Skill expression has taken a massive nosedive in this game with damage creep at absurd levels.

Just played a game against a plat 5 Garen who was one of the most atrociously bad players ive ever seen. Starting at level 3 he straight up just ran at me used on me while im at 100% HP seriously expecting to kill me outright. He proceeded to do this literally every time his came off CD, igniting me at 100% hp and just running at me with Q. The kicker is i was and Blinded his Q every time. Yet despite that he still consistently dropped me to 20% in about 2 seconds. How is such a brain dead and skilless way of playing actually effective?

Remember when Garen used to be a tanky bruiser that did relatively little damage but would wear you down through attrition and didnt just run at you expecting to instantly kill you at lvl 3?

WTF has happened to this game when champions who barely did any damage in seasons 3/4 and now basically one shotting you? So much for skill in this game, apparently now its all about running at people and blowing everything without harassing first and 0 strategy.