But this game isn't pay 2 win? Explain? Money will give you access to the latest champions and will increase your chances of winning? So how is that not pay 2 win? Just because you can buy the champions in other ways, it doesn't stop it being pay to win.
Why are the latest champions getting more and more and more powerful (including reworks)?
Although new kits are exciting to learn/use, they aren't the ONLY kits that are at any specific point powerful, or leveraged toward ranked. There are plenty of inexpensive champs who carry teams far more than Neeko, or Zoe, or Ornn, or even Akali.
Are all Old, Cheap, and extremely overpowered when played correctly. Most are stronger than Neeko or Zoe. Most have more consistent performance than Akali, or Irelia, or Aatrox.
They're rarely stronger, usually they get buffed because performance on them (as people learn them) tends to be poor, then as people get better it gets obvious whether buffs were needed or not in the first place and they get reassessed. This process can take up to a couple of months. Then it may depends on WHERE a champ sees success. Have people found an ideal build? Are they still playing it in a role it wasn't originally intended for?
A new champ has the advantage of enemies not knowing how to play around you yet, while you have the disadvantage of not knowing the champ. They're not purposefully shipped to be overpowered, but Riot is trying to push their boundaries every release. Making something new that isn't quite like the other champs before, maybe they want to introduce an entirely new mechanic and aren't sure where to gauge it power wise etc. since every champ has a certain "power budget" allocated to their abilities and base stats. A champ with a really strong ultimate (Neeko) has a really lackluster passive (use decreases based on vision and enemy awareness in general as they can tell you're just faking), because they took some of the power from that and put it elsewhere. If you know this, you can see the same system applied to every champ. Often this is shown in the base stats or mana costs, sometimes its long cooldowns on crucial non-ultimate abilities if not used properly.
Wut?
explain that to zoe. her design is cancer though but she has been nerfed far due to this problem. so she is still new but has been hard nerfed
It's a business strategy designed to sell RP. Simple as that. The IP prices for new champions raised, what maybe two years ago? RP stayed the same. They release them overpowered so that people buy RP to buy the newest champion that they need because they'd have a 30% win rate if they played balanced champions.
