly,with a 50%+ win rate,probably got popular due to Pyke since he hard counters him
Hügö1 votesYesterday Amumu last week Sivir and Nautilus
JAYYYYYYYYYYYYCE9 votesTop: 
Jungle: 
Mid: 
ADC: 
Support: 
If your team mate isnt playing one of these champions in that specific role, then you better pray to god they're either a one trick, play safe, or at least have 10+ games on their champ. Otherwise youre practically asking to lose.
Kloak1 votesToo fucking true it hurts. Literally got flamed by my team for picking Pantheon mid into Ekko because it's a "troll pick" and "insta lose". Ended the game as 20/5 with a penta kill.
Spicy Rice1 votesIf the enemy jungler was half good, it probably should've been.
All ekko has to do is e-q onto you while casting w on your location as the jungler comes in from the side.
If you stun ekko, you get stunned by the w, while the jungler gets to whale on you. If you stun the jungler, ekko gets a big dick shield and get to whale on you.
Roselenne3 votesTop:
If your team mate isnt playing one of these champions in that specific role, then you better pray to god they're either a one trick, play safe, or at least have 10+ games on their champ. Otherwise youre practically asking to lose.
Lux is actually garbage, coming from someone who one tricks her. Replace her with fizz and that's pretty much the mid lane champion pool, which surprise, consists of assassins. For some reason riot cannot balance these types of champions and they become overbearing, crowding out all other champions in mid lane. I agree with the rest of the lanes though.
Heos006 votesHaving +120 champions to only use 2 in eachrole ( if banned ) and the rest of the champions having less than 50% win rate. RIOT OMEGALUL Stop doing more champs pls riot
SociopathFriend6 votes(Checks match history- sees it's mainly Ranked)
Why would you expect anything else than the best champions to be played in Ranked? You're not playing Ranked to have "fun" you're playing it to win. That means the best builds on the best champions using the best strategies you can.
You want variety? Play normals. Know why there's variety in normals? Because it's the mode for fun.
HungryAngry2SPP2 votesYOU (and unfortunately many others) are playing rankeds to win.*
F Ù Ń3 votes:).Only meta champs are played. When was the last time you saw a 
after her w nerfs. She’s rarely played, and banned. Yet when I go play her, get fed off of a midland that can’t dodge skillshots, someone says she’s broken, and the cycle of nerfs begin again, on a champ with a 47% winrate. This is the community’s fault. We ask for nerfs, without actually learning the champ. Then sleeper champs ( that become OP because they’re rarely played and no one knows how to counter explode in popularity, and get nerfed for no reason. Eventually these champs will get nerfs because we complain.
Jaspers3 votesWe need 2 bans each?
I memba balance 2 votesLee Sin has always been played a lot. Regardless of being weak or strong. And he's definitely not "busted" or even top tier right now. Graves, Evelynn, and Kha'zix are MUCH stronger than Lee is currently. Nice use of name to farm upvotes though.
Leetri1 votesLee Sin, Yasuo, Ezreal, Thresh and Zed are all played a ridiculous amount even if they're garbage. Playrate has never been a good indicator for those champions.
MLDzXnRRR1 votesLee Sin, Yasuo, Ezreal, Thresh and Zed are all played a ridiculous amount even if they're garbage. Playrate has never been a good indicator for those champions.
At some point Zed wasn't popular pick and he wasn't even bad back then. Also, Ezrael, but the champ is garbage when he can't abuse runes and masteries, or items, requires the enemy team to be squishy and walk into his Qs to do anything, and there should be no minions. He can be a monster when he is strong or has a good team comp, but the same can be said for most champions.
Neptunia xoxo2 votesEverytime I queue it's always the same bans and the same champions picked every single game. Does not matter what account I queue on and what elo it's literally the same thing every single time and it's extremely dull and boring. I'm actually curious why this patch even went through like I seriously want someone from the balance team that agreed to this to post an actual reasoning behind this instead of a patch note saying "we wanna buff X because they don't stomp lane 24/7" lol like those Darius buffs for example were the most retarded thing iv seen like nobody who is a top lane main in any elo likes to play against Darius no matter what you play because hes just complete cancer bullshit.
Also Kog'maw so we have seen a problem already where in the past AP kog was a thing because his scaling was insane and his range making him a poke monster with good movement speed but here we are buffing his movement and range yet those are not the problem when it comes to AD kog lol the fuck is going on here? I'm not saying AP kog is good but you never know when we could see him in every game again out of the blue like before in the past due to changes like this.
Biggest MO3 Fan1 votesIm a Darius Main , kind of. M7 darius ... i really dont think he needed a buff hes fine , but ima get to plat spamming him now... ty rito
Flashes1 votesI played Sivir for a while and I have realized that she actually has one of the best kits in the game assuming you play perfectly because her waveclear means that even enemy champions like Kaisa can't engage onto Sivir perfectly because then they give up wave pressure.
On the other hand, Lucian is still an uncounterable ass.
MasterDClone1 votesive been seeing this same post for 4 years just with a different handful of champions, people play the meta, and will always play the meta this is never gonna go away
Skycrowx1 votesI don't remember a season ever where so many different champions were played in League of legends. Not sure what you are smoking But saying you only see the same champs like what? okay lol. I mean maybe only for adc there are 2 champs that are more often picked than the others. but for pretty much every other role everything is picked. from tank to bruiser, to assassin to burst mage, to dps mage, and control mage, peel sup to hard engage sup. I dont understand, how u can actually believe that
PowerSlave9931 votes - breath in the atmosphere!
Roselenne1 votesThere isn't even variety in normals, it's the same broken champions. Playing broken shit=fun.
Napoleon31 votessame for me for example top darius zed mid lane totally boosted champions who can carry with out needed any skill to do it . yes im tired too bro.
LibroMastro1 votessad thing is that it happens in every elo, this game became so fucking boring
Saibbo1 votesI'm real tired of the same champions in every game
welcome to what's called meta, it's been here for ever.
5050BS1 votesRiot needs to nerf all S class champs and keep nerfing until all champs are A class.
The issue is Riot does not care about balance. They care about making entertaining Pro matches. They also want to promote skin sales and popular champs sell more skins so they will keep the broken OP champs where they are to keep sales up.
This is the #1 problem of a "Free" game.
If this was a subscription game then Balance would really matter.
