Dear Riot, some thoughts from an Immobile Melee player

You have ruined this game for me. No seriously, with each passing patch, you continue to display the unwillingness to do anything to help immobile melee champions when there's several easy solutions that would reduce the strengths of over mobile champions, both range and melee alike, and strengthen the power of immobile melee champions while keeping both gameplay and counterplay well within reach. But you don't care, you aren't concerned with this. Your concerns are clear: releasing tons of new champions with hyper mobility, hard CC, insane damage and random utility galore with limited resource costs, if any costs at all. Props on Bard though, he actually seems cool and has weaknessss with decision making being important, unlike your last God knows how many new releases.

Why am I upset? Why does this suck for me? You continue to shove ranged top laners down our throats. Right now, on PBE, Ryze has buffs that are basically reverting his nerfs. Yes I'm aware this is PBE and its not final. But the fact that you're even considering this baffles me when we have evidence from the last 4 seasons what happens when you buff him. He breaks top lane until he's nerfed and becomes trash tier after that because his design is broken as fuck and you refuse to rework him in any meaningful way, instead you buff and nerf him in cycles and keep him broken until worlds so you can have him dominate them for some reason, I have no clue why. You know what happens when you do this and you don't care. Kennen is already strong, Irelia is getting nerfed so one of Ryzes hardest lane match ups in top is going away while he's being buffed. You don't care. You don't care about my experience at all.

Let me tell you exactly what's going to happen if this goes through for Ryze. He will instantly be a strong top laner, he will be strong as hell. He will still rush RoA and FH vs AD tops and SV vs AP tops then he will build righteous glory afterwards which will increase his damage spike and durability. You won't nerf him, instead you'll nerf righteous glory because of him even though it was intended to be an item to help some of the less mobile melee champions.

At this point I'm convinced you literally couldn't care less about how we feel and that's fine. This is your game after all. But for 3 seasons in a row now, I've watchdd everything designed to help melee champions get nerfed (early MR, armor items, anti kite items etc) while you randomly throw us insignificant bones then nerfing it anyway. You've done nothing but stick a big middle finger at me and I've tried to be understanding realizing there aren't easy solutions out there but guess what? You're sticking it to me and the champs I play again just by considering this.

I realize this will be downvote spammed and fine, fair enough. I'm frustrated. Im frustrated as hell. And I realize this will go ignored and even if it's not and some rioter does post, it will be a generic ass response that seems like its some automated response that's along the lines of "We are sorry for not communicating, we suck at communication, we want to get better at communication and it won't happen again" and then that'll be all it is.

I'm honestly at the point where I want to quit this game and I hate saying that because I love it. But I've received nothing but "fuck you and your champions" from riot from every department of their team from balancing to new champions that it's clear to me that sooner or later, it's just not worth me playing this game anymore expecting anything otherwise.