Few of You Will Get This; Most of You Will Downvote, and Hate This

The necessary evils of League of Legends are useless, obsolete, and overly reliant on their teams to win, instead of being able to to counter notoriously cancerous or otherwise perceived as impossible to deal with champions.

He has fallen behind, and can no longer build like an anti-tank bruiser, and has been reduced to an occasionally played support and mediocre jungle, who is only picked for his pillar and ult. Nobody cares about his bruiser identity: Q+W.

He has fallen into his team, and can no longer build magic resist as a reliable source of counter-damage. He cannot kite mages out of lane, his passive is only good against melee mages instead of generalist mages, meaning the only way for him to take advantage of his passive is to go top lane, where armor is prioritized, not magic resist. His ultimate is now tied directly to his team and can no longer be used as a means to win his own lane. HIs agency has been removed. His W has become anti-damage instead of anti MAGIC damage.

Do I really need to explain this one? Winning lane is still possible, but far from sufficiently effective, when his "power" coughdefensivecough budget is tied to his passive, and yet because it exists it is counted as a part of his power budget anyhow. This abomination of a passive is the source of Malzahar's horrifying balance problems, and is why he will never, ever be balanced again until it gets removed, opening the floodgates for more options.

One of the most hated and controversial reworks ever performed on a champion, who while needing some work, did not need to have his identity so viciously warped across nearly the entire spectrum of his kit. He used to be able to use an auto-attack as a means of kiting through waves, and earning more damage by fighting alone, his w used to grant some extra tankiness ontop of his shield (rasied armor and mr on activation), and his E didn't resemble a boring old cloud of gaseous garbage, it thematically resembled him summoning maces which broke up through the ground and caused pain for whoever was standing above them. The icing on the cake is that he was used as the sacrificial lamb to utter in the true wolf in sheep's clothing, too bad the wolf had an annoying partner named lamb, who together formed the disgusting bullshit champion, who encouraged all ADCs on planet Riot to think that they owned all of summoner's rift, and could go wherever they want, whenever they want, and when their own stupidity caused them to feed, it brought about one of the most HATED eras of all time.

You know it, I know it, the whole goddamn fucking world knows it, and if you say it isn't, then you're lying to yourself and everyone else who plays this game, and if they don't believe it, then they are liars too.

The Ardent Censer meta.

I know you won't believe this, because these champions used to be the types to piss off the one-trick-mechanicz-all-day-baby mains (Yasuo, LeBlanc, Riven, Fiora, Fizz, Ekko, you-know-who-i'm-talking-about-don't-bullshit-me), you know who you are, I know who you are.

tl;dr There is no tl;dr either read what I said, or you won't get what I said.