You know,

I complain about Riot and the things they do a lot. With good reason too, since they're pulling a lot of bullshit that would have put them out of business 10 years ago. But there's a couple things that bother me lately.

First is the jungle. If you're not playing one of like five champs, you lose. Guaranteed. Unless the enemy jungler is absolute garbage. You can't do something like Aurelion jungle anymore, you can't play Poppy jungle, you can't play Rumble jungle, none of that. You** have **to play Lee, Hecarim, Vi, Kha or Rengar or you just can't compete. Jungle used to be my favorite role, but I can't play any champs I actually enjoy in it anymore. Oh sure, I could play Ivern and troll around all game, but I can't carry a game with him. And, instead of nerfing the other junglers down to par, you know what Riot's doing? They're nerfing the jungle even harder, making those 5-6 champs even more pick / ban because of their ability to gank often (and often have a ton of CC to go with it) and clear well. Weaker first clears like Eve and Nidalee won't even be able to jungle anymore, so you'll see even more Lee and Vi picks. But apparently that's going to solve the issue.

Second is Poppy. She was my absolute favorite champ after Riot reworked her, and I played her so much that she's my second highest mastery champ (and I have 100k+ on like 8 champs) and I bought the Star Guardian skins because of her. But, after all her repeated nerfs, I just can't play her how I want to anymore. I would take Poppy into the jungle and go a mostly AD bruiser build, be more of an assassin than a tank. But she can't clear anymore, and she can't gank anymore after her E was gutted. I just can't find an excuse to play her as anything other than a support to counter Lee / Zac / Yas / etc.

Riot nerfs her the moment people start playing her in LC$ (despite her having a sub 45% winrate) because she gets in the way of the fla$hy big play$ that Riot loves so much. "She's too tanky and does too much damage" -- yet so many other champs do exactly that but better (Zac, Sej, Amumu, Mundo, Garen, etc.). And, instead of nerfing her W passive and moving part of the % health damage on her Q into scaling (like any other ability of that type), they nerf everything else about her, and remove all kinds of fun interactions and things in her kit (AA reset on passive), and just make her a lot less fun. She's still a hyper tank that does too much damage, so none of the nerfs even touched her issue, but now you can't play her as anything BUT a tank, since she's so weak otherwise. She can't clear anymore, and her ganks are sub-par at best.

I just miss playing my favorite role and my favorite champion. But, as with everything else I enjoy, they were taken away too.