On the concept of balance
For the vast majority of us... if we fuck up on something... if we make a mistake.. we don't have a magical "undo" button.
And yet for the game balance team, you DO have an undo button.. and yet you NEVER use it.
there is NOTHING wrong with ADMITTING you make a mistake. It shows you can learn from them and it shows you are willing to take the blame for your own action and it promotes trust that.. you have realized what you did wrong and now know better.
and yet at riot we DONT SEE THIS.
there are bad changes dont to MANY champion that accomplished NOTHING. and yet what does riot do... they keep taking on more and more changes. and if that change made something WORSE, they leave that change in and try to "fix" it a different way.
I'm not saying everyone at riot is like this.. there have been TONS of improments made to the client, to the pregame lobby. and we now even have an AMAZING mode of nexus blitz.
But when you take a look at balance, since season 5 not only has there been no real "improvement" to the game as a whole balance wise... but it in fact as gotten TREMENDOUSLY worse.
damage creep is through the roof nearly every rune does some kind of "burst damage"
and there is a HUGE difference between saying thins like 3% increased damage or 6% armor and magic pen http://abccbaandy.github.io/league-S4mastery-calc/
like can be found in the offensive tree
than having things like
Do X and have a have a giant fucking lightning bot from the sky fall down and damage enemies.
because that is added damage where there was NONE its not "slightly increasing the damage your skill or autos will do" that is adding extra damage from an external source.
that is why items like 
and 
are horrific designs..
becuase duscks baldes is "do X and get a extra damage burst not tied to your damage"
and is flat out every 4 second not in combat DEAL DOUBLE DAMAGE. and get a 20% speed boost
this is like 
passive.. where he gets a speed boost after not moving
except he doesn't freaking get double damage
in season 4 if u wanted "100% crit" u had to sacrifice a HELL of a lot to get it
and whats worse. is supposedly for the "adc" class.
which by very desig is supposed to deal SUSTAINED damage.. and NOT burst damage.
but the fact is you have damage crept the game SOO MUCH that the mere CONCEPT of "sustained damage" is damn near ludicrous in the game name because it assume that you are ALIVE after your abilities are gone.
the ENTIRE concept of
sustained > tank > burst > sustained. cycle has gone out the fucking window
as has the whole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUQ8LMVIQA&feature=youtu.be&t=203
their balance team thinks they can "balance the game" without playing it. just by looking at numbers
and yeah there ARE numbers that can give u info
you can see that even with a 44-46% winrate that 
NO ONE EVER WANTS TO DEAL WITH HER.
and would rather ban her out even though statistically allowing her through would give u a higher chance at winning.. they woudl STILL rather ban her out than let her through
you seem to only care about people watching the game, and not giving a damn about the people playing it.
but really riot... how many people are going to watch a game that isn't fun to play.
you choose to get rid of "wards" and vision because "people aren't fighting". yet instead of spendng the time to THINK "well why arn't they fighting" MAYBE its becuase FIGHTING IS A BAD IDEA AND CAN COST YOU THE GAME.
you say... ok lets blind every single player so they are FORCED to fight becuase they dont see the enemy.
and that oh the best players in the world with vocie chat can have decent vision with "X" amoutn of ward.
but completely ignore that in solo que... u cant rely on ANYONE but yourself to place wards.
these are the kinda of changes.
in season 4 the was no "trackers knife" and yet everyone was constantly fighting..
you want to know WHY? because
YOU WEREN'T GOING TO GET 1 SHOT AND COST YOUR TEAM THE GAME.
you don't spend the time to think WHY X is happening.. you dont address the CAUSE of the issue.. you just try to "mask" the symptoms and make everything worse in the process.
oh your finger hurts? LET CUT IT OFF!!!!
adc' are getting 1 shot? lets increase the adc damage.
THATS NOT GOING TO ADDRESS THEM GETTING ONE SHOT
you need to address the underlying issues
DAMAGE CREEP BURST ITEMS AND RUNES.
address those and everything else wall fall back into place.
but the cost is your going to need to UNDO all your stupid changes that that made everything worse like adding 
mayiong 
40% instead of 25%
making 
35%
adding 
you are too scared to UNDO the stuff u have already done in order to fix the game.. you wont remove the contagion, you're letting it fester and spread. and trying to come up with new ways to contain it..
but you never actually address the REAL issue... the cause of ALL the symptoms.. because your not willing to accept the responsibility of admitting that you screwed up.
you HAVE an undo button. you are a position that almost no one on the planet has, you can "turn back time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyXEsUhp8DM
BRING THIS GAME BACK.
