Riot, you have to be honest with us about your power creep.

So Riot. I understand your urge for "flashy plays," I get that you're a company that thrives on your esports being pretty, but honestly, you have only yourselves to blame for the incredibly stale metatiers, the almost permanent lack of diversity in viable champions. Yes, you can say "you can make any champion viable if you're good enough," and sure, that's true, to a point. That essentially requires, though, that your skill level be higher than the opponent who is using what is considered a viable champion. That inherently requires you outperform them. If you have equal levels of skill, they're straight up going to win, simply because their champion is empirically, unabashedly better than yours. So what's resulted in this six-week-old-matza staleness? Power creep. We don't notice it, because we're not watching, and we even call it another name to avoid uttering it out loud. Mobility creep. So here's the thing. I'm not talking about speed boosts first. That's something a lot of champions have, but we'll get to it. First, I'll address dashes. Simply put, the number of champions released with some form of dash has increased dramatically since 2012, when Riot began to slow down their champion release schedule. To demonstrate, The "Dashes" attachment is a graph of this. So there's that. Now, we all know that dashes aren't the only form of mobility in the game, and I know some of you will point out that they've been popular since the beginning. They have. But, including them here doesn't disrupt the clearly problematic pattern. The Speedboosts attachment is a graph of this principle. So here's the thing. We like flashy plays. Kinda. We like interesting champs, definitely. But you've made champions increasingly flash at the expense of being interesting. To compensate for a lack of design innovation, you've slapped increasingly high mobility on each champion. We all know that, when it comes down to it, inherent stats don't win games, map control and strategic advantages do, the most powerful tool to achieve that being straight up mobility. That means the newer champions are necessarily advantageous to have on your roster, and older champions slowly fall behind with their increasingly falling relevance.

We can all argue until we're blue in the face about objective power of each champion. What we can't argue is the increasing prevalence of mobility that necessarily makes the newest champions more strategically advantageous. It's statistics and facts, guys.